Played Super Mega Lucky Box today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/34... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

Played Formula D today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/37... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

"Think about that. Trump — in a brief moment of lucidity, perhaps — wonders out loud if maybe he’s been deceived by what he’s seen on television, and what his aides have told him." So many questions need to be asked after that quote. So few will. presswatchers.org/2025/09/trum...

Me yesterday: "I am disciplined and don't need to back any more Kickstarters." Me today: "I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO PLAY AN 18XX RAIL GAME AND THIS ONE CAN TAKE AS LITTLE AS AN HOUR TO PLAY GIMME GIMME GIMME!!!" Landmarks of the Lost Atlas, via @Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/ast...

Not at all concerning. I really hope I'm paranoid in thinking that it's a loyalty test, and they're going to replace leaders loyal to the Constitution rather than Trump. 😒 www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/p...

A few photos from my truncated New Hampshire vacation.

Inside me there are two wolves. This is not enough to control the deer population inside me, which is degrading the river ecology inside me. I’m attempting to release more wolves inside me to address this, but the ranchers inside me object, and

Well. Home early from vacation because I have COVID-19. Grump.

I wasn't able to get a photo but I saw a black-capped chickadee in New Hampshire. merlinbirds.org/species/bkcchi

Played Mythos today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1800 #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

The Trump administration shut down a huge wind farm project—even though construction was 80 percent complete. If it's not restarted, the huge, nearly finished wind turbines will end up just sitting out there off the Rhode Island coast doing nothing, a slowly rusting monument to what might have been.

Played Cosmic Wimpout today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1302 #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

Played Ark Nova today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/34... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

Played Space Base today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/24... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

Played Space Base today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/24... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

Mmmmm... New England autumn tea is back in stock at Upton Tea Imports. I think I bought enough to last the year. This is the best tea to sweeten with maple syrup. 😌☕

the predator in animated movies: thread

Played Mission: Red Planet today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

Probable future home of my Lego book shop.

I finally finished my Lego bookshop! Now to install the light kit.

It's the Read For Pixels fundraiser: thepixelproject.rallyup.com/read4pixelsf... Raising funds with 17 Acclaimed Authors to Stop Violence Against Women. Many of these awesome authors have donated exclusive goodies to this special fundraiser. (including signed books by me) #murderbot #booksky

Zoe is happy you're attending her.

To all my fellow boardgamers, it looks like they're going to reprint Container again. Unless there are major changes from the original edition, I won't be backing it, but it's apparently a grail game, so this may be your chance to snag it at a reasonable price. www.kickstarter.com/projects/boa...

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

I wanted to replace the absolutely fine but still-could-be-improved first player token in A Place For All My Books, and couldn't decide between a really tiny version of The Raven or a slightly less tiny version of Through The Looking Glass. So, both will be in the game. 😁

Someone actually went ahead and wrote this. The author was apparently so preoccupied with whether or not he could, he didn't stop to think if they should. (The reviews on Amazon are actually pretty good.) www.goodreads.com/book/show/40...

i’ve fused roles played by the same actor: thread

Becky, Paul, and I ended the evening with a game of Wyrmspan. Behold the dragons I was able to entice into the caverns I excavated for them.

Played A Place for All My Books today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/43... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

I just learned about this online game: Internet Road Trip. It's a web game where players vote on where to virtually drive in Google Street View. It's currently (as of this typing) in Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA. neal.fun/internet-roa...

Re-upping this again, please spread far and wide:

Maybe we shouldn’t let someone who doesn’t believe in germs and who thinks it’s okay to eat roadkill and swim in contaminated ponds be in charge of our national food safety.

Four guesses to get the answer? I'll take it! Wordle 1,529 4/6 ⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩⬛🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

PSA for folks moving to Boston. You too can save a truck's life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg9T...

Eggs has an expensive ($6k) surgery coming up. If you're able, the "bills" list, food items, or says "crowfunding" on my wishlist all go to cash right now. it all goes to him. he really needs to get this oral mass handled. Anything at all helps. Thank you 🖤 Link: throne.com/mayawest

Re-upping this for the afternoon:

This is absolutely amazing.

Inspired by a recent Traveller session: (very) quick studies of an Imperial scout ship.

One can imagine a storm god hiding in a cloud formation like this one.

Marginalia were effectively Medieval memes: references made within a specialty sub-community, representing complex concepts with commonly understood symbolic references. Do these giant snails represent 8th century German Lombards or just slimy ravagers of the garden? Can they has cheezburger?

Just saw Shin Godzilla. Truly fantastic movie and horrific version of Godzilla.

It's here! It's here! There are few board games I'd been anticipating as much as this one, and it finally arrived! This is a game about collecting and sorting books, and then going out to buy more books. I can't imagine a better theme. 📚😁

National Relaxation Day is wasted on me this year. I need to cram for Traveller tomorrow. 😂 www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day...

Indivisible.org has an online training for fighting facism. It seems like a good idea.

The long, slow autistic burnout is the worst. Trying to decide if I should make the executive decision or to work from home today and to dare work to complain about it.

We're gonna need a bigger guillotine.

I have no words. None that wouldn't get me higher on any Secret Service watch lists, anyway. www.npr.org/2025/08/07/n...