M. Blind
@mdotblind.bsky.social
foundling raised by a feral tribe of sarcastic suburbanites || Hyperfocus for hire · Gamesmith, wordwright, rules wrangler · Fan of scifi & fantasy, lover of books, former bookseller || Interpuctgames.com, personal blog at rocketbomber.com || 52. He/him.
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M. Blind
@mdotblind.bsky.social
· Oct 19
Fire is great. We couldn't have built civilization without it.
Capitalism is great. We couldn't have built civilization without it.
but free market capitalism isn't the solution to everything, just like we don't light everything on fire just because it burns.
Capitalism is great. We couldn't have built civilization without it.
but free market capitalism isn't the solution to everything, just like we don't light everything on fire just because it burns.
Trees Are So Weird
YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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"many users feel..."
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
"many users feel..."
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Every year I think, "This @mcsweeneys.net piece won't be relevant next year," and every year I'm wrong
This Thanksgiving We’re Pivoting to Video
Before we pop this turkey in the oven, I just want to say that Thanksgiving will be a little different this year. Don’t worry; it will still be mos...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Every year I think, "This @mcsweeneys.net piece won't be relevant next year," and every year I'm wrong
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Heaven forbid I get that kind of power, but I wouldn't make a movie.
I'd make two TV series.
1. I would force Guillermo del Toro and Jordan Peele to write, direct, and develop a five-season (12 hour-long episodes per season) adaptation of Macross.
Not Robotech.
Macross.
I'd make two TV series.
1. I would force Guillermo del Toro and Jordan Peele to write, direct, and develop a five-season (12 hour-long episodes per season) adaptation of Macross.
Not Robotech.
Macross.
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Heaven forbid I get that kind of power, but I wouldn't make a movie.
I'd make two TV series.
1. I would force Guillermo del Toro and Jordan Peele to write, direct, and develop a five-season (12 hour-long episodes per season) adaptation of Macross.
Not Robotech.
Macross.
I'd make two TV series.
1. I would force Guillermo del Toro and Jordan Peele to write, direct, and develop a five-season (12 hour-long episodes per season) adaptation of Macross.
Not Robotech.
Macross.
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2. Make this 65-episode pitch (with two animated films bookending the series) a reality.
bsky.app/profile/nema...
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Pitch a movie (or show) with 4 images:
November 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
2. Make this 65-episode pitch (with two animated films bookending the series) a reality.
bsky.app/profile/nema...
bsky.app/profile/nema...
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Requiem for Early Blogging. “I still look for people with early blogger energy, though — people willing to make an effort to understand the world and engage in a way that isn’t a performance, or trolling, or outright grifting.” [elizabethspiers.com]
Requiem for Early Blogging
As part of Talking Points Memo’s 25th anniversary, I wrote an essay on early blogging, and what I miss about it. Here it is, in its entirety: Whether I like it or not, the first line of my obituary will probably be that I was the founding editor of Gawker.
www.elizabethspiers.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Requiem for Early Blogging. “I still look for people with early blogger energy, though — people willing to make an effort to understand the world and engage in a way that isn’t a performance, or trolling, or outright grifting.” [elizabethspiers.com]
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There are two of these in my small VT town. It's hilarious/disturbing to see them in the grocery store lot parked next to some RAM F150 Hemi SuperCab behemoth.
Small Japanese Pickup Truck Shows Bigger is Definitely Not Better. “Kei trucks are city-sized, not highway-sized.” [nyc.streetsblog.org]
SEE IT! Small Japanese Pickup Truck Shows Bigger is Definitely Not Better - Streetsblog New York City
One Brooklyn business has seen the future of safe streets and heavy lugging — and it’s going to be O-KEI!
nyc.streetsblog.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
There are two of these in my small VT town. It's hilarious/disturbing to see them in the grocery store lot parked next to some RAM F150 Hemi SuperCab behemoth.
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Amtrak's annual ridership was up 5%, hitting an all-time record high of 34.5 million rides nationwide over the last year. Amtrak Cascades also hit a record high, reporting 1.4% growth and coming in just short of crossing the million-ride mark for the year.
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/24/a...
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/24/a...
Amtrak Breaks Ridership Records Nationally and in Pacific Northwest » The Urbanist
# Amtrak's annual ridership was up 5%, hitting an all-time record high of 34.5 million rides nationwide over the last year. Amtrak Cascades also hit a record high, reporting 1.4% growth and coming in ...
www.theurbanist.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Amtrak's annual ridership was up 5%, hitting an all-time record high of 34.5 million rides nationwide over the last year. Amtrak Cascades also hit a record high, reporting 1.4% growth and coming in just short of crossing the million-ride mark for the year.
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/24/a...
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/24/a...
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"Each of my parking spots is precisely three inches longer and two inches narrower than the average parking spot. The designers say it is to save money and be economically friendly, but I know the truth: my only goal is to fuck you up."
I Am a Trader Joe’s Parking Lot and I Am Here to Destroy You
My game begins at once: a team of crack architects and city planners conspire to bring me to your city. People rejoice, and so do I, for the game i...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"Each of my parking spots is precisely three inches longer and two inches narrower than the average parking spot. The designers say it is to save money and be economically friendly, but I know the truth: my only goal is to fuck you up."
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"Dogs don't bark at parked cars" is an all-time great line
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"Dogs don't bark at parked cars" is an all-time great line
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Secret Panel HERE 😼 tapas.io/episode/3735274
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November 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Secret Panel HERE 😼 tapas.io/episode/3735274
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A question for the other #IndieGame #ttrpgs designers on here:
With regard to promo tags/posts on here, do you mute them ignore them, repost/interact with them, or some other option?
This isn't the Old Place; we have to actively boost and repost each here if we want things to be noticed.
#rpgs
With regard to promo tags/posts on here, do you mute them ignore them, repost/interact with them, or some other option?
This isn't the Old Place; we have to actively boost and repost each here if we want things to be noticed.
#rpgs
November 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
A question for the other #IndieGame #ttrpgs designers on here:
With regard to promo tags/posts on here, do you mute them ignore them, repost/interact with them, or some other option?
This isn't the Old Place; we have to actively boost and repost each here if we want things to be noticed.
#rpgs
With regard to promo tags/posts on here, do you mute them ignore them, repost/interact with them, or some other option?
This isn't the Old Place; we have to actively boost and repost each here if we want things to be noticed.
#rpgs
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Finally got the food processor but more importantly, she got a new cardboard box
November 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Finally got the food processor but more importantly, she got a new cardboard box
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Trying very hard to break into your algorithm and let you know about my book. 2 days left. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ter...
November 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Trying very hard to break into your algorithm and let you know about my book. 2 days left. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ter...
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I feel like so much of politics has turned into “well, if you give a mouse a cookie…” politics, without interrogating the fact that we actually deserve food and a warm, comfortable place to sleep and free hours in the day.
ZOHRAN: “The next challenge is fulfilling the agenda so people understand they were right to demand more.”
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social tells @adamfriedlandshow.bsky.social he’s ready for the fight.
Full: youtu.be/hsi5C_5HpoY?...
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social tells @adamfriedlandshow.bsky.social he’s ready for the fight.
Full: youtu.be/hsi5C_5HpoY?...
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I feel like so much of politics has turned into “well, if you give a mouse a cookie…” politics, without interrogating the fact that we actually deserve food and a warm, comfortable place to sleep and free hours in the day.
yes. but probably mostly cheese.
What are you made of?
1. tea & tenderness
2. books & baked goods
3. cheese & confusion
4. moss & chaos
1. tea & tenderness
2. books & baked goods
3. cheese & confusion
4. moss & chaos
November 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
yes. but probably mostly cheese.
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Somehow there's a connection between this and the death of Google Reader. The danger in letting people find and access other people's creations was that there was money being made there but it wasn't being made by Google. They're sure taken care of that.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Somehow there's a connection between this and the death of Google Reader. The danger in letting people find and access other people's creations was that there was money being made there but it wasn't being made by Google. They're sure taken care of that.
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I grew a cat.
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I grew a cat.
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Six Ships. I'm very much in the Chris Foss school of thought when it comes to colour, rather than SW or ST.
#Spaceships #SciFi #Illustration
#Spaceships #SciFi #Illustration
November 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Six Ships. I'm very much in the Chris Foss school of thought when it comes to colour, rather than SW or ST.
#Spaceships #SciFi #Illustration
#Spaceships #SciFi #Illustration
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Eyeing some of my art books and wondering if I have them to ever read them or to simply draw power from them
November 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Eyeing some of my art books and wondering if I have them to ever read them or to simply draw power from them
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I can bang on a bit about, and often come back to, things like UBI and 4 day work weeks. We need to talk more about what's possible, and what would make the world and our lives better. Shifting that overton window. ["Overton Windows! Oddly Useful! Not just for the worst people you know!"]
April 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I can bang on a bit about, and often come back to, things like UBI and 4 day work weeks. We need to talk more about what's possible, and what would make the world and our lives better. Shifting that overton window. ["Overton Windows! Oddly Useful! Not just for the worst people you know!"]
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Overton windows: oddly useful! and anybody can try to move one, that isn't reserved to just the worst people you know.
Help grow the conversation around universal basic income by boosting posts about it and doing your part to be and stay informed. I try to make it easier to do these things. Use my timeline. Use my pinned thread. Use my YT channel. Help get UBI mentioned more often and widely as a key policy demand!
June 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Overton windows: oddly useful! and anybody can try to move one, that isn't reserved to just the worst people you know.
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Why everyone should have a basic income.
I've yet to see a good argument against it.
youtu.be/NNHAgXy5dxQ?...
I've yet to see a good argument against it.
youtu.be/NNHAgXy5dxQ?...
Why everyone should have a basic income | Guy Standing | TEDxKlagenfurt
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Why everyone should have a basic income.
I've yet to see a good argument against it.
youtu.be/NNHAgXy5dxQ?...
I've yet to see a good argument against it.
youtu.be/NNHAgXy5dxQ?...