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Game Designer, Economy/System Design. Adjunct Professor at NYU Game Center & Parsons DT. Staff Data Analyst for ACT-UAW Local 7902. Spreadsheet aficionado. (He/Him)

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I was a reporter when the NYPD fought Bill de Blasio. I watched first hand in San Francisco when police fought DA Chesa Boudin. Here, I anticipate how police and the reactionary law-and-order crowd will try to undermine Zohran Mamdani. Thanks for letting me write this @attackerman.bsky.social.

submitted 51 minutes ago • 8 comments

Hey wanna see some cool experimental clicker / idle / incremental games? Last month for the final project in my 'economics for game designers' class at @nyugamecenter.bsky.social, students made some incredible incremental games, so I wanted to do a thread showing off their work! 1/ 👇📈👇📈👇

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Beyond the blatant racism, it's also worth noting that cities are, in fact, wealth and tax generating, and it's the suburbs that are the drain. Every suburb in America exists only because of the resources taken from those "inner city" citizens. For more info: www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

"You're seriously going to rally around Influencer Cop, an utterly unelectable actual criminal?" Business: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

All day everyone I was talking with thought Zohran would win, but was afraid to really believe it, bc everyone's been disappointed before and were afraid to get their hopes up again, so just "cautiously optimistic!". But he did win, and it wasn't even close! We can hope for better and get it.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I'm in touch with a source in Cuomo's camp. They're all screaming and turning back into rats. Not looking good so far

submitted 5 days ago • 47 comments

An Indian-Muslim socialist who is openly pro Palestine is going to be mayor of a city that is bigger than 38 states

submitted 5 days ago • 112 comments

I think win or lose the lesson from tonight’s nyc mayoral race is that the Democratic establishment are openly contemptuous of anyone that actually believes a better world is possible, will fight tooth and nail to stop anyone who does, and must be ousted before we can even hope to fight back.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Looking pretty good!!! The last poll had him up by 4, but the thing with polling is it assumes a random sample is representative. I've been thinking that wouldn't be the case: Zohran's voters are very likely to turn out, whereas Cuomo voters, landlords aside, are more like, "Eh, him I guess".

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Can't believe I got a picture with our next mayor!!

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Yeah. I keep joking that after Zohran wins tomorrow, we'll suddenly get a deluge of NYT thinkpieces about how it turns out that ranked choice voting is bad, why small donation campaign matching is actually evil, and how maybe Eric Adams isn't so bad after all. They'll be on overdrive all summer.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Hey wanna see some cool experimental clicker / idle / incremental games? Last month for the final project in my 'economics for game designers' class at @nyugamecenter.bsky.social, students made some incredible incremental games, so I wanted to do a thread showing off their work! 1/ 👇📈👇📈👇

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

whatever else they do, the prime directive of the democrats is to prevent the election of anyone who threatens the interests of the ultra-rich. that comes before everything else

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

spent my afternoon making a short little web game for New Yorkers called "Don't Rank Cuomo"... it has 10 levels. it's very realistic and challenging. can YOU don't rank Cuomo? play in browser (free): radiatoryang.itch.io/cuomo

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

I've been thinking about an under-utilized design space I wish there were more examples of: Deckbuilders where you add sets of cards to your deck, rather than adding em one by one. So I wrote too much about it: blog.literallyaking.com/2025/06/12/d...

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

ICE called in a fake 911 call so they could sneak a van of detainees out when the crowd parted for the responding fire truck. Beyond being blatantly illegal (nothing new for them there), this is just incredibly stupid and dangerous.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Something so weird about Sims speaking with normal speech bubbles

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Our 2yo has started playing his first real actual game with us- saying "stop" and "go" in a cute little voice and you have to freeze and unfreeze what you're doing. But then he tried using the "stop" on me while I was washing his face. So looks like I gotta sit him down and explain the magic circle.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

It's funny watching the convolutions of the big corporate press propping up a laughable candidate like Cuomo- they continually want to compare him to Adams, who is obviously worse, but they can't go too hard because they know that after Zohran wins the primary they're gonna have to stump for Adams.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments