James Meyers
@coalhog.bsky.social
🎲✂️ Tabletop game designer (sort of...), 📜 genealogist, 🖋️ writer, 👨👧 dad.
I was apollocontinuum on the bird site.
I was apollocontinuum on the bird site.
Games between Carolina and Toronto never cease to be entertaining.
Bad news: we're down
Good news: that was only the 1st
Good news: that was only the 1st
November 10, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Games between Carolina and Toronto never cease to be entertaining.
Important stuff on the VA ballot today, but I always vote early, so no sticker pic from me today!
November 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Important stuff on the VA ballot today, but I always vote early, so no sticker pic from me today!
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
Welp, it's #OnePlaceWednesday and I'm about to start my digital conspiracy board to attempt to connect all 200 individuals in the Mount Gilead cemetery. It's either going to be amazing when it's finished or I'm going to lose my mind working on it. Small chance that it ends up being both.
a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a board with papers on it .
Alt: Animated image of a conspiracy wall full of paper and red string with a man gesturing at it.
media.tenor.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Welp, it's #OnePlaceWednesday and I'm about to start my digital conspiracy board to attempt to connect all 200 individuals in the Mount Gilead cemetery. It's either going to be amazing when it's finished or I'm going to lose my mind working on it. Small chance that it ends up being both.
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PLAY BRASS BONANZA 🎺🎺🎺
October 24, 2025 at 4:31 AM
PLAY BRASS BONANZA 🎺🎺🎺
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"AI is the asbestos we are shovelling into the walls of our society. Our descendants will be digging it out for generations."
"AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job."
Oof.
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
"AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job."
Oof.
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
September 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
"AI is the asbestos we are shovelling into the walls of our society. Our descendants will be digging it out for generations."
"AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job."
Oof.
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
"AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job."
Oof.
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
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re: generative AI
I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.
And now, you can use it, too.
I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.
And now, you can use it, too.
July 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
re: generative AI
I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.
And now, you can use it, too.
I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.
And now, you can use it, too.
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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
U.S. CPSC never misses with their posts!
August 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
U.S. CPSC never misses with their posts!
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FUTURE ARCHEOLOGIST: This curious artifact was widespread in the early 21st Century and could be found in most middle-class dwellings. No one knows exactly what it was, but it was clearly a revered object…every example we've found is pristine, as though only used once or twice.
August 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
FUTURE ARCHEOLOGIST: This curious artifact was widespread in the early 21st Century and could be found in most middle-class dwellings. No one knows exactly what it was, but it was clearly a revered object…every example we've found is pristine, as though only used once or twice.
Living vicariously through all my friends at Gen Con while I'm knee deep in genealogy research.
July 31, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Living vicariously through all my friends at Gen Con while I'm knee deep in genealogy research.
RuthCon VIII games played:
Rise of Augustus
Welcome to...
Hues and Cues
Riff Raff
Eight Minute Empire: Legends
Hot Streak
Waggle Dance
Harmonies
Dream Home
I think that's everything... #boardgames
Rise of Augustus
Welcome to...
Hues and Cues
Riff Raff
Eight Minute Empire: Legends
Hot Streak
Waggle Dance
Harmonies
Dream Home
I think that's everything... #boardgames
July 14, 2025 at 12:29 AM
RuthCon VIII games played:
Rise of Augustus
Welcome to...
Hues and Cues
Riff Raff
Eight Minute Empire: Legends
Hot Streak
Waggle Dance
Harmonies
Dream Home
I think that's everything... #boardgames
Rise of Augustus
Welcome to...
Hues and Cues
Riff Raff
Eight Minute Empire: Legends
Hot Streak
Waggle Dance
Harmonies
Dream Home
I think that's everything... #boardgames
NHL Draft day!
No, nothing happened last night. Why would it have?
No, nothing happened last night. Why would it have?
June 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
NHL Draft day!
No, nothing happened last night. Why would it have?
No, nothing happened last night. Why would it have?
At a craft fair, I was working a booth right next to the live music. I sneezed so loud one of the musicians thought there was a problem with static on their amp.
