Roo (they/them)
@empathephant.bsky.social
📍Seattle, WA
🌈 neurodivergent outdoor educator & behavioral health specialist
✍️ for Minesweeper Roguelike @broomsweeper.bsky.social
💙 linguistics, mushrooms, birds, live music, poetry, MtG, board games, public transit 💙
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🌈 neurodivergent outdoor educator & behavioral health specialist
✍️ for Minesweeper Roguelike @broomsweeper.bsky.social
💙 linguistics, mushrooms, birds, live music, poetry, MtG, board games, public transit 💙
🗣️ en, mn, es, nl
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Roo (they/them)
@empathephant.bsky.social
· Mar 14
BroomSweeper on Steam
BroomSweeper is a Minesweeper-style Roguelike puzzle game. Unmask the evil lurking at TentaTech, Inc. as you ascend through increasingly challenging floors. Assemble winning combinations from over 100...
store.steampowered.com
My partner & I have been working for a year on making a Minesweeper Roguelike and it's finally available to wishlist! We tried to design the game so that it’s both accessible to new Minesweeper players and appealing to those who want a challenge.
store.steampowered.com/app/3473250/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3473250/...
seeing this article was a dream come true, @broomsweeper.bsky.social feels so real now
"It starts to feel like you and the game are fighting over every grid, both undermining the actual puzzle with every dirty trick you can."
www.pcgamer.com/games/roguel...
So stoked that BroomSweeper has been featured in @pcgamer.com !!!
www.pcgamer.com/games/roguel...
So stoked that BroomSweeper has been featured in @pcgamer.com !!!
This Minesweeper roguelike is a chaotic corporate nightmare, and I love it
BroomSweeper turns an old classic into a surreal challenge that feels completely unsolvable, until you solve it.
www.pcgamer.com
June 17, 2025 at 6:22 AM
seeing this article was a dream come true, @broomsweeper.bsky.social feels so real now
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being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
March 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
March 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
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If apartheid was wrong in South Africa, it is wrong in Israel. If ethnic cleansing was wrong in Bosnia, it is wrong in Palestine. If genocide was wrong in Rwanda, it is wrong in Gaza. There is no principled way to support human rights in one context while excusing their violation in another.
March 18, 2025 at 6:22 AM
If apartheid was wrong in South Africa, it is wrong in Israel. If ethnic cleansing was wrong in Bosnia, it is wrong in Palestine. If genocide was wrong in Rwanda, it is wrong in Gaza. There is no principled way to support human rights in one context while excusing their violation in another.
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BREAKING | Protesters in Los Angeles shut down traffic, joining the nationwide movement demanding the release of detained Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil.
March 16, 2025 at 12:15 AM
BREAKING | Protesters in Los Angeles shut down traffic, joining the nationwide movement demanding the release of detained Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil.
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It is always interesting to me how people never seem to demand evidence that cruelty will be good for "the economy" but no matter how.many studies of kinder things like UBI or housing first we do those who talk about "the economy" refuse to believe they are beneficial.
March 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
It is always interesting to me how people never seem to demand evidence that cruelty will be good for "the economy" but no matter how.many studies of kinder things like UBI or housing first we do those who talk about "the economy" refuse to believe they are beneficial.
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Should get a PCEF grant to put one of these on every block of town bikeportland.org/2025/03/14/i...
Is this 'Bikehangar' a residential parking solution for Portland?
"Being able to have secure bike parking in front is really nice and convenient."
bikeportland.org
March 15, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Should get a PCEF grant to put one of these on every block of town bikeportland.org/2025/03/14/i...
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Share the media.
The news is compromised.
We're starting to boil over.
The news is compromised.
We're starting to boil over.
March 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Share the media.
The news is compromised.
We're starting to boil over.
The news is compromised.
We're starting to boil over.
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speed running every great depression trope. Good thing no one's fucking with all the safeguards we set up after '29
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March 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
speed running every great depression trope. Good thing no one's fucking with all the safeguards we set up after '29
(also reposting with alt text)
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My partner & I have been working for a year on making a Minesweeper Roguelike and it's finally available to wishlist! We tried to design the game so that it’s both accessible to new Minesweeper players and appealing to those who want a challenge.
store.steampowered.com/app/3473250/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3473250/...
BroomSweeper on Steam
BroomSweeper is a Minesweeper-style Roguelike puzzle game. Unmask the evil lurking at TentaTech, Inc. as you ascend through increasingly challenging floors. Assemble winning combinations from over 100...
store.steampowered.com
March 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
My partner & I have been working for a year on making a Minesweeper Roguelike and it's finally available to wishlist! We tried to design the game so that it’s both accessible to new Minesweeper players and appealing to those who want a challenge.
store.steampowered.com/app/3473250/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3473250/...
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I have shared this story, this thread, before - but I think given the state of the world, it's worth telling once again. Maybe it can help, especially if like me, you make art, and you wonder what the use of all of it is right now.
March 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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It will never not crack me up that Edge of Tomorrow (a movie I really like!) had THREE different titles at various points (All You Need is Kill, Edge of Tomorrow, Live. Die. Repeat.) and they went with the most boring one
"All You Need Is Kill", the new japanese animated feature by Studio 4°C.
Directed by Kenichiro Akimoto (Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko).
Based on the light novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, which already inspired "Edge of Tomorrow" movie.
aynk-anime.com
Directed by Kenichiro Akimoto (Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko).
Based on the light novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, which already inspired "Edge of Tomorrow" movie.
aynk-anime.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
It will never not crack me up that Edge of Tomorrow (a movie I really like!) had THREE different titles at various points (All You Need is Kill, Edge of Tomorrow, Live. Die. Repeat.) and they went with the most boring one
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As someone who works in the space of archive, if this comes to pass it's a complete travesty. Looks like I'll be combing through to get as much as I can saved.
March 7, 2025 at 8:15 AM
As someone who works in the space of archive, if this comes to pass it's a complete travesty. Looks like I'll be combing through to get as much as I can saved.
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Looks like my global health work on childhood diarrhea just got relevant at home 🧵
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US supreme court weakens rules on discharge of raw sewage into water supplies
Ruling by the court, which has a Republican super majority, undermines the 1972 Clean Water Act
www.theguardian.com
March 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Looks like my global health work on childhood diarrhea just got relevant at home 🧵
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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The amount of grace leaders from other countries are giving us is truly unreal, as well. They don't HAVE to say, "We like YOU Americans, just not YOU leaders." When have we, represented by our leaders, ever extended that level of grace to other countries' citizens?
March 6, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The amount of grace leaders from other countries are giving us is truly unreal, as well. They don't HAVE to say, "We like YOU Americans, just not YOU leaders." When have we, represented by our leaders, ever extended that level of grace to other countries' citizens?
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I want kids; I don't know them yet. I don't know their race, their sex, their ability. I don't know who they are, who they'll love, who they'll grow into being.
And I want what's best for them.
So the only reasonable position is to make things as good as possible for as many people as possible.
And I want what's best for them.
So the only reasonable position is to make things as good as possible for as many people as possible.
January 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I want kids; I don't know them yet. I don't know their race, their sex, their ability. I don't know who they are, who they'll love, who they'll grow into being.
And I want what's best for them.
So the only reasonable position is to make things as good as possible for as many people as possible.
And I want what's best for them.
So the only reasonable position is to make things as good as possible for as many people as possible.
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website exactly as it was the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. The site, called RestoredCDC.org, went live Tuesday and is currently being hosted in Europe. Read more: www.404media.co/archivists-r...
Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe
The team used a Reddit-made archive of the CDC website to create a new live mirror of the site before it was purged.
www.404media.co
March 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website exactly as it was the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. The site, called RestoredCDC.org, went live Tuesday and is currently being hosted in Europe. Read more: www.404media.co/archivists-r...
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Scientists who rely on NOAA funding asked me to pretty please make stickers of the plucky shrimp wheatpasting, and I said ok ok, but it has to be a secret menu bc the Skype a scientist shop shouldn’t have “fuck” on it 😅
Choose the “secret menu” variant 🤫
squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/just...
Choose the “secret menu” variant 🤫
squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/just...
March 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Scientists who rely on NOAA funding asked me to pretty please make stickers of the plucky shrimp wheatpasting, and I said ok ok, but it has to be a secret menu bc the Skype a scientist shop shouldn’t have “fuck” on it 😅
Choose the “secret menu” variant 🤫
squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/just...
Choose the “secret menu” variant 🤫
squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/just...
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guy in the 1920s putting a "i bought this before he went crazy" sticker on his Model T
March 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
guy in the 1920s putting a "i bought this before he went crazy" sticker on his Model T
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This is absolutely horrific and yet again another in a long line of examples of the GOP engaging in eugenics of disabled and chronically ill people.
The Iowa GOP advanced a bill making it a misdemeanor for a healthcare provider to administer a Covid vaccine.
Even when a person has requested a Covid vaccine.
Even when a person has requested a Covid vaccine.
March 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM
This is absolutely horrific and yet again another in a long line of examples of the GOP engaging in eugenics of disabled and chronically ill people.