Bryant Durrell
@innocence.com
I like movies a lot. I worry about right-wing extremism. I play and sometimes write tabletop RPGs. I do SRE things but don’t speak for my employer here. I grew up in New England and live with my wife in Seattle. He/his.
https://innocence.com/~durrell
https://innocence.com/~durrell
Note for tabletop gaming cons: the single best thing you can do to convince me that I want to attend is show me a list of events from previous years. I wanna try games I haven’t played mostly. Show me what I might get!
January 10, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Note for tabletop gaming cons: the single best thing you can do to convince me that I want to attend is show me a list of events from previous years. I wanna try games I haven’t played mostly. Show me what I might get!
A Most Wanted Man is underappreciated. Not the best LeCarre adaptation but PSH was born to play a LeCarre protagonist and Nina Hoss is excellent. Take advantage of your local library.
New to Kanopy! Add these five films to your watchlist 🎥
LOVE LIES BLEEDING (2025)
Available: 🇺🇸
A MOST WANTED MAN (2014)
Available: 🇺🇸
JACK REACHER (2012)
Available: 🇺🇸
TEN PERCENT (2022)
Available: 🇺🇸|🇨🇦|🇬🇧
FREE STATE OF JONES (2016)
Available: 🇺🇸
LOVE LIES BLEEDING (2025)
Available: 🇺🇸
A MOST WANTED MAN (2014)
Available: 🇺🇸
JACK REACHER (2012)
Available: 🇺🇸
TEN PERCENT (2022)
Available: 🇺🇸|🇨🇦|🇬🇧
FREE STATE OF JONES (2016)
Available: 🇺🇸
January 10, 2026 at 7:28 PM
A Most Wanted Man is underappreciated. Not the best LeCarre adaptation but PSH was born to play a LeCarre protagonist and Nina Hoss is excellent. Take advantage of your local library.
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increasingly clear that big city mayors serve at the pleasure of the police and yeah they have no plan to fix it
January 10, 2026 at 5:55 PM
increasingly clear that big city mayors serve at the pleasure of the police and yeah they have no plan to fix it
The more serious proposals assert that it’s practical to pass a state law requiring employers to pay taxes into an escrow account. It assumes employers would comply. I am unconvinced. cmarmitage.substack.com/p/experts-sa...
Experts Say Blue States Can Stop Paying Federal Taxes. There’s Precedent
If we could use nullification for people to get high, why can’t we use it to protect human rights and stop fascism?
cmarmitage.substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:09 PM
The more serious proposals assert that it’s practical to pass a state law requiring employers to pay taxes into an escrow account. It assumes employers would comply. I am unconvinced. cmarmitage.substack.com/p/experts-sa...
Slightly diminish a band.
Saccharin.
Saccharin.
Slightly diminish a band.
The Beatle.
The Beatle.
Slightly diminish a band
Ned's Subatomic Dustbin
Ned's Subatomic Dustbin
January 10, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Slightly diminish a band.
Saccharin.
Saccharin.
It was pretty fun. Easy system, enough tactical choice to scratch that itch, and it seems like a fun generic fantasy world. I played Barnacle the frog rogue; we found an excuse to do a fastball special and I got the killing blow on the last skeleton. What more can you ask for?
January 10, 2026 at 6:04 AM
It was pretty fun. Easy system, enough tactical choice to scratch that itch, and it seems like a fun generic fantasy world. I played Barnacle the frog rogue; we found an excuse to do a fastball special and I got the killing blow on the last skeleton. What more can you ask for?
Friday night: Learn to Play Daggerheart with Briggs GMing and a really generous set of players — I really loved how attentive everyone was towards each other, passing around spotlight, establishing existing PC relationships. Plus I got to learn to play Daggerheart!
January 10, 2026 at 6:02 AM
Friday night: Learn to Play Daggerheart with Briggs GMing and a really generous set of players — I really loved how attentive everyone was towards each other, passing around spotlight, establishing existing PC relationships. Plus I got to learn to play Daggerheart!
Nice meeting you and hearing about Gamestorm this afternoon!
January 10, 2026 at 5:58 AM
Nice meeting you and hearing about Gamestorm this afternoon!
January 10, 2026 at 5:57 AM
I come bearing links: lokisloop.org
Loki's Loop – Escape rooms, games, and other play-based activities for building resilience and agency to navigate a fractured information environment.
Escape rooms and other play-based activities for building resilience to misinformation
lokisloop.org
January 10, 2026 at 1:38 AM
I come bearing links: lokisloop.org
Yeah, I got excited, I wrote up notes immediately. Come read about in-game debrief moments, encouraging player agency, and escape rooms designed to teach about misinformation! Thrill to the image of UW professors learning about #TTRPGs via The Quiet Year! popone.innocence.com/archives/202...
January 10, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Yeah, I got excited, I wrote up notes immediately. Come read about in-game debrief moments, encouraging player agency, and escape rooms designed to teach about misinformation! Thrill to the image of UW professors learning about #TTRPGs via The Quiet Year! popone.innocence.com/archives/202...
Phenomenal #OrcaCon panel: Analog Games for Digital Literacies. A bunch of U Wash folks working on information literacy via gaming, including TTRPGs (currently in development). See lokisloop.org for some of their work; I will write up my notes later.
Loki's Loop – Escape rooms, games, and other play-based activities for building resilience and agency to navigate a fractured information environment.
Escape rooms and other play-based activities for building resilience to misinformation
lokisloop.org
January 10, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Phenomenal #OrcaCon panel: Analog Games for Digital Literacies. A bunch of U Wash folks working on information literacy via gaming, including TTRPGs (currently in development). See lokisloop.org for some of their work; I will write up my notes later.
Arrived at OrcaCon; parking is already a bit difficult.
January 9, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Arrived at OrcaCon; parking is already a bit difficult.
I think you’ll like it! It’s even definitely a crime movie.
January 9, 2026 at 7:12 PM
I think you’ll like it! It’s even definitely a crime movie.
It is at the top of my list of movies that should be much better known.
January 9, 2026 at 6:55 PM
It is at the top of my list of movies that should be much better known.
1915 Italian Futurist criminal cross-dressing adventuress with her own zeppelin. It is amazing if you’re at all prone to that sort of thing.
January 9, 2026 at 6:47 PM
1915 Italian Futurist criminal cross-dressing adventuress with her own zeppelin. It is amazing if you’re at all prone to that sort of thing.
Okay, the aspect ratio issue creating that excess padding is a unimplemented feature in the command line tool I use. Time to think.
January 9, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Okay, the aspect ratio issue creating that excess padding is a unimplemented feature in the command line tool I use. Time to think.
Hey, #LastFourFriday! Will the automation work? Finding out together...
Anyway all bangers this week. Go find Filibus on YouTube, do yourself a favor, plus a late breaking addition to my 2025 Top Ten. 📽️
Anyway all bangers this week. Go find Filibus on YouTube, do yourself a favor, plus a late breaking addition to my 2025 Top Ten. 📽️
January 9, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Hey, #LastFourFriday! Will the automation work? Finding out together...
Anyway all bangers this week. Go find Filibus on YouTube, do yourself a favor, plus a late breaking addition to my 2025 Top Ten. 📽️
Anyway all bangers this week. Go find Filibus on YouTube, do yourself a favor, plus a late breaking addition to my 2025 Top Ten. 📽️
Belatedly: boxd.it/RyrwE
Best Folk Horror Watched 2025 (Harvest Maid’s Revenge)
From her site, with permission. Great list.
boxd.it
January 9, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Belatedly: boxd.it/RyrwE
Hey! Blades ‘68 BackerKit preview is live! We play tested this: it’s great. www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
Coming Soon: Blades '68, for Blades in the Dark
From Evil Hat - Coming Soon: Blades '68, for Blades in the Dark
www.backerkit.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Hey! Blades ‘68 BackerKit preview is live! We play tested this: it’s great. www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
Okay please believe me when I say that The People’s Joker is a significant exploration of the ways you can use film to tell stories and if it’s gonna be on Tubi you have no excuse not to watch it.
After a contentions debut at the 2022 Toronto Film Festival, The People's Joker is about to reach its widest audience yet.
The Joker movie DC didn't want you to see will start streaming for free this month
After a contentions debut at the 2022 Toronto Film Festival, The People's Joker is about to reach its widest audience yet.
www.polygon.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:25 AM
Okay please believe me when I say that The People’s Joker is a significant exploration of the ways you can use film to tell stories and if it’s gonna be on Tubi you have no excuse not to watch it.
I’m pretty basic but my top ten is something like…
Richard Lloyd
Tom Verlaine
Prince
Richard Thompson
Dick Dale
Robert Quine
Bob Mould
Jimi Hendrix
Mdou Moctar
Richard Lloyd
Tom Verlaine
Prince
Richard Thompson
Dick Dale
Robert Quine
Bob Mould
Jimi Hendrix
Mdou Moctar
Who are your top 10 all-time favourite guitarists. Top of the head stuff
Jimi Hendrix
Andres Segovia
Robert Fripp
Jim Hall
Julian Bream
Robbie Robertson
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Barney Kessel
John McLaughlin
Steve Howe
Jimi Hendrix
Andres Segovia
Robert Fripp
Jim Hall
Julian Bream
Robbie Robertson
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Barney Kessel
John McLaughlin
Steve Howe
Who are your top 10 all-time favourite guitarist. Top of the head stuff
Robert Fripp
Grant Green
Richard Thompson
Tom Verlaine
Jerry Garcia
Leo Kottke
John McLaughlin
Rory Gallagher
David Gilmour
Albert Lee
Robert Fripp
Grant Green
Richard Thompson
Tom Verlaine
Jerry Garcia
Leo Kottke
John McLaughlin
Rory Gallagher
David Gilmour
Albert Lee
January 7, 2026 at 11:23 PM
I’m pretty basic but my top ten is something like…
Richard Lloyd
Tom Verlaine
Prince
Richard Thompson
Dick Dale
Robert Quine
Bob Mould
Jimi Hendrix
Mdou Moctar
Richard Lloyd
Tom Verlaine
Prince
Richard Thompson
Dick Dale
Robert Quine
Bob Mould
Jimi Hendrix
Mdou Moctar
Renee Nicole Good. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
Live: Mother identifies woman shot and killed by ICE agent in Minneapolis
The mother of the deceased driver identified the woman as Renee Nicole Good, 37. Video of the shooting shows agents near the vehicle as Good reversed and then accelerated. One agent appeared to fire m...
www.startribune.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Renee Nicole Good. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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The Trace has been tracking shootings connected to Trump's immigration crackdowns — an important project that I had somehow missed but shines today: www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...
How Many People Have Been Shot in ICE Raids?
The Trace is tracking gun incidents connected to Trump’s immigration crackdown. Know of one? Please be in touch.
www.thetrace.org
January 7, 2026 at 8:10 PM
The Trace has been tracking shootings connected to Trump's immigration crackdowns — an important project that I had somehow missed but shines today: www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...
Yeah, that was a flat out murder. I don’t think we know the victim’s name yet, but they’re a hero.
January 7, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Yeah, that was a flat out murder. I don’t think we know the victim’s name yet, but they’re a hero.