gaming setting in which after an apocalyptic event every possible sleeping monarch/prophesied messiah returns to lead their nation: Arthur in Britain, Sebastian in Brazil/Portugal, Constantine XI in Byzantium, John Frum in Papua New Guinea, Barbarossa in Germany, Genghis Khan in Mongolia ...

A few years ago in 2020 we did a #thanksall2020 #foodbankchallenge on Twitter - With nearly 4000 donations, we raised over $420,000 for local food banks and donated over 2 million meals. I'll bet someone could run a similar effort on here. We ran the campaign from 11/9 to 11/22.

know what if you're gonna indulge in this nonsense every single time you indulge in their rage bait? You have to find two posts from people DIRECTLY affected by the issue they're mocking and retweet THEM. IF you can't resist the cheap the cheap dopamine ... pay for it in real support

CNN uncovered an audio of RFK Jr comparing Trump to Hitler and saying his supporters are “Nazis” and “cowards”. This is what makes fascism so dangerous… many people will happily join their ranks if it means they can grasp a tiny bit of power. We all know they’re fascists & now they’re admitting it

Well, this #AceWeek please be aware that I, an ace artist, am attempting to raise funds for my trans ace friend's medical bills. If you have a hankering for ace-themed wallpapers, I got you covered: buymeacoffee.com/isthiseva/e/340497

Let me get me some cookies for fall before they change everything

True experts in subjects both small and large are going to be highly demanded because it's only this level of knowledge that can distinguish the true participants in a conversation with hard-earned subject-area literacy from the soi-disant.

Folks demanding political / ideological purity fail to see that this is no longer a movement belonging to the left / liberals. This is an opposition against fascism. By definition it must be big tent. Failure to grasp this: see divided oppositions in Eastern Europe as your failed examples.

Sports betting should be illegal again But that maybe isn’t super niche

Like, the White House is clearly to responding to “No Kings” protesters. But that doesn’t change the fact that the White House is in and of itself a rejection of monarchy, and an admin even joking about instituting it likely would’ve caused outcry other historical periods.

Trolling subtext aside, striking to see a White House make king jokes to a country founded on anti-monarchism. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense: “…there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned … the distinction of men into Kings and Subjects.”

I said a few months ago I said we are headed for a Tuskegee scenario. The transparency and independent auditing has been totally dismantled. The months since have only affirmed that. We know what happens in the dark. Only a fool would believe catastrophe isn’t coming.

“Our product manager is using Copilot to write our Jira tickets” is the most cursed sentence I’ve heard all week, and I’ve been reading the news🗞️

So this is just legitimate ragebait. The context was specifically about expanding the Nintendo IPs and the Nintendo Museum where they can see and use old hardware. Here's the question and answer

Thinking again about the scene in All The President's Men where Ben Bradlee tells them to cut the word "tit" even though John Mitchell said it and Redford asks why and he just goes "this is a family newspaper," no reason

Epstein Survivor Lisa Phillips: Everyone makes it about Trump and Epstein, but it’s about this whole ring of men. That’s what makes me upset, because we know they were there. We saw them. We know there were royalty, princes, very powerful people in academia and tech, and we saw them at parties.

ALWAYS USE WIKIPEDIA.

The phrase "trans activist" is goofy because like 95% of the time it's used it refers to a trans person simply existing. Media, pointing at a woman buying a coffee: behold, a trans activist. Woman: buying coffee is not activism stop being so fucking weird Media: trans activist criticizes media

During the PC era, people used to say writing slow code was fine because faster CPUs were coming in a year or two, thanks to Moore’s Law. Now it’s “let AI write code you don’t understand, future AI will fix the bugs.” True or not, it’s a bleak view of the profession either way.

It is their job after all. Spare me the “they don’t have the votes” arguments. They have never even forced a baseline count - they are literally AVOIDING accountability. Fuck every single one of them. AND, yes they can bring a vote when in session. Rule IX.

Original artist for the viral bumper sticker that reads YOUR PAWPAW DIDN'T RUN SHINE THROUGH THESE HOLLERS FOR YOU TO BE A BOOTLICKER. www.etsy.com/listing/4319...

