Sma Shmo
@barcssarc.bsky.social
Artist, Musician, Board Game Creator, Dog Person.
Humanist, egalitarian, leftist; cis, polyam, fierce LGBTQ+ ally; antifash, antiracist.
Trans people are real and trans rights are human rights.
Humanist, egalitarian, leftist; cis, polyam, fierce LGBTQ+ ally; antifash, antiracist.
Trans people are real and trans rights are human rights.
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Sma Shmo
@barcssarc.bsky.social
· Feb 10
I made this last year but never posted it to social media.
The time has come:
The time has come:
My friend Liz made a game! Go back it--it's gonna be goooooood
Queen of Spies is live! Go back my first game with @djackthompson.bsky.social to make it to print. We are so proud! @saltandpeppergames.bsky.social gamefound.com/en/projects/...
Queen of Spies by SaltandPepper - Gamefound
Queen of Spies is a solo, story-driven board game of espionage and daring missions set in occupied Belgium during the First World War.
gamefound.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
My friend Liz made a game! Go back it--it's gonna be goooooood
An extremely diverse army of hungry, experienced journalists will be looking for work. The Market is RIPE for new media and I'm wondering how that's going to shape up.
Watching these legacy media companies cut their own arms and legs off in real time is wild, to say the least.
Watching these legacy media companies cut their own arms and legs off in real time is wild, to say the least.
NBC just gutted the very teams that gave marginalized voices a seat at the table—then called it “restructuring.”
The cuts:
📌NBC BLK (Black community coverage)
📌NBC Latino (Latino community coverage)
📌NBC Asian America (Asian American community coverage)
📌NBC Out (LGBTQ+ community coverage)
The cuts:
📌NBC BLK (Black community coverage)
📌NBC Latino (Latino community coverage)
📌NBC Asian America (Asian American community coverage)
📌NBC Out (LGBTQ+ community coverage)
October 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
An extremely diverse army of hungry, experienced journalists will be looking for work. The Market is RIPE for new media and I'm wondering how that's going to shape up.
Watching these legacy media companies cut their own arms and legs off in real time is wild, to say the least.
Watching these legacy media companies cut their own arms and legs off in real time is wild, to say the least.
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I wrote about a new Nazi party that seeks to criminalize all human virtue, and how that means that human virtue is the greatest weapon against the new Nazi project.
www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...
www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...
The Crime of Human Virtue
Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.
www.the-reframe.com
October 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I wrote about a new Nazi party that seeks to criminalize all human virtue, and how that means that human virtue is the greatest weapon against the new Nazi project.
www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...
www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...
Adobe Pro-Tip:
Preferences > General >
Uncheck "Show Tool Tips"
Was driving me *bonkers*, stupid animated popups any time the cursor even grazes a tool icon. Side note: I wish to god there were any sustainable alternative to Illustrator (Affinity tools sadly lack critical features).
Preferences > General >
Uncheck "Show Tool Tips"
Was driving me *bonkers*, stupid animated popups any time the cursor even grazes a tool icon. Side note: I wish to god there were any sustainable alternative to Illustrator (Affinity tools sadly lack critical features).
August 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Adobe Pro-Tip:
Preferences > General >
Uncheck "Show Tool Tips"
Was driving me *bonkers*, stupid animated popups any time the cursor even grazes a tool icon. Side note: I wish to god there were any sustainable alternative to Illustrator (Affinity tools sadly lack critical features).
Preferences > General >
Uncheck "Show Tool Tips"
Was driving me *bonkers*, stupid animated popups any time the cursor even grazes a tool icon. Side note: I wish to god there were any sustainable alternative to Illustrator (Affinity tools sadly lack critical features).
My partner, an employee at a small public school, had a mandatory AI seminar recently. Some goon got up in front of all of the staff and basically gave them an extended sales pitch for how to rely more strongly on AI in their work, and how to encourage our children to rely on it too.
August 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
My partner, an employee at a small public school, had a mandatory AI seminar recently. Some goon got up in front of all of the staff and basically gave them an extended sales pitch for how to rely more strongly on AI in their work, and how to encourage our children to rely on it too.
I feel dumber every time I hear "smash that Like button"
August 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I feel dumber every time I hear "smash that Like button"
Seeing news about impending 15-50% grocery store price hikes and reminiscing about all the truck chuds hollering into their phones about the price of eggs circa last fucking year
August 8, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Seeing news about impending 15-50% grocery store price hikes and reminiscing about all the truck chuds hollering into their phones about the price of eggs circa last fucking year
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Imagine you have a friend. Let’s call him Rick Reasonable.
Now imagine you have an enemy. Let’s call your enemy Bart B. Oilingwater.
Bart is a real piece of crap. Whenever he sees you, he throws boiling water at you.
www.the-reframe.com/boiling-water/
Now imagine you have an enemy. Let’s call your enemy Bart B. Oilingwater.
Bart is a real piece of crap. Whenever he sees you, he throws boiling water at you.
www.the-reframe.com/boiling-water/
Boiling Water
The corrosive damage cause by forcing people to defend their own lives by debating ideas that have already been defeated.
www.the-reframe.com
August 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Imagine you have a friend. Let’s call him Rick Reasonable.
Now imagine you have an enemy. Let’s call your enemy Bart B. Oilingwater.
Bart is a real piece of crap. Whenever he sees you, he throws boiling water at you.
www.the-reframe.com/boiling-water/
Now imagine you have an enemy. Let’s call your enemy Bart B. Oilingwater.
Bart is a real piece of crap. Whenever he sees you, he throws boiling water at you.
www.the-reframe.com/boiling-water/
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Instead of “Alligator Alcatraz” or “Alligator Auschwitz”, let me suggest that we call it simply the Dade-Collier Concentration Camp.
Hang the name on Florida. Make them own this disgraceful moment in U.S. history. Make our grandchildren lobby to change the name of Dade County out of shame.
Hang the name on Florida. Make them own this disgraceful moment in U.S. history. Make our grandchildren lobby to change the name of Dade County out of shame.
July 9, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Instead of “Alligator Alcatraz” or “Alligator Auschwitz”, let me suggest that we call it simply the Dade-Collier Concentration Camp.
Hang the name on Florida. Make them own this disgraceful moment in U.S. history. Make our grandchildren lobby to change the name of Dade County out of shame.
Hang the name on Florida. Make them own this disgraceful moment in U.S. history. Make our grandchildren lobby to change the name of Dade County out of shame.
Fourth of July is a day that I've always been able to celebrate, even in the face of systemic injustice, inequity, and corruption, because I consider myself a patriot who yearns for the USA to live up to its promises of equality and potential for greatness
Today, though, I am numb.
Today, though, I am numb.
July 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Fourth of July is a day that I've always been able to celebrate, even in the face of systemic injustice, inequity, and corruption, because I consider myself a patriot who yearns for the USA to live up to its promises of equality and potential for greatness
Today, though, I am numb.
Today, though, I am numb.
I'd be curious to see what this graph would look like if it went back to October of 2024.
July 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I'd be curious to see what this graph would look like if it went back to October of 2024.
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“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money" say people who think that constantly raising the price of goods and charging increasingly large subscriptions and rents for everything, while people's wages stay the same is a sustainable model
July 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money" say people who think that constantly raising the price of goods and charging increasingly large subscriptions and rents for everything, while people's wages stay the same is a sustainable model
Shilling for Cuomo or against Zohran is an instant block. No better way to demonstrate that you are for corrupt corporate, wealthy interests over the American people.
And I don't live anywhere near New York.
And I don't live anywhere near New York.
June 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Shilling for Cuomo or against Zohran is an instant block. No better way to demonstrate that you are for corrupt corporate, wealthy interests over the American people.
And I don't live anywhere near New York.
And I don't live anywhere near New York.
Gee I wonder if this has anything to do with deleting his post about Rump being in the Epstein files.
Amazing how transparently self-serving Musk is; how unendingly terrible he is at pretending his motives are anything but.
He is also apparently unaware of the Streisand Effect
Amazing how transparently self-serving Musk is; how unendingly terrible he is at pretending his motives are anything but.
He is also apparently unaware of the Streisand Effect
June 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Gee I wonder if this has anything to do with deleting his post about Rump being in the Epstein files.
Amazing how transparently self-serving Musk is; how unendingly terrible he is at pretending his motives are anything but.
He is also apparently unaware of the Streisand Effect
Amazing how transparently self-serving Musk is; how unendingly terrible he is at pretending his motives are anything but.
He is also apparently unaware of the Streisand Effect
What I don't get, is why the press gives the benefit of doubt to masked, unidentified men who refuse to answer basic questions about accountability, and refers to them as "federal agents."
BREAKING: Brad Lander Detained by Masked Federal Agents Inside Immigration Court
buff.ly/tnmNADl
buff.ly/tnmNADl
Brad Lander Detained by Masked Federal Agents Inside Immigration Court
The arrest came in his latest visit to the courthouse to speak with migrants there.
www.thecity.nyc
June 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
What I don't get, is why the press gives the benefit of doubt to masked, unidentified men who refuse to answer basic questions about accountability, and refers to them as "federal agents."
I had countless reservations about the NSw2, and I wrote it off for myself.
The ambient hype about a new console is real, though. The FOMO, the nostalgia.
Instead, I looked more closely at the Playdate and decided to order one. It arrived yesterday and let me tell you: it is so, so rad. I'm hyped
The ambient hype about a new console is real, though. The FOMO, the nostalgia.
Instead, I looked more closely at the Playdate and decided to order one. It arrived yesterday and let me tell you: it is so, so rad. I'm hyped
June 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I had countless reservations about the NSw2, and I wrote it off for myself.
The ambient hype about a new console is real, though. The FOMO, the nostalgia.
Instead, I looked more closely at the Playdate and decided to order one. It arrived yesterday and let me tell you: it is so, so rad. I'm hyped
The ambient hype about a new console is real, though. The FOMO, the nostalgia.
Instead, I looked more closely at the Playdate and decided to order one. It arrived yesterday and let me tell you: it is so, so rad. I'm hyped
Tapper and Fetterman are what annoys Democrats about Democrats
Somehow I doubt Jake Tapper is going to get put on leave for retweeting this.
June 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Tapper and Fetterman are what annoys Democrats about Democrats
first place my brain went
uh, sorry?
uh, sorry?
June 10, 2025 at 5:40 AM
first place my brain went
uh, sorry?
uh, sorry?
There are two things in particular that I find way more cringey than people who like feet:
1. Making fun of people who like feet.
2. Responding to anything related to feet, or people who like feet, with references to Quentin Tarantino. (See: #1, above)
1. Making fun of people who like feet.
2. Responding to anything related to feet, or people who like feet, with references to Quentin Tarantino. (See: #1, above)
June 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
There are two things in particular that I find way more cringey than people who like feet:
1. Making fun of people who like feet.
2. Responding to anything related to feet, or people who like feet, with references to Quentin Tarantino. (See: #1, above)
1. Making fun of people who like feet.
2. Responding to anything related to feet, or people who like feet, with references to Quentin Tarantino. (See: #1, above)
One of the things that kills me about corpos pulling out of Pride month en masse is how instantly they dumped their 'allyship' at IMAGINED consequences
Seems to me they should be blacklisted forever but let's be honest: when you have the money, you can ally with anyone at any time. People forget.
Seems to me they should be blacklisted forever but let's be honest: when you have the money, you can ally with anyone at any time. People forget.
June 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
One of the things that kills me about corpos pulling out of Pride month en masse is how instantly they dumped their 'allyship' at IMAGINED consequences
Seems to me they should be blacklisted forever but let's be honest: when you have the money, you can ally with anyone at any time. People forget.
Seems to me they should be blacklisted forever but let's be honest: when you have the money, you can ally with anyone at any time. People forget.
I was in college when Metallica started a crusade against digital piracy.
Today we are told that corpos should have the right to just take everyone else's creative work without attribution or royalty; use it to create software to replace creative people entirely
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalli....
Today we are told that corpos should have the right to just take everyone else's creative work without attribution or royalty; use it to create software to replace creative people entirely
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalli....
June 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I was in college when Metallica started a crusade against digital piracy.
Today we are told that corpos should have the right to just take everyone else's creative work without attribution or royalty; use it to create software to replace creative people entirely
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalli....
Today we are told that corpos should have the right to just take everyone else's creative work without attribution or royalty; use it to create software to replace creative people entirely
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalli....
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trans people are real and bathrooms and sports are made up. if you act like that's the other way around i do not have to hear your argument because it is based on a false premise
May 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
trans people are real and bathrooms and sports are made up. if you act like that's the other way around i do not have to hear your argument because it is based on a false premise
If you ever find yourself saying, "I won't be made to feel guilty" in response to pushback, take pause.
I think 10/10 times it's a strawman that gives oneself permission not to think more deeply about one's opinions and/or actions.
YOU are the one who just brought "guilt" into it. Why is that?
I think 10/10 times it's a strawman that gives oneself permission not to think more deeply about one's opinions and/or actions.
YOU are the one who just brought "guilt" into it. Why is that?
May 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If you ever find yourself saying, "I won't be made to feel guilty" in response to pushback, take pause.
I think 10/10 times it's a strawman that gives oneself permission not to think more deeply about one's opinions and/or actions.
YOU are the one who just brought "guilt" into it. Why is that?
I think 10/10 times it's a strawman that gives oneself permission not to think more deeply about one's opinions and/or actions.
YOU are the one who just brought "guilt" into it. Why is that?