Holly Macdonald

my favorite part of listening to audio podcasts in 2025 has gotta be all the sight gags

image of 19th ave, a road that's 3 lanes in each direction, annotated to indicate a plan to restrict the left "fast lane" to bike traffic only and the center lane to bus traffic only

yes of course! I've got a lot of really exciting ideas that I think the whole district will be pumped about, for example

my supervisor, who built his career on recalls and starting night markets, got recalled so the mayor appointed a former pet shop owner with no gov't experience he met at a night market, who resigned after the store's new owner leaked texts where she admits tax fraud. in awe of sunset dunes' power

The 'Board' game console could be the next Nintendo Wii, and I'm not exaggerating Seeing a live demonstration has changed my scepticism into eager anticipation - Board could change how we play videogames, and open new avenues of innovation for board game designers.

Excited for more people to get hands-on and finally realize what we’ve known for the last two years: Board is a truly magical game console, and is very exciting for both players and developers. www.wargamer.com/board/game-c...

Zohran Mamdani’s Win Is Proof We Don’t Have to Settle for Newsom 2028 The Bushwick bisexuals have it! We can ask for so much more, and at COYOTE we plan to.

Zohran’s win offers the Bay Area a glimpse at a better future — one where we’re not locked in a room with Gavin Newsom for another four years.

screencap of Pokemon Legends Z-A. the player speaks to a cop who says "come talk to me again when you're ready to learn about traps with a good old battle!"

wow, the new Pokémon game has everything

murder by death performs on stage

murder by death performs on stage

murder by death takes a bow. in the foreground, someone raises their hands throwing metal horns

caught the farewell tour of the band who performed my first concert. rip murder by death, thx for teaching me to love live music, concept albums, and whiskey sours

screenshot of an email from LiveJournal: You got a new achievement! 21. Blog's Birthday: We're together for 21 years now! Thank you!

the LiveJournal account I made for my Pokémon sprite comic turns 21 today! everyone say happy 21st birthday to my Pokémon sprite comic's LiveJournal!!!

blue denim boots

joots.......

[explaining Glitter Gel Pen Songs] sometimes Taylor's songs are bad on purpose, because she's a genius

Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month.

Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!

saw Triple Band this weekend and I am changed. Triple Band can repair this broken world

please remember to do your part to support independent artists by buying The Life of a Showgirl during Bandcamp Friday

We are now also the most official looking Taco Bell account on here and I would just like to let everyone know that eating Taco Bell makes you trans

I can see them in my Following feed!

Lego Party! Review A hilarious and inclusive party game that needs no buildup.

I didn't feel tempted to doomscroll while playing Lego Party and that is saying something. My review is up on CNET! 🧱 www.cnet.com/tech/lego-pa...

i don't mean to single out baseball fans here, because you see this in lots of fan communities, but in certain corners people talk as though baseball is real. they think all the players are real people and the stadiums are places you can actually visit. to each their own, but that cannot be healthy

Can you believe this schedule?

www.roguelike.club/event2025.html

Join us in our carnival-themed MUD space on Oct 25-26 for this incredible lineup of speakers and talks on all things roguelike!

And yes, as folks have pointed out, the Pokemon games got approval! Their review boiled down to: parents should be wary of the Pokemon fad, but the content of the games is unobjectionable and fun

However, Star Fox Adventures is disapproved because Tricky worships false gods

my labubu fell off my bag in the mosh pit, but a stranger returned it... maybe people ARE inherently good

📺 We dropped our 3rd Cab Cam video! You’re watching sped-up footage of the Yellow Line from SFO to Antioch.

Head to our YouTube channel at youtube.com/@BARTable for the full video.

saw a bird so majestic I instinctively opened Skycards

❤️🔥 HOT OFF THE PRESSES! 🔥❤️

COYOTE Media Collective is live!! We’re so incredibly proud of this smart, fierce, unapologetic Bay Area media project. Dive in, see what we’ve been building, read our stories, and join the pack! coyotemedia.org

SF Chronicle article with the headline: This Bay Area commute is so bad that people are quitting jobs to escape it and an image of a traffic jam

After all, not much more can be done to remedy Highway 4 and Vasco Road. And, if city leaders try to build a BART station in Brentwood, they figure to encounter significant pushback from locals. “People here saw how being at the end of that line brought more crime to Antioch,” McCauley said, “and they want no part of it.”

SF Chronicle article with the headline: This quirky Bay Area beach town lost its post office. Then residents fought back and an image of a man kneeling in front of a wall of post boxes

His single-story commercial space at 20 Brighton Ave. housed the Bolinas post office for 61 years until a disagreement over asbestos in the building’s floor tiling triggered the Postal Service’s sudden exit. (It gave the community less than two weeks’ notice before it closed.) Though the relationship between Welsh and the Postal Service soured long ago, Borg figured a return to that property was the only way for Bolinas to get its post office back. The boho enclave at the tip of a peninsula was so intent on not being overrun by outsiders that, on 30 occasions in the 1970s and ’80s, vigilante locals sneaked out in the middle of the night to remove road signs marking the Pacific Highway’s exit to Bolinas. A 53-year-old moratorium on water meters halted development in the area, leaving almost no commercial spaces available.

my favorite part of the chronicle's "unforeseeable tragedy befalls local town" series is seeing how far the article makes it before it's forced to admit the root of the problem is, once again, NIMBYs

All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity Finding working copies of the last few titles was an “especially cursed” journey.

flipping out over the big apple news arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...

my favorite part of every apple presentation is when they tell us we will literally die if we don't buy the new watch

Bay FC announces sporting organization changes as club enters next phase.

bit.ly/4gkLjDG

made my first feed. like and subscribe to gaze into the depths of bluesky's soul bsky.app/profile/did:...

campaign sign in the style of joel engardio's "stand with joel" campaign: ok look. it would be a stretch to say that I stand with joel, tbh we're completely opposed on most issues I care about. but I'm terrified punishing him for turning a road into a park will make the board of supervisors even more cowardly when it comes to making big changes to improve SF. and it seems like letting the d4 2026 progressive candidate run against a conservative with as much bad blood as joel could give us a better chance at retaking control of the city than if he's replaced by a clean slate with that "new mayor" smell. stop the recall

finally found a sign that captures how I feel about the d4 special election

History Made.

A sellout crowd at Oracle Park just set the record for the highest attended event in U.S. Women's professional league sports history!