I get where Balatro is an addictive puzzle. But it isn’t a great game. The lack of any narrative structure removes a necessary piece of gaming and replaces it with the rush of gambling for the right pulls on a run. I want more than it offers, instead I am contemplating going back up the Spire.

watching NASA hit a very specific target in the big big ocean with a vehicle that just came back from outer space at 25,000mph definitely has me reflecting on the charter bus company that couldn't get me to a bus station

Every now and then I am reminded that Elmo dropped an absolute banger about brushing your teeth.

The shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own.

Huh

This is the opposite of the infrastructure day that everyone wanted.

Signs that your wife might be a dragon, with a very specific definition of treasure.

His name is Hans and he is just so dang Clever!

Night Witches (co-designed with @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social and published by @fortcircle.bsky.social) is now available for pre-order! :) www.nightwitches.com

It’s my experience, there are three types of people who advocate for surveillance everywhere all the time: -suburbanites that don’t consider their own drunk driving a crime. -cops with the power to make sure footage can’t implicate them. -sellers of surveillance tech.

A friend asked me to stop using the verb "grok," and I am summoning all my willpower not to mention their owning two Teslas, a Ring doorbell, and a smart home hub with multiple microphones in their home. What are we doing, people?

I find myself thinking about DC's plumbing capacity now that the argument is over.

Dude should be excommunicated the week before this drops.

This is gorgeous!

Slept in my Cake shirt and when I woke up the car I was in was still going the distance.

🚨1st Amendment victory!🚨 Yesterday, a federal judge ruled Fort Bend County police violated the First Amendment when they arrested @ij.org client/independent journalist Justin Pulliam for filming a police welfare check. ij.org/press-releas...

Considering news of insolvency earlier this week(?) that money is going to have equal worth to the man’s name anyway…

On our Alaskan cruise I remarked to Wife that otters were like squirrels of the sea, always around and fun to watch. I do not want to see them be squirrels of the road, however.

Setup a new Zoom meeting within the Zoom app itself: defaults to "Offline" meeting with no Zoom information. Thanks, Zoom!

I’m working on it

Hey criminal justice people! @ij.org just dropped Policing for Profit 4. This has some great updates, including state by state timelines and procedures and more on the relationship between forfeiture and crime (not much). One update is missing, though: less government abuse.

Hey criminal justice people! @ij.org just dropped Policing for Profit 4. This has some great updates, including state by state timelines and procedures and more on the relationship between forfeiture and crime (not much). One update is missing, though: less government abuse.

Working from home, deep in something, and then I'm like "Why the fuck do I hear a baby crying? WHOSE BABY IS THAT?" And then I remember that the baby is mine and has been for the last month. But I didn't have to work then.

Whenever someone says, “No one voted for this!” All I can think is, ‘No, Stephen Miller and JD voted for this. Those fascist weirdos.”

Last night kiddo read Tango Makes Three. There was no concept of why it is such a cool story. Even when we talked about how it really happened. Makes me sad that it’s still controversial for so many people, considering how easy it is.

Is there anybody in Congress better than Wyden on tech policy?

It boggles the mind that people are hard against globalization. Like, have they not tried this‽ This one bag has stuff from four continents on it! Are they not fans of delicious flavor?

Hearing my wife talk to her health insurance provider should be enough to radicalize anyone against the system. Knowing that so many people have it worse should be enough for riots. Understanding that it’s not fixed because people believe others don’t deserve healthcare makes me question humanity.

Played @peterlmcpherson.bsky.social’s Lodge on BGA. What a delight! The art and theme are on point! And despite my frustration with communal resource boards, it’s abundant enough that I can deal with loosing the room I was eyeing two turns ago. This might just replace Space Base for me.

Kind of expecting Trump to try and remove the cherry trees soon because they symbolize friendship with a non-white country.

So I thought because I am out on paternity leave I wouldn’t be affected by DST. But I was. Honestly, while I think it should be permanent, I would just as happily see it abolished. We need to stop changing clocks, it’s stupid and harmful.

Bullshit reasoning. The needed therapy is for parents. Not for kids. My conversation took a total of three sentences and there were no follow-up questions afterwards. Anyone scared of the topic needs therapy.

Kind of jealous of Baby’s clothes.

Getting my millennial parent feed today by taking Baby to a brewery.

I’m sorry, but paternity leave is fucking bonkers. You mean I get to hang out with my wife and kid all day, making sure that the house is functioning and bonding with the baby? This is amazing and it’s sad it’s not more available.

So I’ve been away for a bit to take care of some personal business, and now I come back to nope out like old man Simpson walking into a burlesque.

It's becoming an annual reminder: bipartisan Civil Forfeiture Reform has been stuck in the house for years. But for some reason, there was other news on Friday and it's reintroduction was a little overshadowed...

When you have a baby coming in a few days, you try to slam as many games in a night as possible.

We filed our brief opposing the gov’s motion to dismiss our case against the ICE raids of construction sites in Alabama. Remarkably, they don’t even argue any of it is legal. They just don’t think anyone should be able to stop them. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71498...

Kind of want them to move forward with this so we have a place to put all of the Trump trash once he is out of office. Take his name from the Kennedy Center, US IoP, all the unsold National Park passes, pile it all up and implode the arch on top of it. Let that be the man's memorial.

Healing the country is demanding accountability for those who have wronged it. If you won’t divest ill-gotten gains from this admin’s tenure, seek criminal liability for unconstitutional acts, and abolish qualified immunity, you don’t want to heal anything, only paper over a festering wound.

CBP already does this with vehicles seized in inland checkpoints. They will take a vehicle (and all cell phones) from someone they suspect has been "smuggling aliens," and then drop them off at random times, random places, and often with no money or support to get home.

West Virginia saw that CBP gets to keep many cars of people who drive undocumented people to work and said, "How can I get in on that?"

Just like that jabberwocky trying to make an AI movie, the COO of @alderaceg.bsky.social is the kind of asshole to try and crowdsource their next game and feed it into an AI, hoping for magic. It’s sad, because I would describe myself as a loyal AEG customer for the last 20 years.

The smell of skunk isn't as bad when you smell it as you leave your house and know that your dog wasn't involved.

Articles like this vex me. 500,000 are reported missing each year. But there are only 100,000 missing people at any time, so the great majority are found. If only 18k people are murdered each year in the US, there is not some vast kindnap-to-murder pipeline like these stories intimate.

This is an actual thing that happens (though if you are playing a six hour Wingspan game, no one is getting the rules right)! And it’s a great reminder: it’s ok to put the game away if you aren’t having fun.

Recent BMW commercial uses the instrumentals from Flagpole Sitta. Not a song I would want associated with my brand… A few years ago Cadillac used a DJ Shadow/ Run the Jewels instrumental whose song has the line, “quicker than Trump fucks his youngest.” Song sounds great, but is that the brand?

The Grand jury is not who failed here

I'm also seeing a lot of very Bluesky reactions to this, like "I wish she could have done this without invoking religion" or "she needs to understand that one can be religious without being Christian". Uh, she's not speaking to you. She's speaking to him and using the language he understands.