I wrote up what the Iran War and crisis in the Strait of Hormuz means for the world. If this continues to spiral, we may be heading for a very different world than the one we currently inhabit. The last bit of normal may be gone for a generation. www.thedissident.news/the-last/

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Hubris can really deliver some awesome narrative and twists of fate: in my current solo test game of the prequel expansion, the 4th turn (235-231) was just spectacular! First, Seleukos II suffered a crushing defeat despite enjoying numerical superiority against his rebel brother Antiochos Hierax.

Closing out 2025 with a test game of the upcoming prequel expansion for @gmtgames.bsky.social Hubris… Antigonos Gonatas, Ptolemaios III and Seleukos II wish you a very Happy New Year 226 BCE! 🍾🎇

I’d like to believe that the horrific darkness of this past year is a necessary prelude to a brighter and saner future. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-a-year-of-reckoning

Splurged a little bit and purchased the @cube4me.bsky.social set for my own @gmtgames.bsky.social Hubris: everything fits in very nicely and neatly 😊

Ich habe nun ein wenig in Hubris von @morganegr.bsky.social und @gmtgames.bsky.social reingespielt und Euch mal einen Ersteindruck aufgenommen. Viel Spaß beim Schauen. Ich freue mich über Feedback und natürlich ein Like sowie vllt. ein Abo. 😉 #Brettspiele #wargames #boardgames youtu.be/ZM4zHm17mIg

Took me a couple tries, but I finally managed to win @snafustore.bsky.social Operation Bøllebank by getting tank BQ in Tango 2 on the very last turn, despite the 1st tank being slowed down by Hull dmg, achieving both Operational, Strategic & Political victories! Very interesting little game indeed!

Atypical « arrivage du jour » today with my designer’s lot of @gmtgames.bsky.social Hubris copies 😊🙏

It's December and we're sharing Assigned Media's top stories from 2025! Two of our most evergreen stories came from the incredible @billiejsweeney.bsky.social (who classes the place up immensely, let me just say). Here, Billie wrote about the attacks on science undergirding misinfo on trans care.

Arrivage du jour: Imperial Elegy, a very heavy and interesting box from @vucasimulations.bsky.social I’m typically weary of 6-players CDGs to play at home, but the game’s subject is so enticing, and I trust the great people at VUCA to deliver on their 1-6 players promise…

#Hubris at #Batalladores25 @morganegr.bsky.social as a teacher. She's done It again. Very, very, very fun, yet deep enough for hardcore gamers. Great desing. Absolutely,the nirvana of wargaming @gmtgames @clubbatallador.bsky.social @gmtgames.bsky.social

Back home tired but delighted after a wonderful 4-days trip to Zaragoza to attend the top notch Batalladores 2025 convention masterfully organized by @clubbatallador.bsky.social So impressed, and not a little jealous, by the super dynamic ConSim community in Spain.

Check out our latest InsideGMT article from Morgane Gouyon-Rety: "The Hubris Histories – Book 5: Making War in the Hellenistic World" @morganegr.bsky.social insidegmt.com/the-hubris-h...

Courier dropped off my copy of Hubris last night 🥰 By @morganegr.bsky.social and @gmtgames.bsky.social We’ve come a long way since I first heard about it on Harold Buchanan’s podcast.

Arrivage du jour: back to games, and two beautiful games it is! Mark McLaughlin’s 7th edition of War and Peace, and @fredserval.bsky.social A Gest of Robin Hood @gmtgames.bsky.social 2nd printing

Arrivage du jour… Books, not games, though some, if not all of them will be as much pleasure as study…

True nuff.

Check out our latest InsideGMT article from designer Morgane Gouyon-Rety: "The Hubris Histories – Book 4: Of War and Peace" @morganegr.bsky.social insidegmt.com/the-hubris-h...

@padrepio.bsky.social www.christian-lehmann.org/post/ne-pas-...

Check out our latest InsideGMT article from designer Morgane Gouyon-Rety: "The Hubris Histories – Book 3: The Lay of the Land" @morganegr.bsky.social insidegmt.com/the-hubris-h...

Check out our latest InsideGMT article from designer Morgane Gouyon-Rety: "The Hubris Histories – Book 2: The Kings and their Courts" @morganegr.bsky.social insidegmt.com/the-hubris-h...

Check out our latest InsideGMT article from designer Morgane Gouyon-Rety: "The Hubris Histories – Book 1: Historical Overview" @morganegr.bsky.social insidegmt.com/the-hubris-h...

Very important read!

