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dorktower_feed) wrote2025-09-08 05:00 amWe’re Doing it Again!
HERE WE GO AGAIN! Insane Charity Bike Ride 2025is here!
There is much coolness to be grabbed…all for helping a GREAT cause!
dorktower_feed) wrote2025-09-08 05:00 amINSANE CHARITY BIKE RIDE 2025 – LUCKY 13!
This year will be different, however. IF we can hit the $20,000 goal:
(a) I will cycle with the Duck of Doom on my helmet, but more importantly
(b) That will bring the grand total of all Insane Charity Bike Rides (2011-2025) to A QUARTER OF A MILLION DOLLARS!
A few things to note:
- The original Munchkin card art at the $375 and above levels will be from a MAJOR upcoming Munchkin release. How major? I can’t say what it its, but it will be announced at Gamehole Con in October, and it should blow your socks off! You won’t want to miss it!
- I’ve added Sponsorship levels, so companies can pick up advertising at DorkTower.com that is 100% a charitable deduction, tax-wise. These may be added to any level.
- The 2024 swag went out later than I had hoped. This was entirely on me. I shall endeavor this year to have all swag sent off by US Thanksgiving, 2025.
- Due to a terribly busy summer, this is the latest I’ve ever launched an Insane Charity Bike Ride campaign, so I’m kind of worried about hitting the $20,000 goal. But I have hope…
SUPPORT LEVELS AND REWARDS
ANY donation – The 2025 Coloring Book PDF . Look, even simply getting the word out helps, but nothing beats cash. I realize money is tight these days all round, but any amount helps, no matter how small. Donate, and you will get a PDF of the brand-new coloring book (hopefully celebrating the $250,000 landmark).
$35 – The 2025 Munchkin Charity Postcard and the 2025 Coloring Book PDF.
$75 – The 2025 Army of Dorkness Sergeant Button, the 2025 Postcard the 2025 Coloring Book PDF
$125 – Kovalic’s Munchkin Miscellany – I’ve a few copies of this comic book left from the Munchkin BIG BOX Kickstarter, and Steve Jackson Games has graciously allowed me to use these for charity purposes.
There’s lots of nifty stories and favorite bits of art in this, and it’s a ton of fun! Also, you get the Button, 2025 Postcard, Munchkin Miscellany and the 2025 Coloring Book PDF (14 of 15 remaining)
$200 – All 12 prior Insane Charity Bike Ride Postcards, Munchkin Miscellany, the 2025 Button, 2025 Postcard, and the 2025 Coloring Book PDF (8 of 10 remaining)
$300 – The 2025 Gamehole Con plushie, Karlos the Kobold, Munchkin Miscellany, Button, 2025 Postcard, the 2025 Coloring Book PDF (20 of 20 remaining)
$375 – Original Munchkin Art!!! As always, I don’t sell original Munchkin art. This is the only way you can obtain a piece, and the upcoming release this year’s art will be selected from will be HUGE. Plus, Munchkin Miscellany, the 2025 Button, all 12 prior Postcards, 2025 Postcard, the 2025 Coloring Book PDF (16 of 20 remaining)
$600 – Be among the first to read THE DORK WEB, the new Dork Tower collection, along with a DORK WEB T-shirt and a Gilly the Perky Goth plushie along with a limited signed and sketched-in edition of the book itself, when it’s released in early 2026! Plus All Prior Postcards, Original Munchkin Art, Kobold plushie, Munchkin Miscellany, Button, Postcard the 2025 Coloring Book PDF (10 of 10 remaining)
$1000 – Appear in a Dork Tower Comic! You, your frtiend, your family, or even a pet will appear in a Dork Tower strip! We can talk about how best to fit you or your loved one into a strip. You also get Original Art, a pre-publication copy of The Dork Web PDF, T-shirt, Signed and Sketched limited edition copy of the Dork Web when published, Gilly the Perky Goth Plushie, All Prior Postcards, Original Munchkin Art, Kobold, Munchkin Miscellany, Button, Postcard the 2025 Coloring Book PDF (2 of 2 remaining)
$2,000 – Become an Official Munchkin Card! You, a friend, your family, or even a pet will become an official Munchkin card! You also get 100 printed cards and the card’s original art, along with a pre-publication copy of The Dork Web PDF, T-shirt, Signed and Sketched limited edition copy of the Dork Web when published, Gilly the Perky Goth Plushie, All Prior Postcards, Original Munchkin Art, Kobold, Munchkin Miscellany, Button, Postcard the 2025 Coloring Book PDF (2 of 2 remaining)
SPONSORSHIP LEVEL 1 – Add $1,250 to any level for six months of ads on DorkTower.com. The ads may be changed up to four times and may include Dork Tower characters. (4 of 4 remaining)
SPONSORSHIP LEVEL 2 – Add $2,000 to any level for a full year of ads on DorkTower.com. The ads may be changed up to eight times and may include Dork Tower characters. (2 of 2 remaining)
PLEASE NOTE, there may be an added cost for shipping the physical rewards outside of the United States, depending on the whims of the current US administration. We apologize deeply for this, and will contact supporters as the time approaches.
