Tory Brown (she/her)
@downtowntbrown.bsky.social
📍baltimore, md
💪public education
🎲✂️ www.votesforwomen.com
💪public education
🎲✂️ www.votesforwomen.com
Thanks, Tory of Christmas past!
December 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Thanks, Tory of Christmas past!
Coming in at lucky 39 on Keith Law's all-time top 100 list is your all-time favorite feminist constitutional consim!
"It’s fun, educational, and really bright and easy to look at..."
Back at ya, Keith!
"It’s fun, educational, and really bright and easy to look at..."
Back at ya, Keith!
my annual list of my all-time top 100 board games is now up, a bit later as I removed Amazon links in favor of smaller vendors: meadowparty.com/blog/2025/12...
Top 100 board games, 2025 edition.
meadowparty.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Coming in at lucky 39 on Keith Law's all-time top 100 list is your all-time favorite feminist constitutional consim!
"It’s fun, educational, and really bright and easy to look at..."
Back at ya, Keith!
"It’s fun, educational, and really bright and easy to look at..."
Back at ya, Keith!
Attended the coolest screening of The Body Politic hosted by Wide Angle Youth Media. Erricka Bridgeford was there!!
December 13, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Attended the coolest screening of The Body Politic hosted by Wide Angle Youth Media. Erricka Bridgeford was there!!
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Okay, as promised, here are my 25 boardgames that would make good presents for historians or the historically-inclined.
- I've played them and enjoyed them
- They have to have a historical theme or be related to the practice of history
- They were within the first 25 I thought of...
- I've played them and enjoyed them
- They have to have a historical theme or be related to the practice of history
- They were within the first 25 I thought of...
December 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Okay, as promised, here are my 25 boardgames that would make good presents for historians or the historically-inclined.
- I've played them and enjoyed them
- They have to have a historical theme or be related to the practice of history
- They were within the first 25 I thought of...
- I've played them and enjoyed them
- They have to have a historical theme or be related to the practice of history
- They were within the first 25 I thought of...
Tonight, @bradleyherring.bsky.social and I finally played The Battle of the Metauro, an asymmetric wargame that the lovely people from @deviriberia.bsky.social gifted us while we were in Barcelona. Playing a piece of history is a real privilege!
December 7, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Tonight, @bradleyherring.bsky.social and I finally played The Battle of the Metauro, an asymmetric wargame that the lovely people from @deviriberia.bsky.social gifted us while we were in Barcelona. Playing a piece of history is a real privilege!
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Very proud to say Votes for Women has been recognized with a Platinum Play award from the American Library Association!
Shout out to the Games & Gaming Round Table who do such important work helping libraries of all sizes engage with creative modes of learning.
www.ala.org/news/2025/11...
Shout out to the Games & Gaming Round Table who do such important work helping libraries of all sizes engage with creative modes of learning.
www.ala.org/news/2025/11...
December 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Very proud to say Votes for Women has been recognized with a Platinum Play award from the American Library Association!
Shout out to the Games & Gaming Round Table who do such important work helping libraries of all sizes engage with creative modes of learning.
www.ala.org/news/2025/11...
Shout out to the Games & Gaming Round Table who do such important work helping libraries of all sizes engage with creative modes of learning.
www.ala.org/news/2025/11...
No one wants to live on the floor. Stop listening to people who want to make the floor more enticing so they can live on the moon.
November 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
No one wants to live on the floor. Stop listening to people who want to make the floor more enticing so they can live on the moon.
The best way to support our troops, including guardsmen, is to bring them home.
November 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The best way to support our troops, including guardsmen, is to bring them home.
I'm so grateful to @deviriberia.bsky.social for a once in a lifetime opportunity to travel to Barcelona. The Spanish-language publisher of Votes for Women invited the designers of 25 games to celebrate their 25th anniversary, and somehow, I got to be a part of the party.
November 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I'm so grateful to @deviriberia.bsky.social for a once in a lifetime opportunity to travel to Barcelona. The Spanish-language publisher of Votes for Women invited the designers of 25 games to celebrate their 25th anniversary, and somehow, I got to be a part of the party.
Joan was the real Dau hero for teaching Votes for Women in Spanish, and I think even Catalan! @deviriberia.bsky.social made sure everyone who wanted to could learn and love my game 🥰
November 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Joan was the real Dau hero for teaching Votes for Women in Spanish, and I think even Catalan! @deviriberia.bsky.social made sure everyone who wanted to could learn and love my game 🥰
Invite Ted Raicer To Your Gaming Convention dot Com
The was the speaker lineup (in game box form) for the panel discussion on “The future of wargames” at the Dau Festival. According to @tdraicer.bsky.social it was his FIRST panel appearance!!! Hey wargame convention organizers, Ted should be on your shortlist. @downtowntbrown.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Invite Ted Raicer To Your Gaming Convention dot Com
A fire in a commercial building in lower Remington is sending smoke and debris into our neighborhood. So far no injuries reported and hoping it stays that way.
November 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
A fire in a commercial building in lower Remington is sending smoke and debris into our neighborhood. So far no injuries reported and hoping it stays that way.
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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¡Seguimos con nuestra alineación de lujo para el @festivaldau , en motivo de lo 25 años de Devir Iberia!🎉🎲
Hoy os presentamos a Isra y Shei (Llamadice), Tascini, Matthews, D. Clair, Brown, Fraga, Allué y Gómez.💪
🤩 ¡Unos invitados de lujo que hacen crecer aún más el sueño lúdico de DAU 2025!
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Hoy os presentamos a Isra y Shei (Llamadice), Tascini, Matthews, D. Clair, Brown, Fraga, Allué y Gómez.💪
🤩 ¡Unos invitados de lujo que hacen crecer aún más el sueño lúdico de DAU 2025!
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November 4, 2025 at 9:43 AM
¡Seguimos con nuestra alineación de lujo para el @festivaldau , en motivo de lo 25 años de Devir Iberia!🎉🎲
Hoy os presentamos a Isra y Shei (Llamadice), Tascini, Matthews, D. Clair, Brown, Fraga, Allué y Gómez.💪
🤩 ¡Unos invitados de lujo que hacen crecer aún más el sueño lúdico de DAU 2025!
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Hoy os presentamos a Isra y Shei (Llamadice), Tascini, Matthews, D. Clair, Brown, Fraga, Allué y Gómez.💪
🤩 ¡Unos invitados de lujo que hacen crecer aún más el sueño lúdico de DAU 2025!
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A celebration of the Summit Award, highlighting board games that matter and push the boundaries (like past winners by @fredserval.bsky.social and @downtowntbrown.bsky.social), and what winning it for an anti-fascist game like Land and Freedom means in this climate. sdhist.com/alex-knight-...
Alex Knight: What the Summit Award means to me – SDHist
sdhist.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:32 AM
A celebration of the Summit Award, highlighting board games that matter and push the boundaries (like past winners by @fredserval.bsky.social and @downtowntbrown.bsky.social), and what winning it for an anti-fascist game like Land and Freedom means in this climate. sdhist.com/alex-knight-...
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JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Never not the coolest feeling when I get a text like this.
October 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Never not the coolest feeling when I get a text like this.
All they want is to destroy.
October 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
All they want is to destroy.
Go to a peaceful assembly and a school board meeting. Call your Member of Congress and your state legislator. Vote and post memes.
Protect yourself and your neighbors. Be a citizen, participate fully in democracy, and shape the kind of neighborhood, state, and country you want to live in.
Protect yourself and your neighbors. Be a citizen, participate fully in democracy, and shape the kind of neighborhood, state, and country you want to live in.
October 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Go to a peaceful assembly and a school board meeting. Call your Member of Congress and your state legislator. Vote and post memes.
Protect yourself and your neighbors. Be a citizen, participate fully in democracy, and shape the kind of neighborhood, state, and country you want to live in.
Protect yourself and your neighbors. Be a citizen, participate fully in democracy, and shape the kind of neighborhood, state, and country you want to live in.
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Been listening to a lot of Tom Petty lately. It hasn't fixed me yet, but I won't back down.
September 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Been listening to a lot of Tom Petty lately. It hasn't fixed me yet, but I won't back down.
Can confirm that High Tide is just as fun to play near a tidal river in the Chesapeake Bay watershed as it is at home! I had to check for science.
September 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Can confirm that High Tide is just as fun to play near a tidal river in the Chesapeake Bay watershed as it is at home! I had to check for science.
There's a certain kind of ideologue who wants you to believe the public education system is "in the grip" of school teachers. That educators control nearly every aspect of not just schools but the government.
They are liars and weirdos. They are lying to you and are very weird about democracy.
They are liars and weirdos. They are lying to you and are very weird about democracy.
The teacher pay penalty continues to grow.
Public school teachers are paid only 73 cents for every dollar paid to similar college graduates
New data from Sylvia Allegretto @epi.org and @ceprdc.bsky.social
Public school teachers are paid only 73 cents for every dollar paid to similar college graduates
New data from Sylvia Allegretto @epi.org and @ceprdc.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
There's a certain kind of ideologue who wants you to believe the public education system is "in the grip" of school teachers. That educators control nearly every aspect of not just schools but the government.
They are liars and weirdos. They are lying to you and are very weird about democracy.
They are liars and weirdos. They are lying to you and are very weird about democracy.
