Lol, 'work'.

Hiring for a thing on Indeed, and the NUMBER of applicants that appear to have fed our job requirements to an LLM to get a bespoke resume is… fuck, expected, I guess? But no, Tucker, you did not write audio plugins while employed at a healthcare conglomerate.

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

Ninite Snack Thought: "Call of Duty", as a game title, is dramaturgically unrecognizable now compared to its inception. The first game, a WWII action shooter with a HEAVY focus on the bespoke single-player campaign? Well, hell yeah, those dudes felt the call of duty, to (blah blah defeat the nazis)

I have not yet finished Wonder Man, but I am REALLY enjoying the unofficial official trilogy of Trevor Slattery.

When people say “I hate writing but I love having written,” they are not saying “I love that some completed text exists.” They are saying “I love getting to the end of the process and realizing that all the work was worth it, that this sentence really pops, that I nailed it.”

And I helped!! (Seriously these are all awesome. Either because of, in addition to, or in spite of my involvement. Depending on your perspective in the moment.)

If they continue to speed run the beat sheet they seem to be checking stuff off of, then maybe we’ll get that lovely bunker ending soon enough to prevent death counts in the tens of millions.

Mm.

If you're cold, they're cold— invite them inside 🥺 We just dropped The Arrakszhai, our entry to the Draw Steel Jam of the Timescape #2 in collaboration with @mrstonebender.bsky.social! It's free, so check it out now.

Me and @biscuitwolfgames.bsky.social made something weeeeeeeeeird. 🪱🧠🧟

I’ve been watching The Rip on Netflix this evening and it feels like a movie adapted from a play that doesn’t exist. I’m enjoying imagining what staging that play would be like.

It’s like the ttrpg-rules version of a TV series that, I swear, gets really really good once you hit season 5, but only if you read these thirteen tie-in fanfics, and pretend some of the characters don’t exist. But then trust me it’s great you’ll love it.

Incidentally, I would welcome the opportunity to build something like this for someone else. If you see this and happen to be interested, Y’know. Say hi.

I finished this!

It took me a 3rd watch of “Wake Up Dead Man” to notice that Josh Brolin’s performance is absolutely BONKERS good. There’s not a dud in the bunch, but his made me utterly forget the actor so much that I didn’t consider the performance at all the first couple times. I think that’s neat.

Dreams, it would seem, really do come true.

Katie Mack is one of my very favorite cosmological thinkers, and has some really nice local-cluster thoughts too. Like this one! Also, it’s a quote, but she was the first person I ever heard suggest that one “wear their convictions lightly” and that has been enormously helpful software to install.

I have a woodworking project that I will now begin to share with strangers on the internet. Here is but a teaser. An appetizer for the forthcoming incomplete recollection of the process so far, which will eventually and mercifully conclude with an inexpertly staged photograph of the finished piece.

With all our beauty and care and love and wonder, we truly could be better than this. But enough of us have had those senses poisoned that it’s more profitable for some to offer odds on the apocalypse than it is to invest in its avoidance. I have forgotten what new disappointment feels like.

@ass.golf you’ve mentioned yoga as a transformative experience for you. Online resources are all “watch this expert do this. Now you do it!” and there’s no sense of how to get there from “I’m 40 and work at a desk all day” Do you have tips on the “finger exercises and running scales” of it all?

I did some words for this!

Margaritaburg

Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

I’m just going to say that AOC is the acting leader of the Democratic Party until someone proves otherwise. At least insofar as she is responding to the moment with leadership.

Today and in the coming days, remember

Solidarity means joining forces with people you find annoying so you can more effectively fight people who want you dead

I thought the piglet’s name was Hans Hoffmann and was briefly delighted. Then, when I realized my error I became briefly sad. Fortunately, it was a sadness curable by adorable piglets.

STONEBENDER: I’m gonna take a nap first, then I’ll check it out.

I like the feeling of using the ScrubDaddy’s eyes as finger holds for really intense dish cleaning situations and I think maybe that is a problem™️ of some kind.

@mattcolville.bsky.social I’ve wept twice reading the ancestry lore blocks in the latest Patreon packet. It’s not just ‘cause of the quality of the prose, but how it connects to the clear heart of the game. Y’all have something special here. Looking forward to running it for friends next weekend!

I’m getting serious “PT Cruiser” lifecycle vibes from this one.

This is a good read.

So yes, I will obviously be talking about Elon’s dumbass lawsuit against Media Matters. @akivamcohen.bsky.social and @questauthority.bsky.social have already done great threads on it but I am gonna talk about anyway. But first, I want to talk about Up Goer Five. xkcd.com/1133/

Something I appreciate about John Wick: action movies of a certain type now have to track their ammo. Super fun 😂

This may be a hope unfulfilled, but what if this is like the Quiet Pub Where You Can Hear Your Own Conversation version of other stuff. Like, maybe there's Karaoke on Thursdays, and a DJ on Fridays, but mostly we can just talk to each other somehow? I would pay for that.

I hope LA's first tropical storm in 84 years continues to be this boring. :crossed fingers: