When New Laputa is hit with a wave of threats, the newly-formed Freak Squad must make their own decisions about how much risk to take. Episode 3 of @2dollarcreature.bsky.social's Pulp Punch-Up miniseries is available now wherever you catch your pods!

Tatyana Thompson said when she became pregnant with her son, her pain from sickle cell intensified. She was repeatedly in the hospital with a sharp pain, which she compared to being cut by a knife. After experimental treatment requiring bone marrow from her brother, she is pain-free. #BlackSky 🌱🙏🏾

guys in star wars used to be called “droopy mccool” and “fling bongus.” now they’re all called like “baylen zender.” i think this says a lot about society.

My alabaster milk child Teuton keeps asking for ranch dressing at the caviar factory, it is most epic. The fishmongers despise him.

formal proposal of a replacement for the vince mcmahon meme format

Just the story of his name is one of the coolest things of all time

please refer to the sign

Significantly helps people with heart disease *and* makes people 16% less likely to develop dementia? There should be lines at the pharmacy for this miracle drug.

Re-dropping this: I wrote a fun TTRPG based on the horror slashers of the late 90s and early 2000s! It is very queer and very campy! Given I'm currently unemployed, any copies sold are HUGELY helpful right now!

truly believe that it’s unhealthy to have a take on every single topic. It’s Good Actually for there to be discourse that you are not informed on

ok but can we talk about the mystery millionaire of osaka giving the city a bunch of gold to maintain the sewer system

This is a cliff on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. It's about 1 km tall. If you jumped from the top, it would take you 47 minutes to reach the bottom, and you'd probably be OK.

What’s happening here is that the 30% of the country that wants, like Mike Johnson, to impose its right wing religious values on the country using state power is falsely accusing the 1.3% of the US population that is Muslim of wanting to impose their religion on the country using state power.

In the 1920s, there was an enormous Klan-aligned caucus in the House of Representatives that passed an immigration restriction bill designed to keep out Catholics and Jews because they supposedly posed an existential threat to American civilization. 100 years later, here we are.

A striking feature of Trump and his team is: they somehow imagine a world in which they are the only actors, only ones with power, and whether it's Tehran or Minneapolis are surprised when it turns out others do. There are many kinds of power and many nations with power.

Can this be a solution?

It is horrific that incidents like these are increasing. While, at this point, we know nothing about the motives here, it is important to be clear that anger about Israeli actions is never a justification for violence against Jews.

Antisemitism is real.

I’m going around this website finding cute bisexuals between the ages of 27 and 37 and putting them in my pocket and letting them talk to each other and develop an insular and untested corpus of legal theories that will someday destroy the State as we have come to know it in the modern era

Bluesky feels so much like that. I log onto the fascism discussion board and I scroll through 200 posts by people who, in their day to day, all struggle with the people around them not knowing what’s happening / keeping up / caring. So they come on here and just say “it’s fascism” to each other

There’s this story I sometimes tell about a Gifted & Talented thing I did as a kid, where all the kids knew that “Ring Around the Rosy” was about the plague but they didn’t know how to adjust for these other kids who knew that too, so a bunch of 6 year olds just stood in a circle telling each other

good night, sewers. good night, streams. good night, operations and maintenance teams. good night, settling tanks. good night, stream banks. good night, engineers, scientists, crews, managers, inspectors, analysts too. a good night for us means serving with care. good night, sewers, everywhere.

Autistic people enjoy parallel play? Well, first of all it's called Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Everyone is saying how “stupid” this guy is, but it’s worse than that: 1) he’s sandbagging bc he has been coached to do so (which is his lawyer’s job); 2) when he was in the job, he simply did not give a shit. He was there for a paycheck and didn’t give two thoughts to any guiding principle.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

Or even easier, get the new episode right here!

When New Laputa is hit with a wave of threats, the newly-formed Freak Squad must make their own decisions about how much risk to take. Check out episode 3 of Pulp Punch-Up, the miniseries from @2dollarcreature.bsky.social! Get it wherever you get your pods

Alright fam, here it is Moby-Dick Rocks!!!; or, put down the AI and read a fucking book. by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein earrings by Ear Art by Ebony London

4/ Ok, so what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories. But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production? They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war.

