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Andrew Brassleay

@brass2000.bsky.social
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Writer and editor. I run The Generations Games about family tabletop games and board games, including reviews written with my daughter. Autistic. Usually found on a mini-golf course. thegenerationsgames.substack.com

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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Jimmy Savile (yes that one) turned up at ours. His photo was taken among us and his arms around two of my classmates. He said, and I remember this, cos it was weird even then: "When I came out from behind the curtain, your mouths were open so wide I could have have popped a tennis ball into them".
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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I've seen this before. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK_D...
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men in chairs
YouTube video by Cool 3D World
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Simon Treanor @simonjtreanor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This guy just constantly doing everything we've been told for decades was impossible and unpopular and making it extremely popular and possible. Makes you wonder what could've been possible, and less negatively, what could still be. And he does the folksy stuff that's all Burnham has managed so far
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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I would 100% support a law that says if any digital platform removes your access to media you paid for then they are required to refund you the entirety of the original purchase price. That would solve this whole thing in a hurry.
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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Book copy-editor who's come in from newspapers here! What I've found is the book publishing world appears to actively discourage you from checking all those troublesome facts. I've been marked down in industry exams because I was querying too much and it would be too time-consuming for the author!
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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton and Tim Curry on consecutive days is some proper 2016-esque bullshit.
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 17/08/2026
kathleen stock: being neurodivergent should be a barrier to entering academia manchester museum: would you like to see one of our snail collections? :) our scientists have more than one :))
Plaque at Manchester Museum:

