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Bookworm. RPG lover. Dice Goblin. WHM forever. TTRPG geek. German. Mama. Moomin. Odd one out by default. http://vivacia.contactin.bio/

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Vi🧛‍♀️cia @vivacia.bsky.social · Dec 8

I decided that my #thread 🧵 icon here on #bluesky will be a #kite 🪁
Cause I am imagining my thoughts as notes knotted into the 🪁's tail, being released into the big blue sky 💙

Watercolor painting of a rainbow kite flying between clouds with its tail with colorful bows snaking behind

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Vi🧛‍♀️cia @vivacia.bsky.social · 1h

Wanna catch up on the spooky DnD game I am playing on stream this month?
I am Wiebke Nima, a stone Goliath Forge Cleric of Ulaa. She is a veteran mercenary, just trying to meet up with an old comrade when things start going weird...

All our characters and the NPC are drawn by our GM Jose!

Greyhawk Unoerthed w/ Jose Ortiz | Session 1 - Reunion In Orlane | Dungeons & Dragons 5e

YouTube video by Guild Superior

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Mike MacKenzie @mackenziemw.bsky.social · 4h

A special post from England. This Long Eared Owl was photographed from 10 metres away in Northumberland by my spouse's cousin who is quite an accomplished bird photographer. He lives in Newcastle.

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🪼Jellyfishlines is Haunting You🪼 @jellyfishlines.itch.io · 2h

$95 left to fund this folks!! Let’s get Viktor across the finish line!!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/161...

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Vi🧛‍♀️cia @vivacia.bsky.social · 2h

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Meme with a picture of protesters in Portland in inflatable frog costumes.

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Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and your people and all your officials."

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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 2h

~335 short for out of pocket seizure med. These are the GoodRX *discount* prices. So unhinged here. Out of pills. Truly, each step closer means everything to me! 🙏💖

Tips:
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https://paypal.me/tpipc
(credit/debit): https://bit.ly/payrev

#TTRPG games:
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Screenshot from GoodRx showing discounted medication prices around $1400+.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2h

UN official Farhan Haq says life-saving aid is flowing into Gaza under the first 60-day ceasefire phase, with Israel clearing a pipeline for 190,000 metric tonnes of assistance so far.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/8ht2bp

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 2h

1. Maintaining our right to public protest is essential for defeating dictatorship.
2. There are more of us than there are of them.
3. You don't have to RSVP.
4. Do more after Saturday.
5. Maybe wear a costume.

Trump Determined to Remind Us Why We Say 'No Kings'

We have frogs everywhere—a few reminders for this Saturday's monumental event.

www.thefarce.org

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

My statement on today's profoundly moving scenes in Israel and Palestine.

Today’s scenes of Israelis and Palestinians are profoundly moving: Israeli hostages being freed and families reunited after years of fear, uncertainty, and torture; the first days in Gaza without relentless Israeli bombardment of Palestinians as families return to rubble and loved ones freed from detention.

There is finally a glimmer of hope that this ceasefire will hold and the long difficult work of reconstruction can begin. I also know this news brings solace to millions of New Yorkers, who’ve felt the pain of the past few years. We have watched as our tax dollars have funded a genocide. The moral and human cost will be a lasting stain and requires accountability and real examination of our collective conscience and our government’s policies.

The responsibility now lies with those of us who believe in peace to make sure it endures, and that it is just. Once aid is delivered, the wounded are cared for, and a lasting agreement secured, we cannot look away. We must work towards a future built upon justice, one without occupation and apartheid, and for a world where every person can live with safety and dignity.

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Vi🧛‍♀️cia @vivacia.bsky.social · 2h

Watch for yourself

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 3h

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

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Starmetal Productions @starmetalpro.bsky.social · 3h

As excited as we all are for our premier of Harmony Road, we've been dealt a series of complications today. Due to multiple health/family emergencies, we sadly have to push the show back a week.
But a silver lining around our Altaria, this means we have another week to make it even better!
#pokemon

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 3h

Let us translate Mike Johnson's comments about Obamacare for you www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...

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Vi🧛‍♀️cia @vivacia.bsky.social · 3h

Honestly, that's why I love running games on channels like @nerdswdice.bsky.social or @valdrianth.bsky.social . When I can squeeze in the spoons to GM, they take care of the rest and I just gotta show up and run it

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 6h

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

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Broadview Shrinks Protest Safety Zones

The following statement can be attributed to Village of Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson:

“The protests at the ICE facility on Saturday night degenerated into chaos. There were 15 arrests, and 10 of those were around the age of my own daughter. As a mother and a mayor, I am mad. Broadview didn’t choose to have the ICE facility in our community. But it’s here. And so are Broadview residents. There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest. Too many are raising their fists rather than their voices, creating chaos at the expense of the people who call Broadview home. Broadview residents lack the protestors’ privilege to return to calm, quiet neighborhoods for undisturbed rest.

Therefore, I have issued a new executive order, in consultation with the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff, that permits protests only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street.

There will no longer be a designated protest safety zone at 2000 South 25th Avenue between Lexington and Fillmore.

Additionally, it has been only God’s grace alone that a protester has not been struck and killed by a motorist on 25th Avenue given how frequently protesters dash onto this busy, four-lane street. This new
measure will provide for both the serenity of residents and safety of protestors.

As I have repeatedly said, I respect, support, and defend the protesters’ free and – peaceful – speech against the outrageous injustices and deplorable unprovoked chemical arms attacks by ICE agents against American citizens, journalists, and ministers that put Broadview police and firefighters in harms’ way.

Nevertheless, my first priority is to defend public safety and the residents who live here and people who work here. They deserve stability, safety, and respect, a quality of life that is currently being denied to them. They deserve the love and kindness that they expect by being Broadview residents.”

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 11h

You can arrest us or pepper spray us or whatever, but we will make you look stupid and feel silly doing it because wanting to assert control is stupid. You want to assert control? Do it to an inflatable frog!
So, it’s not just a meme thing, it’s a Portland cultural thing.

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 11h

All of this is to say that Portland political humor, which often makes the national stage via absurdist protests (like right now) or statements of solidarity that other groups find baffling (like the Wall of Moms during the BLM protests), is steeped in this same sense of creative frustration.

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 11h

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Affector Of Change (he/they) 🍉🏳️‍🌈 @affectorofchange.bsky.social · 4h

On this Indigenous Peoples Day, I encourage you to read this article about the indigenous Blackfoot Wisdom that served as a major inspiration for Maslow and his Hierarchy of Needs -- Community is at very the foundation of our human needs

gatherfor.medium.com/maslow-got-i...

Could the Blackfoot Wisdom that Inspired Maslow Guide Us Now?

We all know Maslow’s famous Hierarchy of Needs. But do we know about the Blackfoot way of life that may have inspired Maslow to develop it?

gatherfor.medium.com

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 1d

⚡️ A year after relearning to walk following a Russian attack, a Ukrainian journalist ran 10K.

Ukrainian journalist Olha Zvonarova, who learned to walk again after being severely wounded in a Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia, has just completed 10 kilometers at the Kyiv Marathon of Resilience.

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 6h

North Carolina Republicans just announced they plan to pass a more extreme congressional gerrymander for 2026.

Republicans re-gerrymandered this swing state's congressional map just last cycle to turn what had been 7 Dem - 7 Rep split into a 10-4 majority. Now they're going for an 11-3 edge

General Assembly Heeds President Trump’s Call to Thwart Blue State Attempts to Take Congress

Raleigh, N.C. — Today, legislative leaders agreed to hold votes during the previously scheduled October legislative session to block the…

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10h

WAR-TORN PORTLAND

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 8h

Trump’s cronies fired critical public health workers. Regret set in immediately.

The White House is already walking back hundreds of federal layoffs

Trump's cronies fired critical public health workers. Regret set in immediately.

www.motherjones.com

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Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social · 8h

Egypt has extremely strict gun control laws. Civilians are only permitted to own handguns -- no rifles or shotguns -- and only if they can prove they need the weapon for a specific purpose. Background checks for licensing are extensive and include vetting of family members and psych evaluations.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump on Egypt: "They have very little crime. Because they don't play games. That's why. Like we do in the United States with governors that have no idea what they're doing."

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 8h

The Shoreline Management Plan sets out which of Norfolk's coastal communities will be defended and which will be surrendered to the sea. Few realise what that really means.

Read how the residents of Hemsby are starting to find out ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @owensennitt.bsky.social

Norfolk’s vanishing coast and the limits of protection

Norfolk’s crumbling coastline exposes the human cost of climate change – and the painful limits of what councils can do

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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JonBOOnét Rumsfeld @jonbenetrumsfeld.blacksky.app · 11h

this is christine flowers
shes an immigration lawyer here in philly and she has something to say about first nation people here in the US

Lets make her famous

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