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TTRPGkids ➡️ Gamehole Con @ttrpgkids.com · 06/09/2026

Check out my guidebook, Making a Tabletop RPG for YOUR Particular Kid, for your next home game or TTRPG design project! It's made to help families, publishers, and facilitators with making TTRPGs across a wide span of topics and mechanics in a non-overwhelming way: loom.ly/jNcB5Aw

Step-by-step on creating games for and with kids!
Made for families, creators, and educators
Physical copies available at:
Indie Press Revolution and Tabletop Bookshelf

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This pairs so well with the cameras our city has installed that will helpfully document the accident so you can relive the experience 😭

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TTRPGkids ➡️ Gamehole Con @ttrpgkids.com · 02/09/2026

It's back to school time! I've written a whole bunch of educational games that have classroom needs in mind (including time limits, subject focus, and built in lesson plans) - check them out on itchio for your class, kid(s), or after school groups! itch.io/c/3672982/educational-ttrpgs

EDU games by TTRPGkids!
Wide range of skills/ages
Easy to learn
shows a screenshot of the TTRPGkids itchio page featuring educational games
Lesson plans
Facilitator guides
Find these and more at:
ttrpgkids.itch.io

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Today my kid read to me about the great Boston molasses flood😳 How had I never heard about this? I also found myself wishing I had #kidslit about all of the bizarre stuff that’s happened in the world when I was a kid en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_M...

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Great Molasses Flood - Wikipedia

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Today I heard about the #yamathon for the first time and I am so excited to try this (though I want it to be a pleasant experience for kiddo, so we may end up breaking it into a few sections).

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

My kid’s schools after school enrichment program is called ACE, which in my world stands for Adverse Childhood Experiences. I just got an email asking if I wanted to sign kiddo up and had to read the email twice to make sure I wasn’t misreading it😳

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Don’t split the party takes on a new sense of urgency when you are #LARPing with #ttrpgkids in the woods😅

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Was biking home w/ 7yo on a major road and moved across a couple lanes of traffic to the left turn lane, when a car nearby yelled “shame on you!” It was unclear why, and 7yo handled it well, but it left us both wishing for more #bikeinfrastructure to minimize this kind of nonsense…. Sigh.

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I will say this—thanks to Elon I now have a much more precise number for how much society values toxic masculinity. I also have an irrational urge to call it #ToxicMuskulinity

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Question for all the DM’s out there: A mimic is having a birthday party with a scavenger hunt. What items would you put on the scavenger hunt list for maximum chaos? Candidate items so far: Pets Keys Purses Journals Shoelaces Family pictures Wedding rings Toilet flushing mechanisms #dnd #ttrpg

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Homebrew world idea: there are no heroes left except you because whenever they approached those they killed rocks fell and they died.

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

*intellect. lol autocorrect Though now I want to homebrew an intellectual devourer….

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

My one shot premise is a mimic birthday party with a scavenger hunt where the mimics are supposed to find/bring local pets so the intellect devourers can process their memories to feed a beholder run extortion/blackmail/espionage ring.

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Maybe this is widely known in #ttrpg circles, but intellectual devourers hiding in a mimic colony are a lovely combination

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Giddy Little Girl

Alt: Giddy Little kid

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

TIL that before private jets were a thing you could get a private rail car and have it towed around by passenger trains, and that apparently this is still a thing one can do! Which made me wonder—we have semester at sea, why no semester on the rails? (Or maybe this exists and I just don’t know?)

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Suburban kids are actually humans, not fashion accessories (or generators of elite college bumper stickers).

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

One of my favorite dnd family moments 💜

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

We got to meet one of our heroes at a local AVP tournament. Not only is Kelly Cheng an amazing volleyball player and human, but her character Dorrin (sp?) Hellfire might inspire 7yo to try playing a barbarian 💜 We had a lovely discussion about volleyball strategy and great axes on the ride home😊

A kid watching Kelly Cheng serve in a beach volleyball game.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/05/2026

Trump threatened to nuke Iran during the same press event where he called a woman reporter "baby" and a "bitch" and we'll all just supposed to continue on tomorrow as though any of this insanity is normal or acceptable

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I am going to be more or less intolerable if @katieporterca.bsky.social isn’t our next governor.

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

CA dems: we need big ambitious policy goals Also CA dems: let’s elect another empty suit who takes $$$ from corporations that don’t want things to change And we wonder why nothing ever changes smh

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Inspired by @ttrpgkids.com we just finished a #ttrpgkids session where everyone took sidewalk chalk and designed part of the dungeon we were exploring! A highlight was battling magic-infused mud (mephit stats) while we harvested potatoes from the garden (which we of course cooked and consumed)!

