liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 28/09/2026this makes me think about a conversation I had with a friend where I asked them why they drank Soylent and they said “well it gives all the nutrients I need, quickly and in one drink.” this is no doubt true and for some even important but it is 100% not how I think about eating or meal preparation. 030
Reposted by liam liwanag burkeCentral Michigan University Press @cmichpress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We LOVE the way the covers of Dog Eat Dog and Princess with a Cursed Sword flash in the sunshine, so we took the manufacturing prototypes for a walk. Stay tuned for shipping updates! #dogeatdogrpg #princesswithacursedswordgame #liamliwanagburke #samuelarayaart #annaanthropy #evlynmoreau 083
liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen 120
liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 10/09/2026the elephant in the room is that we were already told the only thing that actually matters is winning in 2020, and we delivered that, and it turned out that it didn’t actually produce the desired outcome. it shouldn’t be surprising that people generally now want a different approach 121
Reposted by liam liwanag burkeTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Black, queer, radical, female, femme people & orgs literally diagnosed the problem so well that "them goons are coming" became accepted wisdom and so now everyone thinks THEY had the idea and don't need to acknowledge the work that so-called Woke Movement damn near killed themselves to teach you. 31106301
liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 29/08/2026A small business owner’s family complicates her tax audit. 040
liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I was just thinking this recently! Television ads have entered the Dadaist short form video era. It’s hard for me to explain to my kid that advertisements used to contain (semi)information about why the product might interest me. The attention economy has pushed out information, Gresham’s law style 040
liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 28/08/2026probably also unavoidable to recognize that a big part of alternate names for RPGs is being able to tell people what you’re working on without them saying “oh dungeons and dragons” (and then, especially at that time, walking away) 050
Reposted by liam liwanag burkeJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Grete Hermann (1901-1984), brilliant philosopher of maths and quantum mechanics and first student of Emily Noether. Hermann was co-founder of the journal Ratio, and turned to political philosophy later in her career, writing in 1947: 6307106
liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 24/08/2026 the imputed habitus of iPhone autocorrect 010
liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Paragraphs should begin with thesis statements and end with the repetition of their thesis statements. 100
Reposted by liam liwanag burkeRPG Roots @rpgroots.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Another of our guests for RPG Roots Season 1, “Narratives of Oppression and Resistance,” is @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social, a doctoral student in sociology at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the author of the incredible “Dog Eat Dog” - currently being republished by @cmichpress.bsky.social 2103
liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 24/07/2026“Making a suboptimal economic decision for psychological comfort” is one economic understanding of voting, but people do like to do that even though there is no real argument that it is economically beneficial to do it! 010
liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I really appreciate and agree with this framing of what games are 150
Reposted by liam liwanag burkejay Dragon 🔜 Metatopia @jdragsky.bsky.social · 14/07/2026SEVEN-PART PACT, my fantastical ornate TTRPG about powerful wizards, asymmetrical board games, and the pressures of masculinity is now launching on kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...kickstarter.comSeven-Part PactA fantastical, ornate TTRPG from Possum Creek about the might and folly of powerful wizards bound by a venerable Pact. 31715303
liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Hi James! Sorry, DED isn’t available at this moment; I took it down from DTRPG in preparation for the CMUP edition. It won’t be available again until it shows up on the CMUP store. Sorry for the inconvenience! I’d love to hear the podcast when it comes out. 100
liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 26/06/2026maybe I’m misreading you, but for me I don’t see firefly as an attempt to render liberalism at all. the Wild West is pre-liberal as a fundamental conceit! But nobody on the Serenity is Ransom Stoddard 100
liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Also I gotta say I don’t fully agree with this diagram but I love it, it is a much more insightful model of play than some I have seen 020
liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Until you posted the actual diagram I 100% thought you were doing a bit 120
liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 25/05/2026yes I consistently think “woke 2” is a very revealing term for people to use 100
Reposted by liam liwanag burkeMorgan Finnsiö ⤦⤦⤦ @morganfinnsio.bsky.social · 21/05/2026In two paragraphs, a perfect snapshot of the willful refusal of some security officials – in this case, predictably, in Trump's FBI; but this also happens in Europe – to see and name racist and far-right terror for what it is. It is not "indiscriminate" hatred, or "nihilism"; it is modern nazism. 314557
Reposted by liam liwanag burkeDr. Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I've been teaching Twine storygame design in middle and high schools for over a decade. Every time I do, I hear from my teacher-partners about a student who is never engaged, never asks questions, never shares their writing doing exactly that. The design mindset revolutionizes the writing classroom. 1235
liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 14/05/2026he’s thinking “man I hope the guy comes back soon” 020
liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 14/05/2026who testified for SFFA in SFFA v harvard 1190
