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I got my #ttrpgkids a magic item on a recent trip to Japan: Famima’s socks of convenience 😊 These line socks do not require attunement and when all the kids are wearing them, their PCs can find a fully stocked Family Mart around the next random corner they go around, no matter where they are.

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This pairs so well with the cameras our city has installed that will helpfully document the accident so you can relive the experience 😭

It's back to school time! I've written a whole bunch of educational games that have classroom needs in mind (including time limits, subject focus, and built in lesson plans) - check them out on itchio for your class, kid(s), or after school groups! https://itch.io/c/3672982/educational-ttrpgs

Today my kid read to me about the great Boston molasses flood😳 How had I never heard about this? I also found myself wishing I had #kidslit about all of the bizarre stuff that’s happened in the world when I was a kid en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_M...

Today I heard about the #yamathon for the first time and I am so excited to try this (though I want it to be a pleasant experience for kiddo, so we may end up breaking it into a few sections).

This is such a scathing indictment of our society. And as I read the law, I kept wondering if a baby napping in their stroller (or a parent warming a bottle) could be arrested under this law.

My kid’s schools after school enrichment program is called ACE, which in my world stands for Adverse Childhood Experiences. I just got an email asking if I wanted to sign kiddo up and had to read the email twice to make sure I wasn’t misreading it😳

Don’t split the party takes on a new sense of urgency when you are #LARPing with #ttrpgkids in the woods😅

Was biking home w/ 7yo on a major road and moved across a couple lanes of traffic to the left turn lane, when a car nearby yelled “shame on you!” It was unclear why, and 7yo handled it well, but it left us both wishing for more #bikeinfrastructure to minimize this kind of nonsense…. Sigh.

Question for all the DM’s out there: A mimic is having a birthday party with a scavenger hunt. What items would you put on the scavenger hunt list for maximum chaos? Candidate items so far: Pets Keys Purses Journals Shoelaces Family pictures Wedding rings Toilet flushing mechanisms #dnd #ttrpg

TIL that before private jets were a thing you could get a private rail car and have it towed around by passenger trains, and that apparently this is still a thing one can do! Which made me wonder—we have semester at sea, why no semester on the rails? (Or maybe this exists and I just don’t know?)

Suburban kids are actually humans, not fashion accessories (or generators of elite college bumper stickers).

One of my favorite dnd family moments 💜

We got to meet one of our heroes at a local AVP tournament. Not only is Kelly Cheng an amazing volleyball player and human, but her character Dorrin (sp?) Hellfire might inspire 7yo to try playing a barbarian 💜 We had a lovely discussion about volleyball strategy and great axes on the ride home😊

Trump threatened to nuke Iran during the same press event where he called a woman reporter "baby" and a "bitch" and we'll all just supposed to continue on tomorrow as though any of this insanity is normal or acceptable

I am going to be more or less intolerable if @katieporterca.bsky.social isn’t our next governor.

CA dems: we need big ambitious policy goals Also CA dems: let’s elect another empty suit who takes $$$ from corporations that don’t want things to change And we wonder why nothing ever changes smh

Inspired by @ttrpgkids.com we just finished a #ttrpgkids session where everyone took sidewalk chalk and designed part of the dungeon we were exploring! A highlight was battling magic-infused mud (mephit stats) while we harvested potatoes from the garden (which we of course cooked and consumed)!

An unintended benefit of masking in meetings is that it helps hide my rbf and my looks of incredulity when senior leadership disingenuously makes straw men out of the faculty’s reasonable concerns in response to leadership’s suggestion that we offload teaching in our university to LLMs🫠

But I find comfort thinking of even grey dawn, of Hell broken open to free those left there too goddamn long, of new laws, led first by a commandment to love one another. I tell my students after they play to take with them what serves them, leave the rest behind. Somehow this too is my theology.

TIL that hairspray is absolute magic for getting kid’s bike handbar grips to go on easily (and stay on)….

Am running a game for 7yo and a friend with a *much* shorter attention span. Last session we took breaks to compose poem prophecies, make maps, and go on a walk to meet a druid friend. I have never LARPed and was wondering if there’s a guide/ideas/best practices for LARPing with @ttrpgkids.com?

We’re in the middle of @claribelortega.com’s Witchlings (book 4) and 7yo asks me unprompted: Dad is <BBEG who gaslights & manipulates to consolidate power> kind of like Trump? Such a powerful #kidslit moment 💜 Thank you for these books and making it easier to raise kids in these challenging times!

I love this so much💜 I know it’s not just universities that struggle with this, but I think this basically sums up the role of #AssDeans

Intelligent Life on Earth - existentialcomics.com/comic/644

How many people have to die (both in the US and abroad) as Trump tries to distract us from the Epstein files?

It was never about the paper, folks. That was never the goal. A brilliant paper is a symptom of the learning that has happened. It’s the learning that is the heart of it.

So excited to start reading @jamesponti.bsky.social’s latest City Spies book with my kiddo! We can’t wait to dive in, but also it was such a great way for kiddo to learn patience while we waited 😊

Srsly #Olympics? What could be more political than a flag? So tonight we watched skeleton reruns in honor of Vladylsav Heraskevych.

Great—now we can outsource our thoughts and prayers when there’s a completely avoidable tragedy 😡

I watch the bulk of ashleythebaroness videos, despite rarely sharing them. But this one hit today. And she's right! We're not dealing with some foreign ideology. We're dealing with a uniquely American phenomenon. fascism wrapped in our own flag

They use "civility" as a weapon against us. Because they'll say stuff like, "while what happened was a clearly tragedy, there's no call for that kind of language about it." An elected official saying "fuck" is not worthy of equal debate with a murder by "law" enforcement. That's oppressor shit.

Recently had a a chance to play @nickferris.bsky.social’s Wizardologist Most Hexasperated, and had an absolute blast! It was 7yo’s first time playing a social deduction game and it was delightful to have them glare at me and repeatedly tell everyone that I was lying 🥰

Such a great resource!

TFW someone complains at length about people who bring kids who are sick into daycare (perhaps unwittingly) while coughing all over you at a holiday party….

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Well, now I have something new to shout when startled.

Saw the power of #kidlit in action today when a #CitySpies character got kiddo to try a new ice cream flavor (stracciatella; hazelnut was a bridge too far😁)! Here’s hoping that @jamesponti.bsky.social talks about all of Rio’s favorite vegetable preparations in the next book!

Traveling to Venice and Rome and excited to visit some of the locations featured in the #CitySpies books w/ kiddo! @jamesponti.bsky.social let us know if you have recommendations for spots not featured in the first six books fans should be sure to check out 😊