I went to reorder checks at my bank today and was...pleasantly surprised it wasn't arduous? It's weird, feeling relief that a task you need to do turns out to not be as many levels of bureaucratic nonsense as you thought it would be.

Advising someone on fundraising for community rent support. There are 67,000 people in MPLS facing eviction in March because they can't go to their jobs to make rent money. This is early-covid era levels of potential evictions. MPLS RENT MORATORIUM NOW.

REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.

The choice to not remove the vocal codas (um, ah) from transcriptions is a known Shit Thing To Do To Politicians by journalists and editors, to he extent it should be seen as bias

Not gonna lie, the author is apparently good enough at the subject to immediately draw my attention.

One of the best sf shows ever made, Babylon 5, is being released on YouTube by Beyond Infinity in collab w/ WB. And it's upscaled! One ep every few days. Seasons 3-4 are masterpieces, but if you've never seen the show, you can start now! youtu.be/Y235YEQstLo?...

Halfway through a 4 month commitment to getting in the best shape of my life to...show off at a beach wedding I know NOBODY at. I am beginning to think this is a LOT of devotion to the bit.

新年快乐

Just finished reading Operation Bounce House, by Matt Dinniman. Dude manages a very anti-colonial work and critique on how empathy stops working when you let it/design structures to avoid it, while mostly being just a fun story. Dude *actually* deserves his hype. bookshop.org/p/books/oper...

Roy's my boy for life. The only thing better than a sword is a sword that makes explosions.

We're not trying to build a world where everyone lives in a discrete village and sends representatives to the world congress. We're trying to build a world of meshed relationships and associations, networks of fractal complexity that defy any conceptual borders or compartmentalization.

Just saw that Xing Zhilei, the Chinese DIY influencer, posted an update on his self-built cat town which went viral last year. youtu.be/i1savUPr-yU

Buffalo, I absolutely love that you've sold me on Yemeni coffee. Just tried a maleki coffee for the first time, and that's a combination of spices I never would have thought to put in there. Do highly recommend.

A huge Norm Nation update! Yesterday, so many reached out to help a family in hiding escape eviction. Today, I paid $3,700 for 3 months’ rent (2 months of back rent since they can’t leave the house and also March’s rent, because it’s already mid-February). Thank you so much! You are saving lives.

I have yet to play an RTS after StarCraft II that came close to what I want out of the genre (and SCII only got mostly there). Idk if that's just nobody hitting the secret sauce or if I'm just getting old.

The CBC made this clever & cute video that uses kids to explain the rules of curling:

I DID ONE PULL UP! WITHOUT CHEATING! MY EXERCISE ROUTINE IS WORKING!!!

Huh, 6 years of using Discord and I didn't know the block option was there until just now.

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

1) Shadowcat. Intangibility is just good for survival in Marvel, and she can extend it. 2) Eowyn. Gotta love a girl with a sword. 3) Wonder Woman. See 2. 4) Mariner. We would yes and our way to some absolute chaos, and I would love that ride.

Welcome to Doubles City, population: This mediocre #HEMA swordsman.

Guess I'll need to make the pilgrimage! This is pretty cool.

God forbid a woman answer her calling.

Hail Eris, everybody - today is Lupercalia! A holyday since dedicated to fertility, nudity, and man-suckling wolves. A holyday so fabulous, it survived being outlawed. A holyday named after three saints, of which nothing is known. Don’t let THEM commercialize the Valenton!

It really doesn't matter if someone is a cop or an informant or a fed or a wrecker if they're agitating violence ESPECIALLY in-group violence or self harm THEY ARE NOT SAFE TO ORGANIZE WITH

My book, The Potent Solution, is basically Dresden Files meets the gaslit streets of 1830s London with a bisexual disaster MC, transfemme love interest, and a bunch of magic/class politics.

Hey artist/creator/writer/etc people: if tomorrow you were guaranteed a very comfortable living the rest of your life, how would that affect your relationship to social media?

Cartoon: If anyone in Chicago knows this school or an anti ICE organization affiliated with them I would be happy to donate this art. I only wish I could have fully Sal Buscema-ed that punch :)

there’s a longer version here in which our hero follows up by telling him “you can go peacefully fuck yourself” after he claims to be “peacefully standing for my beliefs”

Interesting Shit That Happened At/Around the Vampire the Masquerade LARP is an entire chapter of my life, and I love this for everyone who can claim the same.

It'd be really convenient to combine my really nice, fancy Valentine's Day dinner at our favorite upscale restaurant with the OTHER reason I will owe my wife the nicest dinner I can find. Just saying.

After housing, this is the next big zoning reform: the right to do business. Always found it odd that the USA, supposedly the land of the free market, makes it the hard if not outright illegal to open a business in most places. Like many other planning failures, this one's also rooted in racism.

This is so culturally important, holy shit. And just COOL as fuck

Keeping me medicated keeps me working on the editing and formatting pass for my Vermillion Vespers #vampire #TTRPG. Please give a #MutualAid boost. I don't know how long I can stay stable without my main medication. Here's more proof of work in progress.

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

This is why you go for the home defense sword. I'll give you extra badass points if it's a montante, but you might need to do some interior redecorating.

We only present a project for crowdfunding when the game design/text is 95% complete and we don't like to introduce roadblocks that will impede our ability to deliver as quickly as we can while maintaining our high standard of quality. This is the best way we've found to also offer stretch goals.

Well, the Discord I hang out on most named my brand of anarchism after me, so I got that going for me.

A friend is having their wedding in garb, to which my first question was naturally "Can I wear a sword?"

Friends, Buffalonians: @linofinn.bsky.social had their pipes burst and is dealing with flooding and repairs. They're good people, some #mutualaid would be greatly appreciated. gofund.me/dd17253d8

Another one from @instructor-bensei.bsky.social that I agree with the conclusion: This is why the last 3 feet or so of a meteor hammer is chained, making facing it with a sword Much Less Fun. youtube.com/shorts/LO-W7...

Friends, Buffalonians: @linofinn.bsky.social had their pipes burst and is dealing with flooding and repairs. They're good people, some #mutualaid would be greatly appreciated. gofund.me/dd17253d8

Friends, I am INTRIGUED.

Zohran Mamdani's real power is to turn to the camera, grins, the laugh track plays, and he somehow convinces yet another ideological opponent to go along with whatever he wants. That's his secret, life's a TV show and we're the extras in his sitcom.

Update: It's not often a work of fiction embodies a philosophy worth striving for. Do highly recommend.

This is it; this is The Good Take.

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its a roguelike called samsara and there is only one way to quit

IMO if you're debating the future of the Democratic party on the platform owned by Elon Musk, you are not part of the future of the Democratic party.