Laura Loomer is getting quite a bit of flack in the replies to this tweet, where she calls people saying nice things about Rob Reiner "simps"

My favourite shot of the entire 'The Lord of the Rings' movie trilogy. This is an image seared into my brain from childhood, the tower and the mountain of Mordor with the Nazgul flying around. It's a stunning image and it just takes my breath away to see my childhood imagination made real.

Like any bully, Trump is fundamentally a coward. When he feels humiliated, he lashes out. Every authoritarian action he is taking must be understood against the backdrop of his declining popularity. He feigns strength, but he's operating from a place of weakness.

Hot tip Amazon: don’t use AI for summaries of your stuff, pay people to do it

whoever is writing reality lately is really getting heavy-handed with it. no subtlety at all

I went and wrote it. Here are some things you can do as a ttrpg project manager to make freelancing fun and easy: barilleon.com/managing-ttr...

A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker. This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.

Buckle up, the regime is gonna use these terrorist fools as an excuse to treat political opponents like criminals and abuse our civil liberties even more. Federal authorities arrest 4 in extremist group bombing plot in California | AP News share.google/Osz0rR7HiNCA...

Let me help you out. Yes, you are.

Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago. His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship." He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Reporters should be printing photos of this post to show to elected Republicans who pretend they haven’t seen Trump’s response to Rob Reiner’s death

Just to get ahead of this: Print the post out and bring it to the next Mike Johnson presser. You already know what his move will be. There’s no excuse to not be prepared for it.

insane move to imply that a murderer is your own supporter

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-regularly-happens-3/

incredible things happening at the nazi bar

Apropos to a post I'm not going to quote: no, you are not fucking obliged to battle the fucking right on fucking social media, or go to where they are. Why make yourself miserable shouting at bots (who don't care) or trolls (who get off on your misery). Make your fucking social media enjoyable, FFS.

In case you missed it over the weekend... I made another TTRPG Bookmark.

live shot as someone asks johnson about trump's reiner post

Buckle up, the regime is gonna use these terrorist fools as an excuse to treat political opponents like criminals and abuse our civil liberties even more. Federal authorities arrest 4 in extremist group bombing plot in California | AP News share.google/Osz0rR7HiNCA...

Just discovered that DuckDuckGo lets you block sites from all future search results and this is going to fix me.

You thought Trump couldn't sink any lower? Guess what...

New Game idea: it's called Draw Steel. It's a solo game where you play the concept artist for the 1997 Shaquille O'Neill film, Steel.

Do you want me to send you back to where you were? Unemployed? In GREENLAND?

Who's the greatest character in all of popular fiction and why is it Grandma Arbuckle?

every post is like i bet you didn’t know this absolutely wonderful thing about rob reiner and each one is different

Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008. Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.

You can’t “fix” X, The Everything App by going back and posting there because the owner has this thumb on the scale of the algorithm to promote the worst ideas and people. It’s not a viable solution, you have to let it go.

It’s so cool that every website is just Like This now. We used to send guys to the chair for putting pop-up ads on their sites. Now if I want to read something I have to read single lines between autoplaying video ads that use so much RAM they force the browser to reload every 5 seconds.

antisemitism has two settings, "shut up jews you're overreacting" and "mass murder"

retvrn to mystery stories based around the actual mystery and not whether the detective is sad and/or wet

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides

Tyranny

Chavarria, a U.S. citizen, was held at the airport "for more than four hours and released only after he finally agreed to let the agents search his smartphone, tablet, and laptop computer. The agents...informed him that he had no Fourth Amendment right to resist." @pacificlegal.bsky.social is suing.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

I may be in the minority, but for me, chaos and shenanigans are not the goal at a #ttrpg table. I'm not against humor, but I love serious stories and games with stakes, and players and characters who take the secondary world and situations seriously. Just me?

Australian here 👋 Stop saying the tragedy in Sydney demonstrates that strict gun laws don’t work. There were ZERO mass shootings in Australia in the two decades after strict gun laws were passed in 1996. We have so much we need to do, but strict gun laws remain a critical part of the solution.

I get tons of ideas every day. It's only by living with them and in them, and learning the craft and art of writing, that this means anything worth a darn.

The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.

Hot take: every elected official & every judge should have to meet with everyday constituents for two (2) hours every week. Just whoever signs up, decided by lottery. And each constituent gets a full 5 minutes. The official has to sit there and listen - absolutely not allowed to leave the room.

There hasn’t been enough appreciation for how thoroughly BENNIE THOMPSON humiliated FBI official GLASHEEN after he tried to sell the lie that ANTIFA is the top domestic terror threat. The claim collapsed because it’s a cover. Check my latest… open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...

Always thinking about this bit of dialogue from Jedi: Survivor

At some point it is pretty freeing to accept the fact that complete buffoons have taken over most of the things you thought were important institutions

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This is because Nate Silver has 300K subscribers on Substack and Heather Cox Richardson has 2.7M. Mediocre men CAN'T STAND successful women, and even blame them for their own failures. Pathetic.

Let’s try it without a parachute.

I really wish someone with a nose ring would sharply tell Nate Silver that it’s important to talk as much as possible, so he would in reaction absolutely shut the fuck up forever

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