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Truly frightening because I began to wonder how many times I had unwittingly murdered my own toys.

Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 28/09/2026

Everything I've ever known about Turkish delight comes from THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE. But Josiah brought some back from Norway the other day, and, yeah, I can see how someone would betray their siblings for this stuff.

A box of Hacizade Turkish Delight with Pomegranate, with a picture of several cubes of Turkish delight on a platter that looks exactly like I imagined how Edmund got it from the White Witch.

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 26/09/2026

3593 - I'm thankful the game En Garde! knows what's up. #gratitude

Screenshot from the game En Garde! The player character stands in a cave hidden behind a waterfall admiring a large pile of gold. The examine text says, "Ah.. a treasure behind a waterfall. All is in order." Thus observing the universal gaming law that every game must have a waterfall with a secret behind it.

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 22/09/2026

3589 - I'm thankful for this constant reminder from myself to myself. #gratitude #MentalHealth

A note taped to my computer stand that says, "You are allowed to feel anxious. You have every reason to be given all you've been through. It's okay."

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 10/09/2026

Read this headline this morning and laughed out loud.

On the left, a headline from cnbc.com: "Trump says oil and gas prices won't fall until 'right after' midterm election."

On the right: Lucy holds a football for Charlie Brown to kick that she DEFINITELY won't pull away from him at the last second.

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 02/09/2026

If you see this, post a not quite Star Trek

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 27/08/2026

3563 - I'm thankful our Molly returned home after not seeing her for a couple of days. #gratitude

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 23/08/2026

Time to buy a new desk chair I guess.

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 21/08/2026

Watching SAY ANYTHING with my daughter. Her: Is this from the 90s? Me: Internet says 1989. Her: I thought so. Everyone looks like they just escaped the 80s.

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 17/08/2026

Attention, Twitch streamers: Twitch has quietly opted your account in to train generative AI on your content. Turn it off in Profile > Settings > Security and Privacy.

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 07/08/2026

3543 - My daughter's new boyfriend—whom I haven't actually met yet—got me this tchotchke. Kid knows how to lay the groundwork, but I'm thankful for that. #gratitude

A key chain that is an excellent recreation of half an NES controller, complete with pressable B and A buttons.

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 29/07/2026

3534 - I'm thankful I finally checked something off of my to-do list that has been there for years—maybe more than a decade. (It took me 30 minutes, of course.) #gratitude

Screenshot of the timeless post: "yesterday i completed a chore that i've been putting off for 5 months. it took me 20 minutes. i will learn nothing from this"

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 04/07/2026

3509 - Cindy made me this anxiety beanbag chair. It's huge, and it's wonderful, and I am so thankful both for the chair and the woman who loves me enough to think of something like this. #gratitude

An enormous forest green beanbag chair, long enough for an adult to lie down on. A doll of Anxiety from Inside Out 2 is lying on it. Suitcases in the background for scale (and because I'm too lazy to move them out of the shot).

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 02/07/2026

Show me a cool physical game

Collector's edition of Torment: Tides of Numenera, showing the box, the DVD, and "The Art of Torment Tides of Numenera" book.

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 26/06/2026

"It is vital that miners do not mistake the death of a very small canary in a very dark coal mine with the risk of all miners to die suddenly. Those things are not the same."

"It is vital that Democrats do not mistake the radicalism of a very small electorate in very blue places with the desire of the larger Democratic Party to move sharply to the left," Bennett said. "Those things are not the same, and Democrats running for president must resist the ruge to believe what they see on social media and the siren song of the DSA and the activist left."

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 18/06/2026

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers by you.

Nowhere Man, a series that laid out several crazy cool mysteries and then was canceled before it could pay out on any of them.

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 12/06/2026

And when we make something good, *we* get accused of being AI. 🫠

$Invincible meme. Two superheroes are labeled "Artists and Writers." They see a headline that says, "9.3 Trillion Liters of Water: UN Report Exposes Unfathomable Footprint of Data Centers as AI Booms." One hero turns to the other and says, "Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power."$

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 03/06/2026

3478 - I'm thankful for the situation in my family Cypher game that resulted in this meme. (Sorry you don't get any context for it, but trust me, it's incredibly accurate.) #gratitude #Cypher #CypherSystem #TTRPG

Meme from a scene in Community. A man (labeled Tae) walks in to a room with pizza all happy. In the next panel, his eyes are wide in shock. The third panel pans out to show the entire room in which someone (Bob) is lying on the floor with two people (Barbra and Terrance) over him, another (Ting Ting) stands off to the side swinging something frantically, there's a fire in the middle of the room, someone (Nonminor) is in the kitchen watching, and the table says "Sloe-Jin (Under Table)."

