One of my favorite videos that I ever did was this lengthy chat with the team behind The Flame and the Flood. We got into the soundtrack and how it came to be! youtu.be/yvpEryrXbyw?...

My politics, including Aftermath, all come downwind from Union organizing. Nothing is immediately clarifying as being underpaid for years only to get a sudden 12k pay bump and realizing they could have done that shit any time.

Please enjoy the two minute crucible that is this turtle trying to get on to a log that other turtles are on.

LOL

Started backpacking 5 years ago with a no-bullshit 65 lb pack, including water and food. Down to precisely 30 lbs fully loaded as of today. lfgo

I... I missed TweetDeck so much y'all. This looks ... functional. Moderately functional. *sobbing*

So college visit season is especially weird for this parent.

How it started, & how it’s going: Almost a decade after I ran TTRPGs in my downtime during a week at @folger.edu I’m headed back to DC for the 26-27 school year as the Folger Public Humanities Fellow, creating ways for Playful Media of all kinds to flourish. It is, literally, my dream come true.

GDC 1999 Sizzle Tape : 64s

12 hrs. Perfect.

Yesterday, 92% of us voted YES (w/ 99% participation) to authorize a strike if @propublica.org management refuses to compromise on core issues. We need a fair contract that will protect the in-depth investigative reporting that our readers expect. Support us: www.gofundme.com/f/support-pr...

If Sinners came out in the 90s there would be an SNES and Genesis game that would be made by totally different developers. The Genesis version youd play as Smoke and you’d have a gun and in the SNES version you play as Preacherboy and you fight vampires with your guitar

Here’s a prompt: just say no to Gen AI.

8.5 hours. 180-190 throughout.

Good bird watching today.

“because the reason the piece-of-shit AI loves an emdash is because it stole all our work, and all our work features a lot of goddamn emdashes. It doesn’t use emdashes. We use emdashes, and it stole our work and then mimics us. Emdashes and all.”

Sat and 71 degrees today. Glad I put the hammock frame together. Pulled pork is 3.5 hrs in.

“It was like an out of body experience, except I couldn't stop thinking about another ‘me’ out there giving people bad advice and making a company a bunch of money.”

We had a good run.

Wild idea, but hear me out…

Who nerfed antimatter?

Simultaneity, amiright?

This game rules.

i love @plante.bsky.social's poignant take on pokopia <3 they finally made a pokemon game for adults lmao www.mothership.blog/chris-plante...

The @chicago.suntimes.com and @wbez.org live coverage for the election is live! @elleianagreen.bsky.social is out talking to voters at the polls while others (like @tinasfon.bsky.social and @mitchtrout.bsky.social) weigh in on super PACs and more. Live results will also be posted as they roll in!

Huh. No press at GDC. How odd.

Called it. Dump Baldwin and maybe. But as is this is DOA.

More please.

I hope kids are still thinking about computers in this way, despite culture insisting they don’t

Chicago wind gauge

Hard same, Karl.

I am having a difficult time adjusting to how well my new job respects both my time and expertise. It is also unnerving to complete a work task and not have immediate feedback from thousands of people and a tiny fraction of the lunatic fringe on the internet.

This, from Robert Yang, is fantastic.

Result! Just received from Grammarly: "Hi, Thank you for reaching out. After careful consideration, we have decided to deactivate Expert Review while we reimagine how to make it more useful for customers and more respectful of the experts whose work it surfaces." 1/ 🧪💙📚 🗃 #academicsky

I want to introduce you all to something myself and @jacksonwryan.com have been working on. A PRINT MAGAZINE about video games and video game culture. We know things have been bad for games writing recently. We're asking, "do you want to Continue?" www.kickstarter.com/projects/con...

Former freelancer does good.

Friendship ended with blockchain.

Here's a thread featuring clips of key moments from the DC Metropolitan Police body camera footage of the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that I obtained as a result of my FOIA lawsuit:

Really high ceilings in this basement.

Bitcoin was under $700 when I reported on it.

65F in Chicagoland. Currently hammockmaxxing.

One local hockey coach can't help but remember "all the voices that laughed at us." racketmn.com/im-a-mn-hock...

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Uh excuse me what the fuck

More layoffs at Valnet. They could use representation, I bet.

With GDC only a few days away, I added @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social's brilliant gaming union zine/explainer to archive.org. The previous host for the PDF added a monthly subscription. Please feel free to print and share as you wish!

This was literally my purpose at the last gig. And that paid function no longer exists.