Very grateful that @sharai.bsky.social wrote this, because there is absolutely a disconnect in even progressive white people's minds where we instantly recognize the first word as a slur, but not the second. That disconnect is where our privilege lives all scary season. Unlearning is a good thing!
How many board gamers does it take to change a light bulb? 1 to 5 but I wouldn’t recommend it at 1 or 5 or even 2 really.
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you simply do not have to defend graham linehan that’s not a thing you have to spend your time doing there are better options, like cleaning lint out of the dryer
Did it accurately count the exclamation points? Heh.
Who up mastering they decks?
Really proud to announce that @steelcitymtg.bsky.social is officially a #MoxfieldPartner! We're so happy to be working with a company who consistently leads the charge in new/exciting features, social stands, and being demonstrably community-first. Thanks, @moxfield.com 💜
Courage the Cowardly Dog has been removed from HBO Max and is unavailable on other streaming services, making it inaccessible unless you pay per episode on Amazon. This is why physical media is king.
You know how I said to keep an eye on the Manatee County Commission running headlong into a fight with Ron DeSantis over wetlands building restrictions that voters explicitly elected them to pass? They've now joined a class action lawsuit against the State of Florida. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
And when I say that voters resoundingly rejected it, I mean that they even kicked the Ron DeSantis-appointed Supervisor of Elections to the curb because he was part of the developer-aligned candidate bloc and they didn't trust him to run elections because of it.
We solved commander today everything is fixed now
On this 3rd day of Suicide Prevention Awareness Month let's talk about what ideation is versus what it isn't @afspnational.bsky.social #mtg #betterdays #betterdaysmtg
Somewhere out there is someone who didn't want any part of this craziness with tariffs and vaccines and just wanted some nice peaceful racism and is regretting their vote right now
You are a groovy frood Mr Jaffe
Another Trump asskisser in clover because he kisses Trump's ass. ***** apnews.com/article/trum...
Some happy news! I am the 2025 UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award winner! Can the person who nominated me please identify themselves?? I want to thank you! alumni.ucsc.edu/events-progr...
call and response
Went to Sea World today. Ate at the fancy Sharks restaurant. Was super cool. Got to walk on Pipeline twice, Manta, and Penguin Trek also. As I was leaving I saw this adorable duck.
It’s been a great year for the worst people in the entire world
About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”
Went to Sea World today. Ate at the fancy Sharks restaurant. Was super cool. Got to walk on Pipeline twice, Manta, and Penguin Trek also. As I was leaving I saw this adorable duck.
I know we love Fblthp, but petition for Yargle to be the chaotic archnemesis of this little homunculus for MagicCon marketing please.
They're going to try to ruin the lives of the cops who fought the rioters to make sure no cops fight the rioters next time
Why stop there? I demand the freedom to choose which side of the road I drive on, anything less is illegitimate government intrusion into my private life.
When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
Boiling milk before use was just what you did. They had dedicated cookware for it. (Specially shaped to contain boil-overs, which milk is really prone to.) Household hygiene had SERIOUSLY high stakes back before hot running water & pasteurization. That's… like… why they taught home economics.
Like "Look at Our War Crimes: A PowerPoint from the US Dept of State presented by Marco Rubio."
Makes me wonder more about why exactly we had cause to shoot it though. Heh. I know this was a gross and illegal escalation, just weird they should be laying it out so plainly for folks how gross and illegal it was
One could almost say Ladapo’s “drips with slavery” remark drips with a Stepin Fetchit aspiration to achieve valued bit-player status in the political order lDeSantis and Trump envision. One could. Almost.
There is no way in hell why we shouldn’t have a high speed rail….. you wanna talk about job creation…… getting from California to Chicago to New York in the same fucking day. By train. Why not?
This!
Gene Roddenberry might have been down for a house that looked like a shroom dick.
This is dizzying in the absolute best possible way. Idk what I enjoy more, the folds on her fabric or the sense of space!
That I saw at least. All the top results after yours were serious discussions along this axis and had all the words but not actually arranged in sequence, so unless somebody wants to trawl the firehouse archive... it looks like you win this one.
Searched the site and this the first/only construction like this, especially intended as a zinger so... great work.
Compare this message with Newsom's Trump trolling memecoin dogshit. Who do you think is ready for prime time? Who do you think is ready to lead?
