Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

You could also, if you already know what kind of dish you’re looking for, do things like -Go directly to AllRecipes -Get a cookbook (You can go this with ebooks now, including ones you can get for free from your library) -Visit your local library and take photos of the recipe from a cookbook

Sen. Murray is exactly right: "Trump is gleefully using the shutdown as a pretext to hurt students .... No one is forcing Donald Trump to fire the people who make sure students with disabilities can get a good education — he just wants to." wapo.st/4nY78vK

I don’t know how many worse feelings there are than knowing that the only way to change the things that you don’t like about yourself and your life is to get much better at things that you are very bad at doing, and stay much better at them for a very long time.

The right doesn’t use violence to produce political change The right recognizes that in the absence of violence, political change to their detriment is inevitable - and has already begun to occur - and their use of violence delays the timing and perceived legitimacy of that change.

Me: D&D stuff isn’t real, clerics don’t actually have powers that come from their gods Catholic priests in Chicago: We used “Turn Undead” and the ICE ghouls couldn’t come near us

I’ll put it this way. A co-designer and I were going to self-publish a card game this year. We decided we going to wait, possibly until 2028. Before these tariffs were announced.

Seeing news about DoE shuttering their special education department. Still need to delve into what that means in terms of local impacts, but as a speech pathologist in schools, I can tell you that what I’m going to do on Monday is the same thing I did on Friday: My best.

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

So here’s the thing I was raised Catholic, and stayed a churchgoing Catholic until I didn’t have any local parishes that resembled the faith I grew up in And preaching the entire catechism - pro-immigrant, anti-abortion, anti-death penalty, pro-public health - was definitely a Thing

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

honestly if I have to pin down my apathy toward sell sheets, it's because making art & selling it are different skills and I resent how often they're expected to be bundled together - I resent any trend which *demands* the artist also be conversant in sales & advertising to get published

How It’s Done has to be one of the best exposition scenes I’ve seen in any movie of any kind, ever

When the people who are ordering the violence are saying this And they’ve already tried “violence beats votes” once … I really don’t think they can make their intentions any clearer

This remains funny to me because while I was going to pitch to Hollandspiele anyway, the fact that they didn’t want a sell sheet made me really excited that I didn’t have to share the weakest part of my game design efforts

Got a game idea for the first time in a while. This one was sort of inspired by the drive to try to *build* something in the midst of all the destruction we’re seeing around us. The game’s called Sweet Survivor (after the Peter, Paul, and Mary song)

I think more people should think deeply about why Goodall is putting Musk, Trump, Putin, Xi, and Netanyahu in the same basket.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

This is one of those things where I agree with the platform, I would run on the platform if I were the kind of person to run for office in this country… But I’m not sure if it’s a platform that would catch on with people who aren’t paying lots of attention to the news.

Honestly, this is it. Everyone can play all the blame games they want, but the reality is that the Republicans have so clearly demonstrated that their promises are worth less than nothing that maybe the Democrats have decided to stop making any agreements that rely on Republican promises.

During all of the *waves hands around vaguely*, I’ve been trying to find my joy by doing sewing-related things while I have no time for sewing. Recently, this has taken the shape of designing my own fabrics for future shirts.

One of the things I learned competing in competitive public speaking (especially extemporaneous and impromptu events) is that when one person stands up and, with absolute clarity, addresses both the asked question and every assumption behind it, how glaringly obvious it is that nobody else has been.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Throwing women and transgender people under the bus should be enough. If it’s not, know that anyone willing to do that has already sacrificed disabled people, has decided to sacrifice other queer people, and is willing to sacrifice nonwhite people and immigrants if they think someone might ask them

The best thing, personally, to come out of John Kerry’s Presidential campaign is that I heard the song Sweet Survivor by Peter, Paul, and Mary for the first time. 1/2

The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.

I believe very strongly in justice for Palestinians in Gaza I also believe very strongly in fighting global antisemitism And those mutual beliefs have me questioning the wisdom of nations recognizing a Palestinian state *right before* the Jewish High Holy Days

So I’m not gonna say no to Rove and Carlson talking about how bad what the Trump administration is doing But I am gonna ask exactly what the fuck they thought they were building ten to twenty years ago

PSA to all game designers/developers: Please run your game terms past the Council of Thirteen Year Old Boys And Trashy Smut Readers to make sure that if your game has players saying things like “I tuck the dragon under the vanishing creeper in my crimson cavern”, it is at least on purpose.

"People as things, that’s where it starts.” “Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes—” “But they starts with thinking about people as things…” ― Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

The only reasons to utilize the military against domestic civilian targets are rooted in fascism and totalitarianism. This is a skeet about both Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu.

Note the order of priority here: -Get the people in Gaza aid now/hold Netanyahu accountable for getting it there -The US stops arming Israel -Hamas releases the hostages and disarms -Permanent ceasefire This should be the *most Israel-friendly* position any Democrat should be willing to adopt.

I’m watching through Ted Lasso for the first time, and among the various narrative lessons in the show, “be curious, not judgmental” is one of the ones that’s sticking with me the most, and one of the ones that’s helping me stay off social media.

Codenames is my favorite game, and it’s wonderful that between the base game, Pictures, and Duet, I own a complete game system and never need to make another purchase.

I will try to do this thing, although my definition of “opinion that is about politics” is pretty broad

This is one of those nights where I think about my life and wonder… what the fuck was I thinking

So in the midst of all the everything happening, my kids have discovered Pokemon Go, so I’ve dusted off my old account to go on walks and bike rides instead of doomscrolling. Turns out there are “research missions” that I need “friends” for? So if you’re still playing, please add me: 121721623019

It's a Hollandspiele evening! The recent Laurier game design grads (who spent 4 years studying the Mechanism is the Message) were quite engaged with Striking Flint.

Today is Weird Comics Question Day. Does anyone know if there is a similar lawsuit to the Toy Biz vs US lawsuit on whether X-Men replicas were “toys” or “dolls”, but within the canon of the Marvel Universe itself?

One of my few Magical Gatherings related skeets: It would have cost them very little to throw Sandruu into space as being a thousand years away from Ulgrotha. Not that I don’t want to see him back every set. But still.

I think that one of the most underrated sources of harm in our world is the damage caused by well meaning people who don’t know what the fuck they are doing And they either don’t know what they don’t know Or they’re in way too fucking deep and don’t know how to get out

It’s really interesting to see a state-level elected official in the Michigan Democratic Party spreading bigoted propaganda about the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City “Interesting”, of course, being code for far more harsh and critical adjectives I’m too sleepy to think of

Knowledge and my HOA

At this point, I’m predicting that history will show that no amount of force between the Obama deal and outright regime change would/could have prevented Iranian nuclear proliferation. And that’s if regime change would have prevented it.

I have heard my father-in-law’s stories about being an Air Force mechanic in Florida in October 1962 Without hyperbole, seeing *anything* suggesting there is a comparison between those thirteen days and now is the scariest thing I’ll read in a given week.

This is obviously transphobia and it sucks just because of that But it’s also just plain old regular sexism and enforcement of rigid gender conformity. I wonder if people did this, would there even be more trans women terrorized than cis women?

Mine is also a tie Between “Eyes Wide Shut” and “Scott Pilgrim”

You can’t undrop bombs after you drop them. You can’t unkill people you’ve killed. We aren’t going to solve these problems until we start thinking of people as *people* instead of “collateral damage” or “illegals” or any number of other abstractions that deny their humanity and personhood.

You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country

“Legal path to transition” might be one of the most violent anti-trans phrases I’ve ever heard.