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Will be scrubbing that stovetop soon
I did not select a big enough pot for the pasta I put in it
And the thing that really burns me up is that the outcome of all of this is that US tax dollars just dropped $50K into Homan’s wallet, and I bet he didn’t even claim it as income on his own tax returns
All the worst things you might think about this admin don’t even approach the actuality of badness
Hegseth trying to turn his problems into Somebody Else’s Fault
This photo by @staceywescott.bsky.social is insanely good.
A word. 🧵
*FCC
WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!
they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them.
tonight & tomorrow seem like great times to take 5 minutes in between the more substantial things you’re doing to protect people you love & call your dem senators like chuck schumer (who doesn’t get it) & chris murphy (who claims to) & tell them the time is now. don’t negotiate. force the shutdown.
New in PN: Trump tries to stick up The New York Times with a water gun "The president files a lot of lawsuits, and most of them come to absolutely nothing. But *even by those debased standards*, this lawsuit is exceptionally ridiculous."
Singing that song was the highlight of my elementary school choir
I figured out my problem. I’d seen “City Edition: Berlin” and just assumed it was a sourcebook. I see now that it’s the core rules with a few dozen pages of sourcebook material appended at the end. I picked it up on the DriveThruRPG September sale, and it looks like a fun read
Kash right now testing whether ChatGPT or Grok gets the assignment
Hankyoreh now has an official English translation of this editorial: english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...
Would love to go to Berlin someday
How is Seattle’s book? I’ve visited there
This is the book I was expecting to find but not immediately seeing available, thank you!
The F’ing White House hosted Charlie Kirk’s show? For actual revenue? Did Trump get a cut of the ad dollars? What in the state-run-media is this? Did Kirk have no friends other than elected officials of the people? At least it was Vance whom no one can stand to listen to for longer than 5 minutes
I’m finding a Beginner Box, and then about a half-dozen “core” rule books concentrating on different areas of the game. Am I right in thinking there simply isn’t a core rule book that could be considered a one-and-done?
Question for #Shadowrun people- is the Fifth edition of the game the current one? What does “Sixth World” mean in the core rulebook titles? I guess my actual question is, which Shadowrun books would I need to have read before I could run a game?
My 2005 self would have been highly skeptical that twenty years later Bill Kristol would be writing against an authoritarian POTUS and ahead of the pack on transgender rights
Murder is wrong. Pogroms are wrong. Using a murder to incite a pogrom against a small and vulnerable group in society is wrong. (If I’m not mistaken, an assassination was the excuse for the wave of mob but state-sanctioned violence in Russia in 1881 that gave us the term “pogrom.”)
It’s not the same thing as wage theft, if they give some notice - during the shutdown, our company told the people who weren’t just laid off that for the next fiscal year they were going to end the matching program but keep our self-insurance coverage stable
Definite “Bride of Chucky” vibes going on
Last-minute prep time again, I didn’t get around to reviewing the adventure for tomorrow’s Eberron game. Will need to skim the rooms and flag the stat blocks. I think I know the general outline of what needs to happen, though. #TTRPG
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I think of the infrastructure required to bring drinking water to LA from the Colorado River, and it boggles my mind to think of the infrastructure needed to send water from the Rogue or Columbia Rivers instead (past all the Central Valley agriculture)
I think the real problem here is Silverism, which is just another word for Hasbeenism and WhyArentIInvitedism.
Let's move them on to finding out what Trump is hiding in the Epstein files
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I always thought that the accountability faced by that character was the least believable plot point in the book, because even when I read it for the first time I could see that IRL the privileged class were protected from ever facing consequences
In World War Z by Max Brooks, the fictional President who bungles the initial response to the zombie outbreak spends the rest of his days shoveling manure on a farm, living out his life in the safety won by others but not allowed to switch jobs. share.google/0eCXHA1Ef5Bv...
He means SCOTUS
I keep saying this. The Right fundamentally are *not* hypocrites. They believe in double standards. For them, double standards are correct, inevitable, and desirable, because the idea that certain groups are better than others and should therefore have more rights is the basis of right-wing ideology
The new one chopped up into a phone-friendly format, if that's your thing. tinyview.com/this-modern-...
This reminds me of the raw milk people; consumer protection has been very effective for a generation, but it’s behind-the-scenes, so people have taken to thinking “if it’s for sale it must be safe” while the foundation is cracking underneath that safety
Mr. Duffy, how much more are you paying your space mercs for accepting lethal risk?
If that were the distinction then deportees would have the chance to challenge the government’s assertions in court
Immigrants are a social good, anti-immigrant propaganda is basically all lies, and any approach to the "problem" that doesn't start form those two points is worthless
I’m pretty bothered by the fact that Alien:Earth “Observation” misattributes Clarke’s third law to Asimov. Of course, that kind of misquoting has been occurring since at least 1968
This post from “foxes” is the absolute worst telling-on-yourself post I have yet seen on bluesky This post alone ought to be enough for a search warrant to be granted on all this person’s hard drives
Ah yes, all protestors must keep police overtime and staffing needs at the forefront of their planning
The country is so poorly run we can’t receive packages from overseas anymore, and I’m not sure it makes the top 10 of the administration’s dumbest, unforced errors
Sounds like James O’Keefe hired her, so I can’t imagine she’d be older than 25
An absolutely essential @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social article on 4 of the most influential people in the second Trump term. From the outset, it seems that these people hate the American Constitution, our traditions, and our culture. And then it gets even weirder. www.vox.com/on-the-right...
“Contributors”? It’s a non-profit with less than 600 employees and over 12K volunteers! It’s a service org, not a PAC!
