I took Celestine on a walk along the waterfront to the market, and she checked out seaweed, climbed the wave, hit some percussion instruments, and played in the sand before we arrived.
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Dice towers always seemed like fun to me but were just a luxury I could never justify. Today at a dollar store I spotted this one for $3 that included a set of dice and a set of dry erase initiative trackers with a marker. It's of fair quality and can store a few more full sets of dice, so it was definitely worth finally getting a tower.
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It's still a bit early for these lilacs at the Halifax Waterfront (near Halifax Seaport Farmers' Market), but we could catch a hint of their scent.
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I have been looking for lady's slipper during my daily runs along Spectacle Lake, and finally spotted three today.
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Escape Pod this week features Esther Alter's "Magical Girl Antifa War Machine", and it's my favourite short speculative fiction I've read or listened to this year. It's messy, brutal, unflinching, and beautiful. There are warranted content warnings for this story, but if you can experience it, I think it's rewarding. The four narrators do great work, and it was especially nice to hear Escape Pod founder Serah Eley narrate again.
Audio and text are both available.
https://escapepod.org/2025/05/22/escape-pod-994-magical-girl-antifa-war-machine/
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I did some catch-up on Map 3 of Koala Rescue Club, set in Galinyala, because of the holiday Monday and a day at home with a sick kid on Wednesday. I felt a bit more at the whims of chance during this first round, but it's been fun.
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The fourth bloom opened on our office orchid.
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I have been migrating from using FreshRSS to the Friends plugin for WordPress and I looked back at some items I'd starred in FreshRSS. This mermaid illustration by Jen was the oldest one there but is a real gem.
https://monasterylane.tumblr.com/post/745748125828907008/little-mermaid
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I have been migrating from using FreshRSS to the Friends plugin for WordPress and I looked back at some items I'd starred in FreshRSS. This mermaid illustration by Jen was the oldest one there but is a real gem.
https://monasterylane.tumblr.com/post/745748125828907008/little-mermaid