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31, Here I remain. I paint Warhammer and write in my spare time. Birds are pretty great.
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Picked up this wonderfully designed character Ka’estraxx by @cardinalgray.bsky.social , an Ukrainian artist who could really use some help. Check out what they have available! Ka’estraxx has already fired my imagination, so many fun ideas.
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my husband was just leaving the house and said "Donnie. you're in charge"

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December 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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"We built the torment nexus to warn about the ethical implications of building the torment nexus."

— these assholes, every single time.

("gift" link)
Why Stanford Researchers Tried to Create a ‘Gaydar’ Machine (Published 2017)
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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absolutely massive, historic W for the republic's defenders
December 12, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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‘STAR WARS: FATE OF THE OLD REPUBLIC’ has been announced.

Casey Hudson will return as the game director.
December 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Remember this as a bipartisan coalition of folks in Congress tell us over and over again that they're trying to protect children online. Meanwhile the US embassy is saying even kids can't have private social media accounts if they want to visit the US.
One under-appreciated part of this: note the bit below about “and their dependents.”

Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.
From the US Embassy in London today.
December 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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36. Small Saga

You want another wonderful turn based RPG? One with great music, a gorgeous art style, fun characters and humour, and has a well paced story that puts an amazing spin on an old JRPG trope because you play a small mouse who sets out to kill a god.
Small Saga on Steam
Beneath the streets of London, an angry mouse seeks revenge against the god who stole his tail. An epic RPG of miniature proportions!
store.steampowered.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
KotOR III? I have a new reason to live.
December 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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to sincere post a bit:

the ability to receive important timely updates like this one, from regional govt and institutions like this over an open protocol (vs closed/proprietary platforms) is a huge part of why I work on AT
UPDATE: Dec 11&12 - Buses will be provided b/t SEA-VAC but may not stop in Mount Vernon (MWV) due to evacuation orders. The SEA-BEL buses are running but are not stopping in MWV. Saturday morning, 12/13, Train 517 between VAC-SEA is canceled. If possible, a bus will be provided.
December 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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OH MY GOD MISS PIGGY HAS SHOT KERMIT
December 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Wide-Awake behavior (laudatory)
December 11, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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what i would give to have a stevens in congress today
December 12, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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There’s one guy in Northfield that’s gonna be flying the Trump flag from now until eternity though.

But if you drive up over the mountain towards Erving and take a left into the woods, you come into the territory of the Wood Lesbians. He’s surrounded.
I’ve also noticed that for the last 8 months or so, there’s been basically zero MAGA flags on our usual drive from Boston to my partner’s family’s place in Vermont - we’d usually see at least a few.
December 12, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Important distinction between guilt and shame, too. Guilt is "you should know better". Shame is "why would you even think that?"
December 12, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I remember being loud & attention-drawing when this guy was beating his GF at a bus stop in broad daylight. Drew the attention of the whole street, kept asking him what she possibly did to warrant that response, got her to GTFO. Let him throw the first punch, asked if he felt like a big man. He ran.
you can very often terrify people trying to break social norms at you by returning the favor even more so
Yes! People who pride themselves on being shameless norm-breakers often depend the most on norms… or, on all the other people nearby being too stunned or norm-compliant to resist.

You have to be as defiant and brazen as they are, but in defense of decency. You can be pleasant but you don’t budge.
December 12, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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a friend of my perfected saying in a low voice, "don't do it, dude." I had never, ever seen him raise a hand, but when he said that, that way... you didn't do it.
December 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Being a Dem Party loyalist seems so cool

I too want to be in a perpetually disappointing relationship
and then prostrate myself in front people who demand something

These guys all watched Death of a Salesman and decided Linda Loman was their role model
Also not to mention that the goal posts have shifted from "the Republicans will never allow a vote" to "the Republicans didn't vote with the Democrats" without acknowledging that we're doing this again in February.
December 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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The Heritage Foundation is cracking
December 11, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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The thing about the GOP is that most of them don't want to call Trump Daddy and plenty of them resent being asked to and now that his ratings are so cataclysmic some of them won't. Glad Indiana made the right choice. Fuck fascists.
December 12, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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they pretend to be data-driven but in the end they strike me as neo-schumers: they have in their heads a model of the Median American as kind of selfish and bigoted and, coincidentally, obsessed with exactly their own culture-war bugbears, and believe Trump remains an avatar of these Volk
December 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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losing half your support on one of your strongest issues after 11 months of doing everything exactly the way you want to do it would give most politicians something to think about, but miller's calling these shots and he's not a politician
New AP poll has Trump's approval on immigration down to an abysmal 38% as he rants psychotically about "shithole countries," smears Somalis, threatens large-scale denaturalization and remigration, and openly pines for more white immigrants and fewer nonwhite ones
December 11, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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firelink npc —ass dialogue
December 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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good.

i hope folks are watching over and protecting this man. the feds will be looking for any tiny thing to jump on him.

blacksky.community/profile/did:...
December 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from immigration detention after a federal judge's order Thursday, his attorney's office says.
Judge orders Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be immediately released from immigration detention
A federal judge in Maryland has ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia freed from immigration detention while his legal challenge against his deportation moves forward. U.S.
bit.ly
December 11, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Consider the story of Eilmer of Malesbury, an English monk who lived between 980 and 1066, and who chucked himself off a tower with some canvas wings in his youth.

One key theme in history: bored monks get up to some weird stuff.
December 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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A priest, a firefighter and a professor walk into a bar. They spot a queue near the bar & get in line. They look in shock as a barkeep hits a cop, a lawyer and so on.

"Excuse me, isn't this the line for a drink?" asks the priest.

A horse in front of them replies, "Neigh, you're in the punch line."
December 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM