The petition "Do not introduce Digital ID cards" is currently online. It's fun watching the numbers go up in hundreds every few seconds. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Gorgeous use of colour Garima Dhawan bit.ly/48yfJQM

Excellent beast (Uncredited Korean folk art)

Look at Toad. His edible is just starting to take hold and he needs to tell Frog that instead they should watch Big Trouble in Little China

We've all written some version of this column by now but this one is among the very best.

I’m aware that I’m influencing playtests and that even though I’m a crap teacher I’m kind of selling it. So does anyone have any tips for taking yourself out of the equation? Is it good to run tests without even observing? #boardgamedesign

So my game *might* be good??? So far I’ve not had a bad playtest. Everyone’s first comment is that it was fun. Is it weird I’m scared by this? "It's not the despair, Laura. I can live with the despair. It's the hope." John Cleese, Clockwise. #boardgames #boardgamedesign

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Hiding the truth.

mass shooting at minneapolis homeless encampment days after a fox news host calls to kill all homeless people

Southern Sun

It’s on Kickstarter! Loose In The Library is finally live! Please do go check it out. We only need four more games backed to fund… www.kickstarter.com/projects/dis...

Also I cheer at the start of LotR every time because it shows my maiden name ‘Bywater’ on the map. When I was a child it was SO exciting to see our uncommon surname on a fantasy map in an old book & imagine we were somehow connected to magic and adventure...

Do you have weird things that make you cry for no obvious reason? I cry at LotR every time they light the beacon that calls for aid. I don’t know why. Something about a call for hope moving across vast expanse of land just ruins me. Maybe it’s just that - hope enduring, but it feels very specific.

Her saying "This is *my* city" hit me pretty hard.

Lazy Susan!

‘Making Monsters’ just funded in 20 minutes! It’s a superb souped up game similar to Quacks but this time you’re making Monsters! Well worth a look www.kickstarter.com/projects/mak... #games #boardgames #tuesday

Inspiration: The Making of the Perfect Martini by Guy Buffet 2000. I saw this on Substack (Cool Stories About Art) and love it. Has any made a game about mixology shaking dice in a cocktail shaker? I really want to do this!

Apart from all the laudable things many people are talking about, shout out for ‘legal eagles’ which I love despite its many flaws (he and Winger are delightful) and that nodding gif that works for so many things & I will use forever. #RIPRobertRedford #RobertRedford

if i see any post expressing less than debilitating thirst for robert redford i am calling your boss

“[researchers] left adult participants alone in a room with a button that would give them a mild electric shock if pressed. More than half opted to press the button rather than doing nothing for 15 minutes.” www.additudemag.com/im-so-bored-...

I search for moss images to sooth my heart / brain. Healthy happy moss. So beautiful and luscious. I have adhd so Im guilty of many fad crushes on all sorts of things, but my love of moss has endured from childhood. It just looks like kindness in plant form.

@estelofimladris.bsky.social I hope I’m not a monster for asking this, but I saw your post and hoped you wouldn’t mind very briefly advising. Is there any appropriate way to take inspiration from something you love without being a cultural vampire? bsky.app/profile/mrsp...

Would anyone be interested in my writing about all my mistakes in game design? I don’t have it all figured out, in fact I’m light years away from knowing what I’m doing, but maybe I can help folk avoid some of my many missteps? #boardgames #boardgamedesign

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

Inspiration! I think these are beautiful. Wondering if I could make my logo look like a Japanese or Chinese mood seal. So I’ve been googling their use in art. Fascinating…

Thinking of creating an OTT fashion character to promote my game. On impulse I picked up these shoes (very cheap) but wow, they are even worse IRL. More furry fetish than runway 🤢

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today. https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

Stephen Colbert's Emmy victory speech: "Sometimes you only truly know how much you love something when you get a sense that you might be losing it. I have never loved my country more desperately. Stay strong, be brave, and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor!"

Inspiration: Ancient Egyptian game Hounds & Jackals. Most surviving versions of this game are large but I like to imagine this one being the size of my palm. Maybe I could make some limited edition small games that would be like fine art jewellery with precious metals clay and fancy wood…

This looks interesting

For there to be no comment from the government on Musk's call for violence, let alone action against X, is unconscionable. An utter dereliction of its responsibility for national security and an affront to every member of an ethnic minority, who is being put at risk by this rhetoric.

If you live in the uk please read this. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/... #hopenothate #antifascist

6 episodes into devouring the first season of ‘halt & catch fire’ (seeing it for the first time) and I’m still hungry. Feels like an age since I’ve watched something so greedily.

We are less than 2 months out from #ProtoCONBC2025! Are you bringing a game? Do you know someone who is? Tell us about it! Do you want to bring a game? There's still time to get tickets with Earlybird pricing! www.protoconbc.ca

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!

More luscious fonts

My favourite image by Jacob Rozalski (Scythe artist)

I don’t know what this post means but pretty picture. Mmmm font…

Inspiration! Now thinking of a white wooden reindeer piece, a snowy board dotted with blood, something knitted….

Showing off my pet!

Exhausted too many spoons trying to research wtf to include in my budget so I abandoned it to design the small shared board for my fashion game. I’m not happy yet but I’m quite liking the tags. Which colour do you prefer? Can you spot the not at deliberate mistake?

Forget tousled bed head and faux effortlessness. With my latest ‘bubble hem’ purchase I’m going for laundry pile chic. “why yes I am wearing a duvet. And furthermore, no fucks are given”

Ever fallen in love with something, Ever fallen in love, in love with something, Ever fallen in love, in love with something You shouldn't have fallen in love with…

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This is very useful advice and you should be looking for your blindspots. Feedback & ideas from experienced designers is gold. But… (cont.)