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Slinkie
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slinkie.bsky.social
norks
October 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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bomgaars.bsky.social
Hovering my cursor over the button labeled "I think that went well" on this event to see the tooltip:
• -100 Military Power
• Stability -1
• You can now use the Occupation With Lethal Force interaction on your own cities
• Morale -20%
• Loyalty of Generals -50%
• Chance of Military Coup +5%
September 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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skullmandible.bsky.social
the brain that can see a face in a wall outlet was always doomed to hear the voice of God in a markov chain
July 24, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose.

www.status.news/p/the-onion-...
What has it been like shifting from reporter to media executive, managing a staff instead of filing stories yourself? And do you write any of the jokes at The Onion? Or are you strictly managing the business? The Onion’s process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday. The point of taking over this place was to preserve this process, which I learned this week is almost assuredly more rigorous than The New York Times. That’s why I don’t touch any of it. I just try to get more people to pay attention to the output, and get our work into different mediums and new places. We brought back the paper, reinvested in the Onion News Network, bought a full page ad in The Times for something they were going to write anyway. The role is to make the world-class work they’re already doing seep into everyday American life more frequently, and that’s working. You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step. If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it’s that. You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don’t actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company.
July 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
slinkie.bsky.social
Greeners rise up
A collection of green and blue Tyranid models on a black shelf.
May 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
slinkie.bsky.social
Romancing Salsa
February 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM