Rome Demands Stone
@romedemands.bsky.social
Yes, it's me. The cocktail loving, board game playing, data librarian with a wall of games🇨🇦🍁
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“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”
—Anne Herbert
Support your public library in any way you can—this includes using it.
“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”
—Anne Herbert
Support your public library in any way you can—this includes using it.
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Alberta finds a creative way to shit on disabled people while pretending it's helping them: highriveronline.com/articles/alb...
Alberta’s new ADAP program raises concerns over reduced benefits for disabled persons
On Friday, the Alberta Government passed Bill 12, which introduced changes in benefits available to disabled Albertans. The introduction of the Alberta Disability Assistance Program (ADAP) will bring...
highriveronline.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Alberta finds a creative way to shit on disabled people while pretending it's helping them: highriveronline.com/articles/alb...
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Stink bugs still active at mpow.
December 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Stink bugs still active at mpow.
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From the Far Side collection
December 1, 2025 at 9:58 AM
From the Far Side collection
Anyone here remember, in the early days of designing your own website, all those stupid & annoying enhancements like flashing text?
So…. I just found an ai company selling a solution for organizing data and they’ve implanted that stupid blob following your cursor all over the page. 🤬
So…. I just found an ai company selling a solution for organizing data and they’ve implanted that stupid blob following your cursor all over the page. 🤬
December 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Anyone here remember, in the early days of designing your own website, all those stupid & annoying enhancements like flashing text?
So…. I just found an ai company selling a solution for organizing data and they’ve implanted that stupid blob following your cursor all over the page. 🤬
So…. I just found an ai company selling a solution for organizing data and they’ve implanted that stupid blob following your cursor all over the page. 🤬
It’s an ear worm of the most pernicious type and I hate this song with a passion. D and I swap out ‘time’ for ‘poop’ to make it remotely palatable.
In the decades since its release, "Wonderful Christmastime" has become a seasonal staple beloved by some but loathed by others. n.pr/4pyKudI
Is Paul McCartney's 'Wonderful Christmastime' simply… horrible?
In the decades since its release, "Wonderful Christmastime" has become a seasonal staple beloved by some but loathed by others.
n.pr
December 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
It’s an ear worm of the most pernicious type and I hate this song with a passion. D and I swap out ‘time’ for ‘poop’ to make it remotely palatable.
This is tomorrow! You should go!
I'm giving the talk "The Ends of US Public Media" at the University of Québec at Montreal on where NPR and PBS came from, and what's going to happen next for US public media.
This one's on Zoom, free registration - next time in person I hope because I love visiting Montreal!
This one's on Zoom, free registration - next time in person I hope because I love visiting Montreal!
The Ends of US Public Media - Chaire Raoul-Dandurand en études stratégiques et diplomatiques - UQAM
dandurand.uqam.ca
December 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This is tomorrow! You should go!
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I'm going to share a few of my Mum's paintings for #ArtAdventCalendar. She mostly paints with acrylic on canvas and her favorite subject is the scenery in the south coast of England where she lives.
December 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I'm going to share a few of my Mum's paintings for #ArtAdventCalendar. She mostly paints with acrylic on canvas and her favorite subject is the scenery in the south coast of England where she lives.
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Citadel of Calvi Corsica
https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938307
https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938307
December 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Citadel of Calvi Corsica
https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938307
https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938307
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Send this piece of shit home.
US Ambassador to Canada: But let me tell you, I go around the country and people will say, “Pete, you just don’t understand why we’re so mad about the 51st state.” And it’s kind of like, “Yeah, you’re right. I don’t.
December 1, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Send this piece of shit home.
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Thomas Müller came to Vancouver to win trophies. Now he's aiming for Messi theprovince.com/sports/socce...
November 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Thomas Müller came to Vancouver to win trophies. Now he's aiming for Messi theprovince.com/sports/socce...
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It’s #SmallBusinessSaturday and I’m spending the day shouting out the small & indie publishers behind our favourite board games and RPGs.
We put together a big roundup here:
👉 tabletopbellhop.com/gaming-advic...
Help boost them today with a share, a purchase, or a thank-you note.
#THANKSGAMING
We put together a big roundup here:
👉 tabletopbellhop.com/gaming-advic...
Help boost them today with a share, a purchase, or a thank-you note.
