Gord Sellar
@gordsellar.com
Writer, musician, RPG enthusiast, dad.
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My poor phone is set to English, so when it tries to transcribe typical Korean-language robocaller voice messages, the texts it comes up with are bananas.
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 AM
My poor phone is set to English, so when it tries to transcribe typical Korean-language robocaller voice messages, the texts it comes up with are bananas.
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Our English translation of Korean author Djuna's book Not Yet Gods is out today from Kaya Press! We're very proud to have helped send this little weirdo out into the world!
Here's the publisher's webpage for the book:
kaya.com/books/not-ye...
Here's the publisher's webpage for the book:
kaya.com/books/not-ye...
Not Yet Gods |
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November 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Our English translation of Korean author Djuna's book Not Yet Gods is out today from Kaya Press! We're very proud to have helped send this little weirdo out into the world!
Here's the publisher's webpage for the book:
kaya.com/books/not-ye...
Here's the publisher's webpage for the book:
kaya.com/books/not-ye...
So, we're playing Mythic Bastionland. The first session was Sunday night. It's neat. I'll be blogging sessions regularly, on the site linked.
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Our Mythic Bastionland, Session 1
So, we played our first session of Mythic Bastionland. I think I’ll be blogging a log of events, and I’m going to skip anytying that would be spoilers for stuff the players don’t …
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November 12, 2025 at 5:40 AM
So, we're playing Mythic Bastionland. The first session was Sunday night. It's neat. I'll be blogging sessions regularly, on the site linked.
www.gordsellar.com/2025/11/12/o...
www.gordsellar.com/2025/11/12/o...
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Joyce Carol Oates should say he can't do backflips off the roof next
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Joyce Carol Oates should say he can't do backflips off the roof next
Our English translation of Korean author Djuna's book Not Yet Gods is out today from Kaya Press! We're very proud to have helped send this little weirdo out into the world!
Here's the publisher's webpage for the book:
kaya.com/books/not-ye...
Here's the publisher's webpage for the book:
kaya.com/books/not-ye...
Not Yet Gods |
kaya.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Our English translation of Korean author Djuna's book Not Yet Gods is out today from Kaya Press! We're very proud to have helped send this little weirdo out into the world!
Here's the publisher's webpage for the book:
kaya.com/books/not-ye...
Here's the publisher's webpage for the book:
kaya.com/books/not-ye...
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if you are the public defense investigator who just subpoenaed Sam Altman on stage know that i love you and think you are a wonder upon this earth.
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
if you are the public defense investigator who just subpoenaed Sam Altman on stage know that i love you and think you are a wonder upon this earth.
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apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe
November 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe
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Teaching online like: “I’m sorry. I wasn’t listening to you. I was reading some utterly messed up shit from my public library in the other tab.”
November 4, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Teaching online like: “I’m sorry. I wasn’t listening to you. I was reading some utterly messed up shit from my public library in the other tab.”
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Dick Cheney won't see your mean jokes about his death, but Tony Blair will, hopefully.
November 4, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Dick Cheney won't see your mean jokes about his death, but Tony Blair will, hopefully.
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Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place
An A-level pupil found the lost grave of the Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano’s daughter, revealing a story of love and solidarity in 18th-century rural England.
Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), also known as Gustavus Vassa, escaped enslavement to become a celebrated author and campaigner in Georgian England. His memoir, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, was a bestseller. Continue reading...
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November 1, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
I'm vaguely curious whether it's a totally made up number or they offered 350 billion KRW (which is like $245m USD). It's probably just a completely made up number, though, I suspect.
Cool we can fund SNAP, pay air traffic controllers, ACA subsidies, all kinds of stuff. Right when we really need it. When do we get the cash?
November 1, 2025 at 6:28 AM
I'm vaguely curious whether it's a totally made up number or they offered 350 billion KRW (which is like $245m USD). It's probably just a completely made up number, though, I suspect.
Finally I feel comfortable saying I've recovered from the reading block that I seemed to develop back at the start of the pandemic. Took me a while to really get into full swing, but I think I'm back.
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September/October 2025 Reading
Here’s what I read in September and October of this year! I didn’t really read any RPG-related stuff in the past couple of months, at least not cover-to-cover, so this will be the only …
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November 1, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Finally I feel comfortable saying I've recovered from the reading block that I seemed to develop back at the start of the pandemic. Took me a while to really get into full swing, but I think I'm back.
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Annemarie Petri, contemporary award-winning Dutch printmaker, known for her steampunk cityscapes #WomensArt
October 26, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Annemarie Petri, contemporary award-winning Dutch printmaker, known for her steampunk cityscapes #WomensArt
Every single Youtube ad:
... If you don't have any skills or knowledge, well definitely don't rectify that by learning something or developing a skill, just use AI to build broken garbage for profit.
How pathetic and insulting, the idea that nobody should bother to try develop skills anymore.
... If you don't have any skills or knowledge, well definitely don't rectify that by learning something or developing a skill, just use AI to build broken garbage for profit.
How pathetic and insulting, the idea that nobody should bother to try develop skills anymore.
October 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Every single Youtube ad:
... If you don't have any skills or knowledge, well definitely don't rectify that by learning something or developing a skill, just use AI to build broken garbage for profit.
How pathetic and insulting, the idea that nobody should bother to try develop skills anymore.
... If you don't have any skills or knowledge, well definitely don't rectify that by learning something or developing a skill, just use AI to build broken garbage for profit.
How pathetic and insulting, the idea that nobody should bother to try develop skills anymore.
It's always a good time for listening to Monk. (And dig that album cover!)
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Thelonious Monk - Underground (1968) (Full Album)
YouTube video by Jazz Time with Jarvis X
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October 26, 2025 at 3:02 AM
It's always a good time for listening to Monk. (And dig that album cover!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_Fp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_Fp...
Earlier today, killing time before an appointment:
October 24, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Earlier today, killing time before an appointment:
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Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.
October 24, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.
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Women of Iceland are striking today!
Today, exactly fifty years after the first, #Iceland sees another #women's #strike, in pursuit of full #gender #equality. Follow our live blog throughout the morning and afternoon for all the latest.
https://www.ruv.is/english/2025-10-24-womens-strike-2025-live-blog-457024
https://www.ruv.is/english/2025-10-24-womens-strike-2025-live-blog-457024
Women's Strike 2025 - live blog - RÚV.is
Events are being held across the country today in connection with the women’s strike. The occasion marks half a century since the (first) Women’s Day Off in 1975. Organisers say there has been a setba...
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October 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Women of Iceland are striking today!
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"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
October 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
Every few years, I return to this album, which I first heard as an LP when I was teenager. It's just soooooo good, I struggled even to pick which tune to post. The band only recorded for like a decade, but every disc is worth repeated listenings.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuaT...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuaT...
Serenade for Sariah - Don Pullen George Adams Quartet
YouTube video by johnnystaccata
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October 23, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Every few years, I return to this album, which I first heard as an LP when I was teenager. It's just soooooo good, I struggled even to pick which tune to post. The band only recorded for like a decade, but every disc is worth repeated listenings.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuaT...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuaT...
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Omg
October 22, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Omg
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Green sea turtles are making a comeback in the Pacific: nest counts on Australia’s Heron Island have risen, and populations across the Pacific now meet IUCN recovery thresholds, thanks to decades of protection, turtle-safe fishing, and community-led conservation.
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Green sea turtle saved from extinction in major conservation victory - Oceanographic
The green sea turtle has been rescued from extinction thanks to forty years of conservation and protection efforts, the IUCN has said.
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October 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Green sea turtles are making a comeback in the Pacific: nest counts on Australia’s Heron Island have risen, and populations across the Pacific now meet IUCN recovery thresholds, thanks to decades of protection, turtle-safe fishing, and community-led conservation.
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#ShareGoodNewsToo
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Finally checking out Illinois Jacquet these days. What a tone! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qS3...
He plays bassoon on another track on this album, too. I was like, "Wait, is that..." Sure enough, it was.
He plays bassoon on another track on this album, too. I was like, "Wait, is that..." Sure enough, it was.
A Haunting Melody
YouTube video by Illinois Jacquet - Topic
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October 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Finally checking out Illinois Jacquet these days. What a tone! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qS3...
He plays bassoon on another track on this album, too. I was like, "Wait, is that..." Sure enough, it was.
He plays bassoon on another track on this album, too. I was like, "Wait, is that..." Sure enough, it was.
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Even better: "There will be no age restrictions on buyers and no requirement for parental consent, the daily newspaper Mainichi Shimbun reported."
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Japan allows over-the-counter emergency contraception pill for the first time
Women will be able to get the pill without prescription, but a pharmacist will still need to be present.
www.bbc.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Even better: "There will be no age restrictions on buyers and no requirement for parental consent, the daily newspaper Mainichi Shimbun reported."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...