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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

In an age of fascism, Theodor Adorno wrote, "culture has also relinquished the salt of truth." But, I propose in this latest piece, "sometimes the salt of truth are nitrates in processed turkey, compressed in a hero, and hurled at a jackbooted agent of the state." buttondown.com/theswordandt...

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Notable Sandwiches #1: American Hero

Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I slip messily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week,...

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ruffinguy.bsky.social @ruffinguy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Three-year-old ported @necrosoftgames.com ‘s “Oh, Deer!” to our house. He shouts the countdown, “red, orange, yellow, GREEN!” and pushes his toy stroller in circles and runs over shoes on the way to Granny’s house

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ruffinguy.bsky.social @ruffinguy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The regular pop tart box assumes you will eat one package of two pop tarts. The super stuffed pop tart box assumes you will see the five single-wrapped super stuffed pop tarts and consider eating all five

Two pop-tart boxes, side by side. On the left, the nutrition facts label has 370 calories in one serving size of two pastries. On the right, 230 calories in a serving size of one pastry, or 1140 calories in the entire package.

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ruffinguy.bsky.social @ruffinguy.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I love this episode of To the White Sea. Melissa Tuckman brings a ton of research to the trio and makes a dense text (the speech clips in Meal Ticket) accessible and interesting, beyond just the performance. audioboom.com/posts/835879...

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Intertexts/The Same Old Song with Melissa Tuckman

Hi everyone! Today we welcome professor, writer, and poet Melissa Tuckman to the study group. First we read pages 37-38 which are, as with last week’s excerpt, truly horrifying. Take heed. Then we jum...

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Key to efficient learning is realizing how we ACTUALLY learn, not just what FEELS like learning. I wrote a Claude Skill for some friends to help them think about this and they've liked it -- see Principles for some directions you could explore github.com/DrCatHicks/l...

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GitHub - DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities: A Claude Code skill for deliberate skill development during AI-assisted coding

A Claude Code skill for deliberate skill development during AI-assisted coding - DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities

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ruffinguy.bsky.social @ruffinguy.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Every Trackmania game I try is just perfect. They nailed it. How do they keep doing it. Even the live service one is good

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

5 tongue-in-cheek game writing exercises that are a more realistic representation of what most game writers do (in my experience) than a branching dialog tree:

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ruffinguy.bsky.social @ruffinguy.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Every time I use the freeze miser it makes a fun ice sculpture. This time it’s mixed media. I call it “we used to jump in piles of leaves and drink from the garden hose”

A pile of leaves and garden hose frozen together with drippings from an outdoor faucet in the cold

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ruffinguy.bsky.social @ruffinguy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Me when I get a follow notification from a bot

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