Two Mourning Doves at a bird feeder with a built-in camera. One dove is in profile, very close to the camera, and appears to be looking at it, and the other dove is further back, but also looks like it’s staring straight into the lens.
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.
Three cool scientists introduce their work "Our new theory has been submitted to a peer-reviewed journal, but we feel its depths and intricacies are best appreciated on the limited-edition vinyl release."
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
Orange fluffy cat inside my car.
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:
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AllPlay
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#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!
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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
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A thatched roof with 2 chimney pots. Atop the roof, instead of the usual duck or pheasant made of thatch, there stands a majestic T-rex
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”
Apple pie is the best kind of pie!
The FT publishing a correction that author Brené Brown described herself as "solidly in my fuck it era" rather than "solidly in my fucking era".
This, via @kellifb.bsky.social, might be the best newspaper correction I've seen this decade.
“Not people… brains!”
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.
Classic moment! www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8lT...
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
A starfield filled with thousands of stars and shining clouds of dust. The Milky Way\u2019s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Spanning more than 100,000 light-years, Earth is located along one of the galaxy\u2019s spiral arms, about halfway from the center. Credit: NASA
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.
I should clarify, we far prefer Trump chicken burgering over actually carrying out genocide, but he’s painted himself into a corner: unleash an atrocity, or cheap talk his way into a smelly wet paper bag of his own design that Iran’s holding open for him
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
Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal.
Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big.
And here we are.
