This post was genetically engineered to agitate. A technically true statement about a contentious topic in which numerous forces are at work. No agenda other than frustration. Not a single lie told, yet the fullness of truth is so far away. Masterclass bait.

I wrote this piece for @damemagazine.bsky.social about local news. Thanks to @mattdpearce.com @timafranklin.bsky.social and Shamus Toomey of @blockclubchi.bsky.social for chatting with me for it: www.damemagazine.com/2026/05/20/s...

I still think these two paragraphs from Ganz are the most important contemporary political writing

obsession very scary ahhhhh great movie

Bluesky is just Truth Social for libs, except they have the President of the United States and we have Robert Reich and the guy who owns the Onion

Thought this was disc horse bot at first

The gloom that people are reporting is the reality. This is the condition that informs political behavior.

One thing I’ve been exposed to on here that I feel like you don’t see in the real world is people with strongly held political beliefs who sincerely believe there is no value in persuading outsiders or converting enemies. I can’t help but think this is flawed, almost on an evolutionary scale.

She says, embracing a fascist.

Aspirational

Every DSA is an Ocean’s 11 waiting to happen

I think it can both be true that there are committed antisemites who couch their antisemitism in “eat the rich”-esque platitudes and that there are conservatives who aren’t that and who could be swayed. That telling the former apart from the latter isn’t always easy doesn’t mean it can’t be done.

The normielibs of blusky are perhaps the most hapless and ineffectual class of people. The the same people so sufficiently socially impaired as to miss the humor in this will swear up and down that Kamala was abounding with charisma.

Platner’s campaign is funny because the people who chanted “vote blue no matter who” are having that principle tested by a shitposter with a fashy tattoo, but I don’t know how much you can actually take away from it other than Mills being a poor candidate.

Online tribalism has rotted people’s minds so badly they’re genuinely outraged by an excerpt from a book written by five ironic comedy jerkoffs as it’s a treatise. There are literal cartoons in this book.

The Drama was very funny but very stressful to watch. At times it felt like its choice to use spoiler as the inciting incident was underdeveloped, but overall enjoyable 3.5/5

"People should toughen up a bit and not become fascists even when dogpilled by terminally online queer weirdos" and "People are imperfect and much more irrational than we'd all like thus being understandable to be negatively polarized by interactions" are 2 things imho perfectly compatible 2 believe

There’s a brand of educated normielib that simply cannot grasp that their lofty economic indicators may not reflect how people experience their day to day lives. Rather than conclude their analysis may be incomplete, we get inverted conspiracism i.e. “wake up sheeple things are fine!”

Sorry but you are way too humanities brained if you think space colonization is problematic because earth colonization was often accompanied by bad stuff. There are no people on the moon. The bad things involving colonization were the things they did to people living there. There are no people there

Day 390, random old school TTRPG art from random book: “Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Players Handbook”, TSR 1977, David C. Sutherland, page 23. #ttrpg #tabletoprpg #d&d #dnd #osr #ad&d #fantasyart #art #ttrpgcommunity #dndart #osrart #monster #paladin

Project Hail Mary was a very underwhelming film. Too quippy without being funny, too quick to solve problems off screen, too many ending fake-outs. Great soundtrack though. 2.5/5

deconstructing and reconstructing your relationship to your parents is good for your mental health but also has the side effect of enabling you to admit that sometimes country music is good

you (childish pokemon player): its a game about dog fighting me (advanced pokotopia enjoyer): its a game about resettling native pokemon populations into prefabricated duplexes so i can strip mine the environment and provide high tech goods and services

(rkgk) dudes of hazmat

playing Overwatch regularly will convince you that humankind is incapable of self governing

People keep saying “Another Fetterman” like Fetterman was some deep cover R the whole time and not a mixed bag democrat who now has massive brain damage

Kuwaiti F/A-18 pilot scoring three air-to-air kills in quick succession:

The New York Times clearly just saying Crockett is a progressive and Talarico is a moderate because Crockett is black and Talarico is white

Steins;Gate was as good as they’d said it’d be. Probably gonna watch zero before the movie. If that reboot of the VN comes out while I’m still riding this train, I’ll probably pick that up too.

Anybody less into RPG theory than me is a 5E-only troglodyte and everybody more into RPG theory than me is a fart sniffing navelgazer.

Oh THIS is why everyone thinks this guy is annoying

too hot outside

i don't particularly disagree with a lot of the critiques of anarchist activism by liberals but I bristle when they act as if their best practices are any wiser. we're here because none of us figured out how to avoid being here. everyone should have some goddamn humility.

For more than a hundred centuries, the Emperor has sat immobile on the Golden Throne. The master of mankind by the will of the gods. A rotting carcass writhing with power, the Carrion Lord for whom a thousand souls are sacrificed every day. "The Immortal King" Digital Greyscale

Just Announced (Tomorrow's announcement today): Quest Master QUEST MASTER is an Australian project that burst onto the underground 'dungeon synth' scene in 2017. Known for its nostalgic soundscapes reminiscent of 90s RPGs, the project utilizes classic digital tones from Yamaha and Casio keyboards.

If the pattern holds, Republicans are gonna make daycare truthing their 2028 platform and win, only to find out that JD was Somali all along

I would be sworn in to office on my copy of the AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide.

All people born in 1995 bear an innate powers because both Gamma Ray’s “Land of the Free” and Blind Guardians “Imaginations from the Other Side” were released that year

December 25th. The day the Fellowship departs Rivendell to destroy the One Ring. Whatever you celebrate, may you have the courage to take the first steps to defy and endure against the dark, and rekindle light into the world.

I still maintain "Van Helsing" should have been a musical with songs by Jim Steinman. It would still have flopped but would probably have gone on to become one of the most beloved films ever with stage versions in cities worldwide raking in billions.

Need to learn multithreading for my brain so I can still think about dragons while doing Work

Hang on I thought the subgenre was about financial and political intrigue inside the royal harems of fantasy settings and concubines that controlled entire fleets of trade ships that made them richer than the emperor have I been lied to

Desecration.

I know October is over but listen, there’s no reason we can’t extend spooky season all the way to Christmas. Who’s going to stop us? Mariah Carey? The guardian of holiday cheer and all things jolly? Possibly… but we won’t know if we don’t try.

I wanted Black Phone 2 to be good so bad, but what an abysmal sequel! The wretched script for that movie felt more violent than anything I saw on screen. Starring Ethan Hawke’s voiceover and a plank of wood that hijacks the movie for an emotional filibuster every twenty minutes. Great visuals though

Me to resistlib cringe content in the second term

listen. it isn't. I have, it's not, there are lots of--but, all the same

So, hot take but actually the solution is not quotas (obviously) but just more jobs in the academic humanities. Part of the problem with the humanities jobs crisis is you get hired basically sight unseen (straight from PhD) or not at all and I'd buy that process is more ideological.