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At 40 I sometimes feel like I haven't accomplished enough compared to people my age or younger but I'm shifting my metric to at least I'm not doing as much evil as 39-year-olds like Stephen Miller and JD Vance.

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One of my long running stable and well paying freelance gigs has evaporated due to budget cuts so I went on LinkedIn to see if I could find something new and saw a post from a former editor about how she's been out of work for six months so that's encouraging.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

I got a flu shot, Kevin did not. Kevin got the flu, I did not. Vaccines work. (He’s spent the past 5 days mostly sleeping while Sterling seems to enjoy the warmth of his fever but is now feeling well enough to eat solid foods and play Civ 7.)

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The parallels between Musk and Henry Ford are really upsetting.

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My mom keeps texting me with questions about Severance. She hasn’t been this excited and confused by a show simultaneously since Game of Thrones.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

The new Monster Manual continues work being done by MCDM, The Lazy DM and EN Publishing to bring the best part of 4th Edition - monster and encounter design - into 5th Edition.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Americans are much sicker than other developed countries because it doesn’t have universal healthcare. It has nothing to do with SSRIs.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The U.S. is pretty much ceding world leadership to China.

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I'm reading Yellowface and it's amazing how the rapid shift of social media dates it so clearly as the narrator is obsessed with blue check clout but there's no mention of Booktok.

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A publication I write for has an AI tool that applies tags to articles. I haven't used it much because it's slow and the tags are often inaccurate so it doesn't save any time over manual entry. Now it's apparently applying tags at random post publication. Really revolutionary technology.

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Spider-Man is Batman without inherited wealth.

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An aspect of the price of eggs that I don’t think is being reported enough is that the bird flu epidemic is caused by the horrible conditions in factory farms. Eggs are half the price they are in the U.S. in Europe right now and they’re more humanely produced.

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I’m honestly surprised he was fired for being racist in the first place so of course they’re reinstating him.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

One of the really scary things about Musk taking over the government is that it removes the idea that we just have to wait four years or until Trump dies for this nightmare to be over. Musk can just cut the same deal with Donald Trump Jr. or JD Vance and keep running things for decades.

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The Eye Filmmuseum has been doing a David Lynch showcase so I went to see Inland Empire without realizing that the subtitles for the Polish spoken would only be in Dutch. I only understood about half of the subtitles but given it was Lynch film that only made it a tiny bit more incomprehensible.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Soon after I moved to Amsterdam I met a Canadian at an expat bar wearing a maple leaf hat because he wanted to make sure everyone he met knew he wasn't American. Thinking of him today.

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I am extremely excited that Pantheon's second season is getting a Netflix release. That show desperately deserves a bigger audience. Stay tuned for my IGN review.

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I pitched a hawker crew that was somewhere between The Penguin and The Wire and we landed somewhere between Weeds and Barry. We're set up in Duskwall's theater district selling weed and our mentor is Gene Cousineau if he was an alchemist. I'm very excited about this.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Fuck it, I want to do something for the community. !!TRANS INDIE TTRPG CREATORS!!, drop your links here. Your projects, your ko-fi, your GFM, whatever you want. I will boost. Cis people, boost the fuck out of their replies and give them your $$.

submitted 26 days ago • 24 comments

Reading The Lies of Locke Lamora to prep for playing Blades in the Dark.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Doing simultaneous combat in a Pathfinder game where my character is invisible and desperately trying to hack the computer systems of a Vesk strip mine to disable the defenses. My allies are fighting soldiers guarding the kolo prisoners we're trying to rescue while I'm battling the IT team.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Played Nemesis for the second time and I think that game is just not for me. Too mean and prone to leaving players sitting out for a while if they get unlucky and die early.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

This is my dream job but I live in Amsterdam now. If you're in the Chicago area and love writing about restaurants you should apply and work with @shokdiesel.bsky.social. I've been freelancing for him for three years and he's great at finding stories and making them better.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

I know how GI Robot would have responded to seeing Musk at the inauguration.

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