Justin Baumgardner
@jpbaumgardner.bsky.social
Buffalo, NY
Nonprofits, Board Games, Foresight, Food Security, Sabres Hockey.
Nonprofits, Board Games, Foresight, Food Security, Sabres Hockey.
Encourage a diverse biome. Shuffle every box of lands you happen to see.
November 8, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Encourage a diverse biome. Shuffle every box of lands you happen to see.
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AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
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Let’s go!
Very excited to share this with folks. If you like the idea of a duelling game like Magic or Flesh and Blood, but played with a standard poker deck, then I implore you to hit that get notified button.
Very excited to share this with folks. If you like the idea of a duelling game like Magic or Flesh and Blood, but played with a standard poker deck, then I implore you to hit that get notified button.
youtu.be/ciIa0usT7wM?...
FIGHT WITH PLAYING CARDS. Introducing 52 Duels, a 1 or 2 player duelling game coming to kickstarter next month.
Sign up to get notified when we launch! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos...
FIGHT WITH PLAYING CARDS. Introducing 52 Duels, a 1 or 2 player duelling game coming to kickstarter next month.
Sign up to get notified when we launch! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos...
52 DUELS - A fight with playing cards for 1-2 players
YouTube video by Roll Them Bones
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Let’s go!
Very excited to share this with folks. If you like the idea of a duelling game like Magic or Flesh and Blood, but played with a standard poker deck, then I implore you to hit that get notified button.
Very excited to share this with folks. If you like the idea of a duelling game like Magic or Flesh and Blood, but played with a standard poker deck, then I implore you to hit that get notified button.
Good news to start the day.
November 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Good news to start the day.
Nobody saw it coming.
Altered, the trading card game which broke Kickstarter records with its €6.2m debut crowdfund two years ago, is running almost €2m short of the amount needed for its latest expansion - despite having raised more than 10x its crowdfunding goal from backers:
boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...
boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...
November 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Nobody saw it coming.
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what if instead of sports we chose happiness
November 2, 2025 at 3:41 AM
what if instead of sports we chose happiness
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If SNAP benefits vanished tomorrow, feeding 42 million Americans for a month would cost about $7.8 billion.That’s less than 1% of the combined net worth of the three richest men in the U.S. A reminder of how obscene inequality has become and how easily hunger could be solved if we chose to.
October 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM
If SNAP benefits vanished tomorrow, feeding 42 million Americans for a month would cost about $7.8 billion.That’s less than 1% of the combined net worth of the three richest men in the U.S. A reminder of how obscene inequality has become and how easily hunger could be solved if we chose to.
Whoa whoa whoa, coaching adjustments? Since when!?
October 29, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Whoa whoa whoa, coaching adjustments? Since when!?
Sabres slowly shifting the public narrative back from a nebulous "the vibes are ____" to a tangible "the team is ____."
Meaningful hockey. Important periods. Actually knowing when the next game is.
Meaningful hockey. Important periods. Actually knowing when the next game is.
October 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Sabres slowly shifting the public narrative back from a nebulous "the vibes are ____" to a tangible "the team is ____."
Meaningful hockey. Important periods. Actually knowing when the next game is.
Meaningful hockey. Important periods. Actually knowing when the next game is.
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"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit."
Taxing the rich works!
Taxing the rich works!
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit."
Taxing the rich works!
Taxing the rich works!
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LRT: DO NOT FEED THE GODDAMN TROLLS, YOU ARE ALL THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS OLD AND KNOW BETTER
October 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
LRT: DO NOT FEED THE GODDAMN TROLLS, YOU ARE ALL THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS OLD AND KNOW BETTER
Hahaha go Sabres.
October 16, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Hahaha go Sabres.
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This is the bill for $10 MSRP worth of product sample.
Before tariffs and killing de minimis, this would have been $0.
Before tariffs and killing de minimis, this would have been $0.
October 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This is the bill for $10 MSRP worth of product sample.
Before tariffs and killing de minimis, this would have been $0.
Before tariffs and killing de minimis, this would have been $0.
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What Americans Die from?
And what the media reports on...
Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
And what the media reports on...
Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
October 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
What Americans Die from?
And what the media reports on...
Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
And what the media reports on...
Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
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We are subsidizing AI usage.
Electricity now costs up to 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers.
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
www.bloomberg.com
September 30, 2025 at 9:11 PM
We are subsidizing AI usage.
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The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
September 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
It's soup outside. The air is soup.
September 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
It's soup outside. The air is soup.
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one less thing i need to pick up at the grocery store
September 24, 2025 at 12:36 AM
one less thing i need to pick up at the grocery store
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Did everything become so flooded with bullshit that we lost our collective capacity to name and refuse it?
September 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Did everything become so flooded with bullshit that we lost our collective capacity to name and refuse it?
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TIL that the novelization of Spaceballs (Spaceballs: The Book) was written by R.L. Stine (writing as Jovial Bob Stine)
September 15, 2025 at 11:45 PM
TIL that the novelization of Spaceballs (Spaceballs: The Book) was written by R.L. Stine (writing as Jovial Bob Stine)
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I'm going to put aside the weird feeling of seeing a saint born after I was, but since we know the guy was big on halo 2 there are now people who in 2004-2005 got fragged by a saint on xbox live
Pope Leo XIV canonized Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old who died in 2006, as the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint on Sunday.
September 8, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I'm going to put aside the weird feeling of seeing a saint born after I was, but since we know the guy was big on halo 2 there are now people who in 2004-2005 got fragged by a saint on xbox live
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If they made a Santa Clause movie where a young Tim Allen played for the Bills before killing Santa with his car.
September 8, 2025 at 3:47 AM
If they made a Santa Clause movie where a young Tim Allen played for the Bills before killing Santa with his car.
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This is what I cant wrap my mind around
With 4:48 left to play, the #Bills were down 15 points and had a 0.9% chance of winning this game
And somehow…somehow they pulled it off and scored 16 points to win
Mind-boggling #BillsMafia
With 4:48 left to play, the #Bills were down 15 points and had a 0.9% chance of winning this game
And somehow…somehow they pulled it off and scored 16 points to win
Mind-boggling #BillsMafia
September 8, 2025 at 4:00 AM
This is what I cant wrap my mind around
With 4:48 left to play, the #Bills were down 15 points and had a 0.9% chance of winning this game
And somehow…somehow they pulled it off and scored 16 points to win
Mind-boggling #BillsMafia
With 4:48 left to play, the #Bills were down 15 points and had a 0.9% chance of winning this game
And somehow…somehow they pulled it off and scored 16 points to win
Mind-boggling #BillsMafia