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Todd 🛡️
@toddgrotenhuis.bsky.social
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* anabaptist anarchist and cybersecurity executive
* trying to leave things a little better than I found them
* finding joy in reading, music, play, and the outdoors
* […]

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🎲 Bulk Cards)

My brain has been noodling on a new game design ever since a road trip during Thanksgiving break.

This time it’s a community-oriented card-based RPG. Your deck is your “character sheet”.

But your cards will be swapped, marked on, have their […]

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_36 decks of cards, a sharpie, and a Keen boxcutter on a table.jpg
December 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Esa (12) Cathode Ray Tube (6) August Burns Red (5) Witch Eyes (5) Alpturer (4). #myweekcounted 186 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lfm_blue
December 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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🛡️ Yesterday I thought of a new framing for my 20+ cyber career journey.
flow showing: find problems fix problems help others find problems prevent problems help others prevent problems
December 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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What authoritarians do Direct Investigations Against Critics Give License to Lawbreaking Deploy Military Domestically Regulatory Retaliation Federal Law Enforcement Overreach The Autocrat Won't Leave
December 12, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Holly in Holly:

A brown and white mixed breed dog sits in front of a holly bush. Her name is Holly and her ears are perfect.

#🐾
_Holly in Holly.jpeg
November 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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John Francis O'Mara - Forbidden Hymns:

Get a copy (https://johnfrancisomara.com/#order-forbidden-hymns)

When I saw the following album cover, I knew I was in for a wild ride:

_forbidden hymns cover - featuring a variety of iconography, animals, and scenes.png […]

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November 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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🎲🏴 you know this is going on my wish list:

https://goblinsandgardens.com/shop/p/no-dungeons-no-masters-hat
green hat saying "no dungeons, no masters"
November 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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🔎 Spouse trimmed some of the taller pond-flowers and made a bouquet of them so the birds could still eat. I thought it was (and looks) very cool.
An autumnal bouquet of dried wildflowers, bundled at the corner of a deck next to a pond.
November 18, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Alove For Enemies (3) Dave quam (3) Signora Ward Records (3) Steven Curtis Chapman (3) 2Cellos (2). #myweekcounted 72 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lfm_blue
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Heh
A bright red balloon is sticking out of a pile of leaves beside a storm drain on a sidewalk. The surrounding area shows fallen leaves and grass.
October 31, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Plz send more sax metal. (Yeah, I’m using “metal” pretty loosely, work with me here.)
Some tracks from Ashenspire, White Ward, Igorrr, Bong-Ra, ESA, Kardashev
October 24, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Recursive Pollution in the Guardian:
A Venn diagram showing two circles labeled "AI learning from misinformation" and "Foxes getting into the bin bags." The intersection is marked with an "X." Below, the phrase "Rubbish strewn far and wide" is written.
October 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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While I’m quoting the Bible, gotta give a shout out to these two editions. Both routinely pull me out of my assumptions.

Left I especially like the names-with-meaning and right seems to be closer than many translations to original languages while preserving readability.
The image features two books. On the left is the "First Nations Version," described as an Indigenous translation of the New Testament. On the right is "The Bible for Everyone," translated by John Goldingay and Tom (N.T.) Wright
October 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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For a biblically-accurate #nokings:
1 Samuel 8: 4-18 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Samuel%208&version=NET
October 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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🐾 Holly having the cutest day at Heron Haven.
A brown dog with a white chest and a pink collar, featuring a name tag that reads "Holly," is shown in profile against a backdrop of greenery. The dog is looking upwards.
October 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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🎶 I regret I did not get to eat at this restaurant that was obviously named after an enduring metalcore pioneer.
An image of a restaurant window featuring a prominent red logo with Japanese characters, alongside the text "ZAO STAMINA RAMEN" in white.
October 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Swarms (15) Edgey (8) Clubroot (5) 2CΞLLOS (4) 2Cellos (3). #myweekcounted 138 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lfm_blue
September 29, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Faderhead (6) Igorrr (6) Enduser (4) For Today (4) Nine Inch Nails (4). #myweekcounted 158 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lfm_blue
September 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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🎲 Isle of Ixx has been a great “pick up and go quickly” game, but it’s time for one that is more relevant to our times.

I think the winner will be another Oddlike: Fallen Blades/Endless Stars. You play mystic space knights (episode 1) or scoundrels (episode 2) […]

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The image features tabletop role-playing game materials, including character sheets, a guide titled "Fallen Blades: Endless Stars," and rules for gameplay mechanics. Various sheets detail character backgrounds, abilities, and actions, alongside ship details and dueling cards.
September 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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🕊️ Off to a strong start from Trey Ferguson
An excerpt from the book discussing the connections between Anabaptist and Black Church traditions. Highlighted: “Both Anabaptists and the Black Church have illuminated a path that shows us that suffering need not dehumanize the persecuted, even as it reveals the truth about persecutors.”
September 20, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Between the Buried and Me (8) Rhys Fulber (6) Celldweller (5) Dawn of Ashes (4) Esa (4). #myweekcounted 212 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lfm_blue
September 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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⚽️ Love this banner after the 🍔 derby

#fedifc #Bundesliga #fcsp
“Hamburg is brown and white” (in German) flag covering the entire stands on one side of the stadium
September 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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So much 🍄🍄‍🟫

Todd for scale (US 13)
A large cluster of mushrooms is growing on the grass next to a concrete path, with a shoe placed nearby for scale. The mushrooms are various shades of brown and have a textured, layered appearance.
September 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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🎲 One of my Mythic Bastionland #ttrpg players is creating session reports in verse. Epic!
The Lay of the Three Knights (Session 1, Spring, Morning) Lo, at a crossroads bleak and bare, A shadow crowned with iron stare; It raised its voice, both dread and bright, And spake these fateful words that night: “Where iron bleeds and shadows feast on light, The cursed earth calls for champions unborn. Brother's blade meets brother in the night, While ancient sleepers wake to silver horn. The Crowned Fortress waits beyond the mist, Past fields where nothing grows but bone and ash. Only those whose names are starlight-kissed May heal the wounds where rival banners clash. Seek the Signs in towers black with blight, Face the dark that wears a thousand faces. Blood and valor mend what pride made slight— The wall-bound throne awaits in hidden places.” Then vanished did the phantom wight, Leaving the knights to seek the fight. Sir Harald rode, the Violet Knight, Whose mace was forged for wrath and smite; Upon a steed as dark as storm, He bore his strength in armored form. Sir Corvane next, the Barbed in name, Whose crimson cloak was wrapped in flame; With bow and spear his craft was made, A roan his charger, bold, unafraid. Sir Agravaine, the Saddle lord, On Storm Shadow, a mount adored; Grey as stone and keen of mind, A nobler horse none yet could find. Through heather wide their steeds did range, Where ancient kings in barrows change; There rose from earth a fearful band, Not hardened knaves, but peasants’ hand. With javelin crude and hollow word, They pled a tithe for some false lord; Yet hunger spoke in every breath, And folly yoked them close to death. Then thunder cracked from hooves that tore, As Storm Shadow struck the earthen floor; The Saddle Knight with axe in hand, Brought ruin upon that fearful band. Sir Corvane’s shafts flew sharp and true, And through one man an arrow flew; Whilst Harald’s mace, in violet hue, Laid skull to dust, as iron do. So ended thus the peasants’ stand, Their blood upon the burial land; And Abbott, broken, bled in fear, Before the knights who lingered near. O’er graves of kings their tale was cast, A shadow of both steel and past; Three knights who rode by fate’s command, To heal — or curse — the waiting land.
September 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM