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· Oct 22
Explain your username
It’s my name without vowels.
It’s my name without vowels.
Explain your username.
I come from a land where the interval between two notes is such that the frequency of the higher note is double that of the lower note. And I work for BGG.
I come from a land where the interval between two notes is such that the frequency of the higher note is double that of the lower note. And I work for BGG.
Explain your username
Omg. Thanks for asking. 💁🏽♀️ CW - for 2nd Gen kids.
I made it in a flurry, when I first created a public account for gaming. I realized someone had the one I first planned, so I landed on this one & just went with it.
Growing up “Your mom is a FOB!” was a common insult. 🧵
Omg. Thanks for asking. 💁🏽♀️ CW - for 2nd Gen kids.
I made it in a flurry, when I first created a public account for gaming. I realized someone had the one I first planned, so I landed on this one & just went with it.
Growing up “Your mom is a FOB!” was a common insult. 🧵
The most useful thing I ordered from the library 3D printer. I like that the tamper is super solid. I can put my weight on it and it distributes evenly. Staff assured me they use food grade plastic (custom cookie cutters are a common request). But I plastic wrap my rice anyway.
December 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The most useful thing I ordered from the library 3D printer. I like that the tamper is super solid. I can put my weight on it and it distributes evenly. Staff assured me they use food grade plastic (custom cookie cutters are a common request). But I plastic wrap my rice anyway.
What are people doing for teen banking / money management? I've surveyed my coworkers and friends, and there is such variety it's dizzying.
My child has to owe her friends whenever places don't take cash! Which is happening increasingly in the SF Bay Area. 😑
My child has to owe her friends whenever places don't take cash! Which is happening increasingly in the SF Bay Area. 😑
December 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
What are people doing for teen banking / money management? I've surveyed my coworkers and friends, and there is such variety it's dizzying.
My child has to owe her friends whenever places don't take cash! Which is happening increasingly in the SF Bay Area. 😑
My child has to owe her friends whenever places don't take cash! Which is happening increasingly in the SF Bay Area. 😑
I haven't watched this yet, but if the game uses baseball card stats as like a card battler type fantasy draft type thing, it's about freaking time!
Use actual baseball cards to play Baseball Card GM! #boardgames #baseball
Learn how to play: youtu.be/cYKP0yhxLe4
Learn how to play: youtu.be/cYKP0yhxLe4
December 18, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I haven't watched this yet, but if the game uses baseball card stats as like a card battler type fantasy draft type thing, it's about freaking time!
A no good very bad solo score for my first game of Ganz Schön Clever.
102. 🫣 Admittedly I forgot to utilize my bonuses and I forgot that blue gets added to white.
102. 🫣 Admittedly I forgot to utilize my bonuses and I forgot that blue gets added to white.
December 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM
A no good very bad solo score for my first game of Ganz Schön Clever.
102. 🫣 Admittedly I forgot to utilize my bonuses and I forgot that blue gets added to white.
102. 🫣 Admittedly I forgot to utilize my bonuses and I forgot that blue gets added to white.
2 handed solo, learning game of Gizmos. I tried card driven engine builders, but something about handling marbles is clicking for me.
I like how PWH distills mechanics into very simple clean processes for different brains. Ex. I didn't really get deck building till I had the mat from Summer Camp.
I like how PWH distills mechanics into very simple clean processes for different brains. Ex. I didn't really get deck building till I had the mat from Summer Camp.
December 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
2 handed solo, learning game of Gizmos. I tried card driven engine builders, but something about handling marbles is clicking for me.
I like how PWH distills mechanics into very simple clean processes for different brains. Ex. I didn't really get deck building till I had the mat from Summer Camp.
I like how PWH distills mechanics into very simple clean processes for different brains. Ex. I didn't really get deck building till I had the mat from Summer Camp.
If I could go back in time to middle school and learn all my math through cheese and wax, I maybe would have become a marine biologist.
December 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If I could go back in time to middle school and learn all my math through cheese and wax, I maybe would have become a marine biologist.
