Midarn Blackhalo 🇵🇷🏳️‍🌈 Resting after PAXU 🥱

For real get home safe though YouTube video by Pat Smith

Good morning, Bluesky.

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I spent 4 months trying to answer a simple question: has this book been translated into my language?
Turns out no one tracks this. Not ISBN registries. Not Amazon. Not Google. Not libraries.
So I built a tool that crosses four databases to piece it together.
zenodot.app

CPAC Head Says Iranian Schoolgirls Are Better Dead Than “in a Burqa” Leading Republicans don’t seem to care about the bombing of a girls’ school in Iran.

Disabled people tried to warn you.

We said the “better off dead” narrative being weaponized against us would be used for other groups of people.

The fascists won’t ever stop. They see everyone else as less than. Expendable. Not worthy of life.

Its eugenics on a massive scale

Sleeping Wizards A ragtag party of wizards & thieves brave a dangerous dungeon to free themselves, and find out what happened to Eliza's missing father!

We are so, so, SO close to $12,000 over on Sleeping Wizards!!

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Well who coulda’ seen that coming?

Y’know, besides literally EVERYONE? 😅

I wish I believed in hell because I want to believe that these people will suffer real consequences eventually. Eternal torment is at LEAST what they deserve.

Indiana ICE immigration bill heads to governor’s desk for final signature into law The Indiana Senate approved a bill that allows local and state police to enforce federal immigration laws and cooperate with ICE.

Hey everyone going to GenCon, If you're *ANY* flavor of Brown or Black? Please be careful.

(We seriously need to start having conversations about having GenCon in a place that is this fucking fascist. but ya'll *keep* going back)
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If this stranger on the other side of the world can help somehow, I'd be willing to try.

Gamefound to Require Disclosure of Generative AI Use in Crowdfunding Projects Two stories related to generative AI have hit the board game industry in the past week: First, on February 23, 2026, the crowdfunding platform Gamefound issued updated Terms of Service for both Creators and Backers, and amongst items such as the ability for Backers to place orders without creating a registered account and for Gamefound to "withhold creator payouts, for example in cases of suspected fraud, abuse, legal violations, or regulatory non-compliance", item #7 reads: > **Use of generative artificial intelligence** > We've added specific rules for creators regarding the use of generative AI when creating, presenting, or promoting projects on Gamefound. And here are those rules from Gamefound's Terms of Service for Creators: > **9. USE OF GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELIGENCE** > If a Creator uses generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools (including but not limited to AI-based text, image, video,), to produce any content published on their Gamefound Project page (such as campaign descriptions, visual assets, promotional videos, or other marketing materials), or in the creation or development of the product offered as part of the campaign or Pledge Manager (particularly where AI contributes to visual, textual, narrative, mechanical elements), they must clearly disclose this fact on the Project page. Such disclosure must: > - identify which specific elements of the content were generated using AI; > - be visible to Backers before pledging begins; > - maintain clarity and transparency in how the Project is presented. > If a Creator fails to disclose the use of generative AI in content posted on their Gamefound project page, Gamefound may, at its sole discretion: > - suspend the visibility of the Project on the platform, making it temporarily inaccessible to Backers; > - temporarily hide or suspend the campaign; > - issue a public notice to Backers about the missing disclosure; > - restrict the Creator’s account or some functionalities; > - exclude the campaign from Platform promotions. > Repeated or intentional violations may result in permanent removal from the Platform, especially if the lack of disclosure misleads Backers or infringes third-party rights. > Gamefound is not responsible for the content provided by the Creator on the Project page, including any information or claims relating to the use of generative AI. All content remains the sole responsibility of the Creator. I welcome a requirement like this as I'd prefer to avoid backing or even writing about any game that uses generative AI art. (I state exactly this on Board Game Beat's policies page.) I've written to Gamefound to ask why this change to the Terms of Service was added, whether Creators need to follow a specific format for disclosure, and whether it can provide an example of a project that discloses the information in the right way, and I'll update this post should I receive a response. Second, on February 17, 2025, Ryan Dancey, then-COO of U.S. publisher Alderac Entertainment Group posted the following as a comment on his own LinkedIn post about the inability of Claude, Anthropic's AI tool, to correctly intuit how to answer a question: Many people protested this comment, including designer Elizabeth Hargrave, who has had two titles published by AEG and who referenced _Tiny Towns_ designer Peter McPherson and _Cubitos_ designer John D. Clair in her response: On Facebook, Alderac CEO John Zinser first posted a non-direct response to Dancey's comment: Then on February 18, 2026, posted that Dancey was no longer with AEG: This was the second time that Dancey had become a flashpoint for criticism, with the first being in 2023 when he offhandedly speculated that fewer women than men are game designers because "females are socialized in the West to avoid situations where they're subjected to fairly harsh criticism of their abilities and creative ideas", whereas "[m]ales are socialized to take the punches and keep moving forward". In a February 19, 2026 article on BoardGameWire, Dancey clarified that in that LinkedIn comment he meant only that AI could produce "ideas for games as good as those", not that it could design from start to finish games as good as those, which is how many (including me) translated "come up with". (In that BoardGameWire article, he said much more about AI and clarified that AEG had never used generative AI in its products or "creative pipeline".) I understand the distinction between the two concepts that Dancey is describing — AI can produce good ideas, not finished games — but as many game designers have stated over the years, having ideas is the simplest part of game design. Let's ramble off a few: "a co-operative game about building the Golden Gate Bridge", "a deck-building game about establishing your credit rating so that you can buy a house", "a dexterity game that challenges you to build the strongest palanquin with unusual materials", "a trick-taking game in which the suits are literally suits and you want to assemble the best wardrobe", "a racing game in which you use dice to determine how far you move, with the ability to buy better dice", and so on. Are these _good_ ideas? Maybe, but that depends on everything that comes after those brain flashes. Saying that AI can produce good ideas isn't really saying much, but Dancey said this nothing much is such a dismissive, demeaning way that apparently Zinser decided it would be better for Dancey to not represent AEG in the future. (I reached out to Zinser for a comment on Dancey's dismissal on February 18, but have not heard back.) Aside from the issue of generative AI art using without compensation thousands of pieces of existing art as the source material for its products, what I find most damaging about generative AI art is the amount of distrust that it's created between gamers and publishers — not to mention, of course, among all human beings as they question whether what they see online is real or not. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Like what you read? Leave a tip to support independent board game journalism! Leave a tip

Also, Ryan Dancey was removed as COO of AEG for comments about AI

We just raised $500,000 for @translifeline.org. If we can raise just $60k more before 10am tomorrow, we will have broken last year's record.

Thank you to everyone showing our love and support for the trans community. When we gather together, we make MAGIC.

Donate--> give.translifeline.org/tcc

Just saw this: This looks like EXACTLY my kind of game.

And the mfers who bought the company cancelled this project WEEKS BEFORE RELEASE and laid off the people working on it to focus on fucking DAUNTLESS?!!??

Sign me up baby, I'm here for #BringBackProjectDragon ! I want this game!!

Portrait of @bullyart07 from one of my diary comic volumes. I've painted him so many times but I think I'm only just now in the past couple years starting to get him right.

Here's what moving forward looks like for our Minneapolis based tabletop games company. #gamepublisher #lgbtq #tabletopgames #minneapolis #protest #bipoc

You know Alex Pretti & Renee Good—the 2 white people ICE killed.

ICE has also killed Keith Porter, a Black man, Parady La, a Cambodian man, & 5 Latinos—Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos.

9 TOTAL.

ABOLISH ICE.

ICE Agents Kidnapping Matthew James Obadiah Allen (Stage Name Nur-D) in Minneapolis, MN 01/24/2026 YouTube video by Sengir Minion

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"What's your favourite Beatles album, then?"
"Tough one! I think I'd have to say... The Best of The Beatles"

IF YOU BUILD OVER A PILE OF CORPSES, SOONER OR LATER, YOU'LL BE GRABBED BY THE ANKLE

I feel vindication in a way that is hard to grasp. To FINALLY wake up to this. A few of you reached out to me, and I to a few of you, over the last year. So now it's the best time to talk about this.

Buckle up.
🧵

Woman seen pulled from car speaks out: 'Lucky to be alive'

Aliya Rahman told ICE she was disabled

She told them she was on her way to a doctor appt

They broke her window, cut her seatbelt & dragged her away like an animal

She was headed to the Traumatic Brain Injury Center when they grabbed her.

She was denied access to a doctor & tossed in detention

Don't Play - A COLORS SHOW YouTube video by Jill Scott - Topic

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Cancel your Spotify subscription.

Graphics of 3 walking sticks! Galaxy, Bats and Strawberry patterns.

It costs 0$ to share a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale.

I sell pins, stickers, compression gloves, artist gloves, hip braces, wrist braces, compression socks, cute bags, walking sticks (selling fast!!) & more!

Store: Bibipins.com

If there’s a better obituary for an evil cartoonist than an A.I. generated version of his character that fucks up the defining detail of its design, I can’t think of it. No notes. 👨🏻‍🍳 💋

When you uncheck Smart Features, all email sorting ends. Google changing Gmail’s BASIC sort functions just to force everyone to let Google train off your emails is insane levels of corporate self harm, rivaled only by Microslop

This however is the kick I need to get off gmail l, because screw this!

This is accurate, but also feels backwards, which is a little bit odd to say.

There are a LOT of complicated factors Involved in this, but one of the weirdest and most disruptive is a sense that RPGs are an unwelcome activity, *even while doing them*.

At my job (which is, by its nature, very help-others-succeed focused) I have developed a rule. If I am working on a project or product and I am the person who CARES THE MOST, I need to get off that project

I had not drawn the connection, but I should have. There is big value in seeing reflections

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The words are fight against racism and pronounced ahlahstee deegahteelaykee deedadahlaydawdee

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The words are someone you know needs help and pronounced keelaw heeyah-leegah oodooleeduh nooduh-nah

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. "keelaw heeyah-leegah oodooleeduh nooduh-nah"