The single best thing I ever said on FB.

What if you were trying hard to do (something very important, e.g.,) teaching, and had some vaguely annoying personality trait, then something happened that meant shifting what you do to an entirely different set of people, and none of your students or their parents noticed?

So, treating myself to archaic books, I bought the 2 Volume Omnibus print of all the Mike Moorcock/Elric stuff -- Elric of Melniboné, Elric Saga Vol 1, and Stormbringiner, Elric Saga Vol 2. These contain respectively V1: Elric of Melniboné, Fortress of the Pearl, Sailor on the Seas of Fate, and...

I've always tried to pin down what I think the Superhero Comics fundamental premise is, and usually described it as a conflict between differing powers or ideas or metaphors, made concrete. Cool I guess. But to which, add: one if not both of those things is almost always "Face Punching."

Obscure #Pathfinder 1e analysis: If you want to be sure to reincarnate human, and are willing to take the 2 level hit more than once with reincarnation, you get 39% odds of being human with E 1.89 reincarations, 48% at 2.3, 68% at 3.4, 73% @ 3.7, 77% @ 3.95, and 80% at 4.2.

I don't know if it's just me, but "maiden name" has a fairly derogatory note to it. The usual gross and would-that-it-were-outdated stuff about who owns who. It makes me want an equally obnoxious cognate for men. Why can't we have that? French has Mondemoiseau to pair with madamoiselle.

Another day, another analysis proving @davekronig.bsky.social right, yet again, that the average voter largely doesn’t care about platform as long as the candidate comes from Team Fight. I’m *still* mad about the DNC leadership we could have had and what that could have meant for the party.

The number of times in a month I have to stop and explain to someone I'm on the phone with, that I am not actually in the room with them or able to see what they're doing right now, is borderline terrifying. I seriously wonder how people who cannot imagine someone else having a different

History often rhymes with itself.

Donald Trump killed two of my constituents. He is a liar and should be ashamed of himself.

Along with compelled apologies, the idea that people are compelled to /accept/ any apology represents a near total breakdown in the vital role among humans of negotiating forgiveness. Bear this in mind if lately you hear anybody saying "fuck that apology anyway."

A brief taxonomy of Democrats: Democrats shunning the SotU: Do-somethings. Democrats bringing Survivors to the SotU: Do-somethings. Democrats lecturing other Democrats about civility in the face of this pedophilic fascist regime: Do-NOthings.

I guess what I conclude is this. We can't ask Black folks in this country to take even one more indignity, one more iota of abuse, e.g., the N word thrown around, for any reason. And we can't hold a dude with coprolalia responsible for a choice to use the words that come out of his mouth. But...

A security method that has routinely changing, unpredictable behavior, may be more secure when used by some idealized rational/naive user. But real users will distrust it for that reason. And they will never fucking care if you think they shouldn't reach that conclusion.

I shamelessly stole and modified somebody else's meme.

LOL. Juliana made a good ad.

#D&D Any version. I hate standard D&D reincarnate so much. Settle for a d100 body from among the 100 nearest young adults humanoids, with a new supplemental set of memories that you RP through, and have to find your way back to your friends? If asked, how would you rewrite it?

#HEROSystem 5E Clairsentience precog only, along with Luck and overall levels bought: Usable Simultaneously Ranged, and a Change Environment +3 steps & related effects: coincidence & planning. So cool, but too expensive.

Oscar Mike Foxtrot Golf.

Fuck the #Olympics, and fuck the #IOC. Long history if misogynist and racist inconsistencies. The idea of something being "apolitical" is laughable kindergarten scolding. As for the idea "Meaningless competition makes us friendly," which... I mean, have you met humans and their fucking stupid

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

oh my god this is even lower than the funniest low number I was imagining

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "What happens when you try?" Incidentally the plurality of answers to this are, "I don't know," for various equally perplexing reasons.

Your point reminds me of a very astute Twitter thread about shame, by David Rees (of Get Your War On fame), from early in Trump's first term. It's hard to find now, so I'm going to post the whole thing here.