One might say that the nation was in fact dedicated to the proposition
When you have troops under the command of the Texas governor illegally operating in Illinois against the wishes of the Illinois governor, that seems like it's already on the spectrum of internal conflict, regardless if anyone fights back. But whatever it is, it is not the Union as we know it.
His right-hand makeup has expanded up his wrist
His right-hand makeup is expanding
Sure but they wouldn’t have brought it up either. Trump is such a whiner.
We elected a president who doesn’t know that you put down the finish materials *after* you install the heavy mechanical equipment
It doesn’t make him look good but at least he’s still walking
"Takes just one man to fall down a well, but six to dig a new one"
I thought there was some bell ringing involved in these kinds of things but hey, what do I know I guess we wait until we hear a Frank Sinatra tune
Seriously, the opportunity to back the Bakers is a fantastic piece of news, especially when this game is feeling more and more like a how-to manual for actual life
Alright, my dearies. Here we go. Join us for the ride? www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Ruin a book by adding “Tom Clancy’s” to the title: Tom Clancy’s Frog and Toad Together
Will this have an effect on the cost to the consumer of vaccinations?
Or at the very least that they will never face consequences
I mean they must pay the rent what else are you gonna do
Now i want to design Die Hard in a Castle, and call the GM "Chatelaine"
The email drama is so real. 🤣
Do you think that Trump can wait until after the 2026 election before declaring unequivocally that he’s running for a third term (illegally)? Or will there start to be pressure to find a GOP nominee before then?
We are clean on opsit
This article is an excellent guide to what you can and should be doing right now. Many people seem to think that fascism is a switch that gets flipped, but it's really a machine that the government needs to keep feeding quarters into. Your job is to exhaust the state until they quit.
It’s very noteworthy that Trump is *not* doing his typical dominance handshake thing of yanking the other person off-balance while he stays upright
This is the White House announcing they’re skipping right to the last line of the Niemoller poem
So the White House wants to scare all future bread guys with this heavily-edited video, I bet they were hoping to play “bad boys, bad boys, what ya gonna do?” over the video but it was such a calm arrest that could have been done by two beat cops with holstered weapons.
The government can’t suppress free speech, but that’s very very different from an employer setting speech policy for all employees (even when the employer is a body run by government). Right?
The Christian Nationalists are trying to gain special protection for their bigotry again. Further evidence for Wilhoit’s Law.
The school board instead ought to instead pin the situation on Trump’s ending the DoE, which also has the benefit of being true
He probably couldn’t read the name, so he decided it was spelled phonetically
folks I put together a compilation of hilarious clips from the short lived series Manimal, wherein a rich playboy solves crimes by changing into different beasts. here it is for your viewing pleasure, unless you don’t want to condone this sort of behavior (if so, fair) youtu.be/117fdJaHa68?...
And it could have all just been straight-up prevented but for the personal failing of Mitch McConnell in 2021
the department of justice, for starters, knows. the FBI knows. if they had damning evidence on any democratic public figure or any dem-aligned billionaire, it'd already have been released in the most salacious way possible. this shit isn't unknowable, vance and trump just want you think it is.
plus, like, a vast number of low-cost games are designed by people who are not white straight men, so buying them helps diversify the community further
“Christian”, in and of itself as an adjective, is not synonymous with either “good” or “evil”. Can you agree with that statement?
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Russia does want to control more oil reserves, right?
Thought I’d just comment that “Who is the President?” has been used as a cognitive test by movie & TV first responders for decades. So I guess the AI models are failing?
I've seen this on Bluesky and had to try it myself. The image below was the response to the prompt: "Show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos" Bravo, OpenAI, bravo.
This guy sounds more guilty than anyone ever, about the Epstein files. And this is a guy who literally tried to overthrow the government while he was president, and shrugged that off.
#RPGaDay2025 Day 3: Tavern. Sam Grafton sells strawberry soda pop alongside whiskey and beer, alongside his general store. He keeps a shotgun under the bar to enforce his “no gunplay” rule, and tells fighters that they’ll pay for any damages This is from “Shane”, but I’m definitely going to use it
I don’t think Trump knows the difference between a “plan” and a “wishcast”, so I won’t hold my breath for the meeting he describes, or for Putin ending hostilities any time soon
These are, hands-down, my favorite alt covers yet. I never get these, but maybe this time!
You can read it online in a version with a lot of annotations to explain things: www.powermobydick.com
My favorite parts
#RPGaDay2025 day 2 (I’m doing the best I can, folks) Prompt: the one that’s stayed with me the longest is “Later today, early tomorrow, sometime next week, the world began to end…” Thank you, Greg Gorden and the whole team at WEG
Last Midnight from “Into the Woods”
#RPGaDay Day 1: Patron. The FASA Doctor Who game from the eighties had as its lore that the Celestial Intervention Agency, or CIA, was an unofficial Time Lord group that would send assignments to the players to start off adventures. I never understood the need, “You exit the TARDIS & see…” is enough
I for one had not guessed that time would end up being “by the close of business today” but here we are
The Tell-Tale Nail Clipping #MildHorror
I’d think that ChatGPT write that post for him, but it would have made more sense if it had
“Western women…even though they are white” Oh wow. And That’s just the throat-clearing before the say-it-with-your-full-chest racism he’s about to get in to
Apparently using arithmetic means you can then say something racist as well, I wonder if that's the actual point
This thread from Anne makes it occur to me that D&D sessions are a decent opportunity to teach middle schoolers the basics of consent culture, well before any of them recognize its application to human sexuality, so that seeking and gaining consent is already second nature from game play