TF Grognon
@tfg.bsky.social
writer, enthuser | formerly a fist that was tiny | Toronto
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TF Grognon
@tfg.bsky.social
· Aug 16
how does our library go? by tfgrognon
You're a library & you're in motion. A travelling library game for one or more.
tfgrognon.itch.io
Anyway. I wrote a one-page ttrpg this summer, the first one since that disastrous experience.
tfgrognon.itch.io/how-does-our...
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sometimes I wonder how "immersion" became the sole criterion of quality in online media discussion.
I'm just so sick of hearing it.
I'm just so sick of hearing it.
January 22, 2026 at 2:15 PM
sometimes I wonder how "immersion" became the sole criterion of quality in online media discussion.
I'm just so sick of hearing it.
I'm just so sick of hearing it.
When I was much younger, I read a ton of baseball lit & fell hard for the whole cornfed (faux-)magical realism. I'm still really susceptible to all of that, but revisiting the field (heh) now is very odd.
So many explicit, unexamined assumptions grounded in white supremacy, holy shit.
So many explicit, unexamined assumptions grounded in white supremacy, holy shit.
for reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture*, I'm reading lots of baseball lit.
This section, from Coover's "McDuff on the Mound" (a riff on "Casey at the Bat" from the pitcher's POV), is so delightful with its sheer pomo ebullience.
* trying to write smthg for @s2b2.bsky.social
This section, from Coover's "McDuff on the Mound" (a riff on "Casey at the Bat" from the pitcher's POV), is so delightful with its sheer pomo ebullience.
* trying to write smthg for @s2b2.bsky.social
January 18, 2026 at 5:05 PM
When I was much younger, I read a ton of baseball lit & fell hard for the whole cornfed (faux-)magical realism. I'm still really susceptible to all of that, but revisiting the field (heh) now is very odd.
So many explicit, unexamined assumptions grounded in white supremacy, holy shit.
So many explicit, unexamined assumptions grounded in white supremacy, holy shit.
for reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture*, I'm reading lots of baseball lit.
This section, from Coover's "McDuff on the Mound" (a riff on "Casey at the Bat" from the pitcher's POV), is so delightful with its sheer pomo ebullience.
* trying to write smthg for @s2b2.bsky.social
This section, from Coover's "McDuff on the Mound" (a riff on "Casey at the Bat" from the pitcher's POV), is so delightful with its sheer pomo ebullience.
* trying to write smthg for @s2b2.bsky.social
January 18, 2026 at 4:37 PM
for reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture*, I'm reading lots of baseball lit.
This section, from Coover's "McDuff on the Mound" (a riff on "Casey at the Bat" from the pitcher's POV), is so delightful with its sheer pomo ebullience.
* trying to write smthg for @s2b2.bsky.social
This section, from Coover's "McDuff on the Mound" (a riff on "Casey at the Bat" from the pitcher's POV), is so delightful with its sheer pomo ebullience.
* trying to write smthg for @s2b2.bsky.social
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What the FUCK?
Wikimedia Foundation announces new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity and others
Wikimedia Foundation announces new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity and others | TechCrunch
The AI partnerships allow companies to access the org's content, like Wikipedia, at scale.
techcrunch.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:32 PM
What the FUCK?
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The press practice of relying on the govt to set the narrative is routine enough in the US to normally escape notice, but in an insurrection it looks unmistakably absurd alongside citizen reporting. Running in clown shoes to the cops & the White House to uncritically report back whatever they say.
January 15, 2026 at 6:24 AM
The press practice of relying on the govt to set the narrative is routine enough in the US to normally escape notice, but in an insurrection it looks unmistakably absurd alongside citizen reporting. Running in clown shoes to the cops & the White House to uncritically report back whatever they say.
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Bad Bunny opened his concert in Chile Jan. 10 with a tribute to Victor Jara, the singer/songwriter killed during the Pinochet dictatorship. The choice is deliciously pointed, both at Chile's incoming far-right president & at the U.S.'s imperialist authoritarian.
www.tiktok.com/@agus.chicot...
www.tiktok.com/@agus.chicot...
Me gusta que estemos hablando todos de esto, ¿lo conocían? #victorjara #badbunny #dtmf #debitirarmasfotos #chile
TikTok video by Agus Chicote | Periodista 🔍
www.tiktok.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Bad Bunny opened his concert in Chile Jan. 10 with a tribute to Victor Jara, the singer/songwriter killed during the Pinochet dictatorship. The choice is deliciously pointed, both at Chile's incoming far-right president & at the U.S.'s imperialist authoritarian.
www.tiktok.com/@agus.chicot...
www.tiktok.com/@agus.chicot...
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wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
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Dessalines was right. Sherman was right.
January 15, 2026 at 5:37 AM
Dessalines was right. Sherman was right.
