Jack Farrell
@johnofhearts.bsky.social
Lawyer and organizer. Research attorney for YIMBY Law, a pro-housing advocacy organization: https://www.yimbylaw.org/
Senior Editor for Gamingtrend.com, covering underground film and tabletop game publication.
Senior Editor for Gamingtrend.com, covering underground film and tabletop game publication.
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(1/4) Lakewood just adopted one of Colorado’s most significant zoning updates: legalizing middle housing citywide and making room for the kind of compact, affordable homes the city has been missing.
November 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
(1/4) Lakewood just adopted one of Colorado’s most significant zoning updates: legalizing middle housing citywide and making room for the kind of compact, affordable homes the city has been missing.
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Why am I so against generative AI in games?
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Why am I so against generative AI in games?
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
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Thank you Mother Jones for this profile of our work. Getting over 100 bill signed into law — including some bangers that are having big impacts — has been a deep honor. I’m grateful to my colleagues & the community coalitions we’ve worked w/ in the “Department of Getting Sh*t Done.”
Scott Wiener defeated California’s NIMBYs. Can he fix America’s housing crisis?
By running for Nancy Pelosi's House seat, he's putting the abundance theory to the test.
www.motherjones.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Thank you Mother Jones for this profile of our work. Getting over 100 bill signed into law — including some bangers that are having big impacts — has been a deep honor. I’m grateful to my colleagues & the community coalitions we’ve worked w/ in the “Department of Getting Sh*t Done.”
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Most of the time, post-release game DLC isn't to sell to existing owners. It's part of a post-release marketing strategy to keep the game in the public eye longer. Also, most new buyers will gravitate towards purchasing game+DLC bundles if they exist over just the standalone game.
November 12, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Most of the time, post-release game DLC isn't to sell to existing owners. It's part of a post-release marketing strategy to keep the game in the public eye longer. Also, most new buyers will gravitate towards purchasing game+DLC bundles if they exist over just the standalone game.
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The @chicagotribune.com motorheads aren't happy about the transit bill's measures to right-size parking. "To the delight of our vociferous anti-car lobby, the bill includes the People Over Parking Act (always be on guard for these Orwellian names)." 🤣
@stevevance.net @betterstreetschicago.org
@stevevance.net @betterstreetschicago.org
Editorial: Watch out, NIMBY groups. Your parking weapon just got blunted.
Parking minimimums in downtown Evanston and Highland Park are toast.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The @chicagotribune.com motorheads aren't happy about the transit bill's measures to right-size parking. "To the delight of our vociferous anti-car lobby, the bill includes the People Over Parking Act (always be on guard for these Orwellian names)." 🤣
@stevevance.net @betterstreetschicago.org
@stevevance.net @betterstreetschicago.org
You would think the hardest part about writing laws is integrating code sections and balancing political interests, but it's actually just working with word processors. Google Docs and Microsoft Word are worse than any community activist or conservative senator I've ever seen.
November 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
You would think the hardest part about writing laws is integrating code sections and balancing political interests, but it's actually just working with word processors. Google Docs and Microsoft Word are worse than any community activist or conservative senator I've ever seen.
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15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
October 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
So in universe, how exactly does Godzilla insurance work? Does it not exist at all and the plan is to build for destruction, or are the premiums just ridiculous?
October 31, 2025 at 10:54 AM
So in universe, how exactly does Godzilla insurance work? Does it not exist at all and the plan is to build for destruction, or are the premiums just ridiculous?
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Excellent turnout for our Life After Cars live event with @yimbyaction.bsky.social in San Francisco tonight! So great to meet so many awesome people.
October 26, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Excellent turnout for our Life After Cars live event with @yimbyaction.bsky.social in San Francisco tonight! So great to meet so many awesome people.
Hey, I was quoted talking about Shadowrun! (complaining, sorry, not that you would be surprised)
Shadowrun is a unique phenomenon in the world of games. It's not the biggest game, but almost everyone’s heard of it — though what they’ve heard might not be complimentary. What's the story there? Why does it have the reputation it does?
Why do people love to hate Shadowrun?
