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Please do not hurt yourself. You are irreplaceable.

This.
(And thank you for this powerful reminder @mluckovich.bsky.social)

Many of us are going to be visiting with family or longtime friends this week. If for any reason you start feeling “less than,” take a moment off by yourself. Who are you comparing yourself to? Did someone you’re with say something that triggered this feeling? Recenter yourself in your best self.

Was writing today about the limiting belief of thinking you can’t afford something. Whether money or time, I find it more empowering to decide what you want to prioritize, and then find ways to make that work. This can be a powerful practice even if the economy gets turned upside down.

@marcelineleiman.bsky.social I’d like to be added to your list of women game designers please

Forward momentum without moving forward much? I’ve been wanting to rev up my board game design work, but life outside of board games keeps happening. I’m taking advantage of even small movements though.

I was able to playtest a couple of my games at Save Against Fear and got usable feedback. Win!

🎲✂️ Any board game designers from Brazil joining us here? Use 🎲✂️ at the beginning of your post and the game designer feed will add your post to the rest of our good stuff. And welcome!

Well folks, looks like BlueSky just got really popular with Brazilians after their country shut down X when Elon decided not to play nice.

I’ll be playtesting a couple of my game designs in the Unpub space at Origins this week. Come try them out in B130 Thursday or Sunday 10am-2pm. Or come play someone else’s games. Just come play some of our games and help make them even more awesome. 🎲✂️

@jarthurellis.bsky.social Hey, saw your offer to look at prototypes this Friday. I have one called Penguinscape, a cooperative time and resource management game where you play Emperor penguins racing to conquer obstacles on your way to feed and get back to the rookery before the petrel finds it.

“HB 777 not only would fine libraries and librarians, but it would possibly require hard labor by those found guilty. Read that again: librarians would be sentenced to hard labor for daring to join their largest professional organization.”

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@eschy12.adameschborn.com As an educator, if I told you I was starting a nonprofit dedicated to the social and academic educational value of tabletop games, what would you expect to see? What would you want?

Fascinating--and in some cases depressing--facts and figures from the Authors Guild's newly-released author income survey. There's news here for trad-pubbed, self-pubbed, and debut authors www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Are you an egg, a coconut, or an orange?

Sometimes our exterior is so fragile that people need to “walk on eggshells” around us.

Sometimes it’s so tough to get through that many don’t make the effort.

And sometimes we can develop a magical combo of protective and inviting.

Is one of these you?