BeijingPalmer
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Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot
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(the Great Games Recommendation Thead, part 3, only another 500 plus games to go, you bastards) 201: Brindlewood Bay. Incredible game of improvised deduction where you are the Golden Girls but investigating a Cthulhoid murder cult in a small town through Monk-style quicky/cosy stories.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux
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Since we're apparently debating the popularity of military history, the department I generally teach for probably fills close to 300 seats of military history each year. It also has no tenure lines assigned to the field and no intention to assign any in the future.
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âPolyamory or refugeeâ is the funniest of these for me but âgenocide or libraryâ is close
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Josh Fruhlinger
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it's christmas eve so it's time for me to go on and on about my favorite nativity story hobbyhorse, which is that there are two nativity stories in the bible and they very clearly are entirely different from one another
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Zack Polanski
about 3 hours ago
The Telegraph highlighting - yet missing - two vital points here. 1) We're not calling for ÂŁ476m to be spent. It already is - this is about diverting it to actually helping. 2) Why "cruelty" in question? The ÂŁ476m we're spending is part of an operation tear gassing babies.
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AkivaMCohen
about 2 hours ago
Folks, THIS is how you respond to good faith criticism correctly. Should be applauded, and it's deeply appreciated
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Nicholas Grossman
about 2 hours ago
Forcing attribution to America in general leads to bad both-sides-ing. The Trump admin is doing, and GOP supporting, blatant Constitutional violations, rights violations, and war crimes. Some Democrats were disappointed in Biden, and Ezra Klein wrote a book. These aren't remotely equivalent. 3/x
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about 9 hours ago
âCCTV News sets aside five minutes a day to scold her. This has been going on for a month, so she must be utterly ashamed by now.â
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Michael Hobbes
about 13 hours ago
The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work. This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
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Michael Hobbes
about 13 hours ago
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
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DDOwen
about 10 hours ago
There was a novel about WW2 with magic set in the UK where two of the protagonists got married in the back garden of their house by another protagonist and it was a bit "tell me the author is from the US without saying he's from the US"...
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so one of the interesting cultural differences between the UK and US is that the ability to perform a marriage is *way* more limited in the UK - you basically have to be either a registrar (the civil servant option) or an actual minister in charge of a registered physical building
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mtsw
about 17 hours ago
Fewer than 150 murders in Baltimore is wild. When I was a kid it was almost always more than one a day
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rev. howard arson
about 14 hours ago
there is a reason that Trump is striking out in front of his own district court judges and that the Heritage Foundation is imploding. it's because this isn't true. people have been saying this for years. they were right for Gettier case reasons.
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Elad Nehorai
about 14 hours ago
When youâve gone to this place, itâs time to just admit your only interest in antisemitism is claiming it doesnât exist
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Stephen Judkins
about 20 hours ago
It's funny how us parochial Americans generally seem to perceive that the EV revolution is stalling or reversing when in fact it's accelerating rapidly worldwide. 25% of cars sold globally in 2025 were EVs! It's mostly just the US that's being left behind
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Cooper Lund
about 18 hours ago
The administrationâs main goal, and primary product, is the creation of fascism-flavored content
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See one thing every media outlet loves is a story about another outlet fucking up. Itâs like catnip.
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The cat and dog have started napping together but the cat is clearly a little embarrassed about it.
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I would like to pay more money and for games to be super-fancy. I like my fancy graphics! Every time I see pixel art I die inside a little! I didn't bribe the TSMC staff for my graphics card for this!
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about 16 hours ago
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Moira Donegan
about 19 hours ago
A genuinely dispiriting thing about covering sexual violence is how often the suffering of women and children is metabolized as political point-scoring or titillating entertainment.
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And then the tempter took him to a high place, and placed the football before him.
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about 16 hours ago
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Nicholas Grossman
about 20 hours ago
The hypercompetent evil genius is more of an action movie / comic book creation than reality. Or evil governmentsâ propaganda. Did you know that Mussolini and the Italian fascists didnât actually make the trains run on time? They just said they did, and people remember their words.
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James Holloway: monsterman.org
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So D&D is medieval (kinda sorta) in its clothing and technology, with castles and knights and things you might find in medieval *literature* like wizards and dragons, but it has a lot of elements of the western in how it thinks about "civilisation" and "wildness" and whatnot.
