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Ava Foxfort @ava.foxfort.net · 06/09/2026

FInally uploaded the first preview sketch of my new tarot coaching project. The rest will be paywalled, but this one is free: www.patreon.com/AvaFoxfort/p...

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Sketches for Reversals - The Fool | Ava Foxfort

I've been trailing a new project for a while, and I've been trying to goad myself into putting some of it online. Today I hit the halfway ma

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Calendar, Monday 17th August: reticulate splines

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Eurydice Games @eurydicegames.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

With all the recent tariff and tax changes in the US and EU we, like many other small indie publishers, are facing many uphill challenges. Worth noting that our print at home games (inc. FlickFleet if you have a 3D printer!) are not affected: eurydicegames.co.uk/product-cate...

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Seriously though, this does all very much highlight that tabletop games, especially in Europe, painfully needs both a trade organisation (hello @bigtable.bsky.social your time has come) & vastly more collective action across areas such as distribution, marketing, knowledge sharing etc

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 20/06/2026

Not sure if I have this right, but as an outsider looking in, it seems that in Keir Starmer, England's richest and most misshapen op-ed writers basically got their custom designed policy portfolio and it's been an unmitigated disaster. Surely they are taking some time to meaningfully reflect on this

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

What are the Government, police and security services doing about the people who are quite clearly in the pay of a hostile foreign state, and using their platforms to whip up actual pogroms on our streets? This is a major national security issue and absolutely nothing seems to be happening about it

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 18/05/2026

ME: What's the bear trap for? JIGSAW: For the love of... As I just said, if the bear trap is triggered this vial of acid will- ME: What's the barbed wire do? JIGSAW: I'm getting to that! If the acid is- ME (scrolling on phone): This is complicated. Let's just started playing and I'll figure it out.

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Lil 0thmxma aka BIG PHIL @0thmxma.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

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Push Your Luck guy finally good enough at Push Your Luck guying to understand how bad he is at it

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/04/2026

Ooooh, I used to be this person and then I realized how obnoxious it really was, fortunately I figured it out in the USENET days

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Unable to go to sleep because my cat is on top of the duvet where I need to get in

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 27/03/2026

"For years I taught that players had to eradicate all four diseases, not just cure them. So...a lot of people out there think they lost games of Pandemic that they actually won." "Again, that sucks but it's not really a sin. How many more of these do you have?"

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Slay the Spire 2: welcome back mister orbs, my true love. ❤️ going through the wholeganme killing enemies before putting my combo together, then getting to the final boss and realising the combo isn't that good.

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I normally avoid Early Access, but am counting down the minutes until Slay the Spire 2. Pls. Where is it

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

RT if you have a job and are planning to vote Green.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 28/02/2026

Don't miss the news that an Israeli missile destroyed an Iranian girls' primary school, murdering at least 25 girls between 7 and 12 years old. At this point it might just be muscle memory for the Israeli military. www.middleeasteye.net/news/least-2...

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At least 24 girls reported killed in strike on school in southern Iran

Dozens of children aged between seven and 12 hit in attack on Minab city

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Rob Cramer @robcramer.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Please, a singular dice is called a douse.

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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 05/01/2026

Getting grok to publicly strip a woman’s likeness online or alter her image isn’t just horrifying at the level of the individual, it’ll be used to get us fired, too. It’s a technique to keep us in the home popping out babies because we lost our teaching job when some guy sent porn of us to our boss.

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Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.northsky.social · 18/12/2025

People need to start caring about others & not only those directly related/affected, & not only when it's transactional. We *have* to have empathy beyond ourselves & immediate orbit of family, friends, neighborhood, & community. We have to care about total strangers who are in harm's way & in need

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Emma Larkins @emmalarkins.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

💼 I’m looking for work as a board game designer. 🌎 I’m open to in-person, hybrid or remote work. ⭐ I’ve previously worked at the Uzzle and made Abandon All Artichokes, Starry Night Sky, and other board games.

Four photos - several of early Abandon All Artichokes board game prototype, vegetables with cartoon eyes. One of person with pink hair holding the published copy of Abandon All Artichokes in front of shelves of board games.

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Jackson Pope // Eurydice Games @jacksonpope.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I like space operas. Hit me with your sci-fi book recommendations! Please RP for more ideas!

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Of course I would say this, but we need to talk about the moral & ideological case for play & leisure more than ever. So much political discourse - especially from the super-rich - assumes we ought to construct society around forcing citizens to spend most of their one, unrepeatable life working.

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Pubrunner! Got to reintroduce a friend to netrunner with the starter decks last night, and he's continued to trounce me: we're at 0 and 4 wins 😆 Properly have the netrunner bug again. Love this game

A photo of a game of netrunner in progress, on a pub table. The foreground has a hand in front of the camera, with a hand of netrunner cards visible. The table has a Corp players setup - servers, ice. Across the table is the elbows of another person and some runner cards, with a pint of beer visible too.

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Hey all. Lost a big patreon this morning. I'm trying to keep this thing going with additional content every week for all patreons: links, a weekly "I'm playing" newsletter and other goodies, all for just $1. www.patreon.com/c/mattthr

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🥧 suzanne 🥧 @425suzanne.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Just remember - it's the box that takes up the most space. Slice the boxes at the corners, flatten them for transport, and voila - a ton more space in your luggage.

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Netrunner Worlds in the morning! I should sleep, but couldnt resist the siren call to stay up late tinkering with decks. Just one more cool card!

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Null Signal Games @netrunner.nullsignal.games · 16/10/2025

With many of us at the beautiful Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh for #NetrunnerWorlds25, this account might be a little slow the next few days. But you can watch all the action at twitch.tv/nullsignalnetrunner or www.youtube.com/nullsignal.games starting with Crown of Servers tomorrow at 9.30 UTC!

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Netrunner Worlds on Saturday & Sunday!!! I totally forgot and have missed the window to get cards, so am frantically looking up cool cards to print off tomorrow and make a deck with. If anyone has any recommendations for fun archetypes, pls let me knowww

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I popped in to Cogito Books in Hexham and saw a copy of @timclare.bsky.social 's Game Changers. First ten pages are great!

A photo of Time Clare's book, Game Changers, outside a bookshop

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

'other countries have an immediate obligation to... "prevent & punish the crime of genocide"... If they do not... they could be complicit. "We have not gone so far as to name parties as... being complicit in genocide. But that is the… ongoing work of this commission"' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says

The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.

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I stayed up late on Friday making a genestealer for my malstrain-corrupted Van Saar gang. First model in the gang, very excited! Likely going to add more cabling/ tendrils & a more raggedy hood & cloak

A photo of a games workshop model in my hand. The model is an adeptus mechanicus robot in a cloak, with lots of green stuff modelled cabling

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Jackson Pope // Eurydice Games @jacksonpope.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

All set up with minutes to spare at @tabletopscot.bsky.social

The Eurydice Games stand at Tabletop Scotland

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Elizabeth Hargrave @elizhargrave.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Update to this chart that I share a lot. Not breaking news: Game design teams are still OVERWHELMINGLY all men. About 7% of the top 500 games have a woman or non-binary person credited as a designer. A 🧵of related charts: (1/6) 🎲✂️

Gender of Game Designers: Board Game Geek Top 500, January 2025

A pie chart:
92% of the pie is Designed only by men. They made 461 of the top 500 games.
6% of the pie is Designed by a mixed-gender group. They made 28 of the top 500 games.
1% of the pie is Designed only by women or non-binary people. They made 5 of the top 500 games.

Data are for January 1, 2025, using the names in the Designer field on BGG. Not shown are 6 games in the top 500 that have uncredited designers.

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Crushed it at Moana Sorry! this morning 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

A closeup photo of a boardgame: Moana version of 'Sorry!'. Thr blue pieces are all I the home section.

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

See how easy it is to do this?

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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

The Lovecraft feature is mine and, personally, I think it's one of the best things I've contributed to the magazine.

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raybird.bsky.social @raybird.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

heyyyyyyyyyyyyyy can we stop with using "your wife" as short had for "non-gamer" in reviews?? like "so easy even your wife can play it!"

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Jackson Pope // Eurydice Games @jacksonpope.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

We now have an official Eurydice Games Bluesky account! Please give us a follow if you’re feeling generous :)

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About once a year I convince myself I have enough time for a new card game, buy a core set, then sell it a few months later. I think this year it'll be Lord of the Rings LCG

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dee 方传嫣 @hellenus.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Netwalker

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Jillian Schumacher @jillianschumacher.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I want folks in the industry to be more open in their opposition to the genocide that the US is currently funding. Really, just a post, or even a donation to something like the Zaynab Project would suffice. thezaynabproject.org

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The Zaynab Project | Providing Humanitarian Aid Across Gaza

We're on a mission to transform the lives of vulnerable children and families across Gaza. The Zaynab Project delivers life-saving humanitarian aid.

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Semi Co-op @semicoop.com · 06/08/2025

Dry Eurogames implies the existence of Wet Eurogames

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beth @bethsobel.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

JKR is funding life-destroying legislation. When you license HP and put it on your product, the money you pay to do that is literally ruining lives. This isn't ambiguous, it is direct, measurable harm. I will never give a penny to a company who chooses money over the lives of my friends.

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Playing Barenpark with 4 and I think my park is about to undergo a hostile takeover

A photo of a table with the board game Barenpark in play, with a child's hand pointing at an empty space next to my board

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Jackson Pope // Eurydice Games @jacksonpope.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

It's #CraftWednesday! Do you have a game-related crafting project in progress? It could be a prototype, print and play, upgrading the components of a favourite game, making an accessory or even something larger like a table or games room. Share a picture and join in! Please RP!

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Daniel Wynter @boardgamefeast.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I'm back from Summer holiday and need to start ramping up my job hunt. Any leads would be appreciated. In the interest of actually getting paid I'm looking at document management, library or administration work across a variety of industries.

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 17/07/2025

A genuinely funny bit is how every 10-15 years the Tron fandom convinces Disney to release new Tron stuff despite that fact that the franchise has never once been profitable.

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Ok, because there is no better time to relaunch your newsletter, and launch your entire (half built) brand new website, than a Sunday afternoon when you are on a family holiday that’s exactly what we’ve done… Gazetteer subscribers please check your inboxes/junk mail or like everyone else read here

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Don't Call It A Comeback...

Yes, we are finally back with a new newsletter AND a brand new website... What a Sunday this is turning out to be.

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Iain McAllister @giantbrain.co.uk · 16/06/2025

The Ancient Robot Workshop is now open in Edinburgh. A spin off from @ancientrobotgames.bsky.social it is looking to help you get your game made! ancientrobotworkshop.co.uk

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Ancient Robot Workshop

A community and co-working space in Edinburgh for designers, authors, and artists who make tabletop games. Coming soon.

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