Mike St. Clair
@mikestclair.bsky.social
Games. Synths. Food. Politics.
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What’s the cost of last year’s basket today, and the % change? #applestoapples
November 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
What’s the cost of last year’s basket today, and the % change? #applestoapples
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“They were careless people, … they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made"
- F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
November 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
“They were careless people, … they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made"
- F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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The games business is about games. If you’re in the games business, and somehow (as often happens) your company somehow is now focused on something else (AI, XR, “IP,” acquisitions, etc.) you’re in for a period of struggle. Everyone will wonder what’s wrong. But you know. It’s about games. Gameplay.
June 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The games business is about games. If you’re in the games business, and somehow (as often happens) your company somehow is now focused on something else (AI, XR, “IP,” acquisitions, etc.) you’re in for a period of struggle. Everyone will wonder what’s wrong. But you know. It’s about games. Gameplay.
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There are two futures:
1) global genocide, food production crash, climate disasters push majority to poverty, billionaires & merc armies thrive
2) confiscate wealth of broligarchs voluntarily or jail them, redistributing to build green power/transpo/etc., everyone has min & max living standard
1) global genocide, food production crash, climate disasters push majority to poverty, billionaires & merc armies thrive
2) confiscate wealth of broligarchs voluntarily or jail them, redistributing to build green power/transpo/etc., everyone has min & max living standard
The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.
October 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
There are two futures:
1) global genocide, food production crash, climate disasters push majority to poverty, billionaires & merc armies thrive
2) confiscate wealth of broligarchs voluntarily or jail them, redistributing to build green power/transpo/etc., everyone has min & max living standard
1) global genocide, food production crash, climate disasters push majority to poverty, billionaires & merc armies thrive
2) confiscate wealth of broligarchs voluntarily or jail them, redistributing to build green power/transpo/etc., everyone has min & max living standard
A local Cubs fan made a bar bet this week and has to eat a whole ass onion like it’s an apple after this Reds sweep.
What a time to be alive.
What a time to be alive.
September 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
A local Cubs fan made a bar bet this week and has to eat a whole ass onion like it’s an apple after this Reds sweep.
What a time to be alive.
What a time to be alive.
Donkey Kong #MisterFPGA #ScanlineSunday Panasonic BT-H1700
September 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Donkey Kong #MisterFPGA #ScanlineSunday Panasonic BT-H1700
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senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
September 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
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OutRun GB is OUT NOW for your Game Boy Color.🌴
- All the tracks, all the music, all the wind in your hair!
(link in reply)
#pixelart #indiedev #gameboy #retrogaming
- All the tracks, all the music, all the wind in your hair!
(link in reply)
#pixelart #indiedev #gameboy #retrogaming
September 1, 2025 at 3:46 AM
OutRun GB is OUT NOW for your Game Boy Color.🌴
- All the tracks, all the music, all the wind in your hair!
(link in reply)
#pixelart #indiedev #gameboy #retrogaming
- All the tracks, all the music, all the wind in your hair!
(link in reply)
#pixelart #indiedev #gameboy #retrogaming
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Can a modern video options menu be crammed onto a tiny 160x144-sized interface? Yes it can!
This may get a visual overhaul later (I feel obligated to give it a happy cozy feel for some reason 🤔) but at least everything works! 😊️
#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #solodev #MayGame
This may get a visual overhaul later (I feel obligated to give it a happy cozy feel for some reason 🤔) but at least everything works! 😊️
#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #solodev #MayGame
August 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Can a modern video options menu be crammed onto a tiny 160x144-sized interface? Yes it can!
This may get a visual overhaul later (I feel obligated to give it a happy cozy feel for some reason 🤔) but at least everything works! 😊️
#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #solodev #MayGame
This may get a visual overhaul later (I feel obligated to give it a happy cozy feel for some reason 🤔) but at least everything works! 😊️
#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #solodev #MayGame
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We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
August 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
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AI’s primary function is to vacuum wealth up from below and move it to the top.
August 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
AI’s primary function is to vacuum wealth up from below and move it to the top.
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According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago.
8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois.
And yet Trump is sending troops here.
8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois.
And yet Trump is sending troops here.
August 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago.
8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois.
And yet Trump is sending troops here.
8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois.
And yet Trump is sending troops here.
