also realised, in the skellin episode, that it isn't *like* a DnD campaign, it *is* a DnD campaign. once you imagine brennan lee mulligan voicing the trolls, you can't unsee it. this is why it is so loved, this is why it is so hated.

nope. being stationary with a far bigger buffer and a more predictable environment gives you a much larger margin for error. more slack so to speak. they won't be a libertarian paradise, but 18th century sailing is a poor analogy, especially since antarctic bases and oil rigs exist.

does this happen here in the opposite direction? i don't spend enough time here to know. i can definitely see a rightward shift on twitter (what is this "X"?), but i live in britain, where there is a steady stream of radicalising horror stories about the regime, so it could just be that.

it's frankly bizarre to talk to these people. somehow knife carrying is simultaneously such a problem as to warrant removing the points from kitchen knives, but also not a problem at all if you say your god commands it. my country is in a very dark place because of awful people like her.

look at the state of our MPs... SAD! the principle that rules apply equally to all is a sacred part of english culture. she thinks it's okay to spit on it. i suppose we can compromise -- any exemptions from laws must include english people, given its importance in our culture?

here that folks, if we let them take away kirpans, soon everyone else will be banned from carrying knives also

let me put it this way: i believe the state has no business telling you who you allow in your bedroom, or your bathroom, or your bed & breakfast

isn't "don't move an injured person unless there is immediate danger" one of the most basic rules of first aid? *especially* if its suspected to be a fall from a height? that dragging and manhandling casualties is apparently normal practise for hampshire police renders the whole force unfit. fire.

a special privilege that has no place in a liberal society such as ours. the kirpan is as sacred to sikhs as the principle of equal treatment before the law is to us. people are understandably shocked to find out the degree to which parliament has violated a core principle of our traditional culture

"I'm a liberal." "In a centre left lib dem kind of way, right?"

just got out from a personal ideological crisis only to reaffirm my filthy centrism (classical anglo liberalism)

i love how they were basically in character here... save for ellie bamber using her real accent. guess it would have been too jarring for a serving girl lol www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPqk...

you can just do things and the universe can do them back to you

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GM to everyone who's not the TRAITOR Airk tanthalos who doesn't thing this GREAT NATION is good enough for him. I wish him well with his new wife, who's not even good looking.

gm to all except the HATER lili, aka THE WITHERED CRONE, who's governance of this dimension is why it's a NIGHTMARE DIMENSION

haven't stolen from tumblr in a long while so

the computer told me i look like natalia dyer (or... timothee chalamet, depending on the selfie) and now i'm thinking about the possibility my first cosplay will be nancy wheeler (or perhaps muad'dib, who knows?)

rewatching willow (2022). forgot how good it was, how bright and airy, how tight the script. "so good to see you again, elora."

What are we to make of tale that a plane somewhat resembling the twin-boomed Lockheed P-38 landed in farmer George Holt’s fields and when Mr. Holt went forth to remonstrate, was told by the pilot that we a member of the Most Serene Republic of Venice’s air force? – Brian Danbury

is stancil the greatest main character of blooski to date?

professor (showing us The Graph at the start of every module): "do you know how much food you'd need to feed the people added to the population every single week?" me, who grew up talking space colonisation and so has these figures memorised, along with oxygen requirements: "yes"

Commiserations to Sir David Attenborough on his 100th birthday, as he is now too old to be allowed to play with LEGO.

my brother in Christ. crowd sourced targeted hate *is* the business model. this site is powered by excess.

not only a right to a platform, but a right to force others to listen... no, i don't think that's what free speech means. at all.

concept: a social media platform that, rather than being like a public square where people are shouting over each other and everything is exposed to the whole world, is more like a network of courtyards and alcoves and sheltered streets, filled with semi private spaces i think it could work

it is may 2023. blooski is engulfed in drama around moderation policy, with those in charge attacked for following the Bad Person it is may 2024. blooski is engulfed in drama... it is may 2025. blooski is engulfed in drama... it is may 2026. blooski is engulfed in drama...-

the american government seeking the approval of the vatican before deciding on foreign policy, what a thought. this is where letting the catholics in gets you.

why breed dogs with jaws large enough to tear through Flesh, when you could breed dogs with minds large enougj to tear through Fallacy.....

happy 3rd year anniversary of hammertime to all prelapsarians (bar one serpent) who are still here

I support this but only because that infers the minions were fighting with SOE and I would like to see what Guy Ritchie can do with a Minions remake of the The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

love bluesky because the replies to this post immediately descend into people fighting about whether the minions would have worked for stalin

"...on they came at a precipitous rate, stunted jaundiced horrors cyclopean and half-clothed, dull mouths agape, crying "pip, pip" and "hello buddies" in their grotesque subhuman voices. I crouched in my hiding place. "Poopay," they gibbered. "POOPAY!" - H.P. Lovecraft, "The Banana on the Threshold"

guys i need a punny title that plays on them going from yellow minions to red russians

i should rewatch Willow (2022). once i've finished rereading Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves: The Druid's Call. 2023 core

wolves are far healthier than comparably sized dogs. we must redomesticate wolfdogs to improve the large breeds. with modern polygenic testing, shouldn't take longer than a couple of decades to get a healthy big dog.

lmao i did this two years ago in the middle of summer, despairing over my dissertation on at 11pm on the campus lawn.

you know, i'm something of a big deal on bluesky myself

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lmao, remember the early days when a new wave came like twice a week and immediately insisted they were the first posters ever and the site was dead before them? good times, good times. until they started talking about hitting people with hammers at least.

system based problems require system based solutions. we need a platform built not as a plaza or bazaar, but as a network of courtyards and alleys that information can flow through via gates -- gates that can be shut without completely isolating your personal sphere.

but consider: if rubio stays quiet, perhaps he can escape if/when trump and vance are impeached. and we find out what happens if the speaker of the house and president pro tempore don't want the hassle of even temporarily being president.

those who oppose space settlement do not merely value rock and ice over humans, they value rock and ice over lions and tigers and bears and trees and birds and bees and guinea pigs and flowers and- even if we terraform every planet, there will still be far more rock and ice than there will be life

animorphs is a series that cries out for a ratfic (did anyone do this already?) (no i don't mean the david books) i bet waterboarding would get a yeerk to leave. you just have to make it think the host is in mortal danger rolling up the invasion would have been an sg-1 two parter

oh are they going with "fire officers until you get a chain of command willing to relay unlawful orders"

fair point. one might expect the president to have been more attentive to america being great, but it's probably for the best he's not. (i assume that's who they're talking about?)

well, they do if you use the mass driver to launch them...

turning history off and on again six years ago has had its downsides but damn, it has its upsides too, and tonight we got to see that in a spectacular way Godspeed, Integrity

"But we who feel the weight of the wheel When winter falls over our world Can hope for tomorrow and raise our eyes To a silver moon in the open skies And a single flag unfurled"