Companies pushing their employees to use AI are also signalling to their employees that they don't REALLY give a shit about the quality of the work, which means quality will drop, fucking over the companies that do so. "Quiet quitting" got nothing on "Dispirited, checked out, pushing slop".

Wanderhome is "cozy animalfolk" and then people say "I liked the game but we didn't have anything to really do" because they ignore the whole "a world healing from the trauma of war" part of the game.

The common thinking for PBTA games is that rolling a 10+ on a move is a success, 7-9 is a partial success, and 6- is a miss. And I don’t think that’s generally wrong, but while reading moves from the Bakers, it’s clear that “success” doesn’t have to mean, “the player gets what they want.” (1/6)

New episode of Dice Exploder with @idlecartulary.itch.io! DE returns to its roots with another episode about Blades in the Dark by @johnharper.bsky.social: we're talking Doskvol's lightning barriers and how the fiction of a game can be just as if not more influential on play than its rules...

An absurd deal for my favorite-favorite FitD game. Honestly folks, don't sleep on this.

i know i sound like a tinfoil hat guy when i say this, but you must keep engaging with challenging literature and hobbies throughout your life forever. it's one of those things like eating well and sleeping well and exercising wherein you'll get really weird if you don't

Finally launched rule3.org - a bunch of essays on doing software development in startups, finally writing down a bunch of my "technical adventure" storytelling. (I wouldn't call it general interest, but if you find yourself having to explain code review or releng, you might find this useful...)

Breaking MS NOW: An ICE whistleblower is expected to testify at a congressional forum today that the agency is "lying to Congress and the American people" about its training of new recruits. Ryan Schwank was an ICE academy instructor for new recruits before he resigned earlier this month.

Thanks to Gracie's for encouraging folks to take care of our hydrants! I didn't get a good photo from the other direction, but I made sure to clear out around the hydrant in front of our house earlier this evening.

man this sucks. idk the specifics but my grandfather was literally doing gender reassignment surgeries at vanderbilt in like the 70s

I was a teacher for a long time and I’ve been a parent for almost as long again, and if there is one life lesson I wish everyone could magically grasp it would be this: Don’t criticise the behaviour you want to see.

As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.

Now THAT's a headline. "The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents" fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...

I believe that there exists a world where we are all warm, and sheltered, and liberated, and healing, a world without prisons or genocide or greed, but if we are ever to reach that world, we must learn how to sit with heartbreak and grief and let it transform rather than immobilize us.

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

BTW if anyone in your life is starting to bake but doesn't know how or where to start, King Arthur has been my favorite beginner-friendly resource for a long time. They have stuck to their guns on diversity, equity and inclusion this whole time and have continued making baking knowled[...]

3. More ttrpgs need to be brave enough to include sections about social prep instead of leaving it to the dm to wrangle. We need to be outright telling people to play with Friends and being Friendly while they play.

Never forget how beautiful this all is. Never stop imagining how much more beautiful it could be.

This is an unimaginable crime.

I’ve often said that “good zoning can be better than no zoning at all.” The ability to enact local control over what businesses can run in your town is fraught, but there are some things that should be “not in *anybody’s* backyard.”

In light of recent revelations that Archive(dot)today is involving its users in a DDOS attack, and altering archives to further a personal grudge, I am ceasing use of the site. I also did three quick tests of alternatives for on-demand archiving, summarized below... arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Archive dot today has the following list of alternate urls. These are all the same thing as archive dot today.

For people who are unclear on this, archive dot org is the digital archive run by the Internet Archive, and archive dot today is the archiving site that Wikipedia just banned the use of because they were caught changing the contents of archived pages in their collection.

the new paper on bouba/kiki in chicks is utterly compelling canonical, elegant method from comparative cogsci & its partner in developmental science, ultra-simple design, ultra-clear effects, no need for fancy analyses, machine learning, or AI it appeared in an appropriately badass venue (Science)

there are high costs to being put through this wringer but it remains deeply encouraging that the criminal justice system has treated this administration’s constant lies with all the contempt they deserve

A lot of people have asked what this opinion means: Are ICE tactics likely to change because of the court's holding in this case? So let's talk for a minute about what the court is doing.

