cut my life into cheeses this is my charcuterie board

Ok one thing we are not going to demonize is the general process of destroying a copy of a mass produced volume in order to get a higher quality copy when digitizing a book. It’s a very standard practice for non rare books.

Honestly I love it when there are lyrics that are on the level of words intelligible but that don’t really make any sense. Like Yes, or a bunch of Paul Simon, or a fair amount of Jimmy Buffett.

If Satan himself were running against Trump I would say holy fucking shit the devil is real? What is the world? Then I’d go directly to church and never leave.

Worth thinking about how John Fetterman's position polls at 5% among Democratic primary voters and AOC's polls at 75%

Divination. I see my visual history of divination is now up on the Yale website. Forthcoming this year, Oct 2026. Enjoyed the challenge, once again, of exploring global traditions. Complex and rich. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Please do not use fake science tidbit that brains are not “fully developed” until 25. This is not just bad science it has mostly been advanced for pernicious ends. There is no reason to delay considering people really adult until 25, please!

a neighbor set up this werewolf for halloween and instead of taking it down they just update it with seasonal outfit changes. now it’s dressed for valentine’s day and holding a sign with a picture of bad bunny and his super bowl slogan. i love him.

Almost every complaint about what academics in the humanities study could be solved by quantities of money that are - in the scheme of these sorts of things - very small. In that context, what is telling is that the right, aware that the humanities were for sale, opted to destroy them instead.

Curling Bisbee, ND

The locked attic room in Ashcourt from where science fiction writer Olag Gandle disappeared on February 15th, 1936. The disappearance remains unsolved and a matter of much speculation. It has entered the folklore of the county as faith, as ritual. #LightACandleForOlagGandle

All Dark Jedi are scabs undermining the wages of the True Sith by fucking up labor scarcity. Only hire psychopaths who shoot lighting from their fingers from a union shop.

as a romance reader AND a sex worker i absolutely hate the “romance isn’t smut!!” / “smut isn’t porn!!” discourse. as a genre that gets so much disrespect you’d hope for some solidarity, but instead they end up punching down to distance themselves from the sex industry.

What is the worst non D&D #ttrpg that you unironically love? For me this is actually a difficult question because I’m tempted to answer CCONTINUUM: ROLEPLAYING IN THE YET which has some real genuine charms, but I think I can’t truly love it, so my answer is SJG’s In Nomine in the original d666

If one is looking for left-FP ideas from electeds in the US, could do worse than follow the lead of Ilhan Omar, who has repeatedly put forth a repeal of the Hague Invasion Act as a core necessity for international rule of law. US alignment should not function as a backstop against justice for crimes

Exceedingly tired of politicians, university management and union presidents insisting our most urgent problems are too much worker power, a lack of plagiarism and wrong information as opposed to troops in our communities and concentration camps.

Change the psychic distribution

Within 18 months all white collar workers could be replaced by a 1km sphere of flesh in Central Park

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell TTRPG

Tell a story.

Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow

@ingforart.bsky.social happy Birthday

🌟 Sex workers at Sheri’s Ranch, a legal brothel in Pahrump, Nevada, are unionizing with the Communications Workers of America @cwaunion.bsky.social Last week, management fired several pro-union workers—including the union’s primary organizer, Jupiter Jetson thenevadaindependent.com/article/sex-...

The aesthetics of the 3.5" floppy are immaculate. It's peak consumer electronics design from the company that brought you the Walkman a few years before! I could write a book on the design of just this floppy, and how it's so much better than the 5¼"/8" floppies that came.

If you say "my skin is so dry" people might recommend a lotion but if you say "my skin is so wet" no one will help you

More swan than swan. The ugliest of all possible ducklings

H663 Riddle: what is whiter than a swan? An angel.

“Asking the musical question, ‘Steam Heat’”

It would be embarrassing under any circumstances to spend a year on this reactionary horseshit, but to have spent the year in which graduate students were sent to concentration camps for op-eds and the federal govt launched a no hold barred attack on academic freedom is just beyond

Apple's new policies on "harmful content" (nsfw) hit Lovense toys & thus sex workers by extension this is only going to get worse

Open borders really is the way to go. Shouldn’t be controversial anywhere left of center.

Actual footage of Vince Guaraldi performing "Linus and Lucy". I'm gobsmacked that this exists, but utterly thrilled too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...

They’re different creatures with different metaphysical and even different game roles, and Mage is my first love, but uh…Ars Magica is just a better *free form* magic system than Mage: the Ascension

Order of Biggitude

The EU has just voted, by a VERY wide margin, for the full recognition of trans women as women…!

totally enthralled by this oven mitt with an onion sitting on it at LAX with the words “2. Keep important medications with you” over it. I took dozens of photos

The Vincent Price Saint radio episodes are a delight

Julian of Norwich (if she had autocorrect): “All shall be we’ll, and all shall be we’ll, and all manner of thing shall be we’ll.”

Significant legal victory today. Federal judge threw out two private lawsuits made possible by the Kansas age-verification law. Mom said her teen son accessed porn sites, wanted millions in damages. Judge said an out-of-state company can't be sued just because it's accessible in Kansas.

Malignus #GoogleTranslatesMTG Original: scryfall.com/card/av...

you think Princess Peach is sort of in a Ptolemic type situation, like from a dynasty of foreign conquerors and not ethnically Mushroom

It’s really impressive how much mucus my body can produce when it’s infected