Realizing that Carl Sagan was my generation's "Bill Nye" and deeply thankful for that.

I don't make the rules. #AirportLaw

worldbuilding: it's easy and fun

Ran a #ttrpg for the first time in a while tonight for friends - a convention scenario for @montecookgames.com' #OldGodsOfAppalachia. When we finish the scenario, going to run a re-skinned campaign for them set here in Louisiana called #OldGodsOfAcadiana www.montecookgames.com/old-gods-of-...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Timeline cleanse

I love hearing the stories from my wife about how she takes care of the trans customers that come into her pharmacy. To make them comfortable. And to train her staff on making her Trans customers comfortable.

That's right. What's more alarming is ~97% of the current highway storm drains in the United States were designed using rainfall information that was published in *1961* using 1930s-1950s data. We're using infrastructure built for the rainfall of nearly a century ago. engrxiv.org/preprint/vie....

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

It always makes me happy when I see turtles sunning themselves on the bayou! And then I think of the scoundrel Mario, who would see the same thing and say, "I think I'll jump on those and kill them!"

Won't you indulge me as I unveil my latest selection of most exquisite Textures and Patterns

Fuck those fascists.

Love this

One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.

Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe. And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.

I visited a house that produces more electricity than it uses. The owner says the remodel cost less than if he'd followed standard practices. I came away with five lessons and put them in an @npr.org story: www.npr.org/2025/09/20/n...

refuseuline.com for anyone with purchasing power! The Uihleins are simply awful people.

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

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95 democrats, including @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social voted to "honor" the life of charlie kirk, who called for joe biden to be killed and said black women like justice ketanji brown jackson are unqualified affirmative action hires. shame. clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

cancelling Disney+ and Hulu is well and good but it’s not a huge hit on an individual level but Disney adults? people who spend real money at the parks? you guys can make a dent, call ‘em up and tell them your vacation is postponed until they pull their heads out of their asses

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Massive consolidation of entertainment conglomerates has an unexpected downside for them: when one of their subsidiaries capitulates to fascism, it threatens their entire portfolio. ABC, Disney, Star Wars, theme parks, cruises, Hulu, Marvel, Pixar, ESPN, etc. are all now fair boycott targets.

The idea that “the civil rights act was a mistake” is a mainstream conservative position we can only tolerate but “defund the police” is a great cancer that must be excised from America for Democrats to win is the actual reason Democrats lose. Sorry.

Bruh

The article mentions that they've learned this tactic from people in LA, which I've heard of myself. It turns out that ICE agents don't like their activities to make a scene, and the noise both draws attention to them and warns their victims.

Disney didn't watch Andor

Defending trans people is obviously morally just and ethical. Beyond that it just is tactically the correct thing to do because the GOP is going to say the same thing about Dems no matter what and either you can respond with 'well my opponent has some points' or 'look at this hateful shit'

"...every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active opposition to cruel bigotry, convulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism...nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us."

For the 2nd anniversary of The Wretched I released a free postcard that contained a handful of new prompts for the game. I decided that since it's been 3 years since then, it was time to post them somewhere public. Here you go. loottheroom.uk/4-more-promp...

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

It feels so fucking insane to be scolded about how leftists need to tone down our rhetoric while the world's richest man endorses this shit

A thread of all the elected Democrats who've put out statements of support for trans people this week as Republicans manufacture a genocide: 🧵

Not surprised they didn't get it

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

The Groyper Wars

This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for. But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem

there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him

every time you see a picture of a bear exiting hibernation and walking upright, you immediately understand where bigfoot myths came from

My guess is that his threat to prosecute feds who violate the rights of Chicagoans did it. Every D governor and AG should be making the same promise.

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I have a lot, but think about this one often

My take-home message is that mainstream white America doesn’t think white supremacy makes him an awful person

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

Did they do this when two children were killed at school in a church?

Just saw a Chicago "unicorn:" 3 consecutive Purple Line CTA trains heading to Howard from Belmont. (Waiting on a Brown Line.)

#nolatwitter do any of you in New Orleans have a good relationship or experience with a local hospice agency?

Last call. Honestly, this furniture is just ok. There are a bunch of lamps if anyone needs them. I have a couple of sleeper sofas I will need to get rid of in the next couple of days. Definitely a bring your own labor situation!