Trying to draw a line between two points. He/him. Middle aged man.
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i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat
democrats mega-funded the police and still lost and now the police are all goose-stepping nazis exactly like all the "defund" people said they would be
I somehow never knew that.
You’re doing amazing Ruby!
In Sorcerer’s Crusade there are two different ancestor conventions for the Void Engineers. One based on going to the heavens and one nakedly based on doing Age of Exploration. The split is clearly to split the sympathetic from the indefensible.
I remember the 1st Convention Book for the Void Engineers was from the perspective of a Nephandic infiltrator as part of a metaplot premise that the Technocracy as a whole was essentially hollowed out by high level Nephandi. At other times this hook would be used for the Traditions.
Dinosaurs never ate McNuggets AND THEY ALL DIED... probably the most unhinged message to ever grace a pog. (1994)
Hence the various Crafts in pre-Revised WW Mage, or the Disparate Alliance in M20
My go to space for the Traditions has always been that they have since their founding had to encompass lists of both political and metaphysical disagreement to build a coalition, even as they constantly have found they can’t always absorb as much contradiction as they maybe feel they must
I don’t really remember about what Etherites have officially had though
If you look at either set of WW era trad books or the Onyx Path Lore of the Traditions there’s often formal internal factions, and I definitely agree that all of the Traditions have space for villains
Also I see them broadly as a Tradition of scientific dissent of largely unreconciled-with-each-other as well as with the Technocratic Union
Also later Etherite material placed a lot of emphasis on the I believe fictional Arabic text they are based on, which makes me think of illuminationism
One is that in 1e I think…there’s some hints that some parts of Quantum Mechanics are a stealth victory of the etheric perspective which is interesting because Einstein is both a major hero of the 1st part of developing Quantum, but he really hated later developments in QM
So I have some thoughts on how to some extent we can rescue or partially rescue the Society of Ether (as they’re named in M20th)
ok this one i need to post on main because it feels very relevant with how many people talk about fucking their clone on this god forsaken website
One of the direct effects of the fact that the politics of a work of art are often not particularly coherent is that sometimes you get politically opposite readings of the same text that are cogent rather than tendentious. (One does also see tendentious readings of texts of course)
“All art is political” definitely does not mean that “all mass market commercial art has coherent well thought out political positions that speak clearly for one or another real-world political tendency”
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
Knowing the difference between a purview, a bailiwick, a wheelhouse and a forte isn't my thing i'm good at.
on the one hand, i’m super delighted by this roadside heresiology. on the other, i wonder who has money to pay for billboard updates in this economy.
But on top of that the paper won’t last as long as some older forms of paper!
Yes!
As in the historians of the 21st century will I predict have less to go on then contemporary historians of say 8th century CE Europe
If there is a long term human civilization that does something we can call history the first half of the 21st century will likely be the time period with poorest sources of all societies that practice writing with almost none of “the internet” surviving in a retrievable form.
Akenhaten attempting to blot out the name of Amun-Ra is one of the most fascinating things in the ancient world
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
Being attractive as a man is all about making sure you have just the right amount of hand. Being handful is too much, handless is too little. You're looking for handsome.
Every time I go to the zoo, I start having this urge to run a campaign about building a zoo filled with monsters, where part of the challenge is catching all the creatures non-lethally.
Something that is completely fucking obvious to me but I think most people don't consider is when democrats politicians promise to fund the police, they are promising to prop up an armed, lawyered up, reactionary political bloc who are ultimately virulently opposed to those very politicians.
Paypal ramps up NSFW censorship by beginning to go after not just adult creators but also customers. In a lot of ways, this is even more terrifying than the adult creator bans. With them, it's only me at risk, but how do I navigate a space where putting a game on Itch might put customers at risk?
So if not today, and not tomorrow, nevertheless someday, and maybe sooner rather than later!
The thing is with an old man in not the best of health but with the best medical care, it is quite unlikely that any particular day is the day, but it does have to happen eventually!
Thus, Delany's Nevèrÿon books, which look like sword-and-sandals fantasy, are really SF: the new-thing proposed is the advent of writing, and reading; the future (eventually) pointed-to is, well, us. Modernity. Eventually.
We really need an equivalent of common carrier laws for all infrastructure. Payment processors should be obligated to process all legal transactions. They shouldn't have any more say in it than my electric company can decide what I'm allowed to plug in.
—Anyway, SF as a mode in this grammar proposes or hinges on the advent of a novum, a new-thing, and the working out of the implications of that new-thing, moving us toward a conceptual breakthrough of some sort, and through it, beyond, to some new place.
I can
Deprived of ontological contact
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
Remember how if a kid choked on a little plastic toy they used to stop selling the toy
“Anything we can actually do we can afford”
Even though I know the river is wide I walk down every evening and stand by the shore
The Devil
As a reminder the common things unhoused people regret leaving behind after a raid are: * Identification documents * Medicine * Baby food * Dog food * Mementos and sentimental items That's what the government is throwing away. Not trash. Not garbage. Not debris. People's belongings and memories
D1981.4 Magic invisibility of ogre.
Pick it up pick it up pick it up ...and then go ahead a roll that d20 you're making a wisdom save
Apocalypse World is one of the best RPGs ever, and this edition of the game is INCREDIBLE, y'all. You absolutely do not want to miss this.
