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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 8h

Many people like to laugh at medieval illuminations of stag-snails, oh those funny medieval artists making up anim...

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Victoria 🪴 @mimimerlot.northsky.social · 3h

We're hopefully not quite there yet. But yeah. I agree.

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Victoria 🪴 @mimimerlot.northsky.social · 4h

Just got home from visiting my mom in the hospital and wow. This is very heavy stuff. She's terrified. But there's nothing we can do. It's Parkinson's. It will kill her. We all know this. Spent three hours holding her hand and listening to her fears. Now I need a good cry.

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Victoria 🪴 @mimimerlot.northsky.social · 7h

Parkinson's, man, what a horrible disease.

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Victoria 🪴 @mimimerlot.northsky.social · 23h

Lol I can't stop laughing about it.

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Prime Minister Mark Carney declared the proposed Pacific Link pipeline to be of national interest earlier this month. But that can’t happen until Bill C-39, known as the Build Canada Strong Act, passes through Parliament.

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NDP warn fast-tracking Build Canada Strong Act won’t give enough time for consultation - APTN News

Prime Minister Mark Carney declared the proposed Pacific Link pipeline to be of national interest...

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Victoria 🪴 @mimimerlot.northsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's been a very long and stressful day spent in the hospital with an ailing parent. The hospital is ongoing and will be for about a week if all goes well. It's to do with Parkinson's. I bought these to break out for Thanksgiving, but I will open one up tonight.

Three bottles of booze on an antique dining room china cabinet and buffet combo.

Left: A bottle of Burmester Tawny Port, 10 year old.

Middle: Nutty Solera Jerez Xeres Sherry, medium.

Right: Bas Armagnac, Marie Duffan Napoleon.

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Victoria 🪴 @mimimerlot.northsky.social · 09/10/2026

Y'know... I'm actually sad that Burger King changed their onion rings. I liked those weirdo things.

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NDP @ndp.ca · 09/10/2026

The Liberals are ramming through a bill to fast-track major projects at the expense of workers’ rights, Indigenous rights, and the environment. Join us for a mass organizing call on how we build the power to stop Bill C-39 and win a Canada that delivers for the many, not the money. RSVP today 👇

Graphic for a virtual mass organizing call and phone zap: Stop Bill C-39! Featuring Avi Lewis, Mark Hancock, Bushra Asghar, and Ramon Kataquapit. Wednesday, October 14th at 4:30pm PT / 7:30pm ET.

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Victoria 🪴 @mimimerlot.northsky.social · 09/10/2026

Love starting the work day with typing, "As stated previously..." in an email.

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Douglas @dmgregory.ca · 09/10/2026

Getting my students doing some tabletop #gamedesign and teaching them about probability got me referencing @deathbybadger.bsky.social's "Trapped in a Cabin with Lord Byron" ...so I just had to make a #spreadsheet model of it... 🎲✂️📊🤓

Trapped in a Cabin with Lord Byron, a one-page RPG by Oliver Darkshire

A spreadsheet model of the game. The main takeaway is the game usually ends in fleeing society (76%) or murder / weeping (18%), with a new genre of fiction being invented only 6% of the time. A typical game takes about 31 die rolls to complete.

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Victoria 🪴 @mimimerlot.northsky.social · 09/10/2026

I love that you're doing this, but you have a rather embarrassing spelling error in the header of your graphic. It's 'organizing', not 'organiizing.'

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Victoria 🪴 @mimimerlot.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anyone have links to good articles to give to literal boomer parents about how dangerous AI is in leading you down far right rabbit holes? Because I just got home from my parents house and I heard some very alarming things.

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Victoria 🪴 @mimimerlot.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

PSA: If you haven't taken your turkey out of the freezer for Thanksgiving yet, you really should do so now!

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Brent Jans (he/they)💜🖤🤍 @dorklordcanada.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Let's talk about the upcoming Backerkit campaign for Volume 2 of The Hearth Magazine, and why you might want to follow and support our first ever crowdfunder. The basic pledge level, which gets you all six issues of The Hearth Magazine in Volume 2, will be $30USD. That works out to $5 per issue.

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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The vibe is post-apocalyptic fantasy, but you are not fragile scavengers. Rangers of a Broken World is a game about heroic deeds fueling hope. It is about the choices you make, not which items are in your backpack. Curious to learn more? Get the free preview now: www.drivethrurpg.com/product/5878...

The cover of Rangers of a Broken World, Shards of Memoria Edition. Three stark white wolves swoop in from the left, while a horned wyvern swoops through the air on the right.

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Victoria 🪴 @mimimerlot.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

lmao It's October, Raj! It's the season for creepy crawlies.

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Victoria 🪴 @mimimerlot.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

oh no... this sounds like experience talking.

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Victoria 🪴 @mimimerlot.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

I always check my slippers for them. I never want to feel that on my foot. eek!

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Victoria 🪴 @mimimerlot.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

I went to get more tea but there is a house centipede just chillin' in the doorway... I know they're a good house guest, but gosh darn are they creepy.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026

This prize was awarded because the Ice Cube observatory has been fantastically successful at detecting neutrinos from the cosmos (especially really intriguing high-energy ones) and also because “instead of building a big tank of water, why don’t we just kit out a whole ice cap” is a really neat idea

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Victoria 🪴 @mimimerlot.northsky.social · 05/10/2026

I love out of context ttrpg group chat posts. "Sorry folks but I'm feeling sick today. I cannot fight a hag."

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Victoria 🪴 @mimimerlot.northsky.social · 05/10/2026

There is a solo mode I need to check out and I have a bunch of expansions and doodads that came as stretch goals that we haven't checked out either. We wanted to play and get a hang of the base game first. Will need to play a few more times to formulate a definite opinion, but fun so far.

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Victoria 🪴 @mimimerlot.northsky.social · 05/10/2026

I thought that was a fun twist on the genre, like how Raiders of the North Sea has that fun place one, take one mechanic. It's well made with quality components. Not sure if that's because I backed a deluxe version (I don't remember what I backed) or if they all come like this.

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Victoria 🪴 @mimimerlot.northsky.social · 05/10/2026

But end the game with three as you lose one each round. The tokens are numbered 1-4 with the fifth being wild. The number on the token is how many spaces you move on the board (which also determines which ingredients you can forage or cook and serve meals). You choose which tokens you give up.

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Victoria 🪴 @mimimerlot.northsky.social · 05/10/2026

First impressions are positive. It's a euro worker placement game and if you've played one of those, you'll catch on quickly. One mechanic I thought was neat was the movement tokens. You start with five tokens to use in a round.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

there was streaming before the big companies, and they criminalized it when it was free because it was unfair to artists, and now that it's for-profit it's legal and it's still fucking unfair to artists.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

NOT A SINGLE FUCKING THING. There was already so much to read, look at, learn, explore, collage, so much weirdness and trueness and falseness and brilliance on the internet. And it got fucked up not because people wanted to earn money, but because a few people were determined to earn a LOT of money

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I agree completely with Malka's thread. I was co-editor of a web journal (The Journal of Mythic Arts) back in the 1990s, when every single page of it had to be coded by hand. It was hard work, but worth it to connect with a wide variety of other writers and artists working with myth & folklore.

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Victoria 🪴 @mimimerlot.northsky.social · 04/10/2026

Backed this game ages ago. Finally cracking it open.

Wild Gardens boardgame by Rose Gauntlet Entertainment. Design by Isaac Vega and art by Lyss Menold.

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Victoria 🪴 @mimimerlot.northsky.social · 04/10/2026

In case I wasn't clear, that was a request for recs.

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Victoria 🪴 @mimimerlot.northsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ooooh! There are kids in the family now... I don't entertain kids often. I need a family-friendly party game that isn't charades. Youngest player is 9.

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Victoria 🪴 @mimimerlot.northsky.social · 04/10/2026

Both. Lol. I include myself in the favourite category. 😅😅😅 But it's because I only have a setting of four of my favourites so I put one each at the head and foot of the table and then the other two on each side of the centre. Since Kevin and I sit at the head and the foot we get my favourites.

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Victoria 🪴 @mimimerlot.northsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ok. Fair. I have made kitchen stuff my personality. But I don't have enough settings for this many people. I'm going to have to mix and match.

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Victoria 🪴 @mimimerlot.northsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is the first time in over a decade that this many people have gathered for Thanksgiving in my family and I see how as soon as I step up this is how it goes. 😅

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Victoria 🪴 @mimimerlot.northsky.social · 04/10/2026

So, I volunteered to host Thanksgiving dinner and the guest list has grown to 11 because apparently family friends and family members are going to be in town. The card table is going to have to be fished from the basement. Guess I am cooking all week in preparation.

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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Inspired by Final Fantasy X, the Xenoblade Chronicles, and Magic Knight Rayearth, Rangers of a Broken World launches in two weeks! Destroy the twisted Horrors. Deceive the Noble Demons. Outlast the relentless Automata. And save your people. Follow the launch now: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

A spread from Rangers of a Broken World with the two pages that introduce the Wandering Magus class. A woman in loose-fitting clothes wearing a long silk scarf floats in the air and weaves a spell across a desert dune. In the distance, a huge spectral tortoise appears. Caption: Wandering Magus. A desert nomad, preserver of ancient knowledge, and reader of the stars, the Magus is an unparalleled hunter. Everything in the world is connected, and no one understands those connections better.

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Leon "Used to Be Cat" Richardson @catlinggun.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Believe me when I say every piece of art and design I have seen from our amazing team has been staggering. I am being spoiled rotten, and if you also want more eye candy than you can handle, then why not follow the launch? Over 700 people have!

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Victoria 🪴 @mimimerlot.northsky.social · 04/10/2026

I haven't read it so wasn't sure if it was good for her age level. Like, she would be able to read but would struggle and have to take her time with Howl's Moving Castle, for instance. It's a novel, not a manga, but you never know!

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Victoria 🪴 @mimimerlot.northsky.social · 04/10/2026

Looking for manga recs for a 9 year old girl who loves fantasy, dragons, and female protagonists. She loves anime. I've been getting her into studio Ghibli movies. She likes reading but is slow, and I was thinking that manga could help her with that.

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Victoria 🪴 @mimimerlot.northsky.social · 04/10/2026

About to jump into this sapphic dystopian scifi for book club.

Cover of Yours For the Taking by Gabrielle Korn.

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Victoria 🪴 @mimimerlot.northsky.social · 03/10/2026

I didn't renew my nitro because of the age verification thing and now I don't have access to half of my regular emojis and it makes me way more sad than it should.

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Victoria 🪴 @mimimerlot.northsky.social · 03/10/2026

They bring me so much joy. Lol. I grew them from seed just so I could experience this. Hahaha

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