A very happy birthday to Culture Club singer Boy George!

Trump on the US military: It has “Smashed foreign empires, humbled kings, toppled tyrants and hunted terrorist savages through the very gates of hell.” Is he saying the military has conducted expeditions to Hell?

Politician or a cop Or a teacher in a school No one gets authority By following the rules

Political hat? Me? No!

Today a small bird gifted my dog a tiny piece of bread

Are you there Bluesky? It’s me, Grim.

I want to deep fry an Uncrustable

“Never say what you said. To me, that’s the nastiest question.” is probably how I sound as a substitute teacher telling students not to swear.

TV show pitch: “Murder She Post.” Old lady solves murders using good old fashioned gumption and a very solid grasp of social media.

Eb major is a stupid chord and I don’t like songs that use it

That’s right Apple Music. I love “Handle Me With Care” by The Travelling Wilburies so much that I can and will happily listen to it multiple times a day. Ya got me.

Story idea: Our hero, a down and out private eye, is hired by Lin Manuel Miranda to retrieve a stolen item of some value: a cursed rhyming dictionary given to Miranda by the devil in exchange for his soul.

Pixar, get to work on the movie about a family of seagulls helping a guy from Chicago become the pope

This year’s hot Christmas item? 30 dolls.

“Not buying your child a cell phone” is the new “saving for college”

poasting something stupid to offset the bad

May I speak millennially for a moment? I have no right to complain about Jack Black inspiring a bunch of kids to act like insufferably obnoxious monsters because I remember exactly how I responded to the arrival of Tenacious D.

🎮 One time I was subbing for a middle school history class. A kid was talking about video games asserted with total confidence that the “64” in “Mario 64” refers to the year of the game’s release. HISTORY class, man.

🎮Initial reactions to finishing Disco Elysium: Everyone needs a Kim Kitsuragi. Self-referential dialogue trees are, like, meta. Role-playing as someone with different values from myself makes me uncomfortable in a good way. Game violence is scarier when you reason it into being.

I finished Disco Elysium last night, and it inspired me to finally raise my electrochemistry stats enough to wipe *The Expression* off my face

I love the use of the word “tackle” when it refers to solving a problem. Watch out low self esteem, your ass is about to get SACKED

Idea from the video game design backlog: Interplanetary animal control officer top down puzzle shooter. Travel from planet to planet tagging, trapping, and corralling alien species.

An idea from the game design backlog: An adventure game set in an old apartment building where the doors open to a different point in time depending on what key is used.

I’ve spent about 30 years accumulating the necessary skills to develop a video game while convincing myself that I’m not ready to begin developing a video game. I’m running out of excuses.

Inside of me are two wolves. What? I was hungry.

I just finished telling a story about my punk rock days for to Andy Richter and Fred Armisen on Andy’s podcast

Bringing back extinct apex predators through advanced cloning techniques? Have these so-called “scientists” even SEEN, Jurassic World, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Jurassic World Dominion, or the upcoming Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025) starring Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali?!

If you have “move to another country” money, that means you also have “make large donations to progressive candidates” money.

On a scale of 1 to 10, how’s it going?

I love borrowing video games from the library. Knowing that the game has to be returned adds an extra layer of motivation. 🎮

I was so ready for Switch 2 to be the first video game console I ever pre-ordered.

Overheard: “Oh, I heard The Minecraft Movie is supposed to be good.” Yeah. Everything is SUPPOSED to be good.

Remember to be kind to everyone you meet today and to listen to at least 3 CDs. If you can't listen to them in their entirety don't stress yourself out. A few songs from each is fine

Polling the room: What’s the first video game you ever played, and under what circumstances? Mine was Cosmic Osmo and the Worlds Beyond Mackerel on a Mac (probably an LCII) in the computer lab of my elementary school. I credit the teacher, Mr. Luca, on getting me into games.

Give me a Bob Dylan biopic starring Larry David

There was a time, not long ago, when it was normal for a small town to have multiple fully-staffed and operational ska bands.

The future of education is interactive 🕹️ 🎓 Whether you’re an educator or researcher, #TheVideoGameLibrary has so many amazing books to discover on how #VideoGames can transform learning. Time to explore! 📖✨ 👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org #Gamification #Games4Ed #EdTech #Gaming

Head canon: Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a loose retellling of The Island of Dr. Moreau 🎮

Conservation biologists are using dogs' super-powered sense of smell to help their research – on land and at sea.

I am going to fire up the Switch and play Animal Crossing for a few minutes like it's 2020, because (1) it is arguably more useful than me reading social media right now and perseverating and (2) I need 15 min in a place where my worst problem is that I shook a wasp out of a tree

After a firehose of a first six weeks back in the White House, President Trump delivered a boastful and partisan address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night. Here are six takeaways:

I think the biggest failing of Windows is making the update process so annoying and so disruptive that there is a dangerous amount of people that would rather never get security updates then have to deal with Windows Update

Thanks for everything George Lowe.

As a professor of English, allow me to try, humbly and with the proper respect, to offer an appropriate response to the President’s address: Fuck you, you fucked-up fuck, and fuck all the fuckers who willingly fuck with you, especially. You can all fuck all the way off, and then fuck off some more.

the best joke in videogames development is replying "ship it" to every broken ass prototype no I will not be taking questions

In my personal opinion, the “sky” in “Bluesky” is pronounced “skee.” The same holds true for all “-sky” suffixed communities therein.

Remember, every evil corporation started as an evil small business in someone’s evil garage.

Gamers of Bluesky, how do you overcome choice paralysis in the face of a huge backlog? I’ve taken the advise to “play what’s fun.” That’s too simple, I’m thinking along the lines of tea leaves, tarot cards, and water dowsing.