Avram Grumer

Hwæt! Aid for the free-trader, from all in hearing, foemen besiege us, our fusion-oars failing, gun-spool gone feeble, ship-breath escaping…

Tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of this NY Times headline about more Anthony Weiner emails, which contained no new information, but were reported upon as if they were scandalous, and gave Trump the push he needed to get into the White House.

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Voted around 4:30 this afternoon.

I’m old enough to remember when the promotion of democracy overseas was considered a major goal of US foreign policy.

Tomorrow is “The Plague Of Frogs Was Actually Spaniards” day and you all better have gotten me something 😤

If you think it's just media literacy we have a problem with, I have some bad news about literacy literacy

My first five RPGs played (I think): 1. White box D&D 2. Holmes Basic D&D 3. AD&D (1st ed) 4. Villains & Vigilantes 5. Champions

Oh, we got a new computer but it’s quite a disappointment ’Cause it always gives the same distressing news. OH, YOU NEED LITTLE TEENY EYES TO READ YOUR LITTLE TEENY PHONE LIKE YOU NEED LITTLE TEENY HANDS TO MILK CASHEWS.

Bumper sticker reading “MY OTHER MAP IS THE TERRITORY”

I've made 6 open-source @godotengine.org projects perfect for as a base for your first or next game. Completely human-made and easy to understand code & comments. All visuals and sounds included, CC0! kenney.nl/starter-kits

When I was in high school, NYC would generally see 1,400–1,800 murders each year. Now it’s down around 300–400.

sigmund? sigmund it's your cousin marvin... marvin freud... you know the thing you've been talking about where there's some libidinal force inside us that seeks egoic shattering even unto death... well you're not gonna believe this but I'm looking at the news and im thinking, call it the death drive

There's a scenario in which the Supreme Court gets this case in December and three justices involved in Bush v. Gore on behalf of Bush will be asked whether confusion is grounds to reject election results.

Ruin a song by adding "In My Pants" to the title: Can’t Keep Johnny Down In My Pants

Who Calls the English Teacher Daddy-O, Charlie Brown?

The Weapons With Which the Bourgeoisie Felled Feudalism to the Ground are Now Turned Against the Bourgeoisie Itself, Charlie Brown

Just finished Rosemary and Rue, by @seananmcguire.bsky.social I imagined Devin, during Toby’s years in the pond, moping and writing poetry: “Had we but world enough and time, Your absence, Toby, were no crime…”

the metaphors will continue until the facts improve

Just saw a thread of people complaining about high electronics prices because of the AI bubble, and one guy replied that this sort of resource mis-allocation would *never* happen in a *socialist* economy, and man, have Soviet bread lines vanished down the memory hole?

Bad day to launch my PHP based certificate authority

web developer: oh hey you guys are back early infra: four's haunted web developer: what? infra: *loading a pistol and getting back on the computer* four's haunted

if you play dead by daylight with this controller you unlock fred flintstone as killer who can walk on tiptoes with bowling ball for temoprary speed boost gazoo debuff it Fred by daylight update

Diminish an anime Acoustic Coupler Experiments Lain

I’ve never once seen a Jewish candidate in the US asked to denounce Kach, Kahane Chai, Otzma Yehudit, or Lehava.

I just want everyone to know that, as a Jewish person, I disavow Bari Weiss.

The new Inspector Clouseau movie looks pretty cool

Have people been telling you that the sun doesn’t shine out of your asshole? Well, buddy, I’ve got a book for you…!

Isn’t it time for *everyone* to understand that the billionaire owners of Meta, TikTok, and X have chosen sides, and they chose authoritarianism. Silencing critics online is not an apolitical act. If you continue to support these services you’re helping support the enemies of US democracy.

My biggest takeaway has been that the worst possible use for AI assistants is for someone is not already an expert in the field. So having students use it is really dangerous. They don’t know enough to know when it's leading them down a bad path.

In early 2025, I assumed the Trump regime would delete the Department of Justice’s press releases and other statements related to more than 1,000 Jan. 6 cases. So I downloaded them. We’ve now made them available to the public with a search tool. They can’t erase history. jan6memoryproject.org

We don't have to settle between Beit Shammai or Beit Hillel. We can choose Beit Yirmiyah, like this tennis player has.

@premeemohamed.com rolodex of fountain pen ink samples

Yippee-ki-yay, Charlie Brown

Incredible two posts to see back-to-back

Good news, #ttRPG fans! Fiasco 2nd edition is back in print! My copy just arrived from @bullypulpithq.bsky.social

Was watching Buffy’s Anya backstory episode. Friend asked why I sighed. “She’s not of a sufficiently high social class to have domesticated rabbits that far north in Europe in that century, but the writers couldn’t know, the paper was only presented at a conference yesterday.” Accuracy is fleeting.

Stranger Things is *full* of tiny little anachronisms! Hopper having an Ikea Färgrik mug on his desk in 1984, a year before the US got its first Ikea store. One of the kids having a rollaboard-style wheeled suitcase in 1986, a year before they were invented, a decade before they become popular.

I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards.

When all the women come and go, the other characters should be asking “Where’s Michelangelo?”

Seen on instagram but its cooking with Bluesky energy

There are some good design ideas in this thread. #ttRPG

Ah, an f-bomb dropped on #SNL, makes me feel young again.