I had so much fun playing Oath this weekend. I hosted 3 games over 10 hours at Geekway to the West. It's so cool seeing the Oath world come alive! But even more fun are the group dynamics. I like seeing how other players play! And I like teaching something that's hard - teaching it fast.

Where do you buy a cheap bicycle u-lock? Wal*marts politics are bad Amazon's politics are bad Target's being boycotted It's actually ebay. www.opensecrets.org/orgs/ebay-in...

Holy shite! The #stl city tornado victims living in tents in north city are being harassed and tents bulldozed by City Refuse dept today! (This might be the area that was just cleaned up by a volunteer group this past weekend) Mayor Spencer is going full-MAGA. #unhoused #nstl Video via Derk Brown

I think we've 'solved' Cross Bronx Expressway. Three way tie therefore we all won. 1970s and 1980s, by the end the South Bronx was nearly a utopia. CC: @nbsp1618.bsky.social

"They Live" glasses, but evil and in-reverse: they allow ICE to ID people with facial recognition and gait analysis. Ooof. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

"Wombat Poo is the thinking man’s poop-stacking game." 💩🧐

Deep Thought: it's a shame there isn't a unicode character of a stegosaurus.

My main takeaway from the South St Louis Democratic Forum was: @gcmitts.bsky.social should absolutely get everyone's vote for MO's 4th Senate district. This race is critical, and here's two examples why:

Hasn’t whined about needing a ballroom to feel safe

@nbsp1618.bsky.social We played our third game of Cross Bronx Expressway. This time we tried to have all three players win through tying for VP. However, there wasn't enough slack in the system and we had drop VP balancing schemes to avoid disenfranchisement in the 80s and 90s.

here come old laptop he come bootin up slowly he got broken touchpad he need one more update he got no space on this pc one thing i can tell you its got no warranty

@aclu.org is sending me spam donation requests "in solidarity with" SPLC. All the money appears to go to ACLU. Really?

Hey, maybe you haven't been keeping up with current events, but we just got our asses kicked! Our bases in the ME are "uninhabitable" per the NY Times. That's because of Iranian drones.

If you do nothing more than observe the size of the average American commuter vehicle, it becomes really hard to feel sorry for anyone complaining about the price of gas. You don't get to choose to drive oversized, overpowered geometry and have all of society subsidize the fuel it requires to move.

I'll see your "are we the baddies?" and raise you "are we the Decepticons?" - Fly around in F-15s: check - Always raiding to steal energy: check

The Trump administration profoundly misunderstands power as being synonymous with violence, writes @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. But we can learn a lesson about real power from a humble source — flowers.

When I see people ask what more STL can do, I go back to the 1927 tornado. In 4 weeks after the tornado, the reconstruction and demolition had progressed so far that engineers had to rely on photos to study the tornado's effects. In under 4 months, more than 5500 families had direct cash aid.

Went to the supermarket. Their supposed "fire" lane was boring, actually.

Little koan to my quisling Senators this morning 🧵...

We can build concrete curbs either curved or with sharp angles. The brand new Tower Grove Connector features a mix of smooth and sharp. Which type would you rather hit with your head?

People fall and crack their heads on pavement about once per seven thousand urban miles walked.

"At some point if the ship doesn’t turn around, maybe it will start taking on water or listing badly or hit an iceberg, or perhaps the iceberg has been there all along and is named Donald Trump."

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You can't win the next war if you're not honest about losing the last one. It didn't work out so great for the Qing. It won't work out for the US either.

Protesting my president for threatening genocide. Protesting my mayor for removing bump outs without public process. Citizenship is weird these days.

Groomsmen play hakeysack with gumball pinecones in Tower Grove Park

Makes sense to me.

Good Morning. This is your Tower Grove Traffic Report. Construction fencing on the trail on the south side of Main Drive has been cleared at both Humbolt and Cypress South shelters. Happy trails!

A soldier in Reims with his bicycle April 1, 1917 Photo made using Autochrome, an early form of color photography using plates coated with dyed starch grains, patented by the Lumière brothers in 1904. 📷Paul Castelnau

Life is too short. Just type in [markdown](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown) even if it's not going to be rendered by bluesky or whatever.

Next: a shot across the bow of the Trump Regime. We build capacity now, so that they can't f with the midterms in November.

I can’t stop thinking about this framing when it comes to climate. And I don’t mean “doom” as in “I feel badly about this situation,” but as in “it’s too late.” Someone responded to my post about the impact of climate activism yesterday calling it hopium. Two people who follow me liked it.

I once again repeat the words that greatly influenced me when I was 20 years old and training to resist, if necessary, the might of the entire Russian army without outside help. When a braver man than I asked “do you expect us to win against all that,” the instructor paused. And said:

WHAT is UP with Saint Louis Metro Bus riders not making room for wheelchair-equipped riders? I get it if it's your first time riding, you may not fully grasp what's happening - you may not vacate the aggressively marked fold-up seats. But its happening way too often for that to be true.

Speaker Patterson and Gov. Kehoe want to swap out the income tax, which helps make the wealthy pay their fair share, with hikes on OUR sales taxes and CUTS to important services we need like schools and disability services. We won’t let them!

Daybreak decisive victory! turn 3 drawdown, just two temperature bars - 1.4 degrees C. Europe zeroed out their factory emissions on the first turn. Thanks to Industrial Emissions Reductions Investments, China was able to immediately to the same. @mattleacock.bsky.social @baddeo.bsky.social

Compare these bakfiets to buying a used bicycle trailer for $100 off Facebook Marketplace and dumping groceries in it. 🧵...

Fact Check: MOSTLY FALSE Star Tribune posts headline that's basically a lie. I believe the article changed significantly once you click through - this less-false article isn't the one I read yesterday, but I don't see any acknowledgement on the current article that it's been edited.

Our third face-to-face game of Oath was such a banger! I'm still pretty new to playing Oath with experienced players, so I'm not sure if it'll always be this interesting. Prior games have been decided anticlimactically by lack of player board-sight. But not this one! 🧵

Operation: Epstein Fury

TIL @stlpublicradio.bsky.social

NO KINGS is a national day of action. We come together to march and collectively lift our signs and voices against fascism, authoritarianism, cruelty and hate We stand together against authoritarianism, corruption, and the growing threat of of violence to our neighbors and our city!

I accidentally bought onion flavored cheese and what I'm left wondering is: "why does this exist?"