The best part about driving through the Champagne region of France is seeing companies that have Champagne in their name because of their location... ...and then imagining what a bottle of their wine would look like. I think this one would have an exploding volcano with a flaming (lava) truck.

Picked up some recipes while in France. These ones are for "Nems de Tourteau" = Crab Spring Rolls. The circle inset says: "Also consider: Spider" so I'm thinking maybe Spider Spring Rolls for Thanksgiving.

Wow. The story (from 2011) where he has a customer send a defective board to another (unsuspecting) customer indicates a kind of unsavory person who is always looking for ways to take advantage of other people.

Bumping this as a reminder NYT leans hard on revenue from their puzzles, games, Wirecutter etc to fund their billionaire apologist headlines, contrarian Op-Ed take havers, and iffy/yikes livetweeting style of journo

every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites

Fascism can't win without outlets like the NYT and WaPo continuously doing this. Please stop sending money to these outlets. The bland, white-friendly recipes and word puzzles aren't worth it. Fund @theflytrapmedia.com, or @unraveledpress.com, or any number of local independent journalists.

"On The Roots of Plants", William Irvine. New (old) tongue-twister just dropped: fending forth fuckers, the fucker from a fecond fucker is fuffofed to have

I got these keys at a flea market and now (IIUC) I need to try them out in various doors to see what I've won.

I didn't get to Mont Saint Michel this trip (sadly, I can't visit *every* time), but this book was just published *this month* and it's the best MSM book I have seen.

Had a slight mishap while in France. Accidentally opened both a Mousse de Foie (pork) and a Mousse de Foie (duck) and now I'm forced to do a side-by-side taste comparison.

I was trying to avoid being all touristy while in Paris, and yet, here I am. In a crêperie. On the Seine. In the shadow of Notre Dame. In my defense, there's not a lot open before 10am.

I finally realised what AI dependency reminds me of

I'm surprised these games didn't fund immediately because Connor's got some clever things going on here. In "That's the Spirit!", I particularly liked how the different distributions of the Cause of Death cards keep the hidden traitor aspect interesting. Currently at ~75% with a week to go.

I'm not used to Euro plugs, so I see this as the Oink logo with something uncomfortable about to happen. @oinkgames.bsky.social

I'll be at the Heidelbär booth (6B200) again today from 14:00 to 16:00.

Everyone waiting to get into Essen Spiel just before 10am.

I was told that Cologne cathedral was just outside the main train station, but I didn't expect it to be this close.

Harry Potter et Ici Reposent Les Abbés et Primiciers de Saint-Denis

I don't think people fully appreciate the indignities being suffered by the gargoyles while Notre Dame is being repaired.

Currently in Paris before heading out to Essen.

I'll be at Essen Spiel on Friday and Saturday at the HeidelBÄR booth (Hall 6 6B200) showing Shinjuku: Friday: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm and 3:00 – 5:00 pm Saturday: 2:00 – 4:00 pm @spielessen.bsky.social @heidelbaer.de

✈️🧳 Ab in die Herbstferien – mit Shinjuku ins Herz von Tokio! Während draußen die Blätter tanzen & der Koffer schon halb gepackt ist, nehmen wir euch mit auf eine Reise nach Shinjuku – auch ohne Flugticket. 🌆

Evidence that even when LLMs produce similar results to humans, they “rely on lexical associations and statistical priors rather than contextual reasoning or normative criteria. We term this divergence epistemia: the illusion of knowledge emerging when surface plausibility replaces verification”

Gordes, France

Don't think I've anticipated a KS more than this one! Connor is a talented designer & artist. Games executed well where the art + design are by the same person are rare but guarantee a seamless & full experience. Both games are amazing. Highly recommend you check these out.

Peace plan. My @smh cartoon.

One of my favorite poems since childhood, and a poem I share every #autumnequinox. By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands. Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid. “My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

UHHHHH

neighbor’s really taking Halloween to the next fucking level

Magical Athlete was a blast at 4p. Box says 2-6 players, but I'm not sure it would be as much fun with only 2.

Starting a game of Space Empires

Microsoft gave guidance on H1Bs to its employees last night

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Today, WA joins CA and OR in forming the West Coast Health Alliance to ensure our residents continue receiving science-based #PublicHealth recommendations. This partnership ensures our states will continue working with trusted medical orgs to protect our communities' health and safety.

It just kept going nonstop for the full 3 hours! A truly exceptional debut of indie tabletop @ PAXWest! This needs to stay! It was too good not to! Multiple folks SOLD OUT of their games, and the amount of energy and excitement for games so bespoke like this was unparalleled! Thank you so much @Pax

I'll be selling copies of Juven Isle at the PNW Tabletop Game Market tonight at Pax West. A bunch of other local/indie board game designers will be there as well. www.alwaysawake.games/pnw-tabletop...

1800 block of South Western Avenue in Chicago

New keycaps arrived!

Find yourself someone who is as excited about you as @fanfactories.bsky.social is about the PNW Tabletop Game Market at PAX West this weekend

When the Expo Hall closes, the indies come out to play. Head down to Summit Level 0 on Saturday night during PAX West for that small-batch, limited-run, bespoke artisanal cardboard. west.paxsite.com/en-us/schedu...

Mexican entrepreneurship knows no limits… Behold the ICE officer piñata 🪅

Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.

my mom taught me there's two kinds of businesses: hot dog stands and art galleries - hot dog stands protect territory and keep competition off their turf - art galleries benefit from more adjacent art galleries, cluster together to amplify reach/support youre an art gallery, not a hot dog stand

There are currently more kids in Texas with measles than there are transgender collegiate athletes in all of America. Guess which one they want you to focus on.

This is exactly what the internet is for.

Majora's Mask speed run - All Masks NMG (No Major Glitches) Happening now on gamesdonequick.com