STRETCH GOALS
Hitting $5,000 – A sticker commemorating the 13th Insane Charity Bike Ride campaign will be included with all physical orders.
Hitting $10,000 – I’ll ride with the Steve Jackson Games Tentacles of Doom again!
Hitting $15,000 – A unique Munchkin card commemorating the 13th Insane Charity Bike Ride campaign will be included with all physical orders.
Hitting $20,000 – THE DUCK! THE DUCK! THE DUCK! I’ll ride with the Steve Jackson Games Duck of Doom on my helmet again!
Hitting $25,000 – (To be announced. Mmmmmmmmaybe the second duck? Hmmmmmmmm?)
- John
dinosaur_comics_feed) wrote2025-09-08 12:00 amsherlock holmes and the case of the lengthy and distracting digression
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girlgenius_main_feed) wrote2025-09-08 04:00 amGirl Genius for Monday, September 08, 2025
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kaberett) wrote2025-09-07 10:50 pmvital functions
Reading. Lake of Souls, Ann Leckie: finished the Radch stories; on to The World Of The Raven Tower!
The Painful Truth, Monty Lyman: in progress; not yet Cross with it but also not yet Impressed by it.
More Dreamwidth catchup.
Listening. More Hidden Almanac!
Eating. SO many tomatoes.
Exploring. Poked around Preston a very little!
Growing. ... SO many tomatoes. More watering system established at plot (so hopefully all the peppers will still be alive and well upon my return). Sowed some probably-past-it seeds.
Observing. A saw a deer on the drive up to Preston! A proper big one with antlers and all! We were very impressed.
Also the local owl Yell.
squirmelia) wrote2025-09-07 07:08 amMudlarking 42 - A domino and cat bread
I walked through the gate anyway and headed onwards, waiting for the tide low enough to get to the patch of foreshore outside the National Theatre.
While I was waiting I found what I thought was a coin, but things are deceptive on the foreshore and when I got it home, it had transformed into something else, although I don't know what.
A pair of tourists sat on the steps by the locked gate, chatting loudly.
In front of me on the waves were seagulls bobbing and I could hear the clink clink sound of boats, and the clatter of the waves against the pebbles. I felt happy to be there, by this river.
I found some large pieces of what were once pots of some kind. One with the letters, “ING” which was probably another Maling marmalade jar. One with “London” and some other indecipherable words, and one which probably once said “pottery” and “Derby”. That may have been for ink.
I found a lot with letters on! Numbers also: a thing that has “55 14” on it. A letter ‘T’, on a piece that was reddish with a cross. An ‘E. Letters that probably once spelt ‘England’.
These are all in the first picture:
In the second picture:
A cat bread sticker, looking particularly strange.
A wooden thing. Is it something carved and used by humans or just a bit of tree root that ended up in the Thames?
A domino. But where are the rest of the dominoes?
A blue pottery sherd with what looks like ‘TS’ on it.
A pottery sherd that looks like it says "fex" on it, but that seems unlikely.
The metal brown circle.
A tip of a pipe, and a decent bit of pipe and bowl.
In the third picture:
An Aynsley China sherd.
A little button.
Some nice colourful pieces of glass.
A shard of glass that says “Pepsi” on it.
The sun was getting low in the sky and the light was fading as I walked back across to the beach by Gabriel’s Wharf, before the tide came back in.
(You need a permit to mudlark or search on the Thames foreshore.)
emperor) wrote2025-09-06 07:43 pmI Saw The TV Glow
I didn't vote in this category, but if I had I think I would have ranked Flow first; it came second behind Dune.
dorktower_feed) wrote2025-09-05 05:00 amHungry, Hungry Hopefuls – DORK TOWER 05.09.25
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kaberett) wrote2025-09-05 04:47 pm[embodiment] that was the other thing I meant to say about EIB
Or at least "the other line I meant to highlight from the Wikipedia article":
There is increasing evidence that the smooth muscle that lines the airways becomes progressively more sensitive to changes that occur as a result of injury to the airways from dehydration.
I had only taken 700ml of water with me; I'd blithely assumed I'd be able to top up at the café and then had Too Much Social Anxiety to ask or even check whether they had a jug out, because that's a thing my brain is definitely Doing at the moment. ... and then on the way back I was desperately thirsty and stole most of A's water, and I am just personally finding it Very Interesting that the thing my body wanted me to do most was More Fluids.
dinosaur_comics_feed) wrote2025-09-05 12:00 amYOU THOUGHT I FORGOT ABOUT CHOCOCHOPS? never. NEVER
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September 5th, 2025: I want it on record, specifically because he does not, that my friend PATRICK WISKING is the inventor of the chocochop! I am merely its #1 fan and salesperson!! – Ryan | ||
girlgenius_main_feed) wrote2025-09-05 04:00 amGirl Genius for Friday, September 05, 2025
kaberett) wrote2025-09-03 10:11 pmall things very
- Have achieved More Event Prep: both the arrows catalogue updating (albeit not printing), and Folding All The Potions
that printed successfully. - Friend is watching Orphan Black for the first time. I am getting Yelling. It's DELIGHTFUL.
- Yesterday, leaving the lower limbs class that has been prescribed in an attempt to reduce the risk of reinjuring my ankle again, I... turned my ankle. (This is not the good bit.) In more or less the same way I did in April, that was the motivation for the current round of physio, but whether it was the exercises having actually helped anything at all or the fact that I was wearing different (and more supportive) boots or just pure luck, while it's a bit sore it is not e.g. refusing to bear weight any time I don't pay adequately close attention to how I load it, so I'm counting that one as a win.
- We forgot New Elephant Day on Monday (Sheldrick Wildlife Trust calendar) so instead had New Elephant Day today... AND IT AN ADORABLE BABY RHINO. 13/10, etc.
- I am nearly at the point where I think I might be able to read the Wikipedia page on action potentials and derive meaning from it? I'm definitely slightly less confused about the cell biologist's definition of depolarization than I was even yesterday...
squirmelia) wrote2025-09-03 08:47 pmMudlarking - 41- More marmalade
Before that, I found part of a Victorian marmalade jar, made by Maling, who were based in Newcastle. This is the second one of these I’ve found, but this was a larger chunk. The Thames must eat a lot of marmalade.
I also found a good sized piece of combware, a green bobbly bit of glass and what looks like a piece of a beard from a Bartmann jug
(You need a permit to search or mudlark on the Thames foreshore.)
dinosaur_comics_feed) wrote2025-09-03 12:00 amlet's use the alphabet... TO RATE THE ALPHABET??
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rmc28) wrote2025-09-03 07:00 amTo-read pile, 2025, August
Books on pre-order:
- Queen Demon (Rising World 2) by Martha Wells (7 Oct 2025)
Books acquired in August:
- and read:
- The Adventure of the Demonic Ox (Penric & Desdemona) by Lois McMaster Bujold
- The Work of Art (Somerset Stories 1) by Mimi Matthews
- The Arctic Curry Club by Dani Redd [3]
Books acquired previously and read in August:
- The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan [3][May]
Borrowed books read in August:
- A Sorceress Comes To Call by T. Kingfisher
- Iron Flame (Empyrean 2) by Rebecca Yarros [2]
[1] Pre-order
[2] Audiobook
[3] Physical book
[4] Crowdfunding
[5] Goodbye read
[6] Cambridgeshire Reads/Listens
[7] FaRoFeb / FaRoCation / Bookmas / HRBC
[8] Prime Reading / Kindle Unlimited
girlgenius_main_feed) wrote2025-09-03 04:00 am