FROSTY (seated at a table with a timer): Snow people who have come alive by magic hat deserve rights [a bunch of Jubilee debaters scramble to the seat opposite him]

This was a lot of fun! This episode let me hit all my favorite topics: Hey That’s My Fish, Win Lose Banana, the GIPF Project, holiday board games, and Eize Basa. Thank you so much to Tom and Kenny for having me on!

The great @eizebasa.baby guest hosts on ep72. Hope you've been good this year, cause Eize can see everything. shelfstablecast.com/72-12-games-...

I love this series by Finnish artist Emimi: poignant and profound illustrations in the style of a melancholy Furby anime from the '90s.

at first i read this like you could pay extra for vegan cheese that's even more vegan

Lord, give me back the hours I’ve spent in this life listening to podcasters laugh at their own jokes.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman faked his death and is living in Australia as critically acclaimed author Terry Dowling.

There is no way their hand is good enough to win the pot, which is the exact amount needed to purchase their mother's house back

My poker hand is nearly unbeatable! Now to immediately start pulling all the chips in the pot towards me…no need to wait until the mysterious stranger shows us what cards they’re holding.

Asking the sea lion to be serious for five minutes is a fool’s endeavor

It's because the ancient Romans didn't have aerial photography

Aqua from the Greek "over" and "duct" from the latin "the top" How could you not know this?

we recreated the best part of twitter: the immeasurable regret of a viral poste

Common misconception, this was used to strain the water out of their Pasta Grande

I was embarrassingly old when I learned that water ran across the TOP of an aqueducts, not through it somehow.

I like my architecture like I like my women. Brutal.

Unless you riffle shuffle your board game cards, then he comes for you

It's.... an impossible crime. Compels me, though.

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.

Finally saw the new Benoit Blanc

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.

Eize in your Heezy

@vicmsong.bsky.social @davidpierce.xyz okay, deep cut here — Jack Dorsey's original sketched concept for proto-Twitter, which he was directly influenced by LiveJournal, but it was _called_ stat.us — specifically because of the inspiration of AIM away status messages. (Though it mentions Jabber.)

Happy Solstice! 🌌

You've heard of Elf On A Shelf, now get ready for… BASA IN YOUR CASA

"Now, what's cooler than being cool?" "Tap Cold!" "I can't hear ya! I say what's, what's cooler than being cool?" "Tap Cold!" "All right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, All right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right..."

“People are so ridiculous with their illusions, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent.” Middlemarch, George Eliot

My name is Timmy Tim and I'm here to say Go see Marty Supreme on Christ-a-mas Day

Wandering around the house with a little space heater in a Baby Bjorn, trailing a 100ft extension cord behind me like one of those Family Circus strips.

Ninety seconds after finally convincing the rest of the group that I’m not the werewolf:

my body: water. Water. . water. we need Water me: sure thing heres some coke zero

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The only two political posts you see on this site: - A brave, principled stand that literally 100% of this site's userbase already agrees with. ("I hate Trump and I will NEVER use AI!") - A furious rebuttal of an argument that no one on here is actually making.

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

Bluesky should have a feature where if a mutual is being weird in a thread you can pull them out by the ear.

Contributing this story, Marge hauls Gloomhaven to the local gaming store, where she meets a sexy French man who is a gaming enthusiast. I have now lost all suspension of disbelief.

Just imagine being able to let Vincent Van Gogh watch this scene on your smartphone.

Gifting a board game to a non-gamer.

This year is the fifteenth anniversary of Vincent & The Doctor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubTJ...

tired of my job at the dog statue store. sick of all these fake bitches

Charm Baltimore, Strange Jersey Athwart St. Louis

Bottom Washington, Strange California, Charmed Jersey

So sick of place names only using boring direction labels, let’s get creative: Up Dakota, Left Virginia, Top Carolina, Big Alabama, The State With New York City In It, Starboard Hampshire, Betwixt Nebraska, None Mexico, Left Arizona

Before finding success with Type O Negative, gothic metal musician Peter Steele worked as a supervisor at a Brooklyn park, an experience he later said was among the happiest of his life. After his death in 2010, the park planted a tree in his memory. 😭

I was just in a conference call with our UK team and was told that one of our British coworkers seriously hurt his wrist and was at A&E. AMERICAN ADMIN: What's A&E? AMERICAN SALESGUY: (not joking; supremely confident) British hospital. Arms & Elbows.

“I love waffles” “What you shouldn’t ‘waffle’ on is sending The Cheeto Bandito to PRISON! He is a FELON and belongs BEHIND BARS. Repost if you agree. #bluewave #resist “

My niece keeps writing "Marry Chrismas" and it's too cute to correct.