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I love games, be they video games or board games. Lead designer at WB Montreal on unannounced. He/Him twitter: @Genialgenius
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Arturo Obrego, a 77-year-old army veteran who hitchiked from Huntington Beach is going viral for getting hit with wooden baton by officers on horses and knocked down during today’s peaceful “No Kings” protest in DTLA. @TheGlutster ran into him at Union Station a couple of hours after the incident.

New Yorkers scream out each officer’s lawsuits against them for excessive force and more upon their city, right to their faces while protesting.

LA cops having McDonald’s delivered while the president is floating martial law

Hey @425suzanne.bsky.social , don't know if you're still looking for Stich fur Stich, but BoardgameBliss has some copies... www.boardgamebliss.com/products/sti...

Reggie Watts addresses Thom Yorke’s statement on Palestine and it’s good

@boardgamegeek.com There seems to be a weird overlay on the site when you try searching for a game. Can't click on anything after this. On both Firefox and Chrome

This is so fucking good

None of this takes away from the masterful execution of this game. This is not about the creative prowess. But we must… MUST… speak honestly about how games are made. Otherwise we are setting impossible expectations for the industry. Mischaracterizing development reality hurts us all.

It's become an annual tradition to revisit my past Best Week favorites and see whether they've held up! Today, I'm looking at my top picks from 2022. Whoa. Did they even make board games back then? Read it here: spacebiff.com/2025/05/09/2...

De Niro said: “I loved and supported Aaron as my son, and now I love and support Airyn as my daughter. I don’t know what the big deal is … I love all my children.” He really is all right, Robert De Niro. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

📣 KNEECAP STATEMENT:

Only 1% of candidates can answer this

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Newly minted Marvel star Pedro Pascal came to the #Thunderbolts premiere and used that platform to send a simple message: protect trans women (click for more) tomandlorenzo.com/2025/04/pedr...

"Giving my child food and water goes against my deeply held religious beliefs. Faith alone can sustain the human body."

@stonemaiergames.com stonemaiergames.com/we-are-suing... Hopefully this puts fire to the situation for the industry. Absurd what this administration has done to its own people.

This is why "woke" terrifies the morally weak.

Clive Barker gets it. faroutmagazine.co.uk/hellraiser-c...

A master of the dark arts is hosting a victory banquet, but the guests are bringing their own ambitions to the table. Mercenaries, socialites, assassins, and a spymaster determined to defend his master...for some to feast, others must fall. www.amazon.com/dp/B0DW2Y5WH1 #booksky #fantasy #novella

A bunch of folks showed up to the Bothell City Council tonight to speak against a potential resolution affirming Bothell as a welcoming place for LGBTQIA+ people. Here was Bothell Mayor Mason Thompson's response.

In a fractured world, the margin for creativity disappears. Tariffs don’t just mean higher prices—they threaten the very system that made modern board games thrive. Let’s take a deeper look at what that really means. thecityofkings.com/news/the-dee...

Is it wrong to derive some pleasure at the fact that Tesla has lost 10% of it's stock value today so far?

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! One of the many benefits of jumping to bsky was following a lot more trans folks than I had before, and just... listening to them. It taught me something I knew, but hadn't fully internalized: trans people are not "an issue" you need to have a take on, they're people

FWIW kids absolutely can and do grasp these concepts www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710956...

Lucy van Pelt has finally gone too far. But she will be brought to justice

My first significant piece of writing in almost 10 years: "The Anti-Televisual Politics and Aesthetics of 'Space Ghost: Coast to Coast.'" medium.com/@jsbegy/the-...

This is art. 🤗