Hey @scalzi.com, It looks me a very nice and good deal! www.humblebundle.com/books/john-s...

I am definitely an "occasional nonsense" person.

Hey @chicagotribune.com Editorial Board: Why did you describe me as a “bomb-throwing influencer”? This is wrong, inflammatory, and racist. Change it. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/05/e...

Florida folks: If you have O- blood and are of African or African American descent, OneBlood is searching for donors who have a rare antigen that matches with a teenager with sickle cell disease who needs 50 units of blood so she can have a bone marrow transplant.

Best analogy of the week: cover letters as self-insert fanfic.

My friends absolutely do. My family doesn't understand the first thing about the stuff I do except "he makes games" but they've always been supportive anyway.

The people in their pajamas confronting ICE robocops even after 2 outright murders. The people of Oakland rushing to a collapsed freeway with crowbars to extricate motorists. The people painting rainbow flags where cities have banned them. The people. The fucking people.

Celebrating the US that welcomed my grandparents, my husband, my sister-in-law, and many of my best friends, that sewed AIDS quilt panels with me, that nurtured a civil rights movement, home of banjo, bluegrass, jazz, blues, rock, BBQ, street tacos, jambalaya, hot dish, soul food, chowder, … ❤️🇺🇸

Just a reminder that the cowards from Patriot Front marching today? That's ALL of Patriot Front. The whole group.

But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.

PeopleSoft is like if an online UI designer from 1995 got frozen in carbonite until 2006 and used the best server technology available. Peoplesoft is like if someone had to build a fighter jet cockpit out of Duplo.

Minnesota publisher Atlas Games has placed its family roleplaying game Magical Kitties Save the Day under an open Creative Commons license, encouraging fans to publish commercial or free game content.

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Jupiter in Extended Spectrum - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/NG35Cn

The core responsibility of an instructional designer is to decide what to teach, in what order, and how. So if you tell me you used AI to write your course outline, I know you're not doing that job, no matter what your job title is.

I love this map so much.

From a recent article: "He’s hoping a recent AI hackathon for the finance team spurs it to automate its extensive manual processes, such as collecting money from customers and generating quarterly accounting." You are asking, literally asking, for financial malpractice.

@opensecrets.org You want some help with the accessibility on Palantir Watch?

“Palantir tracks everyone. So we built a site that tracks Palantir. They've been watching us. Now we can watch them. Contracts. Lawsuits. Executive pay. Global footprint. Lobbying activity. Media strategies. All in one place.”

All social media is, to some extent, insincere. But LinkedIn is a special level.

This is really good “Concentration camps are places where groups of people targeted based on their identity are imprisoned in violation of their legal and human rights.” They then go through these criteria and explain how Delaney Hall meets each one.

When your job description reads like a cover letter you should put down the kool-aid.

Thinking about Her

Alright, formal post time: I’m officially looking for work. I gave myself a few days to process and now it’s time to Virgo up and get moving. I have just about three years of technical editing experience, five years of development experience, and I’ve been writing to spec since 2020.

Transgender care has a 93+% approval rating, the highest of any medical intervention. Ask yourself what a politician would do to get a 93% approval rating for anything...

(A) incredible and (B) an excuse to post this

Preemptive post:

A public service for Pride Month: prideflags.org

Did I do it right?

...TIL setting BlueSky moderation for (eg) "Adult" to Hide doesn't hide posts tagged as Adult, it hides ACCOUNTS that made any posts tagged as Adult. Holy overkill! Esp. since "Hide" is often a default. (I'm also seeing claims that the vast majority of the tagging is being done by AI, often badly.)

All eyes on Delaney Hall. The Proud Boys showed up today after a night filled with police violence. A right wing livestreamer pepper sprayed a group of ICE protesters. Share what you can about this story in the days to come as it doesn’t get much algorithmic boost on its own.

Seriously, Maine, you have ranked choice! You do not have to vote for Sinema in a Henley! I promise! You can even No Award Platner, like we do for the Hugos, just don’t assign him a number at all. You have Andrea LaFlamme and David Costello right there, for your one and two, as you please.

US science for the next few decades.

@massgovernor.bsky.social @mayorwu.boston.gov Massachusetts could be doing this. www.wired.com/story/illino...

or coolin' Or shootin' some b-ball Outside of the school

there are few things in life that feel more transcendent and connected to the infinite than when collaborators hit friction but then stand on EACH OTHERS SHOULDERS to stretch beyond their own reach. to peer over the wall of the physical realm and see farther together. utter beauty

Excerpt: "Neither agency has publicly issued new formal guidance describing these requirements. Instead, officials are informing grantees individually..." That's called "setting up a fall guy". If you're the one informing people of a non-policy, you're being set up. www.science.org/content/arti...

@bitterkarella.bsky.social Presented for the approval of the Midnight Society...

Ten years ago(!), I started designs for a typeface for music engraving. The response blew me away—endorsements from folks I admired, and heaps of sales. As a pet project, providing support became unsustainable, and I pulled it. I've now licensed it to Notation Central, to make it available again!

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If it’s Summer break, then you need a little light reading… gierratio.com/blog/fuel-ef... (h/t @gierratio.com )

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#gamingthepast As a good advisor, I would love Ali to see as much real world recognition as possible so if you have time, give the YouTube video essay a watch!