John du Bois (He/Him)
Brain injured game designer who pays bills as an SLP.
Avatar of Cheese Masculinity.
Board games, sewing, LEGO, books.
This Machine Helps People Use Their Voice.
I'd like a hard boiled egg.
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- I recently told a friend that I would not, as a white man raised Catholic, know how to approach teaching Holocaust literature in these times given the variety of Jewish perspectives on the propriety of comparisons to the Holocaust. I still wouldn’t, but I’d include this article in the reading.
- Historical analogies are arguments. So when someone makes an analogy between today and the Holocaust, or today and anything, think about they are really arguing for. What is the analogy trying to get you to do? New at @startribune.com
- Reposted by John du Bois (He/Him)Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- I finally had some time to think about why all the commentary on Trump’s press conference bothered me and write it down. The short version: The President is a shitty person, and we’re not going to change that about him. We need to choose whether we let him and his shittiness change us.
- So, was Neil Gaiman just trying to remind us that there were shitty sex creeps who *weren’t* in the Epstein Files, or… ?
- Reposted by John du Bois (He/Him)“I am threatening to bomb a school because the government was told to release a five year old child it kidnapped” think about the choices that have led you to this place for five goddamn minutes
- "Classes have been called off in the Columbia Heights school district today due to what officials are calling a bomb threat. The closure comes as 5-year-old preschool student Liam Conejo Ramos & his father from Columbia Heights were released from an ICE detention center in Texas and returned to MN."
- Do I think that every person who had positive contact with Epstein was doing child sexual exploitation? No. I just think that every person who had positive contact with Epstein since June 2008 was okay with deliberately ignoring child sexual exploitation if they could get something out of it.
- Reposted by John du Bois (He/Him)People say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed.
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- Reposted by John du Bois (He/Him)Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.
- Okay So I’m gonna talk about some Bible stuff now, if that’s not your jam or it’s a source of trauma for you, I’m giving you that warning up front because I care more about you than I do about what I’m about to say.
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- For some reason, the proverb "It's better to stay silent and have people think you're a fool than it is to open your mouth and prove it" comes to mind today.
- Hey @quivertime.com do you know how well your products work with decoupage
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- Hello I just measured a bunch of kids for theater costumes and I feel very competent at this which will last exactly as long as it takes to get to my sewing table and start measuring fabric
- Reposted by John du Bois (He/Him)I lego'd your eggo pls respond
- Rather than talking about what people did or said, I’m going to do what I should have done in the first place, which is share my thoughts on treating games as merely the sum of their parts
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- I know I’ve done a lot of things wrong in my life, but I really hope I’ve lived it in a way that nobody wonders about my position on agents of the state executing unarmed people in the street (I’m opposed to it).
- There’s some chatter about a certain board game review platform, and its silence and censorship when one of its employees said some awful shit (again) And I guess if I were to say about this platform what I said about BGG here, I’d be speaking generously (I’d be less generous than this)
- Reposted by John du Bois (He/Him)Imagine having Bruce Springsteen AND Billy Bragg release songs about how much you fucking suck and how much the people fighting you rule you within the same 48 hours
- That feeling when you look like you should have a tinfoil hat for saying “the government took my computers and Internet equipment because I posted videos of Kanye West and Tucker Carlson being anti-Semitic”, but you have receipts and court filings to prove it
- Okay I understand the possible jokes here but as someone who went to the Winter Classic at Michigan Stadium I can assure you that snow at the outdoor football stadium hockey game is *the worst*
- Not that this changes anything at all, but has anyone put out the theory that ICE’s target cities are just petty revenge against Trump’s enemies? LA, Chicago, Minneapolis = Harris, Obama, Walz?
- I had one of those “have a dream, wake up, write shit down” game design moments last night, and I’m still not sure if this is a thing, but I’m posting about it anyway. The basic idea is Survive the Epic Fantasy Story
- Last night my wife and I were talking about our older relatives who could not get past the Cold War framing of communism/socialism being The Enemy And the idea that left that conversation with me is that my style of progressivism doesn’t want *socialism*, we want solidarity
- Specifically, in this moment, if you’re in the US, I *super* strongly recommend Tristan Strong Punches The Sky and its sequels as an alternative to Harry Potter. I’m not going to get into why, but… it’s very well written.
- Reposted by John du Bois (He/Him)I don't like being this vulnerable in public but I also felt like I had to say something. youtu.be/1qlEn8ob2ns
