I can’t believe I just watched Hartford Athletic win a trophy. It never felt like a real possibility, especially not two years ago when this team finished in the basement of the USL Championship. Build a statue of Brendan Burke on Huyshope Avenue.

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

-cease and desist -null and void -aid and abet -free and clear -ways and means Why is law stuff like this always two words? These are called ‘legal doublets’ and we can once again blame the Normans. 🧵⬇️

The deletion of Typepad means that millions of blogs will disappear. Or, it would normally mean that, if not for Archive Team: tracker.archiveteam.org/typepad/ Look at them go.

I love seeing all the wild combos on the 2XKO feed, and they really reinforce how good some of the players are, and how not good I am. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Art you can sit on www.realhartford.org/2025/09/11/a...

Profile.

signal boosting from the official LoR twitter: "Hey folks! Glory Store prices are currently incorrect. Please hold off on spending in the Glory Store until we can send through a fix. We will notify y’all once this comes through!"

Dispatch from fighting game land: 2XKO is out in Closed Beta today, which means for some people it exists forever, and for everyone else it will exist forever soon, and I simply cannot believe it. I love this game, I am very grateful I got to spend a good chunk of my life making it.

2XKO closed beta starts today got all my dashboards up to keep an eye on stuff, and making a Dunkin run after lunch if you get in and want to play (and probably embarrass me) hit me up

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚 Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to! Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

Signal Secure Backups are here 🙌

Hi! I was laid off from Firaxis this morning. I wrote leaders and civs for Civilization VII (NDA for now) and Deadpool and Storm for Marvel's Midnight Suns. I also wrote the award-nominated Hindsight. I'm available for full time, remote work starting ASAP. DMs are open: emmkid.info

new site from ex-polygon folks just launched. hell yeah

I didn’t cut any dahlias this week, leaving them out to enjoy in the yard. Here’s a Walter Hardisty (only bloom I have of this, so far) that someone nibbled on but still looks good.

The bsky team is heading to @ietf.org in Montreal in November. The team has requested a "birds of a feather" (BOF) session at #IETF124 - a part of the process for having ATProto admitted as a standard. We're also planning community gatherings. RSVP here if you're interested.

Luck be a Landlord is 40% off on mobile! iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/luck-... Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

There's a Star Citizen free fly event going on right now where you can fly and try out some of the most popular ships. A good way to try out the game. Been having a blast with the crew lately doing "end game" activities. Check it out here: twitch.tv/trexcapades

It's that time of year again when I need to call out professors and teachers who keep asking their students to cold email developers to interview them for a class assignment. Stop assigning this to students. No really. STOP. Please stop. I have other suggestions for you- stay with me...

Can folks do me a favor? I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly porn. I never left, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am. I created Anime for Southerners and Cooking with Lu Bu. I am drugs. Here’s two favorite pictures of things. Repost? I am in the wilderness.

Today’s dahlia haul

my only criticism of zohran’s campaign rn is we’ve been working on a campaign scavenger hunt for months and now we look like copycats 😔

since Bluesky is chock full of Newsom-stan-bots insisting that "Dems should compromise on trans issues", I will re-up my November essay about why this is not only immoral & unempirical, but BAD POLITICS. Dems WILL LOSE if they do this, here's why (no paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/should-democ...

Steve Shirley escaped the Holocaust as a child & went on to found one of the earliest software startups. The really impressive part? She employed women programmers who had been pushed out of the workforce after having kids, & allowed them flexible, family friendly, work from home jobs—in the 1960s!

The streaming service bet big on the spooky sitcom

Lisa Frank return my calls, I want to license an official Lisa Frank RPG

Is Revival on SyFy worth the Peacock premium? I read the comics and loved them, but have seen nothing about the show so far.

From bsky.social to blacksky.community Keys open doors!

never meet your heroes

big fightstick

Draw Steel's art description guide isn't just a new approach to alt-text. It synthesizes museum-tested accessibility with an eye towards poetry and metaphor. Lin spoke with @dreamwisp.bsky.social about MCDM's mission-in-progress and creating "more visceral and tactile" descriptions.

Finally have some dahlia blooms for the video call backdrop. (Peaches n Cream, Lark’s Ebbe, Parkland Tribute, Ice Tea, I think - I didn’t check all the labels and may have mixed one up)

First dahlia bloom of the season, a Peaches ‘n Cream

Evo 2025: How to watch fighting games’ biggest event of the year

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

proposal: Tom Lehrer game jam

We had great success with the Feliway diffusers when the cats were all anxious.

2xko enters closed beta globally on september 9! sign up now to play on pc: riot.com/3TK7CrR details here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr6Y...

she hits hard. vi is 2xko’s newest champion. play her in closed beta (starting september 9) and at evo. watch here trailer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=quGZ...

praying this isnt a customizable feature in ghost of yōtei

Post the last pic you took of your pet. No cheating.

Happy 56th anniversary to that one small step. I don't have a clear memory of seeing that moment on TV when it happened, but many years later I got an incredible chance to be a small part of a very large picture. www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/re...

@starsetbyte.lol are you at Connecticon? Pretty sure I saw you in gallery B but was too far to be sure or get over to say hi

I also wanna say that there continue to be great people working @polygon.com, so please be nice to them. I also also wanna say that there are still a lot of former @polygon.com people out of work, so please hire them.

Mystic Dead at Hartford Athletic Grateful Dead night

It finally happened. I heard a Phish song I really liked.

On July 2nd, Microsoft announced they were shelving an unannounced project at ZOS, a shock to over 200 of our devs working on the project. However, despite discussions regarding the status of our employment, the fact is: we have not yet been laid off. Our full statement can be found below.

Presenting the BRAND-NEW season - @dimension20.bsky.social On a Bus! 🚌 DM'd by Katie Marovitch, and as players: Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Jasmine Bhullar, and Mark Mercer!

You've never seen anything as satisfying as watching Trapp and Sam pull long strips of dried glue off of Paul...