#THANKSGAMING
Your Favourite Games Come from Small Businesses: Board Game Publishers to Support This Small Business Saturday | Tabletop Bellhop
It’s Small Business Saturday, and around here that means celebrating some of our favourite small businesses: game publishers.
tabletopbellhop.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
It’s #SmallBusinessSaturday and I’m spending the day shouting out the small & indie publishers behind our favourite board games and RPGs.
We put together a big roundup here:
👉 tabletopbellhop.com/gaming-advic...
Help boost them today with a share, a purchase, or a thank-you note.
#THANKSGAMING
We put together a big roundup here:
👉 tabletopbellhop.com/gaming-advic...
Help boost them today with a share, a purchase, or a thank-you note.
#THANKSGAMING
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Time to mention my peer review zine again.
"You Are Reviewer 2" is a solo d6-based "game" to discover why you're so bad at giving academic feedback and why none of your colleagues like you. In 8-page minizine format!
midnitelibrary.itch.io/you-are-revi...
"You Are Reviewer 2" is a solo d6-based "game" to discover why you're so bad at giving academic feedback and why none of your colleagues like you. In 8-page minizine format!
midnitelibrary.itch.io/you-are-revi...
November 29, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Time to mention my peer review zine again.
"You Are Reviewer 2" is a solo d6-based "game" to discover why you're so bad at giving academic feedback and why none of your colleagues like you. In 8-page minizine format!
midnitelibrary.itch.io/you-are-revi...
"You Are Reviewer 2" is a solo d6-based "game" to discover why you're so bad at giving academic feedback and why none of your colleagues like you. In 8-page minizine format!
midnitelibrary.itch.io/you-are-revi...
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Looking for that perfect gift for the wargamer in your life? I've put together a video of 15+ Stocking Stuffers for Wargamers:
youtu.be/yzliLkoEk9k
#boardwargames #boardgames
youtu.be/yzliLkoEk9k
#boardwargames #boardgames
November 29, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Looking for that perfect gift for the wargamer in your life? I've put together a video of 15+ Stocking Stuffers for Wargamers:
youtu.be/yzliLkoEk9k
#boardwargames #boardgames
youtu.be/yzliLkoEk9k
#boardwargames #boardgames
Someone should tell Northwestern
Harvard gets its research funding back through defiance and lawsuits.
Majority of Harvard’s Research Funding Has Been Restored
As of Tuesday, Harvard University had recouped most of the federal research funding it lost when the Trump administration froze its access to grants earlier this year, multiple local news organization...
www.insidehighered.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Someone should tell Northwestern
November 29, 2025 at 1:55 AM
For the #BoardGame folks out there. This is pretty cute:
November 29, 2025 at 12:42 AM
For the #BoardGame folks out there. This is pretty cute:
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Former Washington Post contributing columnist here — let’s help the Onion smash the Washington Post!
Hi everybody,
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
Join The Onion
Don’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.
membership.theonion.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Former Washington Post contributing columnist here — let’s help the Onion smash the Washington Post!
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There is something a bit Wes Anderson about this scene hey?
(not a critique!)
(not a critique!)
NDP leadership hopefuls confront their French shortcomings in Montreal debate montrealgazette.com/news/ndp-lea...
November 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
There is something a bit Wes Anderson about this scene hey?
(not a critique!)
(not a critique!)
If you could go back to any time in your life—when would it be and why?
November 28, 2025 at 4:15 AM
If you could go back to any time in your life—when would it be and why?
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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
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I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
Cracker’s The Golden Age is one of the best albums. Ever.
Go listen to it.
music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Go listen to it.
music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
The Golden Age - Album by Cracker
The Golden Age is the third studio album by American alternative rock band Cracker. It was released on April 2, 1996, by Virgin. Three singles were released from the album: "I Hate My Generation," "No...
music.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Cracker’s The Golden Age is one of the best albums. Ever.
Go listen to it.
music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Go listen to it.
music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Gross
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Gross
Like cinema? Check out the European Film Festival online starting December 1st
watch.eventive.org/euffonline2025
watch.eventive.org/euffonline2025
EUFF Online | EUFF Online 2025
watch.eventive.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Like cinema? Check out the European Film Festival online starting December 1st
watch.eventive.org/euffonline2025
watch.eventive.org/euffonline2025