Trick Jarrett
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Editor-in-Chief Riftbound
Ex-Professional Wizard. Hobbyist coder. Aspiring author. Soccer fan. (he/him)
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Ex-Professional Wizard. Hobbyist coder. Aspiring author. Soccer fan. (he/him)
trickjarrett.com // trick.is
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I am a very lazy person and being an "Alpha Male" is a lot of busywork on a checklist of things you can't do, and people you're obliged to hate, and even if I were so inclined, which I am not, thank you very much, I couldn't possibly be bothered
Refusing to follow their script / demonstrating the falseness of their grift isn't very Alpha Male of you, Scalzi.
December 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I am a very lazy person and being an "Alpha Male" is a lot of busywork on a checklist of things you can't do, and people you're obliged to hate, and even if I were so inclined, which I am not, thank you very much, I couldn't possibly be bothered
I forgot the wild cast lineup of Glass Onion
December 26, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I forgot the wild cast lineup of Glass Onion
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News, opinion and analysis of Seattle Sounders and Seattle Reign.
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December 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Happy Xmas y’all. If you neglected to buy some gifts, here’s a 20% off offer on our Supporter-tier membership: www.sounderatheart.com/gift-subscri...
you will be visited by 3 spirits
December 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
you will be visited by 3 spirits
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When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
"The newspaper industry served as a feeder for our entire news media ecosystem. So when we lose those newspapers, we've lost that journalism. In the early 2000s, we had 40 journalists per 100,000 people. We're now down to 8 journalists per 100,000 people," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.
December 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
When I was on CNN's northeast desk, the first job at 6a every morning was to read the local papers. That guided some of what the massive CNN machine followed every day.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
When those papers die, CNN doesn't hire new regional reporters. What you get instead is more panel shows, more punditry.
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This! Ideas are easy. Execution of them is hard and messy.
Ideas are, no question, the cheap part. I have SPREADSHEETS of ideas, and if I keep up my current production rate, which is already unrealistically high, I will die before I finish using them all. EXECUTION is the important part.
December 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
This! Ideas are easy. Execution of them is hard and messy.
Also, if I win the powerball, I won't announce it but there will be signs.
disney misfits tic-the-tiger is written on the bottom of the screen
ALT: disney misfits tic-the-tiger is written on the bottom of the screen
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December 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Also, if I win the powerball, I won't announce it but there will be signs.
That feeling when a technology thing breaks in the house, and at first you worry that it's your fault, then discover it isn't your fault but you aren't sure why it happened?
Yeah, that feeling is very mixed
Yeah, that feeling is very mixed
December 24, 2025 at 8:19 AM
That feeling when a technology thing breaks in the house, and at first you worry that it's your fault, then discover it isn't your fault but you aren't sure why it happened?
Yeah, that feeling is very mixed
Yeah, that feeling is very mixed
I got my new Kobo ereader and the first book I read was On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder. A fast but important read in these times. Here are a few highlights I made in the book: www.trickjarrett.com/2025-12-23.h...
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December 24, 2025 at 6:10 AM
I got my new Kobo ereader and the first book I read was On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder. A fast but important read in these times. Here are a few highlights I made in the book: www.trickjarrett.com/2025-12-23.h...
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These declines are MASSIVE.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.
December 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
These declines are MASSIVE.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING.
“Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?”
THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it.
Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
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Incredible story. Garmin has a feature in some of their new glass cockpit systems that can detect if a pilot becomes unresponsive. This weekend it activated in a non-test scenario for the first time www.flightradar24.com/blog/aviatio...
Garmin Emergency Autoland deployed for the first time | Flightradar24 Blog
Garmin autoland was deployed for the first time in an emergency, safely landing Beech B200 Super King Air N479BR in Denver.
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December 23, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Incredible story. Garmin has a feature in some of their new glass cockpit systems that can detect if a pilot becomes unresponsive. This weekend it activated in a non-test scenario for the first time www.flightradar24.com/blog/aviatio...
The absolute luckiest guess I've ever had on the second guess in Wordle
Wordle 1,647 2/6
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December 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The absolute luckiest guess I've ever had on the second guess in Wordle
Wordle 1,647 2/6
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Wordle 1,647 2/6
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you've been kidnapped. the characters from the last tv show you watched are trying to rescue you.
Bad news, I need to be dead first.
Bad news, I need to be dead first.
December 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
you've been kidnapped. the characters from the last tv show you watched are trying to rescue you.
Bad news, I need to be dead first.
Bad news, I need to be dead first.
I have been using my old Surface Duo 2 as my e-reader after I retired it as my daily phone and today I decided it was time to move on. I ordered a Kobo Libra Color to officially return to an e-ink e-reader. I couldn't bring myself to support Kindle.
December 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I have been using my old Surface Duo 2 as my e-reader after I retired it as my daily phone and today I decided it was time to move on. I ordered a Kobo Libra Color to officially return to an e-ink e-reader. I couldn't bring myself to support Kindle.
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Our sister National Park Ranger Betty Reid Soskin has joined the ancestors to live eternally in our most cherished memories. She passed away on December 21, 2025 at the age of 104. She will be forever revered as an inspiration to the enduring legacy of our heritage as free nation. est in peace.
December 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Our sister National Park Ranger Betty Reid Soskin has joined the ancestors to live eternally in our most cherished memories. She passed away on December 21, 2025 at the age of 104. She will be forever revered as an inspiration to the enduring legacy of our heritage as free nation. est in peace.
Alright, I'm throwing in the towel on The Wager.
I wanted to love it, and I did for the first bit. But it's lost me and I'm only halfway through. Time to jump to something else.
I wanted to love it, and I did for the first bit. But it's lost me and I'm only halfway through. Time to jump to something else.
December 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Alright, I'm throwing in the towel on The Wager.
I wanted to love it, and I did for the first bit. But it's lost me and I'm only halfway through. Time to jump to something else.
I wanted to love it, and I did for the first bit. But it's lost me and I'm only halfway through. Time to jump to something else.
This seems like a good time to tell everyone about how I met Bernice.
In college around 2003, I did morning classical radio for WREK once a week or so for a year or so. At WreK, on the soundboard, was a sticker label that said "Be nice to Bernice"
In college around 2003, I did morning classical radio for WREK once a week or so for a year or so. At WreK, on the soundboard, was a sticker label that said "Be nice to Bernice"
If I see a rat in my fucking toilet there is no way I'm going to calmly close the lid and go get some Palmolive
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December 22, 2025 at 12:14 AM
This seems like a good time to tell everyone about how I met Bernice.
In college around 2003, I did morning classical radio for WREK once a week or so for a year or so. At WreK, on the soundboard, was a sticker label that said "Be nice to Bernice"
In college around 2003, I did morning classical radio for WREK once a week or so for a year or so. At WreK, on the soundboard, was a sticker label that said "Be nice to Bernice"
My wife's mother had never seen The Princess Bride, so we introduced it to her this morning. Such an amazing film. Here's my movie radar of it.
December 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
My wife's mother had never seen The Princess Bride, so we introduced it to her this morning. Such an amazing film. Here's my movie radar of it.
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On the winter solstice, the Sun rises and shines down the length of the 5,100-year-old Newgrange passage tomb in County Meath, Ireland.
Remarkable designing and implementation by the Neolithic engineers who built it.
Remarkable designing and implementation by the Neolithic engineers who built it.
December 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
On the winter solstice, the Sun rises and shines down the length of the 5,100-year-old Newgrange passage tomb in County Meath, Ireland.
Remarkable designing and implementation by the Neolithic engineers who built it.
Remarkable designing and implementation by the Neolithic engineers who built it.
Happy Solstice my friends. A reminder that after the darkness, always comes the light.
December 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Happy Solstice my friends. A reminder that after the darkness, always comes the light.
Tuned in for the 4th quarter of the Bears / Green Bay game and wow, what a finish
December 21, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Tuned in for the 4th quarter of the Bears / Green Bay game and wow, what a finish
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wow, seeing Jake Paul get beaten half to death, true terror in his eyes, really improved my whole outlook on life
December 20, 2025 at 5:26 AM
wow, seeing Jake Paul get beaten half to death, true terror in his eyes, really improved my whole outlook on life
What a treasure.
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
What a treasure.