Clark Valentine

Listening to a report about Google chopping down a quarter of a million trees in Finland to build a data centre while washing out yoghurt pots for the recycling

Everyone keeps asking me how I’m feeling about early voting so far. I’m feeling like nobody *actually* knows anything, and this is the most important midterm of our lives. I’d rather be us than them, but we can’t get comfortable. We can’t get complacent. Go vote like we’re down 3%.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

Here's a direct link to House Dem's Judiciary Cmte report. The executive summary begins: "A growing body of evidence demonstrates that Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s." democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

perfect, no notes

This was the song in my headphones when I set my current personal best* in bench: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK3h... (* don't ask, it's not terribly impressive)

Tough weekend for authoritarians.

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

Hey USA among all the reforms we need to take on I'd like us to look at how long there is between the election and when the winners take their seats, that's a whole lot of time for the losers to screw everything up on their way out. Most other countries it happens a _lot_ faster than that.

The people showed up in greater numbers than the ratfuckers could handle. What happened in Brazil today is awe inspiring

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Hell yes

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News: So yesterday Obama compared Trump to Saddam Hussein Repubs: Cheesecake Factory?!! N: Any response to- R: And who can afford to eat at Cheesecake Factory? What an elitist jerk N: But- R: Everyone is poor! Gas costs so much! N: You- R: Doesn’t he understand the pain his economy is causing

Also: - 'moot point' - 'couldn't care less' - 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky'

Has anyone played any of the niche Axis & Allies games? North Africa, D Day, Stalingrad, etc.? Are they any good*? * All the caveats about them being squarely beer-and-pretzels casual wargames rather than serious military sims

My first 5 TTRPGs, in the order I played them: 1. Star Frontiers. I’mone of those oddballs who didn’t start with D&D 2. D&D of some variety. Didn’t take long for me to land here 3. Boot Hill 4. The James Bond RPG from Victory Games. It was run… poorly 5. 2E AD&D, college in the early 90s

That it'll fail because they lack sufficient consolidation and centralized control does not make it trivial that the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress. It is open rebellion against the Constitution and morally tantamount to treason.

I'm not claiming that this is a _good_ song. But it doesn't get more 80s than this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPud... (It can get _equally_ 80s than this. But I do not believe this can be exceeded.)

It's never a good time to be sick. But right now is the least bad time ever to be sick.

Handheld Games when I was a kid took water not batteries.

Another old fossil answering “Some clone of Pong”

If Acton wins, it is essential for Democrats not to be the bigger person in this situation. You tap dance on this asshole’s grave and you make a big deal of how it doesn’t matter what your party is, what issue you support it not, but campaigning like this is wholly unacceptable.

PS I know "yay let's unionize" sounds good but doesn't give any concrete action steps. This video explains very succinctly how you actually go about forming a union at your job (the organization you get in touch with for help depends on your industry.) youtu.be/ibNkDZXDMDQ?...

It's impossible to overstate how twisted and evil those Texas mailers are; this is one of at least a dozen reasons. There are no depths to which the GOP will not sink, and they must be resoundingly defeated everywhere we can manage.