Chris Diggins
@cdiggins.bsky.social
Writer, critic, professional GM, sleepy boy. He/him
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Chris Diggins
@cdiggins.bsky.social
· Jun 10
Hey, I’m a professional GM and looking for new campaigns! If you love TTRPGs or want to try one, I can run systems like:
🐉 Dungeons & Dragons
🦑 Call of Cthulhu
💣 Powered by the Apocalypse
🔪 Forged in the Dark
And lots of others! DM me or email [email protected] to discuss!
🐉 Dungeons & Dragons
🦑 Call of Cthulhu
💣 Powered by the Apocalypse
🔪 Forged in the Dark
And lots of others! DM me or email [email protected] to discuss!
Should I commit an act of supreme self-sabotage today (go see Wuthering Heights by myself on Valentine’s Day)?
February 14, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Should I commit an act of supreme self-sabotage today (go see Wuthering Heights by myself on Valentine’s Day)?
Late period Christie is so funny because Poirot will see a young woman and be like "damn why do young women dress so ugly these days" and then the narrative basically describes someone wearing a schoolgirl outfit and thigh high boots
February 10, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Late period Christie is so funny because Poirot will see a young woman and be like "damn why do young women dress so ugly these days" and then the narrative basically describes someone wearing a schoolgirl outfit and thigh high boots
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Please take the time to read this superb @jamellebouie.net column. It establishes a baseline of truth for anyone who wants to think, talk, and write honestly about Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...
February 7, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Please take the time to read this superb @jamellebouie.net column. It establishes a baseline of truth for anyone who wants to think, talk, and write honestly about Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
If you care about tradition so much then get your asses to Avignon and crown an Antipope you cowards!
Pope Leo XIV is facing his first major crisis with traditionalist Catholics.
Pope Leo XIV faces crisis as a traditionalist group plans bishop consecrations without consent
Pope Leo XIV is facing his first major crisis with traditionalist Catholics. A breakaway group attached to the traditional Latin Mass, the Society of St.
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February 3, 2026 at 8:31 PM
If you care about tradition so much then get your asses to Avignon and crown an Antipope you cowards!
There's an interesting tension in the work of Agatha Christie between her obvious Tory politics and her understanding of human psychology. Upper class characters often spout right-wing opinions she's obviously sympathetic to, and yet those characters are often mean-spirited, ignorant, (1/3)
January 30, 2026 at 8:11 PM
There's an interesting tension in the work of Agatha Christie between her obvious Tory politics and her understanding of human psychology. Upper class characters often spout right-wing opinions she's obviously sympathetic to, and yet those characters are often mean-spirited, ignorant, (1/3)
This feels like Cocomelon, both in the waxy unreality of the people and in the camera’s complete inability to stay still or hold a shot for longer than three seconds
You don't have the be an avowed AI hater to be impressed without lifeless and unwatchable this is.
January 29, 2026 at 11:11 PM
This feels like Cocomelon, both in the waxy unreality of the people and in the camera’s complete inability to stay still or hold a shot for longer than three seconds
I think this is a particularly good episode of the pod, helped by the fact that Mercy is an especially bizarre and terrible movie
January 29, 2026 at 8:18 PM
I think this is a particularly good episode of the pod, helped by the fact that Mercy is an especially bizarre and terrible movie
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Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 27, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal
January 25, 2026 at 1:34 AM
I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal
If it seems like I’m really tearing through these Poirot novels, I need to emphasize A) I have a lot of time on my hands, and 2) they really are incredibly readable. The stringing along of clues, revelations, and deductions is perfectly timed to keep you engaged. Christie was a master of her craft
January 23, 2026 at 10:50 PM
If it seems like I’m really tearing through these Poirot novels, I need to emphasize A) I have a lot of time on my hands, and 2) they really are incredibly readable. The stringing along of clues, revelations, and deductions is perfectly timed to keep you engaged. Christie was a master of her craft
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The idea of what "an Oscar movie" is has changed more in the last 10 years than at any point in the Academy's history. The only comparable period is really in the late '60s/early '70s.
Saw a tweet earlier that casually threw Bugonia into the category of "Oscar Bait" which I think speaks to just how much the actual concept of Oscar Bait has more or less died.
January 23, 2026 at 3:33 AM
The idea of what "an Oscar movie" is has changed more in the last 10 years than at any point in the Academy's history. The only comparable period is really in the late '60s/early '70s.
You ever decide not to engage with something and then, when you see how it’s turning out, you’re surprised by how right your decision was? That’s how I feel about everything I hear about Fallout season 2
January 23, 2026 at 12:15 AM
You ever decide not to engage with something and then, when you see how it’s turning out, you’re surprised by how right your decision was? That’s how I feel about everything I hear about Fallout season 2
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we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)
January 20, 2026 at 9:25 PM
we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)
This Poirot novel is taking a real turn
January 7, 2026 at 2:48 PM
This Poirot novel is taking a real turn
“Special forces kidnap a foreign head of state” is literally the opening scene of Air Force One and I will believe until the day I die that wanting to do a cool thing from a movie was a significant factor in the decision-making process
January 3, 2026 at 1:23 PM
“Special forces kidnap a foreign head of state” is literally the opening scene of Air Force One and I will believe until the day I die that wanting to do a cool thing from a movie was a significant factor in the decision-making process
Poirot thoughts so far
1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Quite good for a first novel! The plot is clever and Poirot is one of literature’s premier Weird Little Guys
2. The Murder on the Links: A little too reliant on sheer coincidence, but it does cement narrator Hastings as a hilarious dunce
1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Quite good for a first novel! The plot is clever and Poirot is one of literature’s premier Weird Little Guys
2. The Murder on the Links: A little too reliant on sheer coincidence, but it does cement narrator Hastings as a hilarious dunce
December 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Poirot thoughts so far
1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Quite good for a first novel! The plot is clever and Poirot is one of literature’s premier Weird Little Guys
2. The Murder on the Links: A little too reliant on sheer coincidence, but it does cement narrator Hastings as a hilarious dunce
1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Quite good for a first novel! The plot is clever and Poirot is one of literature’s premier Weird Little Guys
2. The Murder on the Links: A little too reliant on sheer coincidence, but it does cement narrator Hastings as a hilarious dunce
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Been reading the Poirot novels while laid up with the flu and one thing I think the Kenneth Branagh movies fail to capture is what a prissy little bitch he is. This dude is talking shit 24/7
December 30, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Been reading the Poirot novels while laid up with the flu and one thing I think the Kenneth Branagh movies fail to capture is what a prissy little bitch he is. This dude is talking shit 24/7
Reading old novels can be so rewarding
December 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Reading old novels can be so rewarding
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Can I say something without anyone getting mad at me
December 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Can I say something without anyone getting mad at me
Yo, sic transit gloria mundi, bro
December 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Yo, sic transit gloria mundi, bro
Y’all ever see a movie so good you’re forced to immediately go to sleep
December 22, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Y’all ever see a movie so good you’re forced to immediately go to sleep