Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

We have launched our Near and Far campaign! I'm playing Eyim, @peterdrake chose Kiku.

Remarkable about Broken Plains for me:
(1) I won for the first time, probably because I completed my very own trade route for the first time.
(2) When you have a big stack of gems, reputation is a good investment.
(3) If you find yourself with a big stack of various resources, go ahead and take 4 advanced artifact cards at the General Store. You'll probably be able to afford one immediately.

#BoardGames

#Violet settles in for a post-bath nap.

Onward to E games!

Einfach Genial Knobelspass is a "game" only in the sense that you can be competitive about who completes each puzzle first. Since @peterdrake is a Go player, with decades of practice reading out life and death sequences, he always wins.

Still, I claimed a moral victory for (a) figuring out a few dependency tricks and (b) completing all the Level 1 puzzles with no hints.

The blurred images show solutions, so view at your own risk!

#BoardGamesAtoZ #BoardGames

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

I still haven't made it to Black history. I'm close! But I'm still on white US history. There's so much of it! It's everywhere!

Q: Why does it seem like Black folk don't contribute much to society or science or history? Most inventions are from Europeans? Why does it seem this way? Don't cancel me!

A: Racism. The lie of white supremacy requires that we pretend that white men are the only people that ever invented anything or contributed to society.

#BlackMastodon

JJ when he hears the word “hungry.” #dogmom #dogsofmastodon

Hey Webster if you love words so much why don’t you Merriam

What an amazing study: "Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial"

"Results Parachute use did not significantly reduce death or major injury"

a) definitely read this, it's hilarious
b) it's poking pretty hard at the stance that medical trials require a stance of equipoise -- genuine uncertainty about which option is better

https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094

h/t to @riana

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