Friends, I finally am in the market for freelance work! It's a big year for things like Magic and D&D, so if you've got a hankering for some expert content get in my DMs. I'm also eager to discuss contract marketing and communications opportunities.

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*stares in laid off colleagues*

so excited to be back on @404media.co with a story about how lofi girl grew from a YouTube channel into a chill beats empire ✨✨✨✨

Reporters from across newsrooms in Chicago are collaborating to collect visual evidence of federal agents detaining people & using force in Chicago. Send videos to tinyurl.com/chicagojourn..., or get in touch via email [email protected].

You would think that I had consumed and understood the dad oeuvre. But honestly, I’m just a dad.

I guess I need to watch Master and Commander, huh?

We're LIVE

A reminder that today is a holiday in the Hall household.

The deployment, and threats of the National Guard, come as a @wbez.org analysis has found that a three-month summer span saw the fewest murders in 60 years in Chicago while overall violent crime remained near its lowest point in at least four decades — from @chipmitchell1.bsky.social

For the local story, follow the team at @chicago.suntimes.com and @wbez.org. This is gonna get weird.

Upgraded the Starship with a second monitor arm.

Things are heating up out in Elite's Orion Nebula. We're finally heading out past a massive region of difficult to navigate space and into a long, 4,000 ly long cluster of fresh systems. Jump ranges are extending out past 18, 20 lys. I'm joining a fleet of haulers for a colonization effort.

Happy Labor Day! Today, we celebrate workers and the power of the labor movement in securing fair wages, safe workplaces, and better lives for people across the country. 🛠️💪 #UnionStrong

Thei wante us talkinge on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.

Soon.

Had some friends over for coffee this morning.

New one for me @elizhargrave.bsky.social. Not sure about you.

Well that was a fun diversion. Don’t know about you, but I certainly got a good night’s sleep out of it.

Damn.

Forgot the link! This site has attitude and I am here for it. applerankings.com/jonagold-app...

Weekend plans: Harvest two bushels at least from our off-season jonagold apple tree. Apparently ranked #10 in baking apples, despite its “electrical tape skin.” Which… fair.

Your back-to-school clothes are in.

The first guy that ever gave me a job is the nephew of one of Easy Company, from Band of Brothers. He's mostly retired it seems, and just keeps putting up banger bits of inspiration ... on LinkedIn. Watching his content fly by is like watching a Buddhist Monk calmly walk across the freeway.

Gang, I'm trying out a new platform called Authory to backup my professional work. In 48 hours it found more than 3,000 articles I'd written and preserved them in a way that's incredibly powerful. The team is both responsive and compassionate. Give it a try, why'don'cha? authory.com/CharlieHall/...

"This is our contribution [...] telling people there is a brighter tomorrow, and if you are kind and cunning and [if] you work great magic upon the world, you too might bring [transformative change] to bear." @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social. Thank you for this, my friend, today of all days.

A map of expeditions in Elite Dangerous, by Commander Qohen Leth himself. I must own this. forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/a-hi...

The fan-made colonization map of Elite Dangerous is beautiful. The amount of in-game work that went into these gorgeous tendrils. oasis-cartograph.onrender.com

Listen to the new Life Well Wasted next Thursday Listen to the story behind the show on Post Games next Friday

cannot overstate how big an influence robert's work, and espiecally a life well wasted, has been on me over the years

Robert's work has impacted my own in many ways over the years. I can't wait to hear this. Time for my fourth poster.

Calling video game industry folks! You know the Strong Museum of Play, right? The museum that understands us & is documenting OUR history? Federal budget shenanigans have them in a surprise $500K hole. If you're able to support them, now's the time. Here's the link: www.museumofplay.org/support/

Thank you Nathan for taking the time and speaking to us about this pivotal moment for our team!! 🥰

Finally, machine learning research that demonstrates that metricized evaluation of creative works (e.g. review scores) are intrinsically correlated with Evil

Remarkable.

Oh.

Yes. But @thebandcake.bsky.social has the best cover.

NEW CLASS! THE SEASON FOR FOLK HORROR I'm teaching a virtual lecture with Newberry Library! It's about folk horror cinema in Britain, America, and worldwide. Thursday, October 23rd 5:30-7:30pm Tickets are limited and available now: www.newberry.org/calendar/fol...

basic human rights are not something u put up to debate like some influencer game show shit

Logged back into Elite today, and I find myself out near the Orion nebula. Apparently this is a part of the galaxy where now FTL plotting no longer works. You manually make jumps system to system. Big drives make no difference if you’re only skipping from lily pad to lily pad.

Oh… yeah. That’s a thing you could do… huh… (dusts Steamdeck)

Entirely too expensive. But beautiful. I’ll stick with my Model M, thanks. petapixel.com/2025/08/19/h...

the bare minimum anyone who considers themselves an ally can do is scream about this shit as loudly as possible, as often as possible. ideally to your reps, but also anyone who thinks denying a human being basic rights and existence is acceptable

Fun fact: Janet just told me to pose with my back to the street point to myself for this and it was indeed an adorable and cute setup for this photo.

Ziff Davis and IGN routinely decide that work done by our laid off colleagues is not important. But inevitably, that crucial work falls onto those who remain. Not this time. Not anymore.

Tim Walz : trans rights are human rights JB Pritzker : we’re taking names of all you fuckers and coming after you Gavin Newsom : lol my pr firm made another meme while i guest starred on another right wing podcast

While the remaining team work to get the books shipped out to backers, anyone who might be able to help with the designer's whereabouts is being encouraged to contact Grimwild's discord mods.

Well, the Baltimore oriole may have wandered off but the family of four Northern flickers feasting on our ancient cherry tree are certainly making up for the absence.

I have been asked to write a lotta things in my life, but my good friend’s adoption reference letter may be the most important one yet.

Meta Quest. First login since the name change. Library looks… different…