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Johnny Owens

@gracklehq.com
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He/They Creator of GrackleHQ, Tools Engineer for games, Popcorn Enthusiast

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 20/09/2026
no game dev skill is more important than making up your fuckin mind
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Johnny Owens @gracklehq.com · 18/09/2026
ooo and it's gooooooooooooooooooooooooooood
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Johnny Owens @gracklehq.com · 18/09/2026
early birthday present from crj 😁
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Ashley Ruhl @ashleyruhl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Coyote vs Acme gave me more laughs per minute than any other film this year. I am 100% a Looney Tunes kid.
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Johnny Owens @gracklehq.com · 04/09/2026
Puzzled Pint is genuinely lovely, I look forward to it every month. If you've got one near you (and you probably do), they're worth checking out!
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Johnny Owens @gracklehq.com · 04/09/2026
Replayed Sayonara Wild Hearts just because it's been too long and that game is perfect. Gold Rank on Album Arcade from pure muscle memory. Still got it.
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Johnny Owens @gracklehq.com · 31/08/2026
Wow Fred.
Fred the cat.
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No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽ @noscoredraws.com · 22/08/2026
Just gonna pop my next ten months of mental health in the hands of eleven dorks who don’t know I exist #coys
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Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW) @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
i think this is a contender for the stupidest line of code i've ever written
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Johnny Owens @gracklehq.com · 22/08/2026
Won a volleyball tournament tonight 🏆
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miss fern 🏳️‍⚧️😘 @miss-fern.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
don't you dare insult putt putt the car. don't say shit about that little guy, not in my house
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Johnny Owens @gracklehq.com · 30/07/2026
The Message from Deep Space is occupying every nook and cranny of my brain right now. If you want Project Hail Mary: The Book: The Game, this is it. store.steampowered.com/app/4080030/...
store.steampowered.com
The Message from Deep Space on Steam
Mission: Translate an interstellar message, using the universal languages of math & science.
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Johnny Owens @gracklehq.com · 28/07/2026
A recent hobby of mine has been watching long winded explanations of the story of Kingdom Hearts, and it's reached the point that I actually kinda want to play the games? Is this how it starts? Am I already too far gone?
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Johnny Owens @gracklehq.com · 27/07/2026
"Ima Fight" meme with the text: 

"ok ima fight a raccoon"

"damn raccoons got hands"
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Johnny Owens @gracklehq.com · 15/07/2026
Holy hell Incident at Galley House has the juice.
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andré @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
we must extract this man's confidence and redistribute it among everyone with impostor syndrome
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Johnny Owens @gracklehq.com · 09/07/2026
How your email finds me:
A half-sheared ram.
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No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽ @noscoredraws.com · 01/07/2026
We’ll always have these guys x
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Johnny Owens @gracklehq.com · 30/06/2026
This game is so dang good.
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Johnny Owens @gracklehq.com · 30/06/2026
This year's World Cup has exactly 104 matches: one for each day of summer vacation.
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios
You have some wonderful stories of basically getting away with stuff at the studios.

I’d learned one very simple trick: say yes. Simply say yes. Like Joseph E. Levine, on “The Producers,” said, “The curly-haired guy—he’s funny looking. Fire him.” He wanted me to fire Gene Wilder. And I said, “Yes, he’s gone. I’m firing him.” I never did. But he forgot. After the screening of “Blazing Saddles,” the head of Warner Bros. threw me into the manager’s office, gave me a legal pad and a pencil, and gave me maybe twenty notes. He would have changed “Blazing Saddles” from a daring, funny, crazy picture to a stultified, dull, dusty old Western. He said, “No farting.” I said, “It’s out.”That’s probably the most famous scene in the movie, the campfire scene.

I know. He said, “You can’t punch a horse.” I said, “You’ll never see it again.” I kept saying, “You’re absolutely right. It’s out!” Then, when he left, I crumpled up all his notes, and I tossed it in the wastepaper basket. And John Calley, who was running [production at] Warner Bros. at the time, said, “Good filing.” That was the end of it. You say yes, and you never do it.

That’s great advice for life.

It is. Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.
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Johnny Owens @gracklehq.com · 26/06/2026
I just played a half hour of this game and holy crap it's something special. store.steampowered.com/app/3345810/...
store.steampowered.com
E9uations on Steam
You are the equal sign(=). Rearrange the numbers and operators to form equation and solve the puzzle.
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Johnny Owens @gracklehq.com · 26/06/2026
I cannot deal with how good Rhythm Doctor is.
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Lore Sjöberg @loresjoberg.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Just listened to John Cage’s 4’33”. Great piece, no notes.
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Justin Horneker @hornekerjustin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
You may not like it but this is what peak goalscoring looks like.
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Mal @guacs.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
CABO VERDE IN 5
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Johnny Owens @gracklehq.com · 15/06/2026
Probably the best picture I've ever taken:
A picture of three sheep on a hillside in Scotland, god rays peeking through the clouds behind them.
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Johnny Owens @gracklehq.com · 15/06/2026
Had a very long, impassioned argument with friends about how many syllables are in the word "child".
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Katherine @krzonca.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I fear I love them
Three Japan fans dressed as Mario, Luigi, and Toad during the hydration break of the Netherlands/Japan World Cup match
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Cheering baby break
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Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
A gritty live-action prequel where a young Gaston eats four dozen eggs.
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Johnny Owens @gracklehq.com · 12/06/2026
The amount you can do with Reflection in C# is so wild. But it's extremely necessary to fix some of Microsoft's bugs for them.
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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
every dad right now: "You know, it's really not fair that Canada has to play Bosnia AND Herzegovina
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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I wrote a manifesto for making games, and (not) selling them, for #manifestojam illomens.itch.io/no-one-is-go...
illomens.itch.io
NO-ONE IS GOING TO BUY YOUR GAME by ill omens
A Manifesto For Making Games
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Johnny Owens @gracklehq.com · 02/06/2026
Man, I love airboats. Big fan.
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Bigg @bpbigg.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Sad to hear about Ludum Dare beginning to wind down, but I think it's maybe good for people to be reminded how many of the things they consider indispensable institutions are really a single-digit number of people (often a single person) working very long & hard for little to no money
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Barry Petchesky @barryp.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Today should be a national holiday.
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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 13/04/2026
The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon.

Clockwise from top left:
1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.”

2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”.

3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.”

4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.
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Johnny Owens @gracklehq.com · 06/04/2026
I cannot stop playing Artisan of Glimmith. I just hit 800 puzzles solved, and I'm maybe 70% through? I have a problem. Fortunately, I also have 800 solutions.
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Johnny Owens @gracklehq.com · 06/04/2026
He shramp
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Seth Rosenthal @sethrosenthal.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
i think it's smart that the Wikipedia page for Chips and Dip opens with a "Rationale" section. a lot of people are flabbergasted to find out about this concept and need some grounding before they get into the history
Rationale

Usually the chips served are not flavored, or flavored only mildly, and the dip serves as a condiment. Serving them separately allows for simultaneous consumption, while also allowing for the eater to control the amount of dip according to their preference. When made from purchased processed foods, the dish is an easy finger food, as each item requires almost no further preparation. Not to mention, there is a large amount of combinatorial possibility inherent to the choice of dip being paired to the chip chosen.
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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Myst island
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Johnny Owens @gracklehq.com · 16/03/2026
Out here making choices
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Johnny Owens @gracklehq.com · 14/03/2026
Playing Johann Sebastian Joust in the lounge in the year of our lord MMXXVII
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Ashley Ruhl @ashleyruhl.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
On our way to GDC! @gracklehq.com
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Aasa T 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @rosgakori.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Anyways.
kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it
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Tyler Glaiel @tylerglaiel.com · 26/02/2026
I feel like younger people don't realize that the internet wasn't always optimized solely to make you as angry and miserable as possible, and people are having a lot of nostalgia for 2000s internet vibes now because it wasn't like that back then
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Johnny Owens @gracklehq.com · 25/02/2026
Hey y'all, I'm aware of GrackleHQ being down again, gonna look into it when I get home from work today 🧡
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Johnny Owens @gracklehq.com · 24/02/2026
Big props to the US Men's Hockey Team for reminding me to never watch Men's Hockey. Was riding that Heated Rivalry high, thanks for correcting that. Now to find a PWHL team to back...
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