Ghost Palm Technique
@ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social
Board gaming; wordplay; opinions/observations offered for free and mostly left on the shelf anyway.
"You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it."
Have a much longer posting history under the same name on Tumblr
"You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it."
Have a much longer posting history under the same name on Tumblr
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The sword comes into the world because of justice delayed and justice denied. - Pirke Avot 5:7
There is a whole genre of "you don't need to eat so much protein" articles lately, and while OTOH I understand the need to counteract RFK2-sponsored idiocy, I am a 47-year-old male who is about 50% muscle by mass. I do, in fact, need to eat that much protein.
January 28, 2026 at 6:41 PM
There is a whole genre of "you don't need to eat so much protein" articles lately, and while OTOH I understand the need to counteract RFK2-sponsored idiocy, I am a 47-year-old male who is about 50% muscle by mass. I do, in fact, need to eat that much protein.
The sword comes into the world because of justice delayed and justice denied. - Pirke Avot 5:7
January 26, 2026 at 3:10 AM
The sword comes into the world because of justice delayed and justice denied. - Pirke Avot 5:7
Dapper in our pokeball hoodie.
January 25, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Dapper in our pokeball hoodie.
This went unpunished. Unclear if that's because the moderators didn't notice it or because this sort of thing is happening everywhere from sports subReddits to Instagram for Disney Adults.
Probably best for everyone that I only have rhetorical grenades at my disposal. #boardgames
boardgamegeek.com/blog/9664/bl...
boardgamegeek.com/blog/9664/bl...
[TOS violation] | Cogito ergo ludo
boardgamegeek.com
January 25, 2026 at 6:10 PM
This went unpunished. Unclear if that's because the moderators didn't notice it or because this sort of thing is happening everywhere from sports subReddits to Instagram for Disney Adults.
Some interesting incentives now where if you are a legal gun owner in a carry state, it is probably worse for your personal safety but better for the antifascist movement in general to to go out armed (but never draw your weapon).
January 25, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Some interesting incentives now where if you are a legal gun owner in a carry state, it is probably worse for your personal safety but better for the antifascist movement in general to to go out armed (but never draw your weapon).
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If they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.
January 24, 2026 at 11:51 PM
If they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.
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I am past 'retrain ICE.' I am past 'reform ICE.' I am past 'abolish ICE.'
I am at 'imprison ICE.'
I am at 'imprison ICE.'
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
January 25, 2026 at 2:27 AM
I am past 'retrain ICE.' I am past 'reform ICE.' I am past 'abolish ICE.'
I am at 'imprison ICE.'
I am at 'imprison ICE.'
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I wrote the speech I *wish* Chuck Schumer would give tonight - as an actual opposition leader. Here it is:
"My fellow Americans: At this hour, an unrestrained force of militarized and violent federal officers is carrying out a project of ethnic cleansing in the streets of American cities."
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"My fellow Americans: At this hour, an unrestrained force of militarized and violent federal officers is carrying out a project of ethnic cleansing in the streets of American cities."
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Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included.
January 25, 2026 at 2:06 AM
I wrote the speech I *wish* Chuck Schumer would give tonight - as an actual opposition leader. Here it is:
"My fellow Americans: At this hour, an unrestrained force of militarized and violent federal officers is carrying out a project of ethnic cleansing in the streets of American cities."
1/14
"My fellow Americans: At this hour, an unrestrained force of militarized and violent federal officers is carrying out a project of ethnic cleansing in the streets of American cities."
1/14
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I’m a big fan of civilization. Rule of law, public health, universities, science, all good things. Great stuff. It may not be ‘politically correct’ to say this but I’m also a fan of what civilizations have done to idiot barbarian hordes who attempted to trample on those things.
January 25, 2026 at 1:57 AM
I’m a big fan of civilization. Rule of law, public health, universities, science, all good things. Great stuff. It may not be ‘politically correct’ to say this but I’m also a fan of what civilizations have done to idiot barbarian hordes who attempted to trample on those things.
Nonviolence worked for the Civil Rights movement and is working here, but this should not be presented as some law of the universe. The Jews and Roma of Europe would not have been any less slaughtered if they'd just held more nonviolent protests.
January 24, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Nonviolence worked for the Civil Rights movement and is working here, but this should not be presented as some law of the universe. The Jews and Roma of Europe would not have been any less slaughtered if they'd just held more nonviolent protests.
Probably best for everyone that I only have rhetorical grenades at my disposal. #boardgames
boardgamegeek.com/blog/9664/bl...
boardgamegeek.com/blog/9664/bl...
[TOS violation] | Cogito ergo ludo
boardgamegeek.com
January 24, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Probably best for everyone that I only have rhetorical grenades at my disposal. #boardgames
boardgamegeek.com/blog/9664/bl...
boardgamegeek.com/blog/9664/bl...
The Gestapo is losing a war in which the other side has not yet fired a shot. They may be too stupid to realize this, though.
January 24, 2026 at 10:24 PM
The Gestapo is losing a war in which the other side has not yet fired a shot. They may be too stupid to realize this, though.
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One thing that the past year has done to me is I’ve been forced to drop my principled opposition to capital punishment in all cases
January 24, 2026 at 4:24 PM
One thing that the past year has done to me is I’ve been forced to drop my principled opposition to capital punishment in all cases
IMHO Terraforming Mars is a mediocre #boardgame, but while the fact that the designer is a bigot is a good reason not to *buy* the game and him money, it makes no sense as an argument against hall of fame. It's like claiming that Shakespeare and Dickens books aren't great b/c they were antisemites.
January 24, 2026 at 5:13 AM
IMHO Terraforming Mars is a mediocre #boardgame, but while the fact that the designer is a bigot is a good reason not to *buy* the game and him money, it makes no sense as an argument against hall of fame. It's like claiming that Shakespeare and Dickens books aren't great b/c they were antisemites.
Genuine fascinated by what this marasmatic swindler thinks "Thank you for your attention to this matter" means.
There's no action item!
There's no action item!
Trump: “Dear Prime Minister Carney:
Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada’s joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada’s joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
January 23, 2026 at 4:53 AM
Genuine fascinated by what this marasmatic swindler thinks "Thank you for your attention to this matter" means.
There's no action item!
There's no action item!
The term for armed men breaking down your door without a warrant is "home invasion", and I'd donate to the legal defense of anyone who treated it as such.
January 22, 2026 at 1:11 AM
The term for armed men breaking down your door without a warrant is "home invasion", and I'd donate to the legal defense of anyone who treated it as such.
I confess that I don't really understand how a city-wide strike is supposed to help, when they abuses are coming from the Federal government, not the state or local level.
January 21, 2026 at 2:46 AM
I confess that I don't really understand how a city-wide strike is supposed to help, when they abuses are coming from the Federal government, not the state or local level.
@upshelpcare.bsky.social customs brokerage support line put me on hold for 21 minutes and then instantly hung up on me when it was my turn. Does anyone have a phone number or e-mail for their legal department instead, so I can escalate dispute of a late fee for a customs duty I 100% prepaid.
January 20, 2026 at 3:21 PM
@upshelpcare.bsky.social customs brokerage support line put me on hold for 21 minutes and then instantly hung up on me when it was my turn. Does anyone have a phone number or e-mail for their legal department instead, so I can escalate dispute of a late fee for a customs duty I 100% prepaid.
Can we please not encourage the rapist-in-chief to invade Mexico?
This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.
January 18, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Can we please not encourage the rapist-in-chief to invade Mexico?
Just recovered about 10% of the space on my #boardgame shelves by coming to the realization that if you store your rectangular boxes (bookshelf-style) on the long end instead of the bottom, you can put a square box on top of them in the cube.
January 18, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Just recovered about 10% of the space on my #boardgame shelves by coming to the realization that if you store your rectangular boxes (bookshelf-style) on the long end instead of the bottom, you can put a square box on top of them in the cube.
Neither Trump/Miller nor most people on here seem to understand that invoking the Insurrection Act does not impose martial law.
January 15, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Neither Trump/Miller nor most people on here seem to understand that invoking the Insurrection Act does not impose martial law.
Yeah, putting scare quotes around "victim" of abuse is an insta-block.
January 10, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Yeah, putting scare quotes around "victim" of abuse is an insta-block.
Every idiotic self-promotional segment that Pete Hegseth does makes me sad that we can't settle the fate of the republic by single combat, The Postman-style. I'm older than he is, and I would kick his ass.
January 10, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Every idiotic self-promotional segment that Pete Hegseth does makes me sad that we can't settle the fate of the republic by single combat, The Postman-style. I'm older than he is, and I would kick his ass.
Per Meduza, Russia has cracked down on booksellers for offering The Left Hand of Darkness, which makes the Putin regime explicitly more censorious than the stagnation-era USSR.
January 10, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Per Meduza, Russia has cracked down on booksellers for offering The Left Hand of Darkness, which makes the Putin regime explicitly more censorious than the stagnation-era USSR.
Side note: I have been listening to Cash's cover of #Hurt again, as one does, and that song hits a little harder every time. Nothing about the words or the melody changes, but you get older, and everything else about the world does.
I recently finished Nicholas Ruocchio's Tales of the Sun Eater #sciencefiction heptalogy, and I have to recommend imagining Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt playing softly in the background for the last few chapters; it is fucking incredible how well it fits this story.
January 10, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Side note: I have been listening to Cash's cover of #Hurt again, as one does, and that song hits a little harder every time. Nothing about the words or the melody changes, but you get older, and everything else about the world does.