This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
Putin believed that Ukraine would flop over and greet him as a liberator and Xi thinks deflation is good because the price number goes down. no shit they think that life extension is as simple as swapping out organs when they wear out. They're wrong though.
Probably not the only economic elites who think they can Ship of Theseus themselves to immortality.
Liberals are starting to say shit like, "trans people asked for too much too fast," and I'll remind your souless asses that we actually didn't ask for anything. we were minding our own business and quietly improving our healthcare and you (cis) decided to do a pogrom against us for no reason.
So much Prosper tech these days
I love all of these creators and somehow this is the first I’m hearing about this book?!
(this means, if my math is right, the book is currently less than ten dollars and honestly that means you're gonna pay like 2 cents per laugh or something bc you will have so many laughs)
Gas leak decade...
Thank you SO SO MUCH everyone who searched, flyered, called, help me trap/watch the traps, EVERYBODY who helped get Big Genius Man home (CRYING AGAIN BECAUSE WTF YOU LITTLE GARBAGEMONSTER)
Okay so... Fiasco can explain It am not GOOD explanation mind u But can definitely explain if u have an OPEN MIND
GUESS WHO'S BACK BACK AGAIN
OH THANK BAST. 😅
all those years of Fettermans service WERE the alarm bells. It's just he was facing a deeply unlikable establishment figure. John wasn't a progressive outsider. He was basically handed the job of "if the governor dies it's you now"
Ashamed to admit this but quite possibly The Big Lebowski 😶
Great musical reference too, it really is a hat trick.
If you're hoping for certainty in the forecast for the Atlantic tropical wave, you're not going to get it just yet. Models are jumpy on this one, but there are some general trends we'll be watching that I discuss in today's newsletter. ⬇️
I think Graham should get a fair clean shake and he seems pretty sincere, but there's a lot to be said for needing to put together a staff verses having one, and even if I think he should get a free consideration on his own merits, people try to spot trends and patterns to avoid repeat fuck ups.
Also. I love Reacher and Puns. No apologies for either. Are some of the books mid and gratuitous? Yea, but Child clearly refines his technique with time and the overall bones of the idea are very sturdy. Heh.
It was worth it. You loved it.
This is way more precise than my criticism would have been but gets at the mechanical heart of the issue. It isn't so much the overwhelming product waves so much as each one, especially in UB, having power creep that forces you to keep up in what ought to be a slow to change legacy format.
On my way to Wizards HQ to discuss commander with the rest of the commander format panel. What do you think is the most pressing issue facing our format right now?
Granted, Chuck probably does not agree with my sentiment about those two and is more likely deferring to the Baileys or just last months calendar additions finally arriving.
I fucking hate to "defend" Schumer too, and no offense to Graham, but the last 2 progressive outsiders to claw their way into the Dem Senate Caucus that I remember, Fetterman and Sinema, did not work out so great. It should not be held against Graham but I can see why Chuck may be cautious now.
Great thread. 1000% endorse the conclusion.
It's seven years since we posted on Twitter about how kids kept coming into the library asking if we had any books about FORTNITE. We didn't back then, and we'd never heard of it so we tried asking what it was.
The only boy who could ever teach me, was the son of a Reacher fan.
SHELVE YOUR SPIKES, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE DEHYDRATION. AND YOU WILL WIN.
"I became a hater by doing precisely those things AI cannot do: reading and understanding human language; thinking and reasoning about ideas; considering the meaning of my words and their context; loving people, making art, living in my body with its flaws and feelings and life."
Disney+ did not exist and if you didn't have a truly massive audience campaign in the early days a network show getting new life was virtually unheard of then. I think Futurama may have done it by then, but I don't think Arrested Development had made the leap yet. I would have to look up dates.
Also, The Middleman TV show was so important to me and it can be found here for free. archive.org/details/the-...
I am so sorry to hear this but still so thankful to you and everybody involved who gave us one perfect season. It is all potential and possibility... I love that show, thank you for making it and I am sorry the numbers were not there to flip it to streaming.
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Happy Labor Day! Today we're bringing you The First Union, as told by HBomberguy (@hbomberguy.bsky.social) and illustrated by Skutch (@skutchdraws.bsky.social) It's the dawn of the industrial revolution, and of the way many of us work... Have you ever heard of the term "Luddite" from an elder?