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James Holloway: monsterman.org
1 day ago
Related to conversations about fantasy adventure and colonialism: one thing that is very interesting about D&D's medievalism is that its default geography -- frontiers, large areas of wilderness, etc. -- is not particularly what medieval W. Europe was like.
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Paul Scheer
about 20 hours ago
In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.
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John Pfaff
about 20 hours ago
These declines are MASSIVE. And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING. âWhy are ppl always so afraid of crime?â THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it. Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.
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Bill Kristol
about 20 hours ago
Isn't the cutting edge of the American Right now more extreme, more openly bigoted and antisemitic, than the AfD? And the "Heritage American" / "Don't apologize for being White" stuff --bad as it is-- is it's more respectable face. What's underneath is worse.
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Candace Owens Brings MAGA to the Conspiracist Horizon
Arguments between the antisemitic influencerâs supporters and critics dominated the proceedings at TPUSAâs AmFest.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/candace-owens-brings-maga-to-the-conspiracist-horizon-tpusa-amfest?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Vicci Ho
about 20 hours ago
About ten years ago I had lunch with a well-known Hollywood actress and when she saw Russell Brand in the restaurant she literally slid down from her chair to hide from him - said he had recently saw her in a cafe during a meeting and barged in to demand she gave him her number. (she did not)
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Bari Weiss is incompetently debasing herself for her evil boss, and ironically enough so is Kat Rosenfield, the FP's "culture writer"
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the best bit is that this is from GURPS Furries, suggesting that they were writing for some innocent reader who just loved GURPS so much they bought every supplement
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If you had come to me twenty years ago and said âin 2025 Russell Brand will be a far-right pundit spreading antisemitic conspiracies and accused of multiple rapesâ I would have said âseems entirely plausible, how about those future cars, are they cool?â
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ok fair dos Amazon, these are good picks for me
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Regime Accountant, CPA â ď¸đ˘
about 2 months ago
There is only one working class, the professional managerial class, and there is only one working class party, the Democratic Party, and there is only one working class paper, the financial times
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Mark Joseph Stern
about 21 hours ago
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trumpâs deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent.
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Sing John Ball, and tell it to us all Long live the day that is dawning A crow like a cock, a carol like a lark, For the light that is coming in the morning.
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about 21 hours ago
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what's a bit of wisdom from a place you wouldn't expect that's stuck with you? I think of a line from a Crazy Ex-Girlfriend song, "People aren't characters. They're complicated And their choices don't always make sense" all the time.
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Pavo
about 24 hours ago
keeping this around for the next time i'm asked what Bluesky is
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Marvel is an experiment in how bad a studio can get and still coast off past failures. By 2028 their movies will be AI-generated ten minute shorts in which Dr Strange and Thor seem like they might kiss but don't.
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a) this is pathetic regime shit from CBS. b) this is genuinely his dream, he would so much rather be a TV host than president.
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brb, working out which system for a "Primaris High School" game.
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you see, men, being hunter-gatherers, had no time for reading, whereas women were gathered by the fire and could engage in trivial pursuits like literature.
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most people don't know this but the Atlantic is actually headquartered in the Free City of Tanelorn and must adhere to maintaining the Cosmic Balance at all costs. that's why they had to publish that bad Wood article to counter Adam's good article.
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at last we have an answer as to what happened to local crime boss Phineas "the Centipede" O'Sullivan in 1862.
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Marv
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My dad has to lay people off at the pantry he runs, he's gutted but the grants are just gone and the churches don't have the deep pockets the state does
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the Czech Legion needs to be adapted into more settings, because "we're a third party in this civil war and we're going to fight our way to the other side of the world to get home" is awesome (and a great gaming premise)
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the one thing missing from Warhammer 40K is a really good excuse to have ridiculous factions interact socially, especially in the tabletop gaming. A big advantage of the old Rogue Trader implied setting was that it was somewhere space marines and orks clearly sometimes got drinks together.
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Where we send you if we catch you inferring future events on the basis of resemblance to past occurrences. Or, at least, where we've sent people so far.
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Matt Darling
1 day ago
Adam Seth Levine spent three years writing a book and you just...skeeted it out.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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'why is the very online left weirdly obsessed with piss' is a question worthy of Freud
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my great-uncle in Sydney turned 100 this year, here's some of the cultural notes from his Christmas letter.
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