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Metroidvanias are either Protestant or Catholic. Castlevania? Catholic, of course. Metroid? Protestant. Blasphemous is Catholic. Dead Cells, Protestant. Hollow Knight is Protestant, but Hollow Knight: Silksong is Catholic. That's why people are complaining the game is hard. Cause it's Catholic now.

Aaaaand after making sure to get a refill before traveling, and setting aside pills for this trip so that I wouldn't be fully out if I happened to lose them while away... I left my medicine at home on the bathroom counter 🫠

This is the cost of a certain kind of political cynicism. “Oh, they’re all the same, they’re all bastards, whatever.” It blinds you to anything good democrats do, but the other side of that coin is it renders you unable to see real evil. Even when it’s right in front of your face.

Has the Bluesky app (Android) been crashing kind of often the last few weeks for anyone else? I've noticed sometimes it happens shortly after I post a skeet, but idk if that's true of every time it's crashed

Now imagining a faculty tree. A faculty bush. A faculty greenhouse, with someone lovingly mulching and watering the faculty plants

God bless whoever put up this pro-upzoning poster in Edgewater, please put up more

Since rainbows actually form a segment of a circle, why don't we call them rain arcs

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Age verification? When I leave a voicemail, I repeat my name and phone number at the end so they don't have to rewind the answering machine tape to hear it again. How's that for age verification?

*fanning self* 🥵🥵🥵

Experts warn that political violence is more likely under these conditions: ✅ When democracy is declining ✅ When societies are divided by race, religion, or ethnicity, ✅ When political leaders tolerate or encourage violence ✅ When citizens have easy access to guns Utah checks all those boxes.

Trump and his Republican co-conspirators fear ridicule more than anything else. They are OK with being called cruel, because they associate cruelty with power, but they know that their power stems from people taking them seriously. Ridicule is powerful. www.newspapers.com/search/resul...

💯 this. Ebikes replace car trips, not bike trips and are FUN! My life is measurably better because of my ebike. Love starting my day off riding my kid to school. And, to emphasize, agree it is (more than) okay to have fun, even in these very trying times.

"[Erika Kirk] stressed that all the women in the crowd can, and ultimately should, rely on men, as relying on men is a path to happiness and contentment. For a woman, a career, financial independence or self-sufficiency is only a distraction." 🤔

The Right exploiting Charlie Kirk's murder to justify further authoritarian crackdowns is horrifying but it should not be surprising. It's straight from the historic playbook As Italian exile Ignazio Silone wrote in 1938, “Fascism is a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.”

"Multiple execs felt that Kimmel had not actually said anything over the line, the two sources say, but the threat of Trump administration retaliation loomed." They will never learn that capitulation doesn't work. Never

ah, well

You must adhere to regime-approved talking points about Charlie Kirk or you will be fired.

Pledges of future accountability for those doing crimes today are just about the only deterrent in sight. We should see a lot more of these.

That's one way to describe Patel yelling at them saying that they're hack jobs, buffoons, incompetent, etc...

This one, too—what if this is a supply chains question, not an ethnic one?

What if this is a supply chains question, not an ethnic one

some days all you can do is psy

The dragon was curled up on its hoard. A knight approached, unarmed and unhelmed. "Greetings! I have a question about your hoard." "If you try to steal it I will kill you." "May I move it? With you still on it?" The tiny dragon firmly gripped the golden tiara it laid on. "Carry it with pride."

That scary feeling when your boss sends over a 10-minute meeting invite with just you, 15 minutes ahead of time, no description Turned out to be good news, though 😌

One of the important lessons of good teachers: saying "I don't know" (and sometimes adding: "but I'll try to find out") when you genuinely don't know something, instead of BS ing

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Interesting polling data: Those with unfavorable views of Donald Trump are the LEAST LIKELY to support political violence.

Stuck in stop-and-go traffic* *regularly slowing the bike to a crawl for kids who either don't realize I'm there or don't know shared-trail etiquette

The flawed philosophers that inspired the flawed founding of this flawed country have better definitions of civility (low bar!). Their civility requires tolerance. They would say that a hype man for an authoritarian regime could not be called “civil,” no matter how polite his tone.

Urgent news, folks Apparently telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl is still a thing 👀👀👀

I finally (it's been years) got a new SD card for my RPi (3b) and folks, bb was an instant install Straight nostalgia from my teenage Linux days

I love the Internet, because where else can you (a) see an absurd comic about giving a crab meth AND THEN (b) find someone in the comments saying "hey, unironically, my field of science does this and here's a paper about giving crayfish hard drugs (including meth)"

“And so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

Pivoted so hard they affected the earth's rotation

yeesh so much disinfo out there about the gunman "Notices bulges, OWO whats this?" - Meme about furries/roleplaying; not political "hey fascist! Catch! Up, right, down x3" - From Helldivers 2, satirical game, you nuke 'fascist' aliens even though you're a fascist yourself; the code launches a bomb

not just climate, either they've destroyed the entirety of federal consumer protection, corporate oversight and regulatory autonomy across every industry that touches every aspect of your lives the impacts will be concussive, unprecedented, incalculable, and extremely fatal

Now THAT's an interesting question. Very, very few people who are appropriately equipped to dig in to answer it, unfortunately. Even fewer such journalists.

the other thing that’s fascinating is that somehow it seems like the takeaway is that speaking out about this makes one not-political, but speaking out about other specific acts of agenda-driven murder would make one too-political

Government agents who thought that (or didn't, and wrote it into the memo anyway) AND leaked it - including to right-wing provocateur Steven Crowder.

The governor of Utah prayed that the shooter may have been a foreigner. Why exactly? Well, I’m sure we all know. But to say this out loud? That’s heavy.

Not for nothing, this is a big reason why sanctuary city policies promote public safety: immigrants won't collaborate with investigators if they fear reprisal for their status. Police almost never solve crimes without the public's help to identify, locate, testify against, and convict perpetrators.

What a month for sequels 👀

if concentrated solar power is so bad then why does it look so fucking cool? checkmate liberals

The best ad for e-bikes (and e-bike vouchers) are stories from people who get one and are blown away by how convenient and fun they are. (Screenshots below from a Reddit post).

apparently the cofounder of TPUSA died from covid while making light of covid preparations like masking. what is this goofy ass ironic death organization. willy wonka and the propaganda factory

They are going to say its antifa arrows and then show a picture like

‘“This is going to give us minimum two to three months delay, because now all these people want to get back,” he said. Hyundai needs to fill the positions, and as Muñoz explained, “for the most part, those people are not in the US.”’