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Gary Kacmarcik

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Board game designer (Shinjuku). Seattle(-ish). he/him

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Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · Jul 8

BlueSky doesn't (yet) allow you to create Feeds for a list of users (you can create lists for Muting)

BUT SkyFeed allows you to "invert" a Mute list and turn it into a Feed.

So I created a few Boardgame Feeds:

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Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 1d

I'll be at Essen Spiel on Friday and Saturday at the HeidelBÄR booth (Hall 6 6B200) showing Shinjuku:

Friday: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm and 3:00 – 5:00 pm
Saturday: 2:00 – 4:00 pm

@spielessen.bsky.social @heidelbaer.de

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HeidelBÄR Games D-A-CH (company) @heidelbaer.de · 12d

✈️🧳 Ab in die Herbstferien – mit Shinjuku ins Herz von Tokio!

Während draußen die Blätter tanzen & der Koffer schon halb gepackt ist, nehmen wir euch mit auf eine Reise nach Shinjuku – auch ohne Flugticket. 🌆

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 4d

Evidence that even when LLMs produce similar results to humans, they “rely on lexical associations and statistical priors rather than contextual reasoning or normative criteria. We term this divergence epistemia: the illusion of knowledge emerging when surface plausibility replaces verification”

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

www.pnas.org

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Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 6d

Stone street with paysage in background.

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Small blue car at the top of a steep rocky road

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Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 6d

Gordes, France

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Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 9d

Imperial grams?

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Joseph Z Chen 🔜 PAX Unplugged @fanfactories.bsky.social · 12d

Don't think I've anticipated a KS more than this one! Connor is a talented designer & artist. Games executed well where the art + design are by the same person are rare but guarantee a seamless & full experience. Both games are amazing. Highly recommend you check these out.

Connor Wake | Always Awake Games 🔜 PaxWest @connor.alwaysawake.games · 12d

Excited to announce that Club Spooky and That’s the Spirit are finally launching on Kickstarter next week, October 14th!

Assemble the coolest group of ghouls at Club Spooky and find the culprit of your accidental death in Thats the Spirit!

Preview page here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/alw...

A banner for the Ghost Party bundle ks with the launch date of October 14th. A copy of each game is standing upright with cards from the games splayed in front.

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 20d

Peace plan.
My @smh cartoon.

Four frames. Breakfast table scene. Frame 1 Person 1 with newspaper. “So, Trump, Blai and Netanyahu have a peace plan for Gaza!” Person 2: “Wait - DONALD Trump? ‘Lies about everything’ Trump? ‘Riviera of the Middle East’ Trump?” Fr 2, person 1: “Yeah, well…” person 2: “and Blair - TONY Blair? ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’ Blair? ‘10000 Iraqi civilians as collateral damage’ Blair?
Fr 3, person1, “Sure, but…” Person 2: “and Netanyahu? BIBI Netanyahu? ‘Propped up Hamas’ Netanyahu? ‘There will be no Palestinian State’ Netanyahu?” Frame 4: Person 1: “Yeah, so fingers crossed!” (Gestures same). Person 2: *eyeroll*.

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Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 20d

From the thumbnail, I initially read the top game as 18ERIA.

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Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · 22d

I think you might be doing "visit the beach" wrong.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · Sep 22

One of my favorite poems since childhood, and a poem I share every #autumnequinox.
By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands.
Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid.
“My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 28d

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

In early 2025, beaver activity in the Brdy Protected Landscape Area, Czech Republic, contributed to the restoration of a wetland ecosystem. A family of beavers constructed a series of dams that coincidentally accomplished environmental goals of the Czech government, which had delayed its proposed project since 2018 for bureaucratic and financial reasons. The beaver-built dams saved the Czech government approximately US$1.2 million,

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 29d

UHHHHH

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NurseBrianRN @nursebrianrn.bsky.social · Sep 20

neighbor’s really taking Halloween to the next fucking level

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Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · Sep 21

Magical Athlete was a blast at 4p.

Box says 2-6 players, but I'm not sure it would be as much fun with only 2.

Box cover for Magical Athlete showing a bunch of cartoon athletes that are apparently magical, and some dice flying around.

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Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · Sep 21

I'm a little concerned about going to Essen this year.

Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · Sep 21

The Giant Race people came and attacked me, so I needed to send my Bringers of Pain fleet to take the battle to them.

It didn't go well.

Bringers of Pain counter vs Battle Fleet counter in the same hex.

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Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · Sep 20

Finally explored my quadrant, and starting to push out into deep space.

Red quadrant explored and building defenses.

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Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · Sep 20

Starting a game of Space Empires

Space Empires board game showing red at the start of the game: colony ships on Altair with a few adjacent hexes already explored.

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · Sep 20

Microsoft gave guidance on H1Bs to its employees last night

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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · Sep 19

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · Sep 10

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · Sep 9

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

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Gary Kacmarcik @garykac.bsky.social · Sep 6

I've been enjoying these puzzles as well.