Charles Lewis (he/him)
@clewis.bsky.social
Husband, Father, Gamer, Game Designer, Human Being
Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/
If you need a pickmeup, Ukraine struck and destroyed a Russian data center last night, reducing Russian bot traffic by 50%, dropping online pro-AfD discussion to zero, cratering MAGA traffic, and making Elon big mad. Just in time for the mid-terms. Slava fucking Ukraini.
A personal Star Trek design, the USS Harmony, NCC-80000, Concord-Class. It's a diplomatic vessel built immediately after the Dominion War, tasked with putting the Alpha Quadrant back together and integrating Gamma Quadrant civilizations into the Federation. (Blender) Info below:
If you haven't seen this, Saul makes really interesting games. I've played Patria Libre 5 times, still really don't know how to win (the mechanics are really intriguing), but I love playing it. And looks like I'm doing the logistics for it, so there's that. www.kickstarter.com/projects/116...
Tierra y Libertad: Deluxe Edition
Relive the Mexican Revolution in this historical board game featuring Cooperative, Solo, One-vs-All & New Factions modes.
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Goddamn, this point by @anandwrites.bsky.social really needed saying.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · last wk.Holy shit.
Fuck it, let's go. It's May, 1860. The Democratic convention, in Charelston, has fractured. The new Republican Party is quite likely to win the Presidency, for the first time. Republicans convene in a big wooden hall called The Wigwam in Chicago, to decide who to nominate.
Rob Hanna@robhanna.bsky.social · 2w agoI kinda want to tell the people about how Lincoln, in the runup to the Civil War, chose to make a corrupt machine politician the Secretary of War. Simon P. Cameron was said to be so corrupt he'd steal a hot stove. But he'd delivered Pennsylvania to Lincoln at the Republican convention, so...
Can I just say how frustrating it has been that Microsoft broke the copy & paste functionality in Excel and doesn't seem to be in any hurry to fix it? And if they ever do why should I bother switching back from Libreoffice?
I feel this is probably quite important information. You wouldn't want to get it wrong.
Anyone wanna see the funniest 12 seconds that include a murder?
Ten years of relentlessly hateful, comically elitist anti-democratic politics across the white people world, helpfully summarised. The wrong people are talking, the wrong people are deciding and it’s harming the careers of important people who actually matter. Smithers! Release the hounds
En Buen Ora@enbuenora.bsky.social · 3w agoThis is a fantastic brief essay in how news media & pundits turn upside down who is who is being punished for speaking freely--in the case of Kraft, Macklemore, & Sheeran--when rich elites want things to go one way, but unruly peasant masses refuse to go along. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
1/ Russia has the United States over a (diesel) barrel, says Russian analyst Igor Dimitriev. He says that the Kremlin is telling the West that "if you don't hand Ukraine over to us, a global [fuel] crisis will erupt that you won't be able to dig yourselves out of". ⬇️
Speaking of space games, SOLARCRAWL, my system-neutral campaign of "what if NASA did an OSR" is printed and on its way to backers! That means we can sell it to the rest of you all as well! Copies will soon be available from pandiongames.com/products/sol...
Solarcrawl
Solarcrawl is currently in production. Once the Kickstarter campaign is fulfilled, the game will be for sale here. Click the "Notify Me" button to get an email when it is available! --- Our homeworld ...
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Just a reminder that no matter how hard a Republican candidate tries to distance themselves from Tangerine Mussolini they're still willing to have an (R) after their name. This means they are in agreement with all Republican policies and are complicit in all Republican crimes.
Being an old-school anime fan, I'll jump on the bandwagon:
1/x In the 1840s, a lame American naval officer, grounded at a desk in Washington, cut weeks off the world's ocean voyages without inventing a single machine. His raw material: a warehouse of logbooks nobody had ever read. Matthew Fontaine Maury, Pathfinder of the Seas. A 🧵 #maritimehistory
Just found out that the reason Excel coughs up a hairball every time I try to duplicate a worksheet is because MS broke it with their last security update. Goodbye MS, hello LibreOffice!
