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John du Bois (He/Him)
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Brain injured game designer who pays bills as an SLP. Avatar of Cheese Masculinity. Board games, sewing, LEGO, books. This Machine Helps People Use Their Voice. I'd like a hard boiled egg. https://sites.google.com/view/johndubois/home?authuser=0
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Yeah this shit is why I put my fucking foot down and told my neurologist I wanted an MRI instead of just cycling through migraine meds
i got pushed by docs into thinking my chronic migraines were just headaches from stress for five years - they were actually the primary manifestation of a tumor in my head. it took me a full year and half of fighting for myself to actually get the treatment i needed. it instantly cured me.
And so I anchored — I anchored on the first diagnosis I received. Even though that diagnosis was wrong. I'm sharing this experience not for sympathy or attention, but in the hope that it may be a useful cautionary tale. Do not make my mistake.

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But in this rendition of the Nazi Bar Parable, the people of Maine are the bartender - they should be looking at that dude’s Nazi tattoo and saying, “Nope. Out.”
And there are gonna be Nazis who know better than to Nazi where anyone can see!

Not every Nazi bar gets that way because the bartender didn’t kick the Nazi out; some got that way because they didn’t wear their gear until they outnumbered the non-Nazis
I think that being vigilant about the symbols of fascism, and being diligent about holding people who use them to account, is a way (although not the only way) to reduce the number of people who have fascist sympathies from getting access to power or exercising that power in fascist ways.
I think there’s also a consideration of what kind of charity is *specifically* being limited here

“If you have a Nazi tattoo, you should not be a US Senator” is… not really a concept that terribly limits lots of people’s lives, nor does it place extreme limits on the lives of people it affects
Oh great now I have to wonder whether that’s a deliberate bad faith thing or whether someone actually thinks that “not knowing something” is a disability

What the fuck is happening in this world
How…

How do you even get to that
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In today's video I talk about ways to level up as a game designer - practices I have seen in other designers and myself as they become more experienced and improve their craft. Hopefully useful whether you're just starting out, or reflecting on how far you have come!

youtu.be/qPWgQCNkRsM

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How to level up as a game designer
YouTube video by Matthew Dunstan
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Modern disability law (that isn’t about healthcare funding) was enacted by Republican Presidents - Nixon signed the Rehabilitation Act, Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, and GHWB signed both the Americans with Disabilities Act and IDEA.
Yeah when I first heard that there was a Thing about white supremacists appropriating Norse mythology, I definitely worried that my Marvel Comics Mjolnir keychain on my messenger bag had been sending racism vibes this whole time
I’m going to put an idea out there that I think some people need to consider:

What if all the shit that you think is being done “to distract from the Epstein files” is in fact being done “to determine how many cudgels of power the GOP can get away with wielding”?
But it seems like the people worried about trans kids playing sports really want to keep Title IX

The people who think disabled folks complain too much about accessibility don’t want doors closed to them

And people got a lot madder about police/ICE violence when it was white folks getting beaten
If you want to suggest to me that some marginalized group (usually transgender, disabled, or nonwhite people) should wait on its rights, I want to know what equivalent rights you’re willing to sacrifice.
You can’t compromise on rights and especially on humanity. If one group says “This group can be sacrificed to save the rest of us,” it’s not a purity test to say “absolutely not.”
"purity tests" "circular firing squad" "the left eat their own" are such bullshit phrases.

people disagree on politics! that's how it works.

deal with it instead of whining about marginalized people correctly pointing out that certain "compromises" only strengthens fascism
(Also, for all the folks saying “we have to do this every few months for it to mean anything”, three of the ten largest single-day protests in US history were all in 2025, all about the same guy.

So… folks are doing this every few months.)
The news to me here is not the number of people who attended protests yesterday, but somehow I was unaware that TWENTY MILLION AMERICANS (ten percent of the country!) attended protests on the first Earth Day in 1970!
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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.”
Search engines are designed to help you obtain information you don’t have at all; “where do I get a recipe?” is a good question for a search engine

But once you find a good recipe site, you should only be using search engines if you’ve already looked at that site for a recipe and it’s not there
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
Every one of these ChatGPT ads I see is batshit some dude has been suggested a dish to make to impress a girl so he had to type the q into chatgpt, read the answer and then follow it - as opposed to typing the question in a search engine reading the answer and then following it??? it's so stupid
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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
With shutdown cuts, Trump moves closer to eliminating Education Department
The administration is looking to shed workers and transfer some operations to other departments as it seeks to close the Education Department
wapo.st
Is “like a frat house” the new “locker room talk”?
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.
There’s so much that I don’t understand, as someone working with the same kids whose parents take them to ABA, about why it got such a strong foothold in autism care

Like… there are kids at my school who miss 2-3 days of school a week to go to ABA
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.
The right has no compunctions about using violence but they also feel no need to construct a mechanical theory of how their violence will produce political change. Their killings are more like ritual magic than anything else. The highest goal is just to produce a satisfying spectacle.
You don’t even have to go as far back as Coleman Young in the Detroit area - look at what people are saying about Hamtramck right now