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They/Them Neurospicy middle-aged nerd, hands-on amateur historian (medieval and early modern), unrepentant leftie, owning my ENBYness more loudly in 2025, occasional gamer, swords are cool.
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Trump isn't dying and no one is going to Weekend at Bernie's him and the speculation was kind of annoying... until it breached containment and far right fucknozzles startes to feel compelled to discuss it, and now I hope it keeps going and they get ulcers and shit blood.
That free kick was worthy of another LFC number 8. #LFC #YNWA
Chalcedony here!
RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.
🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 He will die soon 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯
I sprained an ankle at work one day and my boss had to take me to urgent care. On the way, he remarked, “Last time I had to do this, the guy was missing a leg.”
Accept’s best song. I will not be debating this point.
"I think in order to bring people together on this, we also have to take everyone seriously." He's talking about bigots, let's not mince words.
The reason the Dems are a failed party is because they have collectively decided that the best policy for any issue is a halfway compromise between a good idea and fascist bigotry, rather than fighting for any sort of coherent ethical framework
Breaking Quorum is an exceptional and extraordinary act of last resort. It is not a decision I take lightly. But Texas Democrats will stand up and protect democracy, even if it comes at a great cost.
idk, my governor trying to unlawfully unseat my lawfully elected Texas House Rep because she lawfully broke quorum feels pretty fashy to me
Seems fair as I heard terms like sweltering, hellish, and infernally moist used to describe most of this week.
I wouldn’t know #Houston
I had a Hugo winner write up an actual play of my ICONS adventure he took part in back in the days of LiveJournal. That was kind of unexpected.
These. Are. Amazing.
Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, lord of Rimini, condottieri captain.
Reviewers including No Pun Included and Shut Up & Sit Down are boycotting Codenames publisher CGE for releasing a new Harry Potter-themed game while ignoring JK Rowling’s anti-trans rhetoric: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...
I support trans folks because I need people to fence i33, rapiers, and longswords with.
Keep calling Visa. It’s working.
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social There are more sex offenders in the Trump Administration than trans athletes competing in college sports. When you include high school sports, there are fewer than 200 transgender athletes in the US. What are those "valid parental concerns" you mention based on?
Oh shit. Same. Only three years older than me. I'm gonna need to sit down for a while.
1300 words of something new in two days may not seem like much, but it's 1300 words I didn't have when I woke up yesterday morning and it's in a genre I haven't engaged with well in a couple of years, so that's gotta mean something.
Jesus fucking Christ, fuck off into a volcano you goddamn hack. I saw you in LA clubs a million years ago and you were funny. Then you shed your soul for TV fame. You have nothing useful to say to anyone about anything, you milquetoast motherfucker. variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Superman was made in a lab for me. I’m glad other folks are enjoying too, I guess.
When a famous white person dies in the US and people start using ‘complicated legacy’, it’s because the person was racist and sexist. Usually racist.
Okay, well. Queer & especially trans authors of erotica and other content deemed 'nsfw' by major platforms, please drop links to where people can find your stories in the replies. Everyone else: Repost people's links. Stop worrying about the sanctity of your feed & help the most impacted authors.
Dang, sounds like the EXACT OPPOSITE of what the Democrat party keeps insisting we do!
If VICE wants this down, then it should definitely stay up.
At GenCon one year, a friend invited me to a private Savage Worlds game and THEN casually mentioned Rob and Logan Bonner were both playing.
Dear @stephencolbert.bsky.social, Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism. Looking forward to following you wherever you land, Your fan, Mar🐫
Colbert has the highest ratings of any late night host. "Financial reasons" my ass. This is political.
A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.
My social media feeds Here: A mix of history and gaming nerds, a bit too much politics because we’re aware of the world. FB: Mostly SCA nerds and allied trades. My Tumblr Dash: Damn, that’s a lot of horny knight content. How’d ya suppose THAT happened?
My GF in the late 80s worked the lunch shift at the Conan’s on the Drag. Many excellent memories.
