Michael Hoffman
Union software engineer building games for a newspaper.
This sentence expresses my love of self-reference.
ABD for life. (he/him)
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- How do people in places colder than NYC manage their respiratory systems? I’m continuously operating an orchestra of humidifiers and yet my sinuses and mucus membranes are barely hanging in there.
- I endorse Chris Belasco for Potato Salad.
- me with my little graphs
- Remote school: still doesn’t work. Google has had YEARS to fix their shit but instead they’ve done less than the absolute least for NYC kids and families while cashing taxpayer checks.
- Every episode is in fact part of an n-part series finale.
- I’m a little bit embarrassed (but also very grateful) for my friendship with the weirdo on the left. Congratulations on 10 years, @benjaminahr.mobi!
- MY BROTHER IN ICED
- maaaajor photo of our mayor from @alexkrales.bsky.social in which we learn Mamdani is an iced-coffee-in-winter guy HUGE win for that community, congrats!!! (thought it was dunkin, which stopped me in my tracks, but no I don’t think the straw is the right shade of orange)
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- Every time I listen to Everybody Scream, Florence + The Machine's 2025 album, it draws me deeper in. No skips. All haunting, ecstasy, power, melancholy, liberation.
- NYC has gotten too damn expensive.
- Today at work (NYT Games) we launched Crossplay, our first 2-player game. It's available for iOS (linked) and Android. The gameplay will be familiar, but I hope you'll find it to be a clean, no-bullshit version that focuses on the fun. We put a ton of thought into this sucker. Hope you enjoy.
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- Reposted by Michael Hoffmanoh it's going to be a Recession recession
- juicing the chips
- Reposted by Michael Hoffmanevery single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
- My son’s favorite genre of post-dinner snack is “mid-tier large European hotel breakfast buffet”.
- Reposted by Michael HoffmanWe stand with our colleagues and fellow members in full solidarity - this unfair and illegal arrest is an affront to a free press. ✊💔
- On Friday, January 9, ICE arrested a member of our union, the Minnesota Newspaper and Communications Guild, as part of Operation Metro Surge. He has been transferred to a detention facility in Texas, where he is awaiting action on his petition for habeas corpus. newsguild.org/guild-member...
- Yeah WTH? Wikipedia didn’t exist until I was in high school?!?
- Beginning to think I may have accidentally taken my Adderall twice this morning.
- I’m grateful for @panicworld.com’s informed, nuanced, up-close coverage from the streets in MN. Especially enlightening (and wrenching) to learn about the paradoxical dynamics of protesting a force that’s so fully unaccountable. (I consumed as audio; check your podcast app if you want that.)
- See with the naked eye? No thank you, sir. I’m not some kind of ocular naturist deviant. I shall keep my spectacles seated in place!
- Love my early morning Bluesky scroll of stuff British people reposted.
- Minnesotans seem like hella cool badasses.
- On her 13th birthday, I will bequeath my eldest daughter the archive of my tweets. “This is our legacy.”
- I am a responsible reviewer of code.
- A cool name for a weed strain would be “Wuthering Heights”.
- The Testament of Ann Lee but make the music Florence and the Machine.
- Absolutely not.
- Weather in Melbourne, Australia is madness.
- This whole week is Monday and Monday was a whole week.
- Apropos of nothing, one of the great break beats. youtu.be/nQ9OVTfnOVA
- It’s so simple: America LLM should write all news and only America LLM should have the right to vote.
- Suppose a media outlet got swallowed by private equity and went dark. Suppose, further, that one had proactively archived a slice of that media outlet’s content in one’s own database. What, hypothetically, are the ethics and best practices around making that data available to the public?
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- Fancy noraebang (Korean karaoke room) was an s-tier NYE decision with kids (ages 6–12). Had two cocktails and soju, ate fried chicken and dumplings, sang Under the Bridge hella well, had second-location pizza, and home by 8:30. 🧑🍳 💋
- All art that is wintery should be at least 15% spooky.
- There are two (2) distinct articles on the front page of the most recent @theonion.com featuring images of severed human arms. @bencollins.bsky.social is this really the best you can do? Next issue, let’s try for at least three.