A long-form exploration of corporations, cyberpunk, and elves.
www.rascal.news
October 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Hey, I was quoted talking about Shadowrun! (complaining, sorry, not that you would be surprised)
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Writer/Director Alexandre Franchi’s indie thriller ‘The Wild Hunt’ starring Mark Antony Krupa, Ricky Mabe, and Kaniehtiio Horn made its debut in Sweden at the Lund Fantastic Film Festival this week in 2010. 💔 ⚔️ 💀 #OTD
September 23, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Writer/Director Alexandre Franchi’s indie thriller ‘The Wild Hunt’ starring Mark Antony Krupa, Ricky Mabe, and Kaniehtiio Horn made its debut in Sweden at the Lund Fantastic Film Festival this week in 2010. 💔 ⚔️ 💀 #OTD
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Truly amazing to get a literal sack full of fifty grand in cash from the FBI and then nothing else happens
September 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Truly amazing to get a literal sack full of fifty grand in cash from the FBI and then nothing else happens
Very sorry to not be a downer right now but we just got major housing reform passed in California. Automatic upzoning near transit that will make housing cheaper, more accessible, and more environmentally sound.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
California lawmakers pass SB 79, housing bill that brings dense housing to transit hubs
After months of debate, California lawmakers on Friday passed SB 79, a housing bill that overrides local zoning laws to bring high-density housing up to nine stories tall to transit hubs.
www.latimes.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Very sorry to not be a downer right now but we just got major housing reform passed in California. Automatic upzoning near transit that will make housing cheaper, more accessible, and more environmentally sound.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
I have only the vaguest ideas of how this will turn out, but no doubt that it's going to be extravagantly weird. I'm all for it. gamingtrend.com/interviews/a...
Art Installation Meow Wolf announces TTRPG with Exalted Funeral
The game designers talk about the challenges of adapting non-literal narratives
gamingtrend.com
September 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I have only the vaguest ideas of how this will turn out, but no doubt that it's going to be extravagantly weird. I'm all for it. gamingtrend.com/interviews/a...
Please, I'm begging you, institute the Bulterian Jihad. A Carrington event. Anything to stop this cruel, ghoulish hell from getting any worse.
At 4p ET/1p PT, I’ll have a one of a kind interview with Joaquin Oliver. He died in the Parkland school shooting. But his parents have created an AI version of their son for a powerful message on gun violence. Plus TX Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social - see you soon on Substack and later on YouTube.
August 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Please, I'm begging you, institute the Bulterian Jihad. A Carrington event. Anything to stop this cruel, ghoulish hell from getting any worse.
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My hottest take about getting laid-as-politicsis it's downstream from housing policy. Nobody wants to have sex where they live with their parents, or have 1k roommates. We must increase the supply of cheap little apartments where people can bang 🙏
August 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
My hottest take about getting laid-as-politicsis it's downstream from housing policy. Nobody wants to have sex where they live with their parents, or have 1k roommates. We must increase the supply of cheap little apartments where people can bang 🙏
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the high point of my being denounced as a neoliberal shill on tiktok is when i insisted that gentrification is downstream of housing supply constraints, and isn’t a quality inherently possessed by people you don’t like
maybe I’ll get pilloried for like “not getting the joke” or whatever, but this is absolutely how, like, a comfortable percentage of Cool People think the dynamics of housing costs work and it fucking sucks
July 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
the high point of my being denounced as a neoliberal shill on tiktok is when i insisted that gentrification is downstream of housing supply constraints, and isn’t a quality inherently possessed by people you don’t like
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MOTHER OF FLIES has won the jury award at the Fantasia International Film Festival. Well deserved - this is a major return to form for indie horror powerhouse The Adams Family, and might just be their greatest film to date.
Mother of Flies – Fantasia review
A mournful, mossy spell of grief and devotion in the Adams Family’s return-to-form witchy cancer drama. ★★★★ Great news out of Fantasia for fans of indie horror powerhouse the Adams Family: their n…
whitlockandpope.com
July 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
MOTHER OF FLIES has won the jury award at the Fantasia International Film Festival. Well deserved - this is a major return to form for indie horror powerhouse The Adams Family, and might just be their greatest film to date.
Indie filmmakers, I am begging you: make an official web page or linktree for your movie. Some way to follow youw. Do you have any idea how many times I've tried to reach out to write an article on someone's movie only to find NO CONTACT INFORMATION available anywhere? Broadcast your talent.
