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Le joueur d'échec [The Chess Player] (Raymond Bernard, 1927): Final...

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The Chess Player tells the story of the last moments of a relationship between a human being and a sentient AI—with a literal chess game as the mechanic. So proud of this experiment for #GamingLikeIts1927 orchardhouse.itch.io/the-chess-play

Thank you

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for running this jam again! #GamingLikeIts1927

In the end, von Kempelen succumbs to his wounds while visions of his creations appear in his mind—and, of course, the young lovers are able to escape.

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See synopsis and review illustrated by further excerpts at: http://www.acinemahistory.com/2019/03/le-joueur-dechecs-1927-chess-player_5.html

One of the final moments of the film features the automaton being shot by firing squad (with its inventor, Baron von Kempelen, inside) while the hero's rival is attacked by an army of sword-wielding robots.

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Le joueur d'échec [The Chess Player] (Raymond Bernard, 1927):...

The game is based on Raymond Bernard's 1927 film Le joueur d'échecs (The Chess Player), which tells a fictional story based on a real-life hoax: The Mechanical Turk, a chess-playing automaton.

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Von Kempelen presenta el turco

Escena de la película "Le joueur d'échecs" (1927) - de Raymond Bernard

Here's a closer look at the whole zine—download for high-quality scans of each page! orchardhouse.itch.io/love-shack #scissorsandgluejam

The Love Shack is a little old place where we can get together—and it's also a #scissorsandgluejam #TTRPG adventure zine that I hope you'll download!

an adventure in a little old place where we can get together

Love Shack by Nora Katz

SUPPORT STARBUCKS UNIONS - Upton Sinclair tries to go up to the counter, but the Starbucks is closed. Starbucks fired all their workers from this location for unionizing. Hi everyone! It’s been a while. We here at Literary Starbucks have...

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SUPPORT STARBUCKS UNIONS

Upton Sinclair tries to go up to the counter, but the Starbucks is closed. Starbucks fired all their workers from this location for unionizing. Hi everyone! It’s been a while. We here at Literary...

This photo shows longtime Pink House Defender Derenda Hancock mere minutes after the Dobbs ruling came down as she continued standing guard and ushering patients into the driveway of the Jackson Women's Health Organization. (Photo by me) #RoeVWade

a photo shows a woman wearing a "clinic escort" vest and standing in a clinic driveway, looking to her left with her arms on her sides

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Jun 26, 2022

It has been an extremely hot, harrowing, brutal, and exhausting couple of days, but you know what? We got the patients to their appointments for abortion services. BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT WE DO.

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Good Morning Everyone - we hope y’all are hanging in there. Here’s our latest statement and don’t forget, there is work yet to be done. thepinkhousefund.com/the-morning-af #RoeVsWade #Sotomayor #abortionrights

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for the kind review! This game was so much fun to develop and I hope folks enjoy it.

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Game Jam Winner Spotlight: Nude On A Yellow Sofa techdirt.com/2022/04/16/gam

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I'm so honored that Nude on a Yellow Sofa won Best Analog Game for Gaming Like It's 1926! Thank you so much to the folks at

@techdirt

for the inspiration and support.

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Mar 9, 2022

The award for Best Analog Game goes to @norahthebold (Nora Katz) for Nude On A Yellow Sofa, a beautiful game about the relationship between artist and muse that sees players creating an entire exhibition of original art. Play it here: orchardhouse.itch.io/nude-on-a-yell

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Inspired by Henri Matisse’s 1926 painting of the same name, Nude On A Yellow Sofa by Nora Katz is a game about exploring the relationship between artist and muse. We’ve seen games in past years that involved getting the players to create art, but this one takes it to a new level: over a series of eight rounds, each representing a period of a creative career, players will tell the story of an evolving artistic collaboration while each creating eight works of art using a medium of their choice. In the ninth and final round, they assemble a retrospective gallery exhibit of the works a century later. Throughout the game, they are made to confront the joy, vulnerability, and turbulence of an artistic relationship with the help of story prompts and themed rounds. It’s a phenomenally creative piece of game design that uses a single 1926 painting as the core inspiration for exploring a timeless concept, and we’re thrilled to name it the Best Analog Game.

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One out of every 300 Mississippians has died of covid.

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Jan 25, 2022

“We kept our business open…they kept working. Bravely and calmly and rationally..” @tatereeves says of Mississippians who continued to work in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and variant surges. To date, 10,755 Mississippians have died due to coronavirus.

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Nude on a Yellow Sofa is a two-player #TTRPG about what it really means to be a muse. Players make art about (and featuring) each other and their relationship. I think it's pretty cool. Thanks to

@randylubin

and Gaming Like It's 1926 for the inspiration.

Nude on A Yellow Sofa by Nora Katz

a role-playing game about the space between image and reality

Dec 30, 2021

ah yes, a new word game to be insufferable about Wordle 193 3/6 🟨⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Inside the Last Abortion Clinic in Mississippi (Published 2021)

Dec 3, 2021

My hero

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The New York Times just put out a very good piece highlighting the powerful work of Dr. Hamlin and Shannon Brewer. We are so grateful to have the opportunity to work alongside these brave and tireless advocates for abortion rights.

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The clinic, which is busier than ever, is at the center of a Supreme Court case that could lead to one of the most consequential decisions on abortion rights in decades.

Sometimes people leave you halfway through the wood. Do not let it grieve you, no one leaves for good.

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We couldn’t be prouder of Shannon and the staff at Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Clinic workers seldom receive the recognition they have earned and deserve. Read the article and be inspired 💓

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Inside Mississippi’s Last Abortion Clinic—and the Biggest Fight for Abortion Rights in a Generation

Jackson Women’s Health Organization is at the center of a Supreme Court case that could overturn Roe v. Wade

TIME's new cover: The last abortion clinic in Mississippi might be the final stand for Roe v. Wade ti.me/3Fmppw7

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Catch me waxing nostalgic about

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Zach Braff's 2004 directing and writing debut remains extremely nostalgic — and extremely Jewish, writes @noraakatz. bit.ly/3B6IhfW

Oct 20, 2021

#BrutishMuseums (and specifically the concept of chronopolitics) has stayed with me for a long time. One of my favorite books of 2020.

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Oct 20, 2021

1/ Chronopolitics the use of time as a mode of colonial domination, including the weaponisation of the discipline of Archaeology #BrutishMuseums

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Thank you to

for everything.

Turning hot girl summer into horse girl summer for the #SpaceWesternSummer game jam hosted by

@Keganexe

. This game includes some of my dumbest, most chaotic work yet (plus graphic design that I am...very proud of).

Cowboy Take Me Away by Nora Katz

a role-playing game about growing something wild and unruly

I am nothing if not consistent

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i, too, overflow

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Aug 9, 2021

some updates on me

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Look on

' and my works, ye mighty, and despair

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Jun 29, 2021

Family portrait Commission for @thomcroms Commissions info twitter.com/ArfArts/status

good morning, Tolkien intended Sam and Frodo to be in love

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Queer readings of The Lord of the Rings are not accidents

Following breadcrumbs to find ourselves, in history and fiction

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Here to announce that

@mcmansionhell

has made me extremely invested in le Tour—partially because cycling is amazing, but largely because I'm so invested in my favorite writer's journey from architecture critic to cycling journalist.

i'm going to the tour de france:

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stick together and we'll see each other in paris

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"For 20 years now, I’ve been working at Jackson Women’s Health Organization. It was difficult for women to get an abortion when I started in 2001, but I had no idea just how bad things would get. We are now the only abortion clinic remaining in MS."

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Opinion | We’re Mississippi’s Last Abortion Clinic, and We’re Braced for the Worst (Published 2021)

We’ve long needed federal intervention to protect abortion rights, but it’s never been more urgent.

This whole idea was inspired in part by

@SpenserStarke

's Alice is Missing and

@rileyrethaI

's It's Been a Long, Long Time—thank you for making amazing games! 💀

You Want It Darker is a GM-less tabletop role-playing game about music and dying. The game mechanic is a playlist, and it only gets weirder (and hopefully cooler) from there. #SpringGravesJam

You Want It Darker by Nora Katz

a role-playing game about music, dying, and resisting the inevitable

this bundle includes the book i co-organized, DOIKAYT: A JEWISH TTRPG ANTHOLOGY, and i’d like to take a moment to talk about why it was so important to

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and i to include it

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mk @ free palestine, black lives matter

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Jun 4, 2021

a few tabletop designers and i have put together an itch bundle to benefit @ThePCRF, an organization "addressing the medical and humanitarian crisis facing children in the middle east." over $250 worth of games for $75! find it here: itch.io/b/903/ttrpg-bu

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! I'm a southern Jewish public historian and I've had this amazing photograph hanging in my office for years—taken c. 1993. Is this you? I'd love to connect!