Realised I had a headache from dehydration as I always forget to drink water, so I downed a litre and a half of the cool wet stuff and now I have a headache and I feel sick

Neighbours have lent us their WiFi while we move in, which is kind, except it's not fast enough to load a speed test to see how fast it isn't

My new town has a board game group who meet weekly in a brewery and I'm just ✨d e l i g h t e d ✨ about it, never had a regular board game group before.

The War Between The Land And The Sea (2025)

Ok wait, a slightly more offline pal of mine thinks different breathy 'hahh' noises in #TheTraitors refer to different players, but only one matches the one when Claudia introduced the twist! More on this if it leads to something...

:) #TheTraitors

Yeah, this aged like fine wine #TheTraitors

We appreciate a man who realises he should have explained his acronym If you're in the mood for a #TheTraitors podcast this is a good one pca.st/episode/717d... (available on all sensible podcast apps, probably)

33 mins left going into a roundtable? We might have a MIPS coming afterwards! #TheTraitors

Faraaz tossing off one guy with the other two waiting in the background is not the mental image I expected to take away from this episode #TheTraitors

This was a task on De Mol! Oy! #TheTraitors

How many times, Hugo? Shut. Up. At. Breakfast. #TheTraitors

bUt A tRaItOr NeVeR aRrIvEs LaSt To BrEaKfAsT #thetraitors

What is with this constant sound cue of a woman exhaling really fast like she's burnt her mouth on soup? #thetraitors

This Secret Traitor twist is tough for me. It'll please the chuckleheads who ask each year to turn the show into The Mole, but now the actual traitors are being edited as faithfuls and the actual faithfuls become largely irrelevant. I trust Studio Lambert can pull it off if anyone can. #TheTraitors

Here's my theory: Jessie is the secret traitor. She's the perfect pick, nobody suggests her, and with her stutter this role gives her the power for her actions to speak louder than her words. Surely it's her... #TheTraitors

If we're getting the Red Traitors Vs Green Traitors idea (two sets of two traitors, both know each other exist but not who they are and each team only gets to kill every other night) I will be both delighted and annoyed nobody took me seriously when I suggested it. #TheTraitors

In the latest episode of But Why Vikings? @ava.foxfort.net and I answer a question from @marcelineleiman.bsky.social on the stigma of the phrase 'Gateway Games' and discuss how to teach games on BGA as posed to us by @ivanbrett.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/2run...

@ava.foxfort.net can confirm 'lovely little goblin' is a term of endearment confirmed 👺

@tombrewster.bsky.social People keep sending me videos of you saying my name. This is truly a great period of my life

Want some genuinely great boardgame recommendations for Xmas? All sorts here, from light party games to heavy strategy - including recs from yours truly. I would've raved about Magical Athlete but @danthurot.bsky.social had that base covered (I got it off the strength of his original review!).

Why does this dice face from Railroad Ink look so much like the pokémon Wooper?

Watching a drunk Wayne Gretzky try to read the word 'Macedonia' as a global entertainment format

I have now donated fifteen pints, or one olympic swimming pool, of blood. (The first one)

Doesn't seem fair

Update

Absolutely cursed

This week on But Why Vikings, me and @giantbrain.co.uk are chatting collections, selections and tiredness on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/5boR... and Apple podcasts podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b... and other places as that stuff happens

Thanks for the podcast shout-out, Joe xoxo

It's time for our annual Jaggies! We debrief the end of the #CelebrityTraitors, crown the best traitor ever and decide on *prrp* our quote of the season. IT'S JUST A GAME - find it in podcast land

I can't believe I'm saying this: Alan Carr is the best traitor of all time. #CelebrityTraitors

THE SCREAM I SCROME!!!!

Beat this

Had the interesting challenge of having to play just one song to communicate the overall concept of Radiohead to my Dad. What would you have chosen? Can it be done? Subsidiary info: he was a professional (classical) musician who grew up through Beatlemania. I'll tell you what I picked later...

Do you like boardgames? Card games? Roleplaying games? Party games? Do you have *questions* about them? BUT WHY VIKINGS? is my, @ava.foxfort.net & @giantbrain.co.uk's new podcast where we answer listeners' questions, dilemmas & big stumpers about all things tabletop open.spotify.com/show/02ctAw2...

Poddy's out! Catch up with the good good boys Rayan and Wilfred as we break down some more celebrity traitors thanks spotify.link/6i91nNZeLXb

So wait. Joe Wilkinson suspects David because David suspects Joe Marler because Joe Marler suspects Mark because Mark slapped a table.

Nice, for all you Laitors fans, Alan was among the last to breakfast. #CelebrityTraitors

@ivanbrett.bsky.social Hi Ivan, if you're a crossword person as well as a quiz person you might enjoy my Independent cryptic today puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/crypti...

Happy Hades 2 Day to all who celebrate. See you in a month!

Omg they heard!

AXS tickets website stop being a wanker challenge 2025

Radiohead tickets queue kicking me out for being a bot is such an insult. One window open, no VPN, no refreshes, nearly at the front of the queue. I'm so unreasonably upset!

I think this happens because while most words are made of one or two tokens, an emoji is four unicode characters and each one is a single token. So the model will get 3/4 of the way through spelling the seahorse emoji and then realise it can't finish? Can a nerd confirm? Either way, hilarious.

Last night, I went to sleep. Wait, let me rephrase that. Last night, I went to Sleep. Specifically, an eight-hour, overnight performance of Sleep by Max Richter. One of the strangest and best bits of performance I've ever seen. A thread?

Adrian, Re: the giant cous cous, How big are we talking? All best, Simon

Love this thread from the inimitable Benwell

oH no

I fear #DestinationX is reverting to type. Clues have returned to being obvious but also on the theme of 'is it one place or the other place'. All set dressing and no real context. Cheap cliffhanger feels desperate. Ugh, I'm frustrated