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Probably about to share the good word of Netrunner with you (and be exceptionally average at playing it)

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@davidcrowley4wi.bsky.social firing one director doesn't change the fact that a tremendously important contract for thousands of employees and families lapsed, with most of us finding out through the news. Campaigning for a higher seat is out of the question. End the run.

02.02.2026 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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dumb nazi bitch lmao πŸ˜‚

11.01.2026 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 8648    πŸ” 2230    πŸ’¬ 313    πŸ“Œ 776

Muppets all over the shop...

19.12.2025 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

05.11.2025 03:35 β€” πŸ‘ 46866    πŸ” 8122    πŸ’¬ 249    πŸ“Œ 218
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a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman ALT: a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

topical

11.10.2025 01:23 β€” πŸ‘ 4902    πŸ” 1221    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 34

See how fucking easy it is when you have a spine?

10.10.2025 04:36 β€” πŸ‘ 600    πŸ” 126    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cuomo could never.

26.09.2025 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3098    πŸ” 939    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 154
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Once A-Morphing Time is hitting tables!

21 pages of campy, action-packed, saving-the-day fun is live right now on my Patreon!

I'm so excited, everyone who reposts this will get a FREE copy of the module.

Suit up, spread the word, and morph your next game night.

tinyurl.com/InkPatreon

22.09.2025 22:56 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If someone’s not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner that’s consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.

16.09.2025 19:22 β€” πŸ‘ 8595    πŸ” 2115    πŸ’¬ 83    πŸ“Œ 57

It suffers from their commitment to Sam not taking the serum. It messes with Isaiah's arc, it undercut the only decent story in FatWS that wasn't hacked up in rewrites. He's just a Wakandan battering ram until he's powered up and given agency. They don't need to contrast him against US Agent anymore

29.07.2025 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
What has it been like shifting from reporter to media executive, managing a staff instead of filing stories yourself? And do you write any of the jokes at The Onion? Or are you strictly managing the business?

The Onion’s process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday.

The point of taking over this place was to preserve this process, which I learned this week is almost assuredly more rigorous than The New York Times.

That’s why I don’t touch any of it. I just try to get more people to pay attention to the output, and get our work into different mediums and new places. We brought back the paper, reinvested in the Onion News Network, bought a full page ad in The Times for something they were going to write anyway. The role is to make the world-class work they’re already doing seep into everyday American life more frequently, and that’s working.

You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step.

If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it’s that. You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don’t actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company.

What has it been like shifting from reporter to media executive, managing a staff instead of filing stories yourself? And do you write any of the jokes at The Onion? Or are you strictly managing the business? The Onion’s process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday. The point of taking over this place was to preserve this process, which I learned this week is almost assuredly more rigorous than The New York Times. That’s why I don’t touch any of it. I just try to get more people to pay attention to the output, and get our work into different mediums and new places. We brought back the paper, reinvested in the Onion News Network, bought a full page ad in The Times for something they were going to write anyway. The role is to make the world-class work they’re already doing seep into everyday American life more frequently, and that’s working. You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step. If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it’s that. You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don’t actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company.

Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose.

www.status.news/p/the-onion-...

07.07.2025 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 4293    πŸ” 923    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 150
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The heartbreaking statement from Jonathan Joss’s husband about his death.

02.06.2025 18:53 β€” πŸ‘ 18648    πŸ” 6046    πŸ’¬ 435    πŸ“Œ 1256

We call this the Abughazaleh Method

22.05.2025 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 496    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 3
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Elevation is Out Now! - Null Signal Games Elevation is out now! See every card in the set below, check out the product page for details on how to get it, and build decks using the new cards on

Elevation is out now! Welcome to a new dawn for #Netrunner!

Please find the last few cards in the set in the article below, along with links to buy or download the set.

nullsignal.games/blog/elevati...

24.04.2025 02:40 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 7
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Netrunner: Elevation Card Previews - Card Gamer The Netrunner card game is making a huge comeback, and we're excited to show off some preview cards from its new set, Elevation.

❗❗ BREAKING NEWS ❗❗

New NBN files have been recovered for #Netrunner #ElevationNR. @netrunner.nullsignal.games @flashes.nullsignal.games

Read the full scoop on @cardgamer.com: cardgamer.com/games/living...

22.04.2025 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Null Signal took up the torch after licensing fell through between WotC and FFG. They've put out six narrative sets, an introductory/core set called System Gateway, and this Thursday is the release of the more intermediate core set that'll be evergreen alongside SG (called Elevation).

21.04.2025 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The only KPIs I respect

21.04.2025 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Oh fun πŸ™πŸŒˆ ✨ One of my new Netrunner card illustrations is out πŸ˜ƒ

Chromatophores

Art direction by Suzanne Ferguson
From Null Signal Games

18.04.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh neat, my Netrunner bluesky follows are doing the blue sky card

16.04.2025 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

07.04.2025 00:18 β€” πŸ‘ 78578    πŸ” 13924    πŸ’¬ 1107    πŸ“Œ 782

ChatGPT ass presidency

04.04.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 25106    πŸ” 4073    πŸ’¬ 645    πŸ“Œ 144

The "keep politics out of games" crowd sure is having trouble grappling with politicians killing their hobby.

04.04.2025 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wisconsiiiiiin go vote. Don't let some tech bro fascist fuck buy a seat of power for another piece of shit.

01.04.2025 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m Kat Abughazaleh and I approve this message.

25.03.2025 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 10542    πŸ” 1486    πŸ’¬ 426    πŸ“Œ 151
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I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.

24.03.2025 13:30 β€” πŸ‘ 54514    πŸ” 12006    πŸ’¬ 2245    πŸ“Œ 2551

For aesthetics I'd say number two, but the triangle at 12 on number one feels sort of like a large sword over one's head a la the Sword of Damocles, but it's a bundle of net damage waiting for me on the board.

11.03.2025 20:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A coffee mug with a sticker featuring the Netrunner card Dinosaurus, surrounded by the text "this machine kills fascists"

A coffee mug with a sticker featuring the Netrunner card Dinosaurus, surrounded by the text "this machine kills fascists"

Dinosaurus my beloved

04.03.2025 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Very board game-y in a very satisfying way

13.02.2025 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That was Humankind's big success for me. The scoring system was easy to parse, legible wrt your competitor's progress, and had meaningful breakpoints to chase and gain tempo from. The civ swapping was just too weak a system to build the game around.

13.02.2025 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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