I've been slowly improving the Northanger Sprites in advance of an eventual Steam release, this is probably the one I was least happy with and it's definitely improved! Never think it's too late to improve your art, I was in my late 30s when I drew the first lot and am still learning in my 40s.

Wild to think @emnk.bsky.social and I have been teaching and publishing about this NA adaptation for damn near half a decade.

My super, mega boardgame nerd, totally brilliant at every game, would put up against anyone friend @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy HAS NEVER PLAYED CATAN, so we are playing this morning. I am Player One. This is my ONE SHOT to beat my genius friend. Prayers please.

Very glad to see this as @emnk.bsky.social and I prepare to nerd out about Austen games at Global Austen.

presenting THIS HOT DOG GETS ME OFF ALSO SHE IS A DOCTOR ALSO SHE IS VEGAN SPECIAL EDITION AUDIOBOOK read by true buckaroo @jamieloftus.bsky.social audiobook is FREE but we are asking for donations to LA STREET VENDOR FUND who are helping vendors impacted by ICE RAIDS www.patreon.com/posts/this-l...

the honor of a lifetime, sweating in my office and desperately trying to achieve the right degree of horny for a TINGLER!!!! long live chuck, donate to the street vendor fund, LOVE IS REAL

A problem that I never thought I'd have: finding homes for multiple Commodores. Here's the latest one with the other things it was boxed with.

Registration is now open for a fabulous, free online conference: @analoggamestudies.bsky.social 2025 "PUNK" is Thursday, July 17! analoggamestudies.org/generation-a... -- registration is free but required via EventBrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/generation... #staypunk #stayanalog!

We've seen this from anti-vaxxers and other conspiracy movements for years: Act like frothing-at-the-mouth psychos and then accuse scientists of conspiracy for behaving like they're being targeted by frothing-at-the-mouth psychos.

TTRPG folks: if you have worked on games involving the Early Modern period or Shakespeare, could you let me know?

Everyone 100% should check this out.

Love this and Rachel and her work!!

Strays you take in because you are unrealistically confident at the time you can find a new home. From bottom to top: Commodore printer, Commodore 64 computer, floppy disc drive (for just one floppy).

THIS PART RIGHT HERE

I'm getting more sad about getting laid off. My work means so much to me. I'm a really good reporter. I've been getting scoops every single week lately, while also doing in-depth, award-winning reporting. I have good ideas! New email: [email protected] www.polygon.com/23776996/bar...

i am not looking forward to more bearded white dudes in giant baby car seats surrounded in mausoleums of 80s and 90s nostalgia bathed in RGB giving the absolute shittiest socio-political takes because they miss the taste of Hi-C Ecto Cooler

Not an exaggeration to say I wouldn't be writing about games without Polygon. Every layoff hurts but this one is fucking devastating. These journalists deserved so much better.

When I tell you how excited I am to get my hands on this!!!! Marc will be talking about this and more on 5/22. Join us! whyzines2025.eventbrite.com

I used to find these kinds of posts shallow, but in light of recent events and in case you don’t know me personally— I believe trans rights are human rights, Black lives matter, abortion is healthcare, and that this administration is cancerous.

Kick off your May w/me at Game of BLANKS! This live party game/game show is a mashup of Quiplash + Taskmaster that's been described as "sh*tposting for points" (complimentary)! Form your most adventurous party & join us for all the fun & BLANKS! Thursday May 8 at 9pm at Brooklyn Art Haus!

It's the final day of our Call for Papers for this year's Middle Ages in Modern Games Asynchronous Conference! Send in your abstracts to midagesmodgames<at>gmail.com to join us in June!

Even when I try to write about fascism I write about plants

I have often said that the takeaway I had from Peterson’s GAME WIZARDS is that I want a biography of Mary Gygax, but it’s actually grown to think that someone should write a book where each chapter is profile of a non-dude who did undersung “backstage” facilitation of games labor.

This Harvard comp sci prof laments Republicans’ declining public opinion of universities and blames it on professors who, unlike him, inject politics into their classes. As evidence of politicization, he references Google, Coinbase, Bud Light—ie not academia—and one email from one law school TA.

In theory alt-text would help with this, but many of the same folks who love sharing offensive images of someone AI-cosplaying a revered religious leader (or other dumbass bullshit) ALSO don’t tend to use alt-text as they do so. Right now I’m muting posts but real close to blocking.

my feed right now is just substack blog after substack blog after substack blog and half of them right now are specifically critiques of the guys from the big fascist signal chats article and those critiques are delivered on the platform that makes nazis money and it’s making me sad.

