Sami
@happysami.bsky.social
Opinionated nerd, cat lover, plant enthusiast, engineering/physics post-doc, sometimes artist, too chaotic for my own good. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ They/Them
Review blog: chattysami.wordpress.com
Review blog: chattysami.wordpress.com
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HI! Every Tor Books release from @annaleen.bsky.social and me is available thru @humblebundle.com for a few weeks!
Get 2 books for at least $3
Get 4 books for at least $10
Get all our stuff for at least $18
This bundle supports the amazing TGI Justice Project!
www.humblebundle.com/books/charli...
Get 2 books for at least $3
Get 4 books for at least $10
Get all our stuff for at least $18
This bundle supports the amazing TGI Justice Project!
www.humblebundle.com/books/charli...
February 2, 2026 at 8:33 PM
HI! Every Tor Books release from @annaleen.bsky.social and me is available thru @humblebundle.com for a few weeks!
Get 2 books for at least $3
Get 4 books for at least $10
Get all our stuff for at least $18
This bundle supports the amazing TGI Justice Project!
www.humblebundle.com/books/charli...
Get 2 books for at least $3
Get 4 books for at least $10
Get all our stuff for at least $18
This bundle supports the amazing TGI Justice Project!
www.humblebundle.com/books/charli...
Mists Over Carcassonne
Towards the end of last year, i played Carcassonne for the first time, and i absolutely loved it. I can see why it's become such a popular 'gateway game' for modern board games, and how it's stood the test after time after its original release in 2000. I was so taken with it…
Towards the end of last year, i played Carcassonne for the first time, and i absolutely loved it. I can see why it's become such a popular 'gateway game' for modern board games, and how it's stood the test after time after its original release in 2000. I was so taken with it…
Mists Over Carcassonne
Towards the end of last year, i played Carcassonne for the first time, and i absolutely loved it. I can see why it's become such a popular 'gateway game' for modern board games, and how it's stood the test after time after its original release in 2000. I was so taken with it that i almost immediately went out and bought my own copy with the plan of playing it with my family at Christmas.
chattysami.wordpress.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Mists Over Carcassonne
Towards the end of last year, i played Carcassonne for the first time, and i absolutely loved it. I can see why it's become such a popular 'gateway game' for modern board games, and how it's stood the test after time after its original release in 2000. I was so taken with it…
Towards the end of last year, i played Carcassonne for the first time, and i absolutely loved it. I can see why it's become such a popular 'gateway game' for modern board games, and how it's stood the test after time after its original release in 2000. I was so taken with it…
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Steam’s Board Game Fest runs until Monday! There are a bunch of great games featured, so here are the highlights!
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Board Games
Steam Board Game Fest 2026
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January 28, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Steam’s Board Game Fest runs until Monday! There are a bunch of great games featured, so here are the highlights!
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cleaning up my desktop and found this little gem
January 13, 2026 at 5:36 AM
cleaning up my desktop and found this little gem
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Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.
January 10, 2026 at 4:57 AM
Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.
I'm reading a research paper and the authors have used Comic Sans for one of their diagrams, but only one of them! The rest are in a sensible serif font. Truly bizarre behaviour, made me feel like i was going mad.
January 9, 2026 at 12:46 PM
I'm reading a research paper and the authors have used Comic Sans for one of their diagrams, but only one of them! The rest are in a sensible serif font. Truly bizarre behaviour, made me feel like i was going mad.
I was once on the same plane as John Barrowman, Dan Howell, and Phil Lester.
Please quote this with the time you didn’t interact with someone famous - eg one time I was in Cardiff the same weekend as Willem Dafoe (but I didn’t see him or even know he was there until he appeared on the telly later)
Please quote this with your major interactions with massive celebrities. eg “I was married to the pope for fifteen years”
December 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I was once on the same plane as John Barrowman, Dan Howell, and Phil Lester.
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you can be the most reasonable, intelligent, measured person on the planet and 3 minutes of a migraine will have you looking longingly at a drill and considering whether trepanning was honestly that bad of an idea
December 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
you can be the most reasonable, intelligent, measured person on the planet and 3 minutes of a migraine will have you looking longingly at a drill and considering whether trepanning was honestly that bad of an idea
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Furious at this. TERFs and Gender Critical people are a loud, radicalized, wealthy minority, forcing groups who've done the right thing for years into horrible positions that none of them want. Stop buying Harry Potter. Fight for your trans brothers and sisters. They'll come for you next.
