Links: If you want to follow the news...

Matt Kiser has continued to publish whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com since he started on January 20, 2017. It's also available at wtfjht.com (or used to be, anyway. It's not resolving at the moment)(now ok again). It has a summary of the top handful of stories, with a neutral journalistic tone that manages to convey how fucked up it all is at the same time.

I mostly avoid looking, but I like knowing it's there if I want to catch up on the latest fuckery.

ETA: Now also available at wtfjht_feed, as azurelunatic noted in comments.

Game: PhD 2048

This game came to mind today, and I managed to find the website. Sure enough, it was published 7 years ago. (Previously linked in 2018)

PhD: Move the bricks to complete your PhD. It's a 2048 game but the tiles have names like Coffee, Code, Conference, Viva, and at the end, PhD. You play in the browser.

There are "garbage" tiles that randomly appear, and sit there and gum up the works until they can be paired with another randomly appearing garbage tile.

A "relationship" tile will also randomly appear. It promotes any tile it touches to the next level - until it turns into a "breakup" tile and demotes on touching as many tiles as were previously promoted before disappearing.

ETA: For more gaming goodness, jesse_the_k points out a source for Timesless (no crossing picket lines) Wordle links in comments.