Mike Merrill
@kmikeym.com
KmikeyM.com - publicly traded person who is working on some projects
always ask: who's gettin' rich?
“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”
Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call”
Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...
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October 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
always ask: who's gettin' rich?
getting to be a small part of Blippo+ is to be given a window seat on the never ending ride of watching @com.y-a-c-h-t.com make some of the most fun things in the world like this audio book version of a logo zine:
yacht.bandcamp.com/track/logos-...
yacht.bandcamp.com/track/logos-...
Logos From Planet Blip (Audiobook Edition), by Claire L. Evans & Jona Bechtolt
track by Claire L. Evans & Jona Bechtolt
yacht.bandcamp.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
getting to be a small part of Blippo+ is to be given a window seat on the never ending ride of watching @com.y-a-c-h-t.com make some of the most fun things in the world like this audio book version of a logo zine:
yacht.bandcamp.com/track/logos-...
yacht.bandcamp.com/track/logos-...
i bought the wrong one. the game was still a little fun, but something felt off. then i realized i was playing a cheap clone. but hey, that's MARKET CAPITALISM BABY! Nintendo is just letting the invisble hand of the market decide! WHEEEEEE!!!!!! 🎢📉
October 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
i bought the wrong one. the game was still a little fun, but something felt off. then i realized i was playing a cheap clone. but hey, that's MARKET CAPITALISM BABY! Nintendo is just letting the invisble hand of the market decide! WHEEEEEE!!!!!! 🎢📉
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Blippo+ Exhibition and Premiere Party host Kye Alive hits the red carpet and snags an exit interview with a real Earthling!
📡✨
Stay tuned for more red-carpet interviews with Blippo+ cast members.
📡✨
Stay tuned for more red-carpet interviews with Blippo+ cast members.
October 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Blippo+ Exhibition and Premiere Party host Kye Alive hits the red carpet and snags an exit interview with a real Earthling!
📡✨
Stay tuned for more red-carpet interviews with Blippo+ cast members.
📡✨
Stay tuned for more red-carpet interviews with Blippo+ cast members.
NYC friends... this is free, and will be fun. GUARANTEED!
Wednesday, October 22nd, join Blippo+ co-creators @com.y-a-c-h-t.com for an evening of worldbuilding and channel-flipping at @metalabel.bsky.social in New York!
Free 🎟️: parisbynight.metalabel.com/logosfrompla...
We’ll have copies of Logos From Planet Blip on hand, and plenty of Blippian cheer!
Free 🎟️: parisbynight.metalabel.com/logosfrompla...
We’ll have copies of Logos From Planet Blip on hand, and plenty of Blippian cheer!
Planet Blip in New York City!
An evening of channel-flipping, alien television, and gaming against the grain with Blippo+ co-creators YACHT at Metalabel HQ in New York.
parisbynight.metalabel.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
NYC friends... this is free, and will be fun. GUARANTEED!
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wild that a podcast about my dream video game console turned into such a unfiltered confessional about my dorky only childhood. Thank you @simonparkin.bsky.social for the therapeutic opportunity to talk about my tiny toons spec scripts and utter inability to beat a single Donkey Kong boss!
With a career that spans music, tech, and cultural criticism, is there anything @TheUniverse.bsky.social can’t do?
Join @SimonParkin.bsky.social in conversation with the multi-talented Claire L. Evans as she reveals the five titles she chose for her perfect console.
Available now: apple.co/47awNv0
Join @SimonParkin.bsky.social in conversation with the multi-talented Claire L. Evans as she reveals the five titles she chose for her perfect console.
Available now: apple.co/47awNv0
October 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
wild that a podcast about my dream video game console turned into such a unfiltered confessional about my dorky only childhood. Thank you @simonparkin.bsky.social for the therapeutic opportunity to talk about my tiny toons spec scripts and utter inability to beat a single Donkey Kong boss!
honestly, this is an insane deal. i helped make Blippo+ and could probably just ask for a copy but I'm still buying this...
wow, 137 tracks for only ten bucks? folks that’s about 0.07 cents a track. We’re giving this soundtrack away!
October 4, 2025 at 2:16 AM
honestly, this is an insane deal. i helped make Blippo+ and could probably just ask for a copy but I'm still buying this...
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♫ The Blippo+ Original Soundtrack
★★★★★
Apple Music
music.apple.com/us/album/bli...
Spotify
open.spotify.com/album/6C7puF...
