My sleep schedule is so off, I am sleeping in weird shifts. Two hours here, four hours there. So I don't think I can call what I'm about to do "pulling an all-nighter" if my body thinks it is 2pm. Either way, cross your fingers I can focus on my work, and not get pulled down a random research hole

I need research help! Writing about how we work around technology deficits in older populations. If you or your parents learned tech at a later age (ex: you played a video game at 40 for the first time because your kids got a console), I'd love to know what is easy and what's hard for you.

Why are the Champions League commentators always so bad? There is no chemistry. No deep insight. No banter. One guy has clearly tried to train out a thick Brooklyn accent, but with the platitudes he's offering instead of commentary, he now sounds like a Midwestern mom. #Arsenal #COYG

If Lady Gaga and Doechii's "Runway" is not remixed to death by the time the Electric Daisy Carnival rolls around, I will eat my hat (which is, appropriately for EDC, made out of glow sticks and thrifted lampshades). It will be the club hit of the early summer. Guaranteed. youtu.be/XXIX2WnfbpE?...

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

If you're a parent- do you still have your kid's baby teeth? If not, when did you get rid of them? If your parents gave you your baby teeth- what did you do with them? Just got off the phone with my mom, who still has mine. She says she's keeping them for DNA evidence for WHEN I die in a fire. 😨😱

My dad's birthday is either today or the 18th. - He's not on social media so I can't figure it out a sneaky way. - Neither his wife or my mom would be chill about me asking. - I could go the auntie/uncle route, but no one on that side knows how to promptly respond. How do I figure this out?

In trying to avoid stepping on my cat, I have flung a large bowl of hot pho all over my kitchen. It is raining beef broth from the ceiling. I'm trying to keep my cats from parkouring around to get meat from the cabinet doors. It's all in the blinds and the fruit bowl and the spices... Help.

In the process of deep cleaning our house, I am both astounded and ashamed by how much stuff we have. But, more than that, I'm almost too proud of my Tetris and Jenga skills, because no one else could fit this much trash successfully into our square footage.

Got a new #cookbook. I can already tell that it is a winner. (Only slight sarcasm. It takes some real chutzpah to put a recipe for a hot dog in your book, and that almost makes me trust the author more?)

okay so AI is absolutely cratering imminently and I need all of you to PROMISE me you won't take the high road, and will laugh and rub it in their faces as much as possible. I need you to laugh and go 'WE TOLD YOU SO, BITCH" at every opportunity, PLEASE be extremely mean and ruthless

your fuckin spaghetti code is going to get more and more unintelligible and harder to fix as time goes on, and senior devs that are even capable of fixing it are going to get scarcer and scarcer because you got your near retirees babying LLMs now instead of training juniors up

I have been getting immunotherapy shots twice a week, 3 per visit, for the last 9 weeks. I have basically been unable to work 5 days every week due to side effects. Next week is my last week. My last cluster shot is on my birthday. It feels like a good sign for the year ahead.

Just heard one of my neighbors try to comfort his crying child (sounded like he ran into a car on his bicycle) by doing an Adam Sandler bit in Spanish. I am both comforted by said bit transcending both language and generation, and worried that maybe we hit peak comedy 30yrs ago with Happy Gilmore.

There comes a time in every latch-key kid's life where they finally can't fight the pull and they buy the first rotisserie chicken of their adult life after vowing to never. Today is that day for me. My cat has already tried to steal Miss Chickie twice. She will probably succeed. Pray for me.

Monday morning

To all who celebrate B)

Played #Koi on 2026-02-14 with 2 players, winning score: 92 #bgstats #boardgames More brain burn than expected. This is the epitome of how "going noodling" sounds like a whimsical activity, but it's just you sticking your limbs into random holes in a river bed and hoping only a catfish bites you.

I swear every time we've had an earthquake in the last five years, it happens immediately after I take my pants off. Sorry for party rocking too hard, #SLC #Utah.

