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Staff Writer for Wirecutter, covering hobbies and games. Let's talk about dice and meeples!

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my glass coffin company “remains to be seen” is not doing as well as i thought it would.

03.12.2024 01:02 👍 4772 🔁 746 💬 71 📌 38

The median voter is not a centrist but actually just holds a bunch of mutually contradictory, meaningless opinions.

12.03.2026 20:44 👍 933 🔁 118 💬 37 📌 15

I am sort of shocked that both the outlet and the journalist seem to have thought that nothing bad would happen because, I guess, only a certain class of person has their gambling get out of hand?

12.03.2026 19:30 👍 603 🔁 87 💬 17 📌 3

Secondly: <just starts weeping>

12.03.2026 06:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

First of all: how dare you.

12.03.2026 06:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

an important reminder that baseball is the home of beautiful acronyms such as Thrown Out On The Bases Like A Nincompoop

12.03.2026 00:03 👍 734 🔁 93 💬 16 📌 9

"oh look at me, I'm Ben McKenzie, I was in the OC and then I got a degree in economics and crypto is a scam but no one was doing anything about it so I made a documentary also I’m married to Morena Baccarin" man good for you

10.03.2026 22:39 👍 639 🔁 116 💬 9 📌 1

i actually understand how important the strait of hormuz being closed is because i've seen star wars: episode i: the phantom menace (1999)

11.03.2026 13:41 👍 275 🔁 38 💬 3 📌 2

Not only did team USA lose to Italy but now we have to do math, which is even worse.

11.03.2026 04:20 👍 1117 🔁 156 💬 42 📌 11

how is the guy named roman tony on team usa

11.03.2026 04:19 👍 194 🔁 20 💬 5 📌 0

The best advice I have for writers is: the harder you try to impress people with your prose, the worse your prose will be. Sit down and try to communicate honestly, you will find the places for your flourishes and metaphors that actually serve greater meaning rather than your own ego.

10.03.2026 15:32 👍 905 🔁 134 💬 13 📌 0

Union prez @jschleuss.com interviewed New York Times staffers to see what the fuss was about. (Spoiler: NYT management is refusing ethical AI safeguards) newsguild.org/inside-ai-ne...

09.03.2026 20:34 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 2

Wow a whole <checks notes> seven turns...

09.03.2026 18:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

You're not going to make any money doing this and no one is going to read it, so you must hope for a secret third thing to happen

09.03.2026 17:56 👍 744 🔁 138 💬 29 📌 76

<picks up baseball bat>
Someone tell Ben Franklin I’ll be wanting that hour back…

08.03.2026 17:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

08.03.2026 03:12 👍 17101 🔁 3391 💬 202 📌 119

just keep in mind we don't know how much trade off there is on one lap vs race pace yet

07.03.2026 05:31 👍 33 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0

Let’s a-go (to court)

06.03.2026 18:42 👍 37 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

BTW it is EXTREMELY common for academic papers to declare Lara Croft the first playable female game character (a very easy fact to debunk). As a grad student I wrote a paper that traced every appearance of this "fact" to a single paper, which is why you don't only engage with academic texts!!

04.03.2026 21:21 👍 1479 🔁 399 💬 36 📌 15
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Start a career powered by passion World’s Largest Fan-Generated Entertainment & Gaming Platform | Fandom Fandom’s brands help fans get more out of the entertainment and games they love,…

Hello, @gamespot.com is hiring a new Associate Commerce Editor. This is a full-time, salaried position. You would be working with me (the Commerce Editor) and primarily be writing/editing/curating buying guides and best-of roundups. Full details in the job listing: about.fandom.com/careers/list...

04.03.2026 17:06 👍 40 🔁 36 💬 3 📌 2

I agree with this. I've seen enough of my coding friends' eyes pop out of their heads when they realize what Claude can do to believe that programmers have an exciting new tool. (con't)

04.03.2026 17:23 👍 163 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 1

Walking or cycling even occasionally will radicalize you against right turns on red almost immediately. At any intersection— even and especially the busy ones— you will observe countless drivers who do not completely stop before rolling or speeding through. And they are not looking for pedestrians.

04.03.2026 15:49 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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‘You’re killing her!’: Witnesses recount horrific Mission Bay crash where 2-year-old died Bystanders tried to lift an SUV after its driver pinned a mother and child in Mission Bay, say witnesses.

Unpopular opinion but turning right at a red light should not be legal in San Francisco (or anywhere else). Right on red makes horrors like this all too possible. sfstandard.com/2026/03/03/m...

04.03.2026 15:39 👍 215 🔁 35 💬 5 📌 20

One of the crimes of AI has been the destruction of the beautiful "my nephew made this logo for me on his computer!" energy from all the hyper-local plumbers and taco shops. AI slop on white work vans is a crime against humanity.

03.03.2026 18:02 👍 1446 🔁 451 💬 8 📌 1

That looks like one of the versions that was run off the Stone copper engraving of the original Declaration: www.archives.gov/publications...

If it's an original Stone facsimile (there are only a few dozen left) than the curtain would be useful to prevent fading in the sunny Oval Office.

03.03.2026 23:09 👍 23 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They should do a VEEP style show all about the PR and media teams around F1 teams. So many walk and talks between a driver and media person just being like “well, if you say that you’ll sound like a jerk so…”

<this is a Drive to Survive skeet>

03.03.2026 03:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

28.02.2026 15:54 👍 10397 🔁 2852 💬 91 📌 138

I can't explain why but it's giving this energy:

27.02.2026 15:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you read one piece about Snowball-gate make it this piece, because it gets at the heart of what Mayor Mamdani cannot avoid for much longer—a direct confrontation with the NYPD, or admitting that the elected leader of NYC has no power over it.

26.02.2026 17:01 👍 314 🔁 60 💬 3 📌 3