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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We need to bring back the thing where celebrities viewed it as shameful to appear in advertising. A Polymarket ad with you in it should be as embarrassing and image-destroying as your mugshot after you got caught soliciting an undercover cop for sex.

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fascinating to learn that lacking an affinity for country music makes me a bad person I guess?

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I'm really excited to see how Trump is going to make the 25th anniversary of 9/11 about himself.

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If the Grim Reaper wanted a famously blonde 80-year-old celebrity and also wanted someone who was in Home Alone 2, there was an easier way.

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Agamemnon was the first manosphere influencer.

"This is why even you must never be kind to your wife! When you're telling some tale you know well, do not reveal everything – No, only tell her a part and keep the rest of it hidden."

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Recommended for You: Show You're Already Watching

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I love how Instagram sends me a notification that so-and-so has added to their story, and I click the notification and it brings me to that person's story 0% of the time. Just a flawless app. Please put the people who made this in charge of the whole country. Nothing will go wrong.

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It's probably no cause for concern that for over 40 years I never experienced the phenomenon of Canadian wildfire smoke filling the sky here in western New York, and now it's basically an annual occurrence.

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I don't follow the news, I just read the YouTube comments on the video for Celebration by Kool & the Gang.

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Experienced this at a couple Pearl Jam shows way up in the nosebleeds. Very cool. MSG was absolutely cooking last night.

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Someone should invent a USB-C cable that stays plugged in.

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I wish more things happened in the world that made me say, "I'm glad I'm alive to see this."

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Got my Lands of Amazement expansion collection (game by @scottalmes.bsky.social) in the mail today. After much fiddling, I finally pulled off a perfect ultrapark. I love the tension of blowing up a pretty good solution because you think you can do better. A top-tier @buttonshy.bsky.social game.

Cards from the game Lands of Amazement showing a solved puzzle from the Ultraparks expansion.

The wallets for the card game Lands of Amazement and its expansion collection.

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Slightly increase a band They're Probably Giants

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Donald Trump opening up ChatGPT at 2:00 AM:

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I just can't shake the feeling that maybe, if I scroll hard enough, It Will Finally Happen.

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

And people are out here talking about the next console generation. A next-gen console for, what, $1200?

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

If baseball games are going to have those blue screen ads behind the batter, they need to disable them when half the field is in shadow, because every at bat looks like the rancor fight from Return of the Jedi.

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I love when there's something going on that everyone but me is watching and my feed is just full of posts like, "Wow! I can't believe it!"

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Pulled out Under Falling Skies for the first time in over two years. I forgot how much fun this game is. Tense, puzzly, quick to set up and play, and very modular – all hallmarks of a great solo game. Haven't tried the campaign yet, but hope to get to it soon.

The board game Under Falling Skies. A modular board with several pieces on it.

The board game Under Falling Skies. Enemy spaceships.

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Played my first game of Draft & Write Records. Out together a weird band with two bass players and no drummer, although they do apparently own three drum sets. Fun game, although I do question the decision to involve yellow colored pencils in a ____ & write.

Cards from the board game Draft & Write Records: three drum sets, two identical bass players, a guitar player who looks like if Slash took his hat off, and a lead singer who looks like Liam Gallagher.

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

With how much tech bros misunderstand sci-fi and are inspired by it to implement their AI-powered vision of a future that they didn't realize was a cautionary tale, I wonder if we're about to be inundated with biotech bros who have completely missed the point of shows like Pluribus and Severance.

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

First (solo) play of Men-Nefer is in the books. I snuck past the automa 78-67 despite contributing almost nothing to the great pyramid. Really fun game with a slightly tedious setup. Some good combos, but doesn't get out of hand. Can't wait to try this one with some human opponents!

Components from the board game Men-Nefer: some pyramids.

Components from the board game Men-Nefer: boats on the Nile.

Components from the board game Men-Nefer: a player board.

Components from the board game Men-Nefer: meeples on a board.

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I love how much of curling is just someone going, "whoa whoa whoa!"

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Very on-brand of the Trump administration to hire a convicted rapist to lecture us about being fat.

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I wonder if Garphill Games has ever had a sale called Discounts of the West Kingdom.

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The plural of butt is buttoxen.

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Took my first stab at ranking my games on Pub Meeple. Here's my top nine. Seems accurate.

Box art and logos from nine board games:

1. The Lord of the Rings: the Card Game
2. Dice Throne
3. Final Girl
4. Everdell
5. Marvel Champions
6. Lost Ruins of Arnak
7. Endeavor Deep Sea
8. Endless Winter: Paleoamericans
9. Earth

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Another year of board gaming in the books.

A graphic showing my stats for 2025 from the BG Stats app. Most played games were: the Fellowship of the Ring – the Trick-taking Game (23 plays), A Nice Cuppa (7 plays), Numbsters (7 plays), Skara Brae (6 plays), Planet Unknown (6 plays), Marvel Champions (6 plays), Saltfjord (5 plays), the 7th Continent (5 plays), and FlipToons (5 plays).

Overall stats for the year: 201 plays, H-index of 6, 92 games, 71 new to me, 18 players, 4 locations, 173 hours, 124 days. A bar graph shows plays per month; March had the most plays, October the fewest.

A table breaks down categories. 47 categories. Card game: 56%, Fantasy: 18%, Print & Play: 15%, Animals: 13%, Economic: 13%.

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

New Costco combo just dropped.

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Remember when you'd watch a season of a TV show and then, the next year, you'd watch next season?

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

They should add Santa's sleigh to Microsoft Flight Simulator.

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

First game of Lands of Amazement from @scottalmes.bsky.social and @buttonshy.bsky.social in the books. I can already tell this is probably going to be in my top tier of Button Shy games. I love a good spatial puzzle.

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

First time completely filling the board in Planet Unknown. Solo game using only green and orange events, but still. Love this game.

A completed game of the board game Planet Unknown.

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The hardest part of any Metroid game is convincing my brain that I don't have the double jump yet.

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Quentin Tarantino is the Billy Corgan of cinema.

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

A retronym is a new name for an old thing whose old name has become ambiguous because of new things. Examples include conventional oven, acoustic guitar, and analog clock.

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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Asking an NFT of your dead mother to invent a story from your childhood to tell your kid who doesn't know she's dead is a truly psychotic thing to do.

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Every week, the Giants go out and play well for just long enough to trick me into watching the game, and then they go and blow it in a new, creative way.

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Congratulations, Dodgers fans. Condolences, Blue Jays fans. What a game, what a series!

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