Gary Kacmarcik

Four frames. Breakfast table scene. Frame 1 Person 1 with newspaper. “So, Trump, Blai and Netanyahu have a peace plan for Gaza!” Person 2: “Wait - DONALD Trump? ‘Lies about everything’ Trump? ‘Riviera of the Middle East’ Trump?” Fr 2, person 1: “Yeah, well…” person 2: “and Blair - TONY Blair? ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’ Blair? ‘10000 Iraqi civilians as collateral damage’ Blair? Fr 3, person1, “Sure, but…” Person 2: “and Netanyahu? BIBI Netanyahu? ‘Propped up Hamas’ Netanyahu? ‘There will be no Palestinian State’ Netanyahu?” Frame 4: Person 1: “Yeah, so fingers crossed!” (Gestures same). Person 2: *eyeroll*.

Peace plan.
My @smh cartoon.

From the thumbnail, I initially read the top game as 18ERIA.

I think you might be doing "visit the beach" wrong.

One of my favorite poems since childhood, and a poem I share every #autumnequinox.
By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands.
Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid.
“My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”

In early 2025, beaver activity in the Brdy Protected Landscape Area, Czech Republic, contributed to the restoration of a wetland ecosystem. A family of beavers constructed a series of dams that coincidentally accomplished environmental goals of the Czech government, which had delayed its proposed project since 2018 for bureaucratic and financial reasons. The beaver-built dams saved the Czech government approximately US$1.2 million,

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

UHHHHH

neighbor’s really taking Halloween to the next fucking level

Box cover for Magical Athlete showing a bunch of cartoon athletes that are apparently magical, and some dice flying around.

Magical Athlete was a blast at 4p.

Box says 2-6 players, but I'm not sure it would be as much fun with only 2.

Barrie taking place on planet Essen.

I'm a little concerned about going to Essen this year.

Bringers of Pain counter vs Battle Fleet counter in the same hex.

The Giant Race people came and attacked me, so I needed to send my Bringers of Pain fleet to take the battle to them.

It didn't go well.

Red quadrant explored and building defenses.

Finally explored my quadrant, and starting to push out into deep space.

Space Empires board game showing red at the start of the game: colony ships on Altair with a few adjacent hexes already explored.

Starting a game of Space Empires

Microsoft gave guidance on H1Bs to its employees last night

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

I've been enjoying these puzzles as well.

I used Sticker Giant and the stickers were great.

Only negative was that their shipping box was from Uline, which made me sad.

Today, WA joins CA and OR in forming the West Coast Health Alliance to ensure our residents continue receiving science-based #PublicHealth recommendations. This partnership ensures our states will continue working with trusted medical orgs to protect our communities' health and safety.

It just kept going nonstop for the full 3 hours!
A truly exceptional debut of indie tabletop @ PAXWest! This needs to stay! It was too good not to!
Multiple folks SOLD OUT of their games, and the amount of energy and excitement for games so bespoke like this was unparalleled!

Thank you so much @Pax

Sign taped on wall: Locally made & limited run indie games! One night only! PNW Tabletop Game Market Saturday 7 - 10 PM Pax West August 30th Summit Expo Hall Level 0 Deception Zone

A table at a Chinese restaurant with some square cards laid out to form a map of islands.

I'll be selling copies of Juven Isle at the PNW Tabletop Game Market tonight at Pax West.

A bunch of other local/indie board game designers will be there as well.

www.alwaysawake.games/pnw-tabletop...

Three images of street art in Pilsen. First shows Superman punching an ICE agent in paramilitary uniform. Second shows that somebody covered over Superman with black paint Third shows the artist went back and, in place of Superman, he painted Superman's dog Krypto pissing on the ICE agent.

1800 block of South Western Avenue in Chicago

A set of computer keyboard keys with the legend for each key spelled out phonetically: a=ay, b=be, c=sea, ...

New keycaps arrived!

Joseph wearing a large board game backpack with a sign binder-clipped to it that says “PNW Tabletop Game Market”

Find yourself someone who is as excited about you as @fanfactories.bsky.social is about the PNW Tabletop Game Market at PAX West this weekend

When the Expo Hall closes, the indies come out to play. Head down to Summit Level 0 on Saturday night during PAX West for that small-batch, limited-run, bespoke artisanal cardboard.

west.paxsite.com/en-us/schedu...

My niece (visiting from France) and my daughter went to the ATEEZ concert a few weeks ago and loved that so many people were handing out custom merch like this.

So thank you in advance for doing this!

A piñata sold in Mexico in the shape of an ICE officer

Mexican entrepreneurship knows no limits…

Behold the ICE officer piñata 🪅

Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.

my mom taught me there's two kinds of businesses: hot dog stands and art galleries

- hot dog stands protect territory and keep competition off their turf
- art galleries benefit from more adjacent art galleries, cluster together to amplify reach/support

youre an art gallery, not a hot dog stand