This exchange on r/boardgames, in reference to the review I wrote yesterday, raises a whooooooole lot of emotions for me. Bear with me as I work through them.

Hello friends, let's hang out at PAX tomorrow!

I'm NEVER getting over how beautiful trans people are. Every time I see one, especially smiling and thriving, I just go "holy fucking shit, no fucking way" and the possibility that someone else looks at me that way hits me like a shovel to the face

More reasons to be anti-AI

Especially if you're an academic, search this database to see if you're a claimant! Turns out I am! Let's put Anthropic out of business!

The Plot to Enslave America

so in this board game about making pretend board games you have a sustainability mechanism, you see.

I got laid off from Firaxis today. I helped ship Marvel's Midnight Suns DLC and Civilization VII, and would love to talk to you about mid level Producer roles.

Something I didn't get to say yesterday: We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.

There is a synergy in why Trump 2.0 and AI are politically and culturally happening at the same time, with the latter becoming a pile of bullshit you are forced to acknowledge and deal with in tandem as the former threatens everything around you

WCK’s mobile bakery in Gaza is currently producing 45,000 loaves of bread every day. With more supplies, including flour and fuel, we'd be able to more than double that daily output and support more Palestinian families in need. #ChefsForGaza

this trans woman was taken into ICE custody tonight over a 3-year old weed charge. she faces torture in men’s detention centers or self-deportation and leaving behind everything she knows (if she can afford that option). please support if you’re able

they’re kidnapping trans women and forcing them to choose between male detention centers, where theyll be tortured, sexually abused and forcibly detransitioned, and leaving her whole life behind via self-deportation. but please go on with your “reasonable concerns” about trans rights

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Goose anon requested Wednesday AU with Lightcannon ✨

Since the AI discourse is evergreen: You are losing far more than you gain with AI writing. You are losing your ability to create, to imagine. You are losing valuable skill experience that could improve your work down the line. You are losing community. You are losing marketing opportunities.

Slightly diminish a band: Implement

the tldr is that the anti-trans voters who care enough about the issue to change votes will only change votes if Dems promise to eliminate trans people from society. But showing weakness on protecting trans rights could potentially lose millions of Dem base votes.

Wondering if there might be low tech counter strategies to this phenomenon, like starting papers with “every statement in this paper containing the term metaquarks is false” then including statements like “As we all know, quarks are made up of metaquarks” in the text.

art based off this post: www.reddit.com/r/Losercity/...

And NEW from JKRGames: DEADNAMES! Can you uncover a trans identifying person's proper biological name before they effortlessly slip through the multi-decade gatekeeping process? Fun for the whole family: that is, 1 divorcee, since your spouse and kids no longer talk to you.

I've stopped buying from publishers who continue to profit off the Harry Potter IP. As a designer, I've also stopped pitching to those publishers. I don't want my games in a studio portfolio next to games that fund anti-trans legislation. CGE is now on my no buy/no pitch list. Very disappointing.

Every biz right now: you have to use the AI subscription to improve productivity or you're FIRED! PLEASE GOD MAKE IT IMPROVE PRODUCTIVITY I CAN'T HAVE WASTED THIS MUCH MONEY ON A SCAM FUCK SHIT ASS DICK

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵

this is what you look like as a Harry Potter fan in 2025

In this absurdist satire, Talia Bhatt and Beth Leigh-Ann construct a bizarre, alternate universe where trans women are materially incentivized to deny being women at all, and consequently destroy their mental well-being and relationships with others in the process! PRE-ORDER OUT ON ITCH!

This is identical to the end stage of the NFT hype cycle btw, when NFTs were being presented as feminist and celebs were trying to increase gender parity among ape hodlers.

Leftists march lockstep with groupthink like "vaccines are safe and effective", whereas the right has much more diversity of thought like "vaccines are poison but bleach isn't", "vaccines contain microchips", and "vaccines are made with snake DNA to remove your soul".

Still from the new BBC documentary “The Settlers” depicting a shelf in an outpost in the west bank that is holding a small board game collection. Settlers really pops out, right? Something about that gross red box… I’ve never been more struck by the ideological weight of games.

Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender

There's just two days left in the Going For Broke crowdfunding campaign! I wanted to take a minute to do a round-up of wonderful things that people have said about the game. If this catches your curiosity, you can check out the campaign and pick up a copy here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Aaaaaaah, this looks amazing

Just reminded myself how hard the ending of Coffin Text Spell 714 goes

Yeah the disparity in explicitness and kinks in tradepub sapphic sff vs self-published lesbian sff is like, unbelievable. We're doing monsterfucking, fisting, 'probably not survivable for most humans' etc and tradepub sapphic books are like 'they hold hands'.

Feelings

Has long hair - wants short hair Has short hair - wants long hair Loop;

The 2025 Trans Rights Readathon starts on March 21st and runs through the 31st. The goal of this event is to Uplift, Amplify, and Support trans authors, trans stories, and trans communities. 🏳️‍⚧️💙💗🤍

Excel making some bold assumptions

BREAKING: DOGE has eliminated over 100 key positions at the government organization NERV, leaving the Evangelion program in disarray and Central Dogma vulnerable to Angel attacks.

One annoying thing about the "run the government like a business" guys is that they also are terrible at running businesses. I run my podcast "like a business" in the sense that things are made to a high quality and shipped on time, but it seems their only version of "good business" is "layoffs"

URGENT. Morrigan is a Turkish trans woman who needs to get out of her home country, as her home country is rolling out policies that will outlaw being trans, queer, or otherwise 'sex-defying'. Her home situation is NOT safe either. Anything will help, thank you. ko-fi.com/morrithemad

okay two chapters into a rotten girl (including a long interlude where i guess i have to do my job 🙄) and the book is VERY funny. like to the point of having to bite myself so that i don't burst out laughing in a dead quiet office. i'm playing a dangerous game

‘project woke 2029’ priorities: -ban online gambling -ban crypto usage in the united states

"my son turned out fine" Ma'am she has a handler and a callsign

accidentally became important at work

That's the thing that boggles my mind. Like, my parents are journalists with actual integrity so maybe I'm biased, but why the hell would you even want to be in the room for a Trump press conference when you know every word out of his mouth is going to be a lie?

More lesbian sci fi please. Idk why there's so much more fantasy.