And the same cities that have all just posted 20yr+ crime lows, of course.
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And the same cities that have all just posted 20yr+ crime lows, of course.
US foreign policy update: friends alienated, enemies united, armed forces spreading mulch in DC. MAGA
I'm sorry, a subscription-based stethoscope?
The difference between the text of the post and the headline of the article below it is staggering
Your Labor Day reminder that if the minimum wage increased at the rate of inflation & productivity since 1960 it'd be $28 today—not $7.25. Meaning—billionaires & corps have stolen at least $21/hour from working Americans for 60 years. We don't suffer a lack of resources—but from an excess of greed.
Julia Roberts may have received a Best Actress nomination for PRETTY WOMAN at the 1991 Academy Awards but the real accolade we need to talk about is how the same performance won her the award for Favorite Movie Actress that same year at the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards.
Zombie parking hoards! The horror! Sounds like the problem is car dependency, not lack of parking.
Reduced the price to $20 dollars a seat and your first session is 1/2 off! Looking for 2 more players while the game's still fresh!
I like to draw mice, rabbits, and birds. My wife says I have a knack for catching interesting mice characters. If you're making something for #Mausritter or something else woodland creature like...
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Happy Labor Day
about ¾ done with the front, another ¼ mapped on the back. I'm really enjoying this experiment with a more "vertical" layout. designing for home print is a blast.
hunting for cds at v-stock and half-price books is such a joy. why did we ever try to leave physical media.
Star Trek celebrates Labor Day
"In a stunning move, the Republican governor also called on lawmakers to weaken the state’s initiative petition process, a more than a century-old mechanism for direct democracy that allows citizens to put measures on the ballot." Signature gathering starts Sept. 10! respectMOvoters.org
Vollkorn is That Girl
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
What kills me for a lot of other "book" typefaces is how thin the print is. Even bold doesn't give me much of a differentiating heft. Vollkorn is sturdy and differentiates *well* across weights. I love using bold, black, and italics to differentiate information, and it just *works* for what I need.
Vollkorn does exactly what I need it to every single time. I don't know why I try other "book" typefaces.
first squash is coming in!
first squash is coming in!
Whatever I was expecting a lawn dart to look like, I sure wasn't expecting it to be a throwing knife with fetching.
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
set to have vibes floating somewhere between LXG and Hellboy in 189X.
this one will be a quad-panel vertical accordion fold: • front (folded) puts premise, core check, and character sheet to outside • front (expanded) reveals character creation steps and gear • back will be half rules (top) and half tables (bottom), which get conveniently partitioned when folded
accidentally stayed up til 1am working on a 24XX prequel to SPAR, so... APB: Genesis is a go, I guess?
With any luck, Poptimism's pivot is returning to the Whisk storefront on Cherokee that they've shuttered to the surrounding neighborhoods for over two years. You know, instead of using that storefront to NOT be in the neighborhood, only keeping it to fuel their Foundry and farmer's market endeavors.
They also kill a core cast member in the first episode of the last season, and if you're wondering if that impacted the plot in any way? No, it, in fact, did not 👉😎👉 To be fair, the way the characters call it "unnecessary" in the show makes me think that wasn't a writer's room call.
Finished Blindspot last night, and my advice to y'all is not to yourselves. While I do think the core cast and cast additions are really good, I've never seen a premise outsmart the writer's room so severely.
a society that wants to keep functioning needs to discourage balanced lying, especially by authorities
40% of Missourians vote for Democrats, and this is the Congressional map the Republicans are pushing for.
the number of Vayu Turbo tops I'm seeing lately is too damn high
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Participating in the "I know a guy" economy is more mutual aid praxis than the average activist could dream of.
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
It finally happened.
She did a fantastic job with it, I'm blown away.
because those are the groups I routinely see doing it? like this morning after one of them cut in front of my wife and I in line at a coffee shop and then didn't tip?
The book binder did an incredible job. She even included a silver book ribbon with the bind! I'm so, so thrilled with it.
Having a field mouse taking up residence in our garden? Huge win. Actually -seeing- physically how that little bud compares to things is so helpful! Like, now I know that a mouse inside of a cinderblock is like a human being in an 18ft cube. Good perspective for writing 🐭
I'm about to go on a Mausritter tear again aren't I
Lauren commissioned a local book binder—Bound by Emma, STL crowd!—to rebind my childhood copy of Redwall 🥹
A public health catastrophe. Not “immanent,” not “potential.” This is the catastrophe.
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
More established science that goes against the propaganda they want to push. Creationism is a brainless, factless fairy tail, and it makes me furious that these people—with no sense of irony or shame—hold it above actual empirical science.
'Post-Truth' by @leecmcintyre.bsky.social does a phenomenal job of breaking down how this works – and why, unfortunately, it's so effective.
Climate change is settled science. Vaccine safety is settled science. Everything scientific this regime is going after is settled science. That said, if you're not bound to stupid little things like facts, then everything is as (un)settled as you claim it to be. THAT'S the strategy. That's the lie.
Cannot stop pointing out that MAHA's entire strategy is the same strategy the Tobacco Lobby took in the 1950s when science proved smoking leads to cancer: Nothing they say needs to be true. They don't need facts. They need the APPEARANCE of doubt within scientific community. That's their "proof".
I vaguely remember tweeting something like the country that effectively captures this free energy source at scale will rule the 21st century. whelp.
Reminder Both Greater St Louis (rebranded Civic Progress and darling of City Alders and Mayors) and Missouri AFL-CIO endorsed Kehoe in the MAGA Primary. He was never MAGA-lite. No such thing. They are all cowards who have bent the knee to a senile megalomaniac intent on destroying democracy.
