> To no one’s surprise, building towards fake productivity metrics rather than real user outcomes makes doing good work essentially impossible. Rather than optimizing the user experience, teams are incentivized to tweak their metrics collection processes

By framing this brazen act of aggression in euphemistic terms, the media is falling in line with Trump.

So over the past couple months I’ve been, under no threat of violence whatsoever, taking dictation on a scifi actioner in novella form. I think there’s about a quarter of it left to do. I’ve also, with no gun pressed against the back of my head, provided the cover art for it.

Little Red Riding Hood

Zephyr literally has no combat, yet at the same time it's pretty mechanically complex, featuring a color token system representing your Constitution. You have mechanics for cooking, hunting, gliding, etc. and gotta manage your tokens in order to survive :) youtu.be/UjiTlM_u0rQ?...

Sasquatch Diaries Jan 3rd sasquatchdiaries.neocities.org

screenshot in case the post gets taken down or deleted

this is worth reading. a longtime NYT insider confirms that the paper's abrupt turn into seething anti-trans bigotry came directly from the top: AG Sulzberg and his 2 deputies, Joe Kahn and Carolyn Ryan transnews.network/p/a-directiv...

Honestly my favourite work from 2025, and it was a random MS paint challenge #pixelart

I'm at the combination Pizza Hut...

This is DEFINITELY an element of what we should be doing as educators in 2026 — it’s already started, but I think this explicit connection between tech and our current political hellscape is really important to acknowledge (and something I know a lot of educators try not to get bogged down with)

When "confused" Trump supporters say "I thought he was just gonna deport the criminals" you need to remember we arent talking about criminals as a legal term. We are talking about criminals as a *social* classification.

MAIHT3k, Ep 69: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis... I thought it would take at least some effort to tear this paper-shaped object apart. Instead, it was so flimsy it disintegrated under the force of @alexhanna.bsky.social & I simply … reading it. Thanks to Ozzy Llinas Goodman for production!

Teach like a Luddite! In which I join @philnichols.bsky.social and @anterobot.bsky.social to argue for a Luddite praxis in education grounded in three elements: embracing strategic playfulness; developing localized tactics; and building networks of resistance. Read the article at Kappan:

Reminder and energy for 2026: "The future [edtech vendors are] selling has not arrived — and perhaps it never will. But the de-skilling, surveillance, and extraction — all of that is happening now, in our classrooms, today. The Luddites would recognize this moment and act on it, and we should too."

I enjoyed doing this interview for El Mundo, especially the last question (English translation of that in this short thread): www.elmundo.es/papel/histor... 🧵>>

"its not clear what kind of move I was trying to do" is one of my all time favorite tweets, but as a public service I share this tumblr collection of the entire 26-tweet reply chain it was part of (courtesy of haywire4) www.tumblr.com/haywire4/173...

Funny Numbers xkcd.com/3184/

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson on Tuesday threw his support behind a proposed income tax on residents earning more than $1 million annually, and said he’s prepared to sign the policy into law next year. washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/12/23/f...

I'll be honest, these benefit abled folks as well. I find searching Bluesky super helpful since the alt-texts are included so it pulls appropriate media.

FOR REAL - "Gracias for sus paciencia para mí espanol" has helped me learn so much Spanish because folks slow down a little and WANT TO SHARE THE LANGUAGE and sometimes they even share that they're working on ingles and goddamn if that doesn't make a community friend I don't know what does

the reality is Spanish is our de facto second language and white people need to sack up and face reality

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

nice & fresh for the internet

winter scene - 4-color pixel sketch #pixelart #ドット絵

Comic updated: www.gunnerkrigg.com

Final projects from my intro (not-officially-making) comics course were awesome! So much thought, care, understanding of what could be done in comics - and range of topics: mental health, graphic medicine, navigating aspects of the university & some silly things! A few, I'll share more here 1/?

i curse for all time throughout the universe the creation of gAI slop art i can no longer reliably find real historic and vintage commercial/tourism artwork for the Great Smokies or National Parks in general may you techfucks rot in hell

Part of my premise that there is a widespread push to disband knowing about the real world in place of fantasism is not that the people doing it are stupid or afraid of reality; but that the quest for ultimate power, for supremacism, for control over others necessarily requires shutting out reality.

graphics > gameplay is a plague on this world

Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly.  We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."

UPDATE: rigsby WI chapter 4 page 206 Rigsbywi.com

Y'all this, "your computer is now your desk phone" shit gotta stop IT ecosystem/profession get your shit together

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

everyone's goal for 2026 should be getting into using RSS feeds & readers for updates on everyone's projects rather than relying on social media alone. I don't think "big, badly moderated forums where everyone hangs out and gets cranky" are working great for that.

Hey so if you're interested the driving premise of the entire piece is actually about ideas "making money" and an economists claims that we need more ideas because "line need go up" capitalism has so utterly hollowed folks out, can't measure shit without a dollar sign.

'Tis the season for magic in DC Minis #13 - "M.A.G.E. Day"! dresdencodak.com/2025/12/15/d...

Rather than giving nonsense a sober, reasonable hearing, we should treat it as nonsense. The higher ed "reform" proposal from a troika of right wing groups is nonsense and @isaackamola.bsky.social's annotations of the proposal itself show us why. academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/isaacs-ann...

Legislatures and boards are actively working against the principles and practices of academic freedom. These places should no longer be considered universities in the traditional sense. academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/you-cant-c...

Elden Ring Nightreign is Moomins now.

Any librarians doing programming out there kids LOVE making their own little books. Get 'em started and you'll be finding them everywhere.

Yes she's just outsourcing a desire for vengeance, but it occurs to me: believing God handles justice and therefore you don't have to worry about justice yourself is a convenient thing to believe when you're involved in a political movement that deliberately promotes, creates, and spreads injustice

ok I am set up at @comicartsla.bsky.social !!

LRP writing for kids doesn't mean what you write doesn't matter, or that you care less about it, or even that it necessitates less depth or nuance. it just means you're communicating with them where they're at. anybody who doesn't get that shouldn't BE writing for kids. bc you don't respect them

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