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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 4h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
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 on your people and on all your officials."

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 16h

Well yeah of course I’m gonna fall for a game that says “It is a game, a ritual perhaps, maybe only an experience”

Travis D. Hill ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of really big crowdfunding campaigns and preorders launching today. Here's to tossing in my little project!

You can find RITE: A Midwinter Sacrament #TTRPG #zine below. You can grab it for $7 and receive it before the bleak midwinter.

7 day campaign. Thanks for sharing.

Coming soon: RITE: A Midwinter Sacrament RPG Zine

An RPG Zine for up to four players participating in four sacraments during the bleak midwinter.

www.kickstarter.com

Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 16h

It’s fucking wild that the socialized medicine we got is just Gofundme

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 17h

Notorious and Outsiders are some of my fave solo games and in my opinion every game is better with cards. So I’m in.

Jason Price @alwayscheckers.bsky.social · 1d

📣 Notorious: Tales of Hardscrabble Bounty Hunting is now live on Kickstarter! 📣

www.kickstarter.com/projects/alw...

🚀 Forge a sci-fi trilogy in this solo boxed card game
🃏 450+ unique cards with tons of cool art by @turbotorbo.bsky.social
🖊️ A brand new game & system, in collab w/ @mousehole.press

Notorious: Tales of Hardscrabble Bounty Hunting

Forge your own sci-fi trilogy in this solo narrative card game.

www.kickstarter.com

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 18h

Fucking love Godspeed ❤️ YOB and Earth are the two bands that have been the soundtrack to my creative life the last two decades. If I made a painting or did some writing, there’s a chance the sadness, hope, or anger of their music is inside whatever I made.

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Grim Wilkins @grimwilkins.bsky.social · 1d

My cover has been revealed for the upcoming TOXIC AVENGER Fantasy Comic, which is also drawn by me!

comic book cover featuring three characters standing triumphantly on the hand of a giant monster, green clouds spewing from its mouth. The three heroic characters are wearing tough, 80s style leather jackets; one of them has a pink squid face, another is a large green man with snail eyes, and in the center is a human wearing a tutu and polka dotted leggings. The whole illustration is pink, purple, and neon green

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 21h

Most big crowdfunding campaigns just really aren't worth it, but I'll be damned if I don't want every bit of Elder Scrolls from @chiptheorygames.bsky.social and I will play the hell out of it

The Elder Scrolls: Heroes of Tamriel by Chip Theory Games - Gamefound

Five new expansions (and more surprises!) for the critically acclaimed The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era!

gamefound.com

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 22h

He went on to do great things

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 1d

PORTLAND FROG 🐸 ✊

404 Media @404media.co · 1d

On October 2—just a few minutes shy of 11 PM in Portland, Oregon—a federal agent shot peppery spray into the vent hole of Seth Todd’s inflatable frog costume. Todd was protesting ICE outside of Portland’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-surreal-...

The Surreal Practicality of Protesting As an Inflatable Frog

Say goodbye to the Guy Fawkes masks and hello to inflatable frogs and dinosaurs.

www.404media.co

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 1d

La Dive is my fave fun little weird wine bar in Seattle www.ladiveseattle.com

la dive wine shop

www.ladiveseattle.com

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 1d

WHAT. This is incredible! How have I not seen this?! I love this Tim

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 1d

There are many terrain builders I love, but Okay Hobby Time was the one who convinced me I could do it myself youtube.com/@okayhobbyti...

Okay Hobby Time

Terrain building and miniature painting for tabletop wargames and RPGs.

youtube.com

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 1d

First time I’ve ever tried building and painting terrain from scratch. Not terrible, not fantastic, but learned a lot

Miniatures game terrain, ruined buildings on a craft table

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 2d

I got it and read EVERY WORD

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 2d

The annual trek to the pumpkin patch is complete 🎃 So thankful for this big chosen family

Rows of people’s muddy boots on a hay ride

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 2d

It’s wild how having a place to just sit and do nothing but observe the creativity of others helps ourselves. I go to metal shows at least once a month. I call it “going to church.” I didn’t realize how much I relied upon it in my life until Covid happened.

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 3d

Number one game I wish would get a graphic design and art overhaul.

Targi

Outwit your rival by selecting where to place nomad workers on a dynamic desert grid.

boardgamegeek.com

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 3d

Fuckin love MLEM! 👅 🐱 🧑‍🚀

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 3d

Got to see some goodies by @emilycounts.bsky.social today ✨🦋 Showing at Nationale in Portland

Ceramic sculpture of if moth-ish creature

Ceramic plant-like sculptures on the wall and a head on a pedestal

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 3d

The biggest star at my local amateur hockey team’s games is the Zamboni driver who throws candy to kids while he doots around the rink

Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 3d

I already preordered some of the Magic Teenager Mutant Ninja Turtles set and I hate myself and am embarrassed for letting them finally get me with a Universes Beyond set.

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 3d

Hello fellow tinned fish aficionado...

…afishionado?

Meme of man standing in the corner at a party saying “They don't know I'm thinking of tinned fish”

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 3d

Punk could’ve just started and stopped with The Stooges

Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 4d

A good deep dive into the design of Games Workshop’s bestest funnest game

How I Designed Warhammer's Warcry Game

YouTube video by SPGD

youtu.be

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