Andy Pressman
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Trying to figure out what #SCOTUS just did with #SNAP, and why Justice Jackson temporarily froze the district court's ruling?
Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on what (and why) Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
www.stevevladeck.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Trying to figure out what #SCOTUS just did with #SNAP, and why Justice Jackson temporarily froze the district court's ruling?
Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
'made a loss' is a fascinating turn of phrase
November 7, 2025 at 11:38 PM
'made a loss' is a fascinating turn of phrase
I feel this way about ‘Methodist’ tbh
Not for nothing, but how fucking cool is the word "Neuromancer?" It's just so evocative.
November 6, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I feel this way about ‘Methodist’ tbh
In the last place I lived, the people before us had painted a kitchen wall with a message that looked just like this, reading EVERYTHING YOU SEE I OWE TO SPAGHETTI
November 6, 2025 at 2:13 AM
In the last place I lived, the people before us had painted a kitchen wall with a message that looked just like this, reading EVERYTHING YOU SEE I OWE TO SPAGHETTI
All it takes is some six-sided dice and Friends Who Are Game!!!
Andy released a one-page game that I played and found hilarious. It’s a wide-open door for imaginative people that sets a clear comedic tone in nearly every instruction. And all it takes is some six-sided dice and Friends Who Are Game.
I've got a new game out this week! It's called EVERYTHING SEXY BATTLE WIZARDS, and it's a one-page mashup made for @gshowitt.bsky.social's One Hundred One Page Games Jam. It's a tables-only game about… pretty much what it says on the tin, I guess itch.io/jam/one-hund...
November 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
All it takes is some six-sided dice and Friends Who Are Game!!!
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Hello there! For my first post on this here social network, here's a new thing I've been working on, a live sampler where you scrub through the sound by pulling a string. It has a filter!
November 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Hello there! For my first post on this here social network, here's a new thing I've been working on, a live sampler where you scrub through the sound by pulling a string. It has a filter!
I've got a new game out this week! It's called EVERYTHING SEXY BATTLE WIZARDS, and it's a one-page mashup made for @gshowitt.bsky.social's One Hundred One Page Games Jam. It's a tables-only game about… pretty much what it says on the tin, I guess itch.io/jam/one-hund...
Rate EVERYTHING SEXY BATTLE WIZARDS by Andy Pressman for One Hundred One Page Games Jam
A mashup of Grant Howitt's 'EVERYTHING IS TABLES' and 'Sexy Battle Wizards'
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November 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I've got a new game out this week! It's called EVERYTHING SEXY BATTLE WIZARDS, and it's a one-page mashup made for @gshowitt.bsky.social's One Hundred One Page Games Jam. It's a tables-only game about… pretty much what it says on the tin, I guess itch.io/jam/one-hund...
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This will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio.
In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.
CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.
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In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.
CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.
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🧵 Awful awful massacre in Brazil
Gente, é o maior massacre no Brasil desde o Araguaia. Entendo quem quer puxar pra Canudos ou Contestado ou etc, mas não podemos livrar a ditadura de 64 só porque ela escondia melhor seus corpos.
Morreram 41 guerrilheiros comunistas e mais de 1200 camponeses no Araguaia.
Morreram 41 guerrilheiros comunistas e mais de 1200 camponeses no Araguaia.
October 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio.
In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.
CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.
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In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.
CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.
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Dungeon Raid, a match-3 roguelike that hasn’t been playable for almost a decade due to iOS upgrades. An all time favorite with a name so forgettable I had to google it
October 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Dungeon Raid, a match-3 roguelike that hasn’t been playable for almost a decade due to iOS upgrades. An all time favorite with a name so forgettable I had to google it
EVERYTHING SEXY BATTLE WIZARD
October 29, 2025 at 8:36 AM
EVERYTHING SEXY BATTLE WIZARD
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I think my favorite thing about "every city reveals its inner character" era of ice protests is that people keep saying portland is weird or cute or nice or silly when one of the most common chants at the ice building is people looking up at feds on the roof and yelling "jump! jump! jump!" in unison
Portland resists with whimsical improv theater, Chicago resists by screaming at weird jagoffs that don’t belong in the neighborhood. Every city brings its own strengths to the fight
The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.
October 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I think my favorite thing about "every city reveals its inner character" era of ice protests is that people keep saying portland is weird or cute or nice or silly when one of the most common chants at the ice building is people looking up at feds on the roof and yelling "jump! jump! jump!" in unison
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This article is the antidote to the New York Times article about Portland that enraged everyone a few weeks ago. People don't have homes because they can't afford them & our safety net is a wad of shredded plastic snarled with trash on a riverbank instead of the beautiful sturdy thing it could be.
Trump’s Portland narrative didn’t appear suddenly; it’s more a denouement after powerful interests catastrophized challenges for political gain.Years of oiling the growth machine, even in a city with a progressive reputation, have failed to produce material results for voters.
Here’s some history:
Here’s some history:
Portlanders mock Trump for calling their city ‘war-ravaged’. But they’re clear-eyed about its problems
Like many American cities, Portland has been struggling to combat rising unaffordability and homelessness
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This article is the antidote to the New York Times article about Portland that enraged everyone a few weeks ago. People don't have homes because they can't afford them & our safety net is a wad of shredded plastic snarled with trash on a riverbank instead of the beautiful sturdy thing it could be.
I say 'physical space' but of course it's not physical space, it's not an in-person larp — it's a text-only game with delineated rooms and spaces and objects, all hackable through object-oriented coding
Genuinely though, I think there's something useful to write about with this, and maybe even design for. What can persistent text play look like? What happens when instead of chat rooms there's a physical space you navigate through?
October 19, 2025 at 5:19 AM
I say 'physical space' but of course it's not physical space, it's not an in-person larp — it's a text-only game with delineated rooms and spaces and objects, all hackable through object-oriented coding
Return to the MUSH
I’ve been thinking a lot about reasons folks play TTRPGs & whether it’s true folks uniformly want endings/closure.
What’s fascinating about #OVER/UNDER is that it’s rooted in a system that shines in modules/bounded play but this event is dominated (for now?) by totally different structures of play.
What’s fascinating about #OVER/UNDER is that it’s rooted in a system that shines in modules/bounded play but this event is dominated (for now?) by totally different structures of play.
Okay I'm just gonna start posting wild shit I'm seeing in #OVER/UNDER (public facing stuff only).
First: they set up a fucking casino??
First: they set up a fucking casino??
October 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Hey PDX it's a big deal that SIX members aka HALF of our City Council just pledged to investigate local complicity with genocide. They had a press conference about it & already are getting hate mail from genocide apologists. Please click through & thank them!!! actionnetwork.org/letters/than...
Thank the 6 PDX City Councilors who stood up for Gaza! Ask the other 6 to do the same!
On Friday, October 17, Portland City Councilors held a press conference to announce the launch of a national pledge to investigate local economic and infrastructural ties to the genocide in Gaza. Hal...
actionnetwork.org
October 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Hey PDX it's a big deal that SIX members aka HALF of our City Council just pledged to investigate local complicity with genocide. They had a press conference about it & already are getting hate mail from genocide apologists. Please click through & thank them!!! actionnetwork.org/letters/than...
I’m just glad we’re reclaiming frogs from the groypers. Magnificent creatures
October 15, 2025 at 6:19 AM
I’m just glad we’re reclaiming frogs from the groypers. Magnificent creatures
WIP for @gshowitt.bsky.social's kitbash game jam
October 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM
WIP for @gshowitt.bsky.social's kitbash game jam
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terrible to hear about D’Angelo, only 51. Surreal career, a perfect three album discography across 30 years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo3R...
D'Angelo and The Vanguard - Sugah Daddy (Audio)
YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO
www.youtube.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
terrible to hear about D’Angelo, only 51. Surreal career, a perfect three album discography across 30 years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo3R...
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Massive escalation at the Portland ICE facility. Worst I’ve ever seen. More pepper balls than I can count. Teargas in the middle of crowd. Violent arrests. Some type of either noise or rubber bullet shotgun fired into the air then later aimed at protesters chests/heads at near point blank range.
October 12, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Massive escalation at the Portland ICE facility. Worst I’ve ever seen. More pepper balls than I can count. Teargas in the middle of crowd. Violent arrests. Some type of either noise or rubber bullet shotgun fired into the air then later aimed at protesters chests/heads at near point blank range.
Joshua Tree sounds so different and good through the lens of Eno's production instead of Bono's voice
ENO UNIVERSE playlist! A retrospective of Brian Eno’s body of work from 1972-1995 including his solo rock and ambient records and his collaborations with Bowie,Talking Heads, U2, Devo, Fripp, etc! All links and annotated tracklisting in the newsletter issue fluxblog.substack.com/p/fluxblog-5...
Fluxblog 566: ENO UNIVERSE
A retrospective of Brian Eno's music 1972-1995
fluxblog.substack.com
October 12, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Joshua Tree sounds so different and good through the lens of Eno's production instead of Bono's voice
I’d kill at a Taskmaster larp
October 11, 2025 at 7:49 AM
I’d kill at a Taskmaster larp