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Brian Poel
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Professional geek in Seattle (he/him), specialized in financial management, game design, data analysis, RPGs and improv.
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I hope I don't jinx it, but Sanibel is my first game in a while that hasn't gotten pre-release bombed on BGG with 1 ratings from people who haven't played. 🎉 Gotta say, it feels pretty great to be sitting at 7.5 only a few days after release.

If you played this weekend, add your rating! 🐚
Sanibel
Collect seashells that come and go with the tide on the beaches of Sanibel.
boardgamegeek.com
January 20, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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Don’t miss out on this gorgeous release.
The Lamplighters League — Original Video Game Soundtrack (2xLP Vinyl Record)!

Available exclusively at the Materia Store: buff.ly/AkYmSwJ

#Musicsky #vinylrecords #videogames @MateriaCollective.com @JonEverist.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement:

She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵
January 14, 2026 at 3:43 AM
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over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)
January 14, 2026 at 2:06 AM
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NEW GRAFT TRAILER—WISHLIST NOW!
Inosculation (n): A natural phenomenon in which the trunks, branches or roots of two trees grow together.
December 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Seeing Arcadia in London was a highlight of my college theatre experience (the Haymarket production in Jan of ‘95, I think?) While I can’t claim to be an expert on his entire body of work, I still hold a soft spot for his witty and clever style. Rest in peace.
November 30, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Oh, also, while I'm breaking my self-imposed social media hiatus, here's a little chat about game writing that I filmed with Jordan Weisman a while back! youtu.be/TlRPWTLwH-o
Writing Games That Matter | Jordan Weisman & Andrew McIntosh | The Game Mechanics
YouTube video by Adventure Forge
youtu.be
October 28, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Always great to see Shadowrun: Dragonfall in such great company on here, cheers @pcgamer.com!
The 2025 edition of our annual Top 100 list is here, running down the best PC games to play now from the perspective of PC Gamer's 30+ writers and editors.
The top 100 PC games
Welcome to the 2025 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games you can play.
www.pcgamer.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
A talented former colleague... put this beauty in the back of your heart and let it percolate. Never know when you'll want more and need to ask if he's available.
Hi #PortfolioDay, I'm Lee! A technical artist with a focus on lighting and rendering with many years of experience. I am becoming old and grizzled.

I'm not currently looking for work, but here are some sheets I put together last time I was and I think they are neat
October 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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This powerful JB Pritzker response to Trump's lawless threats is another reminder of what I tried to argue this morning: Pritzker understands Stephen Miller's theory of this moment, and he's responding accordingly:

newrepublic.com/article/2014...
October 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker
October 6, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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I watched "The Hobby" last night with a group of tabletop game designers, and what a treat! The film looks affectionately at board games from the perspective of pro and amateur designers, players, and influencers. It captures how much game design has itself become a hobby in the story of...
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October 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Expanded my close read of today's Trump Terror Memo, with help from @audiosand.bsky.social & and unnamed federal-adjacent employee. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/rubber-glu...
Rubber Glue Fascism
A close reading of "NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7: Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence"
slowcivilwar.substack.com
September 26, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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had a frank conversation with the 6 year old where it was decided the Disney+ subscription was better off used for buying video games anyway
September 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder?

“Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”
August 28, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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“The chief justice has no higher obligation than to protect the federal judiciary from attacks by this president, and in my view he has utterly failed.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The umpire who picked a side: John Roberts and the death of rule of law in America
The chief justice of the US has painted himself as a modern institutionalist over the past 20 years. Experts say he’s emboldening Trump’s drive toward authoritarianism
www.theguardian.com
August 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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An idea:
August 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Anas Al Sharif had these words to publish if he was martyred which he was tonight as Israel starts the invasion of Gaza City
August 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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One of the wonderful things about this business is the opportunity to stumble upon really impressive people. Professor/historian @hcrichardson.bsky.social is one of those people. This week’s No Mercy / No Malice reflects some of her takes on our current moment.

www.profgalloway.com/resist/
Resist | No Mercy / No Malice
My go-to historical frame of reference is World War II. At a staggering global cost of 85 million lives, the Second World War was the crucible of the 20th century — an explosion of unfathomable destru...
www.profgalloway.com
July 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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did a video on jim crow as part of my american history series on youtube youtu.be/FdCf0rQmY-s
Nerd Stuff: What was Jim Crow?
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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June 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Spitting FIRE holy shit 🔥
June 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Well done, Miss Feldman.
May 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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A reminder of the simple but often forgotten truth that all three of Harebrained Shemes' Shadowrun games were brilliant. If you haven't played them, well, do so.
May 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe."

But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.

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April 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM