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CooperJohn
@cooperjohn.bsky.social
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🚀NASA (retired, aperture science)
🎲game designer (The Gang, Homeworlds)
✒️poet (old forms, new embarrassments)
🏞️dendrophile (tree hugs, mushrumps)
👽sci-fi (hard, classic)
🧗climber (trees, rocks)
🍺trivia (poor memory, good times)
🏳️‍⚧️ pronouns (he/him)
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jessefuchs.bsky.social
Hail To The Queen
a Roz Chast cartoon titled "Inside-of-Body Experience", featuring a woman waking up in dishevelment, thinking "Once again, here I am."
July 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
cooperjohn.bsky.social
#1 song in the UK 1967!
Randy Scouse Git - Monkees
YouTube video by smfimiki
youtu.be
July 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
cooperjohn.bsky.social
Gina and I had a lovely time at Games and Stuff, teaching and playing The Gang! Wonderful event; great staff; excellent venue (also the coffee was sublime). Thank you G&S so much for running these monthly board game socials!
gamesandstuffmd.bsky.social Games and Stuff @gamesandstuffmd.bsky.social · Jun 30
Another super fun Board Game Social in the books! Thanks to all who came out to play, and to @cooperjohn.bsky.social for hanging out to teach The Gang! Mark your calendars for 7/19, and come get (board game) social with us! 🤩 #flgs #boardgames #tabletopgames
July 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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gamesandstuffmd.bsky.social
Come get (board game) social with us on Sunday! It's always a super fun way to hang out w/likeminded folks and play, and we're stoked to have John Cooper (designer of The Gang) join us to teach the game! #flgs #boardgames www.gamesandstuffonline.com/products/boa...
June 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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davethegame.bsky.social
My two favorite game stores @labyrinthdc.bsky.social and @gamesandstuffmd.bsky.social are both running Thunder Road: Vendetta events for Free RPG Day. Maybe your FLGS is running one too!
June 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
cooperjohn.bsky.social
The Gang just won an ASTRA award, for best family game!
🎉🥂😎
American Specialty Toy Retailing Association (Astra) Announces 2025 Play Award Winners at Star Awards Gala During Annual Marketplace & Academy Event
www.morningstar.com
June 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
cooperjohn.bsky.social
Dice Tower nominees are in, and I'm thrilled and honored to see The Gang nominated for THREE awards! —Most Innovative, Best Welcoming Game, and Best Co-operative Game.
Summer Spectacular - Dice Tower Awards Nominations
YouTube video by The Dice Tower
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June 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
cooperjohn.bsky.social
The latest Going Analog podcast is up! Guest designer (and good friend) Dominic talks about his wonderful game Nature, The Gang, and designing science-based games. Enjoy!
goinganalogshow.bsky.social Going Analog ➡️ BGG.CON @goinganalogshow.bsky.social · May 23
Sheesh we took a looong break. Find out why while we discuss TARIFFS 🤮 and designing science games 👨‍🔬 with @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social (Evolution, Nature) of @northstargames.bsky.social!

www.goinganalogshow.com/article/294/...
May 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
cooperjohn.bsky.social
Welp, The Gang didn't quite get nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres 😟
But we made the Empfehlungsliste, so THAT'S cool! 😎
www.spiel-des-jahres.de/aktuelle-pre...
Aktuelle Preisträger 2025
Nominiert für die Wahl zum Spiel des Jahres 2025 Bomb Busters von Hisashi Hayashi Pegasus Spiele Illustration: Dominique Ferland Kooperatives Bombenentschärfen mit Köpfchen für 2 bis 5 Personen ab 10 ...
www.spiel-des-jahres.de
May 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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swilua.bsky.social
This is so relatable
"I'm not screaming, 'aliens!" said Nikole Lewis, an exoplanetary scientist at Cornell University. "But I always reserve my right to scream 'aliens!'"
April 17, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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drayerink.bsky.social
Wonderful to see some many games on this list of nominees by designers and publishers who are also my friends 🧡

Congratulations 🎊

Go and vote!

boardgamegeek.com/thread/34962...
19th Annual Golden Geek Awards - Nominees Announced for 2024 - Vote Now! | BGG
You have chosen the nominees for the 2024 Golden Geek Awards! The voting is now open via this link. [geekurl=/geekawards/boardgame]Board Games[/geekurl] Instructions: * Select the appropriate catego...
boardgamegeek.com
April 16, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
It's long past time to ban insider trading in Congress.
April 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
cooperjohn.bsky.social
A big award for The Gang!
(Goddammit Kory)
boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...
America’s answer to the Spiel des Jahres, the American Tabletop Awards, unveils 2025 winners -
The American Tabletop Awards, an awards scheme launched six years ago with the aim of being the US equivalent of Germany's Spiel des Jahres, has revealed its 2025 winners.
boardgamewire.com
April 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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izoldat.bsky.social
Can a card game sharpen collaborative, trust, and decision-making skills? Yep. @cooperjohn.bsky.social's The Gang does just that. We talk creativity, leadership & play on the pod.
open.spotify.com/episode/659j...
#Creativity #Leadership #GameThinking #Strategy #Podcast
April 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
cooperjohn.bsky.social
Insane, or narcissistic sociopath? Maybe all three?
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Stop Looking for Methods in the Madness
There’s no plan, secret or otherwise, behind Trump’s tariffs
open.substack.com
April 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
cooperjohn.bsky.social
LOVE this analogy
paulandstorm.bsky.social Paul and Storm @paulandstorm.bsky.social · Mar 26
[P] "If you go back 100, 120 years, they saw canals on Mars, think of it—so many canals, huge networks of them, you'd see them all over. Now they don't see them anywhere. Now, what the hell is that all about? There's something out there and we gotta find it."
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Mar 26
Trump: "Something happened. If you go back 20 years, autism, think of it -- one in 20,000 children. Think of that. One autism. You see it all over. One in 20,000 children. Now it's one in 36 children. Now, what the hell is that all about? There's something out there and we gotta find it."
March 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
cooperjohn.bsky.social
ME: i trained this chicken to talk HER: let's see ME: what's a male deer CHICKEN: buck ME: how much is 200 pennies CHICKEN: buck buck HER: this is stupid ME: it gets better CHICKEN: it gets way better, Susan
March 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
March 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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tkingfisher.com
Who wants some good news?

The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...
Eastern Monarch Butterfly Population Nearly Doubles
The population wintering in central Mexico's forests occupied 4.42 acres, up from 2.22 acres during the previous winter.
www.worldwildlife.org
March 18, 2025 at 5:32 AM
cooperjohn.bsky.social
The Gang got nominated!
www.polygon.com/tabletop-gam...
GAMA Origins Awards celebrate excellence in tabletop
Plus a chat with GAMA executive director John Stacy
www.polygon.com
March 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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ziibiing.com
wait there’s a goose, too!
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February 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
cooperjohn.bsky.social
This is beautiful
debbieohi.com Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · Feb 25
Finding it hard to focus right now (a dear friend is undergoing brain surgery right now) but have updated my #Uplift feed, for others who need it: bsky.app/profile/debb...

I may be scarce online for a bit.
Found object art illustration of a dragon, where the dragon's body is a real-life curl from a pencil shaving. Also lying on the paper is a small wooden pencil sharpener with a pencil inserted, wooden shaving curling out. A brown colored pencil lies nearly. Art by Debbie Ridpath Ohi.
February 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
cooperjohn.bsky.social
www.climbing.com/news/yosemit...
How the Yosemite Climbing Community Is Reacting to DOGE Layoffs
El Cap’s upside-down flag, the park’s fired lone locksmith, and the safety of Yosemite climbing this season
www.climbing.com
February 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
cooperjohn.bsky.social
"Work Makes You Well?"
I'm disgusted
February 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
cooperjohn.bsky.social
This is a fascinatingly deep, rich investigation and story. If you get a chance, please listen or read the transcript.

revealnews.org/podcast/40-a...
How a Black utopia for formerly enslaved people became a wealthy White enclave
We trace “40 acres” land titles to a staggeringly beautiful sea island off the coast of Georgia that’s now a wealthy gated community.
revealnews.org
February 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM