Vince Gill did a Tiny Desk. I grew up on Vince Gill. We played Go Rest High On That Mountain at my grandpa's memorial service last year: youtu.be/Cg6E3lppn0I?...

Come for a lovely review of a lovely game, but stay for the absolutely pitch perfect meditation on games and the importance of criticism and advocacy for the art you love. Unbelievable job, Quinns!

Op, @itsquinns.bsky.social got me again with the Quinns Quest about stonetop (she says, also having pledged for a physical edition of public access) And also those other ones 👀

I wanna fuck off and not do anything for the rest of the day but the Piles demand attention 😩

Moving sucks

According to BGG, I'm sitting at 164 boardgames owned (without counting expansions) I have now moved all of those boardgames before the Uhaul rental Please clap

new mountain goats

I urge you not to take Broken Social Scene's new album for granted It opens up with repeat listens in a beautiful way that only BSS can pull off. I find it hard to put my finger on it, nevermind to explain it, which made reviewing it for @pitchfork.com a fun challenge pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

As someone who considered using talkspace provided as a benefit by an employer that later laid me off, I'm shaken by the story of the user whose therapy transcripts were read into evidence in court by her former employer in their successful defense of her pregnancy discrimination suit.

My friends in DH & information systems taught this to me long ago: “Infrastructure is something we owe to one another.” — @megsmith.bsky.social

I’m an actual historian in the space used to the lament of all we’ve lost from stuff like Google+ & keenly aware of how much I’m writing against digital decay & this exchange just… I know they’re just bullshitting, but I really wish we had robust advocacy for the ACTUAL institutions Doing the Work:

Waiting for @mrbonesstanaccount.bsky.social to go "actually, fuck this" The test is sending pictures of the triage area of moving boardgames over Other gamers: have you moved with a decently large collection? I feel like I did a lot of culling and still have so much

Passed my comp exam 🎉

Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Okay I thought this would be okay but the interminable wait between taking my comp exam and getting my grades overlaps perfectly with packing up my place and actually moving, and the coexistence of these two states of being has broken me, I am broken

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that, strictly speaking, this isn't journalism's fault. www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/peop...

CNN a net bad for the world but he let Mike Lazzo cook as long as he didn’t spend more than five dollars a year and we got adult swim out of it, rip to a complicated king

ProPublica unveils a redesign aimed at enhancing user experience and accessibility, which may help citizens engage with critical investigative journalism. www.propublica.org/article/why-...

Nobody tells you what to do when you're a traumatized 37-year-old child of divorce and your mom has a new crush on your dad

No. You need websites that are designed to serve human readers, quality, authenticity and trust not commodified programmatic scale. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/b...

Solidarity with all the teachers (and allies) marching in Raleigh today. You all deserve well-resourced schools. Getting there requires widespread pressure on the NCGA. I hope you’ll be able to build on today, escalate the pressure, and get what you and your students deserve.

SO SAY WE ALL also caprica is a wild show, really doing some surprising stuff you wouldn’t expect it to. Check it out!

Why do I have so many books and boardgames

Posting this every time this idea comes up: coralproject.net/blog/the-rea...

Nobody cares about decentralization. Nobody cares about the journalistic process. They care about making their world better. werd.io/product-shap...

Hey, #boardgames #boardgamesky ... what are some small card/dice/tile games you take on vacation when traveling with family? And/or, are there any rummy-like games in this glut of trick-taking we're seeing? Grew up playing a lot of Uno and Phase 10 with my mom.

People building in the public interest - whether it's founding newsrooms, creating #atproto services, or building entirely new platforms and infrastructure - deserve to pay their bills and buy food. They're struggling. Some thoughts on closing the funding gap: werd.io/building-wit...

Can a chatbot pack and clean my apartment

Important and detailed read from @yonigre.bsky.social on the expanding risks of platform power and regulatory overreach: www.backstoryandstrategy.com/p/the-platfo...

Some innovations create a new future that serves people better. Some sustain the status quo. It's time to think more radically. werd.io/sustaining-i...

Did y'all know they made a Hana Kimi anime THIS YEAR? I was a big fan of the OG Japanese drama in 2006/7

I think we have reached quite a moment when something happens at an event with hundreds of journalists present and no one has a clue as to what actually occurred.

Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.

Neither of my parents and neither of my siblings care about my life and none of them called to either wish me luck or congratulate me on doing comp exams 🥲🥲

Work has me busy and exhausted but boy am I feasting on podcasts. Some wonderful discussion here on the nature of world/story building in TTRPGs and the expectation/anxiety of GMing. I'm still not sure if I have it in me to play let alone GM Realis but I cannot wait to dig into that book.

Guess who has a comp exam for grad school tomorrow 🫪

in which i try, once again, to pierce the veil of the unc school of civic life and leadership investigation www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...

tfw you find out everyone is calling you "J. Edgar Boozer"

FB memories reminded me of this great Hood Internet mixtape that came out the summer of 2010 when I was interning at Paste and I'm listening to it again being peak Millennial aircredits.net/thi/mixtapes...

This week at @SecondWindGroup.com, we took a look at “Exit 8”, “Backrooms” and wider subgenre of “liminal horror.” Why does it resonate with audiences? What is it about? And why is there so much of it lately? WATCH : youtu.be/nk404rjV5OE?...

I appreciated this piece very much. It starts by building on my post last week about AI and power, and then goes much deeper than I did into co-operatives, unionization, and the infrastructure of collaboration.

Spending more than $1 million to investigate a school dedicated to teaching civic leadership and then REFUSING to make the results public is just the sort of bizarro logic we’ve come to expect. dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

I need to study for my comp exam but it's three essay questions in four hours so (I got a 6.0 in analytical writing on the GRE I'm not worried about essays) Maybe I'll just go through all the class canvas sites

No YOU reinstalled final fantasy xiv and started a new character who is a Large Cat Woman

Put my book down to sleep an hour ago and yet I am the most awake I have ever been

Marinating in a bunch of "man I used to be cool" and "how can I get back to intentional community" this week Adult life can be so isolating! Trying to be the villager and operate through burnout and triggered trauma is tough. But telling the narrative of my life from like age 16-26...

I was just talking to my landlord about the congressional district impact on NCSSM admissions the other day, IRONICALLY (he has a young child interested in engineering, I went to Smath an age and a half ago) (shit my 20-year reunion is next year??)

🎉 Ten years ago: a coffee shop, a Kickstarter, and radical questions about journalism. Today: a national infrastructure and our most ambitious plan yet. Here's our bold vision for what’s next: www.citybureau.org/notebook/jou...

Japansky has breakfast posting down and I highly recommend checking out #青空ごはん部 when it's morning in Japan. (I mean, check it out any time but the chaos of Japanese breakfast has a special place in my heart.)

Seeing folks post about impeccable.style and it's a bummer that @pbakaus.bsky.social has an account but isn't really here. The state of UI and llm coding is super relevant rn and Impeccable's approach is way more interesting than others.