JK
@miniver.bsky.social
user experience strategist ✦ hermeticist ✦ flâneur ✦ recovering natural philosopher ✦ nerdy & geeky
There are four types of guys online. No exceptions.
November 19, 2025 at 7:57 AM
There are four types of guys online. No exceptions.
I desperately hope that we don’t need to do more than that.
November 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I desperately hope that we don’t need to do more than that.
Cosplay is not ordinarily my flavor of nerdiness but this is such a swank look
November 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Cosplay is not ordinarily my flavor of nerdiness but this is such a swank look
Reactionaries enthusiastic about the return of a feudal order tell me that hierarchical societies cultivate excellence and thus produce great art … but their actual avatars love “AI” slop and gaudy crap
November 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Reactionaries enthusiastic about the return of a feudal order tell me that hierarchical societies cultivate excellence and thus produce great art … but their actual avatars love “AI” slop and gaudy crap
Now I am trying to picture Elizabethan goths
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Now I am trying to picture Elizabethan goths
I keep needing this, so I made it
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I keep needing this, so I made it
The fundamental colonialism of D&D distilled
November 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The fundamental colonialism of D&D distilled
I fear that is right and I hope it is wrong
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I fear that is right and I hope it is wrong
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Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street.
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Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street.
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Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street.
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It’s how I made my user icon!
November 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
It’s how I made my user icon!
Plus, to my embarrassment, I have a weakness for femme fatale lawyer Lilah Morgan.
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Plus, to my embarrassment, I have a weakness for femme fatale lawyer Lilah Morgan.
(Even my dim childhoood memories of ‘Gold Monkey’ are super racist, so I dread looking back. Such is the problem of our inheritance of colonialist narratives.)
November 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
(Even my dim childhoood memories of ‘Gold Monkey’ are super racist, so I dread looking back. Such is the problem of our inheritance of colonialist narratives.)
Or maybe start with a few pawns blocking the potential first-strike attacks?
November 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Or maybe start with a few pawns blocking the potential first-strike attacks?
I had an idea for a chess variant —
Start without pawns.
Attacking a non-pawn demotes it to a pawn, rather than captures it. Attacking a pawn captures as normal.
Queens & rooks would have to be forbidden from attacking their counterparts until they have left their initial file.
Start without pawns.
Attacking a non-pawn demotes it to a pawn, rather than captures it. Attacking a pawn captures as normal.
Queens & rooks would have to be forbidden from attacking their counterparts until they have left their initial file.
November 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I had an idea for a chess variant —
Start without pawns.
Attacking a non-pawn demotes it to a pawn, rather than captures it. Attacking a pawn captures as normal.
Queens & rooks would have to be forbidden from attacking their counterparts until they have left their initial file.
Start without pawns.
Attacking a non-pawn demotes it to a pawn, rather than captures it. Attacking a pawn captures as normal.
Queens & rooks would have to be forbidden from attacking their counterparts until they have left their initial file.