Whimsy Bot
@whimsybot.bsky.social
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Your friendly neighborhood nerd. Lover of all things whimsical.
Seeing Venice
#CitySpies
style. We retraced Cairo & Paris’ steps, looked at lots of beautiful masks, bought a small (carryon compatible) snowglobe, and enjoyed Kat’s view😊 Thanks to
@jamesponti.bsky.social
for books that give us an extra incentive to see some sights!
1 day ago
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Traveling to Venice and Rome and excited to visit some of the locations featured in the
#CitySpies
books w/ kiddo!
@jamesponti.bsky.social
let us know if you have recommendations for spots not featured in the first six books fans should be sure to check out 😊
7 days ago
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Special shout out to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for giving us an opportunity to talk with our 1st grader about the social construction of gender and gender norms 🫠😡🤬 We had a lovely conversation about the best way to answer question #6….
8 days ago
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Kiddo rolled up a new character for an upcoming adventure; rolled 15, 11, 14, 13, 10, 18. Kiddo then rolled for my new character; rolled 9, 8, 9, 13, 9, 15. Kiddo was SO apologetic, but I was just tickled!
10 days ago
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TIL the history of thanksgiving!
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Make Thanksgiving Radical Again
The holiday’s real roots lie in abolition, liberation, and anti-racism. Let’s reconnect to that legacy.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/thanksgiving-history-slavery-abolitionism/#
16 days ago
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According to a recent survey, 100% of the power rangers in our neighborhood want more bike infrastructure and a less car centered culture 🥰
about 1 month ago
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Sarah Tolcser
6 months ago
I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.
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Just introduced 6yo to
@dndbeyond.bsky.social
’s Roll in the Family, w/
@brennanleemulligan.bsky.social
@kelly-knox.com
@bdavewalters.bsky.social
@badeye.bsky.social
& their amazing kids 😍 Kiddo was absolutely smitten, and wanted more. Any chance you might make/have more amazing
#ttrpgkids
content?
7 months ago
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TIL (from a kids book) that Ben Franklin wanted the wild turkey as the US national symbol instead of a bald eagle, and that it took six years to settle the debate. Apparently Franklin thought wild turkeys were more “respectable.” I am not sure about more respectable, but certainly more apt of late!
9 months ago
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The number of Tesla’s pulling into the JCC continues to surprise me. Somehow their “we stand with Israel” signage is consistent with driving swasticars?
10 months ago
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If Trump sends Elon to fix things in space, do you think Elon could take Mark, Jeff, Sam, and Peter along? Because I feel like that would fix a lot of things down here too….
11 months ago
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This has got to be my favorite use of AI, by a substantial margin. But I wonder how long we have before the whole system is just AI on both sides talking to itself 🤔
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A phone company developed an AI 'granny' to beat scammers at their own game
The company behind the scam-baiting granny said the AI technology can keep scammers on the phone for 40 minutes at a time, keeping them away from real people.
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/10/nx-s1-5220362/daisy-ai-granny-o2-fraud-spam-prevention
about 1 year ago
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New super power unlocked! I put a friend to sleep while GM’ing a
#ttrpg
for our kids! So if you have trouble sleeping…. (They were apologetic, but I took it as a compliment that they felt comfortable crashing on the couch while kids played at the table nearby.)
about 1 year ago
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Just ran a
#ttrpgkids
game with hexbots in a magnatile maze the kids built 😍 Will definitely be incorporating hexbots into more of my games!
about 1 year ago
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We were bummed that Kelly and Sara lost today, but we had fun playing for the gold metal anyways💜
over 1 year ago
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Scariest ttrpg session I have read about in a while. Let’s go team coconuts!🌴🌴
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Opinion | How to harden our defenses against an authoritarian president
A commander in chief with little concern for legal limits holds an advantage over efforts to restrain him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/30/trump-authoritarian-president-government-defend/
over 1 year ago
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This weekend I GM'ed the
#lego
#dnd
adventure, 5yo’s first adventure. When 3 of 5 PC’s crit failed a perception check, they heard the owlbear ask them to jump on for a ride. All three made the check to get on (two w/ nat 20's). We were dying, especially when the wizard riding it cast levitate 💀
over 1 year ago
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Am so excited about seeing how this narrative arc of
@faeforgeacademy.bsky.social
wraps up, and where the story goes next🍿
player.captivate.fm/episode/cc9c...
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Episode 171 - Phone calls and Neck Tattoos
<p>Khoz has a plan, but needs the help of Rain and Beskey to get some better information about what is really happening in the dwarven mafia he once called family. He must hear from Ketla, his...
https://player.captivate.fm/episode/cc9cbc80-8fbe-4539-9ce5-5db9a6746025/
over 1 year ago
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Thing #327 I love about TTRPGs: when your 5yo comes home with off the wall hypothetical questions, you can suggest rolling some dice :) Who would win in a fight between an elephant and a lion? What about five elephants against two lions, a tiger, a cheetah, a jaguar, and a rhino?