Back from 4 great days at Asynconv in Tours, where I demoed my advance copy of @gmtgames.bsky.social Hubris and live tested my upcoming prequel expansion for it (250-221 BCE) Overwhelmingly positive feedback on the quality of the final product, and great time for both new & experienced players!

La tragique complaisance envers Nétanyahou www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...

And for Legal Gender Recognition the ILGA report put the UK in the bottom 5 countries alongside Russia. Why? Because, they said, in the UK effective Legal Gender Recognition is now "COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE"!

As a collective of everyday women we're working toward a kinder world, opposing transphobia. We ask women just like us to read and sign our letter. In just two weeks we reached 30,000+ signatures. You can read the full text here ⬇️ And click on this link to sign. www.change.org/p/not-in-our...

Seven years today that I am, at long last, fully and openly myself. Seven extraordinary years bracketed by the releases of my first game, Pendragon, in Dec 2017, and that of my second, Hubris, both thanks to the great folk at @gmtgames.bsky.social … Between evolution, flourishing and continuity… 😊

If anyone is interested in seeing and hearing more about my upcoming game Hubris @gmtgames.bsky.social , here is an unboxing video of my advanced copy: boardgamegeek.com/video/558655... Enjoy!

A very special « Arrivage du jour » today, with my advance copy of my very own Hubris - Twilight of the Hellenistic World by @gmtgames.bsky.social ! And if I may say so myself, it is simply stunning! 🤩

Quand on voit la Hongrie de Orban dépendante de la Russie les résultats éco catastrophiques de Milei en Argentine, le hooliganisme de Trump et les cicatrices du Brexit … Je ne comprends pas qu’on puisse encore être tenté par le vote populiste réactionnaire et antidémocratique. Et pourtant….

This is a brand new letter by “Not in Our Name - Women”, a collective group of cisgender women who support the transgender community and object to the false divide between women’s rights and transgender rights. If you’re a cis woman you can sign your support here ⤵️

Wrote an essay about things I've been feeling as a trans person at Harvard, especially this week. I launched my publication last week, please subscribe and support. www.thedissident.news/how-do-you-e...

F#ck. “A provision ‘hidden’ in the sweeping budget bill that passed the U.S. House on Thursday seeks to limit the ability of courts—including SCOTUS—from enforcing their orders *** The provision ‘would make most existing injunctions…unenforceable,’” per the dean of UC Berkeley Law School. 5/22/25

Last night, we were one of the first outlets to report the ADULT ban on gender affirming care for Medicaid recipients who depend on it to access it. This morning, that bill passed 215-214-1. It now goes to the senate. It's a bleak day for transgender Americans.

The house has passed a ban on coverage of gender care for all ages under Medicaid, CHIP and ACA plans. I don't know what to say to anyone this morning other than that the hundreds of thousands of people who are about to lose access to the care they need to stay alive deserve better than silence.

🏳️‍⚧️ NEW 🏳️‍⚧️ We don't think the interim guidance published by the EHRC and pushed by Bridget Phillipson is lawful. So today we've started legal proceedings against them.

673 000 !!! Cette fin de journée doit exploser tous les records s'il vous plaît ! Si chacun.e essaye de trouver 5 personnes ce soir, on va arriver au million avant samedi 23h59 ! eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

My response to the decision of Glasgow Pride to suspend participation by political parties. In short, the culture war against our community has gone on far too long, and needs to end.

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.

Contre le saccage de notre histoire au nom d’économies de bouts de chandelle ! www.change.org/p/sauvons-le...

It is deeply weird that only after a sustained years-long campaign to deprive trans people of every right enjoyed by cis people did the Guardian ask someone from a womens' refuge if they had ever had problems resulting from trans women using their services & got the reply 'Never, in fifteen years"

Just totally shameless. Kishwer Falkner: "Is life now so brittle that to ask questions is to be deemed to be controversial?" Kishwer Falkner: "It is unacceptable to question the integrity of the judiciary"

The ballot for the 2024 Charles S. Roberts Awards is now live. It will remain open until June 1, 2025. forms.gle/Wyy9u6MgN2ZA... We would like to thank all who assisted with the Awards, including the members of the Board of Governors and the members of our Nominating Committee.

Genuinely unbelievable how blatant the ongoing trans rights scandal is in the UK

Also this ⬇️ Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia. Please sign if you’re eligible.

Absolutely insane. Uneblieveable. "Sex Matters", one of the hate groups responsible for removing trans people's rights via the Supreme Court are arguing that trans people shouldn't be allowed to transition because they don't have rights and not having rights is bad. Fucking hell