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incredibly well-researched, super helpful, and, frankly, fun piece from @kimberstreams.bsky.social about how to deal with tariffs when shopping online!

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Love that guys who won like 6 games here a year come back and are treated like heroes and will do anything for us. Buffalo is a weird stupid family

submitted 137 days ago • 11 comments

My obligation (?) to share this good game professionally (?) has long since passed. Also, I did write about it, twice! But this was a very good game, and I am going to replay it for both the build choices and dialogue trees (!!!) store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/...

submitted 144 days ago • 0 comments

The only reliable wireless printing, or even just networking printing, I have been able to achieve at home in this lifetime is by running a dedicated CUPS server on a Raspberry Pi (now a Pi Zero 2W). Don't even let people tell you something is a solved problem. Gutenberg: still relevant in 2024.

submitted 165 days ago • 1 comment

Instead of having playoffs, the college football championship should be between the best college team and the worst NFL team. If the college team wins, they get to become an NFL franchise, and the NFL team has to become a university.

submitted 166 days ago • 45 comments

I domained!

submitted 170 days ago • 0 comments

Did the NYT really rip off a verge story about an influencer allegedly ripping off the aesthetic of another influencer? Or did they just happen to cover the same lawsuit in a similar way a couple of weeks later? www.theverge.com/2024/11/26/2...

submitted 183 days ago • 3 comments

I have Parker House rolls, freestanding rosemary olive bread, and English muffins all slow proving in the fridge. The sourdough starter has never felt so 🍄🦠🐲aliiiive🧬🍄‍🟫🍇.

submitted 190 days ago • 0 comments

These rolls (from “A Good Bake”) are half sourdough, half instant yeast, all wonderful. Made for Friendsgiving, might have to make again.

submitted 194 days ago • 0 comments

NOTE TO ALL GAMING PR PEOPLE, PLEASE STEAL THIS IDEA Email I got for [embargoed review game] includes estimated completion times for: * "One run of the game" * "Time to gain a good overview of the game and gameplay cycle" * "Unlock all characters and weapons" * "Completionist"

submitted 225 days ago • 11 comments

When I say DC is undergoing a cycling/streets-level revolution, this is what I mean. For the fifth straight month, Capital Bikeshare ridership hit an all-time high in September 2024. It was the 33rd straight month (!) with year-over-year growth: ggwash.org/view/97337/b...

submitted 228 days ago • 10 comments

I wrote about moving away from Buffalo, NY, a city that is easy to caricature, tough to love, impossible to fully leave behind. thepurdman.com/leaving-buff...

submitted 231 days ago • 0 comments

Today I saw a Burger King commercial call food a “hunger hack” and felt the need to offer the world an apology

submitted 235 days ago • 1 comment

1924: what if automation did all our backbreaking labor and freed us to pursue art and philosophy 2024: what if automation did all our art and philosophy and we

submitted 266 days ago • 7 comments

This is not an article about epoxy river tables. I mean, it is. But it's not. But it is. Or maybe it isn't. www.southernfriedscience.com/this-is-not-...

submitted 367 days ago • 30 comments

What is the best Legend of Zelda game and why is it the one that came out closest to when you were 12?

submitted 373 days ago • 5 comments

Thanks to @kevinpurdy.bsky.social for helping me realize my "artist's conception" image caption running joke has been running on Ars for >12 years now! First appearance: arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/... Latest appearance: arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/... Full(?) list: www.google.com/search?q=%22...