Rolling for Stew
@rollingforstew.bsky.social
My personality is mostly TTRPGs, Board Games, Knitting, Crochet, & Wizards.
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have long argued that free speech discourse has obscured that Americans basically don't enjoy meaningful access to freedom of assembly any more
I think that people don’t comprehend that the state has been unapologetically beating young people’s asses basically nonstop & charging us with massive crimes for protesting since at least Occupy Wall Street & growing up like that has a chilling effect on the way people engage with democracy
January 15, 2026 at 6:09 PM
have long argued that free speech discourse has obscured that Americans basically don't enjoy meaningful access to freedom of assembly any more
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Man Who Got Shit Together 5 Years Ago Still Viewed As Lovable Fuckup By Friends, Family https://theonion.com/man-who-got-shit-together-5-years-ago-still-viewed-as-l-1819574386/
January 3, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Man Who Got Shit Together 5 Years Ago Still Viewed As Lovable Fuckup By Friends, Family https://theonion.com/man-who-got-shit-together-5-years-ago-still-viewed-as-l-1819574386/
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Just hanging out burning things, like one does.
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January 2, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Just hanging out burning things, like one does.
www.tumblr.com/asexual-thot...
www.tumblr.com/asexual-thot...
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100% agree, and Ill take it further to say that good stories have a logic and rhythm to them... anticipating what comes next should be possible. If it isn't, the storytelling values surprise too highly and relies on random coincidence.
I'll do one! A thing that signals film illiteracy: knowing just enough about movies to basic rhen patterns, then assuming a film is bad because ~you~ can spot the seams, they'll always be there if you look for them, and most people don't. You figuring out where they're headed doesn't mean anything.
If there's one thing that signals film illiteracy from someone online, it's when they deride humor used in another genre as being "a Marvel-like quip."
Go watch DIE HARD. "No shit, lady! Do you think I'm ordering a pizza?!" is the exact same kind of line that now gets called "quippy"
Go watch DIE HARD. "No shit, lady! Do you think I'm ordering a pizza?!" is the exact same kind of line that now gets called "quippy"
January 2, 2026 at 2:23 PM
100% agree, and Ill take it further to say that good stories have a logic and rhythm to them... anticipating what comes next should be possible. If it isn't, the storytelling values surprise too highly and relies on random coincidence.
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Bad stories spend their whole time trying to shock and surprise you.
Good stories build connections and anticipation, grounding you in moments and characters and building momentum for the huge scenes. That "predictability" is the sign that they are good.
Good stories build connections and anticipation, grounding you in moments and characters and building momentum for the huge scenes. That "predictability" is the sign that they are good.
January 2, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Bad stories spend their whole time trying to shock and surprise you.
Good stories build connections and anticipation, grounding you in moments and characters and building momentum for the huge scenes. That "predictability" is the sign that they are good.
Good stories build connections and anticipation, grounding you in moments and characters and building momentum for the huge scenes. That "predictability" is the sign that they are good.
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The @merriam-webster.com dictionary.
Ok, everyone, what book is sacred enough to you to get sworn in on?
Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.
January 2, 2026 at 4:14 AM
The @merriam-webster.com dictionary.
This is why, even as someone who is full enough of frustration and therefore hate to have done it to myself, I will *never* be one of those "just switch to linux" guys. Even the 'newbie friendly' was only managed cause I'd taken a few comp-sci classes.
“It is not simple. I do not know what that means.“
How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog
“Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!) and I like working with ...
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January 2, 2026 at 2:16 AM
This is why, even as someone who is full enough of frustration and therefore hate to have done it to myself, I will *never* be one of those "just switch to linux" guys. Even the 'newbie friendly' was only managed cause I'd taken a few comp-sci classes.
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The reason people react aggressively to AI use isn’t bcuz we aren’t capable of having nuanced convos. It’s because you using AI is an act of aggression. There is no both sides here. You are stealing, funding billionaires who lobby against the greater good, and enable labor theft. Hope this helps.
December 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The reason people react aggressively to AI use isn’t bcuz we aren’t capable of having nuanced convos. It’s because you using AI is an act of aggression. There is no both sides here. You are stealing, funding billionaires who lobby against the greater good, and enable labor theft. Hope this helps.
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As a fan of {my favourite property} I can easily say it’s a better version of {your favourite property}, in fact {your favourite property} is a rip off of {my favourite property}, which is made for ACTUAL ADULTS!!
As such, I am morally better for liking {my favourite property} and await my points.
As such, I am morally better for liking {my favourite property} and await my points.
December 17, 2025 at 1:53 AM
As a fan of {my favourite property} I can easily say it’s a better version of {your favourite property}, in fact {your favourite property} is a rip off of {my favourite property}, which is made for ACTUAL ADULTS!!
As such, I am morally better for liking {my favourite property} and await my points.
As such, I am morally better for liking {my favourite property} and await my points.
I'm bored of "Baby It's Cold Outside" discourse as is. Its been completely beaten to death. I need someone famous to take one for the team and do a lesbian cover. lets mix it up w/ some Juice.
December 16, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I'm bored of "Baby It's Cold Outside" discourse as is. Its been completely beaten to death. I need someone famous to take one for the team and do a lesbian cover. lets mix it up w/ some Juice.
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me filling in the "traits" box on the character sheet for my half orc rogue
November 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
me filling in the "traits" box on the character sheet for my half orc rogue
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You could spend tons of finite time & energy explaining to your child the perils of our impending dystopia or you can simply play Delton 3030 over and over again for them while taking frequent naps & get the same results.
November 29, 2025 at 5:39 AM
You could spend tons of finite time & energy explaining to your child the perils of our impending dystopia or you can simply play Delton 3030 over and over again for them while taking frequent naps & get the same results.
