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

Our squirrel has figured out how to reach all three front bird feeders. Sadly, I wasn't fast enough to catch the moment it successfully tackled the owl. But it did!

One's very heavy and the other's a little lighter

Arboretum's beautiful cards make you think it will be a cozy, genteel way to pass the time, but it's actually a brutal knife fight the whole time. I am not normally prone to analysis paralysis, but it gets me in this one.

@peterdrake thought he had enough tulip poplars to block me scoring them, but it was a tie. The 8 points they gave me pushed me over in a 20 vs.15 win.

Was it impolite to the trees to have logs blazing in the fireplace nearby while we played?

#BoardGamesAtoZ #BoardGames

We pulled Ameritocracy off our Shelf of Shame and played it twice, once yesterday and once today. That's probably enough for me. It felt like a game that non-gamers buy for the theme. The run-of-the-mill play might be novel and fun for them, but less so for regular gamers.

It's not a fair comparison, because the scale is quite different, but Votes for Women also asks you to make decisions about how and when to play cards, only with better tension and agonizing.

#BoardGamesAtoZ #BoardGames

Since a couple of people have suggested putting the comics on a website or printing collections of them -- those things actually exist already! :)

There's a searchable (by title) list here: https://wizardzines.com/comics

And you can buy print copies at https://wizardzines.com

Undenisble sibling resemblance.

#DogsOfMastodon #dogs #dog #Mastodog #floof #doggo #pets #pet #CatsOfMastodon #cats #MastoCats #catstodon #CatContent #WednesdayMood

Why do Astronauts use Linux? 🚀
#Analytics #MachineLearning #AI #Python #Serverless #flutter #javascript #CloudComputing #programming
#BigData #IoT #cybersecurity
#fintech #programming #CES2023
#Coding #100daysofcode

And I'm the one who wakes up sore in the morning?!

#Violet #DogsOfMastodon

I keep seeing articles, about people trying to violently overturn election results, that use phrases like “motivated by election lies”.

They aren’t motivated by lies, they are motivated by not liking the result. Repeating the lies just makes them feel powerful because it makes them part of the grift. They think they’re fooling people.

Blaming the lies lulls us into thinking that this is an education/disinformation problem which, if addressed, will eliminate the violence.

These folks aren’t deluded. They’ve learned from their leaders that violence and lying are the route to power.

For most of my life I thought these problems could be solved by education. I no longer do. As far as I can tell, about 30% of the population believes that getting away with grifts and bullying people is proof of power and leadership that should be respected, worshiped, and emulated.

We can’t educate these folks. We can only build a society that ensures that they cannot gain control. Unfortunately, the entire human race has largely failed to do so, and we’re suffering the consequences on a planetary scale.

Every day we act as though they don’t *know* that the elections were valid, is a day we risk losing the fight for democracy, equality, and a stable environment.

#brazil #JAN6

I love moss and I love frogs and I just discovered the cutest thing in existence: the Vietnamese moss frog 🤗

#mosstodon

#Violet wonders what exactly we're getting up to.

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