They claim they want to be a paper for everyone across the political spectrum, but if they really believed that, they’d publish these didactic pieces telling parents not to snub gay children, too.
Gondor has no pants. Gondor needs no pants.
Liverpool looks about right to me.
What if we as authors/actors/culture creators just--collectively decided that the NYT is no longer the paper of record? Stopped submitting books for review? Stopped giving interviews? Stopped using their pull quotes on our dust jackets and in our advertising? Stopped submitting op-eds?
hey @nytimes.com fuck you
Wow. Just...wow. (he deleted it but someone got a screen shot)
People are being taken from the streets, a concentration camp is opening in Florida, and millions are looking at loss of life saving treatments. But, yeah - I guess paying $.50 more a hot dog is bad too?
Hey Schumer, how did that “vote to keep the government open because otherwise they will do horrible things” strategy work out? No new horrible things?
Give them no peace. If they try to eat in your restaurant, spit in their food. Shout them down wherever you find them. They’ve gone after our families, they deserve the same consideration. If you supported this, may you have the life you voted for, and get off my wall.
Steve Scalise puts his cast iron skillet in the dishwasher and eats WalMart king cakes. May the roux be burnt in everything he eats and may all his crawfish have straight tails.
Based on membership numbers alone, Slipknot are one trombone shy of a ska band.
Is Mamdani's Democratic Populism the Way Forward? #ABlueView🧵1/3 It's sad how so many Democratic leaders & media orgs (fixed it for you CNN, tinyurl.com/29fuw7wx) are still applying the old Queensbury rules to Zohran Mamdani; rules that Trump has permanently killed.
Truth. I have an entire headcanon about how the Ewoks were actually members of a relatively advanced people, but were in the middle of a historical re-enactment weekend on the Forest Moon when the Empire showed up, so they just played dumb natives until they had their chance.
On a similar note: The 50 senators who voted against this bill represent approximately 379.77 million people. The 50 senators who voted for this bill represent approximately 298.41 million people.
Mage is a game about power, social constructs, and competing worldviews. Werewolf is a game about anger, despair, and activism. Wraith is a game about mortality and self-acceptance. Changeling is a game about creativity, neurodivergence, and difference. Vampire is a game about vampires.
Just heard Bill Kristol, former chief of staff for Dan Quayle, say he thinks ICE should be defunded and that the entire DHS should probably be disbanded, which puts him to the left of maybe the majority of elected Democrats. Truly wild times we’re living in.
"Some go too far." DriveThru RPG confirms that it will defend fascism. Punching nazis, eating the rich, killing fascists, and otherwise engaging in political violence against oppressive institutions is not the same as violence done to marginalized peoples. A classic neoliberal false equivalency.
World sucks in generous heaping magnitudes in the grand scheme of things. In mine, I'm just feeling like a lonely wet cat.
You still host violent hate speech transphobic games from Vengar. Cowardly statement that’s also just a lie.
your decision sucks, your policy sucks, you deserve all the heat you're getting, fuck you. you're deliberately protecting nazis, and cloaking it in "equal treatment" just makes you cowards who are deliberately protecting nazis
Oh, do please fuck all the way off. Kthxbye
I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.
Called it.
I buy dice and then remember I only play on a VTT and spottily at that.
as the last hours of pride wane, may we all take a moment to pause and sit a moment in silent vigil of all the pieces of target's ugly-ass beige pride merch that went unsold this month 🕯️
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It is known, Khaleesi. It is known.
I was coming here to recommend them.
I'm often asked what Democratic politicians can do to learn from pro wrestling and combat Republican neokayfabe The simplest answer to that question is just, "Practice doing Dusty Rhodes's 1985 'Hard Times' promo in front of the mirror every morning until you really MEAN it" 🗣️ #wrestlesky #polisky
Most played: Hero System/Champions, by a long shot. Favorite: Feng Shui or Shadowrun
Funny joke or deep-seated trauma? Either way, I laugh.