#trrpgkids
over 1 year ago
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I was explaining recent developments in world politics to 5yo at bedtime tonight, and 5yo said somebody should go steal all the bomb-making parts and destroy them. When I said it was a good idea, 5yo asked me very earnestly if I would tell Joe Biden, so I said I would post it….
over 1 year ago
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So excited to listen to this weeks
@faeforgeacademy.bsky.social
episode, but I am being a responsible adult and going to bed instead 😭
over 1 year ago
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5yo and I recently did Pokémon research by flipping three coins and counting the number of heads, and graphed our results. It was such a hit that it was requested again-I love this little nerd so much 😍
#parentingwin
over 1 year ago
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My 5yo recently asked when we get to play
#dnd
together 😍
@thebaddm.bsky.social
how soon can we get you to DM a kids game?
over 1 year ago
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Please take my money😍😍😍
almost 2 years ago
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✨Leah✨ GreenLeafGeek
almost 2 years ago
Ever wanted to play with a TTRPG celeb? Now's your chance! Back for a Seat at the Table to play with one of these superstars:
@latiajacquise.com
@joshuamsimons.com
@naladraws.com
@camillewolfewood.bsky.social
@cypheroftyr.bsky.social
@thebaddm.bsky.social
@jesthehuman.bsky.social
Link below⬇️
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A Seat at the Table - Hidden Glow GMs
A sneak at the GMs running sessions for the Seat at the Table reward for Hidden Glow UV-activated Dice!They are: LaTia Jacquise (clip property of Rivals of W...
https://youtu.be/P50-svZszIE?si=40nqkdBVVwRQ2t5r
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Was playing the card game creatures (where you create chimeras), and drew the cards to make the ferocious maga-head. 5yo couldn’t figure out why I was dying 😭
almost 2 years ago
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5yo asked if we were rich (a kid at school said they were). I asked if 5yo knew what rich meant, and 5yo didn’t. I said it meant you had more money than you needed and hadn’t shared it, and that it was kind of sad, but yes we were. 5yo thought for a bit, and said, “But dad, I don’t want to share.”
almost 2 years ago
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People who are famous in our house (according to 5yo who just learned the concept): van Persie, Messi, and Ruby Bridges.
almost 2 years ago
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Any suggestions for resources for a
#dnd
one-shot where you magic school bus style shrink down and go into a body to help fight
#covid
? (I’m preparing a holiday one-shot for my kid and thought they’d enjoy this, but would love to know if somebody else has done this or something similar!)
almost 2 years ago
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So I just had Detroit pizza for the first time, and I hope I don’t lose too many of my NYC and Chicago friendships next time there’s an argument over pizza preferences 😍😍😍
almost 2 years ago
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Not me sitting around smiling a smile bigger than any human should be allowed to smile because tomorrow is
#FaeforgeFriday
at the
@faeforgeacademy.bsky.social
😁😄😊
almost 2 years ago
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Existential Comics
about 2 years ago
I love those motivational guys that are like "I wake up every day at 4 a.m. to go running". Like dude, who do you think you are fooling? You are just going to sleep earlier. It's the same thing. You are just jogging in the dark for no reason.
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Is this why all my neutral characters keep dying?
add a skeleton here at some point
about 2 years ago
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Starting to make plans for 5yo’s first 5e dnd game 💜 (we’ve played a lot of Heroes and Treasure)!
about 2 years ago
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Standing in line at airport security and my mind started wandering. I found myself wondering how many people still remember what airports were like in the before times….
about 2 years ago
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TFW your 5yo asks to listen to one of your favorite songs that your indie band friends wrote a decade ago😍 (Goodnight, San Francisco by The Bittersweets)
about 2 years ago
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Existential Comics
about 2 years ago
Becoming an adult is great because you can do whatever you want. Except get a good night's sleep. Or be happy.
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Hey, do you know what goes well with tryptophan?
@faeforgeacademy.bsky.social
does. And even if you like tofu more than turkey (like me), it turns out that it’s still a wonderful way to recover from the holidays!
about 2 years ago
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Just when I think that
@faeforgeacademy.bsky.social
can’t possibly get better, they provide something that I didn’t know I needed. I mean, how do you say no to cottagecore Tieflings?
add a skeleton here at some point
about 2 years ago
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Just finished watching the latest
@faeforgeacademy.bsky.social
recording session - I thought there was nothing that could make me love this show more, but watching
@thebaddm.bsky.social
,
@tinypoison.bsky.social
, and others be the awesome humans that they are is just amazing 😍
about 2 years ago
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We went “camping” last night 💜
about 2 years ago
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Existential Comics
over 2 years ago
9/11 was a tragedy, but luckily America responded to it the same way we always respond to adversity: by coming together as a nation and doing racism domestically, and bombing people overseas.
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Seriously, I am jealous of you if you haven’t listened to the
@faeforgeacademy.bsky.social
yet because it means you can binge so much amazing content! It’s SO good!
add a skeleton here at some point
over 2 years ago
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