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Kaiju Stew @kaijustew.bsky.social · 37m

What even have I stumbled upon

The front cover of a copy of the Hercules and Xena RPG

Kaiju Stew @kaijustew.bsky.social · 3h

Parting ways with three IKEA bags of tabletop RPG books and accessories that I either don’t vibe with anymore because my tastes have changed or the creators who made them are chuds. It kinda sucks but it’s more shelf space for new games.

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 3h

What the actual fuck, YouTube.
It decided to automatically replace my own voice with AI bot voice, without my consent. What is the point of this shit.
Turn the volume on 🔈

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Kaiju Stew @kaijustew.bsky.social · 6h

Beebee is being a horrible little goblin demon brat this morning. She has, thus far -

Screamed at the top of her lungs in my face

Screamed at the top of her lungs in my partner’s face while he tries to sleep in

Nibbled on a Warhammer mini

Tried to lick my breakfast

Tried to eat plastic

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Kaiju Stew @kaijustew.bsky.social · 6h

I tried really hard to ignore her so she started nibbling on a Warhammer mini 🙃

Kaiju Stew @kaijustew.bsky.social · 6h

Me: ah, finally, some free time to work on crafting terrain for war games and tabletop RPGs

My cat: ah, time to SCREAM AND SCREAM AND SCREAM FOR ATTENTION

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 9h

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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Kaiju Stew @kaijustew.bsky.social · 8h

While looking for some other hobby stuff to work on this morning I stumbled across an old friend - one of the first minis I ever painted, an old HeroQuest elf. One day I’d like to try painting another copy of this mini.

A little plastic elf, with green and blue clothes and black hair, pale skin, and a silver sword. A little dusty.

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Kaiju Stew @kaijustew.bsky.social · 8h

I’m trying, I’m just getting very, very little interest in my looking for players posts.

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Kaiju Stew @kaijustew.bsky.social · 8h

Define your music taste in 8 artists:

A mighty challenge!

1. The Black Dahlia Murder
2. Dimmu Borgir
3. Antichrist Siege Machine
4. Slayyyter
5. Dio
6. Candlemass
7. Siouxsie and the Banshees
8. Sabrina Carpenter

Wil (He/Him) @rivetgeek.aggregatecognizance.com · 17h

Define your music taste in 8 artists:

I listen to a lot of different artists, I think I can do this:

1. VNV Nation
2. The Cure
3. New Order
4. KMFDM
5. Metric
6. CHVRCHES
7. Bad Religion
8. Lush

Unruly Arcana @unrulyarcana.bsky.social · 19h

Define your music taste in 8 artists:

Impossible... But I'll give it a shot, lol.

1. Sublime
2. Tom Petty
3. Godsmack
4. Jesse Wells
5. James Taylor
6. Chris Stapleton
7. The Goo Goo Dolls
8. Cross Canadian Ragweed

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Kaiju Stew @kaijustew.bsky.social · 8h

Getting that sinking feeling that if I want to run a tabletop RPG IRL again I’ll have to run D&D 5e and not the games I actually want to run…

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 15h

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 1d

Cover by Russ Heath.

Spellbound #3 (1952). On the cover, a man and a woman in an underground cave are confronted by a large snake with a beastly but humanoid looking head, that looks very much like something from a Tim Burton film.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Kaiju Stew @kaijustew.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like I’m struggling to be heard and understood today. It feels like every opinion or perspective I voice is wrong and incorrect, and my lived experience don’t matter. That, on top of the world around me falling into chaos, has me feeling kinda… not good.

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Kaiju Stew @kaijustew.bsky.social · 1d

It would be sick as hell if I did not have depression

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Kaiju Stew @kaijustew.bsky.social · 1d

I was completely and totally onboard for this movie until the second I learned Jared Leto was in it, and then I was 100% out.

I might give the soundtrack a listen, but a movie about the power to 3D print infinite Jared Letos? No. Hard pass.

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