Apparently Colroado's ballot is so hard to read it requries a 32nd grade reading level. 🤣 I know people with more degrees that a red hot thermometer and none of them has reached the 32nd grade.
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The chance that any streaming platform will fully honor a commitment for Avatar Seven Heavens for what looks to be seven seasons is so slim it's microscopic. I hope I'm wrong because I want the whole story, but today's cancel happy streaming climate is too uncertain.
RIP Dolores Huerta. She visited my campus last year and she was as powerful a speaker as ever. Si Se Puede!
The idea of an Avatar (al la Last Airbender) fighting game seems so odd to me. While there's plenty of fighting in the shows avoiding fights was, is, and should be an Avatar's goal. So a fighting game while fun seems it also seems out of place.
The goal shouldn't be to get to the workforce faster is should be to make well- rounded humans. The cut electives will almost certainly be in humanities. A world where business people, nurses, doctors, etc have never taken ethics or studied the history of past 1/ share.google/eGz0eJvuJDMB...
New York University President Proposes Offering Three-Year Bachelor’s Degrees
Linda Mills, president of New York University, is calling for her institution to begin offering three-year bachelor’s degrees in nursing and hospitality management.
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Some are reporting Meta Glasses recording when the wearer doesn't want them to. In other news in our "well, no shit" segment, water is wet and the sun comes up in the morning.
Trump says New Mexico should change it's name to New America because were America not Mexico. Note, he doesn't want to rename places named after white majority cities or countries in Europe, despite those not being America either. I wonder why? [but I really don't].
Who would have thunk that in a world with a finte number of people and people worried about money that subscriber growth would be stagnant? Nothing lasts forever and one day this whole corporate house of cards is going to come crashing down. variety.com/2026/film/ne...
Dan Lin Out as Netflix Film Chief
Film chair Dan Lin is out at Netflix after two years of leadership
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I have only one response for WotC on this topic. www.gamesindustry.biz/wizards-of-t...
Sherman Bell Says Boo on SNL
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Once I have had a chance to read it during the Winter Break this is likely going on my Syllabus the next time I run my Exploring Culture and Identity in TTRPGs course.
Stefan H@umbralknightx.bsky.social · 3w ago@aarontram.bsky.social has a new book I can't wait to read. A hell of a TTRPG scholar who was a big help in my TTRPG thesis of race and gender in early TTRPGs www.rascal.news/how-quantifi...
You wonder ever why same people that tell Black and Brown people to follow the rules never say: The people of the United States should have obeyed the law. They shouldn't have used violence or destroyed tea that was valuable property shipped from halfway around the world. 1/
@aarontram.bsky.social has a new book I can't wait to read. A hell of a TTRPG scholar who was a big help in my TTRPG thesis of race and gender in early TTRPGs www.rascal.news/how-quantifi...
How quantification and Midwestern culture shaped D&D’s problematic legacies
Aaron Trammell’s new book explores why some things shouldn’t be simplified.
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For a guy who hates socialism so much Trump has been doing a lot of faux socialism lately. And while I'm normally for some socialist ideas what he's doing is selective socialism. i.e. money only for rural area hospitals where his voting base is strong. Meanwhile, new 1/ share.google/lxoo4NoPTcd3...
Trump Accounts expand to millions of children, but new rules raise questions
The Treasury Department has created Trump Accounts for every eligible child, automatically enrolling more than 60 million. The expansion also comes with changes to how the program works. Donors can no...
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What this man typed as a teen is awful and it's not my place to defend or judge him. As a teen in the 80s my friends did and said things today me would punch fifteen year old me in the mouth for. In the greater LA area kids at the schools I attend were brutal. 1/ www.kptv.com/2026/10/06/f...
Fired Blazers broadcaster seeks reinstatement; team stands by decision
Braiden Bell, the broadcaster the Portland Trail Blazers both hired and fired on the same day, has hired counsel and is asking for reinstatement.
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It's a good thing the most powerful law enforcement agency in the world has never abused its power. Except for all the times it has. COINTELPRO, anyone? On of the most insidious peices of Copaganda in TV and film is the fallacy that American law enforcement agency 1/ share.google/e1yIGS01X9sm...
FBI whistleblower says White House pushed unconstitutional probe of protesters
The former analyst says supervisors were told not to put things in writing, so many of the directives came in face-to-face meetings.
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The DA in the Cornell case says that in 2024 he hadn't seen the full police transcript. Which in and "odd" anomaly of the English language translates to, "it hadn't hit national news, yet."
If saying Group A should be free is inherently taken as anti group B, therein lies the problem. Can such proclamations be rooted in hate? Sure. But saying any people should be free and have self determination, without any other implications, is never wrong. All people should have 1/
The news keeps reporting that Tennessee last executed a woman in 1820. However, this source and others indicate that woman, Eve Martin, was a victim of murder commited by individuals not the state. ir.law.utk.edu/cgi/viewcont...
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There's a company selling AI boxes to voice your NPCs. The palyer talk to the box (one per NPC) and the box voices the NPC. Peeps voices aren't all that make good NPCs. How you play them matters. I remember well played NPC that the GM didn't bother with an unique voice. 1/
You ever notice how when there's there's a bad ass female character in films there is very often a child involved. This is no accident. Its called the Mama Bear archetype. In male gaze fiction, with rare exception, women can only be bad asses when they're protecting a child.
Police agencies are quietly replacing Flock cameras with Axon cameras. The leading maker of body cams, Axon has also been accused of manipulating data that points to their Taser products having a host of dangers for a greater segment of the population than their marketing discloses.
Notice who's absent in the pictures and story on Ameican lunch counters in this Fox News story. The story evokes nostalgia for a time when an entire group of Ameicans were excluded from the mainstream culture so many want to bring back. I [don't] wonder why? 🙄 share.google/IRap4itlNrHF...
Before McDonald's and Starbucks, Americans packed these once-beloved lunch counters
Luncheonettes gave women a place to eat during the workday and thrived during Prohibition, but America's fast food and car culture have reshaped dining habits.
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I remember when you had to pay for the internet by the minute. Then for a while things weren't so bad. Now, so many sites are filled with pop up ads, pop ups telling me I have to subscribe, or both. I wonder how long before it would just be better to pay by the minute again?
Homer Simpson: Where's My Coffee?
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Target and Calloway back to back. Some on the right think they know what DEI is about, but just like who receives "welfare" (sorry GOP farm subsidies are welfare) they're wrong. These sorts are the things DEI is supposed to prevent. $10 says no Black people were involved in the Target 1/
Wait, I know this one. If it involved harming people they'll be fine, but if it involved misuse of this nation's god: money, which we value above people, they're done. We even print right on our money "In God We Trust" so our values are clear. share.google/BuTWiV8OqP11...
Three Secret Service officials have been placed on administrative leave pending investigation
Three U.S. Secret Service officials have been placed on administrative leave, pending the outcome of an investigation by the agency’s professional standards office.
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Ah the ever popular "I'm a white dude and I've never seen it so it must not be real" stance. 🙄 youtube.com/shorts/J-Qoj...
Session Zero Is Overrated
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WTF! Warning- shows censored images and discusses the aftermath of a K-9 attack on a child. The officer who lived next door when the dog jumped the fence was aquitted of wrongdoing. And no lawyer will take the family's civil case because of the protections police have! youtu.be/ZPRfgdmbPvk?...
Colorado family facing $300,000 in medical debt after K-9 officer attacks toddler, maims her father
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Corporations are receiving billions in tariff refunds which they are not passing on theur customers. Prices remain inflated and once again, we get screwed while the Corporations stick it to us.
The CEO of Flock sounds like a cult leader, insisting his company's cameras can balance safety and privacy. Yet, the number of police fired for absuing these systems is growing like a malignant fungus. One thing I'll begrudgingly grant Flock. They 1/ youtu.be/_T8YlJ2TGqQ?...
Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse
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Damn! How many stories about police misusing Flock cameras do we need before people realize that there are deep concerns with how little we can trust Flock and the police to not abuse this technology?