I've had no mental capacity to play console games in the last few months, but I have the sudden urge to play Final Fantasy 8, which I've never played, just to figure out which batshit fan theory about the plot I agree with.

A lot of people telling people to donate to the DFL who don't even know what DFL stands for. (In more ways than one, possibly.) Anyway, here's a useful link: www.standwithminnesota.com

Indeed. Everyone wants to be the *second* person to oppose the administration and not the *first*.

It really sucks that if we actually kick out the Grifter in Chief our reward is having to then kick out the Vice Grifter in Chief. It's Grifter admin all the way down.

This feels like The Truman Show if Truman was aware of The Truman Show the whole time.

"Go along to get along is not world peace"-- Plur1bus episode two, basically. (No spoilers please, literally just started.)

Bitch, I live in Arkansas and will drive an hour and a half for dinner if I feel like it, what are you talking about?

*Sees new Night Manager gifs* Okay, a bisexual dance number is, in fact, what the world needs right now.

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Breaking news: Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer who refused to give up her seat on a segregated city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks, died at 86.

Also, hot damn, I am writing again! After the bout of burnout I had last year I am *so happy* my brain wants to think in story again. Even if the story bit it wants to think about is "getting that priest's clothes off right now."

Realized I keep having other people strip this character, and if I don't hang a lampshade on it it's gonna seem like I just have a fetish for other people getting him naked. Like, most of it is in a religious or security context, but damn.

I 🕺hate 💃 everything. (Don't mind me, the world is just a lot. As the worm turns, and such.)

That would be the Rogue River. Though I played in the Umpqua way more often growing up.

The Helm of Midnight, by @marinalostetter.bsky.social (pub by @torbooks.bsky.social) kickstarts the Five Penalties series with an dark and bloody novel that shines especially on the depth of its characters; a well executed blend of genres. Full thoughts: jamreads.com/reviews/the-... 💙📚

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I keep wanting to post something about how this all sucks so much, and everyone I know is under so much stress and how we have to keep fighting and keep holding on to each other and then I realize the best way I have of expressing that already exists in the world because of Samwise.

The drugs, they kinkin in.

The drugs, they kinkin in.

Owls, owls, I made fancy owls. www.etsy.com/listing/4438...

I understand the urge to not relinquish a public forum. Only problem is, we're not talking about a public forum. The predators have already won because you are not in the town square, you are at the predator bar owned by a predator. As long as a predator is in charge, that's not gonna change.

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Imma eat the man cereal to make the men who would eat man cereal mad because I am not man.

Learning to run in fear from the word "wellness."

I cannot emphasize enough that art is about decisions, intent, and communication. Our current versions of "generative AI" make a mockery of all three.

Note to self: it is important to always communicate with your spouse. Otherwise, one of you might take the kitchen trash out to the garage and the other might hook up the dog next to the open garage, and suddenly the angel baby princess will become a garbage-strewing-chewing-spewing hound🤦

You do not need to watch the new footage -- I'm about to go brain scrub for five minutes, let's put it that way -- but you have got to be literally deranged with misogyny to think this makes the shooter look justified. Which explains why the Vice-President of the United States shared it.

We should be ashamed and embarrassed to be a society in which people will willingingly, actively, point a loaded gun in the face of a fellow citizen. A free society should be one where government employees don't put a gun to your face when you're exercising a core tenet of said society: free speech

Owls, owls, I made fancy owls. www.etsy.com/listing/4438...

Call and/or write your reps! Tell them what to do! They represent you! Tell them you are fucking ready to chuck them out of office if they don't kick the clown to the curb!

Love that our truck will forcibly stop backing up when a blade of grass is too tall, but cannot see my dog when she walks right in front of it. 🙃🙃🙃

It is goddamn *vexing* that some people keep comparing the US to the Roman empire. We are an infant nation. A flash in the pan. Fucking *upstarts* too big for our britches. No one will remember us in 1000 yrs if we fall tomorrow. Once again white supremacists have the most ignorant history takes.

been saving this photo of the in-laws pet blob from christmas for strategic deployment and i think now's a good time

Very loopy girl got her broken tooth out today. All went well.

I’ve seen this take 1,000 times and I’ve responded to it just as many. Despite JRRT’s grumpy old man politics and Romantic aesthetic influences, he thoughtfully and consistently interrogated nationalism and authoritarianism throughout his work. This doesn’t matter to fascists cuz they can’t read.

Predictable. Yet beyond pathetic. Even beyond insane. The fate of two nations. And many lives. Because he didn’t get his toy.

Just realized I thought There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men were the same movie.

Boomer break.

Honestly, the "this is a distraction" people need to gtfo. The rest of us can hold more than one idea in our head at a time, and so can this terrible administration.

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?

So it's appropriate to arrest a world leader if you consider them criminal? You can just go get them? Just asking questions here.

When you let someone do whatever they want without consequences, they'll do whatever they want without consequences.

If you have not already, today is a good day to contact your Congress people and express your malcontent.

Scooby break.

For anyone not in the know, basic cognitive tests include prompts like "name three states" "draw a clock" and "look at this picture, what is this animal?"

2.- The Helm of Midnight (The Five Penalties #1), by @marinalostetter.bsky.social (pub by @torbooks.bsky.social)

And 2026 off to a lucky start. Damn.

ARE WE THERE YET?

Gentle Reminder: Your Library card fights fascism. Get one.

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