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Furious at this. TERFs and Gender Critical people are a loud, radicalized, wealthy minority, forcing groups who've done the right thing for years into horrible positions that none of them want. Stop buying Harry Potter. Fight for your trans brothers and sisters. They'll come for you next.
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen 💙📚
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The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, Becky Chambers
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The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, Becky Chambers
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
30 day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #booksky #bookchallenge #readingwomen 💙📚
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The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, Becky Chambers
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The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, Becky Chambers
Quarantine Circular is this week's pick for Bithell Games' Legacy Celebration and follow up to last week's Subsurface Circular. For me, it doesn't quite live up to the high bar set by it's predecessor, but it's still pretty damn good.
Quarantine Circular
Quarantine Circular is this week's pick for Bithell Games' Legacy Celebration and follow up to last week's Subsurface Circular. Quarantine isn't a sequel as such, though it's implied to take place in the same world. They're linked by the same dialogue framework rather than the same world or story - a bit like two different TTRPGs that use the same base system.
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November 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Quarantine Circular is this week's pick for Bithell Games' Legacy Celebration and follow up to last week's Subsurface Circular. For me, it doesn't quite live up to the high bar set by it's predecessor, but it's still pretty damn good.
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Quarantine Circular's week orbiting our socials is closing out, but Gabriel the giant crab alien (and the rest of the game) still has a few more hours of being discounted on Steam.
The fate of a vulnerable human race is in your hands. Choose your words wisely.
The fate of a vulnerable human race is in your hands. Choose your words wisely.
November 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Quarantine Circular's week orbiting our socials is closing out, but Gabriel the giant crab alien (and the rest of the game) still has a few more hours of being discounted on Steam.
The fate of a vulnerable human race is in your hands. Choose your words wisely.
The fate of a vulnerable human race is in your hands. Choose your words wisely.
Subsurface Circular
Bithell Games, headed by Mike Bithell, is the studio behind Thomas Was Alone, Volume, and the recent TRON games. They're currently running a legacy games celebration, highlighting a different one of their older games each week. This week (starting Monday gone and ending today)…
Bithell Games, headed by Mike Bithell, is the studio behind Thomas Was Alone, Volume, and the recent TRON games. They're currently running a legacy games celebration, highlighting a different one of their older games each week. This week (starting Monday gone and ending today)…
Subsurface Circular
Bithell Games, headed by Mike Bithell, is the studio behind Thomas Was Alone, Volume, and the recent TRON games. They're currently running a legacy games celebration, highlighting a different one of their older games each week. This week (starting Monday gone and ending today) is Subsurface Circular, a short narrative game released back in 2017. Next week (starting tomorrow!) is its sequel…
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November 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Subsurface Circular
Bithell Games, headed by Mike Bithell, is the studio behind Thomas Was Alone, Volume, and the recent TRON games. They're currently running a legacy games celebration, highlighting a different one of their older games each week. This week (starting Monday gone and ending today)…
Bithell Games, headed by Mike Bithell, is the studio behind Thomas Was Alone, Volume, and the recent TRON games. They're currently running a legacy games celebration, highlighting a different one of their older games each week. This week (starting Monday gone and ending today)…
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The temperature is getting colder here in London, so this is an excellent time to remind you that every hour, the monster goes out to the weather station in London to check the temperature and sets the price for A Good Snowman is Hard to Build to match the weather.
draknek.itch.io/a-good-snowman
draknek.itch.io/a-good-snowman
A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build by Draknek & Friends, Benjamin Davis
Pay what the temperature is: 16.3°C = $16.30!
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November 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The temperature is getting colder here in London, so this is an excellent time to remind you that every hour, the monster goes out to the weather station in London to check the temperature and sets the price for A Good Snowman is Hard to Build to match the weather.
draknek.itch.io/a-good-snowman
draknek.itch.io/a-good-snowman
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Today, I can finally share the rest of my Game Changer, "we've been here the whole time" stickers and pins, in a whopping 27 flag designs!
