Matthew Phillion
@matthewphillion.bsky.social
Author: the Indestructibles, Echo and the Sea, the Dungeon Crawlers.
Formerly: Chaotic Good GM for the Ravenfolly Institute podcast.
Belligerent idealist.
he/him
Formerly: Chaotic Good GM for the Ravenfolly Institute podcast.
Belligerent idealist.
he/him
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Your only possible response, when confronted with someone saying this, is to wait for them to finish, firmly state “What the actual fuck is wrong with you?” and leave the interview immediately.
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Your only possible response, when confronted with someone saying this, is to wait for them to finish, firmly state “What the actual fuck is wrong with you?” and leave the interview immediately.
My first job out of college was as a "litigation assistant" for what I could best describe a the paperwork equivalent of a puppy mill, reviewing court documents for cases and flagging keywords manually, that kind of thing. LOTS of emails. There was one exchange that has felt eternally relevant:
November 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
My first job out of college was as a "litigation assistant" for what I could best describe a the paperwork equivalent of a puppy mill, reviewing court documents for cases and flagging keywords manually, that kind of thing. LOTS of emails. There was one exchange that has felt eternally relevant:
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On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
November 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
Just got what I would call the most epic ChatGPT based shitty author marketing scam email yet, like this is so clearly written by a chatbot that was fed my back cover copy it is WILD
November 12, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Just got what I would call the most epic ChatGPT based shitty author marketing scam email yet, like this is so clearly written by a chatbot that was fed my back cover copy it is WILD
You'd think that by now every horrible thing that has happened would reveal if anyone you've known a long time has a really deeply held and kinda evil belief, but still, in 2025, something happens and someone I thought was a decent human will be like "yeah I don't think food is a human right"
November 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
You'd think that by now every horrible thing that has happened would reveal if anyone you've known a long time has a really deeply held and kinda evil belief, but still, in 2025, something happens and someone I thought was a decent human will be like "yeah I don't think food is a human right"
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“The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”
What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart
A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
“The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”
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I remember falling in love with Rumours (and Fleetwood Mac in general) when I was like 15 or 16 and feeling like I was from another planet. This was 30+ years ago. Yeah, every generation loves Rumours. It's a perfect work of art.
November 9, 2025 at 6:51 AM
I remember falling in love with Rumours (and Fleetwood Mac in general) when I was like 15 or 16 and feeling like I was from another planet. This was 30+ years ago. Yeah, every generation loves Rumours. It's a perfect work of art.
I got very lucky with timing, an unsustainably large amount of extra writing work at the same time the housing market was at its last reasonable state, and I sometimes joke that I will die in this house, but I'm not really joking. They truly do not want anyone to ever own a home again.
November 9, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I got very lucky with timing, an unsustainably large amount of extra writing work at the same time the housing market was at its last reasonable state, and I sometimes joke that I will die in this house, but I'm not really joking. They truly do not want anyone to ever own a home again.
Ah, I see I'm now getting sponsored ads by people trying to get authors to opt out of the Anthropic lawsuit to "get even more money." I knew they were out there but holy shit man, a sponsored social media ad? Are they using the same marketing as HIMS?
November 9, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Ah, I see I'm now getting sponsored ads by people trying to get authors to opt out of the Anthropic lawsuit to "get even more money." I knew they were out there but holy shit man, a sponsored social media ad? Are they using the same marketing as HIMS?
Post you from a different era.
Late 90s. Headshot from... I think a performance of Into the Woods? I guess in a Dylan McKay era or something. I was usually more grunge than this back then but most photos of me before then were lost in a house fire.
Late 90s. Headshot from... I think a performance of Into the Woods? I guess in a Dylan McKay era or something. I was usually more grunge than this back then but most photos of me before then were lost in a house fire.
November 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Post you from a different era.
Late 90s. Headshot from... I think a performance of Into the Woods? I guess in a Dylan McKay era or something. I was usually more grunge than this back then but most photos of me before then were lost in a house fire.
Late 90s. Headshot from... I think a performance of Into the Woods? I guess in a Dylan McKay era or something. I was usually more grunge than this back then but most photos of me before then were lost in a house fire.
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I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
I really don't feel like sharing a clickbait article but really, it's never a serious take if someone asks "are we making too much [art]?" Nah dude, that's the thing about art, you just keep making it cos it brings you joy and none of us are so unique that nobody else likes what you're creating.
November 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I really don't feel like sharing a clickbait article but really, it's never a serious take if someone asks "are we making too much [art]?" Nah dude, that's the thing about art, you just keep making it cos it brings you joy and none of us are so unique that nobody else likes what you're creating.
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Click bait headline aside. The simple answer is: no. And the more complicated answer is: also no. AP as an art form is at an early stage, and for those of us toying with form/presentation in this bonkers medium, I’d welcome thousands more.
Make weird things and tell stories.
Make weird things and tell stories.
New from TTRPG Insider: One of those questions I've been asking myself is about how 'big' Actual Play content can get. There are a lot of folks who are really excited to create in this space. But are there too many shows already? www.ttrpginsider.news/p/are-there-...
