I'm here at the Haymarket Memorial in Chicago where folks are setting up for today's Labor Day rally and march. This will be the thread for that.
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I'm here at the Haymarket Memorial in Chicago where folks are setting up for today's Labor Day rally and march. This will be the thread for that.
Dick Grayson debuted as Robin in April 1940, became Nightwing July 1984, so June 2028 will mark the dickquinox, the exact point he was Robin and Nightwing for the same amount of time.
how have they not trained an llm on him yet
dune i guess but uh opinions are mixed on exactly how far into it being a series it remained great
book of the new sun is the closest thing i can think of to a great multivolume science fiction series and it's at least arguably fantasy wrapped in science fiction trappings (i think it's science fiction wrapped in fantasy but the argument is close and not obvious)
it's an interesting case since the vorkosigan books are pretty short individually & also mostly self-contained (compared to say the individual volumes of the book of the new sun or the lord of the rings).
Eganβs best stuff is at shorter lengths
(the other two series are more straightforwardly*) science fiction *grading on a curve because Wolfe
New Sun books (less so the later x Sun books) are technically science fiction but doing as complete a fantasy cosplay as they can
Yes I know
New sign for today
* Pizzaballa is now the name of the Italian wizarding school, I have decreed it
i've retconned that the italian wizard school is called Pizzaballa
among other things, how is there not an italian or greek wizarding school? Mama Mia or something.
wait afghanistan and italy don't have wizard schools? also, huntington was too much of a coward to put the philippines in latin america
The worldβs leading genocide scholarsβ association is Hamas
More than 50 ships are heading to Gaza to challenge Israelβs illegal blockade and deliver urgent humanitarian aid.
DA VOID!
Itβs the ideal situation and hopefully he remains in that condition (suffering as much pain as possible) indefinitely
Could be der fledermaus
a pretty good summary of the 21st century is that the humiliation of america's defeats in the middle east post-9/11 curdled into a reactionary politics that seeks affirmation in the humiliation of anyone who is an other: liberals, minorities, the global south, china, europe, whoever.
China probably has a backdoor into his pacemaker
Mods! Mods!
6 percent of Americans think they could take a grizzly bear in a fist fight
It is however a fascinating relic of its time
The other casino royale is both a bad film and a bad bond movie
Drudge
probably thx 1138 or whatever his name is
In this house we believe: 1. At least one of Elon Musk's children is a literal clone 2. Donald Trump died sometime over the 2025 Labor Day weekend.
Often as in frequently or orphan as in a child who has no parents?
Lorenz of Arabia
FR took me a second to remember it was a different Ben who lost his blogger gig with the Washington Post over plagiarism
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
Bens trying to give the Matts a run for their money
As I recall he said that he deliberately wanted to write a mars story and a Venus story before the actual science conclusively ruled out that fun.
just imagine that he handwaved in a faster-than-light drive to go to a distant star system & hunt the big fish if you want
the mars and venus ones are fantastic, and the venus one in particular is very science fictional in most ways. i guess you could also do a fantasy story about building a massive industrial machine to catch a VERY BIG FISH but it would be a steampunk-y fantasy not a swords & dragons fantasy
If only Damon Knight were still alive to point at things
γ € can you find the ghosty π» γ €
Did you know that they did a grimdark hardy boys in the 90s in which iola Morton gets killed in a terrorist bomb in the first book?
That way youβll be able to get a decent bagel
Why donβt you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesnβt want you here)
yeah my dad was actually iii but usually went by jr (because numero uno was long since out of the picture)
dept of LETHAL warfighting
wait i thought it was the other way around
orthodox probably. if he was maronite he'd claim to be phoenician
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nah as of this morning apparently
Armed forces tasked with attacking and dethroning god but from the right
Not seeing anything on linkedin
Several competing implementations
Bluesky tonight
It is common for these searches to take days or weeks for lower priority requests. Itβs a virtual certainty that there are murders walking around free who would be locked up if a gun found at a crime scene was able to be run through some kind of computerized database. www.gq.com/story/inside...
The fight that I would pick if I was the democrats on guns is allowing the ATF to have digital records. Itβs doesnβt impact normie gun owners, itβs an insane bit of GOP legally mandated dysfunction that the median voter doesnβt even know exists, and it likely helps murder clearance rates.
There is a building in West Virginia where these records are kept. A federal employee will *by hand* look through these paper/microfiche/PDF documents (organized by gun type I think), until they find something. A process that takes at least hours, and that is for the highest priority cases.
There's a Bob Dylan song for every occasion
Oh come on please not on a weekend when I might need to take painkillers at zero notice
@gork.bluesky.bot is this true
Well yeah
It will be a good preview of whether they overturn the 22nd amendment
Politically, SCOTUS upholding the ruling (and the administration respecting that) would be the best outcome for Trump. Undoes the tariffs that people will soon come to hate him for while letting him claim that tariffs would have fixed everything else that goes wrong but he was thwarted
Shadow docket ruling with no explanation coming right up
BOOM. The federal appeals court rules Trump's tariffs illegal, because they are. There's no national emergency, and so the power to tariff a country rests with Congress. Trump admin has lost at every stage of the process, but stay tuned for the Supremes to chime in.
The rural hospital thing hit my timeline pretty hard, this stuff not so much.
listen, i am no fancy lawyer, but i am somewhat skeptical that βthis would make us look really fucking stupidβ is an effective legal defense. bold take, i know.
gonna be the funniest no-explanation shadow docket ruling ever
BREAKING: Appeals court rejects Trumpβs authority to impose sweeping tariffs under IEEPA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
monday
Just realized "Proto-Indo-European" is trocheic tetrameter. I can't find a good logo generator to illustrate this, though
seems bad
Latter day maiar
Lost tribe of gondor
This is literally my reaction to gattaca
i continue to be shocked that they let this one go
Wizards arenβt tho
Thomas Friedman is an elf
hobbits no longer eat guacamole after the revision, very sad
lembas actually made from potato starch
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(potatoes were imported by the eagles, who had a lot of free time given that they werenβt carrying the ring to Mordor)
Does he address the Potato Question?
not to bragg or anything
the horse dewormer enthusiasts are an important part of the coalition so it's a serious problem (for them and also for the country)
i have a fairly poorly optimized thousand-year-storm deck on arena that I play against Sparky. it's not good enough to play against live competition but fun to go off in a not-quite-goldfish way.
nice, going to have to see that one
maybe she can get a job at dod
so a lot of movies seem to have picked up on elon musk as a villain figure. have there been any with trump figures? (maybe fury road?)
Got it. They're vampires.
lack of chicago flag emoji is clear anti-polish bias
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THESE COLORS DON'T RUN
i was going to come in with "it's what souls crave" but this too
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will they be able to keep a lunatic like king from taking the nomination
like people believe crazy shit, it's a thing people do
depends on if that means we get to pull people on our side back in from irrational beliefs or if it becomes the basis of an enduring majority on their side
yo this guy is cooking
you are welcome in chicago
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