Thanks @stoichamster.bsky.social for the reminder. Forgot I owned this.
Finally got someone to play with me at lunch. It's perfect for that dynamic. But I forgot that you get an extra turn after successfully stacking on two bananas. That changes everything! 🤦🏽♀️
Finally got someone to play with me at lunch. It's perfect for that dynamic. But I forgot that you get an extra turn after successfully stacking on two bananas. That changes everything! 🤦🏽♀️
Tasso Banana is on sale for the bananas price of $5 at the @25thcentury.games store. So I'm taking a moment to say why I love this underrated gem. If you're like me you see this cover and think "oh! cute bananas... I guess?" You can't really understand what's going on, and aren't sure if you care. 🧵
December 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Thanks @stoichamster.bsky.social for the reminder. Forgot I owned this.
Finally got someone to play with me at lunch. It's perfect for that dynamic. But I forgot that you get an extra turn after successfully stacking on two bananas. That changes everything! 🤦🏽♀️
Finally got someone to play with me at lunch. It's perfect for that dynamic. But I forgot that you get an extra turn after successfully stacking on two bananas. That changes everything! 🤦🏽♀️
Actually our DVDs are hella touched at my library.
There are moratoriums on certain titles, (especially older ones!). They often don't get a re-release, so we keep them forever. Please let us know if they skip. We don't polish them anymore, but we will take them out of circulation if you tell us.
There are moratoriums on certain titles, (especially older ones!). They often don't get a re-release, so we keep them forever. Please let us know if they skip. We don't polish them anymore, but we will take them out of circulation if you tell us.
“I miss blockbuster video” the library has every dvd totally untouched and I never see you there
December 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Actually our DVDs are hella touched at my library.
There are moratoriums on certain titles, (especially older ones!). They often don't get a re-release, so we keep them forever. Please let us know if they skip. We don't polish them anymore, but we will take them out of circulation if you tell us.
There are moratoriums on certain titles, (especially older ones!). They often don't get a re-release, so we keep them forever. Please let us know if they skip. We don't polish them anymore, but we will take them out of circulation if you tell us.
Ants in the lunchbox! This is not a drill. Ants in the lunchbox! 🐜 🤮 🐜😭
December 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Ants in the lunchbox! This is not a drill. Ants in the lunchbox! 🐜 🤮 🐜😭
Of all the historical photos at work, this one is my favorite.
The fact that someone from the past felt they had to point out Mark Twain doing the most Mark Twain pose ever.
The fact that someone from the past felt they had to point out Mark Twain doing the most Mark Twain pose ever.
December 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Of all the historical photos at work, this one is my favorite.
The fact that someone from the past felt they had to point out Mark Twain doing the most Mark Twain pose ever.
The fact that someone from the past felt they had to point out Mark Twain doing the most Mark Twain pose ever.
How am I supposed to be an Adult Literacy professional when my emails have comma splices all over the place!?!!
a picture of mary poppins with the caption when someone corrects my grammar ..
ALT: a picture of mary poppins with the caption when someone corrects my grammar ..
media.tenor.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
How am I supposed to be an Adult Literacy professional when my emails have comma splices all over the place!?!!
Learning Fiction for potential holiday gatherings.
My kid likes Wordle, we tried the board game version, but it was a little boring for me.
I'll try this on her and see how the lying aspect lands. Going to house rule by reading the passage first, so she knows it's one of those words.
My kid likes Wordle, we tried the board game version, but it was a little boring for me.
I'll try this on her and see how the lying aspect lands. Going to house rule by reading the passage first, so she knows it's one of those words.
December 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Learning Fiction for potential holiday gatherings.
My kid likes Wordle, we tried the board game version, but it was a little boring for me.
I'll try this on her and see how the lying aspect lands. Going to house rule by reading the passage first, so she knows it's one of those words.
My kid likes Wordle, we tried the board game version, but it was a little boring for me.
I'll try this on her and see how the lying aspect lands. Going to house rule by reading the passage first, so she knows it's one of those words.
