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I was minding my own business when tout à coup I learned that the RAMAYANA is getting a TRILOGY FILM ADAPTATION and part one is coming out IN TWO WEEKS

Saw this quote from the White House that said there has been no better friend to Catholics than the Trump White House and feel like that is news to the various Catholics whirled away into prison and exile and famine and death by the administration

granted that they weren't whirled away BECAUSE they were Catholic per se, but their oneness in Christian faith ultimately was less important than if they could be connected however thinly to a "shithole country" to use the term of art

The first reading today is the "don't oppress aliens! don't oppress widows and orphans! don't do it!" piece out of Exodus, and it's a little explicit that a motivator here is how you yourself are not so far from being an alien, and your family are super close to being widows and orphans, and, hm.

Psalm 23 (the LORD is my shepherd &c) describes how a table is set for you in sight of your foes, and one day somebody pointed out to me that this necessarily implies your foes are there too. In your sight. Maybe behind a set table of their own.

The first reading today is the "don't oppress aliens! don't oppress widows and orphans! don't do it!" piece out of Exodus, and it's a little explicit that a motivator here is how you yourself are not so far from being an alien, and your family are super close to being widows and orphans, and, hm.

I feel like I ought to tip my DM or something every time we open an encounter and I have at least one (1) fireball available and a bunch of nerds, including one named nerd, are all within thirty feet of a discernible point.

As a side note, for Abigail specifically I set up my spells to have a little chant each time I cast them, and I'm really pleased with my fireball

DM: Above you, an aperture glows with sinister silver light... the ceiling is close though... a tight fit, but perhaps the slightest among you could squeeze- ATANAH: I jam a mage hand up there DM: uh, it feels kind of gross, I guess, kinda cobwebby ATANAH: firebolt SIX GIANT SPIDERS: WHAT THE FUCK

I Died and Was Reincarnated as an Undead Centaur but My Rolls are Still Terrible???

DM: Above you, an aperture glows with sinister silver light... the ceiling is close though... a tight fit, but perhaps the slightest among you could squeeze- ATANAH: I jam a mage hand up there DM: uh, it feels kind of gross, I guess, kinda cobwebby ATANAH: firebolt SIX GIANT SPIDERS: WHAT THE FUCK

Spiders all desperately trying to escape the chimney fire, but couldn't get out more than one at a time, and basically dropped into an in-sink disposal composed of our rogue and paladin and artificer's war machine meanwhile Atanah chased the firebolt with a fireball FISH IN A BARREL BABY

I faithfully replace the stupid little perforated lids on all my spice jars as though I ever am going to say to myself, "I want to just add a pinch or a dab or a scattering or a smackerel or a dusting."

Because I'm white I have a bunch of little glass jars of McCormick spices and the thing about those stupid little jars is they don't admit any of my measuring spoons larger than the half-teaspoon, and there are six of those to a tablespoon did you know

Quantum of Solace really felt like it never got out of second gear, which is weird! big fight, explosions, they each killed the guy they were hunting (Camille gets her own guy to kill), and I was like "okay fun miniboss but let's engage the plot now" and then they ROLLED CREDITS

They establish that MI6 and the Prime Minister's office are both infiltrated, and then all the opposition from those organizations to Bond straightforwardly comes from how he is an infamous maniac who does embarrassing things apparently at random.

Quantum of Solace really felt like it never got out of second gear, which is weird! big fight, explosions, they each killed the guy they were hunting (Camille gets her own guy to kill), and I was like "okay fun miniboss but let's engage the plot now" and then they ROLLED CREDITS

Having passed it to my subconscious overnight, I think the film set up that the guy you thought was the antagonist? Oh he's just a cog in a much bigger machine. With guys everywhere. There's one in the room with us right now! Shit!!! and then everybody's motivations are legible going forward.

Wow it's so fun and easy to use the non-deprecated syntax for type hinting I'm having a great time post py39 (an error arises because a protocol method is named "set", and another method returns a set) alright well I'm going to turn into a monstrous wolf and swallow the sun now

A pro of python is that there's so much Stuff with simple and easy names! A downside is that sometimes those simple and easy names would be awfully convenient somewhere else.

Got a mailer from Purves, the GOP candidate for VA CD 11 and, and he proposes the following - 90% of all medical spending is for chronic disease - unregulated chemicals in food cause chronic disease - ergo we can save ~1.8T (per year? I guess?) by "eat[ing] real food" GUY'S MAHA, NOT GREAT

There's a pie chart that shows projected FY2026 budget that notes the source as Gemini AI, and, man, that bugs me, it feels like your source oughta be, like, the federal government or something, FEELS LIKE GEMINI AI ISN'T A PRIMARY SOURCE

Rough how the prayers of the faithful now include "peace in war-torn countries" to include Iran, because, yes we ought to and should earnestly desire and pray for peace in Iran, and at the same time, why is there not peace in Iran? Well, you see,