I wound down my Orwell obsession before I returned to Animal Farm but I might have to read it now just to purge this idea from my mind.

I love that the header image implies that Weiner is not a candidate to consider (he's not)

After a length of development that - if I truly, deeply thought about it, I would instantly go insane as if I'd opened some Lovecraftian skin-bound tome - our narrative city-builder Generation Exile has launched out of Early Access into full 1.0 today! store.steampowered.com/app/2963240/...

"Moon joy" is real, but it has an important lesson for us too: Public service and public life is a gift and something to treasure—the uncommon chance to do something for a cause bigger than yourself. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-pure-j...

10 minutes on bsky was having me think everything's really going to shit, so this poem was really reassuring. www.tumblr.com/the-domestic...

I’m at ICE HQ

The pictured band is called Bad Cop, Bad Cop which is such a good punk band name that I'm surprised it took til the 2020s to produce it.

Realis—the moon-hopping TTRPG by @austinwalker.bsky.social—lands on Kickstarter April 2026! Featuring 55 classes, 150+ NPCs, 100+ illustrations, expanded GM & homebrew guidance, and much more, bookmark the campaign today at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru... | teaser art: @decassette.bsky.social

C’mon, we had programmable vibrators two decades ago

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

And I just couldn’t believe they put it right in the deck, “we’ve got all the artists and engineers and indies kettled in one place, on a plate, so you can feast on their hopes and dreams.” Because the conference needs to stay relevant—valuable—and it’s the publishers who have money for passes

What the war profiteer who hates women and liberal arts majors obviously really hates is emasculating, withering contempt, so keep it coming. It’s astonishing that these absolute infants of strategy keep telling us their weaknesses.

Skagen gets a lot of attention for its exceptional light but you don’t hear nearly enough about its skeletons dragging people out to sea.

Spotted this on a pole behind independence hall. I recently saw someone say they found collage to be the best way to work through things and I didn’t really see it at the time but

On my dawn walk this morning I saw a big kitty so I pspsps and it turned around and was a racoon and so crossed the street to avoid me.

The ADL was bad since the 80s/90s. They helped apartheid South Africa. Anyone selling you a story of an organization gone rogue is telling a fantasy.

Something @sgoodyear.bsky.social points out that I'm reminded of each time people post about the war, gas prices and the need to switch to EVs is that the V in EV stands for "vehicle," not "car." E-bikes are EVs and cities need to create the conditions that will allow more people to adopt them.

The church got a new pastor who told us about how the antediluvian world was surrounded by a sphere of ice creating the perfect climate and I (9) was like, that does not make any sense.

You don’t have to hang out at Yerba Buena. Here’s another park, if not to avoid the tacky private cabana vibe then just to have a slightly more chill conversation. maps.app.goo.gl/hDZCqvSbaF5j...

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

The fire at Glasgow central station is utterly devastating. Shops, homes and our transport link to England are being wiped out. I am amazed by the limited news coverage.

Don’t know how this isn’t a bigger story. The Mayor of San Francisco Daniel Lurie lets his attack dog loose on the homeless population to instigate a fight, and stands by hands in pockets as a fight breaks out. Now the man acting in self defense from an unmarked attacker is in jail.

Bike ride home on a warm night through clouds of night-blooming tree perfume…AND a cheap cash-only taco truck run by a pink-haired abuelita?

Join my new predictive market platform Douchero to place a wager on which one of these guys gets caught with CSAM first.

My dear friend Zoe has set up her therapy practice to support queer folks coming out (including supporting families who are trying but clueless). If you know a US teen or family she might be helpful to, pass it on! www.rainbowconnectionscounseling.com

I ate these and didn’t die!

MTA killed 365 units of affordable housing citing funding constraints. Prop I tax revenue could have been used to fund these homes but Lurie refuses to spend that $ on housing. And now he & the YIMBY supervisors are trying to abolish the tax to enrich billionaires instead of building social housing.

Broken clock

you have to have a pretty impoverished vision of God if you're able to convince yourself that (a) starting a war will somehow trick God into doing something and (b) that God will pat you on the head for it upon return

Republicans consistently paint my entire profession with a broad brush of indoctrinating and grooming kids and all we get is crickets from democrats. I don’t even care about being underpaid, I just wish teachers were treated with a tenth of the respect that the troops are.

Oh look it's the "fetch" of Democratic politicians

a progressive income tax? sorry kiddo, that betrays a "utopian" desire that can only ever end in tragedy. but a relentless program of constant wars, occupations, and genocides fast and slow, for oil, land, and fulfilling the commands of a blood-hungry god? thats just Adults in the Room doing Policy

The Groundhog Day War

Im 38 and have never known a day in my life where the dems and republicans weren't salivating at the chance to bomb Iran. The amount of lies and propaganda we've been fed for decades was always going culminate into this. Solidarity with the people of Iran forever.

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The sailors on the USS Gerald Ford who keep stuffing their t-shirts into the toilets so the bathrooms flood and the carrier can’t deploy to Iran should be awarded a collective Nobel Peace Prize

Media literacy: this (common) framing is misleading. $183m sounds like a lot, but it's over 3 years. SFUSD's annual budget is ~$1.2 BILLION and this year's cost is <$32m. So the contract represents 2.65% increase on the budget, consistent with inflation. Big whoop. thefrisc.com/sfusds-183m-...

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. GO DONATE. tcpipeline.org

Friends coming to GDC, let me know if you'll be in town Sunday evening; we have a surprise open seat at our pre-gdc dinner party.

I ain’t watching all that

There have always been horrifically anti-trans groups and individuals. Few have done more, though, to launder their hate into “respectable” conversations than Jess Singal. No publications have done more to help that along than The Atlantic and The New York Times.

this game rules play The Killing Stone y'all

Sometimes the rapist class is SO CLOSE to understanding feminism. Why are working-class people so much more attuned to class dynamics? Why do women & people of color perceive micro-aggressions? Why do prey have big ears?

Kiki's Delivery Service 4K imax remaster playing at the Metreon Friday of GDC, I'd hate to have a talk booked against this gkids.com/films/kikis-...

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

Free (probably) morels, most likely won’t kill you, no guarantees.

Before Sunrise (1995). Walking out of the theater once wasn’t enough!

one Alysa Liu commercial in Mandarin may accomplish the impossible (Sunset District votes YES on a transit tax measure) www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ONw...

Should we tax rich assholes? Let's ask two rich assholes. sfist.com/2026/02/18/n...