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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 2d

I just wish we lived in a world where caring about each other was enough to support human flourishing. Instead we have to oppose fascists and nazis, it’s embarrassing tbh

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 2d

a keffiyeh plus autism skeleton with automatic rifles feels very important to me as we near the the end of 2025

Two images side by side showing Greta Thunberg smiling and wearing a keffiyeh and a shirt with a skeleton raising two automatic rifles and the bright yellow text “AUTISM”
above the skeleton

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 2d

I wanted to also play Comancheria while they were away, but instead I got three stars in three different Two Point Campus schools. I’ve been very productive tbh.

noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 2d

I’m also going to try and ignore my predilections and focus on military stuff. I love to win by turtling and focusing on economy (as my fav solo youtuber has said, a tall approach) but two rifts demand a more aggressive wide approach I think, so we will try to attack!

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 2d

I tried the second scenario on medium twice and got destroyed both times so I have given in to my craven desire to win and am playing this third scenario on easy, it has TWO rifts! I just don’t want those pesky voidborn to win :(

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 2d

family is away for a few days so I get to try a bigger scenario on the downstairs table, tomorrow we’ll see if I succeed

The board game Voidfall set up on a dark green game mat. The game is arranged for a solo game with the third scenario consisting of 13 large hex tiles, a few game boards and a player mat for the House Zenor A starting set up.

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 4d

Watching this over the internet makes me proud to know you!!! This is so good. We have to take care of each other and you’re doing the work. Wish I uh had not been falling apart during my time in Chicago!!!!!!

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 6d

I made a silly little thing idk brkeogh.itch.io/automatic-fl...

Automatic Flips by Brendan Keogh

Play in your browser

brkeogh.itch.io

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 7d

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 7d

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

www.youtube.com

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 7d

BREAKING: Israel has intercepted Global Sumud Flotilla vessels Alma and Sirius, according to activists onboard.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/356qba

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Alex @dirtbagboyfriend.bsky.social · 7d

Here’s the official live, with over 60k people watching. Please join us, western witnesses are the only thing that may stay Israel’s hand.
www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 7d

I am a lapsed critic, a lapsed academic, a lapsed most things lately, it was very exciting to so quickly find a path to some of the most interesting designers and thinkers in the space, even just from who was sharing Dan, who was engaging, etc. would not know Hollandspiele without him for instance

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 7d

apparently in a posting mood, but also grateful I stumbled across people like Dan when I got into the hobby, who write and think about games in this expansive way, that is trying to understand the entire package, its context, its history, what it's trying to do, what it does well or fails at, etc.

Dan Thurot @danthurot.bsky.social · 7d

For today's article, I'm just griping about why "fun" is a bad word for critics. spacebiff.com/2025/09/30/a...

Anti-Fun

There’s one word I try to never use when writing about board games. The F-word. No, not that one. “Fun.” There it is. My critical curse word. Today I want to talk about why “fun” isn’t an especiall…

spacebiff.com

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 7d

physical components and mechanisms of board games. What can this form do. What does it afford that is different from a book or essay on the subject. As I said earlier, games are cool.

Alas, it’s really not helping me with my, “I don’t need to read The Power Broker” stance tho

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 7d

personal and public. It’s exactly why I keep being drawn to the (nebulously defined) world of historical war games. But this is much more compelling as a subject as sadly I don’t actually care much about war. But I am very interested in play and simulation and exploration via the specific

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 7d

The historical record book is very good. I wonder how some of it will be received by a broader war game audience. I admit I’m not really part of that, just a lefty weirdo who loves systems. But NBS the designer is laying out such a clear point of view as a designer here combined with history, both

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 8d

I’m reading the rules to Cross Bronx Expressway because my copy arrived today and god games are so good and so cool and so fascinating. There’s so much care and attention here and I’m very excited to dig in and start playing later this week.

www.gmtgames.com/p-953-cross-...

GMT Games - Cross Bronx Expressway

Cross Bronx Expressway

www.gmtgames.com

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 8d

today I spent a long time on the phone talking about ttrpgs and narrative and affect theory and how much I love the Berlant book I’m reading. friday I saw 7038634357 live and it was incredible.
yesterday was two years of me being here and it’s been a hard couple of years but the last week was nice.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15d

Bothers me when people discuss Left movements in the U.S. w/out underscoring the GENERATIONS of repression, surveillance, violence directed at movements. The "Left" is so disorganized is used as a joke but I hardly ever see those same people saying 'THE LEFT WAS TARGETED & DISORGANIZED by the STATE'

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 15d

timberborn! It’s a city builder/automation-y kind of game that has me waking up at night to write down ideas for graduated reservoirs that will last me through the droughts. also the beavers can use zip lines to travel in the new update.

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 15d

I could have said every part of this better and with more nuance but I'm tired oops

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 15d

but today, mostly, fuck the eugenicists in charge

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 15d

capitalism and systems of oppression over and above anything else. it's easy to get caught up in the specific harm you might face, but we all live under oppressive systems that we can't dismantle alone. and I say this as someone who is mostly happiest alone!! we need each other, all each others.

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 15d

of both myself and the world and why and how it exhausts me. which doesn't eliminate it, but does help because my brain needs to understand why. and it only cemented further that all suffering, not just my particular varieties of suffering and exhaustion, are exacerbated in large part by

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noted hermit @notedhermit.bsky.social · 15d

I haven't pursued a diagnosis for like 900 million reasons, but the latest eugenics from this miserable place's government is mostly making think about how realizing I'm autistic only made my life better even as it has also been a very tough few years. But I have so much more understanding

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