@JoeWynne Speaking of Cassandra Peterson, I met her at #DragonCon many years ago (probably circa 2008). She was seated at a table in the vendor hall, signing autographs. I didn't get her autograph, but no one was there, so we talked for a bit. In retrospect, I should have paid for her autograph because I was just a dick by talking to her and not getting an autograph.

#Monsterdon

Flopcast 699! We are finally at the end of our Dragon Con recap, and frighteningly close to Episode 700. The pressure is on! #dragoncon #podcast #esonetwork https://flopcast.net/699.html

Flopcast 698: Part 2 of our Dragon Con recap, covering Friday and Saturday! #podcast #jaws #misfitsofscience #dragoncon #esonetwork https://flopcast.net/698.html

👋 Hi, I’m Mark — welcome! This is my #introduction.

I share a mix of #philosophy (#Objectivism), #Perl coding, and the occasional nonsense. You might also see #ballroom #dance, #cosplay, and #music on #BassGuitar — sometimes all in the same week.

For a great starting point on Rand, try _The #AynRand Reader_: https://aynrand.org/novels/the-ayn-rand-reader/

You’ll find me every year at at #DragonCon in #Atlanta, plus #DeltaHCon and #Comicpalooza here in #Houston.

Glad you’re here — pull up a chair.

I also posted Kevin's defense from last year! It required a bit of stitching together, and I apologize for the shaky camera work. #dragoncon https://youtu.be/34Asm9Py9gs?si=5TLwf4Q2V07xwlRr

You may have noticed a couple of new uploads to our YouTube channel. In advance of Sunday's Flopcast episode, I posted Kevin's defense from this year's Classic Sci-Fi Court at #dragoncon https://youtu.be/_HD1CCQMh6Y?si=eH1L56qpqhrm2bpi

The first part of our Dragon Con recap is out now! I would have called this episode "Muppets and Muscovies", but Kevin went a different way. #dragoncon #podcast #esonetwork https://flopcast.net/697.html

In two hours, it’s #Monsterdon!

I was away the past two weekends for #DragonCon and then family stuff, but I’m back, and this week, we're watching Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954). I’m looking forward to it; I don’t think I’ve ever seen it.

Join us by starting the film at 8pm Central / 01:00 UTC, following the #Monsterdon hash tag, and providing your own silly commentary!

Details: https://timeloop.cafe/@Taweret/115203553458810167
Bingo: https://hypertext.monster/@cherizilla/115204806434082321
Theme Drink: https://mstdn.plus/@JoeWynne/115191684236272596

And here we have a young lady wearing a Day Of The Dead bunny costume. #IronmouseArt #VTubers #StarWars #Droids #DragonCon

Next up is Miss Argentina. I got this pic after Iron MSE's drives had broke down and I was carting her back to our hotel room. And I'll tell you one thing... if I knew then what I know now, her bow wouldn't be so off-kilter. #IronmouseArt #VTubers #StarWars #Droids #DragonCon #Beetlejuice

I'm going to use this thread to post pics of a few more cosplayers that Iron MSE got photos with at #DragonCon2025 First up is the only Ironmouse cosplayer that I got a picture with (of the three that I know were present) #IronmouseArt #VTubers #StarWars #Droids #DragonCon

As some #steampunk folks are tempted by generative AI tools, recent developments show that a backlash is growing in the larger world of geek culture. #noai #dragoncon #galaxycon https://steampunk-explorer.com/news/dragon-con-galaxycon-take-no-ai-stands-lawsuits-fly

It’s been a week and I’m still decompressing from #DragonCon2025. Good thing there’s this supercut of #LoFi Hotel Room Party to keep me chill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPb195kv9rw&feature=youtu.be

#DragonCon #cosplay #music

This is so deliciously stupid. On the part of everyone involved. #dragoncon #ai

https://www.comicsbeat.com/ai-artist-escorted-out-of-dragon-con-after-police-are-called/

Where did the summer go? #musings #writing #blogging #DragonCon #gaming #PokemonGo

After correcting a plugin license issue for posting to social media, I realized it had really been since May that I last posted something. Part of the reason was that several blog tours I had signed up for earlier this year with OWI fell through and they canceled them before I could post. Some of the radio silence was because of a family event with a new member born towards the end of…

https://eloreenmoon.com/2025/09/07/where-did-the-summer-go-musings-writing-blogging-dragoncon-gaming-pokemongo/

@thatkatharine I’m sorry that you don’t get the appeal of #DragonCon. It’s not about “showing off.”

But there’s no need to publicly yuck someone else’s yum.

AI is blasphemy:

"AI art signifies an even deeper problem with the world and its capture by the technocrats. Just like they're doing with art, they believe they already know everything and they don't need to listen to anyone. And so they continue to fall for their own lies about colonizing space and creating godlike technologies to unlock the secrets of the universe. Many of them have been swaddled in privilege from birth, and they mistake their own immense advantages as evidence of their superiority.

They've destroyed the world to remake it in their image. It's a sad world, devoid of true human emotion or dignity."

https://www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/the/

#AI #Capitalism #TechnoFeudalism #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Art #AIArt #DragonCon

This is pretty good #journalism, going to the users. I have always found frontends tedious work to please buttercups, I can only concentrate on the facination of the data. Honestly, I am happy to collaborate with #AI if the results are interesting! While the drawing kids rage against #genai over their "jobs" that never existed in the first place because the #dragoncon and private-for-profits were telling them lies for generations... I am looking forward.

https://thenewstack.io/is-gpt-5-a-coding-powerhouse-or-maintainability-nightmare/

#thenewstack

Sorry, but #DragonCon is not the "art world" and honestly the art is much less interesting than #GenAI! And GenAI is not that interesting to begin with. Dragon con is a con, a for profit conference where generations of young people were fleeced by recruiters for private for-profit colleges which were also cons. Don't call that the art world. I've seen some #creativebloq articles pushed at me and I am not impressed.

https://www.creativebloq.com/ai/ai-art/the-art-world-finally-drew-a-line-in-the-sand-over-ai-and-not-before-time

I'm looking for conferences and conventions that might want a paper airplane guy. I used to do Pop Culture Con but am wondering what other cool groups have events in 2026.

Have paper, will travel...

#Art #Aviation #Avgeek #DragonCon #Creativity #Education #FOSS #Mastodon #NoAI #PaperAirplanes #STEAM #Zen