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Sam Altman: I see humans achieving omnipotence using dark matter by… 2030 maybe? That’s if OpenAI is given a quadrillion dollars
Theo Von: Yeah
Altman: Or, we may become a race of slaves, genetically modified to be harvested by robot spiders. That’s if OpenAI doesn’t get the money
Von: Right
Theo Von: Yeah
Altman: Or, we may become a race of slaves, genetically modified to be harvested by robot spiders. That’s if OpenAI doesn’t get the money
Von: Right
August 19, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Sam Altman: I see humans achieving omnipotence using dark matter by… 2030 maybe? That’s if OpenAI is given a quadrillion dollars
Theo Von: Yeah
Altman: Or, we may become a race of slaves, genetically modified to be harvested by robot spiders. That’s if OpenAI doesn’t get the money
Von: Right
Theo Von: Yeah
Altman: Or, we may become a race of slaves, genetically modified to be harvested by robot spiders. That’s if OpenAI doesn’t get the money
Von: Right
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You ‘run the gamut’ and ‘run the gauntlet.’
You don’t ‘run the gambit.’
gamut = entire range or series
gauntlet = severe trial
Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy
You don’t ‘run the gambit.’
gamut = entire range or series
gauntlet = severe trial
Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy
August 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
You ‘run the gamut’ and ‘run the gauntlet.’
You don’t ‘run the gambit.’
gamut = entire range or series
gauntlet = severe trial
Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy
You don’t ‘run the gambit.’
gamut = entire range or series
gauntlet = severe trial
Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy
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A Project 2025 author with a Nazi ship on the wall behind him. This ain’t subtle, folks.
August 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
A Project 2025 author with a Nazi ship on the wall behind him. This ain’t subtle, folks.
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Wow, wild.
Anyway, here's a photo of Atlantic Owner Laurene Powell Jobs having a nice time with Ghislaine Maxwell.
Anyway, here's a photo of Atlantic Owner Laurene Powell Jobs having a nice time with Ghislaine Maxwell.
August 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Wow, wild.
Anyway, here's a photo of Atlantic Owner Laurene Powell Jobs having a nice time with Ghislaine Maxwell.
Anyway, here's a photo of Atlantic Owner Laurene Powell Jobs having a nice time with Ghislaine Maxwell.
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my dad was always saying this
August 14, 2025 at 2:53 AM
my dad was always saying this
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I can totally relate to these feelings. Trust me when I say that it’s not just you, Harry.
I will never forget what Donald Trump and his thugs did and I will not forgive them either.
#HEROES:
@libradunn1.bsky.social
@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social
@michaelfanone.bsky.social
#NeverForgetJanuary6th
I will never forget what Donald Trump and his thugs did and I will not forgive them either.
#HEROES:
@libradunn1.bsky.social
@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social
@michaelfanone.bsky.social
#NeverForgetJanuary6th
August 14, 2025 at 6:38 AM
I can totally relate to these feelings. Trust me when I say that it’s not just you, Harry.
I will never forget what Donald Trump and his thugs did and I will not forgive them either.
#HEROES:
@libradunn1.bsky.social
@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social
@michaelfanone.bsky.social
#NeverForgetJanuary6th
I will never forget what Donald Trump and his thugs did and I will not forgive them either.
#HEROES:
@libradunn1.bsky.social
@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social
@michaelfanone.bsky.social
#NeverForgetJanuary6th
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Today I read that half of all the electricity generated in Dublin Ireland is gobbled up by data centres.
Stop using these BS AI ‘tools’.
You were given a miraculous brain with which to think for yourself - use it.
Stop using these BS AI ‘tools’.
You were given a miraculous brain with which to think for yourself - use it.
August 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Today I read that half of all the electricity generated in Dublin Ireland is gobbled up by data centres.
Stop using these BS AI ‘tools’.
You were given a miraculous brain with which to think for yourself - use it.
Stop using these BS AI ‘tools’.
You were given a miraculous brain with which to think for yourself - use it.
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It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.
August 2, 2025 at 2:18 AM
It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.
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who...who in ohio is calling it that? we just call it either Cincinnati chilli or skyline chilli
Leave it to Ohio to turn the phrase spaghetti 3 way, the sacred act of having a threesome with two beautiful Italian women, into something as profane as chili on pasta
July 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
who...who in ohio is calling it that? we just call it either Cincinnati chilli or skyline chilli
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