Brain Bear
@elucidarian.bsky.social
Playing ALL THE board games and regularly forgetting things while remaining a life-long resident of this Great Plains "Red State." Someday we'll be a bastion for socialist farmers again. Yeah, that could happen.
he/him/cis/whiteprivileged/ADHD...
he/him/cis/whiteprivileged/ADHD...
Pinned
We need to weed out this mentality that people, other than our own special circles, have no inherent value. Their efforts and existence have meaning, even if we never directly benefit from them. Transactionalism is a disease, and it's spreading from the top.
Find the time to watch this and then reflect on the pressure to be divided, to see difference as a threat, in the U.S. and the world.
Can a Trans Woman Befriend a MAGA Mama?
YouTube video by The Enemies Project
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Find the time to watch this and then reflect on the pressure to be divided, to see difference as a threat, in the U.S. and the world.
This game might pose a perfect balance of skill and luck. You could say half of my good decisions were based an observable game state, and the rest a matter of providence. Either way, it's pretty good time.
Won #TheOldKingsCrown on 2025-11-09 with 3 players, winning score: 16 #bgstats #boardgames
Won #TheOldKingsCrown on 2025-11-09 with 3 players, winning score: 16 #bgstats #boardgames
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 AM
This game might pose a perfect balance of skill and luck. You could say half of my good decisions were based an observable game state, and the rest a matter of providence. Either way, it's pretty good time.
Won #TheOldKingsCrown on 2025-11-09 with 3 players, winning score: 16 #bgstats #boardgames
Won #TheOldKingsCrown on 2025-11-09 with 3 players, winning score: 16 #bgstats #boardgames
A little two-handed solo before bed, and it was a great clash. Achilles, Patroclus, and Cage were all at 1 health before Luke maneuvered into an attack card to finish off Achilles. Misty was hanging in there at 3.
#boardgames
#Unmatched
#boardgames
#Unmatched
November 8, 2025 at 4:52 AM
A little two-handed solo before bed, and it was a great clash. Achilles, Patroclus, and Cage were all at 1 health before Luke maneuvered into an attack card to finish off Achilles. Misty was hanging in there at 3.
#boardgames
#Unmatched
#boardgames
#Unmatched
Well, it's a start.
I was mildly surprised to find myself letting out a breath of relief at this news. There are worse people in our government, sure, but can we please avoid reelecting career politicians, who mistake longevity for merit?
I was mildly surprised to find myself letting out a breath of relief at this news. There are worse people in our government, sure, but can we please avoid reelecting career politicians, who mistake longevity for merit?
November 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Well, it's a start.
I was mildly surprised to find myself letting out a breath of relief at this news. There are worse people in our government, sure, but can we please avoid reelecting career politicians, who mistake longevity for merit?
I was mildly surprised to find myself letting out a breath of relief at this news. There are worse people in our government, sure, but can we please avoid reelecting career politicians, who mistake longevity for merit?
Fiddlin' Bill says "That's just too much outfit for only one album!"
*For more listening pleasure--Write to Fiddlin' Bill Johnson, Rte. 1, Box 1, Sentinel Butte, N.D. 58664
*For more listening pleasure--Write to Fiddlin' Bill Johnson, Rte. 1, Box 1, Sentinel Butte, N.D. 58664
November 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Fiddlin' Bill says "That's just too much outfit for only one album!"
*For more listening pleasure--Write to Fiddlin' Bill Johnson, Rte. 1, Box 1, Sentinel Butte, N.D. 58664
*For more listening pleasure--Write to Fiddlin' Bill Johnson, Rte. 1, Box 1, Sentinel Butte, N.D. 58664
We really need to start kicking these fuckers off our ride.
Alex Bruesewitz, an adviser to US President Donald Trump, told leaders of the far-right Alternative for Germany — classified as an extremist party by German authorities — that he sees them as “bold visionaries” shaping the country’s future.
Trump adviser to Germany’s AfD: ‘We are in this together’
MAGA social media guru Alex Bruesewitz visited Berlin to make common cause with the far-right Alternative for Germany at a time when the party is seeking allies in the U.S.
www.politico.eu
November 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
We really need to start kicking these fuckers off our ride.
I have very mixed feelings about this guy.
Curtis Sliwa, a character until the very end. "No regrets."
November 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I have very mixed feelings about this guy.
I just think it's weird when people are clearly using FB's prompted greetings when it is the birthday of someone who has been dead for years.
"Smile: It's your birthday!"
"Enjoy your birthday! 🎉🎊🎂"
"Happy Birthday! Enjoy your day! 🎉🎈"
We are being programmed.
"Smile: It's your birthday!"
"Enjoy your birthday! 🎉🎊🎂"
"Happy Birthday! Enjoy your day! 🎉🎈"
We are being programmed.
November 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I just think it's weird when people are clearly using FB's prompted greetings when it is the birthday of someone who has been dead for years.
"Smile: It's your birthday!"
"Enjoy your birthday! 🎉🎊🎂"
"Happy Birthday! Enjoy your day! 🎉🎈"
We are being programmed.
"Smile: It's your birthday!"
"Enjoy your birthday! 🎉🎊🎂"
"Happy Birthday! Enjoy your day! 🎉🎈"
We are being programmed.
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This is brilliant
November 3, 2025 at 4:44 AM
This is brilliant
Wrapping up this festive Friday with a first time viewing of Withnail and I.
It is not what I expected: better, rawer, trippier. I don't think I've felt this way about a film since Easy Rider in my early 20s. Or maybe Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Natural Born Killers, even. Glorious madness.
