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Alex L

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 18h

Just backed this! Played a version of this back at AMAZE & had a good time doing so www.kickstarter.com/projects/bra...

Starfriends: The 5-Star Game About What Everyone Else Thinks

A party game where you get into your friends' heads. Kinda like a blend of Wavelength and Letterboxd that fits into a deck of cards.

www.kickstarter.com

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 1d

It's probably over in social psych, but more or less there's a need for "group" and "risk" in young ~men for identity formation, with a requirement to place oneself in a risky state to show commitment. Jane Ward's Not Gay is good?

Were the Big Social Issues different the jokes would be too.

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 1d

alex make this a blog post somewhere when ur done

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 1d

There's uhhh a _lot_ in here about testosterone and in-group formation, so that is, delicately, not super surprising to me

the other side is that people can find one another for like, mutual dis/interests

but the in-group signaling really hasn't changed much because it is still "risky" to be awful

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 1d

this answer is so dull and so bluesky i hate it but:

most of the research says it's the disgust centres of the brain being real close to the pleasure centres, combined with hierarchical and combative status achievement/in-group creation through risk-taking

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 1d

KAREN GET TAKEOUT

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1d

Heartbroken that, per his social media accounts, Drew Struzan has left us. His poster and album art was quite simply shorthand for imagination for countless young people.

E.T. Adventure poster, 1990. I still have one of these hanging in my childhood bedroom.

Star Wars Special edition triptych, 1997. I remember seeing all of these in the paper as each film was re-released and just felt a burst of energy those mornings.

Hook poster, 1991

Back to the Future poster, 1985

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 2d

oh come on it really picks up after the first _one hundred and twenty full pages_

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 2d

this is keeping me going even as i have actual physical difficulties with the game

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 2d

have i read all of the major jonathans

no

i have read a representative sample of each

much like code from the Daves

its fine

you can do better

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 2d

1. it's fine to ignore any piece of literature authored by someone named Jonathan, you are missing nothing

2. Major literary prizes are a form of genre fiction for adults who need someone else to have their opinions for them

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 2d

someone's gotta have said patti lupone at this point

and her ALW Memorial Swimming Pool

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 2d

oh NOOOO

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 3d

@bbolander.bsky.social thread relevant to your interests

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 3d

lol the big ten are gonna do a private equity deal to balance the NCAA revenue-share books

at least one senator's calling attention to it as a threat to the tax-exempt status of educational institutions that happen to do sports

bleacherreport.com/articles/252...

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 3d

hiring four new lines

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 3d

lol i assure u this was vividly embarrassing on campus

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 4d

too hot for big flannel in region

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 4d

oh yes, i have been strictly avoiding hanging wallpaper for a full four years because i KNOW i don't know the possibilities

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 4d

One of my complaints about Severance -- which I like quite a bit -- is how obvious it is that no one involved in it ever worked in a corporate office environment. Hollywood in particular is very bad at depicting the hopelessness of a dead-end job with no prospects

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 4d

there's a years ago tweet that basically said that anyone writing TV or movies by definition managed to land their extremely-hard-to-get dream job and it colors how they think about work and jobs and wish fulfillment in the stuff they write, and i think about it a lot

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 4d

my favorite to date is hearing something peculiar behind a light switch panel, opening it up, and discovering the entire house required rewiring

lately i am grateful for _only_ "this 1970s fuse box's big selling feature was sudden unexpected housefires"

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 4d

dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1... We could even spend a bunch of our stupid money making sure those chains of provenance were mathematically attached to the images but also this WOULD be expensive and would NOT fix the fascism

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 5d

me and the tragically hip

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 7d

The lead of Signal is one hundred percent correct here, which we know because people keep getting snaps of US officials using Signal instead of other platforms.

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 7d

In particular, we must be wary of "new" proposals that allow scanning of "known content" while claiming to protect privacy by proscribing "indiscriminate" surveillance. We must also look out for those that mandate only scanning for “hashed images or videos.” 4/

Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 7d

the most hideously accurate thing, i say, living in the correct approximate area to understand the phrase "maryland swamp water"