Unboxing dice from @thereliablerogue.bsky.social . Uschi passed her passive perception check and correctly identified the mimic-in-a-giftbox d6 as needing to be yeeted into the next dimension alt: cat grooming one forepaw, pauses, spots the pink d6 and slaps it out of view. sound: dice clattering

Just want to add that I meant to say Renee Nicole Good in the post above but edited to add her middle name and accidentally deleted her first. Sorry about that.

Charging officers has not helped, in large part because it sends the message that it's one bad apple and oh look we'll get them. I want to see state attorney generals charge the entire fucking system that leads up to these shootings.

Greg Bovino should be charged with murder under conspiracy doctrine. He was told weeks ago by a federal judge that he was going to cause the death of a civilian and was acting lawlessly. He has persisted in stoking the exact conduct he was told to stop.

I've seen people say that the officer who murdered Nicole Good should be charged with murder, and to that I add that every officer who kept medics from arriving, who barred doctors from helping should also be charged under conspiracy doctrine.

american fp establishment can [REDACTED]. a free and democratic iran is what any free and democratic american should long for.

A long-winded way of saying these people are lying sacks of shit.

what irony that i'm thinking "at least an MPD officer would've stuck around on the scene to cooperate with an investigation."

Really wish I still had the lung capacity for breath instruments. When I finally get round to bagpipes I'm gonna have to be a hipster doing bellows-blown...

It'd be really nice if someone would ask Vance why he reckons ICE's job is murdering random citizens, but I'm not gonna hold my breath.

I gotchu

people don't like unaccountable goons murdering their neighbors on the street

Also, let me just state a resounding “Fuck that guy, fuck everything he stands for, I hope he lives for a very long time and spends every moment of it in unendurable anguish.

I see it's "Onion reports the plain truth, no jokes" o'clock again.

That's nice, but it merely confirms that they could have stopped whenever they wanted to. And they still don't pay artists. It's always a good day to tell Spotify to fuck off.

here's a case where the affordability messaging actually does make sense - "they claim they don't have the money to help you with your health care bills but they're going to give ten grand to everyone in Greenland" makes a lot more sense than trying to apply it to extrajudicial murder

Discworld QOTD, from Sourcery “He had spent years in search of boredom, but had never achieved it. Just when he thought he had it in his grasp his life would suddenly become full of near-terminal interest.”

The "do everything with your phone" thing is so fucking annoying. It's like the "every single gun draws from the same ammo pool" that Deus Ex 2 had. You run dry on one thing, you're out of options, fuck you. I hated it in that game and I hate it in real life too.

If you are a journalist and you're reporting on official statements, you have an ethical responsibility to note that these people are liars who lie about everything. You are morally and ethically bound to detail the times they have lied when you report on their current claims.

Ugh. The woodworking is beautiful, the subject (building a viola da gamba) could not be more exactly my shit, and I'm still considering giving up on this guy because every video has audio consisting of PAINFULLY loud piano maunderings. And I do mean painful. The clipping doesn't help.

You are not required to traumatize yourself. All that does is make you less able to help and more likely to inflict further trauma on yourself.

This is 100% true for whatever value of "the video". My guide to avoiding traumatizing media and how to do it more psychologically safely if you absolutely *must* watch it: synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/803314.html

Grizzly's take on the day: 'welp, time to be unperceived in a box.' Mood, lil guy.

TOES

I don't care if she didn't follow directions; I don't care if she was disrespectful; I don't care if she was noncompliant; I don't care if she spit in his face, called him ugly, and smacked his mom - "immediate execution by the state" was not warranted; jfc, this isn't complicated.

Might've needed a break at the bookstore. Don't expect to regret this.

I need to explain to my doctor in a way they'll understand that if they want me to wait before doing a thing, they're going to need to remind me when it's time to do the thing because time doesn't exist and I'll forget.

Because the internet is for cat pictures (and everybody needs more cat pictures this week): Here's Menhit, pretending to be broken.

Today is another shitshow. Please enjoy these throwback kitten pics for morale. Then go hydrate, see if you took your meds, stretch, whatever you need to do to put your oxygen mask on to get through the next hour / day.

One of the reasons I prefer the spell slots analogy over spoons is it allows for the fact that different people are working off different spell lists and what's a low level spell for one person could be high level for someone else.

what u have to understand is that working on my novel, answering dms, and answering emails all cost 1 spell slot but posting? Posting is a cantrip

If it's not lesbian, it's not sci-fi.

"We need our OWN scumbag" How about, not that.

“We have such delights to show you” - @funranium.bsky.social Art by @lartist.bsky.social

Doug LaMalfa has done the right thing at last!

"mute the names of all the countries the US is threatening to invade" you mean... www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pOF...

btw for those who don't know why Americans with chronic illness got like 75% more stressed on Jan 1st, it is not just because all the insurance rates blew up. On 1/1, deductibles reset. which means you have to spend some amount of money (up to $10k sometimes) before your insurance COVERS ANYTHING

There's no bag like a pho bag

Image description: a snow leopard sleeping upside down, all four giant murder mittens in the air, showing its floofy belly, in front of a really gorgeous landscape.

Of course the university will learn nothing from this.

Man I will shit on Dell all day long for the awful hardware that I have to use for work, but look at this, an executive responding to the market’s disdain for “ai” by changing their marketing instead of desperately trying to force you to like it. Satya Nadella could never

Doug LaMalfa, a Republican congressman from California, opposed marriage equality and transgender rights. www.advocate.com/politics/rep...

As a super basic sailing books fan (pretty much just Swallows and Amazons and the Aubrey/Maturin series) I'm still largely insufferable about Getting Sailing Wrong. Ursula's assessment is entirely fair.

The crabs, they dance.

It is nice when you wake up to this on your phone because friends care enough to send the very best. #DUNESKEETS

The phone call I had to make today was one of those things that's basically impossible to explain to a machine, but takes like 30 seconds to explain to a person. "Your computer has started sending me wrong stuff and I can't find a way to correct it, can you do it?" They could.

So as a Tolkien Nerd, yes the THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE HUNT FOR GOLLUM movie does fit, it is based on canonical material (either a couple sentences in the text or one of the appendices that gets cut for space, but it is there), and it does sort of make sense if you want a low risk movie.

I'm always saying this, I've watched the space evolve over the past decade and it's been the result of deliberate choices, some of which were not easy or popular at the time. You can foster diversity and inclusion in your spaces. It works.

It's always worth looking into what the fascists are trying to get you to mock. It's what they're afraid of, for starters.