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Tom @adventuretom.bsky.social · Dec 22

Dungeons and Dragons turns 50 This year. I’m glad I got to include a story of what the game meant to this Grown Up Kid all those years ago. Check it out. It’s a cool book if you like such things.

D20 or Die!: Memories of Old School Role-Playing Games from Today's Grown-Up Kids a.co/d/0lenp4t

D20 or Die!: Memories of Old School Role-Playing Games from Today's Grown-Up Kids (Memories from Today's Grown-Up Kids)

D20 or Die!: Memories of Old School Role-Playing Games from Today's Grown-Up Kids (Memories from Today's Grown-Up Kids) - Kindle edition by Beard, Jim, DeCandido, Keith, Schildiner, Frank, Freeman, Bob, Simcoe, John, Hauman, Glenn, Surbrook, Michael, Pepper, William, Helvie, Forrest, Drew, John. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading D20 or Die!: Memories of Old School Role-Playing Games from Today's Grown-Up Kids (Memories from Today's Grown-Up Kids).

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Tom @adventuretom.bsky.social · 2d

Somewhere out there Lesley Gore is smiling.

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A cover of Lesley Gore’s classic, the message matters even more now. Out everywhere now!

YouTube video by The Dollyrots

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Tom @adventuretom.bsky.social · 2d

You need some Dr Hook this morning. Rik Elswit up front. Do yourself a favor and follow Rik on Quora.

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Dr Hook and The Medicine Show - "Everybody's Making It Big But Me"

YouTube video by Ronja´s Dr Hook Channel

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Tom @adventuretom.bsky.social · 3d

On the Underground Garage cruise, Beto caught up with all the members of The Baseball Project except Peter Buck and Linda Pitmon. At their show in Carrboro, Beto finally got to say hello. #betothebat #betothebatontour #realartrealartists

More Beto here: www.instagram.com/p/DPmSGbtEdr...

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Tom @adventuretom.bsky.social · 3d

Yes. I do own this soundtrack.

Susan (NeonNurse) Crites @neonnurse.bsky.social · 3d

‪Kimber Johnson‬
#MusicChallenge
#KillerTunes
10/9
Vampire Gang - Near Dark

I thought we'd see a lot more media vamps, Count Von Count, TV show themes, etc. But I got a nudge from my #SpotifyBrain and found this actual song by an actual (media) vampire!

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Tom @adventuretom.bsky.social · 3d

Beto the Bat now has a home. I’ll still share Beto’s journey here, but the Instagram page is a place to get all the photos in one place. It’s also a way to promote artists we love. #betothebat #betothebatontour #realartrealartists

Check it out ⬇️

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Beto the Bat sitting next to a sign at Castaway Cay in The Bahamas that says no diving.

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 4d

My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

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Tom @adventuretom.bsky.social · 5d

I’m obsessed with this new song by Lynn Blakey(Let’s Active) and Mike Mills (R.E.M.)

And listen for it on Stevie’s Coolest Songs.

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The Salt Collective - In the Shadow of the Moon (feat. Mike Mills and Lynn Blakey)

YouTube video by Propeller Sound Recordings

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Tom @adventuretom.bsky.social · 6d

Me at 2AM about a week ago.

Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 6d

I wonder how many man-hours are lost to the nation every year from people standing stock-still for minutes on end waiting for the dying smoke alarm to chirp

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Jason Narducy @jasonnarducy.bsky.social · 6d

I play one game Saturday and they reunite Monday. Amazing.

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 7d

Daily bunny no.3098 brings the snacks

A bunny is in a dark dungeon, on one side of a bolted wooden door. On the other side of the door, seen through a barred window in the door, a giant, amorphous monster is visible, with green tentacles and a giant eyeball. The bunny has brought a bucket of fish for the creature to eat.

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Tom @adventuretom.bsky.social · 7d

Reminder.

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Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Music And Song Courtesy:Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)

YouTube video by peaceandfreedom2011

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Tom @adventuretom.bsky.social · 8d

Reminder. In case you missed it.

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Penn & Teller burn an American Flag in The White House

YouTube video by Vader_Bomb

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ScaredyKat Bonemann 💀🦴 @katbaumann.bsky.social · 9d

Day 276: Kalvin and Jobbes (featuring @jamesinks.bsky.social )

And a link to the first comic in this little arc: bsky.app/profile/katb...

Single panel comic drawn in pen in the style of Bill Watterson, author of Calvin and Hobbes, and continuing on from yesterday's comic about giant vines and leaves pressing up against the window of my house.
The top caption on the comic says "Dressing my comic up as other comics: Pt. 3"
In the comic, my spouse and I are drawn like Calvin and Hobbes (my spouse looks like Hobbes, but with square glasses and cheetah spots instead of tiger stripes, and I am drawn as Calvin but with round glasses and long, dark, wavy hair. I'm gesturing happily at he center of the panel and saying "Woah-- we got a ton of acorn squash from the radioactive vine!" James/Hobbes ("Jobbes") is scratching their head and looking at the acorn squashes, some of which are arranged in monstrous "snowman" builds, similar to many of the Calvin and Hobbes comics do with snowmen, and saying "This seems... ominous."
Beneath the comic is my signature (Kat Baumann), today's date (10-3-2025) and the time I spent drawing this (50 minutes)

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Tom @adventuretom.bsky.social · 11d

Be prepared for more this.

New lower prices!

(We just made it smaller)

Boo to you Caribou Coffee. I was once your biggest fan but you priced me out.

Tom @adventuretom.bsky.social · 12d

If you’ve got 28 million dollars, Collinwood is for sale. If there are coffins in the basement (or cemetery) they’re not shown here. #darkshadows

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Tom @adventuretom.bsky.social · 12d

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Artists United Against Apartheid - Sun City

YouTube video by Little Steven

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Tom @adventuretom.bsky.social · 12d

It doesn’t get much better than this. #darylhallandjohnoates

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Hall & Oates - She's Gone (Live) - [STEREO]

YouTube video by Super Channel (xyzmikey2)

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Tom @adventuretom.bsky.social · 12d

Watch out Beto, that guy looks sketchy.

#betothebat #betothebatontour
#batsofbluesky

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 13d

WTF that’s not how copyright works

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 13d

Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.