"Some students are still writing their own essays, if you can believe that. Some of them even aspire—and I promise you that I’m not making this up—to write an entire book at some point in their life."

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

Imagine working in a restaurant where the boss tells you the job performance is based only on tables served. But then every shift you are scheduled to the stockroom, the dishwashing station, and occasionally to like, trim the hedges outside. Anyway. I'm an associate professor...

Love this story in Editor and Publisher on innovative website Adopt a Station, showing how much public media TV and radio stations relied on federal funding. No surprise, many of those most dependent serve rural, indigenous and Black communities. READ: https://loom.ly/oY2Jmt0

If you were at the No Kings events, please wear a mask for the next few days. Covid is not over. You can infect others before you feel symptomatic. People are losing their healthcare. They’re losing their food assistance. They’re losing housing. We need to protect each other.

General strikes are BUILT up to. You dont know that because the US killed off every major labor leader in the last 100 years and dont even teach about the labor movement in this country. Community members organizing childcare, transportation, etc. Organization of mutual aid for medical needs, etc

Guise. please just register now and take advantage of early voting. stay home and safe the 4th.

You gotta hand it to them: physically tackling a potential mass shooter is next level trust & safety work

A FIGHTER JET RAINING SHIT

Yoga pants are sensible wear for a fall protest.

The Ai shit jet video is objectively way more offensive than "deplorables." Conservatives are huge fucking coddled babies.

Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth continue to order the US military to commit mass murder. Yet again, USA: Require that Congress end all of this, #ImpeachHegseth, and #ImpeachTrump.

Yeah? Go find me a copy of London After Midnight then. Films only endure because we make the effort to preserve them, despite changing technologies and commercial pressures. We can absolutely do this with games too, and to suggest otherwise is ridiculous.

After adding new data to our spreadsheet, our central estimate of turnout for the No Kings Day protests yesterday has risen to 5.5 million, with an upper bound of 8.7 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Kicking out a 20-year resident & member of the community who has helped keep the grounds clean & tidy so that they can turn the cottage into, essentially, an Air B&B. Those TV fans aren't going to be as respectful or careful & are going to nick things for souvenirs.

Every ai video sucks because they’re never more than their prompts, you’re like ‘yeah that’s a video of a dinosaur eating chips whilst skateboarding,” but like that’s it - you could just post your prompt and it’d be the same. But every real piece of film contains MORE than just its script

Happy 58th birthday to video game composer Yoko Shimomura! Career Highlights: - Mario & Luigi series - Kingdom Hearts series - Super Mario RPG - Street Fighter II - Super Smash Bros. - Radiant Historia + A lot more!

A whole lot of red states are actually just highly gerrymandered and/or voter suppressed states. Not all, of course -- places like North Dakota and Wyoming exist -- but enough that people should be more conscious of it than a lot are.

Hate this has to be a thing, but love the sign on a nearby booth at Baltimore Comic Con.

This is quite a hed/subhed. 1) Start with Vance. Use strong action verb. Accept the autocratic premise that the “Marines’ Might” are Vance’s to flex. 2) Mention the protest second and absurdly describe them as in the thousands 3) Treat Trump’s strong man use of the military as a partisan scuffle.

One thing that really struck me today is the way folks are leaning WAY into freedom of expression & in all its weirdness. It makes visible something I’ve been feeling for a while—that the more repression I see, the more resilient & defiant I become. Seeing that at scale makes me certain we’ll win.

2 AMERICAS: “The top 10% now account for nearly half of all spending — highest since the late 1980s. Consumer sentiment has climbed among high earners but fallen for other groups.” Again: Trump & @MarshaBlackburn & the GOP only care about the rich. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

Ichiban sign spotted at No Kings protest in Chicago

I'm pretty sure a significant number of people out yesterday were first time protestors. Good. When my non-political science friends and family ask what can be done, I explain the research behind the power of peaceful protest. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...

Deciding that someone is unable to perform a physical job due to a disability, without ever once including that person in the conversation or hearing their expertise on their own body, directly violates their civil rights. Science does this regularly, has for generations, and it’s never been okay.

Who had lead and cadmium poisoning in their options...?