Part of the problem with what happened with Charlie Kirk is that many firings were essentially “we care less about our employee than we care about Kirk stans shutting the fuck up and getting off the phone/e-mail” Except 1. Those employees sued 2. Kirk stans didn’t shut the fuck up

Micah@rincewind.run · 3d ago

a year later, looking back, I think Charlie Kirk marks the high water mark of the right's cultural dominance for a little bit there they actually managed to force civil society as a whole to crack down on people saying mean shit about one of their own, and it turned out to be a massive overreach

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

Micah@rincewind.run · last wk.

Discworld QOTD, from Lords and Ladies

So IDK if this counts but technically I turned a profit from it There was a time where, if you DMed at the right conventions, you could collect the swag given to DMs and flip it for cash It wasn’t a living or anything, but it was a way to make a few extra bucks from something I was enjoying anyway

SarahJSloat@sjane.bsky.social · 6d ago

Happy labor day (USA). What's one of the oddest paid job you've had? Mine was probably as a reader for a medical professor at Rutgers, whose eyes were failing. I read him many academic texts, as well as Samuel Butler's "The Way of All Flesh."

Eliza Jumel, Aaron Burr’s second wife, hired Alexander Hamilton Jr. as her divorce attorney.

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · last wk.

Tell me a fun fact.

I can tell I’m getting into a @seananmcguire.bsky.social book when I start mentally yelling at characters This time, it’s “No! Your father was *at* the War of the Spark, that’s *clearly* what this woman is referencing, were you not paying attention or did his bull-headed ass just not tell you?”

I’m reading these quoted El-Sayed posts, and I can’t recall a single thing that any elected official at the time said that was smarter and more compassionate. These are *good* posts, and we *should* be doing what he says in the posts instead of… what we did and are doing.

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 2w ago

There's literally nothing wrong with either of these posts. Nothing at all wrong with them. This is such an insane and obvious attempt to attack him because he's Muslim.

Report: Tim Curry's death to be investigated by suspicious group of eccentrics gathering at his house

Report: Tim Curry's death to be investigated by suspicious group of eccentrics gathering at his house

LOS ANGELES - Following the death of beloved 80-year-old British actor Tim Curry, observers have noted a coterie of anonymous upper crust suspects arriving at his mansion in order to investigate the m...

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It takes a long and persistent effort to do good that you shine so bright that so many people from so many backgrounds share your light after your passing.

“Abdul El-Sayed needs to comment on the thing Hasan Piker said” Look I’m not gonna defend Piker But if we’re gonna play this game (which, frankly, helps nobody but Piker) we’re also gonna need to have all the Israel ride-or-dies comment on the worst bullshit Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir say

There’s an op-ed in the fact that Minneapolis was allowed to treat Jake Lang like the shitstain he is, but Dearborn had to let him go to the city council meeting and spew hate Because if he’d gotten punched by Dearborn Spidey, we’d get weeks of Muslim hate in the press and a lost Senate seat

The more I hear from El-Sayed, the more I feel like he just has the sauce.

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 3w ago

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

optimist: the glass is half full pessimist: the glass is half empty ADHDer: <looks around empty room> where the fuck did I put my glass

Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 3w ago

Optimist: the glass is half full Pessimist: the glass is half full Cyclops: this isn’t water, it’s transparent energy liquid from the moist dimension

People have already mentioned how Peter became Hegemon in Ender’s Game, but I also want to point out that we never really learned *how* Big Brother took control in 1984. There’s a lot of spec fic that deals with outcomes without talking about methods, and social media fits in many of those spaces.

GaBigMike@gabigmike.bsky.social · 3w ago

As an author of sci Fi isn't the most glaring non prediction social media? Jet packs and robots and ray guns but nothing on oligarchs turning is against each other on socials.

IDK why late diagnosis is showing up in my feed, but I'm just going to point out that I work in a disability-related field, I'm in my 40s, and I got diagnosed with ADD, autism and executive functioning disorder *this month* because I finally got enough overwork to throw me into long-term burnout.

There are stories I could tell, but they don't provide the reason, which is "guilt by association" - either assuming that because I associate with or vote for person X, I agree with and endorse everything they say or do, or that by thinking X, I must also think Y.

Heading Forward is the outcome of a lot of deep thought, reading, and listening about what games can be. And while I may find more commercial success with later designs, I find it hard to imagine making a game more personally impactful to me than this one.

Amabel Holland@amabel.bsky.social · 4w ago

Time for another thread! To celebrate a decade of Hollandspiele being in business, we presently have a game from each calendar year on sale. The 2022 game is one of the games I'm proudest to have published - Heading Forward by @johndubois.bsky.social .

Time for another thread! To celebrate a decade of Hollandspiele being in business, we presently have a game from each calendar year on sale. The 2022 game is one of the games I'm proudest to have published - Heading Forward by @johndubois.bsky.social .

Amabel Holland@amabel.bsky.social · 4w ago

The 2021 slot went to Nicaea, my game about a formative event for the Catholic Church. This was that year's "prestige game" - the big game we release at the end of each year, often interested in making an argument or exploring a thesis. It was the first I worked on after starting hrt, & it shows.

I feel the same way about the current attacks on Ossoff that I feel about the anti-Benson ads involving the SPLC - if the guns you’re bringing to the fight are water pistols, should you be showing up?

A conversation my wife and I had is causing me to ask questions about whether Medicare for All is *sufficient* to address the problems facing health care in the United States for a couple reasons (thread):

Today I visited Sitdowners Memorial Park in Flint for purely self-indulgent reasons - to get a picture of myself at the monument commemorating the strikers with a copy of Striking Flint. But that wasn’t all I took away from the trip.

I’ve got pictures and a thread to follow, but I visited Sitdowners Memorial Park in Flint today to take some pictures, and I was struck (ha) by the central feature of the park being dedicated to women who were not members but contributed to organized labor in general.

Since the Tim Horton’s promotion has brought it up again, here’s my list of recommended alternatives to the Scarred Boy Wizard books: 1. The Tiffany Aching series by Terry Pratchett 2. The Percy Jackson books by Rick Riordan 3. Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin 4. Animorphs by K A Applegate

Among other excellent games, this is a great time to pick up a copy of Heading Forward!

Amabel Holland@amabel.bsky.social · last mo.

Now through August 21, it's our ten year anniversary sale!

I know that on here we like to talk about The Internet Was A Mistake But seriously y’all I have saved *so* much time and money just by using YouTube to figure out how to do shit for my car and home appliances myself instead of calling a professional

Even if Nessel was right here (she’s not - she’s both factually incorrect and tone policing), she’d still be wrong. This should be an internal discussion, not a media interview. Saying this shit openly just gives Rogers ammunition, and it’s not like Nessel can’t reach El-Sayed privately.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · last mo.

Can anyone actually quote one thing that Abdul El-Sayed has said that could be deemed antisemitic? www.mediaite.com/media/news/d...

Is the elevator pitch for El-Sayed really as simple as: 1. He wants our tax dollars spent on life instead of death 2. Read and listen to what he says in full context, not pull quotes

Trying to find productive ways not to doomscroll - anyone know any good free iOS crossword apps (that aren’t NYT)?

In 2022, the US House District I live in featured a primary between two incumbents because of redistricting - Haley Stevens and Andy Levin. Despite Levin being Jewish and active in his synagogue, AIPAC backed Stevens in the primary because they felt she was more supportive of Israel.

Ugh. The mixed feelings of getting the candidate wins in your district you most wanted, but losing the school village you *really* wanted.