My work hosted a summer event at Shubie Park this afternoon and we had a great time. After a meal we went down the canal in a canoe, spotting ducks, tadpoles, and squirrels. Later Tonet and Celestine stayed at the beach at the lake while I went out on a standup paddle board for an hour. It was a wholly relaxing experience.
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Escape Pod episode 1003 is a reading of Vanessa Ricci-Thode's "Billionaire’s Tears".
It's such a beautiful, fun, hopeful story!
This is the kind of speculative fiction that delights me. It's escapist fantasy, has stakes, demands redemption, and offers a pragmatic, real solution to our problems amid the outlandish story. Billionaires die or immediately become non-billionares! Musk and Rowling are dead before the story starts and it gets better from there!
https://escapepod.org/2025/07/24/escape-pod-1003-billionaires-tears/
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llex Emily's reaction video for the Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition soundtrack is a delight. It's so nice hearing someone react to this soundtrack with such enthusiasm.
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During my lunch break I visited the overgrown former park by my work. There was some color amid the unkempt, swampy, rewilding place, and the spirea and daisies caught my eye almost as readily as the blue statues.
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I'm going to play through Princess with a Cursed Sword this week. I've had it in my collection for a while, but haven't experienced it yet.
"PRINCESS WITH A CURSED SWORD is a journaling role-playing game for one player. It requires a tarot deck and can be played in half an hour or more. And it fits on one printed page."
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My latest roll and write play through has been with map 2 of Aquamarine. It was fun to play another map of this diving game, and I still have three more to explore.
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Venture Maidens is a long-running D&D actual play podcast that has been one of my favorites for years. They've just started a new arc —using the Tales of the Valiant D&D variant— that's a great jumping on point for new listeners.
"Venture Maidens is a femme-forged actual play stream and podcast."
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I took a walk down my favorite shaded path on my lunch break.