Once again it is Father’s Day, which means it’s time to share the most Dad* thing you did in the last year. As is custom, I will go first:
Watching YouTube videos for small repair jobs around the house has turned into watching YouTube videos for large repair jobs I cannot and should not attempt.
Watching YouTube videos for small repair jobs around the house has turned into watching YouTube videos for large repair jobs I cannot and should not attempt.
June 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
At a craft fair, I was working a booth right next to the live music. I sneezed so loud one of the musicians thought there was a problem with static on their amp.
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Yup. I continue to say that AI is for those who fetishize THE IDEA and dismiss THE WORK. It's for those people who come up to writers and say, "I got a great idea for a book, I'll give it to you, you write it, and we'll split the profits 50/50," as if the idea is the hardest and most important part.
I saw someone say AI is useful because it generates ideas. My dude, I'm full of ideas. I have docs and docs marked under 'ideas.' I have outlines and fragments of stuff I might work on. Trunked stories galore. Even if I continue to write a novel a year for the next 40 years I won't run out of ideas.
May 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Yup. I continue to say that AI is for those who fetishize THE IDEA and dismiss THE WORK. It's for those people who come up to writers and say, "I got a great idea for a book, I'll give it to you, you write it, and we'll split the profits 50/50," as if the idea is the hardest and most important part.
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ok now we got entering *and* leaving the room all covered
May 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
ok now we got entering *and* leaving the room all covered
Finally had the time to watch this, and it might be the perfect fusion of board games, intellectual property, and genealogy. No lies, it hit every button in my brain.
It's the weekend, which makes it a perfect time to catch up on my latest! In this one, I take you through a year spent in search of the names of some uncredited game designers.
youtu.be/MWteJW-wYas?...
youtu.be/MWteJW-wYas?...
Uncredited: Searching for Lost Board Game Designers
YouTube video by Mary & Amabel Holland
youtu.be
May 21, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Finally had the time to watch this, and it might be the perfect fusion of board games, intellectual property, and genealogy. No lies, it hit every button in my brain.
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ROLLING DICE BY AIRPLANE LATEST OF SPORTS
Huge Cubes of Light Weight are Rolled down the Field by a Blast of Air from the Machine's Spinning Propeller
Playing the Game of Dice by Airplane.
Huge Cubes of Light Weight are Rolled down the Field by a Blast of Air from the Machine's Spinning Propeller
Playing the Game of Dice by Airplane.
May 17, 2025 at 9:31 AM
ROLLING DICE BY AIRPLANE LATEST OF SPORTS
Huge Cubes of Light Weight are Rolled down the Field by a Blast of Air from the Machine's Spinning Propeller
Playing the Game of Dice by Airplane.
Huge Cubes of Light Weight are Rolled down the Field by a Blast of Air from the Machine's Spinning Propeller
Playing the Game of Dice by Airplane.
That's a lot of blood! Hope the ref is OK!
May 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
That's a lot of blood! Hope the ref is OK!
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Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
May 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
Two breakthroughs in my Mount Gilead #oneplacestudy today!
1) Got my @wikitree.bsky.social space made: www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:M...
2) Found the full source citations for documents where I previously only had surnames and page numbers without the actual title of the work. Now I can really dig!
1) Got my @wikitree.bsky.social space made: www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:M...
2) Found the full source citations for documents where I previously only had surnames and page numbers without the actual title of the work. Now I can really dig!
Mount Gilead, Kentucky One Place Study
Wiki page on Mount Gilead, Kentucky One Place Study in Mount Gilead, Mason, Kentucky, United States.
www.wikitree.com
May 4, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Two breakthroughs in my Mount Gilead #oneplacestudy today!
1) Got my @wikitree.bsky.social space made: www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:M...
2) Found the full source citations for documents where I previously only had surnames and page numbers without the actual title of the work. Now I can really dig!
1) Got my @wikitree.bsky.social space made: www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:M...
2) Found the full source citations for documents where I previously only had surnames and page numbers without the actual title of the work. Now I can really dig!
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Movie you’ve seen more than six times, no Star Wars or Trek or LOTR.
April 26, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Movie you’ve seen more than six times, no Star Wars or Trek or LOTR.