EXPLORING VARIATION
The Museum has several collections of snails put together by scientists who studied inheritance and evolution. Arthur Stelfox (1883-1972) was interested in the ways that different shell patterns and colours are inherited. He bred snails of different varieties with one another over a period of sixty years. Collections like this are still used by scientists, who are trying to answer new questions.
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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Every interview with an actor from the new Harry Potter series youtube.com/shorts/QVyIw...
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every interview with an actor in the new Harry Potter series
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
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Phil Gross @mistergross.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
A great long-form interview with @brass2000.bsky.social about The Monolith. Thanks, Andrew! thegenerationsgames.substack.com/p/the-monoli...
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The Monolith: Tactical bloodshed, all in the service to a 'horrible tower'
We speak to game designer Phil Gross on shaman battles, 'really metal' gameplay and learning from cancelled Kickstarters
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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
We spoke to @mistergross.bsky.social about his upcoming title The Monolith, creating a game for the ‘sickos’, and learning from cancelled Kickstarters. thegenerationsgames.substack.com/p/the-monoli...
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The Monolith: Tactical bloodshed, all in the service to a 'horrible tower'
We speak to game designer Phil Gross on shaman battles, 'really metal' gameplay and learning from cancelled Kickstarters
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 21/07/2026
No, autism is NOT overdiagnosed. It is *under diagnosed*, especially in autistics who aren't white boys from financially stable families. Anyone who claims we are overdiagnosing autism is either misinformed, or cruel, or both. #autism #neurodiversity
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
this is you in meta’s pervert glasses
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Dave Mathieson @tinydbass.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Me, a bellend: "this doesn't look sustainable" Tuchel, a tactical genius: "these Argentinan lads don't look like scoring, they keep missing by centimeters"
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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Isle of Cats designer Frank West has launched his new penguin-themed Squall's End-set adventure on Kickstarter. So we spoke to him about the new game. thegenerationsgames.substack.com/p/frank-west...
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Frank West: 'I've always wanted to design a game around penguins'
The Isle of Cats designer returns to the world of Squall's End with new standalone game The Isle of Penguins
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The best moment was when he was asked what "change" meant he said it meant "changing the things that need changing and that is the change I will bring about." Just a perfect summary of how much of a middle manager void he was.
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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
We explore Florent Baudry and Adrien Fenouillet's Little Soldiers. thegenerationsgames.substack.com/p/little-sol...
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Little Soldiers: 'Unexpected objects often create the most memorable moments'
Florent Baudry and Adrien Fenouillet on their little green army tabletop war game that incorporates household items
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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 15/06/2026
1. There are a lot of skilled people in this particular pickle. 2. The LLMs cannot do what we do, and they also cannot do what they promise. 3. Some clients and employers are figuring out item #2. Many are not. If you produce text for public consumption, you want to be part of that "some."
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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Having to tell my kid we can no longer watch mini golf videos on YouTube together because the government thinks it'll transform her into a rampaging hooligan. Cheers Keir Starmer!
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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Fancy your own visit to the @taskmaster.tv house without having to leave your own? We spoke to James Smith about his TV tie-in escape room. thegenerationsgames.substack.com/p/taskmaster...
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Taskmaster: The Escape Room: 'Alex Horne was so enthusiastic about the game'
Take on Chiswick's most famous grotty little house in James Smith's puzzle piece
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 30/05/2026
just realised that bilal is the closest thing to a british tim robinson
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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Got to speak to Bruno Cathala about Bella Vista, didn't I? thegenerationsgames.substack.com/p/bella-vist...
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Bella Vista: Creating towers of power in Bruno Cathala's city-builder
The legendary game designer on his new co-creation with Andrea Mainini, which plants a 3D metropolis on your tabletop
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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Got to speak to Bruno Cathala about Bella Vista, didn't I? thegenerationsgames.substack.com/p/bella-vist...
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Bella Vista: Creating towers of power in Bruno Cathala's city-builder
The legendary game designer on his new co-creation with Andrea Mainini, which plants a 3D metropolis on your tabletop
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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
There were quite a lot of us who, for several years, warned that voting for this version of the Labour party would create the conditions for enabling fascism. And here we are. Hate to say we told you so. But we told you so.
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horror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
YES YOU DO, YOU DO ACTUALLY DO THAT, ESPECIALLY ON LONG FLIGHTS. CHANGING PILOTS DURING A FLIGHT IS A THING THAT REGULARLY HAPPENS, DAVID
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I feel like small matters such as “selling off most of the things that help governments to make themselves useful, out of pure hardcore ideological conviction” and “a pathological loathing for investment in services and infrastructure” may also have contributed
The i Paper
@theipaper •1h
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Six prime ministers in ten years, a disillusioned electorate and the rise of social media are all blamed for Britain's political instability. I BIG READ
Britain is ungovernable.
These numbers prove it
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Voting Green isn’t “splitting the left vote” coz a) Labour is behind the Greens in polling and b) Labour hasn’t been a leftwing party in several years.
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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Us, sobbing: please grandad, stop telling everyone that you believe you brought your imaginary girlfriend to life Richard Dawkins: INFLATABLE INGRID AND I ARE VERY MUCH IN LOVE, SHE WANTS YOU TO CALL HER "INFLATABLE NANNA"
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This is why I take what I read with a grain of salt & just ask, “Which party will redistribute wealth downward most aggressively?” & vote for them no matter what. Who’s telling me not to, A NEWSPAPER OWNER? Fuck those cunts.
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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
NIGEL FARAGE'S SUPPORTERS ARE SHOWING UP AT GREEN RALLIES DOING NAZI SALUTES. 382472343 OF NIGEL FARAGE'S EX-SCHOOLMATES SAID HE MADE GAS CHAMBER NOISES AT JEWISH KIDS. ALL WE FUCKING HEAR ABOUT IS THE ONE JEWISH PARTY LEADER BEING A DANGER TO EVERY JEWISH BRITON. I FEEL LIKE I'M GOING INSANE.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I once had to know in detail what was in the news, for work. I can tell you: you would be *horrified* to see how many people, talking about some controversial matter of the day, just repeat the last thing they heard or read about it, sometimes near-verbatim.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The rubbing hands together guy
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
greenparty.org.uk/about/our-ma...
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Defending Human Rights, Democracy and Justice - Green Party
Real hope.Real change. Green MPs will always defend our democratic and human rights, uphold the rule of law and tackle political corruption. We will also push for the UK to become a modern, functional...
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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
If I still have any hope for this country, is that the Worst People in Politics and the Right-Wing Media have become much more unhinged and cranky in their attacks on the left, and far easier to combat. This horror below will be beyond the pale for your Normal Floating Voter.
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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 02/05/2026
Times Editor: You draw that cartoon of Zack Polanski? Peter Brookes: Sure did boss, real fuckin antisemitic just like you asked. Time Editor: great
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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted
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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
There's one day left on the Gamefound campaign for the @fightingfantasy.bsky.social Quest board game based on Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson's Warlock of Firetop Mountain. We spoke to co-designer Jan Wagner about the project. thegenerationsgames.substack.com/p/the-warloc...
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'The Warlock was high on my list': Fighting Fantasy Quest crowdfund hits €200k
Co-designer Jan Wagner on translating Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson's The Warlock of Firetop Mountain to the tabletop
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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
It really works! A year ago, I still had lots of FB friends posting AI "art". I was nicely talking to them about it at first, but nothing changed until I got mean about it. Zero AI in my feed now, and half those people have joined in being staunchly anti-AI. We gotta be mean!
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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Hard to say what's worst: the frenzied kiwi bloodlust, or this calculating, sell-out prick.
A rooster businessman, in his suit and tie, smiles as he fronts the branding for a notable fried chicken shop. The charismatic, slightly upturned beak and watchful gaze, however, betrays a glimpse of fear that someday in the future justice, in whichever form it takes, will catch up with him for sending millions upon millions of his own kind to their horrifying deaths.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 27/02/2026
you know I would say her matching pink phone case really makes this, gives Goodwin a huge "sad loser man at the end of Legally Blonde" vibe
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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
We spoke to Malachi Ray Rempen about his god sim board game Almighty, currently on Kickstarter. thegenerationsgames.substack.com/p/almighty-p...
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Almighty: Playing good god/bad god on the tabletop
Roll Camera! designer Malachi Ray Rempen discusses the video game influences on his upcoming scroll-based board game
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Dear @lucympowell.bsky.social, Why did you invent a fake tactical voting company to stop the Green Party beating Reform? I'm starting to think your letters haven't always been in good faith...
Dear Lucy
On the eve of the by-election, your Labour party spokesperson has admitted to the Huffington Post that a
Labour party leaflet has been delivered through doors with your imprint recommending a vote for Labour
by a tactical voting organisation which does not exist.
This is deeply troubling, it is actually lying to voters. Did you approve this? Do you feel the Labour Party
in government should be held to different standards in terms of honesty to the British public?
In your last letter to me you mentioned your ‘very extensive data’ and ‘having spoken to over a third of
eligible voters’ which led you to an understanding that the by election ‘was a contest between labour and
Reform’. Clearly this latest development only tells voters one thing - you will employ any type of
political deception (or in Urdu “Dhoka” ) to win.
You will be very aware that all three real tactical voting organisations are recommending a vote for the
Greens as the best way to stop Reform. Lying to the voters, as you have been caught doing, raises the real
prospect that Reform will be the beneficiaries, something you have said that you don’t want.
As this is such an important issue, for the sake of your own reputation, I would strongly urge you to
apologise to the voters of Denton and Gorton before the polls open in the morning.”
Kind regards,
Zack Polanski
Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales
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Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Kate Nash in the current Amnesty Magazine. 🔥
Q: How would you improve the music industry?

A: Burn it to the ground and start again.
I would fire everybody in every major record label, every streaming [platform], every major company in the industry. I would get rid of everybody at the top. Let's start again and make practices ethical for the artists making the music.
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 20/02/2026
still the most "i can hear this tweet" tweet of all time
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big tiddy Rebell @rebell.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
AI is the “asbestos of the internet”
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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
‘It’s a game that a cat would design if a cat could design a game," says @senfoonglim.bsky.social on his co-creation with David Killing. thegenerationsgames.substack.com/p/cats-knock...
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Cats Knocking Things Off Ledges: Turning feline mischief into a board game
We speak to designers Sen Foong-Lim and David Killing on their latest balancing act
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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I love the Winter Olympics. But I've come to accept that it's really just people jumping off differently sized ramps.
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I found this exchange on Twitter five years ago, no idea who either of them are but it remains the funniest thing I've ever seen on the site. There's SO much lore here.
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You are the most unfunny cunt on this app Callum you singlehandedly ruin my day every time I see your tweets
® Callum Melia @Callum_Melia99 • Feb 12
Spending £500 on a meal and a hotel for Valentine's Day just to shag in missionary
Show this thread
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Andrew Brassleay @brass2000.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
We spoke with Facade Games' Travis Hancock about the latest Dark Cities journey through the history books, Roma XLI, and its upcoming Kickstarter campaign. thegenerationsgames.substack.com/p/roma-xli-b...
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Roma XLI: 'Screams are our main barometer of success'
We speak to designer Travis Hancock about the latest back-stabbing chapter in the Dark Cities series
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Metal Gear Solidarity @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The Wes Streeting article rewritten to be by Carter Burke, villain in 1986 film Aliens

Opinion

Ignore the smears: The colony of Hadley's Hope is fine. We at Weyland-Yutani are building better worlds. I know nothing about these bug rumours.

Carter Burke

I know nothing about any ship called Nostromo vanishing and that was before I was born anyway.

Burke is currently missing on a a trip to Hadley's Hope, previously known as LV-426, with an unnamed civilian specialist and a platoon of United States Colonial Marines

Mon 9 Feb 2026 18.15 GMT
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