Marc G.
@gootmu.bsky.social
He/him. For anything you could possibly think, there exists some They that want you to think it.
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Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
November 18, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
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BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
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Gambetta & Origgi on the LL Game, in which agents prefer to deliver and receive (!) low quality.
This paper is absolutely savage but also feels uncomfortably relevant to parts of academia outside of Italy 👀
diegogambetta.org/wp-content/u...
This paper is absolutely savage but also feels uncomfortably relevant to parts of academia outside of Italy 👀
diegogambetta.org/wp-content/u...
October 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Gambetta & Origgi on the LL Game, in which agents prefer to deliver and receive (!) low quality.
This paper is absolutely savage but also feels uncomfortably relevant to parts of academia outside of Italy 👀
diegogambetta.org/wp-content/u...
This paper is absolutely savage but also feels uncomfortably relevant to parts of academia outside of Italy 👀
diegogambetta.org/wp-content/u...
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they are profoundly unpopular and they are raising the volume and the threats because they know they are profoundly unpopular
the grand jury in DC has no true billed at least eight cases. i don't know that the DOJ as a whole gets eight NTBs a year. to my understanding after talking to a former DOJ prosecutor, getting a single NTB is like a medical "never" event. like leaving a scalpel in a patient.
If you're writing about how Stephen Miller's going to use this as a pretext for going after the left I think it's incumbent on you to say how he plans on doing that. Otherwise it's just scaring people into submission before he's done anything.
September 16, 2025 at 3:43 AM
they are profoundly unpopular and they are raising the volume and the threats because they know they are profoundly unpopular
OK, hear me out...A LORD OF THE RINGS remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
August 30, 2025 at 9:07 PM
OK, hear me out...A LORD OF THE RINGS remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
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Imagine it's 1850 and you've just been flattened by an elite cavalry officer who just yells "SOWWY" as he thunders away.
![Screenshot of a tweet:
British cavalry in the 1850s consisted entirely of twinks who used UwU-speak...
[Photo of a book page] "The dash of British cavalry officers was never greater than at the opening of the Crimean campaign in the spring of 1854. These aristocratic horsemen were, in the idiom of the day, "plungers," "tremendous swells." They affected elegant boredom, yawned a great deal, spoke a jargon of their own, pronouncing "r" as "w," saying "vewwy," "howwid," and "sowwy," and interlarded sentences with loud and meaningless exclamations of "Haw, haw." Their sweeping whiskers, languid voices, tiny waists, laced in by corsets, and their large cigars were irresistible, frantically admired, and as frantically envied. Magnificently mounted, horses were their passion; they rode like the devil himself, and their confidence in their ability to defeat any enemy single-handed was com-plete. Cavalry officers were saying in London drawing-rooms that to take infantry on the campaign was superfluous; the infantry would merely be a drag on them, and had better be left at
home."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uqonrv6u7reqli3kksljamwr/bafkreifqd3kvkwqy6k2vuajha3vrughks5bfvl72vglbaywl7nnzyxwqp4@jpeg)
August 15, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Imagine it's 1850 and you've just been flattened by an elite cavalry officer who just yells "SOWWY" as he thunders away.
A few weeks late for the trend, but time is an illusion.
1 like = 1 random CCG I have squirreled away somewhere in this house.
1 like = 1 random CCG I have squirreled away somewhere in this house.
August 16, 2025 at 1:34 AM
A few weeks late for the trend, but time is an illusion.
1 like = 1 random CCG I have squirreled away somewhere in this house.
1 like = 1 random CCG I have squirreled away somewhere in this house.
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Doing an old NYT crossword reprinted in the Sunday press with @perchperchson.bsky.social
and that’s how I learned that “Marisa Tomei” is an anagram for “It’s a me, Mario.” This feels impossible, correct, and like an Italian American hate crime all at once.
and that’s how I learned that “Marisa Tomei” is an anagram for “It’s a me, Mario.” This feels impossible, correct, and like an Italian American hate crime all at once.
August 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Doing an old NYT crossword reprinted in the Sunday press with @perchperchson.bsky.social
and that’s how I learned that “Marisa Tomei” is an anagram for “It’s a me, Mario.” This feels impossible, correct, and like an Italian American hate crime all at once.
and that’s how I learned that “Marisa Tomei” is an anagram for “It’s a me, Mario.” This feels impossible, correct, and like an Italian American hate crime all at once.
