If you can't make Eboracon this coming Saturday, why not sign up for our three day event in September? Triple your gaming fun. eboracon.co.uk

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

Pop the bubble:
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Cooking to #WFMU one of my #xmastraditions

Lanttulaatikko. One of my #xmastraditions

Tea. My sister's slightly odd shortbread. Mince pie by me.

Just set up China's War, the latest COIN game from GMT and designer Brian Train. Running through the tutorial then trying out Xiandi, the app bot.

Tomorrow is effing Bedfordshire Day. Hertfordshire is better.

Lancashire Day 2025 - what is it and what does it mean? - BBC News Lancashire Day celebrate the culture, lifestyle and achievements of the red rose county.

White roses are best but happy Lancs Day if you have the misfortune of living on the wrong side of t'Pennines.
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Nearly gamed out in November. I spent a few days in rainy Liverpool for SCGCon 2025.
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Eboracon V happened yesterday in York. We had 16 gamers - locals and from furrein parts (aka not Yorkshire). Paths of Glory, No Retreat! Italian Front and some Euroies - Versailles 1919, El Grande etc.
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Any sniff of cozying up to Corbyn and his rabble and I'm out.

After action report from PunchedCon2025.
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Happy birthday Michael Palin, Karl Marx and me.

Ay oop. I don't come here often.

Wowzer.

The first Eboracon, a micro-con devoted to historical and conflict simulation boardgames, took place in York, England last Saturday. boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/352...

Six jars of homemade orange marmalade fresh from the pan.

I've been making jams and preserves for about twenty years. Latest batch of orange marmalade...

Zager And Evans - In The Year 2525 YouTube video by eitan19611

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Once crypto crashes again, they'll be back in a financial hole again.

Surprised to away support in double figures.

Heslington Meeting Room

Eboracon takes place in this gem of a venue. heslingtonmeetingroom.net

2025 kicks off with a small gaming meetup organised by me.
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Gaming highlight of the year: winning Fire in the Lake as ARVN.

Cracking skies over East Riding.

Just watched the highlights. Great goals but some omg goalkeeping.

Stephen King leaves X, describing atmosphere as ‘too toxic’ Author denies Elon Musk kicked him off platform and says he is joining rival Threads

And more...
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‘A hate machine’: St Pauli become first major football club to leave X St Pauli have become the first major football club to leave X, expressing concern that the site may influence the outcome of the German election

Good news but the better option would be to filter out the toxicity on Twixter. (Yes. I know that's not going to happen in the Muskian era.) www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Significant but not decisive advance by the Axis into the Soviet Union.

Hi I'm travelling from the UK to Oklahoma next month. Does anyone know if there any good game stores in Oklahoma City?