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Nathan Holbert
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Learning Scientist. Maker and designer. Player of games and toys. Dad. Associate Professor @ Teachers College, Columbia University. Pop & Play host http://tc.edu/popandplay
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During a 3 episode binge of stranger things season 5 my preteen was hard at work making. Looks familiar…
January 3, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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Death Stranding 2, July. Sometimes you need a giant baby to eat a shirtless Troy Baker shredding on an electric guitar gun to appreciate the glory that is video games. In Death Stranding 2 you get that. Plus you get perfect satisfaction out of rebuilding a broken world. (14/22)
A scene from Death Stranding 2: Sam Porter Bridges and Higgs are shirtless and fighting with electric guitars. Fire burns in the background
December 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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AI is revolutionizing education.
A dumb quiz. The animated jigsaw with eyes says YOU CAN DO THIS. I HAVE BEEN SECRETLY WATCHING YOU AND YOU HAVE LEARNED.
December 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Top tier educational technology design by @flebpuzzles.bsky.social
A picture of a wooden jigsaw. A pane of text that reads: HISTORY Did you know? The first jigsaw was created by John Spilsbury around 1760, as a puzzle to teach geography. The puzzle was cut out of a map, so you could assemble the countries and learn where they went. A jigsaw piece with big eyes pops out of the corner and says ARE YOU LEARNING? A panel of text: MANUFACTURING Did you know? Originally, jigsaws were made of wood. But most jigsaws you'll find today are made of paperboard. It's cheaper to make that way. A picture of puzzle pieces. An animated jigsaw piece with eyes says: MAKE SURE THAT YOU LEARN
December 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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God bless us everyone
December 25, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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We don’t deserve Carol Kane
December 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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It’s Christmas Eve which means…
December 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Bob Odenkirk wearing glasses, looking down at his phone saying, “triples makes it safe. Triples is best” from the show I think you should leave
December 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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I asked AI to fill in what was behind the black boxes and I was shocked.
It's hard to describe a picture so dumb. Creepy redacted Epstein photos with DT's picture photoshopped on the black boxes.
December 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Wow AI was able to figure out what was behind all these black boxes!
December 19, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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A thread on why you should slow your roll before you immediately turn to AI for all your work.
"Put a bird on it" meme except it says "Put AI on it" AI is written on a piece of toast.
December 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Be sure to squeeze “bellicose” in there somewhere!
Headline from the NYTimes: “A Bellicose Trump Points Fingers in Defending Record on Economy In an 18-minute address, President Trump said the economy was booming despite the public's consistent concerns about prices. Here are six takeaways.”
December 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Even the gluten free pizza was eaten.
3 large empty pizza boxes. One pizza box still has two large slices of pineapple pizza left.
December 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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When @haenyyoon.bsky.social has pant troubles, she goes to TikTok. Why isn't school a place most people go to learn about things they care about? Episode spoiler--it can be! We talk the purpose of education on this week's Pop & Play #edusky www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz0m...
December 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Reading this article on MCP, a protocol for AI agents, and this line really captures the mentality of those building AI tools. People, community, family are not distractions to the future. They're the whole damn point!
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
In an October 2024 hackathon, virtually everyone used the protocol to build their projects — "It was this moment in the company when everybody was like, 'Oh, there's really something to this," Soria Parra says. He and Spahr-Summers got Krieger's approval to develop a full-fledged open source project. They released it just before Thanksgiving - somewhat deliberately, Soria Parra says, so that people could take a break from family to check it out.
December 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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It’s past time we eschew the woke nonsense of readable typefaces and re-embrace the nubs of our historic and masculine serif fonts.
At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the Biden-era move to the sans serif typeface "wasteful," casting the return to Times New Roman as part of a push to stamp out diversity efforts. Picture of Marco Rubio falling loving staring at Times New Roman
December 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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@haenyyoon.bsky.social and I take a look at this survey from Pew and reflect on what it says about our values with regard to the purpose of school and education (two different things). What does good learning look like? How are we cultivating those possibilities?
47% of teachers say students showing little or no interest in learning is a major problem in their classroom. The share rises to 58% among high school teachers. 33% say students being distracted by their cellphones is a major problem. This is particularly an issue for high school teachers, with 72% saying this is a major problem. About one-in-five teachers say students getting up and walking around when they're not supposed to and being disrespectful toward them (21% each) are major problems. Teachers in elementary and middle schools are more likely than those in high schools to see these as challenges.
December 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Meme of old ma praying: JESUS, I SEE WHAT YOU'VE DONE FOR OTHER PEOPLE, AND I WANT THAT FOR ME.
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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HK-47, an assassin robot from the game knights of the old republic saying, "As a meatball would say, "I have a bad feeling about this."
November 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Yeah but I'm sure it was a "world class" emergency room... right?
Last two panels of the "for the better, right?" meme
November 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Me: Ahhh time to get lost in a world of magic, heroes, and dragons…

Game: You’re kind of a dick though.
A video game screenshot. A character with a cape and sword stands in front of a large waterfall. Above the waterfall are the words: “Your true failing lies in your keen awareness of your own intelligence, and your habit of seeing others as lacking in this respect..”
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Han Solo saying, "It's Queens. All of it. The Park Slope Vore, Brooklyn, they're Queens.
November 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Image of Han Solo saying, "It's Queens. All of it. The Park Slope Vore, Brooklyn, they're Queens."
November 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM