hexdrake.bsky.social

*abruptly realising that I've spent the past several months under the mistaken impression that two totally unconnected users with vaguely similar avatars are the same person* So, are you familiar with the concept of syncretism?

bowawa

"it was revealed that uma musume don't need humans to produce more uma musume" this has been known. they are indeed like elves

when are we going to start spamming hg with angry demands to buff amiya and make her as busted as being a mindreading king of sarkaz heiress of theresa who studied under doctor SHOULD be

"wahh wahh its not as strong as the boss version" boss version can't even kill verdant

Early military aviation is underexplored in planegirl technology. I want to see the girl version of some fuckass plywood deathtrap where they just armoured the propeller because the synchronisation gear hadn't been invented yet and gambled it wouldn't deflect a bullet right back in the pilot's face.

A useful lens on the concept of social murder takes the form of a question: "What the fuck am I supposed to do now?" Because the unspoken answer, always, is "die." "WTF am I supposed to do now I can't get SNAP/Medicaid/HRT?" The answer is "die." The purpose of a policy is what it does: kill.

The fundamental rot at the heart of the Democratic Party is the absolute refusal to acknowledge this reality. That no matter how horrible the consequences of policy, the leadership and its sycophants will not ever admit to the unspoken death toll beneath it. Transphobia kills people.

Half the time the people doing this are active 5E players themselves – which I guess demonstrates the issue at hand, in a way, if so few people are actually running 5E's resource economy as written that they honestly don't realise that they're talking about their own game!

A fascinating phenemenon I keep bumping into in the D&D fandom is folks who can clearly articulate the problems with 5E's resource economy, but because they have it in their heads that 4E was the Bad Edition, they misremember those problems as being characteristic of 4E instead.

It's gratifying to see even in 2026 it's still impossible to mention D&D 4th Edition in any substantive way without a bunch of shitheads who've never played or even read it immediately attempting to relitigate a decades-old edition war based on half-remembered stuff they've heard other people say.

hi! regime bureaucrat here. you can call this running on an "anti-corruption" platform and it can include many things: eliminating the daily scams and gambling in american life, mamdani style pothole-fixing "sewer socialism", busting "informal familial connections", and purging the government !!

The Lula election may be the most significant of our time. Brazil will be the vanguard against an even more apocalyptic environmental deterioration. Overjoyed that the Amazon remains steadfast.

This is why I hate the “it has to be subtle!!!” Critique of queer media. The fact that we can’t just say what we are or what the character is is so reductive and constraining to so many queer writers. Don’t let cis people dictate how you show you identity. They don’t know what they’re saying.

its insane how not many people are talking about how republicans with the help of several moderate democrats are building out the largest abusive medical conversion therapy operation in modern american history

It’s called aura bruh #arknights

i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

Lula won in part by banning online gambling

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.

the regime

It’s funny how western leftists seem amazed at features of Asian societies as public infrastructure that is quickly repaired or public transportation that is always on time without seeming to realize that the secret sauce is worker exploitation

If it's the sound political strategy you claim to believe it is, what are you worried about, you'll more than make those lost votes up in disgusting centrists, right? Right? But you know deep down it doesn't work like that

I think people intuitively understand that democratic candidates tossing trans kids to the wolves is not only morally repugnant but also politically ineffective, otherwise they wouldn't freak out every time someone said they weren't voting for a democrat who did this

American conservatives are constantly bemoaning the decline of aesthetic standards and calling for a return to tailored suits and classical Roman architecture, but are now forced to defend the Cheesecake Factory. A constant tension between the Brooks Brothers patrician and the Kid Rock populist.

Anti-trans Democrats are spreading poison when we can least afford it, during elections in this ongoing fascist takeover. As a strategy, it’s a recipe for failure. As a moral stand, it’s reprehensible. PS I’m the father of young trans woman and I’ll never forgive anyone who makes her life harder.

thinking fondly again of the college girl at the donut place, who made a little muslim boy bounce giddily out the door after she told him his donut was free, and who waved me away and said "you're good" when it was my turn to pay and then, when asked if there was a deal that day said "i hate my job"

Nearl - #Arknights #art 06/05/2022 There's only like 2 or 3 more drawings that aren't ak related that i still like damn

"is the deathless black snake transgender" - the greatest thread in the history of terran forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

i see this all as being downstream of an elephant in the room: police departments have accumulated so much power—and the consent to hold that power from most voters—that our elected officials believe their personal safety and the peaceful transfer of power depends on having their political support.

nyah

Viviana wins again as the people's burn 6*

what makes arknights a fantasy story isn't the magic cancerous fossil fuel rocks or the cosmic horrors but the concept of a working class that isn't just as totally chudded out by nationalism and conspiracy theories as the bourgeoisie is

We tried "everyone is entitled to an opinion" for three straight decades and all we have to show for it is four thousand cases of measles and a death cult running the government. It's time for people who don't know what they're talking about to shut the fuck up.

Arknights has really been stepping it up in terms of integrating story elements and gameplay mechanics, like the ending of Babel, or, more recently, showing the depletion of the originium ore veins by also deleting our OP/orundum

Therapy is a fantastic tool for going from having a problem whose nature and implications you don't understand to having a well-understood problem you're materially unable to constructively address.

Extremely important thread! The VAST majority of GCs are men, not women, and it is right wing men who are the main purveyors of the ideology. Gender critical women are *extremely* rare.

Arknights is really good. You love Vetochki.