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Writer/designer. I study narrative theory and make games. Classics PhD. She/her. I post about games, history, cats, stories, and octopodes. http://adaplays.com Firaxis | UChicago
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Dress made out of her own chip bags? Genius. Former Foxtrot Executive Laura Gardner, founder of chip company, Local Style. 📍James Beard Awards

Hundreds of acres in Michigan are covered in parallel rows of earth that are the remains of an ancient Native American agricultural system. The surprise find has archaeologists amazed.

Your Father’s Day #NiseiCares gift Dads…

Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks.

Marching under the L in Chicago. #nokings.

Taking a friend to her first march today. The crowd gets a little bigger, a little louder. #nokings

watching israel launch another war as our sweaty president, occupied by crushing internal dissent with the military, begs iran to leave us out of it, all while i’m making mac and cheese, makes me realize i should keep emergency gin in the freezer for rapid response martinis

This is awful, like very very bad.

First keynote from the 2025 CDN PhD Summer School is online! Highly recommended for anyone interested in how narrative theory can help understand social media. This is a toolkit that will be super useful for researchers!

Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

Hammer this home. People are getting it. And it won't get better after the bill is passed. Huge red flag for GOP in mid-terms.

This weekend is gonna slap. Find a march. #nokings

FFXIV is trying out Bluesky! 🦋 Follow us and 🔁 while you're here so you and fellow Warriors of Light never miss #FFXIV news on Bluesky! For our fans around the world, be sure to check out our regional accounts as well! ❤️ @fr.finalfantasyxiv.com @de.finalfantasyxiv.com @jp.finalfantasyxiv.com

LAPD out there like

I’d love any suggestions from historian friends of fun, readable histories that focus on historiography, and the art and process of making & updating history, in any period.

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That feeling in my stomach, is it anxiety? is it IBS? Did I eat too much cheese?

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

Announcing: Mandrake! You play the last of the Mandrakes, a sorcerous line of gardeners. Horticulture is a cursed practice... except to you. Your family line is steeped in the green and growing arts, so you’re able to grow such marvels as: runner beans! Cherry trees! The humble turnip! 🌳

Hot take. The government isn’t subsidizing university budgets. Universities are lending subsidized expertise to research and development that contributes to the public good. It’s called partnership.

What is the city but the people?

Is this in Indiana? Reminds me a lot of the “SHACKLED BY LUST??” signs I’d see on my commute to Michigan. Good times.

I think we need to say clearly that one of the core beliefs of the Republican Party in the 2020s is that the State cannot tolerate institutions (law firms, universities, or increasingly, media companies) that don't bend the knee to acknowledge State authority over opinion.

A graffiti ghost in Uptown

Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead

Here's NASA astrophysics, if I read the president's proposed budget correctly. 🔭

Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences is getting hit with a 67.6% cut, worse than other programs within NSF. Funding for archaeologists comes from the division for Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, which is facing a 77.3% cut. It appears every post doc program has been 100% cut.

Listening to this woman at the end of the bar tell her friend about how she used AI to make her dissertation defense presentation. I'm judging, oh, I'm so judging.

Feeling like this weekend may involve a trip to Powell's. You all know the Portland Powell's, but we have one too, right here in my neighborhood! powellschicago.com

This is exactly what the NYC subway is like, and it's beautiful (trimmed video by Ian O'Connor via instagram.com/p/DAbHW7txiiv)

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

oh. Oh I see why today is a bad day for reading. Some things need not be known.