3/ Second, they confirmed "regime change" is also NOT on the list. So, they are going to spend hundreds of billions of your taxpayer dollars, get a whole bunch of Americans killed, and a hardline regime - probably a MORE anti-American hardline regime - will still be in charge.

2/ Maybe the lead is that the war goals DO NOT involve destroying Iran's nuclear weapons program. This is, uh...surprising...since Trump says over and over this is a key goal. But then of course we already know air strikes can't wipe out their nuclear material.

Once pop culture media turned into pop culture content mills, there was no going back. I miss those days. Not every writer and reviewer loved everything they watched (even for properties they were die hard fans of) but we got interesting reviews, recaps and fun takes. Not… whatever this is. 😒

Going live now with session 0 of a new game around these parts: Bloomtide! Tune in right now on YouTube and Twitch before episode 1 drops next week (hopefully). YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/live/73_fDR4vPbM Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/althaven_

This is also why art is important. I learned about the Troubles because of the Cranberries song Zombie. I was only six or seven at the time, but it was such a powerful and terrifying song and music video that I asked my family what it was about. They told me as best they could.

“Markets rejoice as man who always says what everyone wants to hear tells them what they want to hear”

NEW “We’re celebrating a tradition that is at its core about resisting occupation and maintaining community in the face of horrors. You can’t keep politics out of Irish music. No one should try, for two reasons. First, it’s ahistorical. Second, Minnesotans are ready for a big anti-fascist party.”

I know several ship captains with Master Unlimited licenses who have piloted the largest vessels on the oceans and they are—to the man—the most risk-adverse people on Earth. They are responsible for dozens of lives and hundreds of millions in assets. 0% chance any sail through Hormuz for a while.

Why do we keep remaking goofy generic franchise movies when we could make movies about absolute badasses and their adorable floppy eared pals

If 176 children were slaughtered in their classrooms in Dublin, Brussels, Berlin, Tel Aviv or Texas by a foreign adversary, the world would rightfully be at a standstill. - Shona Murray www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu... @shonamurray.bsky.social

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas. "He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger." www.bbc.com/news/article...

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Oh my god?????

A different betting-on-murder app, Kalshi, just partnered (read: gave money to) with the Associated Press, which absolutely should know better than to give their golden goose (industry-standard election results) to a gambling site, but apparently they are run by fucking morons now.

Polymarket is trying VERY HARD to wheedle their way into a more socially acceptable space, where instead of being FanDuel for bombings, they are thought of as An Important Dataset. They just partnered (read: gave money to) Substack for this reason. Do not accept the premise. It is bullshit.

This has nothing to do with the specific content here, but Polymarket adopting the language of news, here with BREAKING, and with Texas election results earlier this week, is BAD. Polymarket is not and will never be a news org or break news. It's a betting app. It's Draft Kings for sociopaths.

they knew they could get away with it because they practiced all those times on the “narco-terrorist” boats, where they also killed the survivors, and nobody sent them to The Hague about it so they are running completely unchecked right now with full use of the arsenal. I do not know how this ends

If you're an inexperienced GM don't be afraid to say to your players "I'm not too confident improvising right now so please roughly follow the plot and don't go too far off-piste. Help me to run a good game for you and I'll get more confident and experienced as we all play together"

You get all sorts of side benefits by having your game take place over a very long time period. Seasonality, investments, big projects, "the odyssey" as a new kind of adventure, broader and longer planning, political manoeuvring, realistic convalescence, in-world relationships. Long term pays off

like even if Trump wanted to just walk away and leave the region to burn it seems like he’s created a scenario where the two options are a cohesive enemy state that can strangle the global economy or a collapsed collection of militants that can strangle the world economy, WHICH IS ACTUALLY WORSE

"now we have war crime rules of engagement and not even vague objectives!"