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Professor of ESL. Faculty Union President. Father. Feminist. Gamer. Guitarist. RPCV Ukraine. Enjoy NWSL/WNBA/MLB/WWE/CFB. Podcaster. Opinions are my own.
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I post about video games, Unions, video games, collective bargaining, video games, community college, video games, college football, video games, politics, video games, human and civic rights, video games, and my daughter and wife.

Work is hard and serious, so it’s important for me to talk joy.
This. What the fuck, folks.
there isn't a single justifiable reason to gloat over the flooding and deaths in Texas
July 6, 2025 at 5:58 AM
If this is the type of writing @endlessmode.bsky.social is bringing to the table, I am so, so here for it.
Final Fantasy VII Offers a Way of Living and Working through Catastrophe - Endless Mode
In the aftermath of its plate fall moment Final Fantasy VII shows us a way of surviving while the world falls apart.
www.endlessmode.com
July 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Yep I was playing Final Fantasy XVI again.
July 5, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Now, we dig into Final Fantasy III.
Final Fantasy III Episode 0: Pixel Perfect Prologue
Podcast Episode · The RPG Backlog · 06/20/2025 · 39m
podcasts.apple.com
July 4, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Social media was a huge, huge fucking mistake.
People on this app get really angry every time I point out that social media manipulation is a real phenomenon that we are all stewing in and that’s having real world consequences and I’m sure part of that is engagement farmers who do that manipulation not liking people talking about it
July 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Freedom from kings.
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️

Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
July 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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July 4, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.

Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
July 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
May today’s fireworks represent the light in the darkness we all need to hang onto to put in the work to get our communities through this.
July 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
One goal: outlive every motherfucker.
July 4, 2025 at 6:15 AM
😢
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Microsoft hates video games.
July 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM
It. Is. A. Cult.
As Shawn McCreesh and Tyler Pager report, House Republican holdouts were apparently swayed to support President Trump’s tax and spending bill by signed merch and photographs with the president.
Trump Goes on a Charm Offensive as He Woos Holdout Republicans
www.nytimes.com
July 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Congress has just turbocharged the chaos and cruelty.
July 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
May they be called Murkowski Motels in the annals of history.
July 3, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Even if you’re not a history person, please read this thread. All the way to the end
At this time of day on July 2, I’m drawn to think of the several thousand US troops spread out in an ever thinning line along Culp’s Hill, on the US right. All afternoon, units have been pulled from this position to bolster the left flank - Little Round Top, the Wheatfield, and Cemetery Ridge
July 3, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Lay off Phil Spencer. #xbox
July 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Supreme Court's liberal majority strikes down the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban.
July 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Late-stage capitalism comes for everyone. Just gross.
It's batshit insane to me that Turn 10, a studio that's LITERALLY never shipped anything less than a GREAT game (Metacritic receipts attached) – is being reduced to, perhaps, a support studio with these cuts. What an absolutely brutal business gaming is.
July 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I’ll take under-the-radar efficiency.
The nation's fifth most populous county, San Diego, just chose its political future today—and appears to have chosen to have a Democratic local government—and it's crickets everywhere. Quite the eye-popping example of the NY/East-Coast-bias of how elections get covered.
July 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Rolled credits on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

It’s a flawed masterpiece of a work of art and I bawled through the last 15 minutes of gameplay and cutscenes.
July 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Tonight’s reading for the doctorate. After I’m done, rewarding myself with some Assassin’s Creed: Shadows.
June 28, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Got nothing to add to the expert commentary on SCOTUS. But: it’s one more iteration of a common phenomenon of this time: people with immense power seeming to live in a different reality over those they rule.
June 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Played Commander with my daughter tonight. During her independent time today, she went though her loose Final Fantasy Magic cards and created her own Commander deck for the first time. She had some good instincts and knew all the parameters. #mtg
June 27, 2025 at 3:18 AM