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Georgina Toland

@georginatoland.bsky.social

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Third generation cartomancer. Voracious reader of books. Big fan of foreign languages, flow arts, handicrafts, woodwind instruments, and boardgames. A spicy feral GenXer.

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Georgina Toland @georginatoland.bsky.social · 3d

Test them on the West Wing.

Georgina Toland @georginatoland.bsky.social · 3d

It’s all I want for Christmas. ☠️ 🎄

Georgina Toland @georginatoland.bsky.social · 3d

The #mashup that we didn’t expect: Peter Gabriel + Sly & the Family Stone. With surprise guests Stevie Wonder & Pink Floyd.

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Peter Gabriel and Sly & the Family Stone - "Thank You (Falettinme Be Your Sledgehammer)"

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Georgina Toland @georginatoland.bsky.social · 3d

Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding was a fun and satisfying romp, so I immediately jumped into the second book in “Tales of the Ketty Jay” series, The Black Lung Captain. More sky pirate adventures.Yay! #books #booksky

Cover of “The Black Lung Captain” by Chris Wooding.

Georgina Toland @georginatoland.bsky.social · 5d

My husband & I play a game called “The Next Big Thing” where we try to predict the next popular #film genre. We think that #westerns will make a big comeback, but in a slightly updated form. Something that might have smooth #flowarts moves.

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The FloWarrior Cowboy Promo 2025

YouTube video by TheFloWarrior

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Georgina Toland @georginatoland.bsky.social · 9d

The husband and I are watching “Slow Horses” on AppleTV. This is the second time through the series for me, being that it is my FAVORITE show. Hopefully the books are just as good if not better. #SlowHorses #MickHerron #CrimeNovels #ForeignLanguages

A horizontal stack of paperback books, spines facing outwards: “Slow Horses” “Dead Lions” “Real Tigers” and “Spook Street” - all by Mick Herron. Behind the books, a small subset of foreign language textbooks & literature for Estonian, Bulgarian, and Turkish.

Georgina Toland @georginatoland.bsky.social · 11d

Given how Biden cancelled the Democratic Primary and got himself anointed over the more popular choices of Sanders and Buttigieg, I’d say that the last legitimate President was Obama.

Georgina Toland @georginatoland.bsky.social · 11d

And think of all of the asbestos! That is a huge health hazard right there. May everyone involved get cancer.

Georgina Toland @georginatoland.bsky.social · 11d

I will be opening and sharing photos of all of these games on Bluesky, but I recommend watching the videos on New Venture Games’ YouTube channel to see the history of each game and how to play them.

Georgina Toland @georginatoland.bsky.social · 11d

“Breitenbach’s Puzzlers 13 & 17” is just one of the 22 #games recently manufactured & published by #NewVentureGames in their latest Kickstarter. No tariffs on games made in Michigan! And it feels good to support a small business! (Click on alt text for some of the titles of these #boardgames.)

An opened box of “Breitenbach’s Puzzlers 13 & 17” - a solitaire wooden peg game published by New Venture Games as part of their Peg Pastimes series. It is a square wooden board with 17 holes drilled in it in a grid pattern, with dark green pegs in 16 of the holes. Light green and dark green lines mark the legal “jumps” one can make to capture the pegs.

A large opened box revealing 21 small boxed games from New Venture Games’ latest Kickstarter. Some of the titles visible include: Agon, Blue & Gray, Chowka Bhara, Congo, Halatafl, Hex, Jenkin’s Patented Game, Mak-Yek, Petteia, Ringo, Tablan, Teeko, and Peg-It.

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Georgina Toland @georginatoland.bsky.social · 11d

Do you miss the TV series Firefly? Well you will get the same vibes from Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding. This is the first book in the “Tales of the Ketty Jay” series. This is a very fun sky pirate adventure. #books #booksky

Cover of “Retribution Falls” by Chris Wooding.

Georgina Toland @georginatoland.bsky.social · 12d

Oh my goodness she is so amazing! #dance

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3459 Girl in the glass

YouTube video by Stefani Art

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Georgina Toland @georginatoland.bsky.social · 12d

Oooh! This is my happy thought, that everyone involved with this travesty gets cancer from the asbestos.

Georgina Toland @georginatoland.bsky.social · 13d

I swept this clean just two hours ago! #Fall #ResistanceIsFutile #Minnesota

A brown deck, with black railings. Currently covered in yellow leaves. Beyond the deck, a very green lawn also covered in yellow leaves. And beyond that, a very fancy chicken coop. It is also raining.

Georgina Toland @georginatoland.bsky.social · 13d

They told me that I can’t grow a lemon tree in #Minnesota. But someone forgot to tell that to my tree. #gardening #LemonTree

A thriving 1 ft high lemon tree, beneath a grow light, indoors.

Georgina Toland @georginatoland.bsky.social · 13d

Project #Sunflower continues. #crochet #GrannySquare

Four brown discs, six sunflowers, and one completed sunflower granny square. I need just one more brown center!

Georgina Toland @georginatoland.bsky.social · 13d

Steve Shives is a national treasure. And his Voter’s Remorse Helpline series is some of his best work. Here’s his latest video. #SteveShives

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Voter's Remorse Helpline: Government Shutdown Edition

YouTube video by Steve Shives

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Georgina Toland @georginatoland.bsky.social · 14d

My modest #Go collection. (These pictures are from a year ago when I was first organizing my game collections.) #games #boardgames

A row of paperback books for Go. Many books are Go exercises/puzzles.

Go shelf, plus two shelves of small peg games from #NewVentureGames

Georgina Toland @georginatoland.bsky.social · 15d

It was an exercise in patience, but #Valheim finally arrived on my doorstep today. No thanks to #Trump and his stupid #tariffs that raised the price of this #boardgame by an additional $20.00. This is likely the last game I back on Kickstarter until that doofus is removed from office. #games

The side view of a very large boardgame box of the deluxe edition of Valheim. On top, several small white boxes with various additional parts, such as a minifig, dice tower, and protective card sleeves. The long tube box is a neoprene mat.

Georgina Toland @georginatoland.bsky.social · 15d

Have a great peaceful protest, everyone! I’ll be at home, cheering for you.

Georgina Toland @georginatoland.bsky.social · 16d

And on page 82 we have some wise words.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 17d

It’s all happening www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 17d

ancient people had many of the same problems that we did, such as showing up for the first day at work in a biotech lab to find that your coworker is a snake with arms and legs

a relief from the Temple of Esna, thought to have been made in the first millennium BCE

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Georgina Toland @georginatoland.bsky.social · 18d

Just cancelled #MGM+ — they don’t offer Season 2 for “From,” just Seasons 1 & 3. I access my subscription through #AppleTV > MGM+. There is probably a clever workaround (🏴‍☠️) but it wasn’t THAT good of a show. So buh-bye.

Georgina Toland @georginatoland.bsky.social · 20d

Thirsty? Here ya go, little buddy.

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Crazy experience!! Happy to help 😭 call me the Hawk Whisperer #animals #birds #hawk #nature #hawks

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