tell me what you think an AI feature is - I'm offering an API and variations on APIs for different access methods

you haven't elaborated on your initial critique

haha okay

tell me more

people have wanted access to our database and I wasn't able to provide it before

wow what constructive feedback! what "shitty AI features"?

Build with Kineticist — Pinball Game Data API, CLI & MCP Server Access the world's most comprehensive pinball game database. REST API, CLI, and MCP server for AI agents.

Kineticist now has API access, and, for funsies, perhaps pinball's first MCP server and CLI tool. www.kineticist.com/build

How the Hype Index Got Smarter | Kineticist The Hype Index has been rebuilt from the ground up — new scoring, era-based nostalgia modeling, and your vote finally affects the rankings.

not pushing myself into a 6-month burnout cycle with the twipys this year means I get to spend time working on building cool things again www.kineticist.com/post/how-the...

The energy I think I want to channel more of this year is “fuck you I’m gonna do it anyway”

hi bird

I covered this story extensively for @kineticist.com—six pieces from Nov 13-Jan 23. Disappointed as an indie journalist who covers the pinball community to see @nbcnews.com frame it as an exclusive with no credit.

kineticist.com/post/ifpa-obx-fall-flippers-event

Hi! I covered this story extensively for @kineticist.com. Why is @nbcnews.com framing this as an exclusive? I've done at least six pieces on it from Nov 13th-Jan 23rd. A little disappointing as an independent journalist who specializes in covering pinball.

www.kineticist.com/post/ifpa-ob...

Hi! I covered this story extensively for @kineticist.com. Why is @nbcnews.com framing this as an exclusive? I've done at least six pieces on it from Nov 13th-Jan 23rd. A little disappointing as an independent journalist who specializes in covering pinball.

www.kineticist.com/post/ifpa-ob...

@nbcnews.com reporting this as an exclusive when my outlet has been covering it for months. cool.

David Bowie's 'Blackstar' Turns 10 When I awoke that Sunday morning, I was so confused. My wife, not much of a music fan, mentioned she’d just read some news about David Bowie. I replied something along the lines of, “Yeah, he just rel...

10 years since Bowies’s final masterpiece. One of my favorite albums.

Nothing’s been right since he left us.

also a pin!

@massago.bsky.social @massgovernor.bsky.social
Know the plates are full. Can this be replicated in Massachusetts. Check it out. CA has a state portal that provides a single free form that you can demand deletion of personal data of over 500 registered data brokers

2026 Ins, Outs and Predictions jester's privilege

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the new epstein drop is wild

I don’t know the context of this but wolf parade is awesome! the album that song is from got so many plays from me in college 🤘

absolutely

They have since credited me but yeah, always a bit frustrating when it happens. Usually I’m good with these things if asked and provided credit

sorted, was apparently in some shared marketing assets folder and they didn’t look closely before using

Thanks! Didn’t think of that

I don't always know what to do with this stuff other than be mildly frustrated by it but here's a major pinball distributor taking my work (I took the photo, it's even watermarked) and using it for their own promotional materials w/o permission, explicit credit, or compensation.

Journalism realizes it has a business talent problem

www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/jour...

depends on the person! I've always found most video tutorials to be hard to follow, I'd rather read it, which is one of the reasons we led with written pinball tutorials on the site.

This life gives you nothing Your attention is all you have. Wasting it is annihilating. Blackbird Spyplane saves literacy in a monumental Year-End Essay.

"Your attention is all you have"

www.blackbirdspyplane.com/p/this-life-...

As someone who much prefers writing boy do I need to hear this sometimes

Statement on the Brown University shooting.