Gandalf the Grey for the Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game.

So far this year we've had: the warmest winter on record in the mountain west, a record-shattering heat wave in Europe, once in a thousand year rainfall and flooding texas and forest fire smoke blanketing the mid west and the north east. Feels like something's going on with the climate!

I want to visit Japan for many reasons, but the current highest is the possibility of meeting Robin the island cat: www.instagram.com/p/DajMhZNk6t8/

More than 100 Democrats voted to cut military aid to Israel as US public opinion shifts – Republicans are noticing too

I'm sort of uncomfortable with how my daughter admires me. Little boys are like "My dad can beat up your dad," or whatever. That's normal. My daughter is like, "My dad can make your parents feel really bad about themselves." And she values that.

You know, not to harp on this, but something's been bugging me about the reactions to Lindsey Graham's death, and I didn't know how to put it into words until this morning. It suddenly hit me not long after I woke up. (thread)

I have stumbled across the part of eBay where they offer to summon a succubus to your house that will sex you up for $100. Who is paying for this? And, more importantly, why have I not been selling weird grifter bullshit spellcasting services this entire time?

BTW the Pete Hegseth beard thing is the tip of what I have predicted, which is them coming for men's bodies in a new and scary way.

One of the things that has me legitimately baffled about the current primary climate (including what will likely be the 2028 race) is that even fairly engaged people don't seem to be pricing in at all that there's not going to be any money in 2029.

Oh, no. This bad. You know how I said they arent sent into areas with known fires and these are surprises? Well, turns out, in this case, CN knew: www.teamstersrail.ca/en/news-deta... [Alt text is long; text can be found clicking above link]

the vast majority of agricultural labor in the USA is done by undocumented latinos in an illegal kafala system-type employment arrangement with millionaire plantation owners and a small force of overseers who LARP as rugged cowboys. if you do not understand this you are not a serious leftist.

"Is Disco Elysium like Homestuck?", asks a friend who knows neither, blissfully unaware of the academia-worthy cognitohazard packed in such a short sentence

CEOs of the largest companies in America make 281 times what the typical worker makes. Since 1978, pay for these CEOs has skyrocketed 1,094%. Typical worker pay? 26%. So no, your $5 coffee isn’t why you can’t afford rent.

A civil war simulation was ran asking the question how would it start in the US and it began with local police arresting federal agents.

My biggest psychological breakthrough was realizing that the reason I was treated so differently at home than I was with my friends was that my friends liked me and my family didn't. At the same time, having some friends who loved me convinced me that I was worthy of love and deserved better.

It's amazing how this combination of words either means absolutely nothing to you or makes you stand up and run around the room

King: ok we've all talked it over and discussed a foolproof way for this ghost to go viral King: what if the ghost posted a pic with a really big ass Heuvelt: Heuvelt: what the hell are you all talking about

King: now just a minute here King: i admit, i might be old King: but that doesn't mean i don't have some wisdom to impart King: it just means i've experienced more memes than you kids Joe Hill: my dad is right Hill: i bet he knows some crazy vintage memes

I’d get a kick out of it but I doubt my relatives would. I had to explain to some why we have so many Black 4th cousins. When I labeled the slaveholders in my tree I was getting messages from people I’ve never met asking me to remove it.

Before I deleted my 23andMe account, I EXCLUSIVELY got "...???" type messages from white distant relatives. And it's like. Yeah. We're related. That happens a lot. You're probably not gonna like how, though.

On Tuesday, an ICE officer shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston. Today, the government is pressuring the only three eyewitnesses to sign self-deportation orders. I spent 15 years as a public defender. If anyone else did this, we'd call it witness tampering. youtube.com/shorts/-1mtg...

"Most of us would struggle to imagine a world in which Wehrmacht soldiers, Kripo officers, Zollgrenzschutz agents and members of the Reichstag could be dragged before an international court..." Skill issue

I see that there's a new remake of Carrie on the horizon. Not one of SK's better novels, but it's had two screen treatments already. They don't have the guts to follow the source material, though. Carrie was fat. People bullied her because she was fat. Cast a fat Carrie you cowards.

Most of the federal agency science budgets goes into the salaries of students and trainees, and the decision to take that money and instead give it to industry and already rich venture capitalists is fundamentally a decision to have many fewer scientists and do far less science in the future.

“No matter what you say about a senator, no matter how rude it is, it will never match the violence they very calmly and cordially enact on millions of people as a matter of course.”

sorry, that one's on me

big enough for one (1) popcorn

Watched Streets of Fire on 70mm and almost cried at Tonight is What it Means To Be Young in theatrical surround sound

Jessica was describing her problem with having like six skeins of yellow yarn but not the exact shade she wants for a project then stopped short and said "Oh. This is why you buy all those ttrpg books."

This, from Harris, is exactly what you want to see, and I hope it sets the bar for anyone who plans to run. Should certainly make it clear to potential candidates that they can't just ignore structural issues; unlikely she'll let them. Link in next post.

someday we'll have a piece combining her, Bryan Johnston, and that creepy eugenics couple and the spell will finally be broken

a good meditation on knowledge work and how it must change.

Basically the only elected Democrat who seems to understand what to do when you take power if you have actual political goals.

Warhammer 40k as Industrial Folk Horror. Take this trailer for Werwulf and stick a bunch of technological greebles on it. youtu.be/cmjpadVj-Vk?...

Evil Dead Burn is a worthy entry in the series.

Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 25 days in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave, is now getting all three.

I'm been wondering if it would come to this and apparently it has. huge move from cloudflare, which hosts a fifth of all websites on earth.

We must return to the Old Ways. It's time for those of us who remember the ancient methods to bring back Web Rings.

People getting worked up about nostalgiaposts like this don't seem to realize people aren't lamenting companies, they're remembering evaporated forms of community. Yes, get DVDs from your library! But are you going to ride your bike with your 5 best friends there then curl up together to watch it?

It's always instructive which political projects need to be scrutinised to death before they are acceptable (wealth taxes, nationalisation, green infrastructure), and which are just deemed eminently sensible and can proceed without any (defence spending, leaving the EU).

i simply can't understand why a woman wouldn't come forward to talk to the cops about what her abusive, violent ex marine partner had done to her. the cops understand domestic and sexual violence and have a great track record of dealing fairly with women.

Ethics conundrum! In the movie Companion, we find that the villain has set the protagonist sexbot's intelligence slider to a mere 40%. He doesn't want her TOO smart, the son of a bitch. That seems like he's doing her dirty, frankly.

I have seen a vast array of horror films in my time. But, honestly, the line "I'm scared of the wheels!" from the animated series Infinity Train haunts my dreams as much as any of them.

I’ve had these little Super Zimtendos on my iPad for a few months and only remembered they existed today while throwing one of my trademark fits. INVADER ZIM QUEST was the worst selling game on the Super Zimtendo Entertainment System… #invaderzim #pixelart

The story here is not this stupid movie – which will never get made and never come out – but how the Tilly Norwood people keep getting these credulous articles placed in national news sources despite zero demonstration of any success or demand for this.