Easter Bank holiday weekend!
What are you doing with it?
If youre not here playing games, enjoying drinks served to the table and delcious food, then you are doing easter bank holiday wrong!
So make sure to book now!
#theludoquistcroydon #easterholidays #bankholiday #games
I’m thoroughly enjoying the December Comfort Watches! Looking forward to more.
An oblique view of a couple of dozen thumbnail images of map products.
An oblique view of a couple of dozen thumbnail images of map products.
A contact sheet showing 144 thumbnail images from the mapartists.org website.
Do you like #maps? The Independent Map Artists (mapartists.org) has hit a big milestone and now has 50(!) members, all interested in helping with your holiday shopping. Hundreds of maps & mappy goods, straight from small businesses.
Connecting creators & customers is hard; please consider sharing.
You know what, let's do the Annual Mister Global National Costume thread tonight after all. Usual rules apply - this is all in fun, this isn't about the contestants looks or making fun of them, it's about the costumes and appreciating them (or, you know, making fun of them...)
Around 2007 I was running the tech side of a site called Illustration Friday, created by @penelope-dullaghan.bsky.social. We’d post a weekly topic and artists would submit illustrations for it. Our sysadmin noticed we were getting a lot of unusual activity from a single IP address located in Iran. 🧵
A man with short spiky hair and a short beard doing a peace sign, wearing a yellow t shirt with BoardGameWire written on, in front of three identical t shirts on hangers
Me and a never ending supply of yellow BoardGameWire T-shirts have arrived at UK Games Expo, looking forward to hanging out with Nice People™️and playing some Cool Games™️. If you see me around the show please grab me and say hi! #ukge
Fantastic news!
This tariff situation is such a bleak day for the board game industry - my heart goes out to anyone currently wrestling with how to keep their business running. My emails are open if you want to get in touch with how you’ve been affected, and what you plan to do next: mike@boardgamewire.com ❤️
Where best to spend your free time than with us here at The Ludoquist! We're a family-friendly space in Croydon that promises fun for all ages. So why not come come in to see what all the fuss is about!
#theludoquist #boardgamecafe #ThisIsCroydon #londonboardgamecafe
If you see this, quote with a bridge from your gallery
Delightful!
A black cat yawning widely, sitting upright in a brown paper bag that's printed with a holly and mistletoe pattern
She slept in this bag for several months
Sweetums as Aubrey Plaza on the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine.
just over here photoshopping muppets onto the cover of cosmopolitan magazine: thread
Panel 1 a picture of Valentine Panel 2 Roman soldiers arresting Valentine Panel 3 a Roman soldier clubbing Valentine to death Panel 4 a Roman soldier beheading Valentine Panel 5 a Roman civilian digging up Valentine’s corpse Panel 6 Valentine’s skull on display in Basilica di Santa Maria Rome, Italy Happy Valentine’s Day!
I made a extra romantic late Valentine’s Day card for those that are tardy in giving their loved one that little something special
I'll be speaking in an online event at noon (UK time) on Mon 10 Feb - Learn About Memoir & Editing with Sean from A Write and A Pint - join us for what I'm sure will be an interesting discussion!
rebrand.ly/wnql3kg
#memoir #writingcommunity #writinglife #amwriting #editor
I think more people should be aware that "astronaut" is Greek for "starsailor".
Yes please
Another trip to Florida complete.
A highlight was getting to see so many sandhill cranes; they've always been a favorite of mine, and not something I see often in PA.
#sandhillcrane
#goldenhour
#florida
#floridafauna
#floridawildlife
#wildlifephotography
#birds
#nature
#canon
#birdphotography
Mongolian Girl Has a Laugh with her Camel.
The little girl’s name is Butedmaa and she was just 5 when this picture was taken in 2003 by photographer Han Chengli, who titled it “Inner Mongolian Child”. #photooftheday
Four very realistic-looking replica desserts. From the left: tropical fruits including pineapple, kiwi and melon in a tall glass dish, then strawberries, ice cream and cream, then chocolate ice cream sundae with nuts and dark chocolate straws. Lastly, some kind of egg custard with a swirl of cream and a glace cherry on top.
Enjoyed the Looks Delicious! exhibition about Japanese replica food culture at Japan House in London yesterday
Morning. Happy New Year.
A while ago I ran a series of daily tweets about birdsong. The idea was to encourage people to pay attention to the natural sounds around them, and learn to identify birds from their sounds alone (which, after all, is often the only clue you get to their presence).
This is a really informative thread but I was not prepared for the last post. Wild story all around.
Do you want more cats in your feed but hate image scrapers? Here is my starter pack that is all cat accounts run by real people, posting content that is non-stolen, non-AI images of their own cats or cat artwork with ALT text! go.bsky.app/J8yqxnN
If you subscribe to Microsoft 365 Personal, the 40% price increase is a con to upsell you AI. Your old plan and price is still there called "Classic" - but only if you try to cancel.
Microsoft should be ashamed if not prosecuted.
I also recommend webcurios.co.uk through which I've found some genuinely useful and beautiful and quirky stuff. You can also read it in one topic at a time via bsky.app/profile/curi...
I'm really enjoying email newsletters lately. My favouriites at the moment include The Magpie by @alexdecampi.bsky.social - check out the latest here buttondown.com/themagpie/ar...
A black cat with one paw outstretched lying on the lap of a person wearing a cosy red dressing gown. A red chimney breast surrounded by white fairy lights in the background
Merry Christmas!
Inflatable bed set up in my six year old for my mum, watched over by a festive Dalek and miniature Peter Capaldi.
Mum staying at ours this year for Xmas, and is therefore on an inflatable mattress and sharing a bedroom with our six year old, Peter Capaldi and a festive Dalek. #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
One of my favourite threads from the old place
Sound Mix: Animals a design by Marceline Leiman Setup • From a deck of cards you have at home, take A-4 in each suit and shuffle them together to form a clue card deck. The other cards are not used in this game. • Remove 4 cards from the clue card deck, kept facedown. They will not be used this game. • Randomly pick a start player to take the first turn. How to Play On your turn, draw 1 clue card from the deck. The rank of that card points to a location in the grid. Using the animals above and to the left of that location, you will make a sound combining the two. It must be a single noise, which you may repeat and/or alternate in volume. Ask the other players to close their eyes, then make the sound. They must work together to guess which location your clue card points to. Reveal the clue card. If they are correct, fill in that location's bubble in the grid with a pencil. If they are incorrect, fill an X bubble below the grid. If there are no more X bubbles to fill OR the team is able to guess every clue card before running out of X bubbles, the game ends! Count each filled bubble in the grid as 1 point. Try your best to correctly guess all 12 clue cards for the max score!
Still planning your holiday activities?
Print out my new cooperative family game, Sound Mix: Animals! 🗣️🐷🐯
