"We all laughed when Ken said he'd bring back wigs to American courts, but nobody's laughing now."
Fleeing the birdsite before it burns down.
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"We all laughed when Ken said he'd bring back wigs to American courts, but nobody's laughing now."
He's a NYT alumnus, and the NYT definitely has prior art, here.
And those things have the turning radius of a child's tricycle. How do you fuck up this badly?
Free healthcare in the form of a spider in a jar in case you may have recently swallowed a fly.
I'm not sure the distinction you're trying to draw here. The Republican has things that people are willing to turn out for. The centrist is selling compromise as a virtue, but just comes across... compromised. Nothing to excite people to turn out. Nobody wants to vote for preemptive surrender.
I'm referring to voters as a whole. The Republican motivates their base, everyone else gives it a miss, and you've got a Republican who is now claiming the mandate of the voters. Stop me if you've heard this one.
Given a choice between a Democrat who is willing to yield ground to Republican interests and, well, *a Republican*, voters generally choose the Republican because the Democrat has no principles that aren't up for negotiation.
Well he's wrong in that he has no real grasp on what normal people want, and hasn't for some time. He's "right" in that Democratic Party politicians sure aren't serving those wants and needs.
If only people would pay more attention to what Nate Silver thinks are important. Which are mostly things Nate Silver has put actual cash money bets on, because that's what he does now.
how do we get his companion quest
At the point where "Is Keir Starmer a transphobe?" isn't a useful question because "Keir Starmer isn't a transphobe but he thinks signalling support for them is politically advantageous" gets you to the same awful place.
Just his hairdo.
Also pretty sure this is the first the back of his neck has seen sunlight in decades.
Seems like his hair went to the undiscovered country without him.
is the real thing he's hiding going to be that he finally had to give up on his hair
Doesn't mean you can't do a Weekend at Donald's strip if it makes you feel good.
Making the most of freedom and of pleasure, eh?
Somehow the B-52s start playing, and you don't question it.
Madame Mid. You can have that one fo' free.
Kind of mystifying to me that we have models for Tech-Thralls but Heresy Mechanicum and Adeptus Mechanicus are not allowed to have crossover units. Like THERE'S your cannon-fodder.
SF to NYC seems like, uh, *an adjustment*
Like even without the pretty damn significant problems with how he treats his staff, dude just can't read a line without breaking.
Spends the entire next two weeks making decrees through a young boy who can see ghosts.
Three inches deep of mulch seems like... a lot.
Imagine being Isekai'd into the Bauhaus dimension.
Mulch math is treacherous.
Eventually he's going to try to prove how healthy he is by doing some athletic feat, and it's going to do terrible things to his back.
Frankly has a more than passing resemblance to lycanthropy.
Reader and supporter for years and years, yet somehow a first-time poster to the comic discussion, thus getting their post stuck in moderation.
The fact that to this day we all know this dog's name says something.
Walky as a smoldering disappointment.
The Cataphractii are more thematically tied to Death Guard as it is.
Ooh, S'morenut.
Particularly, Trump does not intend to have a successor. Both terms, he intentionally picked a VP who might bring some strong allies to the table, but who is phenomenally uncharismatic.
If anything, we need speculative fiction more than ever, to serve as intellectual gut flora for *gestures wildly at everything.*
I mean, that's not new.
"That seems overly specific and weird." "Are you suggesting that Trump doesn't merit being eaten by the king of dinosaurs while on a golden throne?"
Then again neither is waiting until he pops his clogs and The Least Charismatic Technocrat is up to bat isn't either.
And even if it's a slow process, just lying about it while he is less and less capable to do the world's most stressful job which literally ages every single person who does it much faster than normal is... not ideal.
...dammit now I need Fritos.
Well Giuliani has already lapped them, no?
And this isn't even the pierogi lawsuit.
And it's such an easily avoidable thing, if you're not the guy who wants very badly to believe that if you play something on TV, that's what you actually are.
So this is kind of the Robot Bechdel Test.
I just imagine they send a reporter over with two corn dogs, and THE PACT IS SEALED.
Or it involves getting a golden ticket in the mail, and a song and dance number with your grandpa. Don't try to drink from the Nuln Oil lake, or the Grombra Wombras will sing a cautionary song about you.
Look what they did to this man, completely without cause.
This is the current state of things in the West Bank.
Hell, RFK Jr. seems to benefit pretty hugely from gender-affirming care.
I saw one pulled over for speeding, and the schadenfreude lasted for hours.
Given how much the Ghorgon is a callback to the old school Keeper, I dig this muchly.
Argyle is inherently antifascist. I don't make the rules.
I just want a pure theater kid spectacle that sails right over Trump's head.
And well, an image it took you under a minute to create isn't going to inspire anyone but the absolute fuckmuppets, who can't be counted upon to *implement* your fascist utopia.