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 25/05/2026

Repost with the Russian agent that spies on your posts

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 11/05/2026

3456 - I'm thankful I completed Crystal Project (after 140+ hours; I'm something of a completionist). I enjoyed virtually every minute of it. If you have any love for JRPGs, esp. those that reward exploration and creativity, you have to try this one. #gratitude

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 10/05/2026

Every stupid thing Christian nationalists say about the Pope can be explained by their inability to understand this comic:

Tom's Doubts #14. Several people are sitting in a church membership class. The teacher stands in front of a massive flowchart titled "Churches & Christian Movements Throughout History" that depicts like a hundred different denominations starting from 1 AD.

The teacher points to a tiny branch at the end of the flowchart and says, "So this is where our movement came along and finally got the Bible right."

To which one of the listeners says, "Jesus is so lucky to have us."

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 25/04/2026

I mentioned earlier today I was taking a break from social media. I talk about why and how today on the blog: www.adamheine.com/2026/04/the-...

"Being bored can lead you to ask big questions. That's good."

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 16/04/2026

You and me both, BlueSky. You and me both.

Top of BlueSky feed with an error that says, "Not Enough Resources."

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 16/04/2026

Is it possible to create art without politics in it? Or is all art inherently political? An important topic, today on the blog: www.adamheine.com/2026/04/art-...

A panel from the first Peanuts comic where Franklin, a Black kid, first appeared. Franklin is shaking Linus's hand and saying, "Hi... I'm Franklin.." Linus says, "I'm very glad to know you."

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 06/04/2026

I love that my little disgraced-samurai-turned-detective novella is still out there touring.

Wide shot of a Broken Eye Books convention table with Scott Gable's post: "Norwescon is a wrap! Had a blast reconnecting with familiar faces and chatting with new ones. And I do believe there will be some interesting projects born from it all."

Zoomed in shot of Izanami's Choice—my favorite little red book with a blue automaton on the cover carrying a bloody sword.

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 26/03/2026

3418 - I'm thankful for the new whiteboard game Anica invented where we draw things we see and challenge others to find them. It's like Where's Waldo for people who have lived in this house for years. #gratitude

Portion of a whiteboard. At the top it says "FIND 🔎: everything here you can see from where you're standing." Below are several hand-drawn pictures of items that can be found in that area of the house—like a monkey face, a specific light switch, and a small bunny—each with difficulty levels like easy, med, hard, extreme, and annoying.

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 24/03/2026

I know it's REALLY, REALLY hard to see, but there are actually two cats in this picture.

An orange-black-and-white calico cat is finishing her breakfast. Meanwhile, the black cat thinks she's SO CLEVER hiding underneath the aprons, except her big butt and tail are sticking out.

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 12/03/2026

This is beautiful. I want this for us.

It's 2030.
you just finished your four day work week.
the grifters lost power.
culture shifted: less fear, more music.
the ads are gone, in their place, wildflowers,
murals, solar panels.
big oil collapsed under the weight of truth.
militaries shrank. care grew.
public transport hums through tree-lined streets.
we grow wellbeing, not GDP.
education is valued, free, fun, lifelong.
children learn from land and elders.
no one extracts your attention. no one sells your despair.
earth is great again.

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 09/03/2026

3401 - I'm thankful this mass of bees mostly migrated away on its own before the neighbors got to them. #gratitude

Picture of a mostly abandoned bee hive high up in a tree. It's a couple of feet tall and almost that wide. There's over a hundred bees dead or sluggish across the honeycomb surface, but this thing used to be *swarming* with *thousands*.

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 04/03/2026

I guess I'm thankful for the little bit I got.

Lunar eclipse, except it's just a little sliver of a red fingernail (the rest, including the full eclipse that happened here, is obscured by cloud cover). There's a line of trees and power lines in the foreground, and a clock tower off to one side.

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 02/03/2026

What makes a character likeable? Why do we like some characters but bounce off of others? Today on the blog: www.adamheine.com/2026/01/maki... #AmWriting #WritingTips

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 02/03/2026

The original Marathon (single-player) was my first real FPS. I'm sure it's the same. 😅

Screenshot of the original Marathon, released on the Mac in 1994. It's basically DOOM, except aliens instead of demons and you could actually look up and down.

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 27/02/2026

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

Tomales Point Trail in northern California. A cold, dry moor overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The sun reflects off the ocean, and the sky is a dappled overcast.

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 17/02/2026

I think a lot about the future, especially how things are ever gonna change for the better. Good news: It's already happening. How? Today on the blog: www.adamheine.com/2026/02/how-...

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 02/02/2026

If you follow me, you know how broken I am about all the gaslighting, propaganda, and disinformation that divides us. I don't know if we can solve it, but maybe this is a step. Today on the blog: www.adamheine.com/2026/02/so-y...

Three panels. In each panel, two people are pointing at the same figure on the ground that looks like a 6 (or 9) on its side.

FIRST PANEL: "What we're told is happening." One person says, "Six!" The other says, "Nine!" They both say, "We're both right. We just have different points of view."

SECOND PANEL: "What needs to happen." One person says, "Six!" The other says, "Nine!" They both say, "Something drew this. We need to use the evidence at hand to get as close as we can to the objective truth."

THIRD PANEL: "What's actually happening." One person says, "Six!" The other person says, "There is nothing there!" The first person says, "I... What?"

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 02/02/2026

This is who runs this account

Two-year-old Adam stands at the foot of a building-block tower that is over twice as tall as he is, completely unaware that, by knocking it down, it's going to collapse on top of him.

The cameraman (my father) apparently believes that taking the picture is more important than rescuing his son.

Given the outcome, I believe he made the right decision.

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 28/01/2026

3361 - I'm thankful for the artwork of Ian McQue. #gratitude

Two ships that look like old trawlers but they're floating in the air. They have colored lights strung between them. They are moored to a larger structure barely visible on the right. In the distance beyond them, the light appears to be just about dawn, and several mountains and large boulders stretch out in the distance below—some of them obviously floating in the air like the ships. Colored lights can be seen on a couple of the rock formations as well, indicating there are may be people living out there too. Light snow is falling in the foregound.

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 21/01/2026

Great article on how the current ICE situation has been building for decades and what changed today: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...

What you’re seeing on the streets right now is that ICE and CBP are literally scared to be out in public. ICE is completely outmatched on the streets. (Trump and Stephen Miller, meanwhile, have so soured on ICE’s leadership that they actually moved to install more aggressive Border Patrol leadership, more aligned with Bovino, into ICE.) Both agencies are in over their heads, beyond their skill sets, and they’re resorting to brutality and violence because (a) they don’t know better and (b) they’re not bound by any of the normal accountability one expects a police force to abide by in a free and open society.

Minneapolis’s strong resistance is showing the truth behind my observation last month about how Greg Bovino’s “Confederate rebel cavalry” is losing. A main part of the reason that ICE and CBP is operating so scared on the streets is because they’re being overwhelmed by the resistance. People are videotaping them, following them, warning neighbors, trying to aid the immigrants they’re attacking. Despite what might seem like their overwhelming force, those 3,000 CBP agents and ICE officers are wildly outnumbered by Angry Minnesota Neighbors. Moreover, these Bovino operations are hugely resource-intensive, and can only happen in 2-3 cities at the same time across the country.

The terror — and danger — is real, yes, but don’t let that blind you to the fact that right now on America’s streets, good people are winning.

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 13/01/2026

Art by Daniel Warren Johnson, www.instagram.com/danielwarren...

A comic-book–style sketch of Optimus Prime crouching protectively over a family of immigrants holding the American flag. His right arm blocks four ICE agents from reaching them. Some of the agents are ineffectually shooting at Optimus. One of them pushes against the Autobot's arm as if he thinks that's going to do any good at all.

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 02/01/2026

*deep breath* It is finished.

Screenshot of a Hollow Knight: Silksong achievement: "Completion. Achieve 100% game completion and finish the game. 15.6% of players have this achievement."

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 30/12/2025

3332 - I'm thankful that this remastering of my childhood came today. This was my first ever TTRPG, and it still holds a place in my heart. #gratitude #TTRPG

Two tabletop RPG books, a dice tray, and a dice tower for the game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness set on a table.

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 28/12/2025

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains.

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 19/12/2025

I've edited AI slop many, many times. It takes just as long—if not longer—than editing something that a human wrote. AI creates fewer obvious errors, but the errors it does create are stupider and more difficult to identify.

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 16/12/2025

Heck of a timeline coincidence.

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 14/12/2025

Duolingo, Wordle, Chess.com, Clash Royale, Connections, Strands, each individual Twitch channel... YOU CAN'T MAKE ME KEEP A STREAK ON EVERY APP STOP TRYING

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Adam Heine @adamheine.com · 14/12/2025

I think I found the hardest part of the game.

Screenshot from Hollow Knight: Silksong. It's not a boss. It's a Flea Juggle mini-game.

It is also basically a boss.

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