A fantasy world that tweaks familiar tropes in interesting ways... physical rewards incl. book, dice sets, pins, coins, and a cloth map! I think I would have backed it even if I didn't already follow the actual play campaign the setting was originally created for! www.kickstarter.com/projects/rol...

THIS IS NOT A DRILL YOU CAN GET EVERY DISCWORLD TOME ON EBOOK FOR LESS THAN THE COST OF A SUBWAY FOOTLONG COMBO. USUALLY GETTING EVERY SINGLE BOOK LEGALLY IS LIKE 400+ NOT. A. DRILL. www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-...

the two types of vehicle are cars and trucks, with every vehicle being a subclass of one of those two. a jeep is a truck. a motorcycle is obviously a car. a boat is a truck. an airplane is a car and a helicopter is a truck. trucks are cars, interestingly enough, and cars are a specific type of chair

So, first of all, of course it was Trump. But even if they were telling the truth, "We give staffers who post videos of the Obamas as apes access to the agenda-setting, decree-sending, market-moving account of the president of the United States" is not the exculpatory statement they think it is.

To any ICE agent out there tonight still retainimg any trace of humanity who might be asking what you can do to calm things down after MN. It's simple. Quit. Tomorrow morning. You don't even have to turn in a badge because you never had one. Just quit and find real work.

You can do this. You can do SOMETHING.

you’re running WHAT on that hardware

a human is just a jailbroken monkey

Listening to the McElroys descend into unhinged chaos is definitely a highlight of the first Monday of every year.

i don't know what to do about a system where people in power believe the antisemitic CSAM generator is too important of a platform to leave because the worst pundits on earth think the platform signals something about free speech

—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter —Infanta? —No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly

epic will pay for every game that gets claimed this way so yes, you are still giving money to rowling (and by extension an international campaign against trans people) by claiming this there are other, better franchises - let this one go

Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is, in fact, a tortology

I think about this tweet every day

i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re- BEASTIES: MORSE AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of Beasties: COURSE MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy BEASTIES: MOOCHER MCA: We’re Christmas Past MIKE D: Christmas Present BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE

“People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around.” ― Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad #Discworld

“You’re just a bully who found it easier and easier and decided that everybody else wasn’t really a REAL person, not like you, and when you know that, there’s no crime too big, is there?” ― Terry Pratchett, Snuff #Discworld (gee, I wonder if we have any current examples of this...)

"There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do." - Terry Pratchett, Small Gods #Discworld

"That's the way it was. Privilege, which just means 'private law.' Two types of people laugh at the law; those that break it and those that make it." - Terry Pratchett, Night Watch #Discworld

"You took an oath to uphold the law and defend the citizens without fear or favor, and to protect the innocent. That's all they put in. [...] Nothing in there about orders. You're an officer of the law, not a soldier of the government." -Terry Pratchett, NIght Watch #Discworld

"History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders." -Terry Pratchett, Jingo #Discworld

And, also, if you run a business that regularly purchases shipping supplies: ULINE is run by some of the worst people on Earth. Get your boxes and tape elsewhere.

Brush your teeth after eating these or else you'll get calculus.

Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull” First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided. With me so far? 1/x

Never mind every other single abominable or corrupt thing to this miserable moment, the extrajudicial and unevidenced execution of 34 human beings by the U.S. Navy on the orders of a U.S. President acting in peacetime is sufficient for his impeachment and conviction. If we were a republic, I mean.

my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Kimika Hara, contemporary embroiderer from Japan #WomensArt

A hint for spotting AI videos: think about what is supposedly recording the vid. AI seems to be trained on photos from DSLR/mirrorless cameras & smartphones with post-processing. So when they try to reproduce smaller crappier cameras (webcam, trail cam, doorbell, etc), the image is just too good.

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

Not sure if he's *the* least-deserving person of being on money, but I'd rank him pretty close to the top

GOP greatly overestimates the number of fucks GenX and younger give about Bill Clinton.

It's not quite derivative but it IS my favorite

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.

This image of a young planet clearing its orbit in the protoplanetary disk around a distant star (the star itself is obscured) is stunning. Of course it’s beautiful, but it’s also a remarkable technical achievement for the study authors, the observatory, and the instrument scientists. Well done!

White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.

Child abuse aficionado James Dobson dead at the tragically advanced age of 89.

Environmental storytelling.