RIP to Drew Struzen, the greatest to ever do it. 🙌

beetle bailey arc where we learn who in camp swampy will obey orders to fire on american citizens once the insurrection act is invoked. my picks are rocky, zero, and, surprisingly, plato. killer surprises everyone by making a big show of not doing it. beetle simply goes AWOL

This already rules

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

It's pretty worrisome that OpenAI is doubling down and the most brain poisoning aspects of their product!

This on the other hand feels like it’s pretty common in OSR or other fantasy games - not omnipresent but hardly unavailable, it just usually represents the drugs through simple penalties in exchange for perception. but it’s not uncommon?

from my perspective, ttrpgs are always at least slightly interested in seeing the operation or shape of something. With drug or alcohol narratives, that looks like the more, pun intended, sobering narratives compared to drinking games. The clarity of the hangover.

Ben got new fencing gear and Hobbes sat in the box

I mean, what is the advantage over Heroes of Barcadia? There’s a bunch of drinking board games, even games where you kind of have a role; the drinking ttrpg is in contention with actual drinking (games).

While this is an interesting thought experiment, I think the larger question is 'what would it mean to do a ttrpg that is themed around intoxication or altered states' - how do you present that? "D&D but Weed Themed" is clearly not enough. What makes this niche a natural fit? What stories are these?

Yes, but why do you think that that can't be an intentional and meaningful act? Anonymity is a tool, and one that isn't always the ideal tool for the moment. At present, anonymity seems to feed into right-wing propaganda as they try to manufacture mass consent for their goals.

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

I think it's a bit weird to call a full-body silly costume less anonymous than the black block outfit. It's sillier, but it's no less anonymous, if that's what you want to use it for. That they haven't speaks to other goals - putting themselves on the line under their real names, to reach people.

I HAD AN IDEA AND @lord-cryptid.bsky.social MADE IT REAL!!

message from acquaintance: hi. is that okay to say.

message from my dear friend who I have known for years and years, unpromptedly: [link to a tweet they saw containing an upsettingly high resolution generated image depicting four of the primary beatles in chastity gear] how's work these days

To put this more directly, Israel is planning to further starve Gazans because Hamas can’t turn over bodies of people who are likely buried under tons of rubble as the direct result of Israeli bombing

the Aztecs somehow managed a good eighty years of convincing other states in the region to agree to a type of ritualized warfare with death tolls similar to brutal total warfare

Jack Kirby: "I was raised in an area where you had a lot of gangsters. I know what gangsters do. Hitler's gonna want war. You start jumpin' around and giving him what he wants, he's gonna feed on your weakness."

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

revising "American Years of Lead Paint" to "American Years of Lead Powder"

not only that, but research suggests there's little to no benefit to over-consuming protein unless you're actively restricting calories AND doing intense resistance training (in which case it helps you lose less muscle)

but even the experts can't get folks to believe this! the myth is too strong!

i was surprised to learn that bc most protein powders are considered dietary supplements, they basically fall into a regulatory grey area

there's no federal limit on the amount of lead they can contain and neither manufacturers nor the FDA have to prove these products are safe before they're sold

moe throwing barney out of the bar where moe is american society and barney is lead poisoning