Dara Lind

I was there for yesterday’s mercy rule walk off and how can you not be romantic about world baseball

Maybe. But APA challenges in Trump 1 were a high-volume success strategy in immigration. IIRC that’s actually where the strat got normalized.

SWOLEBY

Ehhhhhh. This is the first real APA setback they’ve had on immigration.

PERFECT description.

I believe the phrase for this is “eating the seed corn.”

STOMP DEM KIIIIIDS

Rian Johnson's The Westing Game

In a 2pp game it’s often a very good strategy. The last time I played at 6pp I played as Saturn Systems and the whole rest of the table united to burn all Jovian cards until the last generation.

The best submissions I could have made here are about @blanksslate.bsky.social relatives so it’s his decision to post those or not

GIRL (gn) IF IT WAS WORTHWHILE I WOULD HAVE KEPT IT UP

Just deleted some posts because I participated in a meme that @jduffyrice.bsky.social immediately stepped in to win. It’s done now.

YOOOOOOOOO

We got to a million by that fall iirc

This is much funnier when you realize I haven’t logged into Facebook since I got married ~6 years ago.

Barely-working actor; self-made toy manufacturing entrepreneur.

It occurs to me that I might be biographically hyperattuned to noticing the difference between class and SES.

You know what’s great? Seeing a friend do their thing and realizing they’re just so intellectually ready for this moment.

This is a @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social praise tweet.

As a novel yes. For this hyperspecific audience naw.

Justice Dept., Under Pressure From Trump, Fails to Build Autopen Case Against Biden

"...Mr. Trump has become increasingly erratic in his desire to use the criminal justice system to punish his political adversaries for behavior that comes nowhere close to being criminal." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/u...

Yeah I agree, especially for Prof. Moynihan

I thought I couldn’t be more excited and then I saw the words “antifa fantasy” on a review and NOPE I AM MORE EXCITED NOW

Mr Spufford if you’re reading this I continue to stan 😍

Nonesuch A spellbinding tale about an ambitious young woman who must thwart an occult plot by time-traveling fascists during the chaos of the London Blitz—f...

You GUYS you GUYS

did you know we are less than a week from the new Francis Spufford????

www.simonandschuster.com/books/Nonesu...

The truly amazing thing about depression sleep is that you wake up thinking about the opportunity cost of sleeping

As someone who’s played enough to be desensitized to Callisto Penal Mines: salute

I used to be like you. Building a city as a standard project is your BEST FRIEND. Stop letting the belief that standard projects are inefficient get in the way of the fact that there aren’t enough city cards.

In fairness, when I play this as a 4-player game (and even sometimes as a 2-player at home) I often lose because I am the doofus who insists on terraforming Mars rather than collecting victory points some other more efficient way

The moment, 11 generations into Terraforming Mars, when you realize you have only put one tile on the actual planet you are supposed to be actually terraforming

Considered that. Wanted to make sure the temporal dimension wasn’t lost but I think you might be right that that’s better.

Tired: forever war
Wired: foreverandeverywhere war

Yep! Stories that can be written in this way aren’t uncommon. They are bad stories not in reporting but in conception. They are almost always stories that are written because they are assigned by editors.