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The perfect @amiberger.bsky.social content does not exi-
June 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The perfect @amiberger.bsky.social content does not exi-
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Ooh, really neat play-by-post wargame, replicating some of the ways that professional war games are conducted (separate rooms, messages and information mediated by referee, etc).
Delightful to see my writing play some small part in the creation of something cool!
Delightful to see my writing play some small part in the creation of something cool!
about six weeks ago, I started running a play-by-post real-time "logistics wargame" I made, called Cataphracts. It started with 5 players, now it has 23. I've tweeted about it a bit, but here's a short blogpost with more thoughts and observations ⬇️ (link below)
June 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Ooh, really neat play-by-post wargame, replicating some of the ways that professional war games are conducted (separate rooms, messages and information mediated by referee, etc).
Delightful to see my writing play some small part in the creation of something cool!
Delightful to see my writing play some small part in the creation of something cool!
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this is a cool project!
in addition to automating offsite repo+blob backups, it has a web UI for registering PLC recovery keys (which you keep in a p/w manager, not remote service), and doing the adversarial PLC recovery process (eg, if your "old" PDS is unavailable)
solid step for own-your-data
in addition to automating offsite repo+blob backups, it has a web UI for registering PLC recovery keys (which you keep in a p/w manager, not remote service), and doing the adversarial PLC recovery process (eg, if your "old" PDS is unavailable)
solid step for own-your-data
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June 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
this is a cool project!
in addition to automating offsite repo+blob backups, it has a web UI for registering PLC recovery keys (which you keep in a p/w manager, not remote service), and doing the adversarial PLC recovery process (eg, if your "old" PDS is unavailable)
solid step for own-your-data
in addition to automating offsite repo+blob backups, it has a web UI for registering PLC recovery keys (which you keep in a p/w manager, not remote service), and doing the adversarial PLC recovery process (eg, if your "old" PDS is unavailable)
solid step for own-your-data
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Got me craving a flagon of ale i tell you what
Lynda Sayce plays a piece of lute music that was recently discovered in an archival document at the Museum Plantin-Moretus. Since the handwritten lute tablature was folded and reused as scrap paper, it's problaby the first time in 400 years that this music is heard.
May 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Got me craving a flagon of ale i tell you what
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The new crypto is criming and state coercion, wrapped up into one.
www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-new-cr...
www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-new-cr...
The new crypto is criming and state coercion, wrapped up into one
Liberals and libertarians should make common cause against it
www.programmablemutter.com
May 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The new crypto is criming and state coercion, wrapped up into one.
www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-new-cr...
www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-new-cr...
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This is a very fun read.
It’s One of the Weirdest Mistakes in Movie History. I Spent Months Investigating How It All Went Wrong.
The story behind cinema’s most mysterious bird.
slate.com
May 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This is a very fun read.
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The state of Utah voted to ban pride flags so Salt Lake City Council decided to make official city flags that incorporate the progress pride, Juneteenth, and transgender flags so they can fly them without breaking state law
If approved, SLC would have 4 flag designs. It's current, as well as one tied to Progress Pride, Juneteenth and Transgender designs as seen here #utpol:
May 7, 2025 at 1:17 AM
The state of Utah voted to ban pride flags so Salt Lake City Council decided to make official city flags that incorporate the progress pride, Juneteenth, and transgender flags so they can fly them without breaking state law
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Pittsburgh, in case your food all went bad in your fridge from the outages, keep this in mind: www.wtae.com/article/pitt...
May 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Pittsburgh, in case your food all went bad in your fridge from the outages, keep this in mind: www.wtae.com/article/pitt...
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I have trouble believing this game could possibly be as good as the trailer for it, but goddamn what if it is
www.youtube.com/watch?v=efMg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=efMg...
Low-Budget Repairs Trailer
YouTube video by gray2rgb
www.youtube.com
April 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I have trouble believing this game could possibly be as good as the trailer for it, but goddamn what if it is
www.youtube.com/watch?v=efMg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=efMg...
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Information overload is THE problem of the modern world. In "The Unaccountability Machine" @dsquareddigest.bsky.social draws on the lost legacy of management cybernetics to explain how the world stopped making sense & the neoliberal class war fueled global chaos. 1/22
www.salon.com/2025/04/26/w...
www.salon.com/2025/04/26/w...
Why the world stopped making sense: How the neoliberal "class war" fueled global chaos
Dan Davies' "Unaccountability Machine" is a highly unusual management book with a revolutionary message
www.salon.com
April 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Information overload is THE problem of the modern world. In "The Unaccountability Machine" @dsquareddigest.bsky.social draws on the lost legacy of management cybernetics to explain how the world stopped making sense & the neoliberal class war fueled global chaos. 1/22
www.salon.com/2025/04/26/w...
www.salon.com/2025/04/26/w...
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Hey everyone, I'm following up on my first hit (re)post here with some more of these, as Andor's dropping NEXT WEEK. WHAT? FINALLY.
OK, so I'm just going to go through the Aldahni heist gang today. Here's our leader, Vel Sartha.
OK, so I'm just going to go through the Aldahni heist gang today. Here's our leader, Vel Sartha.
April 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Hey everyone, I'm following up on my first hit (re)post here with some more of these, as Andor's dropping NEXT WEEK. WHAT? FINALLY.
OK, so I'm just going to go through the Aldahni heist gang today. Here's our leader, Vel Sartha.
OK, so I'm just going to go through the Aldahni heist gang today. Here's our leader, Vel Sartha.
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It strikes me that one way @cmu.edu can support our students who are being unfairly persecuted by this administration is to make whatever allowances are necessary to ensure they can complete their degrees whether they are able to be physically present in the US or not
This international student is incredibly brave for going on the record about his visa suddenly being revoked, including how he has one semester left and his mom has terminal cancer: www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...
Carnegie Mellon student with one semester left learns his visa was revoked with no explanation
Local universities and colleges across the country continue to report international student visas being revoked.
www.cbsnews.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
It strikes me that one way @cmu.edu can support our students who are being unfairly persecuted by this administration is to make whatever allowances are necessary to ensure they can complete their degrees whether they are able to be physically present in the US or not
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The lovely @robowieland.bsky.social has interviewed @mytholder.bsky.social and @shadowlands.bsky.social and ME about our upcoming TERRAFORMING MARS TTRPG should you crave more hints and affirmations: www.forbes.com/sites/robwie...
Terraforming Mars Transforms From Board Game Into Role Playing Game
Terraforming Mars is one of the most popular modern board games. I spoke with the desiners hoping to turn it into a role playing game.
www.forbes.com
March 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The lovely @robowieland.bsky.social has interviewed @mytholder.bsky.social and @shadowlands.bsky.social and ME about our upcoming TERRAFORMING MARS TTRPG should you crave more hints and affirmations: www.forbes.com/sites/robwie...
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Abraham Lincoln is often quoted for saying: "As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
But the passage I think of daily from the same 1838 speech to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois is this one.
(don’t get hung up on his use of the word genius)
But the passage I think of daily from the same 1838 speech to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois is this one.
(don’t get hung up on his use of the word genius)
March 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Abraham Lincoln is often quoted for saying: "As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
But the passage I think of daily from the same 1838 speech to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois is this one.
(don’t get hung up on his use of the word genius)
But the passage I think of daily from the same 1838 speech to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois is this one.
(don’t get hung up on his use of the word genius)
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good morning. no new DOGE IS FOUR LETTERS today, though i'll have a summary of what i've published out later this afternoon. however, if you've enjoyed WORK IS FOUR LETTERS, i have some good news: we're back up for the first time since october.
Kathryn | Emergency Vet
I have never really wanted to do anything else. Have you ever read any of the James Herriot books? All Creatures Great and Small? I wanted to be him.
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February 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
good morning. no new DOGE IS FOUR LETTERS today, though i'll have a summary of what i've published out later this afternoon. however, if you've enjoyed WORK IS FOUR LETTERS, i have some good news: we're back up for the first time since october.
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An engineer once explained to me that an efficient system always has need available when a resource becomes free, and an effective system always has a resource available when a need arises. Mind was blown.
February 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
An engineer once explained to me that an efficient system always has need available when a resource becomes free, and an effective system always has a resource available when a need arises. Mind was blown.