Brent’s singing and playing on Jaguar God is up there in prog metal’s All Time Great territory, as far as I’m concerned. The delivery on “I’m a vagabond tramp” alone is worth a nod. Such a bummer. youtu.be/yvSPWG_mE4c

alamo theater, detail, jackson, mississippi, 1986

I’m not really sure what the Hugo for Best Game or Interactive Work is supposed to mean (is it a best story award? Best gameplay? Which is the most sci-fi-y?), but whatever it is, 1000xResist should’ve won.

An iconic (to me) title screen:

My main political position since middle school civics class has been "I don't think it's good when people die for preventable reasons," and it has dragged me ever leftward in public discourse since

I am aware that this is the most 48-year-old-dad thing, but Wisconsin Dells is pretty great.

Teachers should be paid at least double what they currently are. Yes, that includes the ones you don’t like.

Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.

In 1995, I drove from Norman, OK to St Louis, MO to meet up with some friends at an REM concert. It was night, there may have been 10,000 people there, we had made no plans whatsoever about where to find each other, and none of us had cell phones. And things worked out just fine.

my brain naturally read this like it was a beastie boys lyric

Enjog.

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

Someone in comments posted this is like very early adult swim and I can fully see that and also it makes me feel old

I'll never not want a multi-disc CD player

Northernlion: "Y'know what? The gods envy us, okay. They envy us because we're mortal, and every second, it could be our last. So don't bring that in here chat, because we will never be here again. Okay?" The game he's playing: "Lets count to 4! 1... 2... Oops! Try that again!"

One time walking out of a tennis tournament in Memphis, I ended up going out the double doors next to Richard Williams. I looked at him, we briefly made eye contact, I nodded to indicate that I recognized him, and he nodded back.

Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”

Number go up number so empty

Look, if I know anything, it’s that no one who ever buys Giant Bomb understands it.

Have multiple hobbies: Pick something you’re already good at but would like to be better, and something you’re terrible at but would like to be good at. You get very different feelings of fulfillment as you improve at each.

I 100% would have used ChatGPT for homework when I was in school, because homework sucked ass. However, if I hadn't been forced to bullshit a lot of essays 15 minutes before class I wouldn't have learned that I enjoy writing. The moral is to destroy both ChatGPT and homework.

Me, about five hours into Clair Obscur: you know, I think Maelle might be the real main character here. Me, after the end of Act I: WELP!

Not sure why this is particularly surprising. During inflationary periods, consumer sentiment goes down because we are losing future buying power, and consumption goes up because we are pulling the trigger on durable goods that will be more expensive if we wait.

Clark’s Banner Super Food Market Store.

I would tell my Shadowcat joke, but it would just go in one ear and out the other.

Be right back, gonna go coin smirkgaze as a genre.

I still get the Teeny Little Super Guy theme randomly stuck in my head to this day. RIP Paul Fierlinger.

someone else gets to use your money to get rich while you're not allowed to touch it for basically your whole life and if it doesn't work you're the one left holding the bag

All happy families are alike; Mrs. Dalloway is unhappy in her own way.

One bright side to being forced to live in an AI slop tornado is now I see my artistic mistakes as incredibly endearing. The human machine of my body made that weird line. My worst day of drawing is completely untouchably better than anything AI will ever produce until the heat death of the universe

*Decemberists voice* Crane flies, crane flies

Get in the robot, Schumer.

nostalgia is remembering when you didn’t have to pay bills and attributing that feeling to mario

Post your favorite Doctor Who, wrong answers only.

Really enjoying this classic Sesame Street segment, two minutes of freestyle jazz riffing on saxophone factory footage

the 15th anniversary remaster cover for the fat of the land just adding more crabs is one of the funniest album covers I’ve ever seen. i think about it all the time

Since bluesky now has video, I must share the clip of David Duchovny asking the proverbial question: what are frogs

I’m not the main character. I’m the old guy in the guild hall who gives you the same unskippable tutorial about how to combine items every time you talk to me.

My prayer for all of us is that we can reach the level of guilelessness born of freedom that i had when i wrote the line "wanna put my tender heart in a blender" and not only did not crumple the paper and throw it in the trash but recorded it to tape

Always makes me smile when I see Felder Rushing and his truck out and about.

- Andrew Bird, “Anonanimal”

Jackson area folks: if you can, go check out the Rez right now. The wind is pullng fog up off the surface and it is wild looking.

I see people saying this sort of thing often, and quite frankly it makes me sad. The truth is, more people are making good adventure games now than were ever made during the “golden age” of the 90s. For example: 🧵

At one point Minnesota Orchestra Kevin Smith - and I think maybe Deborah Borda, too? - said something along the lines of "orchestras DO make a profit; it just comes in the form of service to the community instead of money." The institution is a vehicle for exchanging the profit's currency

Was it this man?

It must be really tough to be a high school civics teacher in this moment. Can you imagine having to get up in front of a bunch of teenagers and talk about “separation of powers” and “co-equal branches of government” right now?