It's kinda crazy that by the time the Roman Empire fell, only one emperor had fucked up the naming scheme of the whole back third of the calendar by inserting himself and his uncle into the middle of the year. You'd really think Calig-tober or Ner-tember at the least would've been forced on us too.

"Alright baby, just remember. If I get too rough, just use the safe word." The Safe Word:

*A Centrist restaurant consultant walks into a pizza parlor* "I can't understand why you're not doing more to get people who hate pizza to come in here to complain about your menu"

that endless feeling (for too long now)

True

For years, I've tried to tell y'all what cops know, and what criminal justice reformers know, about how murders really get solved. Look at how massive the manhunt for both Luigi Mangioni and Tyler Robinson were. Then look at how they were actually caught. 🤷🏿‍♂️ Two phone calls.

Just going to remind you that if the police or any other law enforcement show up you should ABSOLUTELY say I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT i.e., then say nothing else except repeatedly demanding a lawyer.

Also useful to share, aside from the Pot Brothers short: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWEp...

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

“The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!" 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical... There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness." ― Ursula K. Le Guin

Elon, fresh off attempting to incite race riots in England is now trying to incite pogroms against trans people.

The harsh crackdown on anyone who doesn't properly mourn Charlie Kirk and pretend he was a good guy is polarizing me more and more in the opposite direction. He was a vile, hateful little man who wanted people like me lynched. The more you scream at me for pointing that out, the more I'll say it.

This gets to something that as a former stand-up I recognized but couldn’t name. A 31 year old professional content creator baiting 19 year old amateurs into the format of his choice isn’t debate, it’s crowd work. It’s debate-shaped crowd work farmed for content.

Post a mage ✨ #art #dnd #minis

I wrote this short piece on mainstream efforts to hide the relationship of white conservatism to state & vigilante violence in the U.S. & why—esp in these moments—we have to push back against that impulse to whitewash & preserve the systems of violence we claim to oppose.

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

First of all, folks aren't "glorifying violence or harm," they're celebrating the death of a bigot whose words and actions enabled an ongoing climate of permissible violence against marginalized people. Second of all, @safety.bsky.app is complicit in enabling the very violence they're condemning.

rightwing media ecosystem operates by stoking hatred and anger and divisions every single day, they want people to constantly be afraid and want people to hate eachother, everything we are seeing is a result of the destablization the right has profited off of

Technically, it's only a gargoyle if it functions as a rain spout. Therefore, any fantasy creature with batlike wings either made of stone or which has temporary stone covering that doesn't also spray water should be a "grotesque," not a "gargoyle." In this essay I will...

If it’s run for profit, then it’s profiting off of … us. When I hear that the post office lost money, I think this: Good. We already paid for it. Why on earth should it make even more money from us? Who would keep the money? Would we see it?

#dnd #rpg #ttrpg #dungeonsanddragons #gaming #dndmemes #mtg #bg3 #criticalrole #gamedev

a friend and I went downtown this evening to scream in the streets with thousands of our neighbors. @theonion.com was also at the protest this evening and they were pulling no punches

this is money cat, repost to get money

Nobody who voted to confirm RFK is fit to hold public office

Only one day left until the discover feed becomes clogged with horny fanart of the grossest little bug guy from Silksong

Fear the Old Blood 🩸🧠👁️

"Stop trying to put Democrats against each other! This kind of infighting is tearing us apart! Why are you attacking Gavin Newsom like this instead of creating a broad coalition?" Meanwhile:

Everyone has a second full time job being mad at the government now

arrested for illegal use of the nba jam big head code

The Party Tree - watercolour and acryla gouache on paper Bilbo leaving his party early to embark on one last adventure. ✨prints on saIe✨

You see, it's not the absence of the lowest common denominator that oppresses them, it's the existence of anything else

And this connects up to something I've been thinking about Jeffries' comments last weekend. If there's anywhere on the planet where you're NOT going to find a persuadable swing voter, it's watching the Sunday morning politics talk shows. That's a place where you talk to your people and the media.

we all have reason to be mean to schumer

I think it’s important to remember that “the village idiot” isn’t necessarily that village’s ONLY idiot, he’s just the most famous one

I got the complaint in the horrific OpenAI self harm case the the NY Times reported today This is way way worse even than the NYT article makes it out to be OpenAI absolutely deserves to be run out of business

Lesser-Known Asimov

I don't think it was a financial decision at all. It was all about having power over other human beings, especially their own workers and servants, and MeToo, BLM and 3% unemployment all were huge threats to that power.

i wrote about this a few months ago and apparently Gavin Newsom didn’t read it stringinamaze.net/p/the-tyrann...

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Happy birthday to the late Stephen Hillenburg, creator of the popular #MagicTheGathering character, SpongeBob Squarepants!

A United States Senate investigation has identified more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses in US immigration detention since January, including alarming allegations of mistreatment of pregnant women and children.

much easier to understand the sheer bloody intensity of the civil war when you have a good grasp on just how terrible slavery was.

Oh man, I have a dumb #MagicTheGathering joke that I can't wait to post. Unfortunately, I have to wait until Thursday...

I suppose you could say that insisting on the rights of all trans people is issuing a political purity test. But why would you do so, while also ignoring the fact that those who refuse to enter the tent unless you push trans people out of the tent are also issuing a political purity test?

Don’t say “well you have a point about trans prisoners.” Say “How does a prisoner not getting healthcare fix your teeth? We’re a land of plenty and a land of imagination and drive, and we can take care of everyone.” Try that instead. And by the way there are candidates who do try that.