Please help Nour and her kids, if you can.
They are stuck in North Gaza.
A message I got from her on Signal, just now: “The situation is getting worse. The tanks are approaching the checkpoint, and there are preparations to close the road. My family and I cannot evacuate due to lack of money, and our lives are hanging in the balance. Please help me and my daughters. We haven’t slept from the intense fear. Our lives are in danger every moment.”
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I told these hikers that I was out with my new lens because I'd always struggled to capture the experience of what it's like to hike in Shindagin Hollow State Forest and they said that was a noble mission
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Day 7: Brenda Romero
I hinted yesterday I'd be moving beyond a narrow definition of "author," so of course that means I'm going to include game designers. I'll definitely get back to some more traditional authors before I hit 20, but I wanted to mix things up early.
Brenda Romero is something of a celebrity in the niche culture that is the Game Developers Coherence, I like to imagine. Of course the misogyny there likely means many just pay attention to who her husband is, but she's a terrific designer in her own right, if not prolific.
Content warning: the Holocaust
To me her most outstanding game has always been "Train," which is an exhibition tabletop game in which players collaborate to load and unload cargo and move train cars around a board, with the stated objective of efficiently delivering cargo to meet certain collective goals. However, through both physical cues and in-game reveals, it becomes clear to players that the game they are playing stimulates the Holocaust, and the cargo they're moving is people being brought to extermination camps. The actual goal of the game is for the players to stop playing and walk away, or perhaps to play against the stated objective and gridlock the trains. Romero supervised play at the expos where it was presented, and intervened to stop the game if the players continued too far (in some cases not picking up on the hints offered because they had very little knowledge of the Holocaust as a historical event). I've never played the game myself; just heard Romero give a report about it, but the sheer genius of designing a game meant not to be played to help educate about a system within which defying the rules was the only ethical action earned her instant respect from me. Romero has a whole series of games in this vein about didn't historical events (not necessarily all designed to not be played), although last I checked in most are just at prototyping stages.
I've got other non-man game designers that will appear on this list, but Romero stood out to go first because she's a good example that you don't need to be someone prolific or widely-known to do great work; I'd bet most people have an author or two they respect who is not widely known (and I'll include at least one more from that category on this list).
#20AuthorsNoMen
I somehow convinced my daughter and my partner to go for a bike ride today. They were comfortable going to the cemetery... They both said they were not ready for riding on the roads around here. (It took me a few months of riding in the cemetery before I hit the roads regularly.)
I rode my (acoustic) Trek and let them set the pace. We did just under 30 minutes and about 3 1/2 miles. Oh, and my partner saw some turtles so they loved that!
#idw #Hitzewellen in Nord- und Mitteleuropa extremer und chaotischer
Hitzewellen in Europa werden nicht nur häufiger und heißer, sondern auch unberechenbarer. Eine Studie (erschienen in Nature Communications) des Klimaforschers Goratz Beobide-Arsuaga vom Earth and Society Research Hub (ESRAH) der Univer…
Few-Shot Neuro-Symbolic Imitation Learning for Long-Horizon Planning and Acting
Pierrick Lorang, Hong Lu, Johannes Huemer, Patrik Zips, Matthias Scheutz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21501
This is near where I live and I'm livid about the sheer waste of money to create something so disruptive to both animals and humans. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/01/arizona-border-wall-san-rafael-valley
Moody Urbanity - Paces 🏃♀️
情绪化城市 -配速 🏃♀️
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 400, expired 1993
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On The Road - To Xi’An 🏯
在路上 - 去西安 🏯
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️Kentmere Pan 200
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