This whole Nate Bargatze(?) thing is further proof that there's no such thing as a public figure who is "not political," there are only conservatives who don't want that stigma to hurt their brand.

The best superhero is Swamp Thing because sometimes Swamp Thing wanders around a planet a galaxy away as he has an existential debate with a copy of himself he made out of azure soil and sometimes Swamp Thing fights dracula at a gas station

The high school bee club I advise harvested honey today. Let me tell you that teenagers have so many unique and varied interests and sourpuss adults really make things harder for them than necessary. They are some of the coolest people I've ever met. Go work with them and for them if you are able.

This was one of the first games I back on Kickstarter (2013?!) and it was completely worth it. The game is solid and frequently goes on sale. Listen to the podcast then check it out!

It's not JUST literacy skills It's not JUST reading stamina It's not JUST "the screens" It's not JUST curriculum choices It's not JUST homework culture It's not JUST over-scheduled students It's not JUST adults not reading, either It's complicated. Pretending otherwise doesn't help.

In theory, "advanced placement" course in high schools are meant to give students a head start on college-level work, but in practice these courses serve as *replacements* for that college-level work, and very poor ones at that.

Using AI makes you look stupid.

I love you.

This is art.

Tall Trails is an excellent game. schledorn.bearblog.dev/tall-trails/

The more time I spend in the retro modding community the happier I am. What a great project!

Lotta people in tech underestimate how much we hate you and your works and everything you do

21 year public school teacher. My data has been lost in two separate hacking incidents (this and Powerschool) because the state compels me to use certain privately owned online products. These are often the only way I can fulfill legal requirements.

In 1943 a baseball team of incarcerated Japanese Americans traveled 150 miles to a semi-pro tournament & in the quarterfinals were matched against a team of prison guards from their own camp—& trounced them 14-0! Welcome to the Seventh Inning of Diamond in the Rough. 🗃️ @kevinmkruse.bsky.social

In defense of one-dimensional characters: schledorn.bearblog.dev/in-defense-o...

Jim Crow was in my dad's lifetime. Mass incarceration and the drug war continue in mine. The Interstate highway system and urban renewal destroyed -- and continues to destroy -- billions in heritable black wealth. And that's just the most prominent, state-endorsed, institutionalized stuff.

I'm all for personal websites instead of social media, but please don't use AI to create it. There are enough tools out there that make website creation simple. A neocities.org site is great place to start.

The other problem is that they thought "fortnites" were match-based multiplayer shooters with microtransactions when really "fortnites" are games that are fun when you aren't good at them and can be played with your friends as a non-goal-driven hangout space.

We're living through a natural experiment to see if we can keep labor peace while resetting conditions to before there was labor peace.

Hell yes.

In 2018 the UNC system required each member school to accept any AP score of a 3+ and an IB score of 4+. Untangling this will be tough.

Not to give away my assassination coordinates, but I just got two tickets to a section that rhymes with blenter blorchestra.

Hey man, I'm not a toddler. I can focus on multiple things at once.

I have to repeatedly tell my students that if they put the energy they spend writing prompts for AI into writing answers to the questions they wouldn't need AI. "It took 30 minutes but I vibe coded this method." Why didn't you spend 30 minutes writing the method instead?

A quick blog post about how the fiber arts influenced modern computing. This was fun to research. schledorn.bearblog.dev/programming-...

I wasn't grabbed by Double Dragon like a lot of my peers were, but the Kunio-Kun (River City) series is fantastic. They're some of the best games of the 8-bit era, and continued to be fantastic as time progressed. Hopefully Kishimoto's impact on gaming is celebrated long into the future.

Oh my gd, the Artemis II crew doing a parody of a bad 1980s sitcom intro from in space. Source: www.instagram.com/p/DWwuHPfCZ8Z/

"Just because you're not using A.I. doesn't mean it's not being used by a lot of other people, and that's something that you have to reckon with" COUNTERPOINT: no, no I don't

This is why people say racism hurts everyone. The Sum of Us should be required reading. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

As the opening of the chapter on the Great American Decline.

This Mets/Pirates game is insane so far. Two unforced errors in a row for 4 points for the Mets.

These old comic strips could be so dark. I love them.

Transfer Point will be available this Friday, March 27. You’ll be able to play it free in your browser at robotspacer.software. A downloadable version will be available for $5 on robotspacer.itch.io to play on your own classic Mac or emulator. The download includes a PDF of the illustrated manual.

one maddening thing about all of this is the conservative idea that "election day" has always meant a single day until recently, which is nonsense. 19th century elections often took place over the course of an entire month, with results trickling out over time.

A bunch of games that are canonical to me have pretty good deals right now in the steam sale. A few favorites:

The process of organization is one of the strongest metamemory strategies. Cut that out, and you've cut out learning. As a teacher and cognitive psychologist I find this all so sad and frustrating and kind of incomprehensible.

CGA is great. schledorn.bearblog.dev/cga-is-great/

There's something special about the Homestar Runner era of the internet. Speeds were getting faster, we were online more and more, and an "internet culture" was becoming more mainstream. This is another great episode that explores that as more!

Kayfabe bullshit from people in a company with a multi-season documentary series about how fake wrestling is.

Reading Stephen King at too young of an age is a rite of passage for every middle schooler.

The best course of action is to ignore bad takes, but when a comment is this bad, this wrong, this revisionist, you've got to call it out.

In honor of the 30th anniversary of The Birdcage, I wrote about only some of the brilliant layers of its confrontations of gender performance. Truly, The Birdcage is an exceptional and important film for our moment for challenging bigots who can't wrap their minds around differences in human nature

Perfect. This is what social media is for.

And of course I had to write about some of my favorite Mario rom hacks! schledorn.bearblog.dev/mario-rom-ha...

It's Mario Day. schledorn.bearblog.dev/its-mario-day/

True redemption doesn’t usually involve an increase in power and influence for those redeemed, and we should be wary of those who try to gain those privileges from a pose of repentance.

This is their only option. If we elect the most perfect president that history could provide, there's nothing stopping us from electing another Trump 4 years later. The EU and other countries have to assume we're not reliable anymore.

I think the Dragon Quest 7 re-remake is a gold example of this. It didn't need it, but the QoL improvements, soundtrack, and general charm have been wonderful and I have adored playing through it with my 10 year old.