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

An unintended benefit of masking in meetings is that it helps hide my rbf and my looks of incredulity when senior leadership disingenuously makes straw men out of the faculty’s reasonable concerns in response to leadership’s suggestion that we offload teaching in our university to LLMs🫠

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 05/04/2026

But I find comfort thinking of even grey dawn, of Hell broken open to free those left there too goddamn long, of new laws, led first by a commandment to love one another. I tell my students after they play to take with them what serves them, leave the rest behind. Somehow this too is my theology.

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

We got a glorious homily re Samuel warning Israel not to have a king, because they’d exploit people to enrich themselves and start wars of imperial conquest. “In that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.”🔥🔥🔥

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

TIL that hairspray is absolute magic for getting kid’s bike handbar grips to go on easily (and stay on)….

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Thanks this is super helpful! I love the idea of having them help create a wrapping paper gauntlet, which we’ll definitely have to do sometime soon! Since we live walking distance from a trailhead I feel like we need to figure out ways to work this into every session!

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Am running a game for 7yo and a friend with a *much* shorter attention span. Last session we took breaks to compose poem prophecies, make maps, and go on a walk to meet a druid friend. I have never LARPed and was wondering if there’s a guide/ideas/best practices for LARPing with @ttrpgkids.com?

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

We’re in the middle of @claribelortega.com’s Witchlings (book 4) and 7yo asks me unprompted: Dad is <BBEG who gaslights & manipulates to consolidate power> kind of like Trump? Such a powerful #kidslit moment 💜 Thank you for these books and making it easier to raise kids in these challenging times!

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I love this so much💜 I know it’s not just universities that struggle with this, but I think this basically sums up the role of #AssDeans

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A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator

YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I love this so much, and it strikes me that this is what a university should be about. Unfortunately we’ve given up because we think it’s too hard and decided that we should instead devote ourselves to teaching people that they should try to outsource being human to chatbots.

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

How many people have to die (both in the US and abroad) as Trump tries to distract us from the Epstein files?

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

It was never about the paper, folks. That was never the goal. A brilliant paper is a symptom of the learning that has happened. It’s the learning that is the heart of it.

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Whenever I have an email from a student asking for a research project to work on, I suggest that they take a crack at this, but so far haven’t gotten any traction on it….

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I think that for many public universities it’s possible to calculate something like this from publicly posted data (historic salary & course schedules). And at public universities this should be obtainable via public records request, right? Am curious if anyone’s working on this (pls lmk if so)!

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

At public universities this should be obtainable via public records request, yes? I *think* that for many publics it’s possible to calculate from posted data (historic salary and course schedules). Is anyone working on this? I suggest this to students looking for projects but so far no traction.

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

So excited to start reading @jamesponti.bsky.social’s latest City Spies book with my kiddo! We can’t wait to dive in, but also it was such a great way for kiddo to learn patience while we waited 😊

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Srsly #Olympics? What could be more political than a flag? So tonight we watched skeleton reruns in honor of Vladylsav Heraskevych.

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

We also watched the #beastquake and agreed that if Seattle gets the ball on the one yard line at the end of the game again, they need to call Marshawn out of retirement.

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Great—now we can outsource our thoughts and prayers when there’s a completely avoidable tragedy 😡

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I watch the bulk of ashleythebaroness videos, despite rarely sharing them. But this one hit today. And she's right! We're not dealing with some foreign ideology. We're dealing with a uniquely American phenomenon. fascism wrapped in our own flag

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 10/01/2026

They use "civility" as a weapon against us. Because they'll say stuff like, "while what happened was a clearly tragedy, there's no call for that kind of language about it." An elected official saying "fuck" is not worthy of equal debate with a murder by "law" enforcement. That's oppressor shit.

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Recently had a a chance to play @nickferris.bsky.social’s Wizardologist Most Hexasperated, and had an absolute blast! It was 7yo’s first time playing a social deduction game and it was delightful to have them glare at me and repeatedly tell everyone that I was lying 🥰

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Whimsy Bot @whimsybot.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Amazing-we need more of this in our world! Bubblegum pink houses to me are the inflatable costumes of housing--it’s just really hard to be a complete toad to others when surrounded by folks in inflatable frog costumes or by bubblegum pink houses (though obviously some folks can).

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