Apple’s insistence on making it as hard to transfer files from computer to phone (or back) as possible is giving me such a headache.

When all the other time travelers are busy killing Hitler, I’m gonna take out Laura Ingalls Wilder.

“Piracy is the most effective form of artistic distribution these days. So be it.” -Werner Herzog on NPR just now 🔥

Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman

Tehran is burning. It's air and water are poisoned. These are war crimes committed against millions of innocent people. Impeach Trump now.

My favorite album came out the year I was born! (REM's Document)

I feel like the internet has had a really evil effect on politics but the television probably was worse we've just mostly adjusted.

huge helicopter-like WUB WUB WUB sounds as the cat-sized hummingbird hovers outside your door demanding your entire 20-ounce of Mountain Dew

Minor Potion of Certification 𝘗𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘯 Cost: 30 gp Effect: Upon imbibing, you become legally certified to operate a forklift for 2d6 + 4 minutes.

I knew it was bad, but this is STARK. Wow.

Gummitch is such a little twerp. He keeps “accidentally” stretching to poke Precious.

Have a Caturday Precious. I love her anime eyebrow whiskers.

Maine - If you don't want your next Senator to possibly be a Nazi, then I would encourage you to follow and support @andrealaflamme.bsky.social .Please give this a boost folks!

This is the Shakespeare line that is an actual life motto for me: Beware Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, Bear ’t that th’ opposèd may beware of thee.

If you look at the list of peptides, one of the peptides on that list (Melanotan II) is one where my husband treated someone in the ER who lost the ability to speak in words for half a day after injecting it.

The people who think punk shouldn't be political and the people who think scifi shouldn't be political should all get an island together and never talk to the rest of us ever again

Man, I almost always cry when I sing along to that one. “The suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame, The killin’ and dyin’ it was all done in vain: Oh Willy McBride, it all happened again, and again and again and again and again”

The Princess Bride is a pretty clear winner. (Spaceballs is great, but…)

chip in, or help spread the word?

I’m almost irritated by how many lines there are in Flagpole Sitta I still love.

I’m going to build a reverse escape room, where you’re outside and have to break in to the room. This way after like an hour or something you can leave. Unlike a regular escape room where you just starve to death if you can’t get out.

It's hilarious that "working class" now applies exclusively to the racist failsons of regional car dealership owners but every unemployed trans person is an "elite".

A huge chunk of our punditry really does seem to be having some kind of weird, almost existential crisis over the very concept of gender itself. Male pundits-the Ezra Kleins and Jonathan Chaits of the world, have been seized by intense anxiety about their own masculinity.

It is repulsive to me -- morally, aesthetically, politically -- on a scale that I genuinely don't know how to describe. It's just so deeply, deeply gross, to be so filled with weakness that you abuse other, weaker people to feel better. What a horrible kind of human, to do that, to *allow* that.

If Dolly were to give a press conference and announce she has a surprise, and then tear off her human skin to reveal herself as Trogdora the Burninator, about half of Bluesky (Yr Hmbl Crrspd't included) would immediately swear fealty to her and join whatever crusade she was leading.

I do think “Graham Platner was a bartender who personally served some DC pundits and reporters and was known to them” is a pretty big part of the skeleton key to unlocking how he got so much cash and media attention so fast and why they’re so determined to stay all in on him now

This is the way.

Looked through replies to the “nuanced ttrpg take” thread and that was a huge mistake. Not replying is hard.

TTRPGs are collaborative. If the players or the GM are unsatisfied with how things are going, take time to talk it out

I think people try to turn matters of opinion into matters of objective fact where game design is concerned, and there's very little that is objectively good or bad in any field let alone the field of having fun.

Capitol Hunters confirms Platner lied about why he could not get back into the Marines in 2009. It was because of his Nazi/antisemitic tattoo. He blamed Marine policy barring sleeve tattoos, but Marine policy grandfathered sleeve tattoos. It barred symbols of hate, which is what the Totenkopf is.

Even if it takes years, we have to bring EVERYONE who made this happen to justice. No moving on, no letting this go. Revenge is good enough motivation for me personally, but the nobler and important reason is to ensure that anyone who thinks of doing this again knows they’ll rot in prison for it.

Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity

WHAT'S UP EVERYONE, ANDREA LAFLAMME IS ON BLUESKY NOW Sick of Graham Platner's Nazi bullshit? Looking for a younger candidate than Janet Mills? Lucky for us, the great state of Maine has more than two people!!

Anyone who's navigated ob market last 18 months could tell you this is indeed current state of things, but whew boy have we been gaslit by breathless reports about the booming stock market, which is entirely driven by AI, a technology precisely engineered to destroy as many human jobs as possible

look ima need white people to stop explaining to me that every white dude is prone to get obvious Nazi tattoos in their 20s. the shit is not true. I know plenty of white military dudes who didnt get Nazi tattoos. This is not a widespread phenomenon.

The wife of the Iraqi President (both her and the President being Kurdish politicians with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party), releases a statement saying "leave the Kurds alone" citing various historical events, including "we saw what happened . . . in Rojava"

Reminds me of a conversation I saw once where a guy was arguing against giving cashiers chairs because then they would be at the wrong height for the checkout counter, as if chairs and counters cannot simply be made to any arbitrary height you require.

REALLY. TRULY.

Outlaw prediction-markets: A policy proposal. Outlaw-prediction markets: A description of our current reality.

i'm not an economist but if 900 people can afford to fund $3,000 checks to damn near everyone else in america and still be insanely fuckin rich afterwards maybe they have too much fuckin money

For real, I really need people to please stop going, "Look! The chatbot 'told' me..." with things. See: www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...

The computer cannot be held accountable for the decision, therefore the accountability must fall to the person who chose to use the computer.

This is the absolute only instance of Molon Labe (μολὼν λαβέ = "come and take it") that I will ever condone. 🍩 Thank you for your attention to this donutist matter.

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An open worldish game in Sigil, in the vein of Assassin’s Creed 2, or Arkham City. Also, a detective adventure game set in Eberron. That one has been in my head since I first played Gabriel Knight 1 from an abandonware site.

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