Jay Gish
@jaygish.bsky.social
Making stuff in Chicago mostly. Some of it lives at www.bindledog.com
I’m just gonna say it. Hamnet is a bad title. For dang near anything. (Possible exception: pig volleyball.)
November 28, 2025 at 4:56 AM
I’m just gonna say it. Hamnet is a bad title. For dang near anything. (Possible exception: pig volleyball.)
I mean, also a slap in the face to this guy
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I mean, also a slap in the face to this guy
It was the same guy?? Legend!
Toy inventor Burt Meyer, who dreamed up Lite-Brite and Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, dies age 99
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Toy inventor Burt Meyer, who dreamed up Lite-Brite and Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, dies age 99
Burr Ridge resident Burt Meyer, who invented toys like Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, Lite-Brite and MouseTrap in the 1960s that delighted generations of children, has died. He was 99.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It was the same guy?? Legend!
It is — per the case made in this book — in fact, their predominant trait: loyalty
November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
It is — per the case made in this book — in fact, their predominant trait: loyalty
Heading into that night before Thanksgiving, let’s be real, *most of us* wanna be whorin’. It’s not just her.
November 26, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Heading into that night before Thanksgiving, let’s be real, *most of us* wanna be whorin’. It’s not just her.
I won’t say it’s a *sufficient* reason…but the fact almost every webpage with a recipe is absolutely drenched in ads, pop-ups and ostentatiously irrelevant content does feel like *a good* one to a lot of folks, I think
This is such a good point. There is no good reason to use chatgpt for recipes, and yet tech cos are basically forcing it on people in order (it seems) swallow food blogging along with news and everything else
This is so funny because recipes can literally already be copied and reposted with no attribution or copyright. All AI does here is add statistical noise and make the stolen content useless. AI can’t even steal content without fucking it up.
November 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I won’t say it’s a *sufficient* reason…but the fact almost every webpage with a recipe is absolutely drenched in ads, pop-ups and ostentatiously irrelevant content does feel like *a good* one to a lot of folks, I think
I think it may be less that people are afraid to be original and rather that, well, most people *aren’t* original. It’s just that, before social media and online comments, you never *saw any content* from 90% of those people. There was nowhere for them to put it. Now there is.
This has been bothering me a lot lately, but on a broader scope. People are afraid to be original. Critiques are all the same, jokes are copy/pasted, opinions use a handful of buzzwords that don't actually describe anything. It's like drowning in a sea of masks that all wear the same face.
One of the producers on Guilty Gear Strive said it was basically impossible to source player feedback on balance changes online because nobody had original opinions and would just parrot what the most popular content creators said and so they had to rely on data and I think about that every day.
November 24, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I think it may be less that people are afraid to be original and rather that, well, most people *aren’t* original. It’s just that, before social media and online comments, you never *saw any content* from 90% of those people. There was nowhere for them to put it. Now there is.
Tell me you don’t hear
[Randy Newman voice]
🎼You’ve got —
[Randy Newman voice]
🎼You’ve got —
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Tell me you don’t hear
[Randy Newman voice]
🎼You’ve got —
[Randy Newman voice]
🎼You’ve got —
I was hoping they’d use a different football term for each one, and that we’d get “Holiday Turnover, A Browns Love Story.”
Was dismayed to find the Chiefs one was the same as this 😕
Was dismayed to find the Chiefs one was the same as this 😕
I guess this was inevitable after the chiefs one did well, curious what the lineup of teams will be over time
Kicking off the holiday season! 🌟
Don’t miss #HolidayTouchdown: A Bills Love Story, premiering tonight, November 22 at 8/7c on the Hallmark Channel (next day on Hallmark+).
Don’t miss #HolidayTouchdown: A Bills Love Story, premiering tonight, November 22 at 8/7c on the Hallmark Channel (next day on Hallmark+).
November 22, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I was hoping they’d use a different football term for each one, and that we’d get “Holiday Turnover, A Browns Love Story.”
Was dismayed to find the Chiefs one was the same as this 😕
Was dismayed to find the Chiefs one was the same as this 😕
MOAR
Enten: "This is probably the worst 10 day period for the president in the polls his entire second term. The numbers are just atrocious ... when your best poll has you 14 points underwater, you know it's truly bad and it's as bad as 26 points underwater ... -43 with independents! They despise him."
November 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
MOAR
this is good
Before women, the workplace was perfect. It was full of trees. There was no need to labor with your hands. You didn’t have to wear pants, or any form of clothes. Every kind of animal was there.
Hmm I may be thinking of something else women supposedly ruined www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Hmm I may be thinking of something else women supposedly ruined www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Women Keep Ruining the Workplace!!
Before they arrived, of course, everything was perfect.
www.theatlantic.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
this is good
those guys didn’t mention The Orb *once*. There is no one they won’t just toss aside like they never mattered smdh
November 21, 2025 at 11:47 AM
those guys didn’t mention The Orb *once*. There is no one they won’t just toss aside like they never mattered smdh
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EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN CONGRESS should be pressed about Trump calling for their colleagues to be killed
November 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN CONGRESS should be pressed about Trump calling for their colleagues to be killed
“Peace on earth, and no commercials.” — a voice bumper on this I Heart Radio xmas station, which *absolutely* runs commercials.
I guess it’s meant in the same spirit as the “peace on earth” part — as in, we know it’ll never happen, it’s just aspirational? 🙃
I guess it’s meant in the same spirit as the “peace on earth” part — as in, we know it’ll never happen, it’s just aspirational? 🙃
November 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
“Peace on earth, and no commercials.” — a voice bumper on this I Heart Radio xmas station, which *absolutely* runs commercials.
I guess it’s meant in the same spirit as the “peace on earth” part — as in, we know it’ll never happen, it’s just aspirational? 🙃
I guess it’s meant in the same spirit as the “peace on earth” part — as in, we know it’ll never happen, it’s just aspirational? 🙃
@billsimmons.bsky.social the Hawks announcers pronounce the player’s name “Mo Gay.”
That’s not a joke; that’s his name, according to them.
That’s not a joke; that’s his name, according to them.
November 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
@billsimmons.bsky.social the Hawks announcers pronounce the player’s name “Mo Gay.”
That’s not a joke; that’s his name, according to them.
That’s not a joke; that’s his name, according to them.
on YouTube: some sort of crypto grift featuring Donnie T. Jr, announcing how much cost of living has gone up 🙃
November 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
on YouTube: some sort of crypto grift featuring Donnie T. Jr, announcing how much cost of living has gone up 🙃
what we need is BREAKDANCING WITH THE STARS!
November 19, 2025 at 2:46 AM
what we need is BREAKDANCING WITH THE STARS!
I mean, that soft pedals it. Clearly, he pines for the day when he can do it and get away with it, too.
Covering Jamal Khashoggi's murder was one of the most disturbing things I've worked on. Hearing Trump say he was "extremely controversial" and people "didn't like him" is chilling. Hard to take any other way than he thinks there is moral ambiguity in the murder of a journalist.
November 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I mean, that soft pedals it. Clearly, he pines for the day when he can do it and get away with it, too.
Oh, wow. There’s a criminal indictment waiting to happen
The government claims two weeks of surveillance footage from Broadview ICE Detention Center has been "irretrievably destroyed" and won’t be produced as evidence in a lawsuit against the government over abhorrent conditions there:
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Two Weeks of Surveillance Footage From ICE Detention Center ‘Irretrievably Destroyed’
"Defendants have indicated that some video between October 19, 2025 and October 31, 2025 has been irretrievably destroyed and therefore cannot be produced on an expedited basis or at all."
www.404media.co
November 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Oh, wow. There’s a criminal indictment waiting to happen
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honestly you'd think the government not functioning in the public interest whatsoever would be a bigger story
November 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
honestly you'd think the government not functioning in the public interest whatsoever would be a bigger story
watching The Beast In Me
November 18, 2025 at 4:31 AM
watching The Beast In Me
She is fantastic in The Beast In Me
November 18, 2025 at 12:20 AM
She is fantastic in The Beast In Me
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“I think most don’t realize how hard it is to immigrate legally to the United States,” says former senior policy official @margyoh.bsky.social. She explains other surprising facts about the immigration system in a wide-ranging new Q&A:
An Insider’s View of the Immigration System
A former senior immigration policy official offers insight into how the system works and highlights urgent problems that must be addressed.
www.brennancenter.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
“I think most don’t realize how hard it is to immigrate legally to the United States,” says former senior policy official @margyoh.bsky.social. She explains other surprising facts about the immigration system in a wide-ranging new Q&A:
I guess she’s taking over “The ___ of Water” series from Del Toro, just like Schumacher took up Batman after Tim Burton
Director Kristen "Claire, it's French" Stewart before the Governors Awards, promoting her directorial debut The Chronology of Water, releasing wide in January
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I guess she’s taking over “The ___ of Water” series from Del Toro, just like Schumacher took up Batman after Tim Burton
Give the Bears another mediocre team, and *they will beat them*!
As *barely* as possible!!
As *barely* as possible!!
November 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Give the Bears another mediocre team, and *they will beat them*!
As *barely* as possible!!
As *barely* as possible!!