Reminder: Dem victories win us time, but we have to build and make moves during that time, if we dont make big transformations the fash wave comes back harder and higher
It’s incredibly important to recognize that Democrats running up the score so high they exceeded the margins of fuckery is not a sign of democratic health. It is a time-limited reprieve to secure the government before we lose it. This was the failure of the Biden Era that cannot be repeated.
If you haven’t seen this, you haven’t seen everything. youtu.be/Fg_cwI1Xj4M?... We’ll miss you, Patrick Stewart.
Patrick Stewart on Extras
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Democrats lost in 2024 because voters 1) Didn't think Trump would do what he said he'd do, and 2) they think Dems don't fight. Namely, they thought if Trump were as bad as they said, they'd be fighting harder. This is the most important thing to remember when you see Dems cave. That's how we lose.
When I said I would do anything for my family and my country I only meant stuff I already like doing, like shooting guns for instance. If I have to do something annoying like conserve resources then obviously I'm not willing to do that
(2/3) There is no "the Fiction"; in a game with four players and one GM, there are five imagined worlds which may not resemble one another at all. One of the functions of dice, rules, maps, etc. is to furnish a set of metafictional anchors to PRODUCE whatever degree of resemblance play requires.
The generation that got to buy cheap houses thanks to a postwar construction boom, then blocked new housing construction to juice their asset values is now whining that they have to pay taxes on their unearned wealth. Just breathtaking selfishness.
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 3w agoa tax revolt fueled by stupid people who don’t understand escrow payments www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: nom nom nom gimme dat seed corn i have to eat all the seed corn bsky.app/profile/twil...
Zero Dark Ziti@twilightmacaroni.bsky.social · 3w ago"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit." So awesome to live in the opposite kind of society.
Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.
Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · 3w agoStill trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.
Words of burning truth from a Jewish prophet This is my credo, more or less:
Remember this when pundits and politicians tell us it would be a "weaponization of law enforcement" to hold Trump officials accountable for their crimes. *This* is what actual weaponization looks like.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4w agoThe most corrupt and unethical president in US history by far.
This Day in Labor History: October 12, 1962. A huge storm blew through the Pacific Northwest, knocking over millions of board feet of timber. Out of this came an entire new export market--sending unprocessed logs to Japan, which undermined Northwest timber employment. Let's talk storms and labor!
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
images that spring to mind unbidden, part 1007: "more hydrogen atoms"
the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning
Shipping costs used to be a huge component of the cost of goods. Paying surly dockers to spend a week unloading and loading a cargo hold by hand was expensive. It often was not worth it to import goods even if they could be made cheaper elsewhere, because of freight costs.
Normally I don't care about gas, but USPS added an 80 cent fuel surcharge to all packages. In an average year I get about 2,000 online orders, so that's $1600 the president is making me spend on postage that I could have spent on other things.
My top 10: 1. ArmA 2 2. The Finals (350h) 3. ArmA 3 (seems bugged; I don’t recall ever playing MP or campaign) 4. Battletech 5. Baldur’s Gate 3 (112h, despite never finishing once?!) 6. Civ 5 7. Brink 8. Starbound (60h somehow?!) 9. Shadowrun: Hong Kong 10. Deus Ex: Human Revolution
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · last mo.My list somewhat surprised me: 1. Total Warhammer 2. Rimworld 3. CK2 4. HoI4 5. Fallout 4 6. Eu4 7. Elite Dangerous 8. Stellaris 9. Monster Hunter: World 10. Skyrim (Vicky3 is 12, Bannerlord 13, HoI3 is 14, Darktide 16).
The fortress of their bigotry is immune to new facts and evidence, because their racism composes the first principles through which they interpret all other facts - racism is for the helmet crowd *more true* than the historical evidence, in that sense.
so a bunch of the traditional environmental groups held a call to strategize against the permitting bill -- notably in which they acknowledged its net emissions effects but still were dead set in opposition -- and someone on the call leaked the whole transcript punchbowl.news/wp-content/u...
Moralists don't really *have* beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child's toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded.
Listening to the Ace Combat 8 OST. 🎶 “Elder Hand” has me dangerously stoked. youtu.be/-xuOO7qRShY?...
Elder Hand - Ace Combat 8 Wings of Theve Soundtrack
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