Jeb Boyt 🦃
@jeboyt.bsky.social
Writer, Attorney, Urbanist
Austin, Texas
Austin, Texas
“How did you get into TTRPGs?”
In the darkest depths of Mordor,
I met a girl so fair
In the darkest depths of Mordor,
I met a girl so fair
"How did you get into TTRPGs?"
On a dark desert highway,
Cool wind in my hair...
... You can check out any time you like
BUT YOU CAN NEVER LEAVE
On a dark desert highway,
Cool wind in my hair...
... You can check out any time you like
BUT YOU CAN NEVER LEAVE
"How did you get into TTRPGs?"
Aboard a shipwreck train
Give my umbrella to the Rain Dogs
For I am a Rain Dog, too.
Aboard a shipwreck train
Give my umbrella to the Rain Dogs
For I am a Rain Dog, too.
November 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
“How did you get into TTRPGs?”
In the darkest depths of Mordor,
I met a girl so fair
In the darkest depths of Mordor,
I met a girl so fair
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Texas Young Republicans are calling upon TX lawmakers to pass a law allowing Governor Abbott to put blue TX cities into receivership. They say the State Leadership Initiative (SLI)—co-founded by Nate Fischer of New Founding — suggested the idea. New Founding partner Nathan Halberstadt loves it. 1/
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Texas Young Republicans are calling upon TX lawmakers to pass a law allowing Governor Abbott to put blue TX cities into receivership. They say the State Leadership Initiative (SLI)—co-founded by Nate Fischer of New Founding — suggested the idea. New Founding partner Nathan Halberstadt loves it. 1/
CDC website altered at RobertF. Kennedy’s behest to to allow applications for 1:1 FaceTime sessions with the Secretary
CDC website altered at Robert F. Kennedy's behest to reflect his belief that The Vaccines Actually Sap Your Precious Bodily Fluids, Just Like Fluoride, Mandrake Says
CDC website altered at Robert F. Kennedy's behest to reflect his belief that "horse meat and deer meat taste the same, thus proving that they are in fact the exact same animal, Your Majesty."
November 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
CDC website altered at RobertF. Kennedy’s behest to to allow applications for 1:1 FaceTime sessions with the Secretary
Read past the report of Trump in his bunker to coverage of Gordon Wood’s speech.
November 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Read past the report of Trump in his bunker to coverage of Gordon Wood’s speech.
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Mike Morath from the Texas Education Agency met with Turning Point to discuss a formal partnership about putting chapters of an organization infused with white Christian nationalist ideology on high school campuses across Texas. Days later Dan Patrick offered to put forth $1 million to get it going.
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Well, this is now on my must see list
How good is Wake Up Dead Man? Well, @leahschnelbach.bsky.social's seeing it four times in theaters:
Wake Up Dead Man Is a Miraculous Film - Reactor
Faith AND Reason??? In THIS economy???
reactormag.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Well, this is now on my must see list
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The last time the Aggies beat the Longhorns in football, this is what the Austin skyline looked like
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The last time the Aggies beat the Longhorns in football, this is what the Austin skyline looked like
“Freedom, like love and bird flu, should be allowed to spread unchecked.”
This is quite the read.
www.theringer.com/2025/11/25/n...
This is quite the read.
www.theringer.com/2025/11/25/n...
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
“Freedom, like love and bird flu, should be allowed to spread unchecked.”
This is quite the read.
www.theringer.com/2025/11/25/n...
This is quite the read.
www.theringer.com/2025/11/25/n...
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I hate Orwell comparisons as much as the next guy, but they're really hard to avoid these days.
November 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I hate Orwell comparisons as much as the next guy, but they're really hard to avoid these days.
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I really don’t think we can overstate the harm that the tech ethos of move fast and break things (followed by the unsaid “and then just move on”) has done beyond tech. Government, ngos, universities, public schools that have invited the folks who think like this in keep ending up gutted
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I really don’t think we can overstate the harm that the tech ethos of move fast and break things (followed by the unsaid “and then just move on”) has done beyond tech. Government, ngos, universities, public schools that have invited the folks who think like this in keep ending up gutted
There are way too many movies on this list that aren’t comedies.
The movie listed at #1 is so incredibly misplaced that it calls into question the veracity of the entire list. It belongs on the list, yes, but SO MUCH further down. An absolute, credibility-wrecking flub. Boo, @variety.com! Boo!
variety.com/lists/best-c...
variety.com/lists/best-c...
The 100 Best Comedy Movies of All Time
Variety's list of the 100 best comedy movies of all time includes 'Annie Hall,' 'Pretty Woman,' 'Waiting for Guffman' and 'Young Frankenstein.'
variety.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
There are way too many movies on this list that aren’t comedies.
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we're going to win
Page One in Cincinnati:
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
we're going to win
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Hegseth no longer interested in doing what’s best for God and our Country.
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www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
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www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Hegseth no longer interested in doing what’s best for God and our Country.
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www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
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www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
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Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
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PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Bluebonnets at Late Afternoon, near La Grange https://www.wikiart.org/en/robert-julian-onderdonk/bluebonnets-at-late-afternoon-near-la-grange-1918
November 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Bluebonnets at Late Afternoon, near La Grange https://www.wikiart.org/en/robert-julian-onderdonk/bluebonnets-at-late-afternoon-near-la-grange-1918
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The EPA is greenlighting pesticides made with PFAS, actual forever chemicals, as active ingredients on foods like lettuce, broccoli, & potatoes. They’re also planning to weaken drinking water rules & relax PFAS reporting. This is a public health disaster being signed into policy
November 23, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
Surprise
Any speculator who bought Trump’s memecoin at its peak after it was announced inauguration weekend would have lost almost the entire value of their investment by this month.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Crypto Crash Is Eroding Wealth for Trump’s Family and Followers
In President Donald Trump’s second term, crypto assets transformed his family’s wealth. Now the Trumps — and their followers — are getting a crash course in the wild volatility ingrained in digital cu...
www.bloomberg.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Surprise
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Pretty remarkable that Trump has installed someone on the Saudi dole — Jared Kushner collects millions in fees from the Saudis every year — in a key role for America's most sensitive and consequential foreign policy negotiations (Gaza, Ukraine), and it is largely TREATED AS A NON-STORY
November 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Pretty remarkable that Trump has installed someone on the Saudi dole — Jared Kushner collects millions in fees from the Saudis every year — in a key role for America's most sensitive and consequential foreign policy negotiations (Gaza, Ukraine), and it is largely TREATED AS A NON-STORY
Can we stop this?
Trump had found an issue more unpopular than his handling of inflation - attacking Venezuela:
www.cbsnews.com/feature/cbs-...
www.cbsnews.com/feature/cbs-...
November 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Can we stop this?
Starting a reaction thread on 13th Age 2E.
First, this is gorgeous edition, and it seems like a great upgrade and refinement of what already a really fun, smooth running game. /1
First, this is gorgeous edition, and it seems like a great upgrade and refinement of what already a really fun, smooth running game. /1
November 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Starting a reaction thread on 13th Age 2E.
First, this is gorgeous edition, and it seems like a great upgrade and refinement of what already a really fun, smooth running game. /1
First, this is gorgeous edition, and it seems like a great upgrade and refinement of what already a really fun, smooth running game. /1
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Crockett on MTG resigning: "Honestly, I was like, you got to be kidding. You're on the other side of the president for one week and you can't take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes."
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Crockett on MTG resigning: "Honestly, I was like, you got to be kidding. You're on the other side of the president for one week and you can't take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes."