jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 13hHow do you say out loud the “[One brand] X [Another brand]” thing? Do you just say “X”? “Crossed with”? “Collab”, but as a postfix? (Not looking for “I don’t” as an answer, I already have that one.) 000
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026I’m in a space that alleges to be the #Boston South Station bus terminal? What the heck? When did all this happen? Where’d the grungy bus terminal of my memories go, the one you had to trudge to in shame through a side alley next the to Regina Pizza, so that you […] [Original post on masto.nyc] 000
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026Strange poetry in that hearing a loud male voice saying GOOD MORNING GOOD MORNING on the subway platform could be either someone about to go into their panhandling spiel or a cop waking up a napping panhandler #NYC 000
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026The :1train: just sat in 86th street for five minutes while the conductor lectured us the whole time about not holding the train doors, which was new to me. And now we’re expressing! Which is fine with me, I’m going to 14th, suckers #NYC 100
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026RE: mastodon.gamedev.place/@eviltrout/1… I loved Blake Manor, and I also loved Type Help, the free, text-based predecessor to Galley House. This is a nice deal!mastodon.gamedev.place 000
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026#TwasThis: Today I turned ten Cobalt-60 half-lives old, according to the Mathaversaries calendar I subscribed to quite a while ago. (Technically, I am subscribed to its predecessor project, Mathematical Anniversaries, which I dimly recall learning of through Making Light, or some place like it.) […]masto.nycOriginal post on masto.nyc 000
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026#TwasThis: While I’ve never owned a dedicated e-reader, Nena Farrell’s Wired preview of the Boox Picco—$100 and apparently no larger than a playing card—piques my interest. jmac.org/notes/2026-09-29-i-am-inte…jmac.orgI am interested in tiny e-readers suddenly · ’Twas This 000
Reposted by jmacGraham Dunning @grahamdunning.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026Out Today! LEAFCUTTER JOHN - WARM GRIT Tape and download. Scratchy ambient drones with field recordings, synths and John's home made gritstone turntables. Tapes are ready to send - check the bandcamp for photos, including the fosted/opaque tapes which look ace. UK postage is cheap. Postage to […]post.lurk.orgOriginal post on post.lurk.org 000
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026RE: mastodon.social/@blogdiva/117355116… Grim as hell, as is the fact that I rode the A past the same stop about two hours later, unaware of any of this. The subway stops for nothing. #NYCmastodon.social 011
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026#TwasThis: Bicameral Google, again jmac.org/notes/2026-09-29-bicameral…jmac.orgBicameral Google, still · ’Twas This 000
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026#TwasThis: Funky old music-room posters jmac.org/notes/2026-09-28-funky-old…jmac.orgFunky old music-room posters · ’Twas This 000
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026#TwasThis: Reinforcement Porning from Human Feedback (RPHF) jmac.org/notes/2026-09-28-reinforce…jmac.orgReinforcement porning from human feedback (RPHF) · ’Twas This 000
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026#TwasThis: The Return of the Warren Sawyer jmac.org/notes/2026-09-27-return-of…jmac.orgReturn of the Warren Sawyer · ’Twas This 000
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026I appear to be sliding into practical #TTRPG speak where I happily call any kind of game “D&D”—especially if I’m telling a non-player what my afternoon plans are, or the like—but if I’m *specifically* playing literal Dungeons and Dragons™, then I call it “5E”. 010
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026I am, obviously, trying something new with ’Twas This, my scrappy “notebook” blog, afforded by new ways that I’m using RSS (which I hope I share in more detail later). I wonder if I should hashtag these for polite mute-ability reasons. 000
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026’Twas This: Get phished, see old friends: jmac.org/notes/2026-09-26-get-phish…jmac.orgGet phished, see old friends · ’Twas This 000
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026’Twas This: Kinky Tail survives jmac.org/notes/2026-09-26-kinky-tai…jmac.orgKinky Tail survives · ’Twas This 000
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026’Twas This: Stacks, a modern Hypercard player jmac.org/notes/2026-09-26-stacks-a-…jmac.orgStacks, a modern Hypercard player · ’Twas This 000
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026’Twas This: Every Katamari Thing jmac.org/notes/2026-09-25-every-kat…jmac.orgEvery Katamari thing · ’Twas This 000
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026’Twas This: Australia has no time for this jmac.org/notes/2026-09-25-australia…jmac.orgAustralia has no time for this · ’Twas This 000
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026’Twas This: The toy-making raccoons of Cozumel jmac.org/notes/2026-09-25-the-toy-m…jmac.orgThe toy-making raccoons of Cozumel · ’Twas This 000
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026’Twas This: Rubbercat on Mario Kart Tour jmac.org/notes/2026-09-21-rubbercat…jmac.orgRubbercat on Mario Kart Tour · ’Twas This 000
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026RE: masto.nyc/@jmac/117321658272994609 Thanks to all who responded to this, which was admittedly an unpacking-parental-traumas post triggered by visiting family, though I didn’t realize that until after I posted it. My folks were 100% “They’re people in costumes”, which as good a […]masto.nycOriginal post on masto.nyc 000
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026Personal first: not waiting for an official cancellation from an airline before taking their offer to reseat myself a couple of days into the future, on what I hope will be the other side of the storm du jour. Stay dry, #NYC! I miss you and I’ll see you soon. Meanwhile, if anyone has […]masto.nycOriginal post on masto.nyc 010
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026Boarded #JFK 🛩️ #BGR Time to check in on the fam. I would appreciate the gift of your psychic energies to push the nor’easter out to sea away from Maine this weekend 🌬️ 000
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026A perfect weekend of two #TTRPG games: 1. In my His Majesty the Worm game, I must shelve hours of prep when a randomly drawn event decrees that a kaiju-scale baby rampages through the city, hunting the players. I hail-mary a connection between this and the ongoing plot while they rapidly switch […]masto.nycOriginal post on masto.nyc 010
