Juneteenth. A moment to remember two important things about the United States: 1. We've made incredible progress in addressing systemic inequality; to celebrate it we must teach where we started and how we got here. 2. Work still needs to be done. The job is not finished.

Next year we'll be as far removed from the year Austin Powers was released as Austin Powers was from the point when he was frozen in the 60s. Yeah Baby!

The most Root thing ever www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

I've noticed that since leaving Facebook and Twitter I take a lot fewer photographs. I don't take pictures at events. I'm not trying to take pictures of what I'm doing or seeing to post on social media. I'm probably taking 10% as many photographs as I was while I was very online in social media.

Congrats to @classicalglaiza.com, @yesnogoodbye.ca and @jaztice.bsky.social for being named the Diana Jones Emerging Designers for 2026! boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

"Never talk about Goblins" is generally good advice.

“Double Haters” — voters who hold a negative view of both parties, roughly a quarter of the public. That group currently prefers Democrats in the midterms by 31 points. For comparison in 2016 and 2024, they broke for Trump. I think Double Haters determine elections.

Just learned that the fire aboard the USS Ford in the laundry lasted >THIRTY HOURS<.

Excellent snapshot in time of tabletop designer opinions about AI. I hope the @ttgda.bsky.social keeps running this survey annually. irp.cdn-website.com/2b6905d0/fil...

I just wrote 17 pages of advice on why founders should use C Corporations, not S Corporations or LLCs for their ventures. And this is a book where each chapter is supposed to be short and breezy! Did you know that the personal capital gains rate on dividends up to $94k is ZERO PERCENT?

Watching @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social perform the rituals of his religion in fellowship with others during Ramadan has been inspiring. It's great to see someone who clearly actually believes what they espouse and doesn't see their faith as an onramp to grifting their community.

Profound idea

@bsky.app Why does the "Discover" tab show me ANYTHING from accounts I am already following? Shouldn't it be the place I go to discover new content?

When you are starting a new business the lure of X is powerful. If I just decide to support a raging edgelord performing fascism I can access my 4k followers again!

Interesting look at an AI workflow in a tabletop RPG context.

Here's a draft manuscript of the Magic: The Gathering roleplaying game from 1996, and I've giving it away as a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood, with permission from the authors. Not sure how much to ask for. Vanishingly rare. $1,872 raised so far. #mtg #ttrpg

I received confirmation today that Gen Con LLC has approved my event submissions for this year's show! This post is in regards to a presentation I will be hosting on July 30th at 3pm in Meeting Room 8 titled "Five Minutes to Midnight"

A few days ago I conducted a lengthy interview with Wargamer. Over more than an hour we spoke about a wide range of topics centered on AI and the tabletop gaming space. The results of that interview went live today. www.wargamer.com/board-games/...

If you are a member of the @ttgda.bsky.social I encourage you to complete the AI / Tariffs survey they're currently circulating. You will find information about it in their most recent email communications. www.ttgda.org

Launched my new company today. Wide Pacific Horizon will allow me to continue my consulting work in business analysis, strategy, marketing and podcasting.

This morning @aegjohnz.bsky.social and I talked about the aftermath of my post yesterday about the ability of AI to create ideas for games. He's decided that it's time for me to move on to new adventures.

The motion is adopted by unanimous consent.

Does Blades '68 require a copy of Blades in the Dark to play?

Congratulations to the Wizards of the Coast team at Hasbro, who exceeded a billion dollars in full-year profit for the first time. Extraordinary achievement. investor.hasbro.com/news-release...

This seems obvious but a private company should not be able to build a mass driver on the moon. Some amendment to the Outer Space Treaty should be made to ensure this is crystal clear. A lunar mass driver is a weapon of mass destruction equivalent in danger to a nuclear weapon.

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I hope to see the Constitution Amended using the Article 5 process again in my lifetime.

SCOTUS declines to hear California redistricting case which means they'll use their new map in 2026 mid-term, which, paired with Texas' map which does the same thing and (and SCOTUS also refused to hear challenges to that system) means that states are now going to sort into Red/Blue monoliths.

Three things that Trump may cause with history-altering consequences: * A European Army * A Euro denominated sovereign debt market competing with the US Treasury * A global trade bloc of mid-tier nations He could easily be the most impactful President of the past 50 years.

Film fact: No film featuring an exploding helicopter has ever won Best Picture. This year's nominees keep that streak alive for a 98th year.

Things classic 80s Cyberpunk got wrong. A thread,

Great post about the failure of Liberals to hold political ground. I consider myself a Liberal and therefore I stand in opposition to both Conservatives and Progressives. If you have wondered "am I a Liberal" and "if I am a Liberal what do I stand for" this is a great place to start.

Huge part of MCDM's strategy. We just don't have any interest in that 1990s, Wild West, Internet Forum culture. We don't see it as a virtue. It's gross. Moderate your spaces. The quality of the space improves.

WOTC: BG3 made $$$! A digital 5e D&D game, large cast, rich storytelling, branching narratives and deep immersion in Forgotten Realms. Like EVERY OTHER SUCCESSFUL D&D GAME EVER MADE. We should make that money not a third party! Hasbro Executives: Spend $1 BILLION PLUS on games that are not that.

@mattcolville.bsky.social You and your team crushed it AGAIN. Can't wait to find out what Crows is either. Inspiring.

It has been obvious for a quite some time that this is where the franchise management was headed. If you like Filoni's Space Whale / Space Fantasy take on Star Wars you'll probably be very happy at this news. I wish they'd gone with Tony Gilroy's gritty, cyberpunk Star Wars.

Wow GMail is going to stop getting messages from other accounts via POP. Like ... now. Yikes. www.jwz.org/blog/2025/12...

When "A Charlie Brown Christmas" was screened for studio executives for the first time, you could have heard a pin drop. All of them were sure they were watching what would become an enormous bomb and a blot on their careers. 60 years later it remains an essential part of American Christmas.

The difference between Liberals and Progressives. Liberals care about the quality of government and the success of the people. Progressives care about inequality. Progressives can't become a plurality of the electorate. People care more about good governance and widespread success than inequality.

Getting your wikipedia entry to be correct, well written, and interesting to the likely consumers of the article is incredibly frustrating. Especially when a lot of your career happened before internet pages were well archived.

For the first time in my life, the United States has a "regime".

My interview on @wonderymedia.bsky.social ’s #businesswars podcast about #dnd has dropped. I am in episode 3. Let me know what you think about the show!

#baldursgate3 I really dislike Astarion. I'm sad that there's not an alternative Rogue companion you could use instead of him. I dislike him so much I'm considering respeccing the Main to be a rogue instead of a Cleric of Tymora so I don't have to use him in the party to find traps and defeat locks.

#1 on my "Never Gonna Happen" wishlist: A Mission: Impossible / James Bond crossover. Two connected films, one Mission: Impossible where the MI team keeps being thwarted by Bond as IMF and MI6 pursue competing agendas, one Jame Bond where Bond "goes rogue" and helps Ethan Hunt complete the mission.

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Our new game Mystic Lands, designed by John D Clair, is live on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ald...

Here's an amazing thing John Zinser and I recorded: www.legendofthefiverings.com/30-years-of-...

TIL that Congressional Districts are not defined in the Constitution. The only Constitutional language speaks as to how many members of Congress each state gets and that those seats be filled by bi-annual elections of the People.

So @mikeselinker.bsky.social how do we get a California-style redistricting initiative on the ballot?