Comic: Types of Board Game. [Each panel has a person, a person with a ponytail, a person with shoulder-length hair, and a person with a white hat seated around a table with different board game and pieces on top. (1) Boring: PERSON 3: Each turn, roll a die and move your token. Turns proceed clockwise around the table until we all get tired and go home. (2) Abstract: PERSON 1: Each turn, you can place any number of red triangles or blue squares on a hexagon, or move any hexagon to a... (3) Hyperspecific Theme: PERSON 2: It’s October 2, 1814. The Congress of Vienna convenes. You are each in charge of distributing and lighting candles for the opening ball, which was held at these three locations... (4) Overcomplicated: PERSON 4: It’s a cross between *Twilight Imperium* and *Cones of Dunshhire*, but implemented entirely in category theory. Every cone is a monad, and... (5) Cooperative: PERSON 3: We’re working together to sort these decks of cards using only hand gestures. After that, we’ll silently organize my junk drawer. (6) Branded: PERSON 1: You can play as Phoebe, Chandler, Monica, Rachel, Ross, Joey, or, due to an ill-advised tie-in, Goku. (7) Party: PERSON 2: Each of the cards in your hand has a bad word on it. On the count of three, yell the... (8) Social Deduction: PERSON 3: Remember, per our *find the secret murderer* house rules from last week, discovering that a player has committed a real-life murder does *not* count.

Types of Board Game

xkcd.com/3235/

No it wasn't, since the 80s happened *at most 10* years ago

It is! And the title?? Everything about this is *chefs kiss*

What a lovely cover!! 😍

"To shreds?" I say as I read the history books

guys, this is how you lose the time war

A highly detailed photo of a field mouse snuggled up asleep inside a purple and yellow flower.

I just found out that tiny little field mice climb into flowers like tulips and take little naps in them like hammocks and I feel like this information is too important for me not to share with anyone. 🥹

NSA Brad is currently grappling with his recent ADHD diagnosis, which he got by being stuck in the whistle chat after being forced to follow the romance authors there.

he would like to get back to the monster fucking, I'm sure.

Same tone, same words, same leading from the front, same stoic bravery and absolute trust in the people behind him. You’re never told he’s Elrond’s foster-son, but if you know, there are moments when you can see it

The lotr movies don’t really get into the Aragorn being raised by Elrond, but they do one thing I really love

In the prologue we see Elrond commanding an elven army, arrows flying past his face

In two towers we see Aragorn with an elven army, arrows flying past his face, giving the same commands

Ppl out here just going and beautifying your timeline

You read this thru the end, you step back to take in the whole picture, and go "holy fuck."

It's called being a fucking Provider

This is how Bruce Springsteen opened his concert in Los Angeles last night. 🔥🔥

Footage from @margaret_nagle on Threads.

There's a Brazilian saying - querer ensinar o padre a rezar a missa - "wanting to teach the priest how to say mass".

It's about the hubris of trying to teach an expert / someone with vast knowledge, about their area of expertise

I'd never seen it happen quite so literally like this before o.0

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back

Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Viral photo from some years back of a man nonchalantly mowing his yard with a tornado on the horizon .

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

I feel like there are so many TV comedies that aren't funny, and TV thrillers that aren't thrilling, so it's pretty exciting when Deadloch so thoroughly destroys at both.

A very stocky Exmoor Horn ram.

Happy 8th anniversary to the tweet that changed us forever. Look at this absolute unit.

@ItsBCJim The bad part of getting older is that you become an NPC, the good part is that being an NPC rocks. Nothing like walking down the street with a thought bubble that's just a sandwich you're looking forward to. Protagonism is best left to teens and the insane

I went and saw Project Hail Mary.
A guy came in with his service dog and the dog sat there the whole time just concentrating on the movie.
Afterwards I told the guy I was amazed your dog watched the movie like that.
He replied, me too especially because he hated the book.

Of The Empire We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness. - Mary Oliver

God this poem is haunting me again.

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly:

- Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat)
- Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex)
- Humming (stimulates vagus nerve)
- Exercise (anything helps, outside even better)
- Impeachment and removal

Three well-dressed Black children in vintage clothing walk hand in hand on a city sidewalk. The boy wears a suit and hat, and the two girls wear matching coats, hats, and shoes. All are smiling or looking cheerful.

The Schomburg Center shared this on FB today. I'm sharing it here. digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/cb81b1... (1939)

Christopher Penn wrote: Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it's far more likely that autism causes vaccines.

A different perspective.
Always helpful.

Congrats to all the assholes who shit on Starfleet Academy, which had the best first season of a Star Trek show in franchise history, white supremacist homophobic Paramount has cancelled the show and you won and now there is no Trek in production

Do you feel like winners? You assholes

Wicked Game by Chris Isaak.

(that sounds like fun!)

A poem titled: "Recalling Ourselves." The body of the poem is in two columns, with the text starting in the left column and ending on the right. The text reads: We are held together by memory, each of us raveled tightly around recollection as if it were a certainty, each telling our heart that this past is the one. We are great storytellers, and rapt listeners. But we are prisoners, too. The histories we tell ourselves about who we are and why we are: these are wax and twine. We are stuck and bound. Afraid. Scared of the courage it takes to set the past aside. Fearful of a letting go that might unwind us from ourselves. [this is where the column break is] But we are more than memory. More than we recall. Our long-told then is just an echo of the now and a shadow of the soon, it is neither who we are, nor who we must become. It is merely who we always said we were. And if we can undo the twine and melt the wax, we might just find ourselves anew, clean-woven from fresh yesterdays. Then, binding up our old wounds with the cloth of new remembering, we can break bread with all those selves we never could recall before: the dusty splinters of our soul that were neglected, and long held apart by memory. - John Wyatt Greenlee

A poem for this evening. Not new...I wrote it a while ago. But one I come back to.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
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