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Eric @presenteric.com · 24/09/2026

This healed something in me

• Our class will be visiting the book fair together this Monday September 28th in the afternoon. We invite families to contribute to our classwide "Book Fair Fund" by sending in money, if possible.
We'll divide the money that you contribute, equally, between all students giving them all the opportunity to purchase books together as a community. Of course, the book fair will also be open during afterschool hours if you want to visit with your child individually and purchase more books.

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Eric @presenteric.com · 09/06/2026

what about a time an ebike convenienced me

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Eric @presenteric.com · 21/05/2026

Murderbot welcome to the war on cars

Then we got to a border and found the only option was to rent a ground vehicle and drive across two unaffiliated zones because both had zero mass transport. Zero.
Mass. Transport. This is supposed to be a civilized space station, in space, why the fuck am I driving a ground vehicle to get to a fucking port on a fucking— (Emotion check: I am absolutely fine.)

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Eric @presenteric.com · 13/05/2026

I guess we’re at the “sending mychart messages” stage of advocacy now

a mychart message saying

I'm writing as your patient and as the spouse of a physician, to be direct about something affecting my relationship with NYU.
NYU closed its Transgender Youth Health Program in February citing the regulatory environment. Last week NYU received a federal grand jury subpoena seeking patient records and the names of clinicians who provided that care. Patients and families were notified by MyChart at 7pm on a Monday, in language that read as the bare legal minimum under the Shield Law. NYU has not publicly defended the care, the patients, or the clinicians involved.
This is interfering with my ability to seek care here, and I doubt I'm alone. These actions and lack of communication demonstrate the institution will not advocate for at-risk patient communities.
I'm telling you because patient feedback like this is unlikely to reach department leadership without clinicians carrying it. If useful, please raise it with your chair or at a faculty meeting.
Thank you for the care you've provided.

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Eric @presenteric.com · 04/05/2026

found my new favorite place in the city

a play area with large wooden spools, hand-pained signs and a few bikes in the foreground

A hand-painted sign saying “children are people”

A hand painted sign saying “what is the cost of making things as safe as possible rather than as safe as needed?”

another view of the playground behind a privacy fence with a child in a pink vest about to swing on a zip line

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Eric @presenteric.com · 31/03/2026

for TDOV this week we went to an amazing riso/screen printing studio nearby and they were giving these posters away FOR FREE

Eight printed posters supporting transgender kids, laid out on a hardwood floor. The designs range in style from hand-drawn to graphic and typographic. Messages include ‘Peace for Trans Kids’ (with a pink peace-sign hand), ‘Protect Trans Kids’ (featuring Godzilla), ‘Trans Kids Rule!’ (on pink and blue stripes), ‘You Belong Here’ (white block letters on a blue watercolor background), ‘Protect Trans Kids’ (with a labubu), ‘Love for Trans Kids’ (with hands forming a heart shape), ‘Trans Kids are Magic’ (with a bunny popping out of a magician’s hat), and ‘Trans Pride World Wide’ (with a smiling cartoon Earth). The posters use trans pride colors of pink, blue, and white throughout.

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Eric @presenteric.com · 13/03/2026

the cookies in question

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Eric @presenteric.com · 25/02/2026

all the baba that’s fit to print

screencap from the NYT of a pic of me and my kids waiting for a bus to go to Albany for Tax The Rich

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Eric @presenteric.com · 14/02/2026

truly this is my final form

me in a yellow jacket on a front-loading cargo bike with a few kids in the front and a few skateboards on the back

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Eric @presenteric.com · 14/02/2026

me when I got cold called in law school

This was not what our Founders desired. I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future. There

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Eric @presenteric.com · 14/02/2026

Roses are red Foxglove can kill

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Eric @presenteric.com · 15/01/2026

We kinda did this in My Jam? No annotations though maybe in the legasequel?

Books
Phonogram by Kieron Gillen and Jaime McKelvie. Required reading if you’re even a little bit into music, or even this game. The concept of musarchs and the self-evident conceit that music is magic were… uh… strongly inspired by Phonogram, and this game is a love letter to this brilliant comic, especially the Singles Club arc.
Film
Dazed and Confused. The best “one big night” movie ever made, Dazed and Confused captures a lot of the high school drama we want to evoke.
High Fidelity. This game is about what record store clerks were like in high school, and the main character has about the level of emotional intelligence that we think the average My Jam character should display.
Games
Duck and Cover by Jacqueline Bryk. This game inspired the high school setting, and so many of the core elements. We probably should have ripped off the character creation rules wholesale, because they’re fantastic.
The Long Drive Back from Busan by Clio Yun-Su Davis. This game’s use of spin the bottle to develop character relationships inspired the use of FMK in My Jam. It’s also a beautiful example of a game about the complexity of relationships with music from the performer side of things, and we tried to capture some of that from the fan side.
Monsterhearts by Avery Alder. The essential “high school kids with powers” game, and probably the best tabletop game ever made. We originally wanted to evoke the game’s cynical approach to young emotions, and we pretty much failed utterly, which is a testament to this game’s inimitable brilliance.

New World Magischola by Maury Brown and Ben Morrow. This larp’s consent-based magic system is so clever that it feels obvious after it’s been explained, and its assumptions and interventions suffuse this text.
Unknown Armies by John Scott Tynes and Greg Stolze. The perfect RPG text, and an absolute delight to read. It’s impossible to read this game and not come out with a changed perspective on magic, and we couldn’t help but crib from it a little.
Music
The official song of My Jam is “Stay Positive” by The Hold Steady.
There is a public Spotify playlist called “Songs that would probably be fun to play in My Jam.” It skews pretty heavily toward Jess’s tastes, but each song could be an evocative framework for a character. Check it out if you’re feeling stumped!
Jess panics at the idea of listing his favorite songs, so officially she only listens to The Mountain Goats.
Eric likes any music he’s heard three times, but officially he only listens to Carly Rae Jepsen.

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Eric @presenteric.com · 01/12/2025

thank you @blankcheck.bsky.social xmas just got slower than ever before

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Eric @presenteric.com · 28/11/2025

this was the best pie I’ve ever made

slice of chocolate cream pie. it was really good.

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Eric @presenteric.com · 22/11/2025

alternate ending: everything is dust in a silent frozen universe

Narrator: CAUTIONARY TALE COMIX T-Rex: "This too shall pass!" T-Rex: Hah hah hah! T-Rex: Isn't that right, Dromiceiomimus? Wealth and power and knowledge and love and friendship are all fleeting and pointless! Whoo! One day will we all be dead! Dromiceiomimus: You seem awfully cheerful about all this! T-Rex: That too shall pass! Utahraptor: Normally the saying is only applied to BAD things, T-Rex! T-Rex: It applies to all things! Utahraptor: Well, okay, but nobody want to invite someone to a wedding whose toast is going to be "This too shall pass"! T-Rex: Man, I'm not trying to get invited to any weddings! Narrator: LATER: EVERYONE GETS INVITED TO A WEDDING EXCEPT T-REX. T-Rex: Ouch! T-Rex: For me!

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Eric @presenteric.com · 19/10/2025

I don’t post a lot of kid stuff on here but this was too good not to share

a man wearing glasses and a keffiyeh with a young child on his shoulders the child has pigtails and is blowing a whistle in the background there are marchers, flags, and a large neon billboard

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Eric @presenteric.com · 29/09/2025

I have so many shadowrun opinions

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Eric @presenteric.com · 02/09/2025

shoutout to @amandamull.bsky.social for making this grocery haul possible

White lily flour and the most amazing rotisserie chicken I’ve ever seen

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Eric @presenteric.com · 02/09/2025

Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?

the crappy robocop prototype rips its own head off

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Eric @presenteric.com · 31/08/2025

finally got the shot

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Eric @presenteric.com · 16/08/2025

goodbye San Diego!!!

a very tired middle-aged white man pulling three school-aged children riding wheeled suitcases through the airport

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Eric @presenteric.com · 14/08/2025

I think my moving company is trying to tell me I have too much stuff

two moving trucks backed up to one house

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Eric @presenteric.com · 26/07/2025

oh cool I have the electronic version too

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Eric @presenteric.com · 26/07/2025

just found the most early aughts picture of myself cleaning out my desk

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Eric @presenteric.com · 07/07/2025

my only two shortcuts

$screenshot showing the following shortcuts: E emotion > E• MO•TION S shrug > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯$

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Eric @presenteric.com · 04/07/2025

friendly reminder the paprika app lets you import recipes from popular websites lacking in journalistic standards without giving them subscription money!

searching for “gochujang buttered noodles” in the paprika browser

viewing the nyt “Gochujang buttered noodles” recipe in paprika browser

importing the “Gochujang buttered noodles” recipe into paprika

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Eric @presenteric.com · 22/06/2025

took my kids to the excellent (and unionized) New Children’s Museum today and when they said the tunnels were too dark I reached into my Baba Bag and pulled out a TACTICAL GLOW STICK

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Eric @presenteric.com · 15/06/2025

for fathers day my kids each picked out a sticker that made them think of me. what a joy it is to be perceived.

three stickers: “I stand with my trans friends” “no human is illegal” and “let me read in peace”

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Eric @presenteric.com · 19/04/2025

I just had to take off the front wheel it was a big box. I provided the wrap because I accidentally did it upside down.

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Eric @presenteric.com · 19/04/2025

we watched Descendants 3 for movie night last night featuring this version of Hades so I had to show the kids pictures of when I used to be a villain just like him

hades from descendants 3 (sneering guy in a long leather jacket with blue hair and smokey eyes)

me when I was a rogue werewolf wizard in a larp (sneering guy in a black battle vest with blue hair and smokey eyes)

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Eric @presenteric.com · 19/04/2025

last year J got me this crewneck that says “ballet baba” which I wear everywhere EXCEPT ballet class. today the girls demanded I wear it so I complied and I’m the most popular adult at ballet class today.

half my face and the upper quadrant of my torso wearing a pink crewneck sweatshirt with the words “ballet baba” chain stitched in cursive

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Eric @presenteric.com · 07/04/2025

mentally I am still here

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Eric @presenteric.com · 14/03/2025

blood moon last night and a rainbow this morning?!?! is it happening today???

A faint rainbow over a canyon in Southern California

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Eric @presenteric.com · 14/03/2025

living embodiment of this meme

Principal Skinner saying “am I out of touch? No it’s the children who are wrong”

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Eric @presenteric.com · 05/03/2025

Bean Club and The Onion! Good mail day!

A box that says “BEAN CLUB” and an envelope from Global Tetrahedron

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Eric @presenteric.com · 02/03/2025

gave all this stuff away today what a good day

a couple tables with hygiene and food stuff

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Eric @presenteric.com · 23/02/2025

approx ten bullets from this past week

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Eric @presenteric.com · 22/02/2025

we all know who it really belongs to

Chairface Chippendale standing in front of the moon (“CHA” is carved into the moon)

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Eric @presenteric.com · 21/02/2025

I've had custom metal cuts done before for foil stamping, although I don't have a press right now it's verrrrrrry tempting to get one of these done for the someday pile

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Eric @presenteric.com · 20/02/2025

two hawks in the hawk tree

two hawks in a leafless tree on a misty morning in the canyon behind my house

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