Amabel Holland
@amabel.bsky.social
She/her. "Widely considered one of today’s most innovative game designers." - The New Yorker
Board games: https://hollandspiele.com
video essays: youtube.com/@hollandspiele
Patreon: patreon.com/amabelholland
sidekicking: youtube.com/@SBPlaysGames
Board games: https://hollandspiele.com
video essays: youtube.com/@hollandspiele
Patreon: patreon.com/amabelholland
sidekicking: youtube.com/@SBPlaysGames
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Amabel Holland
@amabel.bsky.social
· Jun 16
📌I'm Amabel (she/her), a board game designer. Out of my 80+ games, I'm best known for City of Six Moons and Irish Gauge.
I co-own the publisher Hollandspiele. In my spare time I make video essays about the future & history of games.
I'm a slutty poly trans woman, and I talk about all of the above.
I co-own the publisher Hollandspiele. In my spare time I make video essays about the future & history of games.
I'm a slutty poly trans woman, and I talk about all of the above.
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Came home to an amazing assortment of games from some truly wonderful designers! All praise to the Hollandspiele sale!
@amabel.bsky.social
@xoe.gay
@rollplusfun.bsky.social
@johndubois.bsky.social
@amabel.bsky.social
@xoe.gay
@rollplusfun.bsky.social
@johndubois.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Came home to an amazing assortment of games from some truly wonderful designers! All praise to the Hollandspiele sale!
@amabel.bsky.social
@xoe.gay
@rollplusfun.bsky.social
@johndubois.bsky.social
@amabel.bsky.social
@xoe.gay
@rollplusfun.bsky.social
@johndubois.bsky.social
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the only thing that's changed my life for the better as much as estrogen is getting a bidet
to the point where if you don't have a bidet in your house, I will not stay the night
to the point where if you don't have a bidet in your house, I will not stay the night
November 30, 2023 at 12:50 AM
the only thing that's changed my life for the better as much as estrogen is getting a bidet
to the point where if you don't have a bidet in your house, I will not stay the night
to the point where if you don't have a bidet in your house, I will not stay the night
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While thrifting on Black Friday, I came across a copy of Swoggle (an uncredited word game from the 1980’s) but held off because I’m eagerly waiting for my copy of Cross4 by @amabel.bsky.social . Also the Swoggle box was enormous.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
While thrifting on Black Friday, I came across a copy of Swoggle (an uncredited word game from the 1980’s) but held off because I’m eagerly waiting for my copy of Cross4 by @amabel.bsky.social . Also the Swoggle box was enormous.
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Liselotte making fun of a French guy at court for hanging out with his girlfriend in the bathroom while she takes shits
November 28, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Liselotte making fun of a French guy at court for hanging out with his girlfriend in the bathroom while she takes shits
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Lol jesus, Liselotte, chill out
November 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Lol jesus, Liselotte, chill out
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Reading letters from the Princess Liselotte of Palantine, the German sister-in-law of Louis XIV, and it's wild because she had this super informal writing style that almost sounds like modern texts
Like at one point she goes "wish to god my son didn't love holding chunks of bread like a peasant"
Like at one point she goes "wish to god my son didn't love holding chunks of bread like a peasant"
November 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Reading letters from the Princess Liselotte of Palantine, the German sister-in-law of Louis XIV, and it's wild because she had this super informal writing style that almost sounds like modern texts
Like at one point she goes "wish to god my son didn't love holding chunks of bread like a peasant"
Like at one point she goes "wish to god my son didn't love holding chunks of bread like a peasant"
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because egg-me identified really hard with "the Jonah" - the character who cannot perform the masculine competencies expected of him, is ostracized for it & treated like his very nature is his fault, and ultimately driven to suicide
(also "lesser of two weevils" cracks me the hell up)
(also "lesser of two weevils" cracks me the hell up)
what is it with trans women and master and commander
November 29, 2025 at 10:37 AM
because egg-me identified really hard with "the Jonah" - the character who cannot perform the masculine competencies expected of him, is ostracized for it & treated like his very nature is his fault, and ultimately driven to suicide
(also "lesser of two weevils" cracks me the hell up)
(also "lesser of two weevils" cracks me the hell up)
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calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 AM
calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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the legend of Zelda: Madoka's Mask
November 29, 2025 at 1:20 AM
the legend of Zelda: Madoka's Mask
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MIDNIGHT SUNS is pretty fun so far, but the writing is really bad. Like the whole script is written by a guy who heard “They fly now?” And it -changed his fucking life.
November 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
MIDNIGHT SUNS is pretty fun so far, but the writing is really bad. Like the whole script is written by a guy who heard “They fly now?” And it -changed his fucking life.
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I FUCKING HATE this notion of "it's not the left and right. It's the bottom and top."
NO, ASSHOLE! LEFT REPRESENTS THE BOTTOM, THE WORKERS, THE MARGINALIZED.
NO, ASSHOLE! LEFT REPRESENTS THE BOTTOM, THE WORKERS, THE MARGINALIZED.
November 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I FUCKING HATE this notion of "it's not the left and right. It's the bottom and top."
NO, ASSHOLE! LEFT REPRESENTS THE BOTTOM, THE WORKERS, THE MARGINALIZED.
NO, ASSHOLE! LEFT REPRESENTS THE BOTTOM, THE WORKERS, THE MARGINALIZED.
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Is Gordon Willis the greatest cinematographer in history? And other such questions.
November 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Is Gordon Willis the greatest cinematographer in history? And other such questions.
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everyone who works at openAI should be tried as an accomplice
November 27, 2025 at 6:20 AM
everyone who works at openAI should be tried as an accomplice
the fun part is for most people it almost never works because the part of my brain that does this isn't actually/accurately predicting how person X would feel/react but how other people reacted in my childhood despite knowing they've nothing to do with each other
also: does everyone else create emotional simulacrums of everyone in your life in your head so you can try to predict how the thing you’re about to say to them will make them feel, because you really need to avoid saying anything that will make them unhappy with you?
November 28, 2025 at 2:26 AM
the fun part is for most people it almost never works because the part of my brain that does this isn't actually/accurately predicting how person X would feel/react but how other people reacted in my childhood despite knowing they've nothing to do with each other
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so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?
November 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?
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Dorcas Reilly was the hero America needed and I’m not joking.
![Reilly retired in 1988. 31 In 2002, Reilly and Campbell's donated her recipe for green bean casserole to the National Inventors Hall of
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November 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Dorcas Reilly was the hero America needed and I’m not joking.
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stranger things is just a prestige ready player one
November 27, 2025 at 9:44 PM
stranger things is just a prestige ready player one
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Source familiar w/ MC specifically stressed that this does have corporate stressed
i think people should keep in mind that the call center being stressed does not mean the company as a whole is stressed. the target companies make their money by basically taxing a large portion all transactions. even if you 10x the cost of operating their call center, they'll barely notice it
Guys, as a ex call center employee, this is fucking DESPERATION BEHAVIOR.
Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.
Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.
November 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Source familiar w/ MC specifically stressed that this does have corporate stressed
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Calendars are really weird like
Have you ever noticed that every time easter is on a sunday the next two thanksgivings in a row are on thursday
Have you ever noticed that every time easter is on a sunday the next two thanksgivings in a row are on thursday
November 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Calendars are really weird like
Have you ever noticed that every time easter is on a sunday the next two thanksgivings in a row are on thursday
Have you ever noticed that every time easter is on a sunday the next two thanksgivings in a row are on thursday
cute and she knows it
November 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM
cute and she knows it
Samhain is explaining Alan Wake to her mother and I forgot what a meta-referential thing this is
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Samhain is explaining Alan Wake to her mother and I forgot what a meta-referential thing this is
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Can’t think of a better advertisement for @nebula.tv than the fact that the top video on the platform is FD Signifier’s essay on Charlie Kirk, which just got taken down on YouTube, even though YouTube had reviewed that much more censored version of the video and approved it.
November 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Can’t think of a better advertisement for @nebula.tv than the fact that the top video on the platform is FD Signifier’s essay on Charlie Kirk, which just got taken down on YouTube, even though YouTube had reviewed that much more censored version of the video and approved it.