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
I simply don't have it in me anymore, to pretend to give a shit about the beatles.
Their music and lore™️ were such a big deal in my childhood home when a 'new' version of their records came out. But they're just fine. they're alright. they had some fun songs. can we move on?
Their music and lore™️ were such a big deal in my childhood home when a 'new' version of their records came out. But they're just fine. they're alright. they had some fun songs. can we move on?
that said i do really love it when some gen z girly says 'who's that' about the beatles and you immediately hear the faint rustling of an entire generation of old guys getting upset. we haven't had one of those crash outs in a while.
November 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I simply don't have it in me anymore, to pretend to give a shit about the beatles.
Their music and lore™️ were such a big deal in my childhood home when a 'new' version of their records came out. But they're just fine. they're alright. they had some fun songs. can we move on?
Their music and lore™️ were such a big deal in my childhood home when a 'new' version of their records came out. But they're just fine. they're alright. they had some fun songs. can we move on?
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“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
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"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"
‘We Should’ve Done More’: Kamala Harris Slams Biden Admin Over Netanyahu Support and Praises Pro-Palestine Protesters
‘We Should’ve Done More’: Kamala Harris Slams Biden Admin Over Netanyahu Support and Praises Pro-Palestine Protesters
Kamala Harris criticized Joe Biden's Administration, saying they should have been more willing to publicly criticize Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu over Gaza
The post ‘We Should’ve Done More’: Kamala Harris Slams Biden Admin Over Netanyahu Support and Praises Pro-Palestine Protesters first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
November 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"
Hard not to consider the possibilty of grand conspiracy level bs being real when "release the customer list for the child SA slave island that we all already know exists" is getting this kind of reaction from everyone including government officals
"The Files probably aren't as bad as people think" is the more faith-based position at this point, given the behavior from relevant/implicated actors.
November 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Hard not to consider the possibilty of grand conspiracy level bs being real when "release the customer list for the child SA slave island that we all already know exists" is getting this kind of reaction from everyone including government officals
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The reason people read “I like pancakes” as “he hates waffles” is a literacy problem! We stopped teach people how to sound out words and what those words mean and how those words work in conjunction with each other to communicate a whole thought. We taught people how to read based on vibes!
November 12, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The reason people read “I like pancakes” as “he hates waffles” is a literacy problem! We stopped teach people how to sound out words and what those words mean and how those words work in conjunction with each other to communicate a whole thought. We taught people how to read based on vibes!
This is aging maddeningly well. How to sweep an election and then immidiatly make everyone hate you, a masterclass by the 'democratic' party. For the record, no one saying "I told you so" to the true believers is happy about it. We'd all much rather have a functioning democracy.
I think at this point, the democratic party is well and truly past the event horizon of the public ever counting on them again. they've had 8 months/~decade to find some principles and I think anyone who's no an insider or gone full cultist is an if-not-when of loosing faith completely
November 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This is aging maddeningly well. How to sweep an election and then immidiatly make everyone hate you, a masterclass by the 'democratic' party. For the record, no one saying "I told you so" to the true believers is happy about it. We'd all much rather have a functioning democracy.
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Time to (re)read the 2017 Teen Vogue essay, “we need to talk about digital blackface reactions gifs” www.google.com/url?q=https:...
November 2, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Time to (re)read the 2017 Teen Vogue essay, “we need to talk about digital blackface reactions gifs” www.google.com/url?q=https:...
I've seen a people claim that d&d is GOOD for TTRPGs cause its how people find out about the hobby. As if a creativly stagnant oxygen sucker is actually enriching the hobby rather than making anyone not brand-brained completely disinterested in an entire medium cause everyone says it doesn't exist
Listening to people say D&D has no negative bearing on the indie creative space at large has me tweaking.
This is a creative monopoly unlike anything seen before or ever. I have a list of marketing outreach channels where 95 out of a 100 contacts exclusively cover D&D/OSR (D&D adjacent)...
This is a creative monopoly unlike anything seen before or ever. I have a list of marketing outreach channels where 95 out of a 100 contacts exclusively cover D&D/OSR (D&D adjacent)...
November 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I've seen a people claim that d&d is GOOD for TTRPGs cause its how people find out about the hobby. As if a creativly stagnant oxygen sucker is actually enriching the hobby rather than making anyone not brand-brained completely disinterested in an entire medium cause everyone says it doesn't exist
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Wanna hear a scary story?
The first American vampire was Black.
Seriously.
78 years before Dracula appeared in American literature, there was "The Black Vampyre" by Uriah D'Arcy.
It was written in 1819 as an antislavery critique and the effect the Haitian Revolution had on the States
The first American vampire was Black.
Seriously.
78 years before Dracula appeared in American literature, there was "The Black Vampyre" by Uriah D'Arcy.
It was written in 1819 as an antislavery critique and the effect the Haitian Revolution had on the States
October 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Wanna hear a scary story?
The first American vampire was Black.
Seriously.
78 years before Dracula appeared in American literature, there was "The Black Vampyre" by Uriah D'Arcy.
It was written in 1819 as an antislavery critique and the effect the Haitian Revolution had on the States
The first American vampire was Black.
Seriously.
78 years before Dracula appeared in American literature, there was "The Black Vampyre" by Uriah D'Arcy.
It was written in 1819 as an antislavery critique and the effect the Haitian Revolution had on the States
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When I was a kid/teen I wanted to get into comics. I utilized the library a lot for stuff like this. But unlike normal books, you are not safe as long as there is not a number higher than '1' on the spine. This lead to possibly the funniest comic reading experience a person can have:
October 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
When I was a kid/teen I wanted to get into comics. I utilized the library a lot for stuff like this. But unlike normal books, you are not safe as long as there is not a number higher than '1' on the spine. This lead to possibly the funniest comic reading experience a person can have: