Charles Lewis (he/him)

Looking for book recs for The Great Northern War #militaryhistory

'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my treehouse door." Quoth the Piglet, "It's Eeyore!" - Edgar Allan Pooh

Do otters that go on pub crawls know they don't have to?

The process video for this is up on the YouTube. youtu.be/cPoGYDzuZAY

Votes for Women is now available in the Apple App Store! apps.apple.com/us/app/votes...

I am a huge disaster nerd (hi @nameshiv.bsky.social and @rahaeli.bsky.social) and my first obsession as a kid was the Titanic it really cannot be overstated how absolutely heroic the Carpathia was once they learned what had happened to the Titanic, this is worth your time

New preorder alert! We have two new preorders for you today: The Breaking Point is a new game in the Battalion Combat Series. The Breaking Point covers the critical point of the Battle for France in 1940. This is a 2-map game, with 1,680 counters, including two sheets of markers. ... /2

Diminish an anime: The Letter Opener of Kamui

This weekend's acquisitions/arrivals: Synergic Games' Rise of Myths: Cthulhu and GMT's Cuius Regio. Looking forward to diving into both! #gaming

All of these far right accounts filling their onesies with fear pudding over what's happening in Paris as if the French haven't made rioting a competitive sport for the last 300 years.

Today I learned that the first 29 or so of the "Lone Wolf" books (choose-your-own-adventure style books, where you have stats and keep track of your equipment and such) were made available free online by the author: www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Books

A lot of these still see rotation

Had a great time at GMT's Fall Weekend at the Warehouse! My updated prototype for With Fire & Spirit got a workout. Here we see Marshal Tallard make a run through the Black Forest Mountains for Strasbourg while Prince Eugene scrambles to intercept. #GMTGames

I spat out my peppermint tea 🤭

Add "for Tax Purposes" to a movie: Saving Private Ryan for Tax Purposes

There's no such thing as the perfect protest phot- . . . hold it!

Yeah, that's us, the shithole country.

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Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

If you need a pickmeup, Ukraine struck and destroyed a Russian data center last night, reducing Russian bot traffic by 50%, dropping online pro-AfD discussion to zero, cratering MAGA traffic, and making Elon big mad. Just in time for the mid-terms. Slava fucking Ukraini.

What can I say? I contain multitudes.

A personal Star Trek design, the USS Harmony, NCC-80000, Concord-Class. It's a diplomatic vessel built immediately after the Dominion War, tasked with putting the Alpha Quadrant back together and integrating Gamma Quadrant civilizations into the Federation. (Blender) Info below:

If you haven't seen this, Saul makes really interesting games. I've played Patria Libre 5 times, still really don't know how to win (the mechanics are really intriguing), but I love playing it. And looks like I'm doing the logistics for it, so there's that. www.kickstarter.com/projects/116...

This comic is accurate.

Goddamn, this point by @anandwrites.bsky.social really needed saying.

Fuck it, let's go. It's May, 1860. The Democratic convention, in Charelston, has fractured. The new Republican Party is quite likely to win the Presidency, for the first time. Republicans convene in a big wooden hall called The Wigwam in Chicago, to decide who to nominate.

Can I just say how frustrating it has been that Microsoft broke the copy & paste functionality in Excel and doesn't seem to be in any hurry to fix it? And if they ever do why should I bother switching back from Libreoffice?

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I feel this is probably quite important information. You wouldn't want to get it wrong.

Ten years of relentlessly hateful, comically elitist anti-democratic politics across the white people world, helpfully summarised. The wrong people are talking, the wrong people are deciding and it’s harming the careers of important people who actually matter. Smithers! Release the hounds

1/ Russia has the United States over a (diesel) barrel, says Russian analyst Igor Dimitriev. He says that the Kremlin is telling the West that "if you don't hand Ukraine over to us, a global [fuel] crisis will erupt that you won't be able to dig yourselves out of". ⬇️

Speaking of space games, SOLARCRAWL, my system-neutral campaign of "what if NASA did an OSR" is printed and on its way to backers! That means we can sell it to the rest of you all as well! Copies will soon be available from pandiongames.com/products/sol...

Just a reminder that no matter how hard a Republican candidate tries to distance themselves from Tangerine Mussolini they're still willing to have an (R) after their name. This means they are in agreement with all Republican policies and are complicit in all Republican crimes.

Being an old-school anime fan, I'll jump on the bandwagon:

1/x In the 1840s, a lame American naval officer, grounded at a desk in Washington, cut weeks off the world's ocean voyages without inventing a single machine. His raw material: a warehouse of logbooks nobody had ever read. Matthew Fontaine Maury, Pathfinder of the Seas. A 🧵 #maritimehistory

Just found out that the reason Excel coughs up a hairball every time I try to duplicate a worksheet is because MS broke it with their last security update. Goodbye MS, hello LibreOffice!

🤣😆 Literally spit on my computer screen