In other self-promotion news, over the summer I... acted in a radio play!?

I was so thrilled to be a part of this lavishly written audio drama; auteur Alicia Goranson has outdone herself with this one. The writing, the special effects...

Anyway, I play the leader of the Anarchs, sample here:

Hi, folks. Briefly back from taking my own advice and Logging Off. I spoke to the "How to be a Better Human" podcast about my book, and why posting and politics are seldom a good mix.

It was a great, wide-ranging conversation.

Thank you (in advance) for coming to my TED Talk!

"No one should be in any denial about how perilous this moment is. It’s another degree’s tilt towards the abyss. But we are not idle on that knife’s edge; we remain engaged in the fight for democracy and the values that underpin it—free expression highest among them."

Exactly! More people should hire @quinnae.com for her insights into gaming.

You guys overestimate followers and awards. My Patreon makes €140 bucks a month (I had it for 5 years) and my print store makes like €500 a year. That’s not enough to live.

Of course there WILL be people who pull it off. There always is. This is the same argument. It’s the 0.00001% who do.

I should be asleep, but can’t stop thinking about a striking sanitation worker I met today. He told me about the time a trash bag full of human shit burst in his face, and he had to spend two days in the hospital to ensure he hadn’t contracted any dangerous diseases.

He makes $19 an hour.

seeing people hit by the layoffs today who have worked in the industry for DECADES. one guy had worked on fucking STAR WARS GAMES FOR THE SNES, another had been at blizzard since starcraft.

that kind of continual experience in the industry is like gold dust, and MS are just throwing it in the bin

Counterpoint as someone who wrote a book about Twitter’s influence & studied the minutia of how that influence worked—it is no longer influential! The myth that it is could be easily released if folks still attached to an *idea of what it once was* make a serious calculation about what it is now.

At some point everybody’s gonna realize it’s all Stephen Miller

It has a very real chance of failing—and *even if it passes with changes* it still has to go BACK to the Senate to get voted on AGAIN. And it barely made it through the first time

This thing is way more killable than you’d think and the longer we can drag out the process the more killable it gets

I find the flipping between ‘I a Hardcore Radical, am willing to Do What It Takes, unlike you feckless weaklings’ and this pearl clutching ‘people will be Hurt, How Dare You Say That?!’ shit so contemptible.

Hard to interpret this any other way than “GHF was basically functioning as a honey pot that attracted civilians into range to be more readily shot at.”

Which, needless to say, is NOT how legitimate aid organizations (who are massively condemning this) work.

It's because these people want Democrats to lose at all costs and will contort themselves into whatever kind of pretzel is necessary to be anti-whatever the current Democrat thing is.

I don’t blame media for much but the fact that they and politicians have remained there is close to dereliction of duty imo. All we needed was enough people to leave to sink it as a viable info source. The blame is heavily on the influencer set on this one.

X is influential enough it’s hard for many to leave.. fine.

The trade off is the fact that it’s normalizing fascism and various other horrible things.

Rationalize or say that’s overblown but to me there are red lines. I know too much history and have too many connections to ignore it.

i hope and expect to see more congressional democrats explicitly warning companies of the future consequences of illegal bribes and collusion with trump, which, despite the perpetual whiner complaints, is legitimately a new step in the right direction for democrats

I mean I give Schumer a ton of shit but he kept his whole team including Fetterman onside, he peeled off 3 others, his side worked the system a ton to get a whole lot of garbage taken out of this disaster bill, yes the name change flex is dumb but guy actually put in proper work this time

Sources tell me that Tammy Baldwin and Sarah McBride worked behind the scenes to get this provision out and to keep Dems together if it had come to a vote.

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do you want a new political party in this country? go take over one of the existing ones, the end

This sort of error will lead to insurance denials, medical errors and lawsuits. It also puts the burden on patients to check and correct their own records, if they can. Just utter madness

this is so perplexing do they think that we think that Zohran is already mayor?

Yes, I still sparred. Yes, Australian HEMA people can make fun of me for being a baby about heat. Yes, I'm going to do this again.

How was my evening? Well...

Also, in case it wasn't clear because of nested reskeets, I was agreeing with Starshine here and yes-and'ing her. Taxing the rich is not a panacea but one piece of a larger puzzle, and she shows one way of squaring that particular circle.