Gaming cons... Guys with the über large boardgame backpack: Always being aware of one's body space is SUPER important! Gents, it's nothing short of obnoxious and comes across as inconsiderate when you just whip fast with your backpack in the middle of the aisle.

At the hotel waiting to go to #Gencon. Made a video on the clock ⏰ app of how this will be the last con in which I'm also working 3 jobs. If you didn't know, I've been supporting kiddos with disabilities It's hard being a disabled person and watching schools do rather horrific things to kiddos.

What if the kids from Matilda and School of Rock met?

It's been fascinating watching my last shedding of education world peel away as I go back to game design world. The teacher will never leave me. Nor my inner child. Many schools lately have been antithetical to the concept of playing in order to learn. Playing is good for your brain.

DVC Games 🔜 Gen Con@dvcgames.bsky.social · last mo.

It is nice to create something with a thesis we care deeply about; it is so much more to see someone recognize and engage with it so eloquently. This one was designed by a bunch of forever children. May play never die.

Had the best time at @originsgamefair.bsky.social Also never thought my likeness would be on a spooky genre game card for the second time but here we are. 😅 @nickeldoodle.bsky.social

I had a conversation with a colleague who thought New York schools were doing well. They aren't. At least not the entire state. You would be *mortified* how many schools are out of compliance with accommodations and modifications for kids with disabilities.

I wish the artist was selling prints of this

Babies and children can exist in healthy relationships in queer families. Family dynamics and gender ratios are not a prerequisite for healthy parenting.

do u know how dangerous i’d be if i could execute as well as i can ideate

Maybe some kids will end up alright.

“This […] is D.V.C. slamming their glass down on the table and affirming, “We could do this all the time if we wanted to. We could just crank out perfect jewels.” It was already hard to argue with their design sensibilities. Turns out it’s also hard to argue with their sense of taste.” 💜

Andrew Jackson Lynch@whatsforlynch.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My review of Pacts from @dvcgames.bsky.social went up on @meeplemountain.com today. It is an exquisite two-player area-control game. I can't recommend it enough. www.meeplemountain.com/reviews/pacts/

I have a soulmate and I happened to have married her. Many people are not so lucky. Tangent: I reminded her it's fiddlehead season for foraging and cooking in our area and she got really excited. 🌿

Oh noooo I'm indoctrinating my child into... Using the appropriate toys to improve his fine and gross motor skills. Because that's all we queer parents and queer educators do. We indoctrinate. /S 🙄

“No amount of propaganda should convince you that some children don’t deserve to grow up”

Childhood me is very disappointed that TVs are not run by Keebler elves who run on the VHS like a hamster wheel.

If you're new here, know that I am happy to eat my own in the name of equity for all. ✊🏻 No one is free until we are all free. Here to make wh!te guys reeeeaally uncomfy.

🚨BREAKING: Our reporter @jtcestkowski.bsky.social was just hit by 2 rounds of pepper balls from ICE agents after our cameraman Jon Farina had a flash bang fired at his leg. "They don't care if they're hurting people...it doesn't matter if you're a U.S. citizen!" LIVE NOW

If you're a creative person with a bleeding heart, know that you aren't alone. And often past you is getting in future you's way. We can't save the world if we don't also attempt to save us from ourselves.

Today's work from home vibe: Kingdom hearts battle music to focus and kitty protests.

Found this outside of the convention building at Origins You are loved. 💜 🌈 I'm not a religious person, but I think religious people should mind their own business about how other people form relationships and find happiness.

Pride month is every day in this office.

"I think furbies are daleks" The magic of @jesswrites.bsky.social messaging me at work.

We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State. H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.

Operating my life like a Studio Ghibli movie or an Uncle Iroh side quest and boy does that make people mad.

This is petty. The FBI has reassigned several agents simply for being photographed kneeling in solidarity with racial justice protesters in D.C. during the 2020 demonstrations after George Floyd’s murder.

Momming, game designing, and keeping up with life all at the same time is exhausting.

102 meets 2 months

I love these little hands.