Bandcamp
yacht.bandcamp.com/album/blippo...
Steam
store.steampowered.com/app/3989930/...
★★★★★
Apple Music
music.apple.com/us/album/bli...
Spotify
open.spotify.com/album/6C7puF...
Bandcamp
yacht.bandcamp.com/album/blippo...
Steam
store.steampowered.com/app/3989930/...
September 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
♫ The Blippo+ Original Soundtrack
★★★★★
Apple Music
music.apple.com/us/album/bli...
Spotify
open.spotify.com/album/6C7puF...
Bandcamp
yacht.bandcamp.com/album/blippo...
Steam
store.steampowered.com/app/3989930/...
★★★★★
Apple Music
music.apple.com/us/album/bli...
Spotify
open.spotify.com/album/6C7puF...
Bandcamp
yacht.bandcamp.com/album/blippo...
Steam
store.steampowered.com/app/3989930/...
i think about this game all the time
Here are some screenshots of a Martian trading game for iOS that I was designing with @kmikeym.com like a decade ago!
September 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
i think about this game all the time
livestream went off without a hitch! now you can buy Blippo+ in COLOR!
Blippo+ is out NOW and in FULL COLOR on PC and Switch!!!
📡 Steam
blippo.plus/steam
📡 Switch
blippo.plus/switch
📺 Tune in and get bent today!! blippo.plus 💫
📡 Steam
blippo.plus/steam
📡 Switch
blippo.plus/switch
📺 Tune in and get bent today!! blippo.plus 💫
September 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
livestream went off without a hitch! now you can buy Blippo+ in COLOR!
i'm going to have champagne for breakfast tomorrow. join us!
📡🍾 Celebrate the launch of Blippo+ on Steam & Nintendo Switch LIVE with us tomorrow at 8:30am Pacific Time!
Blippo+ launch livestream:
📡 Steam
blippo.plus/steam
📡 Twitch
twitch.tv/panic
📡 YouTube
youtube.com/@PanicVideo/videos
Blippo+ launch livestream:
📡 Steam
blippo.plus/steam
📡 Twitch
twitch.tv/panic
📡 YouTube
youtube.com/@PanicVideo/videos
September 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
i'm going to have champagne for breakfast tomorrow. join us!
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🗓️ 📡 2 Days Until Blippo+
Welcome, companion! You find yourself tuned into a fantastic new world of intergalactic entertainment. Do you have what it takes to stump the Quizzard?
blippo.plus
Welcome, companion! You find yourself tuned into a fantastic new world of intergalactic entertainment. Do you have what it takes to stump the Quizzard?
blippo.plus
September 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
🗓️ 📡 2 Days Until Blippo+
Welcome, companion! You find yourself tuned into a fantastic new world of intergalactic entertainment. Do you have what it takes to stump the Quizzard?
blippo.plus
Welcome, companion! You find yourself tuned into a fantastic new world of intergalactic entertainment. Do you have what it takes to stump the Quizzard?
blippo.plus
JUST FOUR MORE DAYS!
🗓️ 📡 4 Days Until Blippo+
The only place in all of subspace where you can tune into Small Talk with Gidget Gadget!
blippo.plus/steam
The only place in all of subspace where you can tune into Small Talk with Gidget Gadget!
blippo.plus/steam
September 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM
JUST FOUR MORE DAYS!
A deep dive on the background, work, style, and impact of the amazing director of Blippo+ ... JJ Stratford! of @telefantasytv.bsky.social - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
JJ Stratford (Blippo+)
Podcast Episode · Pixel Pizza · 09/19/2025 · 59m
podcasts.apple.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A deep dive on the background, work, style, and impact of the amazing director of Blippo+ ... JJ Stratford! of @telefantasytv.bsky.social - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
so excited about this...
September 18, 2025 at 8:38 PM
so excited about this...
this is happening so soon. we're going to do a livestream for it...
September 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
this is happening so soon. we're going to do a livestream for it...
portland friends, come hang out! (also i'm in town this weekend riding my bike and drinking so much coffee)
Here’s your last reminder to join us for some live channel surfing with @blippo.plus in the Miniplex this Saturday, August 30 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm!
Blippo+ Live Channel Surf - Movie Madness
Join Blippo+ co-creators YACHT for a special sneak preview and live channel-surf through the radical world of Blippo+, the madcap, off-cable, science-fiction TV simulator coming out September 23rd…
www.moviemadness.org
August 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
portland friends, come hang out! (also i'm in town this weekend riding my bike and drinking so much coffee)
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🌲🍿¡ Attention Earthlings of Portland ! 🍿🌲
We're hosting a live channel surf of Blippo+ at @moviemadness.org this Saturday at 7pm. Be there or be straight!
www.moviemadness.org/event/blippo...
We're hosting a live channel surf of Blippo+ at @moviemadness.org this Saturday at 7pm. Be there or be straight!
www.moviemadness.org/event/blippo...
August 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
🌲🍿¡ Attention Earthlings of Portland ! 🍿🌲
We're hosting a live channel surf of Blippo+ at @moviemadness.org this Saturday at 7pm. Be there or be straight!
www.moviemadness.org/event/blippo...
We're hosting a live channel surf of Blippo+ at @moviemadness.org this Saturday at 7pm. Be there or be straight!
www.moviemadness.org/event/blippo...
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Haven't dialed in Blippo+ yet? Programming has restarted this week, and you can purchase the Playdate version on its own now! Log on, tune in, get bended.
📺 play.date/games/blippo
📺 play.date/games/blippo
August 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Haven't dialed in Blippo+ yet? Programming has restarted this week, and you can purchase the Playdate version on its own now! Log on, tune in, get bended.
📺 play.date/games/blippo
📺 play.date/games/blippo
we made a video game that never ends...
THIS WEEK ON BLIPPO+
[02] [18]
AN ANOMALY IN SPACE
Madeline Planet and Dr. Zeph Boing discuss the latest in science news. Werf’s Tavern welcomes an exciting musical guest. Nurses Echo and Gemini come face-to-face-to-face with Gak City General Hospital’s new staff surgeon.
blippo.plus/depg/
[02] [18]
AN ANOMALY IN SPACE
Madeline Planet and Dr. Zeph Boing discuss the latest in science news. Werf’s Tavern welcomes an exciting musical guest. Nurses Echo and Gemini come face-to-face-to-face with Gak City General Hospital’s new staff surgeon.
blippo.plus/depg/
August 21, 2025 at 11:40 PM
we made a video game that never ends...
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Our team will be in Portland next week, and we're hosting an informal hangout on Tuesday. You're invited! Learn more and RSVP -> lu.ma/7ndk8wau #VibeCoding
Open Source Vibe Code Hangout · Luma
The Vibes DIY team is in Portland. We'll have some light snacks and will buy you a beverage if you dare to make an app while you hang with us. No experience…
lu.ma
August 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Our team will be in Portland next week, and we're hosting an informal hangout on Tuesday. You're invited! Learn more and RSVP -> lu.ma/7ndk8wau #VibeCoding
the "if you haven't seen it, it's new to you" slogan keeps running through my head
Tune in starting Thursday 8/21 to catch Blippo+ for Playdate again from the beginning. If you’re new, don’t flip your blip! Blippo+ is now available as a standalone purchase on @play.date Catalog.
play.date/games/blippo/
play.date/games/blippo/
August 17, 2025 at 2:12 AM
the "if you haven't seen it, it's new to you" slogan keeps running through my head
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This week’s Creative Spotlight indie spotlight is Blippo+, a bizarre alien cable TV simulator from the minds of the band Yacht cooked up during COVID for the Playdate, but which deserves to be experienced beyond its 1-bit 2.7 inch display www.creativebloq.com/3d/blippo-bl...
How cult game Blippo+ took me back to the lo-fi chaos of '90s TV (with aliens)
The Playdate hit is coming to Nintendo Switch.
www.creativebloq.com
August 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
This week’s Creative Spotlight indie spotlight is Blippo+, a bizarre alien cable TV simulator from the minds of the band Yacht cooked up during COVID for the Playdate, but which deserves to be experienced beyond its 1-bit 2.7 inch display www.creativebloq.com/3d/blippo-bl...
trailer for the doc about the making of @blippo.plus is up and you can feel the realization of everyone looking back like, "wait... how the hell did we even do that?!!" ha ha
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf15...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf15...
COMING SOON — Bendonauts: Building Planet Blip — Behind the Scenes of Blippo+
YouTube video by Panic
www.youtube.com
August 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
trailer for the doc about the making of @blippo.plus is up and you can feel the realization of everyone looking back like, "wait... how the hell did we even do that?!!" ha ha
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf15...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf15...