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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 16/09/2026

Happy Baby Safety Month.

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SLICE - St. Louis Independent Comics Expo @slicexpo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Join SLICE, the Saint Louis Poetry Center, and special guest Crystal Odelle on Saturday, September 19, 12–2 p.m. at The Sheldon for an experimental storytelling workshop that will break point of view, tense, chronology, and just maybe reality itself. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-to...

Blue swirly poster graphic with a black frame in the center, topped by the shape of a fountain pen. Graphic in the frame reads "Writing to Recollect, or Time Travel 101, SLICE Special Guest Workshop with Crystal Odelle." Crystal's name floats above a whirlpool graphic that a tiny yellow Mr. Slice appears to be falling headfirst into.

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Mikkel Snyder @chimericnotion.myatproto.social · 19/08/2026

As my catio finally, finally nears completion after 14 months, I have derived a lot of joy from explaining the baffling decisions the previous homeowner made and my slow progress to fix them.

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Mikkel Snyder @chimericnotion.myatproto.social · 18/08/2026

I'm not particularly handy, but I am stubborn enough to figure out how to use a prybar to remove carpet that was inexplicably under my combination washer/dryer unit in preparation for a new one. All this to say, homeownership is a trip and a half.

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Matt Aytch Taylor @matthtaylor.com · 11/08/2026

genuinely though, the best advice i can give you is to just keep trying dont give up, change stuff if you gotta, move your goals around, make new goals, abandon goals if they dont make sense anymore, but god almighty keep trying

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Mikkel Snyder @chimericnotion.myatproto.social · 09/08/2026

I'm currently sitting at a 1:10 Win Loss Ratio with Defect, which is not particularly good although I am able to get to Act 3 pretty consistently. But this latest win was my highest scoring yet thanks to 10 elite kills. Gambling Chip, Throwing Axe+Defrag, AfO with 0 costs and Cannon. Perfection.

A Slay the Spire 2 Victory Screen highlighting the Elite Slayer badge (9+ Elite kills)

A run summary of an A10 Defect Run. Neow's Sacrifice in Act 1, Pael's Legion in Act 2, Tanx's Throwing Axe in Act 3. Special calls out to two pieces of the boat block relics, Gambling Chip, Power Cell, Data Disc, Lucky Fysh+Meal Ticket+Courier+Membership Card, All for One with a bunch of 0 cost attacks, most upgraded to benefit from Miniature cannon.

A new personal best high school. 3756 points on A10 Defect.

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Mikkel Snyder @chimericnotion.myatproto.social · 30/07/2026

It's nice when you look back at a piece and it actually hits the same as when you wrote because that is almost certainly not the default response.

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Mikkel Snyder @chimericnotion.myatproto.social · 15/07/2026

Bars and I continue to have what I can best described as a tenuous working relationship where I can exist in one for about two hours alone before I start to completely dissociate. It used to be one hour. I have my doubts I'll ever get to three.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.

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Nova The CyberMage💜⭐ @cybermagenova.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Happy 4th of July! Here's an unrelated image!

A screenshot from Fire Emblem with a CG of Lyn on a sunset background saying, "I do not love my country. I love the people in it and want their needs met."

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Mikkel Snyder @chimericnotion.myatproto.social · 01/07/2026

I don't have a particularly good win rate at Slay the Spire 2 (it's floating around 1/10), but I certainly do know how to snowball and I think I am okay with that. Latest Defect A10, where I asked "Is it greedy to make my own Claw on floor 2?"

Bolas+ with Punching Dagger. Deal 4 damage. Return to hand at start of next turn. Increase card damage by 5.

A10 Defect Victory screen. Notable inclusions: Black Pearl, Punching Dagger, Feral x3

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SLICE - St. Louis Independent Comics Expo @slicexpo.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Come one, come all... come join us for An Afternoon with Mr. Slice! We need your support! SLICE is a small, volunteer-run nonprofit organization, so your dollars go straight towards our mission of supporting the creative community in St. Louis. 🎨 Myriam Stern & Phoebe Santalla!

A graphic of Oni's mascot with a small blue Mr. Slice hanging by its mouth.
The text reads:
An Afternoon with Mr. Slice
July 18th, 2–5 At Oni
Trivia Team Tickets & General Admission

We've got... TEAM TRIVIA!
-Comics, small press, and SLICE-themed trivia questions
-Hosted by Cadaver Daddy-O with a half-time drag performance
-Winners receive a basket of SLICE merch and gift cards from local businesses
Trivia Team Tickers: $100 per team, up to 5 players per team

We've got... A SILENT AUCTION!
-Artworks donated by your favorite local artists
-Browse, bid, and enjoy food and drinks from Oni's exclusive menu while you wait
General admission tickets: $10 per person
- Watch Cadaver Daddy-O perform at trivia half-time

We've got... A RAFFLE!
-win a basket of gift certificates from local businesses
-trivia team and GA admission come with one raffle ticket per person
-Additional raffle tix for purchase on a sliding scale
General admission tickets: $10 per person

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Mikkel Snyder @chimericnotion.myatproto.social · 03/06/2026

I have gotten over the whole "cosplaying as a functional adult" but am now doing the whole "cosplaying as someone who is perfectly okay having their value be determined by the hypothetical value they provide" for the week, and I am really excited for when I can drop that.

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Mikkel Snyder @chimericnotion.myatproto.social · 31/05/2026

I'm at the "myopia into a game as a means of distraction" phase of my life cycle, which comes at a reasonable time in some respects and unreasonable time in others. Which I think is just a part of human existence to a degree, but still.

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Mikkel Snyder @chimericnotion.myatproto.social · 26/05/2026

This long weekend was unreasonably restorative.

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Mikkel Snyder @chimericnotion.myatproto.social · 21/05/2026

After about 170 hours, I have managed to complete my short term goal of beating A10 on each character in Slay the Spire. Defect remains my favorite. Ironclad/Necrobinder/Regent float in the middle. Silent, despite being the character that stream rolled a lot of early ascension was my last victory.

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org

Screenshot of the Luddite Lab website. The word Luddite Lab is in the top left corner. The tables in the top read: Case Studies, Primers, Resource Library, Contact Us, and About. The text below reads: “The Luddite Lab Resource Hub provides resources for unions, labor organizations, and worker-organizers fighting AI and automation at work. The lab provides strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of new technology through case studies, primers, and a resource library.” Below, there are five cards: Case Studies (Stories from worker organizers resisting AI), Primers (Applied research insights into AI, automation, and the future of work), Resource Library (Additional resources from partners), Contact Us (Ways to connect with the Luddite Lab team), and About (About the Luddite Lab project and team)

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Counterpoint: Yes they are, and that is good

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Mikkel Snyder @chimericnotion.myatproto.social · 06/05/2026

Openly sobbing at Medalist S2E4. Sports media is great.

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Mikkel Snyder @chimericnotion.myatproto.social · 04/05/2026

I am not entirely sure I am ready to go back to reality tomorrow, but I will be going back to reality tomorrow and one way or another, I will persist because I always find a way to persist.

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Mikkel Snyder @chimericnotion.myatproto.social · 14/04/2026

Snecko Defect continues to be my favorite thing in Slay the Spire. I spent several floors in Act 1 at 1hp, and then *glory*. Love it when a plan comes together. You solve small problems and that solves the bigger problems.

The Slay the Spire 2 summary screen of an Ascension 10 Defect run. Notable relics include Snecko Eye, Fur Coat, and Pantograph. Notable cards include Perfect Fit Voltaic, Meteor Strike, Echo Form, Hologram, All for One.

Voltaic+ from the Slay the Spire 2 enchanted with Perfect Fit.

The Defect facing the Queen in the second boss fight of Act 3, with Perfect Fit Voltaic+ about to generate 34 lightning orbs (and 68 more had that not been lethal somehow).

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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This is so, so well-articulated.

People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.

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Mikkel Snyder @chimericnotion.myatproto.social · 02/04/2026

As it turns out, All for One+Hologram+Snecko Eye continues to be really good in Slay the Spire 2 even at Ascension 10. That was a rush.

A Slay the Spire 2 summary screen of an Ascension 10 Defect run. Notable relics include Bag of Preparation and Snecko Eye. Notable cards include Rainbow, Hologram, All for One, and Apotheosis. Bosses were the Kin, Insatiable, Doormaker, Queen.

Defect Victory...? Screen in Slay the Spire 2. Score of 2540 for a total of 98776 so far.

Upgraded 0 cost Hologram pulling an upgraded 0 cost All for One for an infinite.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

get a writer friend to brainstorm with!! it has been invaluable to me being able to just "hey so what do you think...." with friends sitting across the table or the screen from me

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Mikkel Snyder @chimericnotion.myatproto.social · 01/04/2026

Happy National Poetry Month. I'm doing a 30/30. 1/30 "At least offer me some dignity here. Let my work be honest. Let my work be mine. Let me extract joy from my undertakings and my efforts."

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Mikkel's 2026 30/30

If I am to be put to work, put to toil, put to struggle, meant to be a cog in the machine, at least offer me some dignity here. Let my work be honest. Let my be mine. Let me extract jo...

