Hey! My piece on the history of the way Nintendo has gendered Birdo over the years was included in @critdistance.bsky.social’s write up of the best video game writing in 2025! www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/birdo-g...

A Complete History of Birdo’s Gender — Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games

In English and Japanese, from Doki Doki Panic to present, Nintendo’s stance on the pink egg-spitter has evolved.

thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com

happy new year

Forgot I had scheduled this frankly banger tweet so saving it here

@gretchenleigh.zone dude @randochrontendo.famiconsumer.com is so good, thank you ✨

"It's a Blacked Our Blur But I'm Pretty Sure It Ruled; On the long 2010s (2008-2023) and its symptoms." something I am joking about but will write about for money

cool birds listen to vinyl on a tern-table no you shut up

going into 2025 with this energy

when I say men need a healthy alternative to manosphere media I mean chess in the park

claire de lune@clairempls.bsky.social · 2y ago

showing up in washington square park in the rain to play chess against randos is exactly the level of psycho competitor meets sensei that it takes to be the best player on earth. i’m moved

Without downloading any new pics what's your energy going into 2025

Evan Sutton@evansutton.bsky.social · 2y ago

Without downloading any new pics what’s your energy going into 2025

Nosferatoo fast nosferatoo furious

placing your voodoo doll by the fireplace with a nice cup of hot cocoa and a book

Something I never got about conversation pits is, when do you use it exactly. Do you hang out in there waiting for a conversation to start? Or do you start the conversation somewhere else and at some point say, "we should take this to the pit." Either option seems mortifying

@midwestmodern.bsky.social · 2y ago

Conversation pit at Eero Saarinen’s Miller House (1957) in Columbus, IN

I can’t add to this thread because this is the Correct Answer

Aidan Moher@aidanmoher.com · 2y ago

Name a non-LOTR character that could resist the One Ring.

Deleting my dating apps because I want to meet someone the old fashioned way (I'm sitting in my living room, he's a large jug of red juice that bursts through the side of my wall)

I’m jonesing man. Need another six-hour YouTube video about some petty shit I don’t care about. “The Racist History of Twizzlers.” I’ll take anything

the real Crazy Town was Bethlehem all along

Frances: Meh and Loving It@francesmeh.reviews · 2y ago

parum my lady pa pum pum my lady newborn king to see sugar baby

The Ghosts of Shitposters Past

People are saying it's impossible for Jeff Bezos to spend $600 million on a wedding but that's because they're poor and have never gone to a Second Invasion of Grenada themed wedding

me: [carefully placing a baby on my boss’s desk] my boss: and the other one me: [pauses, then unstraps an ankle holster that cradles a smaller, but just as deadly baby]

Kelzor@bloodlesscoup.bsky.social · 2y ago

I have to take an annual fire safety training for work, and I am reminded that I asked some of the folks who manage these things how they evacuate the NICU and apparently they have vests you can load up with babies

Tired: Twelve-factor app Wired: Twelve-factor auth

My fav macOS image editor just hit 8.0; congrats @flyingmeatinc.bsky.social! Easily worth the price of admission. flyingmeat.com/acorn/

Here's a true story about my dad. When I was little, we were on a beach in Oregon and he found a message in a bottle. The note contained an address, with a plea in a young boy's handwriting to send a postcard and let him know how far the bottle had traveled.

There’s no interpretation of this image that makes it allowable under international law

Garfield and Friends Screens@garfieldscreens.bsky.social · 2y ago

Really hoping the retro nerds eventually make a new MD recorder a la all the new tape players

love the way we finish each others' sentences. it's like we're soulmates or the beastie boys

do you think ventriloquists worry that other ventriloquists are using skill instead of a cursed doll or if they all know the truth

I just tried to divide a Coke Zero between two glasses and the can exploded

me: maybe we shouldn't think about hot dogs all the time brain: that sounds like a bad idea me: but maybe we could try- brain: hot dogs me: (excited) hot dogs

The two amounts of time I ever have to get somewhere: 1) Why, I can stroll the boulevard, appraising the wares of local merchants. Ah, Fabrizio! How’s the boy 2) gonna have to do parkour