Seth, The Boozy Beggar
@boozybeggarchi.bsky.social
Seth (he/him). Beer sales guy. Cocktails and spirits. Communitarian. Hockey. World-building. TTRPG DM. Occasional writer. Jazz, Rock, Electronic music and more. Queer and Poly. Has opinions. STFU about Chicago. 🛑 AI🗑️
How the police defund cities: Part infinity
Heather Cherone@heathercherone.bsky.social · 4h agoBREAKING: Chicago taxpayers should pay more than $260.8 million to 17 men who spent decades in prison after they were coerced into confessing to crimes by a disgraced former Chicago police detective, city lawyers recommended. @wttw.bsky.social
One of my players is either playing a character a certain way or avoiding a scene that would give them a chance to roleplay something pivotal. Tricky to figure out which while staying in the story in moment. Now tickling my brain. #ttrpgDM
there literally is no system that is abuse proof, so at a certain point you’re just against the abstract concept of authority or power in general. I think about this when it comes to ALPRs for traffic enforcement. Like if you want to have laws at all, you have to give someone power.
robert j bennett, ceo, results omega@robertjbennett.bsky.social · 2d agoI react very poorly when any proposed policy or plan is met with "but what if someone like Trump gets hold of it?? then it would be not good, but very bad" because there really is no law or institution that can work when a population is willing to elect the stupidest, worst asshole alive
"If you hear in the next 34 days that there is a new security threat you’ve never heard of, one that somehow requires federal law enforcement or the military and not local police, an alarm bell should go off in your brain. Do not let him get away with that."
Mediaite@mediaite.com · yesterdaySlotkin Warns Trump Could ‘Make Up a Threat’ Ahead of Midterms: ‘Playbook is Very Clear’
Underworld: Sunless Depths ends in just 9 days on Kickstarter, and we have almost 2,000 backers on the project! At 2,000 backers, our stretch goal of 3 Underworld pregen characters will unlock, so every pledge counts! www.kickstarter.com/projects/kob...
Sometimes I think about where we would be as a culture today if #MeToo in 2017 had radicalized more straight men into fighting sexual abuse instead of creating a culture of "oh god don't get me CANCELED" and "fake accusations" paranoia and resentment
Not even sorry, fraternity friends. The entire system is fucked up. It's always been fucked up.
austin@bainard.bsky.social · 2d agoA nationwide ban on Greek life at American universities is a compromise position at this point.
The Cornell victim has been doxxed on X. So worried for her. I hate this planet.
"Gouged" is OUT! I started this book angry about all the ways corporations are ripping us off. I finished it hopeful, because once you know how they're doing it—you can start to fight back. Thanks to everyone who has been part of this. Now go read it.
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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It's so wild my first Toadies show was them, Hum, and Bush. There's a lot of cool nuances on this and most of their songs too.
whet moser@whetmoser.com · 2d agothe bass, lead and rhythm riffs are s-tier and the bassist totally transformed my idea of what cool was (along with josephine wiggs from the breeders) www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkwD...
It's really unfair that I, a bisexual leftist, have to root for a team with two Tkachuk bros on it.
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle.
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2w agoa lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
Men, please just shut up. Share what you want about Cornell, respond with the actions you're going to take, etc, but please, if you're just going to treat this as an opportunity to blab, to boast, to fake braveness, you are not helping the people in your lives regularly harmed by patriarchy.
For me, the hardest thing about stories like the Cornell gang rape case isn’t reading the initial details—although that is hard. What’s even harder is when men online, especially the journalists and pundits, start trying to combat the feminist outrage by purposefully seeding doubt and victim-blaming
Salgado Araujo’s son’s said the family has “been in public begging for justice, putting our lives at risk while ICE has hidden the killer and tried to drag our father’s good name through the mud.” www.texastribune.org/2026/09/28/h...
ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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I want someone to make a mushroom lovers pizza with gruyere and thyme, and some of the mushrooms are cooked in wine and garlic.
and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him
the cornell case has me thinking about christine blasey ford and how she so bravely testified in 2018 about how future supreme court justice brett kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her. i'm thinking about what i wrote at the time and how nothing has changed:
Fuck that. They need to be fined into oblivion. This isn’t just stealing their user’s data, it’s the data of everyone their users know. And it will certainly include data about underage family members, medical data, explicit images and messages. So many levels of illegal and immoral.
Norway produces more oil than Venezuela. And yet, between January and August 2026, electric vehicles made up 97.8 percent of all new cars sold in that country. Moving to EVs is often based on intelligence, not need. Which is why it lags in the notoriously short-sighted and stupid United States.
