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He/Him, Instructional designer in higher ed, proud father and husband. Interested in professional burnout, critical AI literacy, educational justice, urbanism, sci-fi, board games, and various niche nerd topics.
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Proud to be a Washington resident in these dark times!

Montgomery County Public Schools comes out and tells Trump to pound sand with his EO telling schools that they have to discriminate against transgender students. This is how you refuse to comply.

Balatro's gameplay loop feels like it came from ten years in the future. Like it's a tight refinement of a long-established genre, Civilization IV or Metal Gear Solid V. Generational Nikola Tesla shit, here, airdropped out of nowhere onto Steam for 15 bucks

If your zoning code isn't too prescriptive, developers and architects will get creative, proposing middle housing of all shapes and sizes. Flip through this thread to see what happens when a city allows middle housing without costly parking mandates and culturally welcomes new development.

Idle thought... Given how many Hollywood people have been directly and indirectly affected by the LA fires, will we see a shift in how film and TV portrays things like climate change, disaster response, community resiliency? Or will entertainment media avoid it even more than they already do?

Uhoh

I have no idea if any of this "big drones," business is real or not, but we're definitely in Moral Panic/Public Hysteria territory now.

What's weird is that thirty years later, they brought the character back for an episode of Star Trek Prodigy. You know, for kids! But now he is a fuckman.

Sung to the tune of Dance Music

Silo on Apple TV is pretty great. But... [SPOILER] It still creeps me out that in the same year they launched the Vision Pro, Apple chose to debut a post-apocalyptic scifi series about a hereditary IT ruling class using augmented reality and VR to deceive and control the last remnants of humanity

The Triple Goddess – Mother, Maiden and Crone – is a well-established archetype in numerous religions and traditions. Less known is her male counterpart, representing the three fundamental aspects of Man. The Triple God of the Full House – Father, Cool Guy, and Comedian. In this 37-part essay I w

Few people are, but we're entering our "John Hughes Movie Mousy Girl Makeover" phase