It is not what I expected: better, rawer, trippier. I don't think I've felt this way about a film since Easy Rider in my early 20s. Or maybe Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Natural Born Killers, even. Glorious madness.
November 1, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Wrapping up this festive Friday with a first time viewing of Withnail and I.
It is not what I expected: better, rawer, trippier. I don't think I've felt this way about a film since Easy Rider in my early 20s. Or maybe Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Natural Born Killers, even. Glorious madness.
It is not what I expected: better, rawer, trippier. I don't think I've felt this way about a film since Easy Rider in my early 20s. Or maybe Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Natural Born Killers, even. Glorious madness.
You got me. I snorted.
October 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
You got me. I snorted.
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Speaking as a dude who has a yearly family reunion, "aunt" and "uncle" fill a role, what the fuck are you supposed to call all those other older people you're vaguely related to, do you think there's someone running around with an org chart saying who's a second cousin thrice removed or something
October 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Speaking as a dude who has a yearly family reunion, "aunt" and "uncle" fill a role, what the fuck are you supposed to call all those other older people you're vaguely related to, do you think there's someone running around with an org chart saying who's a second cousin thrice removed or something
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
October 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
Well, I'm sure he means well, like all the other Communist Marine Nazi Democrats do.
He probably flies the Stars and Bars in the back of his pickup truck window. No, not because he's a Confederate sympathizer, but just because it's like ironic and cool, bro.
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/10/...
He probably flies the Stars and Bars in the back of his pickup truck window. No, not because he's a Confederate sympathizer, but just because it's like ironic and cool, bro.
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/10/...
Graham Platner’s claims that he didn’t know tattoo was Nazi-linked undercut by new evidence | CNN Politics
A KFile investigation has uncovered mounting evidence that Platner — a Marine veteran— was aware of and defended the use of Nazi symbolism that had come to be embraced by some members of the military.
amp.cnn.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Well, I'm sure he means well, like all the other Communist Marine Nazi Democrats do.
He probably flies the Stars and Bars in the back of his pickup truck window. No, not because he's a Confederate sympathizer, but just because it's like ironic and cool, bro.
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/10/...
He probably flies the Stars and Bars in the back of his pickup truck window. No, not because he's a Confederate sympathizer, but just because it's like ironic and cool, bro.
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/10/...
I'm reminded of Nazi Germany, near the end of the war, when they diverted resources desperately needed elsewhere so that they could keep sending trains to concentration camps.
No reason, just a thought that popped into my head.
No reason, just a thought that popped into my head.
ICE agents are seizing more people from jails in the Austin area, sometimes visiting the facilities multiple times per day as the Trump administration ramps up immigration enforcement nationwide.
ICE is removing more people from Austin’s jails. Sometimes coming twice a day.
Data shows a growing number of people in Travis County jails find themselves facing deportation after sometimes routine run-ins with the police.
n.pr
October 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I'm reminded of Nazi Germany, near the end of the war, when they diverted resources desperately needed elsewhere so that they could keep sending trains to concentration camps.
No reason, just a thought that popped into my head.
No reason, just a thought that popped into my head.
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Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families?
Now you know.
Now you know.
October 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families?
Now you know.
Now you know.
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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I'm feeling sympathy for a coworker who's new the area. She walked back from an event across campus and said it was cold outside.
It's 54 with a mild southern wind. She gonna get tough.
It's 54 with a mild southern wind. She gonna get tough.
October 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I'm feeling sympathy for a coworker who's new the area. She walked back from an event across campus and said it was cold outside.
It's 54 with a mild southern wind. She gonna get tough.
It's 54 with a mild southern wind. She gonna get tough.
Only 2 more chances to see me with this hair!
Greater Grand Forks Community Theatre's production of The Passion of #Dracula continues tonight and tomorrow at the historic Fire Hall Theatre!
Greater Grand Forks Community Theatre's production of The Passion of #Dracula continues tonight and tomorrow at the historic Fire Hall Theatre!
October 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Only 2 more chances to see me with this hair!
Greater Grand Forks Community Theatre's production of The Passion of #Dracula continues tonight and tomorrow at the historic Fire Hall Theatre!
Greater Grand Forks Community Theatre's production of The Passion of #Dracula continues tonight and tomorrow at the historic Fire Hall Theatre!
Look, Grand Forks! You did it!
At the end of the Merriam-Webster article, they drop an unrelated bit of surprise trivia: The term "shoot em up" goes back to the early 1900s!
October 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Look, Grand Forks! You did it!
I might have guessed Janelle Monáe wasn't of our time.
Possibly another reality.
#TimeTravel #Multiverse
Possibly another reality.
#TimeTravel #Multiverse
October 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I might have guessed Janelle Monáe wasn't of our time.
Possibly another reality.
#TimeTravel #Multiverse
Possibly another reality.
#TimeTravel #Multiverse
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There’s a big difference between “Graham Platner deserves space to be a better person” and “Graham Platner deserves to be the next Democratic candidate for Maine Senate.”
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yep
There’s a big difference between “Graham Platner deserves space to be a better person” and “Graham Platner deserves to be the next Democratic candidate for Maine Senate.”
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yep
October 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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There’s a big difference between “Graham Platner deserves space to be a better person” and “Graham Platner deserves to be the next Democratic candidate for Maine Senate.”
"
yep
There’s a big difference between “Graham Platner deserves space to be a better person” and “Graham Platner deserves to be the next Democratic candidate for Maine Senate.”
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yep