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The silliest? It would have to be paying my roleplay associates so we can do more than a couple hours per week and get all the art commissions for our homebrew content.

The hell am I even doing here? What the hell are YOU doing reading this post? It's Christmas morning! Get off the site! Go have fun!

For the past ten years or so, anti-liberal ideas have dominated the public intellectual landscape. I now believe that these ideas are in intellectual decline — that the naked authoritarianism of Trump's second term has set the stage for a liberal revival www.vox.com/politics/418...

The upper-middle class has the most revolutionary potential out of any social class, so I support this fully.

One of the worst parts of this whole ongoing ~thing~ has been watching the very few members of our media-political-intellectual-economic-etc elite who do actually care about the collapse of the constitutional order discover how few of their colleagues agree with them.

Feels like we’re in a surreal political moment where our elites desperately want to capitulate to a despot but the aspiring dictator is so dumb and bad at things that we’re still kinda free despite the best efforts of all involved.

Deep in my heart I do not believe that Jurassic Park would pose substantially different or more challenging security issues than any well stocked zoo.

BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.

This is where we are headed. If you don’t believe me, ask what basis the government had to send me and my family to a prison camp in Arkansas. We “looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.”

👀🚨JICYMI: New Quinnipiac Poll: More Americans now disapprove of Trump on immigration by 50% to 45% (including 51% independents) MAJORITY of Americans now disapprove of Trump on deportations by 53% to 42% poll.qu.edu/poll-release... cc: @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social l

2025 is the Year of California "Permitting Reform," says @buffywicks.bsky.social . California lawmakers in both chambers are hammering out 20 bills to rejigger the approval process for housing projects. calmatters.org/housing/2025...

Solarpunkish (total suburb annihilation)

I will never stop thinking about this Gabe Newell quote

Habit Burger, followed by A.