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Grant Birchmeier

@grantbirchmeier.bsky.social
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Dad, software dev, Chicago-suburbanite (ex-Michigander), vinyl-bargain-bin digger, retro gamer, comic reader, I post at theforkiverse.com/@GrantB and ruby.social/@GrantB

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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Not quite as concise as David Simon's "I'd rather put a gun in my mouth" but to be fair, he's a hell of a writer.
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Was def prone to glitching
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nah, it slaps, once you figure out its slightly obtuse exp & upgrade systems (and also draw some maps) I didn’t “get it” until my teens
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Creativity isn’t these peoples’ goal.
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
One of my former coworkers, who I respected and was good at the job, told me that this was his favorite episode. I was stunned.
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This is uncomfortable
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Oh my god, they invented another thigh gap
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I was with you up until now This movie rules all the way through
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It strikes me like some kind of evil superpower to be horny and active while blackout drunk. On the handful of occasions that I've been hammered, sex was nowhere on my mind.
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Are you sure you can wield this power responsibly
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I can’t remember what the Battle Wheel was, but the name alone sounds like a bad idea. (I only ever saw 2-3 episodes. I really need to fully watch this show)
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Wasn’t there also one where the gladiator (or whatever) was injured?
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Jerry Orbach, but I want it to be an action adventure game
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
But what did she say about your big hair
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Someone got it on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/chicago/s/...
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From the chicago community on Reddit: Double Rainbow and a lightning bolt over Chicago.
Explore this post and more from the chicago community
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
If this ever happens to me, I hope my children put me down
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
A good strip about Bird ID apps: www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2023/0...
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Birds In Your Area - Penny Arcade
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Republicans are still not going to vote for you
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Were you already familiar with the term “bike-shedding”? Sounds like a classic case of it.
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
@socialistdogmom.bsky.social You're apparently big enough that MSN namedropped you and spotlighted your Kash quote! www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
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MSN
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
It's almost like centerfold was a trojan horse to get other reasonably smart things in the hands of horndogs.
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Whoa... I remember this cover from my dad's old Playboy stash. Obviously my teenage self first dug into that stash for the photos, but I do remember being surprised at how the rest of the mag was actually pretty good, especially in the 70s. Good interviews, journo, & fiction from legit authors.
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Peppa’s dad always reminds me of Guillermo del Toro
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Speaking of movies, and following up on an old Mastodon convo, did you ever get around to Drop Dead Gorgeous?
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"Electro-rock"? That's my jam, come on, just tell us who it was.
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I am stunned that there was a 2099 video game under development. Wow.
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Some people are just cognitively blind. My wife doesn’t even notice when a movie is in the wrong aspect ratio.
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
jfc, that was 20 whole years ago? (Also TIL there is no emoji guy with a long white beard except 🧙‍♂️ but ‘wizard’ is not the vibe I’m looking for)
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
hey do you think the $100,000 donation from a man named patrick byrne is the former CEO of overstock dot com? the email on that donation has a "haverford group" domain and belongs to an "S Van Winter," and shannon van winter is the treasurer at byrne's personal foundation so i'm thinking yes?
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I definitely deserved that.
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Not even on some small-print copyright section on the inside?
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
@badideahello.bsky.social Where is your website? The url published in your comics redirects to a real estate site with a clothing brand url, so clearly something is screwy.
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
They should call it Voice of America
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
You keep rooting for it but it never breaks free of mid’s gravity
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
One time I joked “Blue Beetle is just Mexican Darkhawk” and my friend responded “I hate how reductive and accurate that is” (no shade on Blue Beetle though, Giffen’s stories were solid)
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Did a double-take at that guy who isn’t Bruce Campbell
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Early on, we’re shown Kevin Costner using some kind of filter to make his pee drinkable. Gee, what could it have been filtering out? Could it be salt? Uh
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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
ENT season 4 was great though
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Reminds me of the cheddar naan I had at an Indian place in Muskegon Michigan. It was wonderful.
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I think you are misunderstanding the motivation of my question. I literally just wanted to know her identity, because this clip doesn’t tell me. And you didn’t either.
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Who is she?
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I hope Schumer is having some moments of reflection this evening.
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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Block and move on. They're only here so they can do nazi incel dunks
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Pretty sure that’s Nester
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Gonna ask Holo-Stan about Stripperella
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
That’s not how you’re supposed to use alt text, my dude
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Gif from “The Wizard” with the kid saying “California?”
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(no offence to Imagine Dragons, who suck) @countryjim.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
My son just informed me of this, where They Might Be Giants wrote and recorded a song to sync to the Walk This Way video vimeo.com/253025437
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LAST WAVE
https://archive.org/details/LastWave_201712
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Grant Birchmeier @grantbirchmeier.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Ivy’s in the double-digits on that one And had me print out the lyrics to a bunch of songs
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