Made a lil showcase for my game... (audio on!🎧)
Abyssal Crimes is coming in a few weeks!!! For free on my itch page!
#indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #metroidvania #pixelart

The U.S. is dropping landmines that look like food tins.

But we are seeing news about oil prices.

There is video.

www.cbsnews.com/news/us-iran...

The result has been something like an inverse caricature of Republican complaints about diversity, equity, and inclusion, a system in which the incompetent rise not because of their abilities but because of their sycophancy. Authoritarian regimes behave as the Trump administration is behaving—optimizing for political loyalty rather than competence. Merit, in short, has little to do with it. Hegseth is a prime example. Deeply unqualified for the job and convinced that brutality provides an easy path to victory, he has led the United States to the verge of a strategic defeat with a weaker adversary in Iran. The current cease-fire leaves Iran with a more hard-line government than before, one in total control of a shipping lane crucial to the world economy. The Islamic Republic is arguably in a stronger position today than it was when the war started, and probably in a stronger position than it was before Trump, in his first term, scrapped the Obama-era nuclear deal. On Sunday, Trump posted on his social network a refrain that he and his toadies seem to think is insightful: “If you import The Third World, you become The Third World!” This archaic social Darwinism is the ideological mortar of the Trump project. It fuses Hegseth’s disdain for diversity in the military’s senior leadership and valorization of brutality with the administration’s attack on birthright citizenship and its deployment of federal agents to occupy American cities. It is a worldview that would assume an easy victory against a country like Iran, especially with America’s new, “unwoke” military. Bigotry isn’t just inefficient, as the U.S. military discovered in the 1940s. It also makes you stupid.

Wrote about how Hegseth’s effort to resegregate the upper ranks of the US military ties into the larger MAGA project to restore hierarchies of race and gender: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Star Trek: Lower Decks lasted longer than the confederacy

Bandcamp is the best — but not only — place to get the audiobook version of my Slayer band biography, which is updated thru the 2025 reunion season. The runtime is 1.4 DAYS. And it’s reasonably priced. AND there’s even a shorter, cheaper version. #slayer

slayerbook.bandcamp.com

Möstly Thïngs Äudio D.X. Ferris is an award-winning journalist who has written for Rolling Stone, Decibel, the AV Club, Alternative Press, and Cleveland Scene. His book "Slayer's Reign in Blood" is part of Bloomsbury's p...

Bandcamp is the best — but not only — place to get the audiobook version of my Slayer band biography, which is updated thru the 2025 reunion season. The runtime is 1.4 DAYS. And it’s reasonably priced. AND there’s even a shorter, cheaper version. #slayer

slayerbook.bandcamp.com

What Did The Migrating Bigfoot Family Know About This Ohio Meteor Explosion? | Defector On March 10, the Bigfoot Society noted an “unprecedented” multi-day mass migration of bigfoots—possibly bigfeet—in the vicinity of Portage County, Ohio. The “unidentified bipedal hominids” were…

What did the migrating Bigfoot family know about this Ohio meteor explosion? defector.com/what-did-the...

Donnie Iris: The Hit You Know, The Career You Don’t YouTube video by Booked On Rock

Your man Ferris here, talkin’ Donnie Iris with @bookedonrock.bsky.social . Video version:

youtu.be/NG8ssVN6gUo?...

Read this thread ⤵️

Think NYC has some catching up to do here.

MIX: M-O-O-N all chill no metal

M O O N spells playlist. My Moon Songs Mix, the all chill version. Put in on shuffle and see what La Luna serves you tonight. #moon

open.spotify.com/playlist/0Zg...

Triumph’s reunion didn’t start with a tour announcement — it started with the music finding people again.

Rik Emmett talks about how the resurgence of the band’s songs helped spark the reunion.

Full conversation: BookedOnRock.com

#Triumph #RikEmmett #ClassicRock #RockHistory #BookedOnRock

Beyond “Ah! Leah!” — The Lasting Legacy of Donnie Iris Rock fans instantly recognize the infectious hook of “Ah! Leah!”, but the story of Donnie Iris goes far deeper than a single radio staple. In this episode of Booked On Rock, I’m joined by author D.X. ...

“Ah! Leah!” made him famous — but Donnie Iris’ story goes much deeper.

Author D.X. Ferris joins Booked On Rock to talk The Cruisers, early bands, and a lasting rock legacy.

#DonnieIris #AhLeah #ClassicRock #RockPodcast #MusicHistory #BookedOnRock

www.bookedonrock.com/post/beyond-...

@klm.bsky.social Hey. Please check yr DMs over on the Discord or Instagram? (I’m not going thru the verification process here, so I can’t DM.) Thanx!

@dxferris.bsky.social

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The updated version of my Slayer band biography runs 639 pages — well, the uncut version does; there’s a short version that’s like 400. ANYHOW, now you don’t even have to READ it. The audiobook is available at Bandcamp. And it’s CHEAP for an audio production that runs 1.4 days. Well, the uncut version runs 1.4 days. The audiobook exists in a short version too. Bandcamp.SlayerBook.com #Slayer

The updated version of my Slayer band biography runs 639 pages — and now you don’t even have to READ it. The audiobook is available at Bandcamp. And it’s CHEAP for an audio production that runs 1.4 days.

Bandcamp.SlayerBook.com

#Slayer

I just found out last night that the $50k enrollment bonus only pays out after 5 years of service, and reader, the laugh I let out when I read that woke the dog from across the house. These absolute fucking grapes aren't seeing a dime of that money. No way they can ride out 5 years of this job.

Facebook be like, “You’re trying to log in on your phone: please confirm on the PC you keep stuffed up yr own arse just in case, because you’re clearly at home, which we totally know, but we’re pretending, because, like… security, and stuff.”

GRATITUDE

GIVEAWAY: Win A Bundle of Essential Rock and Metal Books (Ozzy, Slayer) Ghost Cult has had a banger 2025 and we want to have one more giveaway to celebrate with our fans! Open to fans worldwide, enter to win a bunch of killer books for your bookshelf with some of the best...

GIVEAWAY: Win A Bundle of Essential Rock and Metal Books (Ozzy, @slayerbandofficial.bsky.social, by @dxferris.bsky.social, @jessiemayontheweb.bsky.social, @marksmetalminute.bsky.social) from Ghost Cult gleam.io/bXwwE/giveaw...

'Slayer 66 2/3' Reborn & Re-Remastered! YouTube video by Booked On Rock

Booked on Rock invited me back! It’s THE podcast for rock books. It’s on YouTube, Spotify, Apple… wherever you get yr podcasts. Maybe even Limewire! #Slayer

youtu.be/GS7J36ecjEw?...

Eric is truly one of the best interviewers—subscribe and buy the book!

'Slayer 66 2/3' Reborn & Re-Remastered! YouTube video by Booked On Rock

YouTube video versions youtu.be/GS7J36ecjEw?...

THE HITS KEEP COMING!!

'Slayer 66 2/3' Reborn & Re-Remastered! [Episode 347] Podcast Episode · Booked On Rock with Eric Senich · 01/03/2026 · 43m

For reasons that remain unclear to me, the best podcast for rock & roll books invited me back. I can’t say enough about host Eric Senich; he’s a class act all around. He deserves better than me & my malarkey.

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Wrapping up ‘25 w/ a season six recap! Shouts out to everyone who joined me for a chat & spent some time with me. So few on Bluesky, but tip o’ the hat to @gabehonig.bsky.social & @joshgondelman.bsky.social & @dxferris.bsky.social & @stlf.bsky.social

Happy New Year, pals!! Be safe, love you all!

Suicide Squad 10 cover tribute for Back Issue Magazine Looks like BACK ISSUE MAGAZINE will have a little something for fans of the real Suicide Squad but unfortunately it won't be published unti...

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Nobody remembers the previous big Pivot To Video?!