Stickers: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4333...
Pins: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4346...
My endless thanks to @samreich.bsky.social for blessing these! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Stickers: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4333...
Pins: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4346...
My endless thanks to @samreich.bsky.social for blessing these! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Today, I can finally share the rest of my Game Changer, "we've been here the whole time" stickers and pins, in a whopping 27 flag designs!
Stickers: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4333...
Pins: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4346...
My endless thanks to @samreich.bsky.social for blessing these! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Stickers: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4333...
Pins: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4346...
My endless thanks to @samreich.bsky.social for blessing these! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
I've been playing a lot of Railroad Ink lately, and decided i had opinions to share.
Railroad Ink, Base Editions
In some ways, this is a rip off of this excellent (if slightly unhinged) video from Shut Up & Sit Down. In it, Tom Brewster reviews every single Railroad Ink expansion and version while progressively losing his grip on reality. What makes my review different is: 1) it's in written form, not video form; 2) i've split it in half; and 3) i have better different opinions.
chattysami.wordpress.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I've been playing a lot of Railroad Ink lately, and decided i had opinions to share.
Not Celebrity Traitors giving me the 1-2 fandom punch of Hanging Tree followed by Carry On My Wayward Son.
November 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Not Celebrity Traitors giving me the 1-2 fandom punch of Hanging Tree followed by Carry On My Wayward Son.
This bundle has got me rereading The Wicked + The Divine and it's so good! I'd forgotten how soon [super duper redacted].
Last call on the Roll for Initiative with Kieron Gillen comics bundle and titles like:
- The Wicked + The Divine Vol. 1 - 9
- DIE Vol. 1 - 4
- Phonogram Vol. 1 - 3
- and more! Supports Binc Foundation.
- The Wicked + The Divine Vol. 1 - 9
- DIE Vol. 1 - 4
- Phonogram Vol. 1 - 3
- and more! Supports Binc Foundation.
Roll for Initiative with Kieron Gillen by Image Comics | Humble Bundle
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November 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This bundle has got me rereading The Wicked + The Divine and it's so good! I'd forgotten how soon [super duper redacted].
One of my favourite books of all time - you should buy this.
UK folks, THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR is a monthly Kindle deal for November: just 99p! Often this sort of deal leads to price-matching at other online retailers, too. Happy reading!
November 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
One of my favourite books of all time - you should buy this.
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Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻
Enter if you dare...🚪
Enter if you dare...🚪
October 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻
Enter if you dare...🚪
Enter if you dare...🚪
Important PSA - the little hats on the Innocent smoothies are the perfect size for Jellycats.
October 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Important PSA - the little hats on the Innocent smoothies are the perfect size for Jellycats.
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If I can sell just four more of these then I'll break even on the costs of making them 😊 #SciArt 🌸
Pride flowers anyone? These were inspired by the fact that 90% of flowering species have individual flowers that are both male and female 🌸 canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4338...
October 29, 2025 at 6:47 AM
If I can sell just four more of these then I'll break even on the costs of making them 😊 #SciArt 🌸
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"RetroSpectrum - Reloaded"
Digital collage made in Photoshop based on the glorious games of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum 😍
#zxspectrum #retrogaming #pixelart #8bitart
Digital collage made in Photoshop based on the glorious games of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum 😍
#zxspectrum #retrogaming #pixelart #8bitart
October 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"RetroSpectrum - Reloaded"
Digital collage made in Photoshop based on the glorious games of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum 😍
#zxspectrum #retrogaming #pixelart #8bitart
Digital collage made in Photoshop based on the glorious games of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum 😍
#zxspectrum #retrogaming #pixelart #8bitart
BTW the blog is on a bit of a pause because I'm currently applying for jobs, so most of my blog-writing time has turned into cover-letter-writing time. On a related note, if anyone's looking to hire a postdoc with optics and robotics experience, hit me up!
October 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
BTW the blog is on a bit of a pause because I'm currently applying for jobs, so most of my blog-writing time has turned into cover-letter-writing time. On a related note, if anyone's looking to hire a postdoc with optics and robotics experience, hit me up!