The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota! Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

I have reached the age where I now must care about the tread on my shoes. I am genuinely so sad. My 5yo flip flops have been champions, but I stepped on a painted line in the parking lot, slipped, and fell out of my shoes. I never want road burn on the tips of my toes ever again. #embarrassed #RIP

‘I don’t have to create his legacy, I just have to protect it’: Chadwick Boseman’s widow Simone on grieving a global star – and guarding his secrets

Played #CuriousCargo on 2026-02-07 with 2 players, winning score: 26, no stars #bgstats #boardgames Ouch ouch ouch. A lot of brain burn in a little game. The pipes are also hard on my eyes, but that is definitely a me problem. This warrants another play to decide if it gets to stick around.

Won #Pinched! on 2026-02-07 with 2 players, winning score: 24 #bgstats #boardgames This feels like Cash n' Guns, but less mean and less triggering (in more ways than one). Great fun at 2, but will definitely sing at a higher player count.

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

Played #Bandida on 2026-01-31 with 2 players #bgstats We lost! Harder and scrappier than the first iteration, Bandido. But still fun! Next time, we will see if we can get the lovers Bandido and Bandida back together so they can kiss underground and so on.

Played #Greed on 2026-01-31 with 2 players, winning score: 150,000 #bgstats I keep losing by, like, a lot A LOT but I keep on loving this game regardless! Seance is OP AF. Just sayin'.

Played #MountainGoats on 2026-01-31 with 2 players, winning score: 155 #bgstats We are split on if this would be made better with a chess timer at play, but loved it all the same. It really made me feel like I was a little kid again, watching mountain goats from the ski bus lot with my dad.

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And then there's LOVE LETTERS, the extremely sincere and heartfelt yearlong essay series I edited and published, about the things that keep us going even when the project of survival feels impossible. The best thing I have ever done, and maybe the best thing I will ever do.

Played #Bandido on 2026-01-24 with 4 players #bgstats #boardgames Bandido done bamboozled us. Fun though!

Played #Sequoia on 2026-01-24 with 4 players, winning score: 21 #bgstats #boardgames A delightfully clever little dice roller that was a hit for everyone from ages 34 to 90! Especially if you only pay attention to 4 data points around one table in Tucson, Air-eh-zone-ya.

Won #3Wishes on 2026-01-24 with 4 players, winning score: 14 #bgstats #boardgames Really helps to have a mind like a steel trap. Or a devil may care attitude. Luckily, I have neither and just ended the game out of panic.

Won #Longboard on 2026-01-24 with 4 players, winning score: 37 #bgstats #boardgames Even better with more people!

Played #Kariba on 2026-01-24 with 4 players, winning score: 19 #bgstats ##boardgames So good!!! Why is this not more well known!?!?

Played #Spots on 2026-01-24 with 4 players, winning score: 6 #bgstats #boardgames Continues to be a very cute, very silly dice chucker.

I truly can't believe Martinelli didn't get a red card for pushing an injured player like that. Good on Konate for standing up for his teammate. I hope Martinelli gets cut for multiple games for that shit. Terrible form. #Arsenal #Liverpool #ArsVLFC

DEVELOPING: The two wards that meet at the church are Tongan, according to the meetinghouse website. Susi Feltch-Malohifo’ou, CEO of one of Utah’s largest Pacific Islander organizations, said she knows several people who were shot, but said she is unsure of their conditions.

I asked for my usual undercut and swoop bangs. The haircut did not go to plan. About a foot was cut off.

Played #Longboard on 2026-01-01 with 2 players, winning score: 47 #bgstats #boardgames Little box, big style, good game. Honestly, a fun and quick banger to start off the year. We are going to take this on a family trip. That's a huge endorsement considering our families aren't gamers.

Played #WrathofFireMountain on 2025-12-31 with 2 players, winning score: 27 #bgstats #boardgames Would be way better with more players, but what a cute and smart little game. And dinosaurs! That was my third word according to my dad! #dinosaur

Played #Greed on 2025-12-29 with 2 players, winning score: 135,000 #bgstats #boardgames We like games with themes that lend themselves to ridiculous outcomes. Greed was quick, simple, RIDICULOUS, and felt like a Tarantino movie without the feet or the racism. We really enjoyed this one.