Khajiit has wares if you have coin

Deathclaw: Dragon Type Cazadore: Bug / Flying Type Radroach: Bug Type Bighorner: Normal Type Nightstalker: Normal / Poison Type Radscorpion: Bug / Poison Type Mole Rat: Ground Type Gecko: Poison Type Super Mutant: Fighting Type Nightkin: Ghost / Fighting Type

One thing re VA redistricting. This isn’t about fucking rural voters. If anything, Dem voters in those districts will finally be able to vote for a rep who care for voter interests instead of the GOP grift machine. No voter benefits more from a strong federal government than the rural voter.

“We are ruled out of Fairfax County and there’s nothing we can do about it” is a heck of a slogan, I love that for the GOP. Sucks to suck.

If someone feels like photoshopping a Mets cap on his head…

She is... inevitable

If someone feels like photoshopping a Mets cap on his head…

if there is a path to either national nonpartisan redistricting or proportional representation, it is going to go through one party or another. but the first step toward it actually happening is for that party to win power, and you go to war with the system you have, not the one you want.

Yes winning Prince William County early vote big NOVA anger at DOGE has not gone away Will continue to haunt Virginia GOP

I dislike this framing because it disguises the reason we’re all here: we have a Supreme Court that has sanctioned political gerrymandering AND eviscerated the Voting Rights Act. That’s the bad stuff. Political gerrymandering is frankly the LEAST that Democrats in power can do.

Loudoun Election Day 2024 is not something I want to repeat ever again, so this is a good sign

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

For the first time in our 9-year history: WE ARE HIRING! We're seeking a full-time fundraising manager to establish and grow our non-profit's development department - in other words, to raise money and help us grow! Remote-hybrid in the SF Bay Area with benefits! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

I see this in the used book market and it’s startling - suddenly a book selling between $12-48 will jump to $240 (and interestingly, often they seem to jump into that $200-250 range).

You could probably do voters a good service by mapping politicians on an X and Y axis with four quadrants: YIMBY or NIMBY (housing), and YIMBY or NIMBY (data centers). Like, if someone is NIMBY (housing) and YIMBY (data center), voters should know and vote agains them accordingly.

To mark the 10th anniversary of Prince's death on Tuesday, we're getting probably the most high profile demo of a song he wrote for someone else that notably WASN'T on the "Originals" release, the demo for the song he wrote for Celine Dion. "With This Tear": www.startribune.com/prince-celin...

SPAAAACE

The damage that Trump has done to the federal government now has a number: $165.6 BILLION. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

this is fucking nuts:

Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx.  In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.

Child: I know your name. Mamdani. Obama: What’s his first name? Child: Mayor.

Tangible things over which you have full ownership can provide more meaning and significance than digital property that can disappear in a moment. Also, some of it just looks really cool

this is one of the most interesting things I've read about AI. Ben Affleck just sold his AI startup to Netflix for $600m. it's based on his analysis - as someone who's worked in movies for decades - of what AI is *actually useful for*. which is eg: adjusting film lighting. archive.ph/OLsfn

maya hawke, angelica houston, margaret qualley, laura dern, hannah einbinder, josh brolin, drew barrymore, taylor dearden, wyatt russell, george clooney, nic cage, jane fonda, jamie lee curtis, the skarsgard boys

Sublime sequence

I've already read articles or long social media posts that clearly have some LLM influence, but I can't tell if they were wholly LLM-drafted, drafted with assistance from an LLM, or drafted by someone who has used LLMs so much they are aping the style of an LLM.

Time to tap the Adventure of the Copper Beeches sign: "The pressure of public opinion can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of a drunkard’s blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among the neighbours...

Love me a good Lloyd Alexander reference. I know these passages by heart. "So too, must the striving count more than the gain."

seems like the GOP's strategy of "intentionally piss off every demographic other than white male bigots, but also some of them too because they also buy gas" isn't working out too well

They ddosed the rehg-EYE-noes

It’s pronounced rehg-EYE-noes

The issue was not eating a hole in the middle first. Rookie mistake

the reason the site is struggling is because bluesky can no longer afford internet beef

it's clowns all the way down

Well that’s horrifying. I hope their kids are safe.

Check out our story, about an influencer allegedly on a mission to target women in video games (and video games journalism), and inadvertently making thousands of his private conversations public in the process, here:

Last I checked, Maine voters haven't done anything yet. In particular we have yet to see Susan Collins's campaign go after Platner's many many issues, the Nazi tattoo being one. It's likely his race to lose. It's also more likely he loses because of who he is than wins because of who he is.

Look when you’re as well-moisturized as Janelle Monae, time travel just isn’t that big of a hurdle

Hmm, looks like it’s shootin’ franks

I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…

It’s a fact that vibes get better when Shiv links Rice Truck again

What if we just cleared Congress of all the abusers and sex pests this week what is stopping us who cares what party they are in

someone mentioned that there was a dance remix of The Hanging Tree from The Hunger Games playing in Hungary last night and I was not prepared for the full audio/visual www.youtube.com/shorts/EoorV...

In that 2004-2010 time frame, a lot of people stopped using the r-word, and it took a lot of effort! I’m not okay with rolling back that process because this guy got a Nazi tattoo instead of getting with the times.

The district court in SD Florida has dismissed Trump's defamation suit against WSJ with regard to Trump's letter that was included in Jeffrey Epstein's 50th Birthday Book. Since most outlets are NOT linking to the decision, I've got the link here: www.scribd.com/document/102...