This is why we need to start talking about this shit now, and not wait until after we vote them out. Dem leadership with blinders on talking about "kitchen table issues" when actual folks at actual kitchen tables are talking about tribunals.

is "being a huge fucking bitchass loser" considered culturally normal gavin because I gotta be real it's not looking good for you out there

new york democrats shouldn't be let anywhere near power. the ideal democratic leader is a guy who won by 2 percent and actually thinks of the GOP, rather than other Democrats, as the enemy.

A good meme to send people who are convinced we live in a computer simulation.

A good analysis of a good movie

Me: I'm gonna try one of them primordial fruits. Fruits what existed before humans bred new fake ones into existence Me, two minutes later: okay I now understand why humans bred new fruits

The best way to understand the current regime is that we're effectively being governed by an unofficial, extra-constitutional junta mostly dominated by Miller, in which Trump himself is a marginal and disengaged figurehead making few if any substantive decisions.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

I'm sure most of my gamer peeps know that the Wizard/Sorcerer distinction didn't show up in D&D until 2001. But that's nothing compared to how the anachronistic Stihl model is blowing up in Chainsaw social media circles. That said, damn is this season of Stranger Things cool as hell.

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

DOORDASH: imagine a $12 sandwich ME: oh dang that sounds so good DOORDASH: now imagine that it could be yours for just $37

See, when I'm facilitating #ttrpgs, I'm there to be entertained by the antics of the OTHER players. I AM THE AUDIENCE, not the performer; yeah, I'll do my bit parts, and set design, and stage management and lighting. But your PCs are the STARS OF THE SHOW, so make with the roles/rolls and SHINE!

any time Discord or Windows or whatever has a "An update is ready for you :)" button i sit there with my mouse hovering over it knowing that it's like russian roulette where one chamber has a live bullet and the other 5 chambers will explode the gun in my hands

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

There's a lot to criticize in 4E, from how classes and races were split up to bad MMs to having a boring armor system (again), but that's not usually what people complained about. They parroted dumb complaints with little direct knowledge, and for it they should be pursued by hounds across the moor.

stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.

notice how the depiction of the hacker in media got commodified by the tech industry when hackers stopped dressing like aliens going to the gay nightclub and started dressing like mark zuckerberg in a hoodie

Make the villain be an American politician and cast the actor who played Biff in Back to the Future II.

My fav Shakespeare thing is how Henry IV part 2 starts with Majel Barrett Roddenberry saying, "Previously on Henry IV..." and there's a clip reel ending with Hotspur yelling "FIRE EVERYTHING WE'VE GOT." Then Majel's voice: "And now, the conclusion."

Notably, reactionaries in power are failing to live up to this promise, which is a big part of the reason for the current backlash and loss of support.

This is a production. 10/10 😭😭😭 THE LEAVES 🍂 🤣🤣🤣🤣

it is absolutely the tech companies fault that people now assume they’re doing something evil and sneaky even when they actually aren’t (regarding the latest Google kerfuffle) like, no kidding that people have zero willingness to cut big tech the benefit of the doubt anymore

Oh, hey. I'm in this video!

There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.

"The Stories we tell about ourselves and our families are patchwork quilts, defined by the patches of memory we choose to sew in, but also the scraps we choose to discard."

Thread. “AI is patching up the holes in conspiracy theories and so making them seem more reasonable, making them easier to spread and more resilient to collapse” was not on my bingo card. AI relieves the pressure of cognitive dissonance. That’s … not great.

Sometimes I glance at YouTube and there's a video about Doctor Who, Star Trek, etc., that's like "breaking news! a thing happened!" And then instead of watching a 30 minute video I go and look for text-based sites that can tell me in three sentences what the thing that happened was.

1/ Thread. I think this is true. I'm 53. Without even trying I met: -multiple Holocaust survivors -multiple US veterans, including one who hit the beach at Omaha -a wehrmacht veteran, proud of the men he served with but ashamed of what they fought for Dick Winters once noted that a lot of the ...

Bill Watterson’s “Calvin and Hobbes” first appeared 40 years ago, on November 18, 1985. Here’s the first week of dailies:

"average suburban democrat wants half the administration to rot in prison until the end of time" actualy just statistical error. Average dem wants them all to burn in unending fire. Bodhisattva Georg, who is filled with total compassion for all beings, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

Wanna see the happiest dog on the planet?

This is fucking hilarious

"I'm afraid *currency* is the currency of the realm"

there are no faces there are no faces there are no faces there are no faces there are no faces there are no faces there are no faces

The consensus view among the Dem base is: -normie mainstream liberalism -unremitting, fire-breathing, hardline anti-Trumpism The factions that exist outside of this consensus have a strong incentive to essentially act as if it’s not an option, and you must choose either leftism or accommodationism

It turns out that the president doesn't have some magic "economy get better" button, but they do have an "economy get worse" button and Trump is pressing it like it summons cans of Diet Coke.

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

Kevin Kiley introducing a bill to ban partisan gerrymandering at the national level and desperately trying to become a Reasonable Bipartisan after Newsom deleted his district shows how you *acutally* uphold norms btw: you impost costs for breaking them

As a life-long Californian, I endorse this view.

Shitty media men indeed. It’s misogyny all the way down.

See also: Popehat's rule of goats

Man fuck this guy.

What's wild is that you could probably explain chemistry and nuclear physics at the most basic level and they'd catch on, but the part that would actually break their brains is the abandonment of the gold standard.

I would go so far as to argue, that in a "fat pope, thin pope" sure of way, that the next bond films *can't* be grounded and gritty of they want to keep the series relevant.

I do think this is a point of radicalization because a lot of angry, angry normal people were ready to dig in and suffer a lot in order to make fascists suffer a little, and their resolution was sold out and made into a mockery

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.

I will support Centrists, I will support Communists. I will NOT support Capitulators, I will NOT support Collaborators.

I realized why this article bothers me. It's because it narrows being a devote Christian narrowly to ideas around sex which is an inherently conservative definition of Christianity. Talarico says his Christianity is what compels him to care about the poor.