John du Bois (He/Him)
@johndubois.bsky.social
Brain injured game designer who pays bills as an SLP.
Avatar of Cheese Masculinity.
Board games, sewing, LEGO, books.
This Machine Helps People Use Their Voice.
I'd like a hard boiled egg.
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Avatar of Cheese Masculinity.
Board games, sewing, LEGO, books.
This Machine Helps People Use Their Voice.
I'd like a hard boiled egg.
https://sites.google.com/view/johndubois/home?authuser=0
I think that with all the relitigation of the last ten years of Democratic campaigning and policy, so much of the mistakes can be summed up simply:
They didn’t imagine that, as thus failed to act as though, Donald Trump could win.
They didn’t imagine that, as thus failed to act as though, Donald Trump could win.
November 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I think that with all the relitigation of the last ten years of Democratic campaigning and policy, so much of the mistakes can be summed up simply:
They didn’t imagine that, as thus failed to act as though, Donald Trump could win.
They didn’t imagine that, as thus failed to act as though, Donald Trump could win.
I can always tell when I Peopled too much over the weekend because I wonder on Monday morning if I can call in sick all week to work and crush my TBR list instead of talking to any more people
(Yes, I did in fact go into a field that requires me to speak and communicate constantly at work, why?)
(Yes, I did in fact go into a field that requires me to speak and communicate constantly at work, why?)
November 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I can always tell when I Peopled too much over the weekend because I wonder on Monday morning if I can call in sick all week to work and crush my TBR list instead of talking to any more people
(Yes, I did in fact go into a field that requires me to speak and communicate constantly at work, why?)
(Yes, I did in fact go into a field that requires me to speak and communicate constantly at work, why?)
Because I’ve been bad at the self-promotion this year: Tomorrow is the last day of the Hollandays sale for Hollandspiele.
They published my games Striking Flint and Heading Forward as well as many other games.
This is your annual chance to get a discount on them.
hollandspiele.com
They published my games Striking Flint and Heading Forward as well as many other games.
This is your annual chance to get a discount on them.
hollandspiele.com
Hollandspiele
European and UK customers: our games are available exclusively at Second Chance Games. We no longer sell to Europe through our own site.
We are a small weird publisher that specializes in small weird ...
hollandspiele.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Because I’ve been bad at the self-promotion this year: Tomorrow is the last day of the Hollandays sale for Hollandspiele.
They published my games Striking Flint and Heading Forward as well as many other games.
This is your annual chance to get a discount on them.
hollandspiele.com
They published my games Striking Flint and Heading Forward as well as many other games.
This is your annual chance to get a discount on them.
hollandspiele.com
“Accusing political opponents of sedition is unprecedented behavior in this country”
Friends, Thomas Jefferson had Aaron Burr tried for treason for acts he committed *while he was Jefferson’s Vice President*.
Do not underestimate the ability of our nation’s founders to be petty as fuck.
Friends, Thomas Jefferson had Aaron Burr tried for treason for acts he committed *while he was Jefferson’s Vice President*.
Do not underestimate the ability of our nation’s founders to be petty as fuck.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
“Accusing political opponents of sedition is unprecedented behavior in this country”
Friends, Thomas Jefferson had Aaron Burr tried for treason for acts he committed *while he was Jefferson’s Vice President*.
Do not underestimate the ability of our nation’s founders to be petty as fuck.
Friends, Thomas Jefferson had Aaron Burr tried for treason for acts he committed *while he was Jefferson’s Vice President*.
Do not underestimate the ability of our nation’s founders to be petty as fuck.
Live your life in such a way that you do not add to a… *checks notes* fifteen-year long history of project mismanagement, intellectual property theft, and outright fraud every time you launch a new product.
November 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Live your life in such a way that you do not add to a… *checks notes* fifteen-year long history of project mismanagement, intellectual property theft, and outright fraud every time you launch a new product.
1. Codenames (base game and/or Duet)
2. Heading Forward (that’s right, I like my own game)
3. Spirit Island
4. Odin’s Ravens
5. No Thanks
6. Coup
7. Dead of Winter
8. The Crew
9. Werewords
10. Eggs and Empires
2. Heading Forward (that’s right, I like my own game)
3. Spirit Island
4. Odin’s Ravens
5. No Thanks
6. Coup
7. Dead of Winter
8. The Crew
9. Werewords
10. Eggs and Empires
board game enthusiasts of bluesky, what are your top 10 board games of all time
November 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
1. Codenames (base game and/or Duet)
2. Heading Forward (that’s right, I like my own game)
3. Spirit Island
4. Odin’s Ravens
5. No Thanks
6. Coup
7. Dead of Winter
8. The Crew
9. Werewords
10. Eggs and Empires
2. Heading Forward (that’s right, I like my own game)
3. Spirit Island
4. Odin’s Ravens
5. No Thanks
6. Coup
7. Dead of Winter
8. The Crew
9. Werewords
10. Eggs and Empires
Okay so the article says that what the US does for mortgages is weird, but now I wonder about what it doesn’t say: What do other countries do?
This article has a lot of really interesting information about the history of mortgages; I didn't realize the way we handle them in the US is this distinctive and the look at how they affect the housing market was very enlightening.
Is a 50-year mortgage really that much crazier than a 30-year one?
Last week, the internet piled on President Trump's proposal for a 50-year mortgage. But maybe it's not as crazy as it sounds.
www.npr.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Okay so the article says that what the US does for mortgages is weird, but now I wonder about what it doesn’t say: What do other countries do?
One might argue that this is, to many people, the entire purpose of NYT “reasonable” conservatives
There is no batshit far-right idea that the NYT's "reasonable" conservatives will not launder into polite discourse.
November 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
One might argue that this is, to many people, the entire purpose of NYT “reasonable” conservatives
Someone somewhere is making sure Chotiner has Olivia Nuzzi’s phone number, right?
November 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Someone somewhere is making sure Chotiner has Olivia Nuzzi’s phone number, right?
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sale starts tomorrow at twelve a.m. eastern
November 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
sale starts tomorrow at twelve a.m. eastern
Let’s talk big picture “doing the right thing”
This isn’t just an institutional failure, it’s a series of individual failures
If you’re at the FBI, you’ve got your hands on solid evidence that a shitload of powerful folks including POTUS were involved in a pedophelia ring, and there’s a cover up
This isn’t just an institutional failure, it’s a series of individual failures
If you’re at the FBI, you’ve got your hands on solid evidence that a shitload of powerful folks including POTUS were involved in a pedophelia ring, and there’s a cover up
November 13, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Let’s talk big picture “doing the right thing”
This isn’t just an institutional failure, it’s a series of individual failures
If you’re at the FBI, you’ve got your hands on solid evidence that a shitload of powerful folks including POTUS were involved in a pedophelia ring, and there’s a cover up
This isn’t just an institutional failure, it’s a series of individual failures
If you’re at the FBI, you’ve got your hands on solid evidence that a shitload of powerful folks including POTUS were involved in a pedophelia ring, and there’s a cover up
Okay so is there anything in this 20,000 page fire hose that actually implicates Bill Clinton, or are people still running on “of course Clinton is implicated” vibes?
November 13, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Okay so is there anything in this 20,000 page fire hose that actually implicates Bill Clinton, or are people still running on “of course Clinton is implicated” vibes?
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10th Annual Hollandays Sale: Nov 14 - 23, 2025
YouTube video by Hollandspiele
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Btw, if you survived shit, you don’t need to follow the drip, drip in order to be an informed, responsible citizen - contrary to some hot takes over the last few hours
Really does feel like a nontrivial percentage of the powerful running this country are pedophiles
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Btw, if you survived shit, you don’t need to follow the drip, drip in order to be an informed, responsible citizen - contrary to some hot takes over the last few hours
Congressional Republicans are acting like they know the next question that will be asked is “who knew about this and how long have they known?”
I mean they are literally refusing to do their jobs at all rather than face these files, what else are we supposed to conclude? nobody has ever acted guiltier than these people
Back and then gone again, Republican leadership are signaling that the funding bill votes will be the only votes in the House this week, they're sending everyone home afterwards
November 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Congressional Republicans are acting like they know the next question that will be asked is “who knew about this and how long have they known?”
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I want that last paragraph on a T-shirt (or really, an enamel pin because I need to be able to wear it constantly)
There’s certainly some stuff I make a note of for various reasons, but I also have been thinking a lot about Bryan Stevenson’s “Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done”
There’s certainly some stuff I make a note of for various reasons, but I also have been thinking a lot about Bryan Stevenson’s “Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done”
About once a week someone online hits me with a passive aggressive “wow I am SURPRISED to see you repost/fave/share a person I broke up with/don’t like etc”.
Friends. I remind you that I don’t know you or your personal burn book.
Friends. I remind you that I don’t know you or your personal burn book.
November 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I want that last paragraph on a T-shirt (or really, an enamel pin because I need to be able to wear it constantly)
There’s certainly some stuff I make a note of for various reasons, but I also have been thinking a lot about Bryan Stevenson’s “Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done”
There’s certainly some stuff I make a note of for various reasons, but I also have been thinking a lot about Bryan Stevenson’s “Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done”
Okay, so here’s why this is important
If the answer to this question is “yes”, the House changes the bill, and Johnson doesn’t welch on swearing in Grijalta, Senate Democrats could just… not vote for cloture again
And get the Epstein files bill to the House floor without actually losing anything
If the answer to this question is “yes”, the House changes the bill, and Johnson doesn’t welch on swearing in Grijalta, Senate Democrats could just… not vote for cloture again
And get the Epstein files bill to the House floor without actually losing anything
So this bill to reopen the government.
If the House makes changes to it after the Senate passes it, and the Senate has to revote, do they need cloture again?
If the House makes changes to it after the Senate passes it, and the Senate has to revote, do they need cloture again?
November 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Okay, so here’s why this is important
If the answer to this question is “yes”, the House changes the bill, and Johnson doesn’t welch on swearing in Grijalta, Senate Democrats could just… not vote for cloture again
And get the Epstein files bill to the House floor without actually losing anything
If the answer to this question is “yes”, the House changes the bill, and Johnson doesn’t welch on swearing in Grijalta, Senate Democrats could just… not vote for cloture again
And get the Epstein files bill to the House floor without actually losing anything
So this bill to reopen the government.
If the House makes changes to it after the Senate passes it, and the Senate has to revote, do they need cloture again?
If the House makes changes to it after the Senate passes it, and the Senate has to revote, do they need cloture again?
November 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM
So this bill to reopen the government.
If the House makes changes to it after the Senate passes it, and the Senate has to revote, do they need cloture again?
If the House makes changes to it after the Senate passes it, and the Senate has to revote, do they need cloture again?
If this was the rationale - and I think it’s reasonable that it could have been - the Democrats could have gotten a lot of mileage by straight up saying the thing.
“The Republicans wanted to starve people to make their point. We couldn’t let that happen. Remember this next November.”
“The Republicans wanted to starve people to make their point. We couldn’t let that happen. Remember this next November.”
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
If this was the rationale - and I think it’s reasonable that it could have been - the Democrats could have gotten a lot of mileage by straight up saying the thing.
“The Republicans wanted to starve people to make their point. We couldn’t let that happen. Remember this next November.”
“The Republicans wanted to starve people to make their point. We couldn’t let that happen. Remember this next November.”
I feel like we can’t lose sight of the contrast here - while federal agents are tear-gassing nonviolent protestors and their bosses are arguing in court that we should all be okay with that, it’s the mayor-elect who hasn’t yet done anything at all that WaPo brands “Generalissimo”
November 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I feel like we can’t lose sight of the contrast here - while federal agents are tear-gassing nonviolent protestors and their bosses are arguing in court that we should all be okay with that, it’s the mayor-elect who hasn’t yet done anything at all that WaPo brands “Generalissimo”
This is just
Top tier grudge holding
Against a deserving target
No notes
Top tier grudge holding
Against a deserving target
No notes
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:59 AM
This is just
Top tier grudge holding
Against a deserving target
No notes
Top tier grudge holding
Against a deserving target
No notes
A few years ago, I was on a committee for a local Catholic parish that, among other things, discussed the parish’s ministries and how well the ministries we offered we consistent with the Church’s mission and Catholic social teaching.
And I’ll tell you what. Even the churches that can and do help? Don’t have the infrastructure to help on even a city wide level. This is a single person- we are being told churches can be the new snap. No they can’t. They simply cant.
To be clear, she herself is not in need and though she plays a tape of a baby crying in the background for the calls, she does not actually have a newborn. She is testing them. And most are failing.
November 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
A few years ago, I was on a committee for a local Catholic parish that, among other things, discussed the parish’s ministries and how well the ministries we offered we consistent with the Church’s mission and Catholic social teaching.
After spending most of a day psyching myself up to make four parent phone calls, I have no fucking idea how 18-year-old me worked a job cold-calling university alumni asking for donations.
November 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
After spending most of a day psyching myself up to make four parent phone calls, I have no fucking idea how 18-year-old me worked a job cold-calling university alumni asking for donations.
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Apparently all you needed to do to predict the NYC election results was read that one N.K. Jemisin novel.
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Apparently all you needed to do to predict the NYC election results was read that one N.K. Jemisin novel.
Yeah this is kind of where it’s at
Trumpism used this manufactured nostalgia for how things used to be, and the Dems fought it with promoting the present or the immediately pre-Trump past
But that gave up on the idea that lots of things still need to be better
And we need *progressive* energy
Trumpism used this manufactured nostalgia for how things used to be, and the Dems fought it with promoting the present or the immediately pre-Trump past
But that gave up on the idea that lots of things still need to be better
And we need *progressive* energy
November 5, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Yeah this is kind of where it’s at
Trumpism used this manufactured nostalgia for how things used to be, and the Dems fought it with promoting the present or the immediately pre-Trump past
But that gave up on the idea that lots of things still need to be better
And we need *progressive* energy
Trumpism used this manufactured nostalgia for how things used to be, and the Dems fought it with promoting the present or the immediately pre-Trump past
But that gave up on the idea that lots of things still need to be better
And we need *progressive* energy