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Evangelizing the board gaming & RPG hobby & using #boardgames to support community. More meeples for more peoples!

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Now that I have a smart phone and I'm listening to audiobooks during my forced commute days, I'm getting through a lot more books.

I finished Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. It was excellent overall. I have a few minor quibbles, but I definitely enjoyed listening to it.

It was more of a character study than a detailed post-apocalypse account. I like the themes about the pursuit & survival of art & the overall hopefulness.

Hoping to watch the miniseries.

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Finally, I just finished @pluralistic's Radicalized novella.

There is a physical copy floating around the house, but at a little over two hours, I finished it in one commute and a lunch break by listening to the audiobook.

Radicalized is a kick to the groin. Doctorow does a good job of explaining how radicalization on the Internet works and exposes one -- of many -- cracks in our increasingly tense and tenuous connections in the US that can be broken apart by it.

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@GreatBigTable @pluralistic I’ve never felt such bleak hopefulness reading something before. Both the inevitability of the coming enshittification wave and the hopefulness that we will have the strength and courage to fight it. Really great perspectives in that one!

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