Seeing people do "here's the savvy take on how and why the US should acquire Greenland" and just feeling so *embarrassed* for them. Have some dignity. You don't need to be an apologist for the world's dumbest autocrat, you're not somehow sophisticated for seeing The Smart Play on imperial vainglory.

Games aren't actually allowed to look this nice

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.

which way western man

the administration wants to frame this (bizarrely) as law enforcement. but if law enforcement conducted a raid for a suspect and killed 40 people, including an unknown number of unarmed civilians, it would be treated as a clear disaster like Waco.

Hey @wolfgangbaur.bsky.social when are submissions open for the dark fantasy collection? I’ve got a couple thousand words of folk horror/dark fantasy cowritten with a professional DM friend that I think would be a good fit.

My Ghanaian public speaking students last semester gave speeches on jollof rice, “a dish perfected in Ghana.” I asked about Nigerian jollof rice. The Ghanaian students described it in one word: “Impoverished.”

[somberly] You cannot serve both god and money [upbeat music hits] Until now. Introducing god as a service

Reagan's project was successful: now, many Americans have no idea what a "public good" is.

Their only framework for social interaction--outside friends & family--is set by the concepts of private property & consumer choice.

That explains a lot about voting patterns & the dying sense of civic duty.

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

AI supporters grant grace to AI mess ups that they would never extend to humans. "I used AI to create recipes! Every third one is awful, which isn't bad!"

Whereas a human-authored cookbook would be in the trash at that failure rate.

Just to state things plainly:

-The U.S. is a fascist dictatorship
-The President is a pedophile
-Masked secret police are disappearing citizens and non-citizens with no warrants or due process
-If you believe an election or law will save you, you are delusional

This is the death ride.

We’re hitting the point where asking if WotC is a good steward for the TTRPG hobby is kind of like asking your friend if the stripper really likes you. Maybe they di, but to ask that question is to completely misunderstand the nature of the social situation you find yourself in

so basically the "keep politics out of gaming" crowd have now destroyed gaming with politics

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