My new premium newsletter is about polls showing that liberals are cutting off their conservative family members, and my theory that this might happen not because liberals are more sensitive, but because conservatives are less tolerable.
I'm sure this makes the worst coffee on earth, but c'mon now you know you want it
the way the modern press works - political party starts saying something in unison - press reports that theyre all saying it - opposition party gets asked about it - you all start getting invited onto shows to talk about about it republicans understand this, democrats just dont
capitalism has never been summarized more succinctly than the Sopranos episode where the gang takes over a restaurant, loads it with debt, then burns it down
@rhysticstudies.bsky.social You put me on this path. The horror you’ll never forget… Dandân on “VHS”! 3D printed box, inkjet cover, laser cut slipcase. Still mucking with the design, but I’m reasonably happy with this version. Room for 80 single-sleeved cards + tokens. #magicthegathering #dandan
This was about my short story in this incredible collection of holiday inspired fiction edited by @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com — I’ve never said yes to an anthology so quickly and I hope you’ll pick FOR THE REST OF US up. It’s an amazing book!
I'm just second hand news... And I still maintain Silver Springs is the most effective and powerful spell/hex masquerading as a pop song of all time
listening to Fleetwood Mac's 'Rumors' front to back for the first time in forever and realizing it's like a season of the X Files- evenly split between Lore and Monster of the Week songs
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
Very rarely this gives me an opportunity to make some jokes.
This is how I handle it. Sometimes my description is more specific, but a lot of the time the context of the image I am using is most important, so I happily explain why I chose an image in the alt. It is about making sure visually impaired people know why the pic is there as well as what is in it
Every now and then it becomes clear that a lot of leftists broadly and fundamentally do not understand the dynamics of right wing Christianity in the US and this is absolutely one of those cases
Honestly, I feel like a lot of the right wing theists forget this history also or they would not be so eager to line up to be last to be torn apart. They have forgotten that Christianity is not a monolith and internecine struggles have turned deadly for millenia.
... say what now
I see this isn't a brand new attack but one that I hadn't seen before. It's quite slick.
“How’d you pay off your student loans?” “I tried to overthrow the United States government.”
Designer 1: what bs five color legend can we throw in this time??? Designer 2: what if we reskinned Jodah again? Designer 1: we did that for final fantasy and SpongeBob already let’s try something new Designer 3 smoking fifth cigarette: what if spidermens are akromas?
I immediately clocked this as a bit? Like, there's no actual damage to any vehicles. Somebody knew the camera was there and potentially had the means to stage that opening and then did that with the tiniest car they could get access to. Heh.
Wow. What a win
"it’s hard to imagine anything more emblematic of the Trump Era than what is for all intents and purposes still the Commerce Secretary’s company (yes, yes, arms length hand off to his twenty-something sons) making bets on something Lutnick himself has significant influence over"
Why read past headlines: I have personal experience with how MAHA attitudes make kids less healthy. MAHA literally thinks kids don't deserve health unless they're genetically gifted. www.salon.com/2025/09/02/t...
Kids returning to school may face a ritual humiliation that we thought we'd left behind: the presidential fitness test. RFK's definition of "health" is about outside appearance — and even kids aren't exempt from his hot-or-not evaluation. www.salon.com/2025/09/02/t...
Don't be silly, there's zero chance we go to war with Venezuela. Unless the Fed doesn't cut rates on September 17, in which case the odds skyrocket because Trump will inevitably spin his chaos wheel to pick a new emergency to create.
it wasnt covid restrictions that turned people crazy, it was a group of immoral cynical right wing media grifters who took advantage of their scared followers to get clicks and subscribers and make money
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Good morning little one
Not even the scariest quote in the article.
Solid work all around, instead of teaching 8th graders how to read, write, and think, we should turn them into machines for badly rewriting generic AI outputs. Credit to the 8th grader, though, it's tricky to come up with a unique single-sentence summary of Night. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Those willing, by contrast, to trade away the rights and dignity of transgender people or the poor cannot be considered friends of democracy any more than those who were willing to countenance second-class status for blacks and Jews.
I suspect they are a product of the fascists recruiting for ICE and you find them in their corners of the internet. Heh.