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a shallow understanding of equally shallow sporkings has done as much damage to media literacy as the curtains were blue, I swear. so many people trained to treat any writer freer with words than hemingway as a cringe hedonist committing sins in simile
January 15, 2026 at 3:48 AM
a shallow understanding of equally shallow sporkings has done as much damage to media literacy as the curtains were blue, I swear. so many people trained to treat any writer freer with words than hemingway as a cringe hedonist committing sins in simile
sleepily hand-feeding the elderly cat, watching the snow sift rapidly down: it's not peace, but the closest I've felt in a while
January 15, 2026 at 1:53 PM
sleepily hand-feeding the elderly cat, watching the snow sift rapidly down: it's not peace, but the closest I've felt in a while
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cat playing a harp, Egypt (c. 1 CE)
September 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
cat playing a harp, Egypt (c. 1 CE)
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At this point *anyone* in any policy position (government, think tank, whatever) should have enough information to understand that anything short of "abolish ICE, punish the ICE agents, severely punish the government putting them to use" is just fascist apologia and assistance.
January 14, 2026 at 5:32 PM
At this point *anyone* in any policy position (government, think tank, whatever) should have enough information to understand that anything short of "abolish ICE, punish the ICE agents, severely punish the government putting them to use" is just fascist apologia and assistance.
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Overshadowed by Gaza, Venezuela and Iran but US designation of Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon as "terrorist organizations" is one of the more blatant and nakedly antidemocratic actions taken by USG abroad in a while.
January 14, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Overshadowed by Gaza, Venezuela and Iran but US designation of Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon as "terrorist organizations" is one of the more blatant and nakedly antidemocratic actions taken by USG abroad in a while.
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latest canlit quiz just dropped called "do you see anything wrong with this picture"
Introducing the 2026 Giller Prize Jury: Five Independent Canadian Booksellers Ignite a Reimagined Award
January 12, 2026 (Toronto, ON) – The Giller Prize is proud to announce its first-ever jury composed exclusively of independent Canadian booksellers. Representing Canada’s North, West Coast, the Prairi...
gillerprize.ca
January 14, 2026 at 6:08 AM
latest canlit quiz just dropped called "do you see anything wrong with this picture"
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I don't remember the bodyswitch plotline?
January 14, 2026 at 3:11 PM
I don't remember the bodyswitch plotline?
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Five days until the second #DavidLynchGameJam begins.
Join us in radical acts of creation.
itch.io/jam/david-ly...
Join us in radical acts of creation.
itch.io/jam/david-ly...
Fix Your Hearts or Die: David Lynch Game Jam 2
A game jam from 2026-01-20 to 2026-02-24 hosted by Jellyfishlines. NOTE: This particular version of the David Lynch Game Jam will have more focus on TTRPGs than the first one. While video games are al...
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January 14, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Five days until the second #DavidLynchGameJam begins.
Join us in radical acts of creation.
itch.io/jam/david-ly...
Join us in radical acts of creation.
itch.io/jam/david-ly...
jfc
The Swedish prince and copycat designer Carl Philip has released a new range of luxury scarves. There's just something about them... I don't know. Something about the design's negative space? Not sure what it is.. oh.
January 14, 2026 at 2:52 PM
jfc
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The Baronial Class has a special disdain for traitors, race traitors, especially white women, who do not appreciate the "protection" law enforcement purport to provide from the Other, especially Black men (which traces back to lynching, for a white women to love a Black man is unthinkable).
January 14, 2026 at 2:47 PM
The Baronial Class has a special disdain for traitors, race traitors, especially white women, who do not appreciate the "protection" law enforcement purport to provide from the Other, especially Black men (which traces back to lynching, for a white women to love a Black man is unthinkable).
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This has been the fantasy of law enforcement and why they supported Trump. They wanted to exercise unfettered violence because even the whiff of regulation offended the rules of their Baronial Class.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Former members of ICE say recent violence is "by design"
"What has changed is there has been an encouragement from the top to be much more aggressive in enforcement."
www.motherjones.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:47 PM
This has been the fantasy of law enforcement and why they supported Trump. They wanted to exercise unfettered violence because even the whiff of regulation offended the rules of their Baronial Class.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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this is the only dilbert thing i ever made. but-- a fitting tribute, for a fitting man
January 13, 2026 at 5:53 PM
this is the only dilbert thing i ever made. but-- a fitting tribute, for a fitting man
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Yep. Ghost kitchens. Suck.
The stink of late capitalism. Spotted this one in Toronto.
The stink of late capitalism. Spotted this one in Toronto.
January 12, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Yep. Ghost kitchens. Suck.
The stink of late capitalism. Spotted this one in Toronto.
The stink of late capitalism. Spotted this one in Toronto.
how this tumblrite hears about historical continuity in imperial projects and considers that "sanewashing" is killing me.
January 13, 2026 at 2:45 PM
how this tumblrite hears about historical continuity in imperial projects and considers that "sanewashing" is killing me.
"We see people closing in on themselves. Closing their doors, their windows, their eyes and ears, their minds and their hearts, supposedly to keep trouble at bay. Thus, their homes have become cages; their brains prison cells in which nothing 'human' has any chance of entering."
January 11, 2026 at 12:15 AM
"We see people closing in on themselves. Closing their doors, their windows, their eyes and ears, their minds and their hearts, supposedly to keep trouble at bay. Thus, their homes have become cages; their brains prison cells in which nothing 'human' has any chance of entering."