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Watch It Played

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I wanted to share a few thoughts recent discussions around CGE’s decision to partner with JKR for their upcoming @codenamesgame.bsky.social game have prompted. Thankful to those who spoke early to this issue (Marceline, Tiffany, @nopunincluded.com et al) for helping this get the needed attention.

July 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM

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J from 3 Minute board games

@3mbg.bsky.social

This was our full statement to BG wire on the CGE situation. Just making sure there is absolutely zero ambiguity in where we stand :)

July 29, 2025 at 10:05 PM

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Robin for Ward 2

@robin4mpls.bsky.social

Minneapolis is about to get its own Socialist Mayor. I love that for us ❤️✊🏾

July 20, 2025 at 5:15 AM

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Paul Hayward

@paulhayward.bsky.social

Three stunning and shaming paragraphs, by Rachel Wolf of Public First, in @theobserveruk.bsky.social

July 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM

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Greg Jenner

@gregjenner.bsky.social

Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

• Al Overview
The idiom "you can't lick a badger twice" means you can't trick or deceive someone a second time after they've been tricked once. It's a warning that if someone has already been deceived, they are unlikely to fall for the same trick again.
Here's a more detailed explanation:
• Licking: "Licking" in this context means to trick or deceive someone.
• Badger: The badger is a wild animal, and the phrase likely originates from the historical sport of badger baiting where dogs were used to harass

April 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM

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Terry Pratchett & Rob Wilkins 👽 🐇

@terryandrob.bsky.social

Shortly before he died, Terry Pratchett assured me that, if there is an afterlife, he would give me a ring and let me know. That was ten years ago - and still no call.

From which, incidentally, I draw no firm conclusions. What if there was an afterlife, but with no phone signal?

But of course there is one place where Terry indisputably lives on: in the pages of his books and in the minds of the millions of readers around the world who turn those pages and continue to find them funny and true.

For, while his words live on, so does Terry, and that will be the case, no question, not just for this one decade so quickly gone, but for many further decades to come.

So let me join Lyn and Rhianna in raising a glass today to the magical persistence of books and to Sir Terry; gone but still so very firmly with us.

Rob Wilkins

March 12, 2025 at 10:15 AM

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Christopher Webb

@cwebbonline.com

Elon—the richest man on Earth—is gutting the world’s largest provider of food aid. He could end world hunger single-handedly and still be the richest man alive. But he won’t.

Instead, he spent 40 million on Super Bowl ads attacking USAID!

Stand with USAID: share this counter-ad…