Gordon McAlpin
@gmcalpin.bsky.social
Freelance graphic designer, mostly books and TTRPG related things (Beadle & Grimm’s, Brotherwise Games) | http://multiplex10.com/watch | http://gordonmcalpin.com 🇵🇭🇺🇸
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Gordon McAlpin
@gmcalpin.bsky.social
· Feb 6
i forgot what i was gonna say but it was real clever/stupid/topical, so please like this anyway
would my reputation as a book designer in the TTRPG industry be ruined if I said rigid grid systems are wildly overrated and (consistent!) vibes are totally fine?
…do i *have* a reputation as a book designer in the TTRPG industry? 😂
…do i *have* a reputation as a book designer in the TTRPG industry? 😂
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
would my reputation as a book designer in the TTRPG industry be ruined if I said rigid grid systems are wildly overrated and (consistent!) vibes are totally fine?
…do i *have* a reputation as a book designer in the TTRPG industry? 😂
…do i *have* a reputation as a book designer in the TTRPG industry? 😂
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And billionaires will ensure that this common knowledge - "taxing really rich people will make things better and not destroy people" - is hotly-debated and ultimately made to feel like some crazy radical opinion.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
And billionaires will ensure that this common knowledge - "taxing really rich people will make things better and not destroy people" - is hotly-debated and ultimately made to feel like some crazy radical opinion.
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“The Department of Homeland Security spent $220M but has kept at least one beneficiary of the nine-figure ad deal a secret, records and interviews show: a Republican consulting firm with long-standing personal and business ties to Kristi Noem and her senior aides at DHS.”
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“The Department of Homeland Security spent $220M but has kept at least one beneficiary of the nine-figure ad deal a secret, records and interviews show: a Republican consulting firm with long-standing personal and business ties to Kristi Noem and her senior aides at DHS.”
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MAGA: "Release the Epstein files"
Trump: "No"
Congress: "Here are 20,000 documents with deeply troubling messages from Epstein about Trump."
MAGA: "It's a hoax"
www.wired.com/story/maga-w...
Trump: "No"
Congress: "Here are 20,000 documents with deeply troubling messages from Epstein about Trump."
MAGA: "It's a hoax"
www.wired.com/story/maga-w...
All MAGA Wanted Was the Epstein Files. Now They're Ignoring Them
For years, MAGA influencers demanded the release of the Epstein files. Now that 20,000 documents have been released, many raising questions about Donald Trump, they're shrugging.
www.wired.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
MAGA: "Release the Epstein files"
Trump: "No"
Congress: "Here are 20,000 documents with deeply troubling messages from Epstein about Trump."
MAGA: "It's a hoax"
www.wired.com/story/maga-w...
Trump: "No"
Congress: "Here are 20,000 documents with deeply troubling messages from Epstein about Trump."
MAGA: "It's a hoax"
www.wired.com/story/maga-w...
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Sorry for missing the attachment in your earlier email in this dozens-long thread! I think that this is probably due to email being an absolutely crap way to manage a project.
November 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Sorry for missing the attachment in your earlier email in this dozens-long thread! I think that this is probably due to email being an absolutely crap way to manage a project.
when I was a kid, I didn’t “get” Gil Kane’s work and didn’t like it. but later, after seeing his work inked by John Romita Sr on ASM, I realized how strong his composition and design sense was.
notice, for instance, how hot Star Sapphire is? 😂
notice, for instance, how hot Star Sapphire is? 😂
Star Sapphire feels hate for Hal Jordan and wants revenge for the loss of her people at the hands of the Guardians.
She travels across the galaxy to the apartment that Hal & Arisia shares with John & Katma and finds Katma all alone.
Sapphire decides one Green Lantern is as good as another.
She travels across the galaxy to the apartment that Hal & Arisia shares with John & Katma and finds Katma all alone.
Sapphire decides one Green Lantern is as good as another.
November 14, 2025 at 5:00 AM
when I was a kid, I didn’t “get” Gil Kane’s work and didn’t like it. but later, after seeing his work inked by John Romita Sr on ASM, I realized how strong his composition and design sense was.
notice, for instance, how hot Star Sapphire is? 😂
notice, for instance, how hot Star Sapphire is? 😂
if Disney wants to let people make fan animated shorts featuring their characters, they could just stop defending their IP! if they want to let people do it in a moderated environment, then offer a fan content license!
how & why does *generative AI* of all things change this equation for them? wtf
how & why does *generative AI* of all things change this equation for them? wtf
November 14, 2025 at 4:02 AM
if Disney wants to let people make fan animated shorts featuring their characters, they could just stop defending their IP! if they want to let people do it in a moderated environment, then offer a fan content license!
how & why does *generative AI* of all things change this equation for them? wtf
how & why does *generative AI* of all things change this equation for them? wtf
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i can feel myself remaining completely normal about this
10DANCE | Official Trailer | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix Philippines
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM
i can feel myself remaining completely normal about this
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holy shit did I laugh.
Absolutely howling at this track a dad left his daughter on a random and bizarre mix tape he made for her before he died.
Come for the vocals; stay for the final line 🤣 what a wonderful gift to leave her and what a wholesome reaction!
Come for the vocals; stay for the final line 🤣 what a wonderful gift to leave her and what a wholesome reaction!
November 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
holy shit did I laugh.
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Everyone should do their lettering at the layouts phase.
If the balloons are breaking the borders, you're doing it wrong. I have to do my letters at the layout phase, before even rough pencils, because if I don't there is absolutely not going to be enough room for the balloons
November 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Everyone should do their lettering at the layouts phase.
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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Trump isn't taking questions on Epstein. Look, he's the President of the United States. He's got a lot on his plate. He doesn't have time to reminisce about all those times in his life when he raped children. He's a busy man.
November 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Trump isn't taking questions on Epstein. Look, he's the President of the United States. He's got a lot on his plate. He doesn't have time to reminisce about all those times in his life when he raped children. He's a busy man.
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A daycare worker who was detained by federal immigration agents last week at a North Center preschool and whose arrest was caught on video and widely shared online, has been released from custody, her attorney said Thursday.
https://to.wttw.com/47WgJMA
https://to.wttw.com/47WgJMA
North Center Daycare Teacher Detained by ICE Released From Custody
Diana Santillana Galeano, who had been held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention in Clay County, Indiana, was released Wednesday night, hours after a federal judge granted a habeas peti...
to.wttw.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
A daycare worker who was detained by federal immigration agents last week at a North Center preschool and whose arrest was caught on video and widely shared online, has been released from custody, her attorney said Thursday.
https://to.wttw.com/47WgJMA
https://to.wttw.com/47WgJMA
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Retail editions of the Cosmere RPG Stormlight Campaign Setting books are starting to appear on shelves in the US in big box stores. Local game stores will begin to receive stock early next week!
For more information on where to get the RPG, head to https://www.cosmererpg.com/shop!
For more information on where to get the RPG, head to https://www.cosmererpg.com/shop!
November 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Retail editions of the Cosmere RPG Stormlight Campaign Setting books are starting to appear on shelves in the US in big box stores. Local game stores will begin to receive stock early next week!
For more information on where to get the RPG, head to https://www.cosmererpg.com/shop!
For more information on where to get the RPG, head to https://www.cosmererpg.com/shop!
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Let's play the Cosmere RPG!
This awesome new TTRPG is now in stores, so @suenshine.bsky.social and I worked with the Dragonsteel team to create this fun series of videos about what makes this system so fun to play. The playlist *just* launched, so check it out!
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
This awesome new TTRPG is now in stores, so @suenshine.bsky.social and I worked with the Dragonsteel team to create this fun series of videos about what makes this system so fun to play. The playlist *just* launched, so check it out!
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
November 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Let's play the Cosmere RPG!
This awesome new TTRPG is now in stores, so @suenshine.bsky.social and I worked with the Dragonsteel team to create this fun series of videos about what makes this system so fun to play. The playlist *just* launched, so check it out!