July 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Indie filmmakers, I am begging you: make an official web page or linktree for your movie. Some way to follow youw. Do you have any idea how many times I've tried to reach out to write an article on someone's movie only to find NO CONTACT INFORMATION available anywhere? Broadcast your talent.
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If you dig Art house horror, I played a bounty hunter Hank Ray in Zombie With a Shotgun.
Put it on your watch list my friends.
www.amazon.com/gp/video/det...
Indie all the way my friends. No plan B.
#Filmsky
Put it on your watch list my friends.
www.amazon.com/gp/video/det...
Indie all the way my friends. No plan B.
#Filmsky
July 16, 2025 at 1:38 AM
If you dig Art house horror, I played a bounty hunter Hank Ray in Zombie With a Shotgun.
Put it on your watch list my friends.
www.amazon.com/gp/video/det...
Indie all the way my friends. No plan B.
#Filmsky
Put it on your watch list my friends.
www.amazon.com/gp/video/det...
Indie all the way my friends. No plan B.
#Filmsky
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🅿️ An ordinance that will remove parking requirements for new housing around transit has advanced out of committee in Chicago!
It will be voted on by the full city council as soon as tomorrow! Please call and email your alders in support of parking reform!
Thank you @aldermanlaspata.bsky.social!
It will be voted on by the full city council as soon as tomorrow! Please call and email your alders in support of parking reform!
Thank you @aldermanlaspata.bsky.social!
July 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
🅿️ An ordinance that will remove parking requirements for new housing around transit has advanced out of committee in Chicago!
It will be voted on by the full city council as soon as tomorrow! Please call and email your alders in support of parking reform!
Thank you @aldermanlaspata.bsky.social!
It will be voted on by the full city council as soon as tomorrow! Please call and email your alders in support of parking reform!
Thank you @aldermanlaspata.bsky.social!
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"I don’t care how much you love working people. They can’t afford a house because all the rules in your state make it prohibitive to build. And zoning prevents multifamily structures because of NIMBY. I don’t want to know your ideology, because you can’t build anything. It does not matter."
obama weighs in on both fight/don't fight debate and also housing/no housing debate. bold moves
www.cnn.com/2025/07/14/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/07/14/p...
Obama’s blunt message for Democrats: ‘Toughen up’ | CNN Politics
Former President Barack Obama issued a call to action for Democrats at a private fundraiser in New Jersey on Friday evening, urging those frustrated by the state of the country under President Donald ...
www.cnn.com
July 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
"I don’t care how much you love working people. They can’t afford a house because all the rules in your state make it prohibitive to build. And zoning prevents multifamily structures because of NIMBY. I don’t want to know your ideology, because you can’t build anything. It does not matter."
It's not just hype, Albert Pyun's cut of Captain America is a thoughtful, touching movie that's remarkably different from the theatrical version. gamingtrend.com/editorials/r...
Restoring Albert Pyun's Captain America — a lost hero returns
The once and future cut shows us just how much an edit can change a film
gamingtrend.com
July 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
It's not just hype, Albert Pyun's cut of Captain America is a thoughtful, touching movie that's remarkably different from the theatrical version. gamingtrend.com/editorials/r...
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Today's the day, #StopKillingGames
If you are in Europe or UK, go sign the European Citizens' Initiative petition or the UK government petition - links and instructions can be found on the Stop Killing Games website: www.stopkillinggames.com
It only takes a couple minutes to sign!
If you are in Europe or UK, go sign the European Citizens' Initiative petition or the UK government petition - links and instructions can be found on the Stop Killing Games website: www.stopkillinggames.com
It only takes a couple minutes to sign!
July 2, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Today's the day, #StopKillingGames
If you are in Europe or UK, go sign the European Citizens' Initiative petition or the UK government petition - links and instructions can be found on the Stop Killing Games website: www.stopkillinggames.com
It only takes a couple minutes to sign!
If you are in Europe or UK, go sign the European Citizens' Initiative petition or the UK government petition - links and instructions can be found on the Stop Killing Games website: www.stopkillinggames.com
It only takes a couple minutes to sign!