Again, I cannot emphasize enough: do not go to the US even if you're privileged enough to have never been scared or worried of a border crossing in you're life. Do not go ESPECIALLY for something as optional & outrageously expensive as GDC. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

Researchers discovered a publicly exposed frontend on a government-authorized server, containing 2,456 accessible files from the age verification vendor used by Discord.

at the risk of tooting my own horn, I also have to share my own modern interpretation of Yggdrasil as not a single tree but the shared root network and mycelial mat that underlies forest ecosystem health, resource sharing and competition. It's a network, an infrastructure, of multiple species.

a song about being transgender is really just a song about change, self-actualization, loving yourself for who you are in spite of what others tell you to be. things i would hope are fairly universal ideals! i'm not asking you to be trans but i am asking you to love yourself

Your brother/sister/dad/mother missing after “Alligator Alcatraz”? you and your whole extended family get citizenship and now somebody in DOJ is personally responsible to find them

I've created a website were I'll be publishing Ekphrasis, the comic I'm (slowly) making. You can already read the first few pages there, I hope you like them <3 ekphrasiscomic.neocities.org

anyone who thinks you can sweep homeless encampments "nonviolently" is lying to themselves and to the rest of us in turn. it is *impossible* to strip the violence from what is an act of violence in itself in any sense. no amount of performative pretense will change the underlying truth of the action

The citizens shall build a grand statue of the legendary chicken. #birds

So grateful that my flash piece "A Pothos, Once Freed" was included in this list! Some of my favorite reads from 2025 are on here-- check it out!

My flash fiction piece "A Place to Grow" (about a sentient alien plant who turns away from resource competition to evolve in a new way) is out now in Issue One of @adventitiouswords.bsky.social ! www.adventitious.net

I give more of my net worth to the homeless on the street in an average year than Elon Musk has given to anyone, ever, in all forms of charity combined, over his entire life.

1. Mayor Mamdani promised to hold hospitals accountable that capitulate to Trump. He promised funding to trans youth care in the city. There are very real steps he can take right now to maintain care for trans youth after NYU Langone's capitulation. It's time for Mamdani to uphold his promises.

medium.com/@isabellerue... looking at a bunch of different PbtA and Belonging Outside Belonging games and discussing how they handle setting up PC bonds. I think this one is pretty good #pbta

i frequently feel shut out from a lot of in-person culture because of how thoroughly the public has been propagandized into pretending that they are anything other than temporarily able-bodied. but mask-required events are incredibly popular! nobody likes getting sick!!!

one of the great and terrible coups of the sociological production of the end of the pandemic was the line "you can't force people to mask." actually, people mostly do what they're told. that we've totally given up on shaping public behavior is nonsense. ask people to mask at a show, and most will!

This is a really cool story focusing not just on the potential role of triple deckers as part of the overall solution to the housing crisis, but also how they contribute to the social fabric of a community.

an under-discussed trope in the cyberpunk genre was the idea that once one achieves ludicrous levels of wealth, they cease to be “human” in any meaningful sense.

Despite being back at work, Kickstarter is retaliating against our teammates for our legally-protected strike action from last year. Tell Kickstarter’s CEO this is both ILLEGAL and UNACCEPTABLE

Muppets are totally a technology! So is weaving, and knitting, and sewing, and embroidery. I love helping people learn to make things with those technologies and find joy in it. People innovate there too: new threads! Superwash wool yarn! Making 80s knitting machines talk to new computers! #DHmakes

“All children held in immigration detention should be immediately released, and these facilities should be permanently shuttered.”

AI is the “asbestos of the internet”

A system built to eat people never stops eating people.