i love pigeons 🖤🖤🖤 this bumper sticker will be available later this month!

Well, the Canvas outage shortened my final spring semester lesson by 30 minutes…

Game studios keep trying to sneak "AI" past their customers, get caught, then flap around like "Oh wow we love humans we never meant any harm we're just a wittle baby." Bullshit. They know this shit is unpopular but they think they can "just the tip" their way into getting us to accept it.

Krotzka 1739. Black Powder rules. Austrians lost this historically and therefore war against the Ottomans by getting bottled up in a valley and shot to bits. In our game they have got through the valleys and the battle is much more even... To be continued. #wargaming

#books #read #write #authorlife #blueskywriters #booksky

#Pidgepostbot Pidge: True(i pidge the line). Photo by johnny cash.

I couldn't find my copy of Traveler (the original), so I picked up a free PDF of it from drivethrurpg.com . I had forgotten how good this game is.

I am not taking medical decisions from a man who bragged that heroin improved his college grades and snorted cocaine off of toilet seats.

I'm so happy to announce that for our stretch goal for Legends & Icons, and in honor of MMIWG2SP day (today) and month (May), we'll be donating to the excellent, Minnesota based, MIWRC. Please consider donating if you can. #MMIW #MMIWG #NoMoreStolenSisters #NativeSky #CoyoteAndCrow www.miwrc.org

Horse TTRPG is here. Fifty pages of "what if you used a model horse instead of dice." Expanded, consulted, many very kind people set me straight about facts about horses, there's scenarios, there's horse bloodborne. kumada1.itch.io/original-fin...

First, a 10-minute string section challenge. Three instances of Reason Friktion inside Bitwig. Second, figure out how to record using OBS (my video settings need work!)

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In an age of always being Connected, having the option of "not doing anything" is entirely valid

‘They’re supposed to be handmade’: zine creators fight to resist AI influence

I sat next to the musician Lewis Capaldi on my flight home from Chicago, who was en route to play at Red Rock. Really nice guy. Generous with passengers who stopped by to say hello.

I decided to relax with a nice, private steak dinner with all the trimmings, and apparently missed some sort of news kerfluffle.

Was about to buy a book in the MPSA exhibit hall, but opened the cover to find a “reserved for @leannecpowner.bsky.social” marker! 😁 (Definitely ordering it later with a conference code!)

If you’re at MPSA, you’ll recognize me by my frazzy grey goatee and tweed jacket hastily thrown over a Dungeons & Dragons t-shirt 🎲 🐉

I am sometimes asked why, at midcareer, I found myself studying/teaching the work of streamers, game designers, new media creators, & game journalists. In some ways, it’s because my career-stage peers in those fields have long struggled what academics have been (in aggregate) slower to face.

Panda and Reddie: On (AI) Wargaming and Nuclear War At War on the Rocks, Ankit Panda and Andrew Reddie have written a must-read piece on AI and wargaming, the importance of which extends well beyond nuclear crisis. Recent experiments placing large language models in simulated nuclear crises have…

Hello! I still badly need work in narrative design or game writing etc. I’ve been in games for 20 years and I’m responsible for the mobile smash hit Lily’s Garden. I will take on full-time or contract work but I really need to pick something up soon. Please get in touch if you have/know of something

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Ah, embracing my first overpriced conference hotel lager

Off to the Midwest Political Science Association conference in Chicago ✈️

These two Mourning Doves at my feeder cam look like they just rang my doorbell because Tony Soprano sent them to collect a debt I owe.

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

I have to go to work and this is not my cat.

I got into game studies because there were scholars who'd dismiss, with a gesture, the games that let me tell intricate stories with total strangers, while then eagerly pointing at this 3D-modeled corporate game product in which you chose to turn little girls into power ups: "Now THAT'S a story!"

Today is a big day for us! Ahu Tiiko has 3 new releases available on @drivethrurpg.com And our 3 core physical RPG titles are on sale at @allplay.bsky.social for 20% off! DTRPG: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher... AllPlay www.allplay.com/board-games/... #TTRPG #RPG #Tabletop #NativeSky

The Onion has successfully bought InfoWars. Happy 4/20. 😂

Just put in a CSU bookstore textbook order to use Maurice Suckling's (@writegameread.bsky.social) Paper Time Machines in my Fall 2026 International Relations Game Design course. Game on! www.routledge.com/Paper-Time-M...

Counterpoint: I use em dashes with abandon and will not let "AI" steal them from me. I was overusing them first and will continue to do so long after "AI" is a crater in our financial system, or our merciless overlords, or both

Millions of people are influenced by and take moral, social, and political messages from games. Major issues like war, colonialism, race, etc. play out across those screens he derides. Seems ignorant to not want to approach these major texts through a humanist framework!

It’s fucking bizarre how people are acting like something from 2022 is something they can’t live without. Like dudes, the emotional dependence on a sycophantic machine regurgitating nonsense to encourage you to stop engaging in critical thought and trust the slop is truly depressing to witness.

Holy cow, I thought of a joke! (albeit I'm sure someone's thought of this before) - How do cats mail packages? - Through UPSpspspsps I'll show myself out. Try the kibble!

I can’t comprehend it. These are the folks who have created the first visuals for every. Single. Marvel Studios film. Ever. A really small team of people, some have been there for over a decade. They are a HUGE part of Marvel Studios’s success, to just be let go like that? I got no words.

#PigeonsOfBsky now.uiowa.edu/news/2026/04...

Went for a walk and a pint and spotted the best example of free will I've ever seen

Hummingbirds looking a bit rough this year.

When I run for president, my campaign slogan will be, “my administration won’t need pardons”

This, via @kellifb.bsky.social, might be the best newspaper correction I've seen this decade.

I accidentally made some weird modular synth funk. Everything is controlled by by Pam’s sending low-probability trig (2% chance) and CV patterns. The voices run through two long tempo-synced delay loops with 100% feedback, creating slowly developing patterns.

Pigeon: meeting with a publisher at 10am Also, Pigeon: meeting with a publisher at 10am Finally, Pigeon: that's right--meeting with a publisher at 10am! 😁 Calendar: 9am

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

In this issue: The symposium @adam42smith.bsky.social and I co-edited on "Teaching Qualitative Methods in Undergraduate Education" 🎉🎉🎉

Just want to throw out that I occasionally teach a course titled “Comparative Authoritarianism” and Viktor Orban is one of my modern classic case examples. I could send JD Vance my syllabus.

My wife and I had chicken burgers for dinner. I asked about her day, and she replied, “started with Trump’s WW III, ended with a chicken burger.” “Did you just call Trump a chicken burger?” (waving mine) “Yes, he’s a **** chicken burger!” There it is. Not just TACO, but a **** chicken burger.

In ALPS, I share an AI-generated complete simulation on the Iran conflict. While it is unedited and untested, the 30+ page guide may be useful to anyone looking to teach on this conflict. Use it as a starting point--and report back here on your experience. activelearningps.com/2026/04/07/i...

I teach a course titled “Current World Problems” and, alas, I never have shortage of material