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Thomas White

@blarkytopia.bsky.social

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AKA Test Subject Not-A-Whale-Biologist. I also occasionally like to play games badly in the name of charity fundraising. America’s foremost streaming influencer (self-proclaimed), Twitch Stream Star of 2024 twitch.tv/blarkytopia

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Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · Sep 3

It’s happening again! Team Sensible Shoes once again heads to the mines to fight monsters and rack up mutations to help the kids of Children’s Miracle Network!

Game days are Nov 15 & 16, but all manner of chaos-inducing incentives are open now!

www.extra-life.org/participant/...

Extra Life | Change Kids' Health, Change the Future

I'm raising funds with #EXTRALIFE for kids treated at my Children's Miracle Network Hospitals! I need your help to reach my fundraising goal. Please donate today to change kids' health.

www.extra-life.org

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Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 13h

Thank you! I am quite pleased with how they turned out, and how good they look on the tile. The success of these got me hyped to finish some other projects on my table that will undoubtedly be shown later.

Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 19h

But you’ll love how AI wildly hallucinates the contents of your event page even when you just try to copy last year and update it! /s

Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 20h

It will be cursed update with needless AI for some reason, I’m sure.

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Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 21h

But I want him to die en-route to Mars aboard one of his faulty starships thinking he will be god emperor there.

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Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 22h

If only I could take my favorite parts of the Extra Life site and Tiltify and combine them into one site to rule them all.

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Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 22h

That the Extra Life site won’t let you select multiple incentives at once is something I give them feedback about every single year, and they haven’t fixed it yet. It gives me a disappoint.

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Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve received two coins recently that I quite like.

One to celebrate the good works of a friend, and one to celebrate my own good works and service.

Two metal coins. One with a styled skull exploding with wires that says “NEVER FORGIVE THEM FOR WHAT THEY’VE DONE TO THE COMPUTER,” and one that shows a game controller with wings and a pair of dice that says “EXTRA LIFE $10,000 RAISED.”

Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I did see that! I agree, and then I was looking stuff up. Most of their albums have come out on late summer or fall, so it’s probably connected. Then I failed to reply.

Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 1d

I have loved that “with a map of the end times” lyric for decades now.

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runcible @runcible.bsky.social · 1d

our national motto

MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

Another one of those “oh shit” moments.

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Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 2d

Help us help the kids, and bring another painted monster to our table!

www.extra-life.org/participant/...

Extra Life | Change Kids' Health, Change the Future

I'm raising funds with #EXTRALIFE for kids treated at my Children's Miracle Network Hospitals! I need your help to reach my fundraising goal. Please donate today to change kids' health.

www.extra-life.org

Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 2d

My $1000 fundraising milestone? Why, it’s their big brother, the Magma Giant! Look how plain he looks next to his little brothers.

Think of how great he’ll look smashing his fists of magma down on the hapless heroes of Team Sensible Shoes if he’s painted!

Unpainted miniature of the Magma Giant for Shadows of Brimstone next to painted models for the Magma Fiends.

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Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 2d

The painting milestone for my first $500 raised for this year’s #EXTRALIFE are these fabulous Magma Fiends. I am very happy happy with how they turned out, and they look great on the board with their lava trails.

Team Sensible Shoes will have a fiery good time fighting them in six weeks!

Living rocks dribbling a trail of lava behind them, it’s Magma Fiends for Shadows of Brimstone!

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Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 3d

And use Carter dollars to pay for it.

Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 3d

Always piss.

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Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 3d

Well we can’t keep his adorable elderly crankiness a secret from the world.

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Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 3d

In just 6 weeks Team Sensible Shoes will gather around my table and livestream our Shadows of Brimstone experience as we take part in #EXTRALIFE for the 9th year.

Help us help the kids, make the game more exciting too! Character selections are still up for grabs!

www.extra-life.org/participant/...

Extra Life | Change Kids' Health, Change the Future

I'm raising funds with #EXTRALIFE for kids treated at my Children's Miracle Network Hospitals! I need your help to reach my fundraising goal. Please donate today to change kids' health.

www.extra-life.org

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Spence @spencethebence.bsky.social · 4d

Helped my brother buy a new car today and this was the only decoration the salesman had on the desk.

Can of Limited Edition Star Wars Episode 1 Pepsi with Anakin on the can. It is inside a protective glass case.

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Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 3d

My high school drafting class had one of those machines, which we ran maybe once a month as part of an assignment. I have deep sense memories of the ammonia smell coming off that machine and how the sheets and room smelled for days afterwards.

Maybe this explains some of my brain problems now.

Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 4d

Weesa warriors!

Doordash Bonks, Gungan smuggler and hero, stands and waves in front of a poster of Resistance hero Klaud.

Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 5d

Oh snap, I left my wallet there.

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 5d

I’m googly eyed for the googly-eyed squid (Teuthowenia pellucida) 😍🧵🧪

Illustration of the googly eyed squid, teuthowenia pellucida. A deep sea squid with a spherical body that is orange and transparent, see-through at the fin on the left hand side. Has two giant eyes with arms shooting straight up from the middle and a siphon underneath. On a starry night background with a blue gradient behind them. Text reads “googly eyed for the googly-eyed squid. Teuthowenia pellucida

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Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 6d

If gin is agreeable with your system it definitely makes the experience much better (I was about 45 when I watched it for the first time).

Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 6d

Usul has called a big on.

Doordash Bonks, Gungan smuggler, poses heroically with the AT-ST he brought down using most of his ammo.

Thomas White @blarkytopia.bsky.social · 6d

Doordash Bonks says: "Yousa deffin'ly be walkin' without rhythm, or yousa be callin' da worm."

Gungan smuggler Doordash Bonks stands heroically in the Tattooine desert, wearing an outfit that makes him look way more badass than he really is.