If your students are not bringing up anything construably political in class, ever, it's because you're not letting them speak freely. And I thought that was supposed to be bad? Dang, did I miss another memo?

a recent look at migration, if you didn’t know about substack’s nazi problem.

I have a full time job. I contributed to Polygon because I got robust editorial eyes on my work, & an audience that (generally) valued that. ZombiePolygon won’t have either — they gutted that institutional memory & vision in a stroke, & they won’t/can’t buy that at a price they’d ever pay.

Polygon's new owner won't: *Commit to hiring a new EIC *Say if the site will be "rebuilt" with full-time staff or permalancers *Explain why he refused to engage with founding EIC Chris Grant during negotiations *Address Valnet's reputation for exploiting contractors and churning out seo slop

The WGA East's statement on Vox Media’s decision to sell @Polygon.com and lay off staff. We stand with our @VoxMediaUnion members now and always ✊

Our GoFundMe to assist our former colleagues at @polygon.com is now live! Please support them if you can, and share widely even if you can't! Thank you all for the kindness and care you've shared with Polygon and the union over the last 2 days — it means the world to us all. gofund.me/a21cbbdc

We've got 3 more issues of 119 on the way this year, all with different bibliographical images related to the theme of "binding" set behind this lovely lavender overlay! BSA members get print copies of PBSA as part of their membership. Become a BSA member & support PBSA! bibsocamer.org/membership

It's crazy that nobody is reporting (outside of the WSJ, who had it in one sentence at the end of an article) that OpenAI hasn't actually received any of the money from SoftBank, and that SoftBank appears to be borrowing their entire part of the funding round. group.softbank/en/news/pres...

Committing just 0.5% of the NYC budget to fund public libraries would be transformational for our city. Take a moment to ensure that all our mayoral candidates know that libraries have our full-throated support. actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...

"The x-ray that is the novel coronavirus exposes once again the bare bones of the social structure in which for Black and Indigenous people governance equals policing. Governance as violence."

Ruttier for the Marooned in the Diaspora (Dionne Brand) www.e-flux.com/journal/105/...

WASHINGTON (AP) — AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists, citing 1st Amendment.

10 national unions repping 3 million members demand the release of abducted immigrant workers and call for employers and university admins to refuse to cooperate and elected officials to “find their spines.” This is the way. labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

Excellent interview with @marksspicyulp.bsky.social by Mia @coolzonemedia.bsky.social on the ICE kidnapping of Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez, & the need for groups like the Coalition of Independent Unions www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

We cannot stand idly by as our fellow union leaders are attacked by the Trump regime. We stand shoulder to shoulder with union farm workers. One struggle, one fight. Join us and our coalition allies at Portland City Hall at 2PM on April 12th in calling for the release of Lelo

New Sixteenth Minute (of Fame): the smell doctor who was 'too woke': dr. ally louks 👃 @jamieloftus.bsky.social @allylouks.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

Open invitation to all independent labor unions, especially in the Pacific Northwest Contact us to RSVP at [email protected]

Earlier this week a farm worker union leader was kidnapped by ICE in Washington state, Alfredo 'Lelo' Juarez. Next weekend a coalition of Independent Unions in Portland will be hosting a rally at City Hall to bring attention to this attack on the labor movement.

We're not just 🐋 and 🦕 at the Natural History Museum. Looking forward to this Generation Hope event @ NHM on reproductive health & colonial history with an environmental lens. 3rd May. Speakers: me, Akosua Paries-Osei, Annabel Sowemimo, & Mitzi Jonelle Tan. www.nhm.ac.uk/events/from-... #HistMed

I needed something good today and it arrived in the post: Molly House @wehrlegig.games wehrlegig.com/products/mol... (now I just need to find space for it next to Pax Pamir and John Company)

#OtD 19 Mar 1968 more than 1,000 students at the historically Black Howard University began a 4-day occupation of the administration building. The protesters won several concessions, including a more developed African-American studies curriculum stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

Good morning! The DC Bar's ethics hearing into former DC Prosecutor Jennifer Kerkhoff over her misconduct in prosecuting protesters kettled at Trump's first inauguration is beginning now for it's second day. The Bar is streaming the hearing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IafH...

Saturday was the 10 year anniversary of my home game, today is the 10 year streaming anniversary of @criticalrole.bsky.social I was not an OG Critter, nor was CR my intro to Actual Play, but it was the 1st AP I grappled with as a work of art, & the shape of its making, & much has flowed from that.

Here's the latest episode of my iHeartRadio/Cool Zone Media show Better Offline. I'm joined by Aftermath's @nathangrayson.bsky.social and @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social to talk about how the growth-at-all-cost mindset is destroying gaming. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline