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Peter M.J. Gross
@petermjgross.bsky.social
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I'm an editor. I make games. I have terrible opinions.
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“Oh crap, I shouldn’t have said they were in the Situation Room.”
A loose-lipped Cayman Islands banker.
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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In Project Arcmör, a minor incident prevents your ship from beginning the rewarding challenge of colonizing a new planet.

Are you expendable enough to solve the problem?

bitterlyindifferent.itch.io/project-arcmor

#IndieGame #FreeGame #AltGame
A screenshot from the game "Project Arcmor" A screenshot from the game "Project Arcmor"
November 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Image of the actor John Banner, playing Sergeant Schultz on Hogan’s Heroes
November 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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One of the bleakest summaries I have ever read.

klementoninvesting.substack.com/p/if-your-jo...
“ Ultimately, the bad news for the company was that employees, on average, earned larger bonuses because they had improved their performance. The good news was that the intervention provided the company with a simple way to eliminate people who are overpaid and don’t contribute significantly to the business in the first place. The research indicates that the company's bottom line was positive.”
October 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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It's great that BF skulduggery is back in the news, but I feel like some of the best criticism happened last year?

www.themarysue.com/why-the-time...
Throughout the interview, Agnew emphasizes how often Hannah is not alone, as her husband, Daniel, lurks in every conversation. Despite being assured Agnew would get a chance to do one-on-ones with the former ballerina, Daniel spends almost the entire interview glued to his wife’s side. Some might find this endearing; they can’t spend more than two seconds apart. Some might find it suffocating and controlling. Judging from how the rest of the interview goes, it’s fair to say Daniel has some serious control issues. The rest of the piece reads like a horror story in which the heroine doesn’t know she’s in one until it’s too late. Hannah’s memories of how she met Daniel and proceeded to marry him seem like those of a hostage with Stockholm Syndrome who, in hindsight, might just start to realize that most of her relationships are based on coercion and manipulation. Hannah wanted to date for a year before marrying Daniel. Daniel wanted to get married right away. They got married a month after dating. Hannah wanted to keep dancing. Daniel wanted a child. Hannah was pregnant three months after they got married. By the time she blinked or had time to breathe, she had three children under the age of four and gave up more than just dancing; she gave up an entire life.
October 2, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Condensed version of today's speech.
Pete Hegseth accompanied by the words "be thin, do war crimes"
September 30, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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I think about this meme a lot these days.
Captain Barbossa with a neon overlay and text reading “You best start believing in cyberpunk dystopias, you’re in one.”
September 16, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Time to put this meme where I can refer to it frequently.

(source: wandering.shop/@RachamimOnW... )
“Do Not Comply In Advance” ❌bossy ❌already a cliche ❌ implies permission to comply later “Fuck You, Make Me” ✔️ leads by example ✔️directs yelling at opposition instead of allies ✔️ easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner"
September 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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I often think about this story and the tension between perfect and "good enough"

slate.com/culture/2014...
Fiedel was at heart an improviser. To create the Terminator theme, he first set up a rhythm loop on one of the primitive, early-’80s devices he was using. (In those days, Fiedel was firing up a Prophet-10 and an Oberheim.) He recorded samples of himself whacking a frying pan to create the clanking sounds. Then he played melodic riffs on a synthesizer over the looped beat. Amid the throes of creation, what he hadn’t quite noticed—or hadn’t bothered to notice—was that his finger had been a split-second off when it pressed the button to establish that rhythm loop. Being an old machine, there was no autocorrection. Which meant the loop was in a profoundly herky-jerky time signature.
September 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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I can’t even with this bullshit
CNN headline: Trump inherited a worse economy from Biden than previously thought
September 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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My doctor's office, every time I called over the past 9 months:
"We need more time to figure out whether you should have been charged for that procedure."

Same doctor's office, today:
"We won't won't look at your bill because the request isn’t timely enough!” 🙃
A picture of Luigi accompanies this post because it's about healthcare companies using strategic delays to protect their profits.
September 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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The dude has been signaling that he's cool with war crimes since back when he said judges can't tell generals how to conduct a military operation.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
In Vance's social media post, he cited other types of decision making by the executive branch that he suggested were outside the law. "If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal," he wrote.
September 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Marge Simpson looking at a poorly disguised FBI surveillance van.
September 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement at 2?
Screen from an RPG with the prominent phrase “Forest Invasion” followed by paragraphs of Lorem Ipsum text.
September 2, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Even the bigger ones can insist on being lapdogs.
A 45-pound dog precariously clinging to a person seated in front of a keyboard.
August 28, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Since you brought up the philanthropist Ebeneezer Scrooge, may I ask whether you’re familiar with the works of Ryan Veeder?

rcveeder.net/littlematchg...
You must also understand that, soon after she gained these powers, the little match girl was adopted by the famous old philanthropist Ebenezer Scrooge, who gave his new daughter the name Ebenezabeth Scrooge—an impossible name to forget, and just as impossible to improve upon.
August 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Adding storage lockers and sex work to my list of things affected by surge pricing.

handshakefyi.substack.com/p/the-myth-o...
August 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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New cleaning fluid for cybertruck panels just dropped: saltbased.com
Picture of a salt-based cleaning solution.
August 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Just over here thinking about how every accusation is a confession with some people.

www.jezebel.com/laura-loomer...
“She’s on her knees all night,” Loomer rails in the post. “And it’s not for praying.” Throughout Monday night, she continued reviling the GOP congresswoman with more attacks. In another post, she wrote, “it’s called the Trump administration. Not the Hump administration.” Jezebel reached out to Loomer’s and Greene’s team for comment, and will update if we hear back.
August 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Confession time:

I really, REALLY misread today's junk mail.
August 12, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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How are these "bottom up" incentives?
It's still tax cuts for the wealthiest with a few extra steps.

Maybe it's a rebrand: "Trickle-down economics will work if we add SPLASH GUARDS!"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yze...
"Trickledown economics is when we let the rich piss on you, and we tell you its raining"
August 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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It's Friday, which means a new installment of Equip Story from @geoffreygolden.bsky.social!

(My favorite post is still his discussion of the Muppets at Disney)

www.equipstory.com/muppet-funer...
When I think of modern Disney storytelling, I think of three core power fantasies: * You will achieve what your heart desires. (Princesses) * You have the power to save the world. (Marvel) * You are on the right side of history. (Star Wars) We empathize with a well-written character, but we want to be a character who unlocks a power fantasy deep inside us. We want to buy that character’s lightsaber, get a cute makeover to look like them, or visit their boring-looking superhero office park “canvas” in California. We want to become more like these heroes. That is Disney’s core business.
August 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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The new lawn guy is doing a pretty good job.
July 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM