My current job is a real whiplash between really enjoying the students/generally having a good time in class and interacting with some of the most toxic colleagues and admin I've ever experienced in my life.

New year, new count, this is Round 1. Hanwha has two big holes in their bullpen, this will be a tough year. Veteran Ryu Hyun-jin is pitching, fingers crossed for him! We lost to KT yesterday, wishing for a better outcome today. Eagles Fighting!

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

Accountability post: I just sent the latest episode of We Intend to Move on Your Works to @fredserval.bsky.social, so start the clock on how long it takes him to post it.

German WW2 design philosophy: 'what if we built a tank that can't cross any known bridges?' Allied WW2 design philosophy: 'what if we stuck a REALLY long ladder on the end of a landing craft so that we could attack cliffs?' www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

"Peter Vandermeersch, who served as chief executive for Mediahaus’ Ireland branch from 2022 to 2025, took up a role as the company’s first ‘Journalism and Society’ fellow and had been publishing a newsletter covering the practice of journalism." Great guy to cover journalism practices!

Hey everyone! Check out today's GMT customer newsletter for a cool new P500 game, reprints, digital news, an issue fix, art samples, production news, and more! Enjoy! mailchi.mp/e8e1e3706c71...

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Irish people: St. Patrick's Day presents such a stereotypical portrayal of Ireland that doesn't reflect its modern, vibrant culture. Irish people when they see Americans setting Leprechaun traps: You fools! You've doomed us all! The children will be changelings. The crops will wither in the field.

We reflect a lot on what draws people to AI as a source of historical information. It's clear that for many people, the AI 'voice' comes across as authoritative and convincing in what it conveys, even when the actual content is pretty banal, surface-level or just plain wrong.

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

Here me out: we should go back to March as the start of the new year. Current New Year is too close to Christmas and is a boring holiday and having new year in the middle of winter sucks. I am also prepared to accept Lunar New Year as the new global new year, it's a better holiday.

For those interested, we published our 2025 financial report. The short version: we lost ~$40,000 on sales of ~$325,000 but we survived and are set to thrive in 2026. ludorum.substack.com/p/2025-finan...

every 6 months or so I remember this & am compelled to repost it, one of the wildest stories from the strange days of the 1980s 8 bit computer scene for those who have no clue about it please, treat yourself & dive in, I don't want to give too much away so just take our word that it's worth reading

Reworked this old favourite, chiefly for amusement of sad people like myself - credit owed to the original author except I don’t remember their name and not even sure I ever knew it.

If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it. Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22

Like a lot of readers of "The Lord of the Rings," I always chalked up Balin's expedition to Moria as a doomed failure. Ruined mines, swarming with orcs, a Balrog lurking below — of course they all died. But a close re-read with the podcast "Exploring the Lord of the Rings" has complicated things!

Hi. If you learn well in a traditional educational environment and want a course about making dungeons that is $0 instead of, uh, $800, may I offer you the Designing Dungeons Course, or How to Kill a Party in 30 Rooms or Less: dungeons.hismajestytheworm.games

This is hilarious. Also, completely enraging.

Hello world! We are pleased to announce the founding of Hawk and Dove, a new historical game studio. We're just getting started on this journey, and we invite you all to follow along as we navigate the incredible world of board game publishing! Check us out here: www.hawkanddovegames.com

The Gundam ‘bits box’ is full once more - so here’s a giveaway for the lot! Plus, well, a new & unopened Metal Robot Spirits Wing Gundam figure..! 👉 To enter, follow + repost (or quote). Winner will be picked at random, next Monday 16th Mar, international post all ok! Good luck. 🍀

HELLOOOOOO NERDS! It is Playte's tenth year in business and they are going to be publishing some wild stuff all year long, so let's not hesitate, and follow this thread for all the upcoming titles in the first wave of Playte games for 2026!

I need every single male artist that follows me to read this. It's not very long. You need to bear witness to this shit. You have to see it with your own eyes because you never will in your everyday life. I'm serious, read it all please

A very telling list for when my seminal gaming memories were formed. I've enjoyed games since, but only the Soulsborne stuff has really impacted me the same way. Other games just built on old habits and preferences. These are also most impactful, often but not always favorite.

Current noir count has passed 191 in the past 6 months. Not sure if I'm going to write a sequel to this round up I wrote at the end of last year, but I have found a few more worth highlighting so maybe I will. Still so many more noirs to go, what a genre.

Obama is the only president to date born when there were 50 states

Today marks 1 year since the first Ask Me Anything (AMA) for AskHistorians in our push to very actively recruit guests, and where are we now? Today is the 90th AMA in that effort, helping us cross the thresholds of 35k upvotes, 8k comments, and 15k link shares in that year (and ~10m views)!

Just 8 days left to propose games for Chimera Con 2026 boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/373... Don't forget to register here! warhorn.net/events/chime...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDMC... I honed my years of running open table games into this new video. I go through how I improv a session when surprised and how I diligently hone what my game's about from initial idea to technical infrastructure to recruiting and communicating that vision out

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Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

The West is marshalling all this effort and tearing any pretence of international law to shreads all to empower an apartheid state that has been openly committing genocide for the past several years. Any notion the West was some kind of moral arbiter of the world is dead and buried.

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

10 anime to get to know me (in no order) 1) Mobile Suit Gundam Wing 2) RahXephon 3) Yu Yu Hakusho 4) Full Metal Panic 5) Gintama 6) ZZ Gundam 7) Ping Pong the Animation 8) Gungrave 9) Escaflowne 10) GTO

Took a break over the (Lunar) New Year holidays, but I'm back with some reviews of games I played earlier this year. First up is People Power from @gmtgames.bsky.social - a great entry point for COIN, but probably not going to make my top 5 COIN games: www.stuartellisgorman.com/blog/people-...

Hey. Tell people when they do good job. When you like the stuff they make. When you like the characters they’ve created. The stories they’ve told. Nobody hears it as often as you think bc everyone thinks everyone hears it all the time. Trust. They don’t. Tell. Them.

Wargaming often hides behind the claim of "political neutrality." It’s the "I just like the history" defense. But choosing what history to simulate & how to market it is an inherently political act. I want 2 talk about how "Héroes de Baler" (NAC Wargames) is sold vs. what it actually simulates 1/n

Back by popular demand. Here is another brief exploration of one of the most widely misunderstood aspect of the American Civil War. #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

I am trying to find a digital copy of Laurence Constant-Ancet's "Félix Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau : un itinéraire, de la Révolution à la monarchie de Juillet" with some urgency. If you can help feel free to DM!

5 authors I’ve read at least 5 books by: Jane Austen Charles Dickens Dashiell Hammet William Gibson Tracy Hickman & Margaret Weiss Either Tracy Hickman or R.A. Salvatore are probably my most read author - I devoured D&D novels as a teenager.

Announcing Walkable City - a 2-4 player coop game published by Fowers Games and designed by me! Build out public infrastructure as different modes of transit - Waling, Biking, Bus & Light Rail - get denizens where they want to go. Follow the project below! www.kickstarter.com/projects/fow...

I heard some mathematicians speaking the other day and they said something that made me think of the scale of billionaire’s rot: “The difference between one million and one billion is about one billion.”

Go get this very cool and very weird and very thought-provoking game! Limited print run in this one.

I'd definitely be interested if you can turn anything definitive up! The assumption about William Gold's father comes from the 1327 lay subsidy (Jennifer Ward, "The Medieval Essex Community, p58-59), where a "Willelmo Cok'" was taxed at "Villata de Beuchaump Willem" and Castle Hedingham.

every year with this dude, some new shit just comes out of his mouth and you keep thinking, why is he still here? his words are like noxious farts, you'd think he'd be embarrassed and leave but no

Wow, this guy really hates people. I'd feel pretty crummy if I were one of the talented designers he was dumping on.

Might eventually cobble together a blog, depends on how regular I end up doing these! Little review on Brian Asklev's upcoming Baltic Empires from GMT boardgamegeek.com/thread/36612...