Omar H (occasional boardgamer)

Freshly carved jack-o-lantern pumpkin

I was this old when I carved my first pumpkin.

Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

CBP Enforces Binary Sex Codes and Enhanced US Passport Validation in APIS CBP enforces binary sex codes and stricter US passport validation in APIS effective October 2025. Key compliance updates for business travelers and airlines.

No surprise from these MFers 😠

US CBP is updating their computer systems, which are used by airlines (probably not just US based ones) to validate passport information, to now reject passports with an X gender marker as invalid

I think I'm gonna have to do this soon. Thanks for the inspiration!

Most definitely would try this. And that is a very cool looking effect for the images.

deja vu! 😉

Damn, not THAT bad!

... Silk bag maybe lol

Totally understandable. I'm looking forward to the rules consolidation. Again, played it too much with my wife, so I pretty much got all that LOL

LOL, I get it. I have it down to a science so it flavor of the actions can come thru in gameplay so I'm lucky I guess!

Its very interesting so far. I feel like this would be more fun in person in the way Obsession is more flavorful.

Oh, the ache was the least of it. Last night was a mix of shivers/chills then broke into a huge sweat like a fever break.. Today is just exhaustion.. This hasnt been as bad as last time, so no real complants lol

Except for the rash, sounds about right. 🫩

It's more than a sore arm, but I still agree with the sentiment.

Oh damn. Mine gets a lil sore, but luckily not THAT bad. So sorry you have that as well.

The only downside of the Covid booster is how I feel the next day or so. Ugh.

For everyone angry at Bluesky, a direct way we can help northsky is by tossing them a few bucks.

They're all working multiple jobs trying to make this happen for us.

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

You cannot be fucking serious

Played it last night, it's so great!

BG Stats Oct 7, 2025 Plays: 9 H-index: 2 Games: 5 New: 3 Players: 2 Locations: 1 Hours: 3 Days: 1 Star Wars: Battle of Hoth: 2 Tacta Promotional Edition: 2 Kabuto Sumo: 2 Tag Team: 2 High Tide: 1 7 designers: Adrien Martinot: 20% Corentin Lebrat: 20% Gricha German: 20% Jason Tremblay: 20% Marceline Leiman: 20%.

Games were played, fun was had! All the games were great but I was happiest with High Tide as I came back and won after I was down 0-2 😊
#BoardGames

Games displayed are: High Tide Tag Team Tacta Kabuto Sumo Star Wars Battle of Hoth

Here's the pile for two-player night with a friend coming over. #BoardGames

This is REALLY worth a read! It avoids getting stuck on some quick surface level problems with AI art and gets to the heart of things.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

I badly want to try Emberleaf. Are you enjoying it?

Daybreak
Wilmots Warehouse
Ito
BombBusters
Spirit Island
Earthborne Rangers
Slay the Spire
Inis
Kanban EV
Lost Ruins of Arnak
Seti
Tapestry

and so many others. They have a really good selection there.

On every shelf, there are solid titles. You just want titles? No preferences?

You're SO "glass half-empty" Suzanne! 😆

Dedra Meero from Star Wars Andor, flanked by two stormtroopers, standing at attention in her full on Nazi mode.

Dedra Meero from Star Wars Andor locked in her cell after the Empire decided she was no longer useful.

How it's going for fascists under Trump versus how it will be going for fascists under Trump the moment they are no longer useful.

a man in a red shirt laughs and says i 'm not jealous at all Alt: a man in a red shirt laughs and says i 'm not jealous at all

Clever lady!

Oh nice! Can I be nosy and ask where you ordered from?

Invite sent 😄

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