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Milwaukeean who loves board games, photography, a good book, Giannis Antetokounmpo, and his 2 cats. Portfolio at www.slicksnaps.com. Profile pic is real illustration by my very talented coworker Jason Krukowski - no AI here!!

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wrote about the vibe shift — cow's milk sales are up, plant milk is down - not good news www.vox.com/future-perfe...

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 3 days ago • 1570 comments

Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know

submitted 10 days ago • 726 comments

This show is giving me the emotional release I need every week. Less sentimental but as emotional as Friday Night Lights, which also had Explosions in the Sky doing the soundtrack - which probably accounted for at least 50% of tears shed.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

submitted 24 days ago • 905 comments

Molly House is a strange and meaningful beast, at once a celebration of queer love, a critique of imperial power, and a call to solidarity. More than that, it is a game that can't help but be personally meaningful to the lonesome and tired. My review: spacebiff.com/2025/02/12/m...

submitted 24 days ago • 18 comments

Why are drug prices so high? Consider the case of Zolgensma. While taxpayers and small charities funded Zolgensma's early development, executives, venture-capital backers and a pharma giant have reaped the profits.

submitted 24 days ago • 11 comments

JK Rowling's continued slide into transphobic rhetoric raises an important question: should you support a series if the creator is terrible, and the prequel movie series is terrible, and the sequel play is terrible, and the original movies are terrible, and the source material is terrible, and the

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Wish I knew somebody who was in one of the two halls of Congress right now.

submitted 33 days ago • 522 comments

@meredithshiner.com's assessment of the Democratic Party is sadly spot on (as is her suggested solution: Run against them!). The most direct way for us change the party is refuse to wait for our collectively turn to lead. newrepublic.com/article/1909...

submitted 33 days ago • 16 comments

i'm sensing some broader parallels

submitted 34 days ago • 86 comments

do you know how bad you have to be as president to make the Luka to Lakers thing the 2nd dumbest trade related news of the last 24hrs

submitted 34 days ago • 26 comments

#Boardgames were a necessary and wonderful solace in January. Somehow managed to be one of - if not the - most played months I've ever had. Note to self: don't do the 14-point variant of TI4 (w/ expansion) no matter what the internet tells you. (No regrets about a 12 hour day with close friends.)

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment