A grid of 3 by 3 Castle Combo game cards. All with colourful characters, worth coins, with different shields showing categories.

Junk Art board game player’s tower stacking weirdly shaped objects in different colours.

Junk Art game with city cards Gujarat, Pisa and New York. Weirdly shaped objects in different colours scattered across the table.

Junk Art game player is measuring their tower of different coloured stacked objects. It’s tall!

Games with family at Kirihimete (Christmas). Castle Combo and Junk Art. Love how quick and easy both are to explain and play. Cards better for quiet recovery time. Blocks better for engaging play when some noise is ok. #boardgames #boardgamegeek #brightmoments

Bunch of dried flowers in a bouquet. They have been died bright colours creating a rainbow effect. They’re tied together with a metallic netting fabric and a bow.

Dried flowers from our local rainbow fair brightened my day. Beautiful flowers and beautiful people. #brightmoments #driedflowers

Fair. I do feel like it is that sort of game. Wouldn’t buy, but would play.

Some close-ups of the Yokai King model from Dragon Trappers Lodge
#miniaturepainting #tabletopgames #fantasyart

A colorful 3x3 grid titled "Self-Care New Year's Resolutions" by SelfLoveRainbow. Each square in the grid is a different pastel color containing a specific resolution: Top Row: "Unfollow creators or pages that bring you down," "Create routines in your life that focus on what you need," and "Take deep breaths, laugh, and meditate more often." Middle Row: "Focus on adding more of something or doing less of something," "Commit to at least one act of self-care each day," and "Declutter your life in physical and emotional ways." Bottom Row: "Do something that's good for your mental health every day," "Surround yourself with a loving and accepting community," and "Focus on making rest a priority in your life." The design is accented with small pink hearts and yellow stars.

These self-care resolutions are small, doable things that support your nervous system, your mental health, and your overall peace.
Which one speaks to you the most going into the new year? #SelfCare #NewYearsResolutions #MentalHealthMatters #SelfLove #2026Goals #HealthyBoundaries #SelfLoveRainbow

Night night sweet dreamies

To the one heart reading this: I know you’re exhausted. Worn down. Hanging on by a thread.
But even in this moment, there is a quiet strength within you, stronger than you realise.
Please keep going. I believe in you

Actually finding Blusky more chill than Instagram. I like that it restricts me to only 4 pics per post and I can input alt text directly from the post (instead of buried in a side menu 2 layers deep). And I’m restricted in characters so not tempted to waffle or overtag. #socialmedia #beingchill

Colourful Flamecraft Duels board game mid play with tokens stacked multiple levels high. A purple soft toy dragon sits next to it on a purple bean bag. Office surroundings are in the background.

Colourful Flamecraft Duels board game mid play with tokens stacked multiple levels high. You can see 2 shop goal cards and a player aid card. A hand points to the tokens on the board.

Finally broke out our Kickstarter Flamecraft Duels. Love the tokens. The box plus board feels less durable. While a nice idea, I feel like a neoprene mat for the board would have been nicer and longer lasting, while keeping the picnic vibe. #boardgames #boardgamegeek #brightmoments #flamecraftduels

Septima board game player’s board with two witches, suspicion at 2 of 8, some potion ingredients lying on the lower corner of the board and healing track markers all on the 2nd line of 5.

The main board of Septima. With a circular map, showing resources to collect, with hunter meeples are arranged around the edges, multiple players meeples collected in the crowd space and a tray with ingredients sitting nearby. Markers have progressed up the spells track. And the phase marker shows it is Summer.

Multiple parts of the Kickstarter deluxe Septima board game are laid out on a table with a green felt surface. A player’s board, potion storage, ingredients tray, metal wisdom coins and main board are in view.

Friend loaned us the Kickstarter version of Septima. Definitely high brain. Now played 2, 3 and 4 players and enjoyed myself. More players made getting witches harder. The shapeshifting expansion was an easy add in. Like the theme although the board is a bit busy. #boardgames #boardgamegeek #septima

Merry Christmas everyone 🎄🐾🤍

A mass of vividly orange Gazania flowers

Multiple yellow Gazania flowers with brown stripes through each petal

Multiple Gazania flowers with ombré petals pink to white tips

A golden yellow Gazania flowers in a rock garden

I love Gazania. My spring/summer time garden is full of vibrant blooms. My favourites are the orange ones. #brightmoments #gazania #flowers

Spirit Island board game laid out mid play through.

Spirit Island board game Lightning player’s mat

Learned Spirit Island at Wellycon this year too. Glad we had someone who had played before as it was a complex first play. Not sure it is for me. A heavier cooperative game. Theme was interesting and the tension you feel as you play was engaging. #wellycon #boardgame #boardgamegeek

Horrendously late Day 2 Wellycon: We won Clash of Magic Schools. Should’ve been easier to learn than it was. Enjoyed replaying Aboretum. Finally learned Teen Titans Go Mayhem and it was amusing. Glad day 2 was good quiet fun. #wellycon #boardgames #boardgamegeek #brightmoments

A side profile photograph of a grey tabby that sits on a lap. The sun shines behind her, catching her whiskers.

Close photograph of a black and white cat’s face, sitting on a blanket. He has incredibly long whiskers. A coffee table is in the background.

Two cats sleeping together in a light grey fluffy donut bed. The black and white cat looks out inquisitively. The grey tabby with half closed eyes.

A black and white cat looks warily at the camera, his paw over his nose. His tail fluffy curls around in the foreground. He’s lying on a patterned beanbag.

Pictures of these two goobers who are now 2 years old. Grey tabby girl is Selina. Perpetually hungry for anything resembling food, cuddles holding onto your shoulders and nibbles earrings. Oz the black and white boy is curious, an explorer, will sit near you but not on your lap. #furbaby #cats

Was nice to get to play Terra Mystica again too. Had to relearn it’d been so long.

Stamp Swap tabletop board game standing upright on table. Box art has the title in a centre circular design surrounded by colourful stamps.

Stamp Swap tabletop board game being played on a table. Two player mats are partially filled with stamps. The shared goals are bright and engaging.

The Terra Mystica big box tabletop game stands upright on a table. A player’s board shows mana discs, different building type pieces and terrain types in a conversion wheel. The witch base game character type is being used. Money coins sit in piles in the background.

The main game board of Terra Mystica tabletop game with 4 different players buildings out in different areas of the board. Different game pieces surround the board. The element track shows pieces nearing the top of each element type. The game is on the last round.

Day 2 Wellycon (1 of 2): Stamp Swap, easy and attractive. A game that actually keeps to the box time! Nice and short.

I did forget to see what it would do with alt text… so apologies for the duplication. New posts from me should have proper alt text though.

GitHub - marcomaroni-github/instagram-to-bluesky: Import Instagram archive to a Bluesky account Import Instagram archive to a Bluesky account. Contribute to marcomaroni-github/instagram-to-bluesky development by creating an account on GitHub.

Woohoo! Finally got my import tool from instagram working! Comments would’ve been truncated to the 300char limit and some posts split that had more photos. But on the whole, happier having my history. Grateful to the creator #importtobluesky #marcomaroni

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Trialing Bluesky, would like to leave Facebook but will see how we go…

Sky Follower Bridge Bridge your Twitter/X followers to Bluesky. Detected Users: 93

I've discovered 93 Bluesky users from my social network using the Sky Follower Bridge.✨

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Day 1 Wellycon 2025 plays: Tiletum, Castle Combo, Barcelona and Dive. Tiletum - Took us about an hour setting up and going through rules for first play. Played the King’s corruption track wrong, missed flipping tokens each round. Crests and food are more important than you think. Castl... (Part 3/3)

Day 1 Wellycon 2025 plays: Tiletum, Castle Combo, Barcelona and Dive. Tiletum - Took us about an hour setting up and going through rules for first play. Played the King’s corruption track wrong, missed flipping tokens each round. Crests and food are more important than you think. Castl... (Part 3/3)

Day 1 Wellycon 2025 plays: Tiletum, Castle Combo, Barcelona and Dive. Tiletum - Took us about an hour setting up and going through rules for first play. Played the King’s corruption track wrong, missed flipping tokens each round. Crests and food are more important than you think. Castl... (Part 2/3)

Day 1 Wellycon 2025 plays: Tiletum, Castle Combo, Barcelona and Dive. Tiletum - Took us about an hour setting up and going through rules for first play. Played the King’s corruption track wrong, missed flipping tokens each round. Crests and food are more important than you think. Castl... (Part 2/3)

Day 1 Wellycon 2025 plays: Tiletum, Castle Combo, Barcelona and Dive. Tiletum - Took us about an hour setting up and going through rules for first play. Played the King’s corruption track wrong, missed flipping tokens each round. Crests and food are more important than you think. Castl... (Part 2/3)

Day 1 Wellycon 2025 plays: Tiletum, Castle Combo, Barcelona and Dive. Tiletum - Took us about an hour setting up and going through rules for first play. Played the King’s corruption track wrong, missed flipping tokens each round. Crests and food are more important than you think. Castl... (Part 2/3)

Day 1 Wellycon 2025 plays: Tiletum, Castle Combo, Barcelona and Dive. Tiletum - Took us about an hour setting up and going through rules for first play. Played the King’s corruption track wrong, missed flipping tokens each round. Crests and food are more important than you think. Castl... (Part 2/3)

Day 1 Wellycon 2025 plays: Tiletum, Castle Combo, Barcelona and Dive. Tiletum - Took us about an hour setting up and going through rules for first play. Played the King’s corruption track wrong, missed flipping tokens each round. Crests and food are more important than you think. Castl... (Part 1/3)

Day 1 Wellycon 2025 plays: Tiletum, Castle Combo, Barcelona and Dive. Tiletum - Took us about an hour setting up and going through rules for first play. Played the King’s corruption track wrong, missed flipping tokens each round. Crests and food are more important than you think. Castl... (Part 1/3)

Day 1 Wellycon 2025 plays: Tiletum, Castle Combo, Barcelona and Dive. Tiletum - Took us about an hour setting up and going through rules for first play. Played the King’s corruption track wrong, missed flipping tokens each round. Crests and food are more important than you think. Castl... (Part 1/3)

Day 1 Wellycon 2025 plays: Tiletum, Castle Combo, Barcelona and Dive. Tiletum - Took us about an hour setting up and going through rules for first play. Played the King’s corruption track wrong, missed flipping tokens each round. Crests and food are more important than you think. Castl... (Part 1/3)

Day 1 Wellycon 2025 plays: Tiletum, Castle Combo, Barcelona and Dive. Tiletum - Took us about an hour setting up and going through rules for first play. Played the King’s corruption track wrong, missed flipping tokens each round. Crests and food are more important than you think. Castl... (Part 1/3)

Lego local brick show, hot drinks and muffins at Munch, dressed up in purple and black cause I can. Gendered clothes be damned. First day of Sweat with Pride. Need to do a walk or elliptical session later. #brightmoments #longweekendvibes

Lego local brick show, hot drinks and muffins at Munch, dressed up in purple and black cause I can. Gendered clothes be damned. First day of Sweat with Pride. Need to do a walk or elliptical session later. #brightmoments #longweekendvibes

Lego local brick show, hot drinks and muffins at Munch, dressed up in purple and black cause I can. Gendered clothes be damned. First day of Sweat with Pride. Need to do a walk or elliptical session later. #brightmoments #longweekendvibes

Had the pleasure of playing the kickstarter version of Critter Kitchen with friends. The game pieces were so lux! Gorgeous quality. The game was easy for me to learn, worker and resource management with options for variety each play through. Loved it. #kickstarter #critterkitchen #brightmoments #...

Had the pleasure of playing the kickstarter version of Critter Kitchen with friends. The game pieces were so lux! Gorgeous quality. The game was easy for me to learn, worker and resource management with options for variety each play through. Loved it. #kickstarter #critterkitchen #brightmoments #...

Had the pleasure of playing the kickstarter version of Critter Kitchen with friends. The game pieces were so lux! Gorgeous quality. The game was easy for me to learn, worker and resource management with options for variety each play through. Loved it. #kickstarter #critterkitchen #brightmoments #...

Had the pleasure of playing the kickstarter version of Critter Kitchen with friends. The game pieces were so lux! Gorgeous quality. The game was easy for me to learn, worker and resource management with options for variety each play through. Loved it. #kickstarter #critterkitchen #brightmoments #...

Had the pleasure of playing the kickstarter version of Critter Kitchen with friends. The game pieces were so lux! Gorgeous quality. The game was easy for me to learn, worker and resource management with options for variety each play through. Loved it. #kickstarter #critterkitchen #brightmoments #...

Kitties are nearly a year and a half old. Very distinct personalities. #catsofinstagram #furbabies #brightmoments

Kitties are nearly a year and a half old. Very distinct personalities. #catsofinstagram #furbabies #brightmoments

Kitties are nearly a year and a half old. Very distinct personalities. #catsofinstagram #furbabies #brightmoments

Kitties are nearly a year and a half old. Very distinct personalities. #catsofinstagram #furbabies #brightmoments

Visit to dahlia farm with a friend. #brightmoments #dahlia #flora (Part 2/2)

Visit to dahlia farm with a friend. #brightmoments #dahlia #flora (Part 2/2)

Visit to dahlia farm with a friend. #brightmoments #dahlia #flora (Part 2/2)

Visit to dahlia farm with a friend. #brightmoments #dahlia #flora (Part 2/2)

Visit to dahlia farm with a friend. #brightmoments #dahlia #flora (Part 1/2)

Visit to dahlia farm with a friend. #brightmoments #dahlia #flora (Part 1/2)

Visit to dahlia farm with a friend. #brightmoments #dahlia #flora (Part 1/2)

Visit to dahlia farm with a friend. #brightmoments #dahlia #flora (Part 1/2)

Visit to dahlia farm with a friend. #brightmoments #dahlia #flora (Part 1/2)

Yum dinner out with my work team visiting Wellington at #dragonflyrestaurant #brightmoments (Part 2/2)