Quarter-century secret rare (QCSR) is a card rarity. Light and Darkness Dragon (LADD) and Obelisk the Tormentor are monster cards. Obelisk Frogs is a deck from the Yugioh Edison format (Apr 2010 ban list) that uses the Frog monster archetype to set up tributes for LADD. LADD negates 4 card effects!
None you fuckers ready for the ADHD surge I just got. New card-based TTRPG that acts as an expansion to my high noon dueling game $TANDOFF! Accomplishing actions come at a cost but Dealing with the Devil reduces said cost while risking literally rewriting your action in accordance with Temptation!
Missouri is indeed in. Lawmakers will return to Jefferson City next week to draw a new congressional map that would convert the 5th Congressional District into a GOP-leaning seat. This is a major turning point for Missouri politics:
BREAKING NEWS: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., delayed enforcing its decision, which is expected to be appealed to the Supreme Court.
There are a lot of decks that make me think of very specific people. Monarchs make me think of my friend Vince from college. He played Frognarchs for years – to this day, the best 'narch pilot I know.
E-Con + Treeborn is a disgusting combo and I love it
got a playset of QCSR LADDs, and now all I want do is play Obelisk Frogs
Detail from The Chained Colossus: Vibrating with manic energy, a cult preacher screams sermons from the ruined amphitheater stage to a sparse but enraptured crowd. As his wide eyes catch the party he exalts "FRESH SOULS LOOKING TO BE REBORN!" sketchyvanrpg.itch.io/the-chained-...
HELL yeah
What perfect album came out when you were 16?
I haven't! I need to go find it on CD, trying to do better about my media ownership.
The Middle isn't just not a top three Jimmy Eat World song: isn't even a top three Jimmy Eat World song *on the album it was on*. End to end bangers on here.
What perfect album came out when you were 16?
oh man, Bleed American is a *rock solid* album
In case you haven't heard it, it rips
I should've known we were in for a top-tier Punk Goes Recession after Bring Me the Horizon's cover of "Wonderwall"
I've listened to this four times already this morning. FUCK this is good. All the classic "Still Waiting" with Electric Callboy's electronicore touch.
a nicer way of saying "every band needs a Teal Album" I guess
Maybe that was the plan all along: monitor everyrhing, refer to police/fbi/dhs/ice, etc. It is a mass surveillance tool, used by the Israeli military. Open AI is also a Pentagon contractor. apnews.com/article/isra...
Whenever I’m having a bad day I put Fall Out Boy on to remind myself Pete had a worse one
every band needs one album where they do covers of all their favorite songs
This recession is gonna hit like a goddamn Mack truck isn't it.
At least the music is gonna rip. Bright sides and all.
Punk Goes Recession is ON
YOOOOOO
Call me crazy but I don’t love the idea of them controlling ways to escape.
The Tomb of a Thousand Doors box set is legitimately incredible. I would like every large adventure like this to come with a gm screen this nice. All of your roll tables, the procedure for encounters, stat blocks, and a keyed map of the mega dungeon? Absolutely amazing.
Stories of people developing psychosis because of AI are going to get more and more frequent and then they'll stop because it will be so common it won't even be worth reporting
This is some of the hardest shit I've seen in my life
But don't you know that Police Story improvised weapon fight scene would've been better against a small army of Gollums? And they probably could've CGIed on a mustache – the reverse Cavill, if you will.
Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson are somewhere collectively cursing James Cameron's entire bloodline.
I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.
I wish this was fake so I'd get less spoilers.
RFK Jr. is pushing out scientific leaders who refuse to act as a rubber stamp for his dangerous conspiracy theories and manipulate science. Today, I am calling for a bipartisan congressional investigation into the firing of CDC Director Dr. Monarez.
"bro how did you clock they were the secret villain all along?" they used an android phone in the first scene.
The "tech as morality" trope has got to be the worst, most buzzkill trope in TV and movies. Apple refuses to let morally gray characters and antagonists be seen on screen using Apple products, so the easiest way to see a character's morality in the eyes of the script narrative is with their phone 🙄
If we walk away from this presidency and don't do anything to fix all the handshake "good faith" loopholes that clearly compose the vast majority of our Constitution, then this will not only happen again but keep happening and keep getting worse.
Has the obvious Cop City dimension of this facility with a "simulated urban environment" yet been mentioned in the press? Are they planning for street to street fighting soon? www.stlpr.org/government-p...
Started off my drive into work watching a cop SUV running a red light solidly mid-cycle. No lights on or anything, pure impatience. Good to see STL's finest at their usual peak incompetence and law-breaking.
Yugioh is a hard pickup for anyone who's used to a resource system (mana, energy, etc.) because Yugioh doesn't have one: if you can legally play it, you have the choice to. While Modern is incredibly power crept (to the point of no fun, imo), Edison, Tengu, and HAT formats are great.
It's a work in progress, right now I'm caught up in deck building everything that sounds even remotely interesting 😅 For the most part, Edison is pretty cheap to get into, especially with recent reprints. Dustshoot, Oppression, and Absolute Zero are probably the most expensive cards you'd play.
A few years ago, Crunchyroll closed RightStuf completely, replacing it with their own Crunchyroll online store. However, in doing so, they failed to renew the deal RightStuf had with Sunrise to distribute Gundam on Blu-Ray, meaning that now basically all Gundam series are out of print
What really ices my fuck-this cake, honestly, is that we're supposed to believe the plan carefully constructed over two decades with a literal army behind it—the plan the show was built around—failed, but the plan concocted in an opportune moment amongst three people in less than a year succeeded.
Preorder the 24 page zine and get a free pamphlet adventure by @worldchamp.bsky.social ! www.worldchamp.io/store/instan...
