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Father, psychology professor (Psy.D.), gamer, former therapist. I use gameful elements in course design to increase student autonomy, motivation, and joy in learning.

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If you invested $100,000 into ETH when Eric Trump told you to buy, you would now have
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If you invested $100,000 into ETH when Eric Trump told you to buy, you would now have $1,245 Ethereum / U.S. Dollar • 1D • COINBASE • 01,805.16 H1,816.28 L1,555.00 C1,573.11 -231.98 (-12.85%) 1,573.06 SELL 0.01 1,573.07 BUY

Is this good chat

06.02.2026 01:13 👍 5424 🔁 1090 💬 145 📌 100

In my first semester ever teaching in the spring of 2012, a student told me they came up with the mnemonic "Frogs and Tadpoles On the Pond" to help him remember the four lobes of the cerebral cortex (frontal, temporal, occipital, parietal). Every time I teach the brain, I pass along his mnemonic.

05.02.2026 19:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

25.01.2026 20:24 👍 50316 🔁 14722 💬 883 📌 608

Highguard has been a blast to play!

27.01.2026 00:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Please pay attention to what's happening in Minneapolis, Minnesota. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY

Reposts are appreciated.

26.01.2026 16:51 👍 737 🔁 429 💬 8 📌 31
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18.01.2026 07:58 👍 187 🔁 24 💬 1 📌 2

Basic media literacy: there are multiple clips out there showing this shooting, mostly up close and unobstructed (except by the car itself). Trump’s social media post includes a clip from far away, through trees, and slowed to super slow motion.

Those are *choices*

07.01.2026 21:53 👍 1891 🔁 319 💬 8 📌 1

Worth thinking about how long Tolkien goes on in Return of the King about despair being a weapon, and presenting defeat as a forgone conclusion being a deliberate and effective tactic

17.07.2024 00:23 👍 2000 🔁 834 💬 15 📌 36
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BREAKING: ICE killed a Minnesota woman in broad daylight & there must be accountability.

But when I moved to subpoena all records & footage related to this murder, Republicans voted it down.

They've never cared about law & order or keeping our communities safe.

08.01.2026 00:23 👍 4670 🔁 1707 💬 174 📌 113

I am absolutely gutted at this news, and I've never even met him. The stories of people who worked beneath him, as well as the incredible games he shipped, show the industry has lost a titanic force of good.

23.12.2025 00:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Cory Doctorow : "We need to make tech workers unionized again ...  because tech workers that aren't working behind a keyboard, those tech workers, they're peeing in bottles or being injured at 3x the national rate in an Amazon warehouse. That's how tech bosses treat workers they're not afraid of."

11.12.2025 17:39 👍 1325 🔁 391 💬 13 📌 19
Highguard | Official Reveal Trailer
Highguard | Official Reveal Trailer YouTube video by Wildlight Entertainment

Debuting our game #highguard at @thegameawards.com tonight was a career dream come true. Thank you @geoffkeighley.bsky.social for the opportunity and thank you to my team for the incredibly hard work

youtu.be/hPdWyXJs-W4?...

12.12.2025 08:44 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

We want inexperienced people to shake up the government!

*government shakes like it's mixing paint*

No not like that

11.11.2025 16:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Cognitive Trade-Off Hypothesis by Viagra Boys is probably my favorite song about evolutionary theory of human development. Which is saying something given how crowded popular music is with similar songs about how predators shaped our ancestors' need for language to survive.

11.11.2025 16:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lex McMenamin (theyl.. • @lexim... • 55m
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
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we have been covering this for months and months now, here (again) is my interview with@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social about this subject from Thursday
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Lex McMenamin (theyl.. • @lexim... • 55m I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue. 908 ① 3.7K • 7.8K 囚企 Lex McMenamin (they/t... o @leximc... • 4h we have been covering this for months and months now, here (again) is my interview with@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social about this subject from Thursday @teenvogue.com

Quite a juxtaposition

03.11.2025 20:49 👍 932 🔁 166 💬 5 📌 6

Opening links in Facebook Messenger on Android no longer gives an option to open the link in Chrome

04.11.2025 00:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I just signed a memo saying the @nytimes.com has been on a mission to normalize fascism by leaving out pertinent facts in stories about Trump. Such as: Trump's actions here are illegal. There's nothing to equivocate about.

16.10.2025 00:51 👍 195 🔁 37 💬 1 📌 0

@ungajje.bsky.social so I've been listening to Maria Palmer since I saw your skeet, and a) you're right that she is awesome and b) she is not gen z as I first guessed, she is just a tiny human

15.10.2025 17:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sean "Prizzy" Combs
Prizz Daddy
P. Diddy but now the P is for Prison

03.10.2025 23:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

BREAKING NEWS: Rayme says to destroy all children

26.09.2025 18:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump is ordering pregnant women and young children to stop taking pain and fever reliever. It’s a cruel, needless strategy to inflict pain, suffering, illness, anxiety, and social stigmatization. It’s also already given conservatives a new way to blame women for societal problems.

26.09.2025 16:54 👍 899 🔁 179 💬 22 📌 16

I love it when students ask to talk after class.

I *extra* love it when they do so for personal reasons, like asking for First Person Shooter game recommendations 💥🔫

26.09.2025 15:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It's here!!!

17.09.2025 17:39 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

For sure! Sometimes I like making a fool of myself to get their attention. Just today I danced poorly and sang an improvised song about how you can't talk and listen at the same time, while they were talking, and kept it up until they all caught on and stopped

10.09.2025 20:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There's a friend of a cousin and a cousin of a friend of mine in one of my classes this semester. These are two different people.

10.09.2025 20:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That doesn't sound like handling it well at all, can you actually recall any time where you sat as a student or audience member and thought chatter was handled well by the people at the front?

10.09.2025 19:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Have you ever been a student in a class where you recall a teacher handling that well?

10.09.2025 19:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Visited a bar recently that had Guinness 0.0 on tap, but not Guinness itself.

As in, they just don't serve Guinness, period. Yes, they served other alcoholic beers on tap.

But

Why

10.09.2025 19:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"but we can't support trans rights, it's unpopular!"

just a reminder that US approval for marriage between black and white people at the start of the civil rights movement was 4%, reaching a whopping 20% by the end of the movement

it's 95% now

you don't wait for popularity for a rights movement

07.09.2025 15:52 👍 5326 🔁 2223 💬 40 📌 38