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cooperjohn.bsky.social

🚀NASA (retired, aperture science) 🎲game designer (The Gang, Homeworlds) ✒️poet (old forms, new embarrassments) 🏞️dendrophile (tree hugs, mushrumps) 👽sci-fi (hard, classic) 🧗climber (trees, rocks) 🍺trivia (poor memory, good times) 🏳️‍⚧️ pronouns (he/him)

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This is beautiful

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www.climbing.com/news/yosemit...

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"Work Makes You Well?" I'm disgusted

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

This is a fascinatingly deep, rich investigation and story. If you get a chance, please listen or read the transcript. revealnews.org/podcast/40-a...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting read - definitely worth your time. Unplugging and enjoying the outside is tougher this time of year, but definitely need to enjoy the small things of life.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Synonyms for visitors: outlaw, loser, offender, malefactor, con, lawbreaker, delinquent.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

what

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

Canadian MP Charlie Angus: Our beloved Canada is under threat. The threat comes from the president of the US—a convicted felon and known predator. But the threat is also being driven by the hate algorithms of oligarchs like Elon Musk….

submitted 30 days ago • 1009 comments

There goes stability

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

submitted 33 days ago • 1028 comments

I was sorry that The Gang was not nominated for As d'Or, but happy to see that Captain Flip, a fine game, was nominated! Bon Chance, Remo Conzadori! www.festivaldesjeux-cannes.com/en/festival-...

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

historical analysis happens just after the present. not that this doesn’t feel true.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

The gag order comes ahead of a key meeting next month where CDC officials were scheduled to help the WHO pick out strains for next winter's flu vaccine. Flu vaccine manufacturers and the FDA rely on the data and findings by that panel to decide on the shots used every fall in the Northern Hemisphere

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

So, my Onion print edition subscription initially got lost in the mail, but @bencollins.bsky.social and crew came through with 6 months of back issues and this very illuminating letter, re: those bastards at the USPS. Thank you, Mr Tim Onion 🫡

submitted 34 days ago • 11 comments

✨WHEEZING✨

submitted 36 days ago • 96 comments

Broke out The Gang at the office today and it went over well. Definitely works for non poker fans as well as poker fans. Good times, and a nice and tidy printed insert to go with it! Fits all components and rules with no lid lift :) (Link to design below) makerworld.com/models/672130

submitted 95 days ago • 3 comments

Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this. Smashed records. Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

submitted 36 days ago • 1268 comments

Finally I'm doing something right. www.thehealthy.com/nutrition/ne...

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Games & Stuff has gone online: www.gamesandstuffonline.com

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I talked with the Mycelium, it said you should lie down on the forest floor for a month and not move

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Mountain ermine

submitted 45 days ago • 108 comments

I love this review by @mmontgomery.bsky.social Thank you Matt! donteatthemeeples.substack.com/p/the-gang-s... Also check out Matt's 2024 year in review: substack.com/home/post/p-...

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

The Smokehouse Creek fire burned more than a million acres in Hutchinson county, TX.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Got on another best list. I like how reviewers put The Gang in different categories— family, co-op, party, small box, intro... It gets into a lot of reviews and lists that way. Thanks, GameBoyGeek! youtu.be/2KFR6Di4TiE

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

this is an example of a rhetorical device called Apophasis, which comes from the Greek "to say no"; it's when you bring up a subject by denying you are bringing up a subject it’s a fun SciComm trick because you can be Dramatic w/o lying (& it’s true you don't actually need to worry about it lol) 🧪

submitted 368 days ago • 7 comments

The annual Shkreli awards are here, and wow, it must've been difficult to pick a winner. lowninstitute.org/projects/202...

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

This is fascinating: youtu.be/EjZB81jCGj4

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

Please note: 1) This number is legit. 2) It is run by trans and nonbinary folks. 3) They do not call police. Please live.

submitted 62 days ago • 20 comments

Genetic evidence from an ancient wolf bone discovered on the tundra in Siberia reveals that wolves and dogs split from their common ancestor at least 27,000 years ago. From this DNA, scientists have formed an approximate composite of this long-extinct species.

submitted 64 days ago • 45 comments

Also if your microwave oven doesn't have a potato button, it needs to be replaced.

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

Aw, too bad, The Gang didn't make the cut here, but I respect the choices Grant Lyon made for top ten unique games of the year. Gotta play some of these! youtu.be/j5lSdsfchVw