Reposted by liam liwanag burkekat @katbamkapow.bsky.social · 13/05/2026heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit 5185741941
liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Twitter was exactly as important as people thought it was when it was left-dominated because they thought it was unimportant. It didn’t go from “not real life” to “the American public square” in elite discourse until the right wing took it over! 082
liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 12/05/2026this seems to assume that if leftists were on X then the site’s rightward pull would be mitigated by diversity of visible opinion. If X’s reactionary impact is structural to the platform then having the leftists on X would just make them move right too, making the mean even more right wing 000
liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 12/05/2026"Most people won't benefit from education." This used to be a more explicitly held view among elites! Now it is more implied. 060
liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 10/05/2026I remember a large proportion of discussion of simulationism on story games consisted of efforts to identify games that we would agree were simulationist. Since none of the posters claimed to be simulationists or even to think being one would be good, there was difficulty finding agreement. 110
Reposted by liam liwanag burkeNeil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 29/04/2026One of the most clarifying passages I've ever read on what "polarization" actually means in the U.S." 6463862025
Reposted by liam liwanag burkeQuinn murphy @gamefiend.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Something I found myself talking about a bit at Somercon that might be a useful lens for folks: A brilliant fact about TTRPGs is that they can incorporate ANYTHING in them. RL actions, environmental elements, other games. All you need is narrative input and output. 47615
liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 28/04/2026I think fascism is about the triumph of the id over reason, and you can see that here in her invocation of “passion” and being “fed up.” she’s angry about her life. voting Trump was a way to express that anger. his obvious incompetence is the selling point. 000
Reposted by liam liwanag burkeHakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Our paper, “The Politics of Black Classification: Sociopolitical Cues and Racial Perception” (w/ Lauren Davenport & @hrendleman.bsky.social), has been conditionally accepted at Perspectives on Politics! Sharing abstract below. Long time coming, but we are really proud of this paper. More soon! 831376
Reposted by liam liwanag burkeDavid J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 13/04/2026TTRPG with old-school "you can die in character creation" mechanics, except most terminal events are stuff like "reached adulthood with no major traumas" or "found a love of carpentry", so your goal is to make enough bad life choices that your character is a big enough loser to become an adventurer. 23611164
Reposted by liam liwanag burkeNandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 09/04/2026More deaths in US immigration camps this fiscal year than over the past 2 decades!!! #NoBorders 022
liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 09/04/2026It is also an interesting connection with Player of Games, where Gurgeh seems to be viewed with awe even though he pretty obviously has an unhealthy relationship with games and competition. 010
liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 07/04/2026That’s a good point, and to be honest, I think it reflects the views of the Pentagon regarding what they think is really unacceptable (American troops being deployed in dumb ways, losing) and what they think is not that big a deal (bombing anybody ever). 010
liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 07/04/2026But the cabinet has much less to offer. All they can tell us is that Trump is bloodthirsty and mercurial, which we already know because he keeps posting saying so. 010
liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I am not sure I agree with your analysis here. The Pentagon media leaks office has been working nights and weekends telling us about the various ground invasion plans they’ve been asked to prepare and be ready for, probably partly because leaking them makes them less likely to happen. 210
liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 07/04/2026bonus trivia question: into how many congressional districts is the average city in Hawai’i divided? 010
liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 06/04/2026live by the slate pitch, die by the slate pitch 020
Reposted by liam liwanag burkeSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 04/04/2026Actually we should just give citizenship to every undocumented person in the United States who wants it. Walking over an imaginary line isn't some great moral atrocity. Making people live in the shadows as a permanent underclass absolutely IS. 9076321962
Reposted by liam liwanag burkeOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like 412798360
Reposted by liam liwanag burkeDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Let's do this one time in good faith: Wealthy private universities in blue states should be bastions of humanistic education (including basic science), fully protected from the anti-education laws being passed in red states that afflict private and public schools alike. But instead .... /1 536091
liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 01/04/2026although there is certainly something very American about the legitimation ritual being an intentional disavowal of previously agreed parliamentary procedure without bothering to change the procedure. america: fuck it, we'll do it live 031
liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 01/04/2026there is a sense in which having to stand up and say "motion to overrule the parliamentarian's finding" at the end of every session is not really that different from having to stand up and say "le roy le vult" at the end of every session... 141
liam liwanag burke @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social · 01/04/2026there is an even better plausible future version of this where eventually every law passes by including it in a reconciliation bill and then ritually overruling the parliamentarian saying none of these laws belong in the reconciliation bill 1161