J Walker

J Walker

@jwalker.bsky.social

Arm the homeless

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And now it's just Shatner and Takei left to stare daggers at each other, neither willing to die while the other one still lives.

Karen Bass has represented me in the California Assembly, represented the district where I reside in Congress, represented my state as a Senator, and led my city as its Mayor. This is the first election that I'm not voting for her.

The Incredibly Strange People Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies For Tax Purposes

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In one episode of M*A*S*H (set during the Korean War in the early 1950s), the character Radar has fallen asleep reading The Avengers, a comic book not in existence until 1963.

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You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social

Trump has denied disaster relief for Illinois following severe storms in August. Trump approved a request from Indiana for damage resulting from the same storms. One is a "blue state." The other is a "red state." No other president has politicized natural disasters the way that Trump has.

It also had one of the greatest, most slept-on soundtracks of its era.

Secretoriginz @secretoriginz.bsky.social

JD was entertaining from a certain POV but I hope no one actually sees him as a role model. Of Christian Slater's various roles, I'd much prefer being Mark from Pump Up The Volume.n

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huh, interesting that vance thinks this is the worst terrorist attack and not oklahoma city

WH Press Pool Reports@whpresspool.bsky.social

“But what I try to remind people is, look, this is a guy who committed, in my view, the worst terrorist attack on American soil outside of 9/11, the people that he was meant to treat, the Army soldiers that he was meant to treat for mental illness and other problems, he took them at their (3/4)

Question for Mage players: Let's say you're creating a character whose paradigm is shaped by the Spiritualist Church. Which works better for you: A Celestial Chorus member with several dots in Spirit, or a Kha'vadi with a monotheistic paradigm? I'm heavily inclined towards the former. #wod #MtA

On the other hand, I have heard arguments favoring either the Kha'vadi approach or an Orphan one. The Kha'vadi I usually see as being less Eurocentric, so that doesn't work as well for me. Orphan is a possibility, but I think CC membership just works. What's your opinion?

Flying monkeys from the Wizard of Oz. I'd have to run out of the room when that part came on. They still give me the willies.

Sleepy Hollow Reviews 🎃🐎@sleepingvillage.bsky.social

In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?

If you were born in Los Angeles, you get to complain about the traffic. If you moved here, you don't get to complain, since you had to have known how bad it was before you got here, and you chose to add to the problem. I moved here, but I don't complain about the traffic. I also don't drive, so...

This is what I've been saying for years, decades even. The ones who insisted upon voting third party rather than going through the work of actually getting involved in the party locally and taking it over infuriated me. Meantime, the Tea Party and MAGA types successfully did just that with the GOP.

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Isn't this just a slight reworking of an old racist joke about why so many Black soldiers died in Vietnam?

Feena van@feenavan2099.bsky.social

If niki Minaj had any self respect she would not support Donald Trump especially after he said this about her.

We've all listened to true crime podcasts and/or read books in the genre, and yet people who stage murders to look like interrupted robberies are STILL NEGLECTING TO TAKE WHATEVER CASH AND JEWELRY ARE LYING AROUND. If you want it to look like a robbery, then it has to BE an actual robbery!

I'm reading my great-grandfather's memoirs (he died a couple of years before I was born), and what's surprising is just how warmly I, a progressive Californian living in the 21st century, feel towards this deeply religious Texas country doctor of the early-mid 20th century. He's just likeable.

Michael Okuda was once asked how the Heisenberg compensators on starships work. His response was "Just fine, thank you."

GolgariGlenRoss@golgariglenross.bsky.social

I have serious questions about how pattern buffers work (i.e., they shouldn't).

Some really good atmospheric stuff for Mage and VtM, especially scenes or chronicles taking place around the late 60s-mid 70s when this type of music was being used in a lot of genre movies.

Vintage Obscura Radio@vintageobscura.net

George Martin - "Eary Feary" [UK, Electronic/Atmospheric] (1971) - Dark, droning synth music with background piano melody. https://redd.it/6m24b9 https://youtu.be/8KdPPMWV8m4

I can only dream of what it would be like to get under this administration's skin enough for Steve Cheung to pick up his phone and furiously type a post on social media calling me a cuck loser

I just heard the line "Billy Joel writes showtunes for straight guys," and it explains so much of why I like him and my spouse hates him.

Just checked my last three months of Amazon purchases and everything was either for the house, for my spouse, or for something lost, broken, or worn out (e.g., headphones, slippers) My spouse checked theirs: the same We have reached the boring and practical era of our lives, and it's a blast.

Similar vibe to me telling Southern Lost Causers that General Sherman should have finished the job.

Dragon Cobolt@dragoncobolt.bsky.social

every time a nazi whines about Dresden I am going to get closer and closer to "Bomber Harris was right, we should have dropped more"

One of my earliest takes on Musk after getting to know more about his beliefs and stated goals was that he was one of those guys I knew who read a *lot* of Heinlein in high school and college, and missed the point entirely.

Tech billionaires like to claim their work is inspired by science fiction, but in truth, they are using its ‘chrome-plated aesthetic’ as a fig leaf to further what the social theorist Ali Rıza Taşkale labels ‘reactionary futurism’

Confession: I started getting into art films back when I lived with my parents who didn't have premium channels, and finding a deeply symbolic European film playing on basic cable late at night meant a decent chance of catching some nudity. That was my introduction to arthouse cinema.

today's youth will never have the experience of scrolling the 40 or so channels you had at 1 AM on a friday night looking for something interesting or horny and catching the back half of eXistenZ without having any idea what it was

Most couples I've seen on bodycam videos being questioned, one of them will be utterly hostile to the point of resisting arrest and assaulting the officers, and the other one will be attempting to calm them down. If you're in a relationship, you know which one you are.

Cop uniforms that include cowboy hats are hilarious, and I should probably avoid Texas because I would not be able to take them seriously during any interaction

This is true. I quit smoking years ago, and while I can detect cigarette smoke quite easily, I cannot detect drug sniffing dogs by smell alone.

A-Aron@aaronfrizzle.bsky.social

When you quit smoking you can detect cigarette smoke better than drug sniffing dogs.

The National Hot Dog Council says that no one over the age of 12 should put ketchup on a hot dog, Fuck the National Hot Dog Council. Remember, kids: It's YOUR hot dog. You can put whatever you want on it from chocolate sauce to caviar. Ignore the gatekeepers and follow your personal tastes.