seeing sleeping beauty, which is the first time i’ve watched a non-nutcracker ballet performed live and it is confirming my suspicions that maybe every other ballet is cooler than the nutcracker

Nothing about our current moment is comprehensible without understanding that: 1. Until 1965, white men decided who was president. 2. for the next four decades, every president elected was either a Republican or a white male Southerner. 3. Barack Obama was the first exception to the above.

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FACT.

“it’s like when [coworker] thought i was a christian” “why would they think that?” “apparently bc i keep saying things like ‘as a god-fearing christian’ ‘I’ll pray about it’ ‘if the holy spirit leads me’ ‘jesus christ our lord and savior’ so like i get the confusion”

… if you were expecting mail from me it has been delayed due to reasons no one could have foreseen…

gotta say, i love any game that allows me to functionally (enough) build a character sheet in my notes app

“minneapolis won!” ICE has abducted at least three people since the conference this morning btw

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

the worst thing about sending physical mail is waiting to see if it arrives in its destination like now i’m doubting it weighed less than an ounce

It has been said before. I will say it again. The way this TTRPG “community” treats Black women, femmes & NBs is a fucking disgrace. What do we have to do to prove our pain is real? How much blood to we have to publicly spill? It’s a miracle some of us are still standing.

if everyone that follows me gave $5 then this could easily meet the half way mark and then some. Please help however you can

no, it simply isnt. People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.

My friend Haneen's rent is due on Sunday, Ramadan is right around the corner, and the IOF bombed near her home yesterday. She hasn't had any donations in a while, and we need to raise about $300 to make her rent goal. If you can spare some change, please send some her way!

feels like i should re-post this every few weeks

I don't know if it's really clear, outside of coverage of Mpls and pockets of organizing elsewhere, that hundreds of thousands of people are actively and at every level of society fighting our government as it abducts and imprisons and torments our neighbors.

every line out of shoresy’s mouth directed at laura mohr is the equivalent of “in another life i would really like just doing laundry and taxes with you”

ai generated descriptions for online ordering is insane. i don’t need an explanation of what pasta is I NEED ALLERGEN INFORMATION

Between streaming, live service, and AI, businesses have just fundamentally forgotten how to make real money in favor of chasing theoretical money. And until business remember simple stuff like, "You can produce a cheap season of TV every year if you want" we're going to keep seeing layoffs.

This Friday at 8 PM EST The Red Vine Club is neutral ground for Harlem’s kindred, and a vault for valuable secrets. Tonight, a prized item arrives, and some vampires don’t respect neutrality. They take what they want.

From Stanford to Gallup, nearly every organization that produces good information about anything of importance is in one way or another beholden to federal contracts. They are also deeply connected to elite political and economic networks thorough interlocking directorates and affiliations.

Thread.

vendor i work with addressed me with “hey Som!” in slack and i am formally adding this to the list of approved nicknames

Again for the morning crowd! I am so pleased to be at this fantastically stacked table. Please come by and hang for a bit this Friday! We’re gonna have a dreadfully good time.

very hard to have faith in the methodology of future polling, in light of this

I fear that men are about to do what men do. They are about to characterize any sober thinking about power as non-technical and therefore unserious. We have seen this pattern over and over again in tech criticism. Women and people of color repeatedly lead on understanding tech changes.

thread! :

I don’t really pay attention to charges of doomerism. I don’t know what it means offline. I do know that refusing a version of how the future will unfold forecloses on the power that actually shapes that future. That’s not disavowing that tech changes are happening but they are in now a given.

I love hearing @dandillon.bsky.social say “gay revenant knights” and I think u will too:

Mutual aid! In my D&D? In Ch. 8 of Curse of Strahd, the Krezkites share everything: food, labor & a growing horror at the screams coming from the Abbey. The town's empty graves are almost as problematic as the portrayal of the people this book calls "mongrelfolk." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

today in a “de-escalated” minneapolis: drove around from 10 til noon trying to get in touch with family members of people who got dragged out of their cars and abducted by ICE this weekend, and then spent another four hours patrolling, listening to observers track an ICE caravan across the city

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

phishing scams are unexpectedly ruining the whimsy industry as they become indistinguishable from my general shenanigans

it takes a real management genius to cut both your sports and culture teams a few days before a sporting event hosting the biggest cultural moment in recent history

the concept of age verifying an account i’ve had for nine years…

Our next incredible #BHM table, The Bleeding Script, is a one-shot of @darkerhue.bsky.social's Harlem Unbound, an official setting for @chaosium.bsky.social Call of Cthulhu! Catch us live this Friday the 13th at 8p EST. All proceeds support #SadGirlsClub. twitch.tv/tbhalflings

I am begging national media critics to cover what's really happening in Atlanta. I know the AJC is an active sponsor of journalism conferences so there's some degree of conflict of interest, but the city is in a deep civic crisis. Trump wants to run America like how Atlanta is being run right now.

2/6 PM UPDATE: Joining the list of AJC layoffs is Taylor Croft, a breaking news/ general assignment reporter. As you can see from this thread, of the names we know so far, every single journalist laid off in one of the largest non-unionized newspapers in the country is a woman or a person of color.

the actual Republican parents who support the politicians pushing for this think the effort and money they spent parenting are wasted if their kids turn out different from them. You eliminate that possibility by eliminating the public existence of other kinds of people.

What this man is describing would seem to constitute crimes against humanity under international law. Other governments could and should contest the abuses he’s describing the U.S. government committing against migrants.

as noted: private ownership of antique planes will still be legal, to protect our greatest national resource: insane celebrities crashing old planes into golf courses

we need to make private jet ownership illegal. but as a compromise, I think we can mandate that on every commercial flight one random passenger is picked out of a hat, and the airline and plane crew have to be extra nice and accommodating to them while treating the rest of the passengers even worse.

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

They are building black box prisons that are more prison camp than anything and then refusing to obey court orders to release detainees for weeks, when the detainees can get access to a lawyer.

Git over to Youtube to check out the VOD of Saturday's game! The tiltify is still up if you'd like to donate, and we will see you this Friday night for the next installment of our Black History Month programming!

idk who needs to hear this but it’s not too late to start a spreadsheet of shows you’ve hosted, appeared, and worked on with dates and links to find them

Reposting this for the evening crowd. Could really use the aid in buying some groceries for me and my cat.

vod is up!!!

glad bsky has drafts now but i need private accts for when i want to be messyyyyy

anyways, don't get off discord yet; not because this isn't heinous but because we're currently in the post-horror scramble to find alternatives. give things a second to settle down so you can find out which ones suck and which ones don't. instead, cancel your nitro, yell at discord, and plan.