Joe Blancato
joeblancato.bsky.social
Joe Blancato
@joeblancato.bsky.social
Marketing and operations dude in vidyagames at Ignition Facility. Any opinions expressed are yours and represent your employer. Ex- Riot & Cryptic. Senior Email Investigator.
grok game dev is so weird. Every game it spits out looks just like Wolfenstein 3D but the nazis are the good guys
March 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The Avengers suck ass
February 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Well folks, I think that’s a wrap.
February 15, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Well folks, I think that’s a wrap.
February 15, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it.

Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on.

Making this my pinned post.
February 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Remembering my dad doing parent teacher conferences in middle school where they had him come in because I nearly started a riot or something and before they could even start talking he demanded they all call him Doctor Blancato and would rant about how "appalling" the science program was.
February 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
If someone were to write a browser extension that could proactively block all these fucking AI-shilling toasts in every decaying SaaS piece of shit I have to interact with every day, I would gladly swear fealty to them in the coming techno-feudal hellstate we're entering.
February 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson
February 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.
February 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Super Bowl Sunday (n): ancient American late winter feast festival. They watch their national sport and eat finger foods to symbolize their ancestors’ reliance on dried and pickled foods to outlast the brutal steppe winters.
February 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Did the "why is my GPU running hot" dance and then realized I forgot to install an exhaust fan in the case after I moved.
homer simpson is surrounded by flames and says s-m-r-t in white letters
ALT: homer simpson is surrounded by flames and says s-m-r-t in white letters
media.tenor.com
February 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
It’s pickups like these that help a lot. Shorten the game www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/02/yank...
Yankees Re-Sign Tim Hill
The Yankees are re-signing left-handed reliever Tim Hill on a one-year deal that includes a 2026 club option. Read more at MLB Trade Rumors.
www.mlbtraderumors.com
February 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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February 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Rockin out to some Danny elfman
February 6, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I’m imposing tariffs on all my posts. If you’re reading this you done been tariffed
February 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
AI is just Quibi at an economy-destroying scale
January 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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One second from every episode of Twin Peaks.
September 15, 2024 at 11:38 AM
The only satisfying conclusion to the Zuck Goes MAGA to Persuade Trump to Kill TikTok dark comedy is Donnie rugpulling him and saving TikTok at the last second.
January 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The DriveThruRPG new years mega sale: a great opportunity to look at incredibly interesting lineup of games and systems that I forgot I bought in a 2012 DriveThruRPG new years mega sale
January 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Yanks are looking at Paul Dejong now.
January 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Retrosheet is pleased to announce an update to its Negro Leagues section: www.retrosheet.org/NegroLeagues...

This update includes two new seasons: 1937 and 1938 (the first two Negro American League seasons). So far, Retrosheet has collected information on 7,061 games involving Negro League teams.
Negro Leagues
www.retrosheet.org
January 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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a short thread of Nicolas Cage resembling various philosophers

1. Spinoza
December 19, 2024 at 12:05 PM
Oligarchy putting on quite the display of force.
seems a bit dramatic
December 19, 2024 at 8:38 PM
My first scam text since moving to Costa Rica. I feel like I’m finally getting comfortable
December 17, 2024 at 11:49 PM
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Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back.

www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...
www.wheresyoured.at
December 16, 2024 at 5:31 PM