Is Phoebe!
I think what establishment democrats need to understand is that most of us hate them all very much for being so persistently useless and shitty in our time of desperation and it fills our hearts with hope and joy when someone who might not be those things beats them.
@housedemocrats.bsky.social are up to their usual chickenshit. Thank goodness @algreen.house.gov is my Congressman; at least he has a spine.
Sauntering through a medical conference and eating an apple, flipping everybody off. They’re so mad. They know they can’t touch me
George, "The Ice Man" Gervin
This is the same Drive Thru RPG they let host shit like Oriental Adventures fyi
Roll20, which owns DriveThruRPG, told Rebel Scum's designer (@9thlevelgames.bsky.social) that allowing their "hateful content" and political speech on its platform constituted a "slippery slope."
Rebel Scum, a game about punching thinly metaphorized space Republicans in the face, technically broke Roll20's Product Standards Guidelines for "overt political agendas or views." Censoring political art does the fascists' job for them, no matter how staunchly Roll20 proclaims 'no politics!'
I’ve seen K-Pop Demon Hunters twice in the last 48 hours. I’ll probably watch it again in the next.
SpaceX is short for SpaceXplode
User blocked by Trump Enablers. I love lists.
😡
Sorry to say, no.
BREAKING: A federal judge ruled all transgender and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity while the case against President Trump's executive order proceeds. While this is good news, we will continue fighting until this executive order is blocked permanently.
If random men in masks claiming to be ICE agents try to grab me, and they’re *not* really ICE, I have the legal right to defend myself against them, yes? And if they are ICE, I don’t? So how am I supposed to tell the difference? I’m supposed to give my masked kidnappers the benefit of the doubt??
Every single day living in America is a feeling of helpless psychic terror as we watch the fascism machine use all its money and power to suppress any hope we have of extricating ourselves from this nightmare.
BREAKING - A hardworking undocumented immigrant showed up to court - did everything right - and was ripped from his family on the spot. No warning. No mercy. Just gone. He paid taxes. He believed in the system. This is how we repay him. It’s disgusting.
Brad has been released and the crowd breaks into a chant of “Free them all.”
the Senate should still censure him. and anyone who votes against the resolution can reveal just who they are.
NY Governor Kathy Hochul inside 26 Federal Plaza now, seeking answers from DHS/ICE about the arrest of NYC Comptroller Brad Lander, who is still being detained. @thecity.nyc "How long is this going to take, I don't think he has a long rap sheet," Hochul says to agents.
BREAKING: What you just witnessed was a state-sanctioned kidnapping. These people aren’t identifying themselves. Citizens can no longer distinguish between state authority & rogue violence. This is not a warning about what might come. We are not watching the start of something. We are living it.
ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.
Hey media - past time to start getting it right. Brad Lander was kidnapped, not arrested. ICE Gestapo kidnapped NY Comproller, Brad Lander. Trump and regime are fascists and at war with America. Maybe bookmark it this time
so like i know brad lander is a candidate for mayor but maybe the headlines should focus on the fact they arrested the guy CURRENTLY IN CHARGE OF NEW YORK CITY’S FINANCES
Somewhere in that time, I started using the term “D&D-shaped Fantasy.” Now the effect is pretty much all-pervasive to the point that even very non-D&D stuff like the Malazan Books of the Fallen were a reaction to D&D-shaped Fantasy. It’s 1 reason I read a lot more histfic or 1/4 turn fantasy now.
From conversations I’ve been having for the last 30 years…
Had a difficult conversation last night with an SCA friend. He's an extremely talented musical composer, but didn't seem to grasp that using AI-generated artwork in videos of his music might lead people to believe the music was similarly generated. I think I got through to him. I *hope* so.
The Three Musketeers. When I was 11, he took me to see the Michael York version in the theater. I was never the same.
Someone asked me if Champions is a good game. I said, "It can be a little dicey."
Why is germ theory in the same air quotes as "miasma theory," I ask as a historian of medicine who is very very tired