Solar #Winter: 53% over Meteorological Winter: 70% over Dark Third of the Year: 90% over

Top "martial bros walk down hall" moments. Don Pedro (Denzel Washington) with Don John and Claudio, Much Ado About Nothing Toranaga-sama (Hiroyuki Sanada) and Hiromatsu-sama, Shogun. There is probably a matrix scene too. Which gives Ted a lot of walk for one career What you got?

Rewatching Much Ado about Nothing. I am so into Emma Thompson. Do not remember the initial bath scene. Suspect I'm right to think Blessed has scant lines. This is also the /only/ production I've ever seen of MAAN.

Show of hands. You have listened to Prince / The Black Album

I stopped talking to my racist cousin 7 years ago. I'm a late bloomer what can I say?

OK. Here's the brand I want to workshop. CRUSH. 1. It's a social exercise program. 2. Like, flash mob kind of. 3. Strength training at all levels of ability. 4. High, if not total musclehead, enthusiasm. Like a kind of over-the-top masculinity without all the shitty parts, but also

What's everyone's favorite Dad movie?

#TTRPG #GameDesign Somebody should, (if somebody is not already) be developing a game in a fantasy setting that is low magic, except that pacts and oaths, specifically, are supernaturally enforcable, and in which what pass for deities and elementals, exist.

#GameDesign #TTRPG #KidsGaming Kids who freeform RP when they get together. Have limited attention spans and, even if they have an appetite for sitting at table and rolling dice and following rules sometimes, they want a different experience, at least sometimes. What is the simplest way to...

The Republican admin is spending $55b of our tax dollars to build 10,000-person concentration camps with incinerators. My kingdom for any candidates who promise to expel the GOP from Congress, HUAC the party and their collaborators, and pass the Republican Control Act of 2026 over Trump’s veto.

This is the kind of energy dudes need to be bringing in general.

This is who runs this account.

So. 1. ICE FUCK OFF. 2. Solidarity with latine folks who are more vulnerable than ever right now. But also, if you're not the latter, STFU about anything to do with the intersection of the two. See #1 and #2.

I am once again reminding everyone that Anne Frank died of typhus in detention.

And sending the FBI to raid election offices in jurisdictions where Trump engaged in racketeering to skew the 2020 election in his favor. A never-ending politics of revanchism.

OMG. Somebody with heaps of bio in their by-line writes a whole article as if rendering down the five essential reasons to hate Starfleet Academy (the new show). And all five are completely empty subjective stylistic throwaway whinges, that are barely coherent much less memorable, redolent with

Q: How do you get a liberal to abandon any position? A: Point out that somebody was wrong about something, once.

Lying to secure joy means eventually having to lie in grief, which makes it isolating. Deceiving people in your own sphere is best understood as the result of a self-annihilating impulse.

X: Tired of your irreligion. Who cares why someone does the right thing? Aren't their actions enough regardless of their motivation? Y: You ever see the Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man?"

Everyone from T. Crowder to Xtian fans of the people of the neighborhoods of Minneapolis who insist this "isn't politics" and/or "is (the real) Christianity?" I'll still pay their bail, but "isn't politics," is heads in sand, and "isn't real Christianity" is abandoning people to defend a religion.

Aled put on a crude, mocking air. "Diverglañ a ra an houarn en tan!" and rolled his eyes. "Who in their right mind would actually take rust off good ironware in a fire?" Vera asked incredulously. "You'd warp or cr..." "It's a stupid saying. Guy just wants to see the world burn." - Troth of Owls

White men out there on certain platforms, going on about the things they would never do in the presence of ice, are sounding shrill AF. They're terrified of 1) the same thing all of us should have been all along, and 2) how wrong they've always been about their cushy spot on team death cult.

The GOP called. The wanted to remind us we're not allowed to call it "global warming" anymore because they don't know what "global" means and it upsets them. They also said DEFINITELY NOT TO MENTION Epstein. Or Trump's Gestapo systematically terrorizing Minneapolis murdering 37 year old helpers.