Anybody catch The Biggest Loser tonight?

💼 I’m looking for work as a board game designer. 🌎 I’m open to in-person, hybrid or remote work. ⭐ I’ve previously worked at the Uzzle and made Abandon All Artichokes, Starry Night Sky, and other board games.

If there's no accountability, it's not politics, it's crime

Earth’s age wasn’t solved with satellites or lasers. It was figured out first with rocks, fossils, notebooks, and maps… long before anyone knew the number. How geologists built a reliable timeline before they had a clock Join the Newsletter for more! 🧪 #SciComm buff.ly/iS3KVYM

If you're a Webtoon user, Solver has now been running there for a couple of months in a phone-friendly format. Please tell your phone-friendly format friends. www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/so...

These reasons to oppose the madness - and none compare to what's looming at us: a contrived 9/11 terror hit or trauma to get us -esp the military- rallying round The Leader. Remember to point: "HE did this!" By firing counter-terror experts, putting the rest under Noem & Gabbard ...and Putin.

I don't even have an iPhone and I'm pissed about the update

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So satellites make streaks on astronomical images..Time lapse images that are handled by a computer..A computer that could just take out the offending pixels and composite using "clean" images only. So like, streaks? Kind of a bummer and maybe fun to bitch about, but like, this program is solvable.

All of a sudden reddit thinks I really care about the Alien and Predator franchises. What did I click on?

I have complicated thoughts about debating crackpots. It can appear to elevate them to legitimacy, but if we don't dunk on them they can grow and fester out of our sight until they become septic (see: RFK Jr. and anti-vaxxers in general).

I don’t want to be pollyannish about the past, but it was basically inconceivable twenty years ago that a president would say this publicly

Theme is not just the setting. It's the reason behind the rules. Theme grabs the player's emotions, Mechanisms engage with their cogitation. If an element is in the player's hand or central to their decisions, theme can be distracting. Try to use the shared board area and pieces to convey theme.

What actor or actress would you watch in anything, no matter what?

Since this releases tomorrow (in the UK, US will be 12/30), I’m going to use the long break during Concentration Check to do a reading, why not? Join us at 1:30 pm PT if you want to get done work done (and 3:30 if you just want to hear a creepy #Runescape story) Twitch.tv/dungeonscrawlers

Comics artists who work with writers, I am doing a class for young comics writers and I would like to include some ANONYMOUS quotes from artists about things they hate getting in scripts. More "17-panel pages and cross dialogue" than "horses and bicycles". My DMS are open. SECRECY ASSURED.

She has it exactly backwards. The domestic deployments to date are a much weaker case for being so manifestly illegal as to justify refusal; that's a high bar. The boat strikes are outright unambiguous murder, everyone in that chain down to the one pulling the trigger has had a clear duty to refuse.

Another successful #BGG.CON! Ran a few panels (thanks Sarah Shipp!) and assisted on a couple more (thanks @wericmartin.bsky.social !), outlasted 95% of the competition in the poker tournament, took a side trip to Meow Wolf, and tried out a few more games from my must-play list. It was a blast!

Barely made it to #BGGCON. Let's hang out!

Don't steal. Don't lie about anything important. Don't let yourself be overcome by hate. Try to be peaceful; try to be good.

So the lesson of America's past decade or so is that we probably shouldn't elect people who have never, ever held the moral high ground on any issue.

The Epstein emails definitely are incriminating for Donald Trump and other high-profile figures, but they are arguably more incriminating for the multiple journalists at national publications who didn't just not print important news but also directly ask the people involved what they wanted

HUGE Announcement!! I’m thrilled to reveal we’re starting a podcast: BATS! The “BoardGame-Animal-Talk-Show” With special guests: Reiner Knizia @dnlnwmn.bsky.social Ammon Anderson @asmeesh.bsky.social @ithayla.bsky.social & MORE to reveal!!~ Coming late December, stay tuned!! #boardgames

a $230 sock for your phone

Crime is bad. Crime is bad. Crime is bad.

