@mikeselinker.bsky.social Finding a favorite artist in a cryptic clue? Made my day!

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They always said there’s a war on Christmas.

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And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die in your arms tonight, it must have been something you said

As my journalism professors at Northwestern repeatedly told me, "Don't make yourself the story." Apparently, they didn't teach that class at Columbia when Bari Weiss was there.

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It's Christmas Eve! Time to share my Millennial Christmas playlist again. These are all the best Christmas songs written and recorded in the 21st century. Enjoy with eggnog! open.spotify.com/playlist/1WT...

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This has to be grounds for the Wharton School of Business revoking his degree.

If I included this as a plastic piece in a tabletop wargame, BoardGameGeek would tell me I wasn't trying hard enough.

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

I think the comma in this headline is doing real work standing in for "And Also Please." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...

Phenomenal retrospective about the White Heffalump gift exchange we ran in public in 2013. So many memories. puzzculture.com/2025/12/18/t...

One week to go before we debut our holiday puzzle bonanza, The #12DaysofCryptics. If you sign up today, you can get a bonus pack of 12 more cryptics! If you like puzzles and Christmas, this is the puzzle series for you.

Fucking baller response from Vanity Fair photographer Christopher Anderson to Stephen Miller.

This was a delightful and cathartic short story to read.

Shocker! The Affordable Care Act vote, for which eight worthless Democratic Senators sold us out, isn't actually going to happen. When Congress returns after Christmas, Democrats should get a leader who can hold the conference together for things like this. medium.com/@mikeselinke...

Another way to look at Rob Reiner's legacy: Some of the best directors have one genre in which they have a top-2 film. A couple have a top-2 in two genres. Spielberg has three. Rob Reiner has SIX (mockumentary, fantasy, coming-of-age, courtroom, romcom, & psych-horror). And he did it in nine years.

RIP Rob Reiner, the most delightful director of my lifetime. No one has ever had a run better than his nine years from '84 to '92. How he used his voice as fascists overran America will be studied for a century. We are the better for him, and much worse for the loss of him and his wife Michele.

Hey puzzle fans! The 12 Days of Cryptics, our holiday cryptic crossword event, is now open for preregistration. Preorder today and you'll get 12 daily holiday puzzles, plus a bonus pack of 12 more cryptics. It's a veritable puzzle advent calendar!

🔦🦈The Hunting of the Shark from @lonesharkgames.bsky.social has started shipping!

We're just a government of pirates now.

The US Treasury doesn't know how treasury bonds work.

The FIFA Peace Prize is giving Lovecraft vibes.

This might as well be a battle for who is the most corrupt person in the world.

Notice to all sailors: "Try not to drown" is an act of war.

The OED’s word of the year: rage bait. corp.oup.com/word-of-the-...

R: "Do you think death could possibly be a boat?" G: "No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat." R: "I've frequently not been on boats." G: "No, no, no—what you've been is not on boats." #RIPTomStoppard

My alma mater has failed on a catastrophic level.

It's #TurkeyDay tomorrow! For your #BlackFriday eating pleasure, we've prepared some free sausages for you. Simply order any physical book, game, or expansion from our webstore and you'll get a free copy of our game Sausage Party! Order today and get your sausages!

This needs to be the centerpiece of every ad from the Democrats going forward.

A creepy-ridiculous puzzle game of creature-bashing from @wondermark.com creator David Malki ! Take a gander (and put its head on your monster).

This is hilarious/tragic.

Some years ago, I wrote a Most Beautiful Things about Jimmy Cliff's "Many Rivers to Cross," the most beautiful reggae song. Still true today. #RIPJimmyCliff selinker.livejournal.com/26332.html

See if you can tell what caused me to crumple my brow in anger at this comics page.

The house sets the over/under on "Marjorie Taylor-Greene on Dancing with the Stars" at 10 months.

"44% of those who offered their seats in the experimental condition reported not having seen Batman" totally tracks. phys.org/news/2025-11...

The president of the United States just called for members of the opposition party to be executed. It is long past time for the Congress and military to remove this dangerous man.

You don't often have two game design legends in the same household. My colleagues Jennell Jaquays and Rebecca Heinemann were that household. They both designed and developed for games you know and love: early D&D, Bard's Tale, Quake, Wolfenstein, Doom, Wasteland. (cont'd)

Possible bonus comic this weekend?

The Coast Miwok tribe should own San Francisco. The Tongva tribe should own Los Angeles. The Duwamish tribe should own Seattle. The Multnomah and Clackamas tribes should own Portland. The Akimel Oʼodham and Maricopa tribes should own Phoenix. The Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes should own Denver.

Happy #NationalAmericanTeddyBearDay! Today we honor the fluff, the myth, the legend: Mr. Whiffle. He’s not just a bear, he’s a mystery wrapped in plush, with secrets stitched into every seam.

The Trump revelations in the latest drops are welcome, not only because it might run the orange jackass into the ground, but also because we might get to see Fred Armisen as Michael Wolff on SNL. @nbcsnl.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiyZ...

Poker Face is the best show on television, so this is unfortunate. Now, if Lyonne and Johnson don't want to make more with Lyonne starring, they shouldn't. But if they do, then everyone else should get on board with that plan, because the show is great. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

a “Space Force”, if you will

Seattle has not had a good mayor since Paul Schell left in 2002, and hasn't had a great one since Charlie Royer in the last century. With Katie Wilson, my birthplace has a chance at greatness again. Congratulations to @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social for defeating the oligarchs and giving us all hope.

If, like me, you support the people of Ukraine AND like cool poker decks, I urge you to get a copy of former Magic developer William Jockusch's "Ukraine Has Cards!" It's shows some lovely Russian war assets getting blown to bits by the great people of Ukraine. www.drivethrucards.com/en/product/5...

Katie Wilson now over 50% with nearly all votes counted. Recount incoming, but this is a good position for her.

There are about 6400 votes in King County left to count, with 1700 in challenge. No idea how many of either of those are in Seattle. Anyone telling you they know how an unknown but completely nonrandom sample of that size will play out is blowing smoke. It’s a tossup. (I’d rather be Katie, though.)