It would've been reckless and inexcusable to cause generational damage by illegally defunding USAID, NIH, HHS, Dept of Edu, and so on just to reduce the deficit... ... but spending and the deficit are both higher than '22, '23, '24. It was all just harm for harm's sake. The cruelty was the point.

the first time i flew to the US in 2007 I took a bottle of aftershave my wife had bought my for xmas. a border guy at LAX took it out of my bag, looked at it and just straight pocketed it. extrapolating that out into what ICE are gonna do is like a line going straight to hell

Okay that was 3/4 inch hail, and I’m not certain the car was as lucky this time around The _sound_ as that approached. Never heard anything like it.

Hail! By which I mean the precipitation

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)

I like this summary of the Omnishambles à la Douglas Adams

This is us, central PA friends, keep an eye out

This is so true. In the US, creative professionals who don’t have a spouse with medical insurance have to charge a rate that will pay the several hundred dollars a month (at least!) they need for health insurance. Most of the rest of the world don’t need to do that.

Someday I will write a screed* about the difference between a scientific breakthrough and an engineering breakthrough, but today is not that day. *that only I will care about

We're down to counting in hours! 61 to go! I want to get to $5k and get the fancy binding on the book, we're only $300 away! Come check out Teenage Ninja Fighting School, the high action and high drama shonen anime ttrpg! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pet...

The physics of thermodynamics and heat transfer are well known and immutable and _do not_ favor orbital compute nodes. A smart thread

Your reminder to be sure to download and print out the Mueller Report (I did years ago). We should expect that there will come a time when it can no longer be found online.

The president is committing war crimes on main again

Attn @ayvalentine.bsky.social

I could probably dredge up the first verse of Humpty Dance Does that count?

How I’m spending my evening! It has been described to me as a play of tea, poetry, and Sapphic yearning.

OK, so it’s official from the President of the United States when someone you don’t like dies it’s OK to say “I’m glad he’s dead” we got it in writing folks

Every once in a while I think about how snack companies spend millions upon millions of dollars and fund food science research to make their processed snacks literally irresistible but if I have an extra Little Debbie Swiss roll it’s my fault and I’m the weak one

Homeowner: Rocky, are you trying to break in and steal the cat’s food? Rocky Raccoon: [long, awkward pause] n-no… HO: Now Rocky, tell the truth RR: … yeah HO: We’ve talked about this, Rocky. RR: I know HO: I’m disappointed RR: [cringes] I’m sorry

Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia

I just did my taxes - well, mostly - and lord I hate all that stuff. I'm happy to pay my taxes. That strong arm handshake meme with "My leftist side" and "My institutionalist side", both for "We Must Pay Our Taxes." All the damn paperwork. The inability to get reasonable help.

... Wait, this is real? He really said this? Jesus. I'd be lying if I said I took no comfort in how sad and lonely the man must be.

People should enjoy things the way they like to enjoy them (as ye harm none, etc.). Life is too short to spend it satisfying the expectations of people who will never know. Shake that martini, listen to ELO, get your steak well done. But... I'm not coming over to your house on steak night.

Your periodic reminder that you don't need to RSVP for a public protest (like, say No Kings ❌👑 on 3/28): You can just find one near you and show up.

Tonight’s #cocktail is a gin martini. Carpano vermouth, Drumshanbo gunpowder gin, a twist of lemon, stirred (not shaken) over ice.

Tonight is chicken breasts liberally seasoned thusly. (Get it? Eh? Eh?)

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

Timeline cleanse: a few action shots of #JinkxTheKitten doing unspeakable violence to her stuffed d8

Criticize Israel’s government in general and Netanyahu in particular, all day long. Please. Bibi is a monster who should be condemned by every thinking person. Spreading antisemitism in my timeline gets you fucking blocked and if we’re friends? Not anymore. Fuck off with that.

Oh the Jesuit guy had a cunning long game master plan? Whomst amongst us could have predicted this other than anyone who knows anything about Jesuits

Every Nazi dog whistle and bullhorn ever done on television has been dismissed including that rune at CPAC, police with Nazi symbols on their bodies & equipment, the Elon heil was autism, the repurposed slogans used in both Trump administrations & Steven Miller speeches. Where has that gotten us?

Democrats falling for the Fetterman bullshit again

Bless the person who said, “Sure, why not” to the initial gopher suggestion. Because those of us who think way, way outside the box KNOW we sound insane, but we would save the world if we could find exactly this kind of support. www.popularmechanics.com/science/envi...

I have a network protocol joke. Please confirm that you heard me tell you I have a network protocol joke.

What I want is your "Everyone who knows me expects me to hate that song but I love it and could listen to it on repeat" song.

Gotta be The Lion Sleeps Tonight.

This game is some of the most fun I’ve had at the game table in years. Get in on this. #TTRPG

Not one penny. Zero. They get _nothing_ for this illegal and immoral and brick stupid war of aggression. Right, @democrats.org ?

“Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.” - Morpheus

ME: oh a little Zohran video for St Patrick's Day, probably just celebrating Irish culture, maybe a few green beer jokes ZOHRAN (2 minutes in): ...and that's why King Leopold I of Belgium is a big wet bitch. Furthermore...

After hearing this, my grandfather would’ve taken a bullet for this man. Just a crazy skill of making great speechwriting (written by and with others, I’m sure) sound conversational.

Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.

Me: The author of a book I read about how Britain killed a bunch of nazi pilots just passed, that’s too bad, glad that history is done with though Important USA people: We’re in this damn fool war vs Iran because the president was manipulated into it by a prominent Jewish guy Me: Fucking hell

Deighton wrote one of the main nonfiction reference sources for Tachyon Squadron, my #TTRPG of starfighter pilots.

Yes,the emerging line is wily, ruthless Israel tricked poor, trusting, naive Donald Trump into a stupid, reckless war. GMAFB. Israel has absolutely pushed for this but ultimately it’s DONALD TRUMP who decided to take the US to war. He likes war! He likes blowing things up! He literally says it’s fun

Re-upping this from last night. When they tell you to abandon anyone so that we can win, or to “be normal,” tell them to pound sand.

Ooh, time to drag this one out again :D www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbu...

And if that's not enough, #ttrpg. Please take my recommendation: Fate Accelerated is one of the best games I've read, period. If you're creative its got some GREAT bones for both narrative and tactical applications and is a gold mine for building your own games off of. And they are GIVING IT AWAY!

For what it's worth Fate Freeport (by @greenroninpub.bsky.social) is also a pretty solid base for running D&D with Fate. (Brian Engard and I wrote it. Quite a long time ago.)

Attn: @ayvalentine.bsky.social , @timeformars.bsky.social