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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 3d

also the frogs in portland are very funny in a way that even overcomes my general disposition to not care about "fun"

noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 3d

I don't know. I made a manhattan and am sad about this country but watching people combine arms both literally and figuratively to protect each other is beautiful. Good talk.

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 3d

terms that push me to think about my politics, and the messy confusing mess that is human political reality. We need each other, and that will be uncomfortable, and confusing and complicated, and that's the beauty of it. That's how we build a better world.

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 3d

slowly over the last few months, and they write beautifully and at times tbh annoyingly abstractly but still beautifully about the particular push and pull I have felt, the drive to be inconvenienced, the drive to connect while also preferring being alone, and how to think about these drives in

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 3d

because cities are where I understood that even for a person like me who mostly likes to be alone, being around other people made me care even more about the people around me, and helped me see how we are all linked together. I've been reading On the Inconvenience of Other People by Berlant

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 3d

It feels so much starker here in the outer suburbs of a quote unquote liberal city that is anything but, how hard it is to get people to overcome their isolation, their fear of other people, even the well meaning people I live with. I miss cities, not just because I like to walk places, but also

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 3d

I often don't understand how to effectively communicate to the people I am around regularly, my immediate family, that I'm not mad, I mean I am mad, but mostly I'm just so heartbroken at how often it feels like a massive uphill struggle to convince people to care about each other.

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 3d

I understand intellectually and on some sense affectively that the cruelty is the point, but jesus christ, the destruction of the office that enforces special ed laws is so brutal. The harm this will cause, the massive amount of work it will take to get things back to the current not good state...

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 9d

I just wish we lived in a world where caring about each other was enough to support human flourishing. Instead we have to oppose fascists and nazis, it’s embarrassing tbh

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 9d

a keffiyeh plus autism skeleton with automatic rifles feels very important to me as we near the the end of 2025

Two images side by side showing Greta Thunberg smiling and wearing a keffiyeh and a shirt with a skeleton raising two automatic rifles and the bright yellow text “AUTISM”
above the skeleton

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 9d

I wanted to also play Comancheria while they were away, but instead I got three stars in three different Two Point Campus schools. I’ve been very productive tbh.

noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 9d

I’m also going to try and ignore my predilections and focus on military stuff. I love to win by turtling and focusing on economy (as my fav solo youtuber has said, a tall approach) but two rifts demand a more aggressive wide approach I think, so we will try to attack!

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 9d

I tried the second scenario on medium twice and got destroyed both times so I have given in to my craven desire to win and am playing this third scenario on easy, it has TWO rifts! I just don’t want those pesky voidborn to win :(

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 9d

family is away for a few days so I get to try a bigger scenario on the downstairs table, tomorrow we’ll see if I succeed

The board game Voidfall set up on a dark green game mat. The game is arranged for a solo game with the third scenario consisting of 13 large hex tiles, a few game boards and a player mat for the House Zenor A starting set up.

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 11d

Watching this over the internet makes me proud to know you!!! This is so good. We have to take care of each other and you’re doing the work. Wish I uh had not been falling apart during my time in Chicago!!!!!!

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 13d

I made a silly little thing idk brkeogh.itch.io/automatic-fl...

Automatic Flips by Brendan Keogh

Play in your browser

brkeogh.itch.io

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13d

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13d

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

www.youtube.com

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 13d

BREAKING: Israel has intercepted Global Sumud Flotilla vessels Alma and Sirius, according to activists onboard.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/356qba

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Alex @dirtbagboyfriend.bsky.social · 13d

Here’s the official live, with over 60k people watching. Please join us, western witnesses are the only thing that may stay Israel’s hand.
www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 13d

I am a lapsed critic, a lapsed academic, a lapsed most things lately, it was very exciting to so quickly find a path to some of the most interesting designers and thinkers in the space, even just from who was sharing Dan, who was engaging, etc. would not know Hollandspiele without him for instance

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 13d

apparently in a posting mood, but also grateful I stumbled across people like Dan when I got into the hobby, who write and think about games in this expansive way, that is trying to understand the entire package, its context, its history, what it's trying to do, what it does well or fails at, etc.

Dan Thurot @danthurot.bsky.social · 14d

For today's article, I'm just griping about why "fun" is a bad word for critics. spacebiff.com/2025/09/30/a...

Anti-Fun

There’s one word I try to never use when writing about board games. The F-word. No, not that one. “Fun.” There it is. My critical curse word. Today I want to talk about why “fun” isn’t an especiall…

spacebiff.com

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 14d

physical components and mechanisms of board games. What can this form do. What does it afford that is different from a book or essay on the subject. As I said earlier, games are cool.

Alas, it’s really not helping me with my, “I don’t need to read The Power Broker” stance tho

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 14d

personal and public. It’s exactly why I keep being drawn to the (nebulously defined) world of historical war games. But this is much more compelling as a subject as sadly I don’t actually care much about war. But I am very interested in play and simulation and exploration via the specific

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 14d

The historical record book is very good. I wonder how some of it will be received by a broader war game audience. I admit I’m not really part of that, just a lefty weirdo who loves systems. But NBS the designer is laying out such a clear point of view as a designer here combined with history, both

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 14d

I’m reading the rules to Cross Bronx Expressway because my copy arrived today and god games are so good and so cool and so fascinating. There’s so much care and attention here and I’m very excited to dig in and start playing later this week.

www.gmtgames.com/p-953-cross-...

GMT Games - Cross Bronx Expressway

Cross Bronx Expressway

www.gmtgames.com

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