📑 via @ayjay

"Try, in every way we can think of, to increase the number of situations in our lives in which we are neither dehumanized by an omnipotent state nor engaged in ceaseless competition with one another in an omnipotent marketplace." (ayjay, Anarchism as a Spiritual Discipline)

What! Lucas Stabilizer gets first stadium racing win at Lucas Oil Stadium.

Who could have predicted that! 😅

(I never thought I would go to Monster Jam but when your nibbling wants to go, you go!)

☀️ It’s supposed to reach 81F today!

🎶 I know I’ve mentioned this before, but you can see exactly where they kill the sun.

Spiritbox - Sun Killer. Arrow points to a spot in the track where music goes from quiet to loud.
  1. First #ttrpg you ever played? AD&D
  2. First you ever ran? WEG Star Wars
  3. Played the most? Burning Wheel
  4. Run the most? Burning Wheel
  5. Favorite? whatever is in front of us
  6. Most recently played? Legend of the Five Rings 5th ed.
  7. Most recently run? Whitehack 4th ed.

🎲 via @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social

📚 after months of renovation, my neighborhood library is back open. Celebrating by working there today.

🎙️🛡️ Interesting conversation on Risky Biz comparing TikTok and X.

I would disagree that there isn’t already influence in TikTok 1, but it is certainly less flagrant than you see on X.

  1. All algorithmically-controlled feeds reflect the biases of their creators, owners, and governors. ↩︎

🔗🕊️ Worry and Idolatry

🔗🎙️ Misleading title, but a very clear conversation around tariffs.

(Misleading in the sense that the tariffs will work because they provide a rhetorical rationale for tax cuts, regardless of the fact that they won’t cover the losses.)

🗳️ Sometimes I’m tempted to rail against having entertainers as politicians, and then I’m reminded by Neil Postman that in the video era, politicians are bound to be entertainers.