Fascism is extremely based in aesthetics and these people don't want to pay artists. Ironically AI is surprisingly capable of generating fascist imagery, which makes me side-eye that training data, but somehow they understand that putting AI generated images in public spaces would be cringe.
You can post GIFs from a library, you can post videos, or you can have your GIF turned into a static image. It's very bass-ackwards.
Nice to get some warning.
When a problem comes along, you must whippet.
If you attempt to reach across the aisle to these people, we will consider it a you problem, not a them problem. They can't be bargained with, so we're presenting our terms to you. Defend your constituents or lose them.
I will remind the Democratic Party that there is no compromise with the people who are calling for institutionalizing or interning trans people right now. There is no convincing them of anything. They are beyond any reasonable negotiation or placation.
Yeah, like I'm looking up guides to make sure I get this thing.
I could see a storyline in which Robin asks for a Leslie-with-the-serial-numbers-filed-off AI girlfriend.
Some trans girl made a wish, and the monkey's paw curled.
If anything there looked even remotely interesting, here's the 411: It's a ripoff of a better game.
did he wear your grandpa's clothes
Yep. More guns than people, but gun-owners are a minority.
Eat an egg.
CRISPR your way to good skin?
GamersGrass have been unfailingly lovely.
If the meat is loose, you must acquoose.
Yeah, The Strange was my first big plunge into Cypher. I'd gotten the Numenera corebook but never really got the bug until all that setting-hopping goodness. I still have the totebag!
Honestly that kind of deserves a slow clap. Like one of those claps can be slapping them, but points for moxie.
I've been on the internet since the dialup days! I have more obsolete lingo rolling around my brain than useful information! IT'LL HAPPEN TO YOU!
I basically can't handle it anymore because the lingo and dramamongering are unbearable.
If you can't get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich, what business do you have being a federal prosecutor?
@flanneldude.bsky.social - YOOOOOOOOO!
In fact, that's got all the makings of a pretty good adventure. You tell stories about that for years.
The way he was beaten involved using one of the rarest treasures in the setting to infiltrate the lair, playing head games with the dragon to bait him out of his lair, and then BARELY managing to get word to one of the best archers of the age about a very hard to spot weakness. That's not nothing.
And the way he did so is by being a pretty damn smart dragon. He's got a lair you don't really have any hope of penetrating without significant help (the One Ring, no less). He's girded himself against the typical vulnerabilities of dragonkind. Literally armored himself with gold and jewels.
Like think about what we know about Smaug from the bulk of Tolkien's work. Dragons were far more common in a prior age. Sauron and Morgoth bred them. Smaug is not the most renowned dragon (that's Ancalagon the Black) but he is noteworthy in that he's pretty much the only dragon we know that survived
Saw a discussion on how you'd put Smaug, or something similarly momentous to Smaug, in a fantasy RPG campaign. And a common gripe in that was that he's "just" a dragon. I feel like if you're playing a game where Smaug caliber dragons are common, you're in a very different setting from Middle Earth
Hello Psycho Cat, too.
Honestly, Pantmonger should copyright strike the guy.
Sub-par.
The lower you put the de minimis, the more staff and hours you have to put into enforcing duties. Customs officials have better things to do with their time than penny-ante bullshit.
(seems to be no way to revoke it, either)
Did you do the prelaunch landing page? That seems to be an oddity of Backerkit. There are projects I never backed but clicked the "I'm interested" thing, and I get updates months, even years after they ended.
The De Minimis Exception was to everyone's advantage, the US especially, and both enforcement and compliance are going to cost way more than the pennies removing it will bring in. The vast majority are going to just not ship to the US.
If you combine too many parties, you summon them.
So what's gonna follow is either profuse swearing, astonished cries of "WHY DOES THIS WORK?" or quite possibly both.
Cracker Barrel has always been sort of an imaginary museum of an America that never existed. It was always a little bit fake and manufactured, and it's just weird that some people decided it was singing the Song of Their People.
Ah, but consider this: Whiteness is a conscious giving up of culture and heritage, ostensibly in exchange for privilege, but actually has historically been a bait and switch to shore up the societal dominance of the already privileged. Manufactured culture is all a lot of white people have.
The same folks that hyperventilated about Hillary Clinton operating a private e-mail server are telling you that the DOGE boys putting a dump of the entire Social Security database on a cloud server is probably fine.
Taylor Swift makes more money than her fiance OR Charlie Kirk. Under systems which Charlie Kirk is predisposed to believe, that means Taylor Swift is a better person than Charlie Kirk.
should someone tell him Pirro isn't enforcing DC gun laws
I feel like @thecharmoffensive.bsky.social needs to know about this.
So we are literally at "Woman charged because ICE officer bruised their knuckles on her."
Y'all, Washington DC has had cashless bail since the 90s without any problems.