Profile avatar
doubtofbuddha.bsky.social
I was born to hippies and will die to hippies. I am into biking, brunching, urbanism, liberalism, good movies, board games and turn based strategy video games. I am a YIMBY, a cat dad, and a proud resident of the city of Chicago. Data Scientist.
103 posts 212 followers 155 following
Prolific Poster
Conversation Starter

After 7 years in development, Together in Battle has hit version 1.0! Come play the game one reviewer calls "Tactics Ogre/FFT meets Darkest Dungeon with a surprisingly good story." 20% off for launch week! 🙂 ➡️ store.steampowered.com/app/1267210/...

CHICAGO POPE!

A truly depressing account of the enormous time, effort, & resources that go into building *anything* in blue cities. Can not be exaggerated how much this phenomenon is crippling blue politics in the US. www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

I spent much of the weekend sitting at Willow Cafe enjoying the immaculate Lincoln Square vibes.

4 people were killed in 3 car crashes across the city since Saturday, police said. buff.ly/XdkoZsJ

business.cch.com/Cybersecurit... This is incredibly, incredibly bad. DOGE likely handed over government secrets to Putin.

Where does the “Abolish ICE” movement go to get its apology? open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... This is truly vile. I hope whatever reason people not to vote or vote third party was worth the destruction of biodeiversity and endangered species in the United States. Green Party my ass.

Liberals believe that the best way to beat other countries at trade is to outcompete them. Not rely on big government protectionism.

The spike in Treasury yields is highly unusual & concerning. I don't want to draw too strong a conclusion from a single snapshot in time, but the list of potential disruptions to the status quo where USD/Treasuries = world's 'safe asset' is long & getting longer. Here's a non-exhaustive list. 🧵1/9

I wasn't being hyperbolic www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPWC...

At times like this I am kind of okay with being behind on my 401K.

the Trans Pacific Partnership was good and I’m tired of pretending it’s not

If you can visit Lincoln Square to shop or dine during this week, you should. If this goes well maybe bigger changes could happen in the Square...

www.reuters.com/world/china-... So that's it then. It looks increasingly like the economic basis for staying in the United States is evaporating.

I hate this thing so much.

They clearly don’t know who they are messaging these things to. @andrefor40th.bsky.social

Black Bag was so good. If you are even thinking about seeing it you should.

Hi, we are an alternative to Amazon-owned Audible 👋🏻 With us, you select the independent bookshop you want to support (we have 3,000+ partners across the globe), and we share profits from your purchase with them. We're also employee-owned and a registered Social Purpose Corporation.

<3 Pritzker.

If either Duckworth or Durbin vote for the Continuing Resolution or vote to break a filibuster I will vote to primary them they next time they are up for re-election. They are in safe blue seats and this bill is a threat to our democracy. Voting yes is not an option.

I have played this one a fair bit in Early Access and it is a banger. Really really great turn based tactical gameplay and very much worth checking out if you like X-Com or any other turn based tactics game.

📢📢📢 Our RELEASE DATE ANNOUNCEMENT trailer is live on YouTube!! We're only ~2 months away from the full launch of our squad-based strategy heist RPG! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cum... #Gaming Check it out and please 👍 like it, share it, and comment on it to help us out. 🙏 #IndieDev #RPG #GamingNews

If you're having a rough day, please know that the HVAC repair guy who came out to fix my furnace this morning very excitedly showed me his "chicken cams" (coop and hatchery) and explained in exquisite detail the tiny chicken-friendly hvac system he had installed bc. he was worried they were cold.

FLOW GOT THE OSCAR! What a beautiful film. I am so happy for both it and the entire Latvian team who put it together. The little indie that could!

I have to admit I am pretty disappointed that my Alderman @andrefor40th.bsky.social voted for this bond. How is this even remotely responsible?

“A republic, if you can keep it.” --Benjamin Franklin's response to Elizabeth Willing Powel's question: "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" Apparently we cannot.

On Sunday, JD Vance dared to argue that federal courts “aren’t allowed” to limit the president's “legitimate power. George Conway is forewarning America, predicting that Donald Trump is setting us up for a constitutional showdown that could mean the end of U.S. democracy. On…

Welp, it was nice living in a republic everyone. Guess we get to live in even more interesting times.

Donald J Trump has gutted institutions keeping Americans safe and is killing your family and friends.

bill gates on elon musk: “you want to promote the right wing but say nigel farage is not right wing enough? … i mean, this is insane shit.”

What exactly are we paying taxes for again?

Ugh. I am sorry to all Danes. This is the worst.

www.bbc.com/news/article... Time to get off meta apps too. I will miss being able to keep up with small businesses on instagram but such is life.

This pretty much sums it up. The best Biden presidency post mortem so far.