So when are those Epstein files coming out?

Trump and Republicans refuse to fight for American families, but I refuse to give up on them. I simply cannot vote to do nothing to help protect them from Trump’s vindictive efforts in exchange for a vague promise from the least trustworthy Republican party in our nation’s history.

I am excited to be coordinating a couple panels about game design at #BGG.CON in two weeks. I'm new to this so it's kind of an adventure. Wish me luck!

My test to see if I’m sick or just drained: ‘Maybe I’ll take a break and play some borderlands.’ Drained: yeah, that sounds good Sick: oh god, that sounds like work So, yeah, I seem to be sick.

BGG.CON in two weeks, hoping to throw together a couple panels, and surprised/annoyed to find that several text chains with designers went missing from my phone. Or I'm just crazy. If you're going and want to be on a design panel, hit me up.

Trump just continually shooting our country in the face. This unwarranted (and likely illegal) destruction of Goddard is madness. It jeopardizes the next several decades of space exploration.

It’s always fun (and just a bit weird) when something I designed at my kitchen table gets explained in a language I do not speak to people I will never meet. I love that my games get to travel so far. youtu.be/gv9U15WlCHw?...

Some people look up to Trump because he does what he wants. But the thing is, a good President can't do whatever he wants, a good President does what's best for the nation. Congress and the Senate need to get to work and push back before they lose their jobs for good.

Anyway I'm pretty sure stuff actually has to start literally breaking and falling apart because there is no way to actually negotiate with a madman like this who refuses to learn what he's talking about and has a fixed delusional belief about one the key point of discussion

If given the chance, I'd lose my legs all over again to serve in our great military. The leader of your party is a five-time draft dodger who has fired more Veterans than any other president in our history. Square that circle then tell me who really hates our military.

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death. adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

The charity is his pocket.

Google docs have tabs now. As the person that suggested this feature, I am delighted. And humbled, of course.

Trump’s idea of being “tough on crime?” Forcing thousands of DOJ, FBI, DEA, ATF and more of our federal officers to abandon real criminal investigations to back ICE’s reckless operations.   Americans are less safe because of it—and I’m demanding answers.

When Mike Johnson or another national leader repeatedly claims they haven’t seen relevant things in the news, an appropriate reporter reaction would be “Holy cow, how do you not know?!? How can you do your job without knowing what’s happening? What are you doing to fix your ‘not knowing’ problem?”

Dude has no respect for the law, no respect for his constituents, no budget. Who is paying for his homeland siege?

If a loud idiot says something idiotic every single day maybe just stop listening

here we are in this absolute fucking clown car we call a nation, where it's left to an emphatically mid comic to take on the role of speaking truth to power with gravitas on the airwaves, while the literal, actual president delivered the garbled word salad of a violent maniac at the United Nations

So: Fascism is bad The First Amendment is good Genocide is an actual fucking crime And also: It's appalling to be in 2025 where each of these is not, in fact, taken as part of the baseline shared reality anymore

Back to weekend posting while I work on my AI book. This time about the real crimes against America they are distracting you from. No, not Epstein. I mean gutting the JAGs & Inspectors General and esp the counter-terrorism agencies. Now why would they do that? davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/09/war-...

The president's big problem which he fails to perceive is that nobody *respects* a bully. Bullies are feared, nothing more. E.g. getting Kimmel canceled shows he is powerful, but nobody respects a wimp who can't stand up to a little criticism. The harder he cracks down the less respect he will get.

I guess the thing that keeps astonishing me is the degree to which it doesn't occur to them that anyone has to be good at anything

anti-anti-fascist feels like it should have a one-word synonym

If you’re scared of what comedians have to say about you… You’re weak.

Game Design Lessons from the Emmy Awards! gametek.substack.com/p/game-desig... 🎲✂️