Reposted by jmacabadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026Daddy’s playing a murder mystery game. Odin has no concept of murder, sin, guilt or malice so he’s quite stumped. 0913
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026Realizing that because of the cultures I've been in contact with since 200X, I've been at least dimly aware of what is today being called the Harry Potter Fanfic AI Sex Cult for many years without stopping and thinking that haha wow it sure would seem pretty weird if more people found out about […]masto.nycOriginal post on masto.nyc 111
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026I am back home in my filthy, beautiful city. I couldn’t be happier. Yesterday I dined with grim joy upon haggis in chili jam to celebrate the Riding of the Marches but today I lurched out of the airport taxi and straight into Mimi’s on Broadway for a small cheese pizza and a spinach roll. #NYC […]masto.nycOriginal post on masto.nyc 200
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026Tomorrow is our last full day in #Edinburgh, and we're gonna spend it chilling in the city center. (I may hit a couple of the free national museums.) Thank you so much to all who recommended sights and activities! The Fediverse really came through for this one. The most unexpectedly personal […]masto.nycOriginal post on masto.nyc 000
Reposted by jmacMartin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026A Swedish guy in Jakarta organises an RPG group there with locals. It's a new gaming scene with its own ideas: not white, not Christian, few European traditions. And several of the participants are blogging about their games! […]archaeo.socialOriginal post on archaeo.social 001
Reposted by jmacjesse jarnow @bourgwick.heads.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026for some reason, the #nyc tower records has come up a few times this week & it really all feels like a dream now, just the scale & sprawl, especially when tower books opened, too (plus, of course, other music across the street). 113
Reposted by jmacAaron Brick — אהרן בריק @aarbrk.mstdn.mx.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026“Easy to Learn, Difficult to Master” by David Kushner and Koren Shadmi. A dual biography covering a few years' rivalry between Nolan Bushnell and Ralph Baer during the 1970s, including fantasy gaming encounters between the two. There are a few charming moments, but […] [Original post on mstdn.mx] 004
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026RE: mastodon.social/@lashman/1172532670… I’m super interested in games and software toys that let you mess around or learn using a real musical-instrument input. I expect that even the best ones must have relatively modest sales-ceiling because of the double-filter of hardware […]masto.nycOriginal post on masto.nyc 000
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026This is how long I have lived in #NYC: On vacation, I turn on the shower and then go back to my computer and doop-de-doo for ten minutes to pass the time, until Amy says "You know, the water was hot ten minutes ago.” 010
Reposted by jmacabadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026Oh, right, new school year. University students: the secret to success is GO THE FUCK TO BED, GO THE FUCK TO CLASS, DO YOUR FUCKING HOMEWORK and to get HELP AND SUPPORT from people who want you to succeed if you find yourself neglecting any of these, and there are many more such people than you […]infosec.exchangeOriginal post on infosec.exchange 41461
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026Day four of #Edinburgh vacation, now on the train to a #Glasgow day trip. One of the advertising slogans for the local intercity rail is “Work, play, stare at sheep” and I like this very much. 000
Reposted by jmacOzzie D, NP-hard :bikepump: :vegan: @ozdreaming.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026Tampopo was a donburi and udon shop in the Porter Square Exchange's "Little Tokyo" food hall; it closed over the summer, after over three decades serving food in the building (which is owned by Lesley Uni). Kotaro, a former staff member, created a memorial website on which he has saved a few of […]infosec.exchangeOriginal post on infosec.exchange 011
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026The person across the courtyard opposite my bedroom leans out their window and does Bong Enjoying about as often as I make coffee, I reckon. That's fine in itself but I gotta say that one of us is a lot quieter about our habit. I would need to be like SLURRRPPP, AAAHHHHH after every sip in order […]masto.nycOriginal post on masto.nyc 100
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026RE: myke.social/@imyke/1172012663482313… Oh! I'm excited to listen to this. This was all happened when I was 20ish, which is to say when I was an absolutely insufferable technology partisan, willing to fight and die and bleed six colors for the Only Computer. I would very much like to […]masto.nycOriginal post on masto.nyc 000
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026RE: mastodon.social/@NoveltyBot/1171923… I’ve seen this one blip by a couple times and it just now landed that it’s goofing on the archaeo-idiom “without even a pot to piss in”, which I know by way of my parents. There, see, invest a dime and now at least nobody can say that […]masto.nycOriginal post on masto.nyc 000
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026#NYC how do we feel about this sign that just appeared in the upper west side 100
Reposted by jmacEvan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 @evan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026You guys I have been playing SO MANY video games and I still can't get to Xbox zero 001
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026Dear #Edinburgh, I'm visiting your city (and country) for the first time starting this Friday. My partner has filled about half our ten days up with a loch/castle/distillery tour-loop on repeat, which is fine, that is the way of her people and I respect it. I however am interested in plugging […]masto.nycOriginal post on masto.nyc 301
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026RE: mastodon.social/@fandompost/1171754… I owned the original What The—?! issue with this cover, which had the additional gag of the break-time Hulk here saying "Union rules, don't you know.” I was too young to understand the joke at the time and when I retroactively got it […]masto.nycOriginal post on masto.nyc 000
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026Metatoot: Some time ago @thejaymo, who makes a career out of describing the souls of online worlds that resist easy definition, asked in sincerity what us tooters *do* here. I took it as a challenge to answer the question for myself, and have been working on it since. Right now my posts are […]masto.nycOriginal post on masto.nyc 000
jmac @jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026Thunder rattling the windows just as the weekday is getting going is the best thunder. Unironically love it #NYC 000