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
This awesome new TTRPG is now in stores, so @suenshine.bsky.social and I worked with the Dragonsteel team to create this fun series of videos about what makes this system so fun to play. The playlist *just* launched, so check it out!
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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My latest for the Reader, a story about how Chicagoans made it really, really rough on out-of-town goons who tried to abduct Black folks off their streets.
chicagoreader.com/city-life/ch...
chicagoreader.com/city-life/ch...
Chicago has always defied kidnappings of our neighbors - Chicago Reader
Even after the passage of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, local officials and everyday people resisted the legalized abductions of men, women, and children who had escaped slavery
chicagoreader.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
My latest for the Reader, a story about how Chicagoans made it really, really rough on out-of-town goons who tried to abduct Black folks off their streets.
chicagoreader.com/city-life/ch...
chicagoreader.com/city-life/ch...
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A 40 pound cattle dog I know is going up for adoption on the Multnomah County Animal Services website. This is a once in a lifetime dog and anyone who adopts her will be very lucky.
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
A 40 pound cattle dog I know is going up for adoption on the Multnomah County Animal Services website. This is a once in a lifetime dog and anyone who adopts her will be very lucky.
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BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
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we need a department of kerning
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
we need a department of kerning
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As a descendant of Kenneth MacAlpin, aka Kenneth I, King of Dál Riada and King of the Picts, I hereby declare this the best resource on the Picts I have ever seen.
surely that counts for something
surely that counts for something
"The Picts emerge from the shadows and step forward in technicolour" 🤩
'Carved in Stone', an illustrated guide to 7th-century Scotland packed with information on languages, settlements, cuisine, fashion, medicine, skills and more, is now available for purchase: www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...
'Carved in Stone', an illustrated guide to 7th-century Scotland packed with information on languages, settlements, cuisine, fashion, medicine, skills and more, is now available for purchase: www.digitscotland.com/archaeologis...
November 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
As a descendant of Kenneth MacAlpin, aka Kenneth I, King of Dál Riada and King of the Picts, I hereby declare this the best resource on the Picts I have ever seen.
surely that counts for something
surely that counts for something
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NEW: DHS secretly obtained Chicago police data on 900 residents accused of gang ties. It was quietly deleted after intelligence officers violated rules against domestic spying.
The handoff came well after city inspectors formally announced CPD's gang data was deeply flawed and infected w/ bias.
The handoff came well after city inspectors formally announced CPD's gang data was deeply flawed and infected w/ bias.
DHS Kept Chicago Police Records for Months in Violation of Domestic Espionage Rules
The Department of Homeland Security collected data on Chicago residents accused of gang ties to test if police files could feed an FBI watchlist. Months passed before anyone noticed it wasn’t deleted.
www.wired.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
NEW: DHS secretly obtained Chicago police data on 900 residents accused of gang ties. It was quietly deleted after intelligence officers violated rules against domestic spying.
The handoff came well after city inspectors formally announced CPD's gang data was deeply flawed and infected w/ bias.
The handoff came well after city inspectors formally announced CPD's gang data was deeply flawed and infected w/ bias.
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Hundreds of people arrested and held in custody amid the feds’ deportation campaign in Chicago could soon be released on various conditions under a federal judge’s order Wednesday.
Judge says he'll order release of hundreds of people arrested under feds' deportation blitz
chicago.suntimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Hundreds of people arrested and held in custody amid the feds’ deportation campaign in Chicago could soon be released on various conditions under a federal judge’s order Wednesday.
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QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal."
JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal."
JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
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nah see, you don't get it: those are just LOCKER ROOM documents
November 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
nah see, you don't get it: those are just LOCKER ROOM documents
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‘Nickname’ is not ‘nick’ + ‘name.’
It was originally ‘ekename.’
‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.”
Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it.
Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'
It was originally ‘ekename.’
‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.”
Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it.
Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'
November 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
‘Nickname’ is not ‘nick’ + ‘name.’
It was originally ‘ekename.’
‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.”
Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it.
Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'
It was originally ‘ekename.’
‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.”
Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it.
Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'