This is a good episode that made me marinate on work ethic and my North Star.
Today is my Monday and I'm still listening while working at the "Email Factory."
Today is my Monday and I'm still listening while working at the "Email Factory."
Newest episode with @raybird.bsky.social is out today!
open.spotify.com/episode/4s5m...
Come for the D20-headed bacteriophage, stay for literally everything/anything else.
Ray’s insight, stories, advice for hypothetical situations, and more make this a wonderful listen!
open.spotify.com/episode/4s5m...
Come for the D20-headed bacteriophage, stay for literally everything/anything else.
Ray’s insight, stories, advice for hypothetical situations, and more make this a wonderful listen!
#42 - Ray Billings — The Host: A Board Game Virus (or How Authenticity Will Cure Virality)
open.spotify.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
This is a good episode that made me marinate on work ethic and my North Star.
Today is my Monday and I'm still listening while working at the "Email Factory."
Today is my Monday and I'm still listening while working at the "Email Factory."
Is the Paul Dano discourse still happening?
Submitting this underrated gem.
Brian Cox as Not-the-Bad-Guy is kinda nice too. Especially after knowing him from the Bourne movies.
Submitting this underrated gem.
Brian Cox as Not-the-Bad-Guy is kinda nice too. Especially after knowing him from the Bourne movies.
December 9, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Is the Paul Dano discourse still happening?
Submitting this underrated gem.
Brian Cox as Not-the-Bad-Guy is kinda nice too. Especially after knowing him from the Bourne movies.
Submitting this underrated gem.
Brian Cox as Not-the-Bad-Guy is kinda nice too. Especially after knowing him from the Bourne movies.
I think I'm reading too much Junji Ito. It looks like someone sneezed something alive that is coming to attack humanity.
I found a tiny octopus on the tide pool🐙✨️
Small as it is, it’s every bit an octopus ... and absolutely adorable!!
It even shoots ink🫧 ͛.*
Small as it is, it’s every bit an octopus ... and absolutely adorable!!
It even shoots ink🫧 ͛.*
December 9, 2025 at 7:48 AM
I think I'm reading too much Junji Ito. It looks like someone sneezed something alive that is coming to attack humanity.
Did you ask them?!?!? What about estate planning in general? Were there surprises? 😳
I'm in full Sandwich Gen mode here. Prepping my teen for adulthood, & my senior parents for the inevitable. How did this happen? How am I responsible? I stayed up till 5am bingeing the entirety of The Lowdown.
I'm in full Sandwich Gen mode here. Prepping my teen for adulthood, & my senior parents for the inevitable. How did this happen? How am I responsible? I stayed up till 5am bingeing the entirety of The Lowdown.
🗣️ Everyone with Boomer parents! Ask them if they have their Power of Attorney set up.
If they act like you don't need to worry about it or it ain't your business, push the issue. It's gonna be your business!
If they act like you don't need to worry about it or it ain't your business, push the issue. It's gonna be your business!
December 8, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Did you ask them?!?!? What about estate planning in general? Were there surprises? 😳
I'm in full Sandwich Gen mode here. Prepping my teen for adulthood, & my senior parents for the inevitable. How did this happen? How am I responsible? I stayed up till 5am bingeing the entirety of The Lowdown.
I'm in full Sandwich Gen mode here. Prepping my teen for adulthood, & my senior parents for the inevitable. How did this happen? How am I responsible? I stayed up till 5am bingeing the entirety of The Lowdown.
I thought her cassette player alarm clock was enough.
She discovered the KPop CDs with photos and extras in them. I can't find a combo, CD / Cassette player boom box at the thrift anymore. They are a hot item now.
But I did find a CD player alarm clock with the rice cookers. 😆 🍚 💿
She discovered the KPop CDs with photos and extras in them. I can't find a combo, CD / Cassette player boom box at the thrift anymore. They are a hot item now.
But I did find a CD player alarm clock with the rice cookers. 😆 🍚 💿
December 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I thought her cassette player alarm clock was enough.
She discovered the KPop CDs with photos and extras in them. I can't find a combo, CD / Cassette player boom box at the thrift anymore. They are a hot item now.
But I did find a CD player alarm clock with the rice cookers. 😆 🍚 💿
She discovered the KPop CDs with photos and extras in them. I can't find a combo, CD / Cassette player boom box at the thrift anymore. They are a hot item now.
But I did find a CD player alarm clock with the rice cookers. 😆 🍚 💿
If you're seeing Art of Manga at the De Young, go to the special exhibit first *then* the One Piece Only: How Manga is Made exhibit in the general museum.
Surround yourself by the hand drawn richness of it all, before considering the commodification. It can be jarring.
Surround yourself by the hand drawn richness of it all, before considering the commodification. It can be jarring.
December 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
If you're seeing Art of Manga at the De Young, go to the special exhibit first *then* the One Piece Only: How Manga is Made exhibit in the general museum.
Surround yourself by the hand drawn richness of it all, before considering the commodification. It can be jarring.
Surround yourself by the hand drawn richness of it all, before considering the commodification. It can be jarring.
I was poor, but so were others in my circle. Our mixtapes were often recorded from the radio. Imagine someone recording the commercial free mix on a cassette, and then picking songs from that to put on your mixtape. And *then* handwriting the playlist!
I'm old.
I'm old.
I know I'm showing my whole age here but remember that thrill of getting a mixtape from someone? A mix of music that they made just for you?
December 4, 2025 at 7:47 AM
I was poor, but so were others in my circle. Our mixtapes were often recorded from the radio. Imagine someone recording the commercial free mix on a cassette, and then picking songs from that to put on your mixtape. And *then* handwriting the playlist!
I'm old.
I'm old.
🗣️ Everyone with Boomer parents! Ask them if they have their Power of Attorney set up.
If they act like you don't need to worry about it or it ain't your business, push the issue. It's gonna be your business!
If they act like you don't need to worry about it or it ain't your business, push the issue. It's gonna be your business!
December 4, 2025 at 3:28 AM
🗣️ Everyone with Boomer parents! Ask them if they have their Power of Attorney set up.
If they act like you don't need to worry about it or it ain't your business, push the issue. It's gonna be your business!
If they act like you don't need to worry about it or it ain't your business, push the issue. It's gonna be your business!
I'm at an advanced level.
December 4, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I'm at an advanced level.
I think the secret to me working 5 days a week is to give myself a long weekend once a month.
December 3, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I think the secret to me working 5 days a week is to give myself a long weekend once a month.
I would watch a spin-off about the Pawnee Public Library. It turns out everyone on staff can't stand Tammy and hate that she is a huge barrier to interdepartmental collaboration.
I started my first-ever watch of Parks & Rec yesterday, am now up to S1:6 and i cannot imagine how this show ended up being so beloved but I am locked in and willing to believe
December 3, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I would watch a spin-off about the Pawnee Public Library. It turns out everyone on staff can't stand Tammy and hate that she is a huge barrier to interdepartmental collaboration.
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It's with heavy hearts that we share that Claude, our beloved albino alligator, has passed away at the age of 30. Claude brought joy to millions of people at the Academy and across the world during his 17 year tenure. We will miss him dearly. 🤍
December 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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What kind of pillow are *petite* side sleepers using?!?!? I'm 4' 11" and the size of many middle schoolers. Some side pillows are too high for me.
I used to use a kid's memory foam one from Target (I would replace it every 2 yrs or so), but am trying to avoid them.
I used to use a kid's memory foam one from Target (I would replace it every 2 yrs or so), but am trying to avoid them.
December 2, 2025 at 7:32 AM
What kind of pillow are *petite* side sleepers using?!?!? I'm 4' 11" and the size of many middle schoolers. Some side pillows are too high for me.
I used to use a kid's memory foam one from Target (I would replace it every 2 yrs or so), but am trying to avoid them.
I used to use a kid's memory foam one from Target (I would replace it every 2 yrs or so), but am trying to avoid them.