Oh god - I could totally see Ackman's ego getting stroked to the point that he decides to make an independent run at it -he still has time to file IIRC
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*Laughing maniacally until I start to cry*

Shortly afterward we moved away so I didn't get to continue with those friends. But I'd kind of imprinted on the games a lot. A little while later I was gifted a stack of Dynamite! magazines by my dad's cousin, who was closer in age to me than to him. One of them had an article about D&D in it 8/

One of my friends in that group had a a copy of the Dungeon! boardgame, and she recognized the kind of pattern of that game as being similar to what we were doing. I played that over at her house a few times and loved it too, to the point where later I got it for Christmas from my parents 7/

What’s the cover art that got you started in the TTRPG hobby? Here’s mine:

... I feel like this on needs an explanation or people will thinking I'm joking instead of being completely serious 1/

Folks, is it good when "Extreme Fear" is driving the market?

I heard about this on @flophousepodcast.bsky.social and had to go see for myself

Google's AI will tell you that Tom Brokaw is a huge Dune lover from the running gag on the show that shows up in summaries and on their wiki. Wholly fabricated as a gag, no other sources, and treated as fact

But hey at least the value of the dollar isn't also falling like a rock to make imports even more expensive and exports even less lucrative

I'm reminded of the fact that tobacco companies knew the deadly effects of their product and sold it anyway. Or the oil companies and climate change

They know what they're doing - they're making money. Consequences be damned

Other cities need to step up their game - these guys think it's acceptable because they face no consequences for their harassment

A month back a bunch of Nazis marched in the street in Columbus OH and they were harassing folks. Turns out folks in this burg don't like it when masked dude carrying Nazi flags march around calling people slurs

Me talking to my future grandchild

Imagine being a time traveler and trying to explain where the Republican party is going to go after the Clinton impeachment

This is why I say that debates are not for normal people, they're for the NYT and the WaPo. They exist to generate drama for the press to talk about not to inform the public. At least since the LWV stopped doing them. Candidates who don't understand this dynamic will never do well at a "debate"

One of the underreported things about this particular attack by Vance is that they are deliberately calling these folks "illegal" immigrants when they are refugees.

Trump has been doing this forever and the far right does not believe that refugee status is a legitimate form of immigration