Pointing out that Mass Effect Spectres would not be a good idea in an irl political system strikes me as a bit like saying real life mayors should not have the broad fiat division making authority they have in SimCity. I mean yeah but nobody was saying that

It's too bad that ring-binder TTRPG products have never sold well, because they make so much sense in theory. Start with simple rules, add additional rules as you wish. Put whatever you keep in a binder, leaving the rest out.

Whatever you think of the European Union, you have to admit it has a great national anthem.

I submitted my E&A zine two weeks early. Sadly that means my comment to Michael Cule about UK politics is already out of date.

They aren't racist, they're just trying to create one-party dictatorships with no black support. Can't do anything about that!

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

A state that redraws its legislative maps before every election to maximize advantage for the incumbent party is not a democracy or a republic and in any case obviously violates the guarantee clause, among many others. No country does this. No country ever thought of doing this. It is a total farce.

funniest thing i’ve ever seen

the big lie of reactionary ideology is that its natural order of things requires massive coercion and constant policing to create and maintain while supposedly unnatural deviant behaviors keep spontaneously cropping up wherever control isnt total without violence their reified categories dissolve

Good piece by Robert Reich on the folks running the country right now robertreich.substack.com/p/sam-alito-...

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Y'know I would love the chance to go in and shiv the GOP, but my experiences have me completely disillusioned. NYC Democrats, and the city's liberal and activist groups, are so provincial and myopic I wouldn't trust them to join any national cause.

Stupid thing is the Secretary of Agriculture is a woman. Was *she* picked for her gender? (I heard she's one of the few competent members of the admin, too.)

Redistricting has become such a fucking joke.

DOJ arrests suburban mom for "Eat, Pray, Love" sign, saying it really means "Eat, Pray, Love Over TRUMP'S DEAD BODY"

many people are saying that if donald trump had a 30 ft tall mechanical spider that shoots nanowire webs he'd be protected from james comey and his shells

Gerry Conway hated that cops and military had co-opted the Punisher logo and started an initiative crowdsourcing art from People of Color that incorporated the logo with Black Lives Matter, and the funds went to a local chapter. Rest in peace.

I'll second this, and I think this is why shooters are so common in America specifically: Americans are told that being an average Joe or Jane is a moral failure, that you have an obligation to be #1, and if you aren't it's because you just.didn't.try hard enough

Fun fact: The Elvis impersonator who was arrested for sending ricin to Obama often recommended my work on Facebook. Fortunately (for me!), he was innocent. A different Elvis impersonator sent the ricin to frame the innocent Elvis impersonator b/c the latter falsely claimed to be a member of Mensa.

Heard about a tick bite that turns you vegan, and wanted to joke about a spider bite that makes you Presbyterian, but I heard the tick thing is real, and dangerous, and we live in a forest teeming with the little fuckers

Anyone explain why the shooter's manifesto explicitly says Kash Patel is NOT a target? That is so fucking weird.

One life hack I've discovered: When I get antsy, I imagine Yosemite Sam getting mad, going "Oooh! Quit stallin'! Bring on Fearless Freep!" (From "High Diving Hare"). Seems to calm me down.

I heard the assassin had multiple weapons. Also, he seems to be naked. Both of these can't be true.

Kind of a perfect metaphor for the media and the role they've played over the last ten years

Call me a conservative all you want, but I think "Glengarry Glen Ross" with an all-female cast is kind of stupid.

Watching a critique of Contrapoints, and it reinforces a valuable lesson: Every political movement has its share of online assholes. They only represent the asshole community, not broader political movements.

Damn I love this woman.

This is not wrong.

Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time. This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

This is monstrous. Just profoundly shameful behavior by our government. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

For some reason this guy, saying "YEAH!", always seemed funny as hell. youtube.com/shorts/O2Z7G...

Saw a FB post comparing Battlestar Galactica (ship, not show) with the Enterprise D. Seems you reach the same conclusions as with Trek v. Star Wars: Trek's FTL is worse, but the Federation's firepower would blow the other ships to dust.

It’s me, the pile of the cocaine that said “make the 3 hour movie longer”

Whatever you do,

Palantir releases a manifesto attacking cultural relativism. Huh. Is this something private companies do now? I never wanted to know what, say, McDonalds thought about Pascal's Wager, but I guess we will soon.

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

The idea that 65 million U.S. men -- one third of the total -- went to a "rape academy" website, and we *didn't know about it* until CNN's report, is setting off my B.S. alarms.

Re: Fight with the Pope I'm happy that we have unrealistic idealists in the world. Pacifists, anarchists, prison abolitionists, utopian socialists, etc. I wouldn't want them to run things, but their hearts are in the right place.

It's true, most of North America was underwater in the age of the dinosaurs. But we're NOT FUCKING DINOSAURS, are we?

It's so funny to me that right-wingers love to pretend to love the Middle Ages and the Crusades and all that and then complain that the Pope shouldn't get involved in politics.

Any of the LARPer folks here see the 4th of July LARP in Poland? Where they pretend to be in a trailer park in Ohio?

First game: Basic D&D, Holmes edition Latest game: D&D 5E Longest game: As a GM? Two-Fisted Tales. As a player? Over the Edge/Cthulhupunk Favorite game: Two-Fisted Tales, because I wrote it Favorite mechanics: If not above, then The Fantasy Trip Favorite setting: Best product? Dark Sun (cont)

I feel bad when someone on the left moves right. So why can't I be happy when the opposite happens? Don't worry, I know that Tucker Carlson is still a bad guy. But I'm glad to see the MAGA coalition fall apart.

things my mother asks for when she wants to watch “Only Murders In the Building”: - There is Death In My Neighborhood - There’s a Mystery in My Apartment - Everyone Dies in Our Building - Martin Short

Watching Daredevil (new series, season 2, ep 1), and yeah, that Astoria restaurant is real.

Supposedly the new Epstein drama is distracting us from Iran, just as Iran distracted us from Minnesota, which diverted us from the cost of living crisis, which...

God I hate this genre. These kids who protested Gaza got arrested, expelled, beaten up, doxxed, lives ruined by outside agitators and were utterly betrayed by the administrations that should have protected them at any cost. Shut the fuck up.

Well, at least there's no genocide. Wait, cease fire is off? Maybe next week, then.

Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon. Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.

I was just hit with crushing depression today, possibly because of all the talk of mass slaughter and genocide. Blew off two appointments, something I hate to do, and blaming that on politics seems pathetically self-indulgent. But this seems really, really bad.