Zak Stoiber
@zakstoiber.com
Milwaukeean who loves board games, photography, a good book, Giannis Antetokounmpo, and his 2 cats. Portfolio at www.slicksnaps.com.
Profile pic is real illustration by my very talented coworker Jason Krukowski - no AI here!!
Profile pic is real illustration by my very talented coworker Jason Krukowski - no AI here!!
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Climate models since the 1970s nailed it—most predicted global warming almost exactly as it happened.
August 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Climate models since the 1970s nailed it—most predicted global warming almost exactly as it happened.
@bitewinggames.bsky.social I've got 3 people for a game night, which of your cosmic trilogy games would you recommend at that player count? (I've also got Merchants of Andromeda which I see as a spiritual fourth entry in the series.)
July 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
@bitewinggames.bsky.social I've got 3 people for a game night, which of your cosmic trilogy games would you recommend at that player count? (I've also got Merchants of Andromeda which I see as a spiritual fourth entry in the series.)
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Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride.
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
June 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride.
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Finally managed to wake myself up at 5:30AM to go birding. Quite pleased with what I was able to capture in just one morning @ county grounds park in Wauwatosa! First up: Ducks!
May 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Finally managed to wake myself up at 5:30AM to go birding. Quite pleased with what I was able to capture in just one morning @ county grounds park in Wauwatosa! First up: Ducks!
#NewProfilePic and also my cat won't get off my back??
April 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
#NewProfilePic and also my cat won't get off my back??
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Okay, this is my newest very very favorite meme.
March 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Okay, this is my newest very very favorite meme.
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Musk has now poured $8.3 million into buying the tie-breaking Wisconsin Supreme Court seat for Brad Schimel. That is vastly more than any other single donor—to eliminate a state-level check on his and Trump's power.
Help us fight back and elect Susan Crawford: PeopleVMusk.com
Help us fight back and elect Susan Crawford: PeopleVMusk.com
March 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Musk has now poured $8.3 million into buying the tie-breaking Wisconsin Supreme Court seat for Brad Schimel. That is vastly more than any other single donor—to eliminate a state-level check on his and Trump's power.
Help us fight back and elect Susan Crawford: PeopleVMusk.com
Help us fight back and elect Susan Crawford: PeopleVMusk.com
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wrote about the vibe shift — cow's milk sales are up, plant milk is down - not good news
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
America’s never-ending obsession with milk, explained in 8 charts
Cow’s milk sales were plummeting. Is the vibe shift bringing it back?
www.vox.com
March 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
wrote about the vibe shift — cow's milk sales are up, plant milk is down - not good news
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published
I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know
I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know
February 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published
I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know
I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know
This show is giving me the emotional release I need every week. Less sentimental but as emotional as Friday Night Lights, which also had Explosions in the Sky doing the soundtrack - which probably accounted for at least 50% of tears shed.
Each episode of the new Max series covers one hour in a single day in a busy emergency department. The show manages to feel sympathetic to the hospital staff and to the patients in their care.
'The Pitt' is a medical drama worth watching. Stat.
Each episode of the new Max series covers one hour in a single day in a busy emergency department. The show manages to feel sympathetic to the hospital staff and to the patients in their care.
www.npr.org
February 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This show is giving me the emotional release I need every week. Less sentimental but as emotional as Friday Night Lights, which also had Explosions in the Sky doing the soundtrack - which probably accounted for at least 50% of tears shed.
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How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
February 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
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Molly House is a strange and meaningful beast, at once a celebration of queer love, a critique of imperial power, and a call to solidarity. More than that, it is a game that can't help but be personally meaningful to the lonesome and tired. My review: spacebiff.com/2025/02/12/m...
Love and Heartbreak in Georgian London
As a second-grader, I despised recess. Not because I enjoyed class — it was boring and tedious, hemmed in by schedules and busywork — but rather because I was lonely. Some people don’t unders…
spacebiff.com
February 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Molly House is a strange and meaningful beast, at once a celebration of queer love, a critique of imperial power, and a call to solidarity. More than that, it is a game that can't help but be personally meaningful to the lonesome and tired. My review: spacebiff.com/2025/02/12/m...
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Why are drug prices so high? Consider the case of Zolgensma.
While taxpayers and small charities funded Zolgensma's early development, executives, venture-capital backers and a pharma giant have reaped the profits.
While taxpayers and small charities funded Zolgensma's early development, executives, venture-capital backers and a pharma giant have reaped the profits.
What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing
Taxpayers and charities helped develop Zolgensma. Then it debuted at a record price, ushering in a new class of wildly expensive drugs. Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices ref...
www.propublica.org
February 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Why are drug prices so high? Consider the case of Zolgensma.
While taxpayers and small charities funded Zolgensma's early development, executives, venture-capital backers and a pharma giant have reaped the profits.
While taxpayers and small charities funded Zolgensma's early development, executives, venture-capital backers and a pharma giant have reaped the profits.
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JK Rowling's continued slide into transphobic rhetoric raises an important question: should you support a series if the creator is terrible, and the prequel movie series is terrible, and the sequel play is terrible, and the original movies are terrible, and the source material is terrible, and the
February 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
JK Rowling's continued slide into transphobic rhetoric raises an important question: should you support a series if the creator is terrible, and the prequel movie series is terrible, and the sequel play is terrible, and the original movies are terrible, and the source material is terrible, and the
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Wish I knew somebody who was in one of the two halls of Congress right now.
Congress must take action to restore the rule of law.
February 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Wish I knew somebody who was in one of the two halls of Congress right now.
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@meredithshiner.com's assessment of the Democratic Party is sadly spot on (as is her suggested solution: Run against them!). The most direct way for us change the party is refuse to wait for our collectively turn to lead. newrepublic.com/article/1909...
February 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
@meredithshiner.com's assessment of the Democratic Party is sadly spot on (as is her suggested solution: Run against them!). The most direct way for us change the party is refuse to wait for our collectively turn to lead. newrepublic.com/article/1909...
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i'm sensing some broader parallels
February 3, 2025 at 12:49 AM
i'm sensing some broader parallels
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do you know how bad you have to be as president to make the Luka to Lakers thing the 2nd dumbest trade related news of the last 24hrs
February 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
do you know how bad you have to be as president to make the Luka to Lakers thing the 2nd dumbest trade related news of the last 24hrs
#Boardgames were a necessary and wonderful solace in January. Somehow managed to be one of - if not the - most played months I've ever had. Note to self: don't do the 14-point variant of TI4 (w/ expansion) no matter what the internet tells you. (No regrets about a 12 hour day with close friends.)
February 1, 2025 at 6:55 AM
#Boardgames were a necessary and wonderful solace in January. Somehow managed to be one of - if not the - most played months I've ever had. Note to self: don't do the 14-point variant of TI4 (w/ expansion) no matter what the internet tells you. (No regrets about a 12 hour day with close friends.)
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Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
November 23, 2024 at 12:00 AM
Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
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Andre Jackson Jr. in transition
a view of a city from a car with the chicago skyline visible
ALT: a view of a city from a car with the chicago skyline visible
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November 8, 2024 at 1:19 AM
Andre Jackson Jr. in transition
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Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend.
October 18, 2024 at 11:00 PM
Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend.