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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • One thing you can do to help in this situation is teach her that it’s safe to talk to you about things that don’t seem to be 'right". Make it a habit to wonder out loud together if things are being presented truthfully. Look things up on the internet together. Keep it age appropriate, but be someone who explains things to her well. I taught my children early to question if the things they heard at school were true and they’d ask me. Your parents will probably always be in the position to do that, but you can make an effort to be there, too. Then when she’s older if she starts to question things your parents told her, she’ll know you’re a safe person to talk to.


  • One Deck Dungeon - you work together to fight the monster on each card using your dice. You have to plan the move together so that you will win. It’s a lot of fun.

    Blue Moon. We have the Legends version with a million or so cards. It’s definitely a competitive one. You build a deck, increasing your firepower (hopefully) as you go, and battle your opponent’s deck each turn.

    It took us a while to figure it out but man is it fun to play once you get the mechanics of it. Even teenage boys who had been rolling their eyes at the game for weeks tried it one day out of boredom and became obsessed as soon as they figured out how to start backstabbing each other.



  • I have to say that I have an account on Lemmy.world because I was there before I found out about Beehaw, and from what’ I’ve seen so far they strictly enforce Ruud’s rules of absolutely no rightwing bullshit. I volunteered to mod for the Reddit community and the rules I was told to focus on were: provide a friendly, safe, and welcoming environment for everyone regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, nationality, political affiliation, or other similar characteristic.

    I saw someone asking around yesterday about communities that wouldn’t ban them for being a bigot yesterday, and the posters told them to go to 4chan or google it themselves since it seemed they should be able to figure that out. They do have a community called Conservative, but it’s only got a few hundred people in it and the mods still have to follow the rules.

    It’s not as curated as the content here, but it’s not the fee for all that Reddit was. I think that conservatives will have a pretty bad time over there.



  • My husband and I have decided to start our own book club this weekend. We are nerds and both enjoy reading but he has limited time and I have limited patience with it because I had a stroke a few years ago and it’s not as easy as it used to be for me. We’re starting with short stories and we’ll just read one at a time ad discuss when we’re done. I’m hoping it will improve my skills over time and I know we’ll enjoy the extra bonding. We’re reading A Knight of The Seven Kingdoms by George R R Martin. He’s read all of the ASOIAF books and I’ve not read any of them. We’ve both watched both of the related TV shows.