Alright, my dearies. Here we go. Join us for the ride? www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
I spoke to @wired.com for this piece. please read it :)
Maybe the only we survive this is with a twinge of sarcasm and very dark humor😞.
This is important! This is a very important part of my politics!
It’s always very strange to me when people act like Descartes invented mind/body dualism.
D1420.2 Person follows magic receding well.
I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
The thing about the EU is that they invented a federalism that actually exists.
motivational poorly drawn cats
Things make more sense if you assume certain politicians are committed to their courses of action and the narratives they offer are about justifying that, rather than they believe obvious bullshit and their actions follow.
Listened to an old Dice Exploder about what was good and bad about 3.x Prestige Classes and it struck me how WFRP 1e/2e careers are the best form of the idea that has actually been published in a game #ttrpg
A1904 The oldest bird.
This godawful mess with the Dark Romantasy convention that devolved into straight women committing mob sexual assault is a great reminder that the sexes really are not fundamentally different from one another, they just usually have different levels of power and opportunity to inflict violence.
Drive the care out of large hospitals and then laden small providers with increasingly expensive and unnecessary equipment regulations. Welcome to the anti abortion playbook.
#StarTrekDS9 "The Dread Of Something After Death" While helping a traumatized Odo process the memory of a disastrous battle, Ezri uncovers a Dominion plot. After a night of too much blood wine, Worf and Martok awaken in the Mirror Universe, both married to Mirror Lwaxana.
![A partial clipping from an old TV Guide reads as follows: fry cook (Les Lye) defends his diner from an alien (Chris Tucker) who needs greasy food to power his takeover of Earth. 7 PM channel 13 STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE(CC)—Science Fiction; 60 min. While helping a traumatized Odo process the memory of a disastrous battle, Ezri uncovers a Dominion plot. After a night of too much blood wine, Worf and Martok awaken in the Mirror Universe, both married to Mirror Lwaxana. [SCI] MOVIE(CC)—Horror; 2 hrs. “Flipper: Octopire Hunter.” Steve Irwin. Jeff](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yulpnkidj3dkdip5ma3c3ssn/bafkreicjeewmzc7n2uaxo73rouxj6faiy4yyilzunryp6jzu6yj23marmy@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Unboxing the new Quiet Year! This is a hand-stamped box that's the perfect size to hold the how to play booklet, cards, skull tokens, and little wooden dice.
As much as I love the Platonists, one ought to be pretty suspicious of them, since they are all heirarchy-loving. Nevertheless, I feel that Plotinus is shaped like a friend.
A splash from my Kamandi stash! #23, my favorite cover of the series! "Men have killed for fish before... But these men were TRAINED by them!" Contemplate that and be enlightened.
There are multiple strategies and even more outcomes
"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
If the recommendation to Democrats was to speak plainly, casually, like a normal person having a real conversation rather than like a politician stumbling through jargon, they’d be gushing about Mamdani and telling Dems to be more like him. But they’re not, because they really mean something else.
That’s sick!
Levitating saints
We love to see it!
it's just a dumb lie! "fully formed" is not a coherent concept here. so many people are willing to destroy thousands of lives over a dumb lie! (because it suits their authoritarian power fantasy, of course)
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The Green Lantern oath: clunky, hokey, uses "evil" twice in four lines The Etrigan chant: concise, huge aura, actually rhymes
I need Democratic online types to understand that because of this, Newsom is dead to me. Dead. I'd sooner vote for an actual corpse. There is no hope, none, that he'll win me over, *because he has established he is a bad person*. There's no coming back from this. Take my advice and move the fuck on.
One of the interesting things about musical instrument collections is that there are certain novelty instruments which have a massively disproportionate survival rate & so you almost always see them. The rather elegant lyre piano is one. There's also a harp piano where the strings are exposed.
JUST IN: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers say the Trump administration is trying to coerce him to plead guilty to the charges he is facing by promising to deport him to Costa Rica — and threatening to deport him to Uganda if he doesn’t. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
because so many eviction statutes ARE Jim Crow laws, literally. It's a never ending wealth transfer from the most vulnerable to the most privileged. And it's directly related to the rise of Trump.
I am literally begging anyone who does any kind of journalism to spend an hour in an eviction courtroom every week for a month. Please. The eviction crisis in this country is downplayed at best and ignored at worst. It's racialized state violence that hearkens back to the worst of Jim Crow,
Best use of the letter “q” in an unfilmed screenplay
my dead wife better be in this stupid fog-shrouded town
D2178.5 People created by magic.
I started to type the word "medium" and when I got to "me" the first suggestion was "message."
“The little man who speaks in rhymes.”
Arguably also “Emergence” because surely if it ever should have been default characters, it would be “Emergence”
I feel like this blatantly contradicts the texts of not only “Hollow Pursuits” but also the other episodes where main cast characters played holodeck characters “Fistful of Datas” “Author, Author” “Worst Case Scenario”
BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
US Chattel Slavery cannot be *overemphasized* That's the thing about world historical violence.
It’s best if I don’t have a gun.
Wouldn’t it be cool if there was a hope that we would get to do the making examples instead of being the people made an example of.
I would like to believe a better world is possible! I really would.