Are There Too Many Actual Plays?
An in-depth exploration of the actual play phenomenon: Are we witnessing an oversaturation of TTRPG performances, or just the beginning of a vibrant content landscape?
www.ttrpginsider.news
November 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Click bait headline aside. The simple answer is: no. And the more complicated answer is: also no. AP as an art form is at an early stage, and for those of us toying with form/presentation in this bonkers medium, I’d welcome thousands more.
Make weird things and tell stories.
Make weird things and tell stories.
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Cached US Kindle giveaway: 10 copies of The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga Book 3) by @davidbrinks.bsky.social, which I *have* and *have read* and *have enjoyed*, and in fact have given out before. This is my favorite of the Uplift books!
#KindleBookGiveaway
#KindleBookGiveaway
November 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Cached US Kindle giveaway: 10 copies of The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga Book 3) by @davidbrinks.bsky.social, which I *have* and *have read* and *have enjoyed*, and in fact have given out before. This is my favorite of the Uplift books!
#KindleBookGiveaway
#KindleBookGiveaway
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Remember when Spider-Man 2 for PS5 came out and people realized the NPCs on the street all had dialogue with each other that you could eavesdrop on and then players in. A. SPIDER-MAN. Game. Took time out of swinging above the city just to follow people around on the street and listen to them? 🤔
The worst part as a writer is, like, NPC dialogue and barks and incidental text is the most fun stuff to write but takes the most time in terms of billable hours and has the least amount of screen-time, so for a corpo it just 'makes sense' to have an LLM pump it out
"Nobody reads this stuff anyway"
"Nobody reads this stuff anyway"
November 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Remember when Spider-Man 2 for PS5 came out and people realized the NPCs on the street all had dialogue with each other that you could eavesdrop on and then players in. A. SPIDER-MAN. Game. Took time out of swinging above the city just to follow people around on the street and listen to them? 🤔
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This Outer Worlds 2 clip was posted on Reddit with the note: "This tiny moment is my favorite in the entire game, a guard NPC is singing the radio songs to himself."
I worked on that mission so heard that clip 100x and it was never not funny to me. Thanks Andrew Kishino for the great performance!
I worked on that mission so heard that clip 100x and it was never not funny to me. Thanks Andrew Kishino for the great performance!
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This Outer Worlds 2 clip was posted on Reddit with the note: "This tiny moment is my favorite in the entire game, a guard NPC is singing the radio songs to himself."
I worked on that mission so heard that clip 100x and it was never not funny to me. Thanks Andrew Kishino for the great performance!
I worked on that mission so heard that clip 100x and it was never not funny to me. Thanks Andrew Kishino for the great performance!
And the man who masterminded those cuts is set to become the world's first trillionaire.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
And the man who masterminded those cuts is set to become the world's first trillionaire.
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
HEAD'S UP FELLOW #CREATIVES!
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
Grammarly Rebrands Company as Superhuman, Introduces Superhuman Suite and Superhuman Go
Superhuman Platform delivers proactive, context-aware AI agents that work in the flow of work, wherever people work Grammarly today announced it is changing its company…
www.grammarly.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
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Cached US Kindle giveaway: 6 copies of Feedback (Newsflesh Novels Book 4) by Mira Grant, whom most people know by her alter-ego @seananmcguire.bsky.social. I think we really want this book to sell a lot of copies.
#KindleBookGiveaway
#KindleBookGiveaway
November 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Cached US Kindle giveaway: 6 copies of Feedback (Newsflesh Novels Book 4) by Mira Grant, whom most people know by her alter-ego @seananmcguire.bsky.social. I think we really want this book to sell a lot of copies.
#KindleBookGiveaway
#KindleBookGiveaway
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They LITERALLY campaigned on making children go hungry as a political statement and they can't figure out why they lost.
November 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
They LITERALLY campaigned on making children go hungry as a political statement and they can't figure out why they lost.
Watching this, particularly when red face-plants, and imagining people wondering why their Amazon packages start to arrive smashed to bits as the company finds any way they can to not pay humans a living wage and decides to use something like these instead.
November 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Watching this, particularly when red face-plants, and imagining people wondering why their Amazon packages start to arrive smashed to bits as the company finds any way they can to not pay humans a living wage and decides to use something like these instead.
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Curse of Strahd Deep Dive Episode 9: Crypt Walk. Castle Ravenloft Final Level: Exit here for Entombed Enemies, Plot Devices, Bat Guano, and Bridal Returns. Trust me, you don't want to talk to customer service.
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Critical Lit: Curse of Strahd 09 - Crypt Walk | Critical Lit
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November 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Curse of Strahd Deep Dive Episode 9: Crypt Walk. Castle Ravenloft Final Level: Exit here for Entombed Enemies, Plot Devices, Bat Guano, and Bridal Returns. Trust me, you don't want to talk to customer service.
critical-lit.simplecast.com/episodes/cri...
critical-lit.simplecast.com/episodes/cri...
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Last night I went to the Puca Festival in Trim, Ireland.
It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.
It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.
November 2, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Last night I went to the Puca Festival in Trim, Ireland.
It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.
It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.