I have so many questions about the lore of Host-Vic Michaelis. How did she land VIP? How old was she when she met Bianca's dad? Does she view Philomena Cunk as a personal attack? These are the mysteries.

Hot take: The flanking rules in 5e are bad. They make movement boring by making certain options mechanically optimal and encouraging clustering for a slugfest rather than tactics. Also undermines rogue class identity by making sneak attack available while standing still in front of an enemy

I read a lot this year. Best horror: A Lush and Seething Hell by @johnhornor.bsky.social Best graphic novel: Berserk by Kentaro Miura (daring I know) Best SF/F: The West Passage by Jared Pechaček Best Classic: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Make a Bond movie casual: Lawnraker

“What radicalized you?” Being alive in the world with eyes?

Guess I'll post this again

'Tis I, the CHAMPION OF NIGHT!

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.

I know we all know the Ms. Rachel anti-Semite of the year thing is transparent nonsense, but for the record if she ever DID tell me to purge the infidel I would assume she had a kind and loving reason and go do it

My Modest Proposal to fix traffic, reduce road rage, and increase public transit usage: Everyone gets a vehicle-mounted rocket launcher, tied to your identity and non-transferable between individuals, and you only get one rocket in your whole life.

happy halloween i am ready to confuse some trick-or-treaters

The missus and I were busy yesterday

It is often said that you should choose your friends wisely, and that is true. A true warrior knows that the reverse is true, too. Your friends have also chosen you. Strive always to live honorably and prove they chose wisely.

Taxing billionaires is at best a half measure. Quite a lot of the damage they do is not what they spend their money on, but rather how they got it in the first place, i.e. ignoring environmental harms, exploiting labour, algorithmic manipulation. The full solution is labour power and regulation.

Chronos down in Hades 2, feels good!

when someone says "my dice are cursed" you sort of have to agree with them because if you say "marius you are a grown man and I know you know that's not how probability works" they won't say anything but they'll treat you like you are in league with the cursed dice

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

Sick brag alert: finished reading Anna Karenina. I am now the LitBro you have all heard about. Hear my half-baked analysis and despair.

A new study, based on a survey of 1,150 workers suggests that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in a magic productivity boom and instead increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.” 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...

achievement unlocked: kaiju orthodontics

Lukewarm take: there wouldn't be so many people clinging to Harry Potter despite JKR's ongoing descent into madness if not for the corporate media landscape continuing to push it as profitable IP– but in this regard it's exceptional.

My wife & I both are both type AB+, the universal receiver, so if you ever come to our home blood is absolutely an acceptable hostess gift

Those “I bought this BEFORE I knew Elon was crazy!” stickers don’t actually mention cars. You can put them on your furniture, appliances, pets, etc.

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

For anyone looking for "ideological diversity" I strongly recommend heading down to the local library and reading what is known as a "book". They have all sorts of ideas in there. I know it's shocking, but you don't actually need to get ALL your ideas from the comment section of social media sites.

Hulk would be less whimsical if he were flesh coloured

They never advertise how many moist goldfish crackers and cheerios your toddler is going to feed YOU

Sure, when a baby elephant does it, it's cute, but when I do it, all of a sudden I'm not welcome in Pizza Hut anymore.

@theabigailthorn.bsky.social really enjoying your performance on the audiobook of Leech right now! Who are some audiobook performers that you admire/were inspired by so that I can enjoy more of this vibe?

O! Mighty emperor! Thy principality extends beyond the distant horizon!

@foldablehuman.bsky.social I know you don't traditionally do follow-ups but I'm desperate for a sane take on DFV coming out of seclusion to pump GME again. Any thoughts?

THE FROG AND THE SNAKE

vaesen night is always a treat

I feel like a lot of people are uncritically adopting the stance that stock market gains are good and losses are bad with all the tariff drama these days. Some of that is just synecdoche for the tangible ways the Trump administration is mismananging things, and some of it materially impacts... 🧵

Wow. Americans really don't understand Canada if they think we are googling "How many senators will we get?" And not "How do I make a pipe bomb?"

Cleaning out the bookshelf to move and wow look at all this garbage I had to get rid of

I don't know why I'm bothering to think about this in 2025 but— once Tony Stark had nanotech that could fit a whole iron man suit into a little goober on his chest, why didn't he bring *more*? Keep the basic suit in the chest goober, sure, but then have a briefcase with a hulkbuster in it too!

If we make a big enough deal about the new Shrek design, there is a solid 33% chance we get Jordan Peterson to catch wind of it, and cry on camera that we have abandoned the divine masculine

I am moving!!! More room for the kids and what passes for walkability in a Canadian prairie city ✅✅✅

Broke: Lone wolf Woke: Loan wolf

FAFO

Perhaps I ought not to have baited that particular dragon.

My wife is watching Bones and hey is it just the 2000s or does this completely suck