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Mikkel Snyder @chimericnotion.myatproto.social · 01/04/2026

Thinking about *l'espirit de l'escalier* this morning.

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Mikkel Snyder @chimericnotion.myatproto.social · 27/03/2026

buttondown.com/mixedmediawi... As I get ready to do a 30/30 in a couple days, I spent time thinking about the poems and microfiction that altered my brain chemistry one way or another.

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Matching Mixed Media: Seminal Short Forms

I haven't called myself a poet since… I don't know, maybe around 2018? Between the years of 2009 to… well definitely 2017, and probably a little bit after...

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Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

And if you think this is just some BS meme image, you can listen to the man himself: www.npr.org/transcripts/...

A text image of a small part of the transcript of a conversation between Ari Shapiro and David Simon (Creater of 'The Wire') on a segment on NPR during the wirter's strike of 2023:

Shapiro: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without AI, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had that tool to solve those thorny problems...

Simon: What?

Shapiro: ...Or saying...

Simon: You imagine that?

Shapiro: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.

Simon: I don't think AI can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.

Shapiro: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into AI and say, give. me 10 ideas for how to transition this.

Simon: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Mikkel Snyder @chimericnotion.myatproto.social · 24/03/2026

God forbid I want to write things for humans to actually read and not for machines to massacre and regurgitate my words for humans or another machine to barely parse.

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Mikkel Snyder @chimericnotion.myatproto.social · 21/03/2026

73 hours of Slay the Spire 2, I have managed to get my first win on A10 with Defect and the power of Snecko?? Now to continue rotating and getting those wins with everyone else.

Slay the Spire 2 screenshot from Act 3. The Defect facing the Doormaker, using an upgraded Null for lethal.

The Slay the Spire 2 "Victory...?" Screen. 2540 score on A10.

Slay the Spire 2 "Victory...?" Stat summary. 49 floors climbed, 7 elites killed, 575 gold gained, small deck of 16, stuffed 35 (which I think is max HP gained)

Post game summary of an A10 Defect Slay the Spire 2 Victory.

"The Defect has made it to the top."

Of particular note:
* Two Ice Lances+
* Glacier+ enchanted with Nimble
* Shadow Shield+
* Null+
* Snecko??

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

"We took idiosyncratic passages out of context from longer, often challenging works, and asked a supercomputer to render them more palatable in isolation. Which version do you find more palatable in isolation?"

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Mikkel Snyder @chimericnotion.myatproto.social · 08/03/2026

Random grenada (a short form poem that my friends and I riff on) for this Sunday. /// I do not know if you are a poet. I fancy myself an amateur. I enjoy the game of language. I play to win.

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Mikkel Snyder @chimericnotion.myatproto.social · 06/03/2026

buttondown.com/mixedmediawi... I went to Portland, OR to table as an individual for the first time and it was an experience and a half, so of course I wrote about it. This should surprise absolutely no one at this point.

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I tabled for the first time at the inagural aznzinefest

I did have the mental capacity to record a full video, so instead enjoy this video of me reading the one zine that I sold out of. The reason I don’t have the...

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Vibe coding broke people's brains because they had a bad understanding of the software design process. The pop culture model goes something like this: start out with a sketch and then render that same idea in progressively finer detail. So when tools could "skip" to high detail, people went WOW.

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Mega Crit - Slay the Spire 2 Out Now! ⚔️ @megacrit.com · 06/03/2026

Slay the Spire 2's concurrent Steam players just hit 179,456, the highest ever for any roguelike. When StS1 first launched back in 2017, it had 193 concurrent players. That's a 92,982% increase, meaning StS3 is on track to hit 166,861,777 concurrent players by 2035. 💪

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Mikkel Snyder @chimericnotion.myatproto.social · 06/03/2026

@megacrit.com My friend asked me how Slay the Spire 2 felt and I said "Imagine coming home and someone did a deep clean of your house, stocked all your favorite foods in the fridge, and renovated your basement for you for a pittance." Thank you for this gift during this weird timeline.

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Alfred Valley @alfredvalley.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

the four foundational character classes in any rpg

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Mikkel Snyder @chimericnotion.myatproto.social · 01/03/2026

Once again, looking at the calendar seeing that the month has changed and continuing to be surprised by the passage of time. I guess it *is* March though.

XKCD 1477 "It's weird how I'm constantly surprised by the passage of time when it's literally the most predictable thing in the universe."

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Brian Clevinger @bclev.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Very cool that my power bill has increased by 50% to pay for the grotesque consumption from data centers using technology that stole the work of millions of people, including myself, to put millions of people out of work If this happened in a cyberpunk story I'd be like "Okay, dial it down a notch"

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