Russ is absolutely faint from the constant raging boner he's getting about hurting people he hates.

Can I interest anyone in an episode of Bad Time Girlies? Today, our hosts discuss Hasbro CEOs' comments about women in Magic. It's a spicy one. 😘 @zmaincharacter.bsky.social @guildpack.bsky.social ➡️ youtu.be/DMuP-PhDNYo

Like board games? Well, we happen to have a review of @stonemaiergames.com Wyrmspan up on @theouterhaven.net, and it's one hell of a time. #boardgames #review www.theouterhaven.net/wyrmspan-boa...

Player interaction? I got your player interaction right here 👊 Some of you have never placed 4 tiles and drawn 6 seed cards in a single turn of Apiary and it really shows.

@hockeyviz.com Any chance we can get your take on the Luke Hughes contract? Player-favored, team-favored, fair for all? I don't if analysts have had much accuracy trying to project these young players' progression.

I've been promoting our next DMV tabletop game event, but this morning it feels wrong to post without comment. 🌸 Local communities belong to a place, and our place contains Washington, DC. Many game designers are federal employees or contractors by day. During a government shutdown, many of us 1/▶️

The NYT likes Republicans and wants them to win

Every time Mike Turner comes up I have to post a pic of him mansplaining classified information to me on CNN (from 2020…I can never get over this 😂)

Ezra Klein: Donald Trump is doing videos the right way

“Now Lucy, I know we’ve had our differences in the past vis a vis you pulling away the football, but this time, THIS TIME, I really trust that you’re not going to pull it away. I trust you, Lucy, and not just because of the twenty nine concussions I’ve received from falling after missing the ball.”

So this is just blatant corruption.

I have a friend whose deeply Evangelical mother thinks that Trump is the *literal* Antichrist, but voted for him anyways because of his anti-abortion stances. I think that illustrative of the Evangelical movement in many ways.

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

A moral society would make guys like this absolute pariahs, basically excommunicated from all sources of social belonging and support. There's no excusing beliefs like this. They're products of an entirely malformed being.

so what happens after you reach room 46 in Blue Prince?? let’s find out ⬇️ ✨ twitch.tv/elliejoypanic ✨

Endless, unprecedented corruption large and small

Many have shared this excellent piece by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social that speaks to this essential moment. Among many thoughts, it occurs to me that in our desire to do away with internalized shame, self-shame, we gave up shame as a tool of community standards. www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Compare this with Kavanaugh's baby-brain concurrence

This list really puts in perspective just how silly it is to delay this show over this one guy.

Do not comply in advance.

Senator Bill Cassidy, a doctor, is 1 of only 100 Americans out of over 250 million adult citizens given the consequential responsibility to advise and consent on exec branch nominees. He used that to approve an antivax, anti-science conspiracy theorist as the nation's top public health official.

RFK Jr. has killed 2 infants:

@425suzanne.bsky.social I won this in a raffle!

Wrote an article about Douthat a few years ago about how he steadfastly refuses to learn from events—because he wants a sort of American Orbanism but usually tries to obscure that—and since that’s apparently still the case, no need to write another.

Wow

Go fash, lose cash

the hysteria has gone off the rails so far that the average american thinks 1 in 5 people are transgender. pure absolute insanity that is driving the current lavender scare

My take is that the next Democratic administration should be pro-labor generally and also work to destroy the International Brotherhood of Teamsters unless and until they self-purge.

Charlie Kirk on Pope Francis:

This Week's Onion Magazine:

"meaningful personal donation" this is literally financial extortion lol

And yes, I am going to keep shitting on Ezra Klein until one of us is dead, and depending on fate and cosmology, probably after that. It’s Ezra’s obligation to work to find common ground with me.

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

CROCKETT: When I say that you are the least qualified FBI director in the history of the FBI, that is real, because you are the only one that never even served with the FBI PATEL: That's false CROCKETT: I didn't ask you a question

It's cool that guys making tens of millions are like, "yeah one benefit of signing here is I don't have to give a small amount of money to fund public schools and disability services," and we treat this as shrewd navigating rather than an abomination.

Donald Trump has long treated 14-year-olds as adults so this makes sense

In America, this happens all the time. And we don’t talk about it because it’s not “crime.” There’s no one to blame who’s not already dead. The only answer is to keep angry men from having guns, and we won’t do that. www.google.com/search?clien...

Same people who have been complaining about minority quotas for years.

The end-state of Libertarianism is always that the powerful are "free" to impose their will on others without limit or restraint. It is consistent with an ideology that fervently asserts that it will not protect anyone that does not already have the power to protect themselves.

Also, it's pretty incredible how far the @nytimes.com has bent over backwards over the last decade to take the view from nowhere in giving Trump credit he doesn't deserve, and he repays their capitulation with a $15 billion lawsuit because they endorsed Kamala in the end.

It is not good but it is quite funny that all of these institutions that ruin themselves trying to curry favor with him end up getting punished anyway. The right will never love you, they are fundamentally incapable of it

The outrage of a no bid contract on autism to an engineering school that doesn't even have a department of epidemiology or neuroscience is only exceeded by the choice of recipient, a data scientist who last published on autism in 2020 and thinks like Wakefield. 🧪 #episky 🧵 apnews.com/article/vacc...

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

Bombshell ‘Wall Street Journal’ Investigation Finds Tyler Robinson Once Had Trans Uber Driver

🧵 We have a rare healing opportunity 🧵 Many who defended Charlie Kirk as “nothing more than a good Christian” are being forcibly exposed to his hateful bigotry - a side of him algorithmically omitted from their social media diet. People with a conscience are likely expressing shame and regret.

I have to say this is utterly shocking. She just quoted the man.

one of the most important technological revolutions in modern history and you're likely not hearing anything about it because it's making the oligarchs who control our information environment poorer instead of richer

"You are being musically mean to me and it's hurting my feelings so I am going to call the police department that we are supposed to be supporting to report a feels violation."