Nagaina, Resident Witch of Monsterlove NM

Through an absolutely hilarious sequence of administrative errors* I find myself in the position of owing Federal income taxes for the first time ever. Because I never do anything by half measures, it's a lot. Could definitely use help. ko-fi.com/nagaina/goal... #MutualAid #TTRPGCommunity

The US and the West welcomed Russia into the community of nations after the Cold War. Investment poured in. The G7 turned into G8. The idea that Poland, Estonia, etc. forming their own foreign relations was so unfair to Moscow that Russia is entitled to murder Ukrainians 20 years later is insane.

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It's already Saturday morning in Japan and people worldwide are saying No Kings!! 🚫 👑

This is a great thread about Ilhan Omar but I wanted to highlight this one because so many people do not realize that constituent services are part of what your elected folks are supposed to be doing, and it's rare that they'll go out of their way to bring it to your attention.

I swear to god so much of this is literally just people confusing measles and chicken pox

the man literally started his campaign by saying that Mexican immigrants are rapists and criminals by default, we all lived through this "some, i assume, are good people" was the very first Trump-ism

i think it is fun when people write things that are just totally in tension with easily observable reality. like, this is “charlie brown had hoes” levels of nonsense: “in his first term Trump largely respected the cultural consensus of the Obama years.” www.compactmag.com/article/how-...

even on this website, some people operate under the unfortunate false belief that I (or anyone else) am somehow obligated to be *fair* to billionaires

Your occasional reminder that polls don't mean shit, you have to show up and vote, preferably early and in person if you can

The Original Sin of politics was the invention of the passive voice, when Adam and Eve ate of the Tree of Vague Unaccountability. Wild how all those violent ICE agents just … got hired … and deployed … somehow. Who can possibly say how? It’s all a mystery.

Good Morning 🪶 Happy Indigenous People's Day!

I read The Witchwood Knot by Olivia Atwater

im trying to document this Talarico conspiracy theory and i don't think i can possibly top this one right-wing conspiracy brain is so advanced that they are accusing their own conspiracies of being false flags

Time for another #hauntalong recommendation! This time it’s Mark Mylod’s The Menu (2022), a horror comedy about a group of extremely wealthy people who travel to a private island for an exclusive tasting menu. Since this is a horror movie, you can imagine dinner does not go as expected.

statler and waldorf but it’s al-sayed and ossoff heckling republicans

Counter-proposal to Sam Altman: Go fuck yourself www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Please remember that for every VE Schwab and Stephen King, there are a lot of banned Black, queer, and POC writers you've never heard of, to whom it is maybe not a badge of honor but a denial of their voice. Being banned is not a marketing opportunity, unless one is already rich.

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

the reason these people need to be stripped of almost all of their money is so that they stop thinking that it gives them the right to nominate themselves for the "benevolent dictator" position

Gods trying to explain this to people last time the Internet Archive got dinged for facilitating large-scale piracy… “information wants to be free” was a statement of intent about censorship and not letting facts be buried. It wasn’t a blank cheque to strip-mine the intellectual property of authors

Until then demanding that large corporations get to pirate all our work is not the amazing freedom from corporate overlords that you think

Sorry I’m not gonna do idea landlords discourse today. You want authors to not get paid? Cool go totally rework society so that we also don’t have to pay for things.

we can squeeze you in by 2034, depending on how long it takes to fight off the alien ghosts

we don't have time for another plague apocalypse. we already did that. we're on to robot apocalypse now, try to catch up. next in line is fungal apocalypse. please consult the schedule

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No they're all wealthy freaks who use Harry Potter fanfic and Mage the Ascension as holy texts and who basically try to manifest their will into existence by just saying what they want as though it's true and hoping that's enough to make it so See also: Metamed, Theranos

It really does make me feel a bit like Cassandra because I was SO worried about these assholes becoming a major power a decade ago and now that people actually want to pay afuckingttention I'm getting "how did this happen?? who are these people? isn't this weird and unprecedented??"

If you ever wonder why I talk so much about my own experiences with these people whenever they come up it's because it's actually less traumatizing to me than a bunch of people running around going "hUh?? wHeRe DiD tHeY cOmE fRoM"

It's noted in an email later on in the files that Epstein asked for a conversational safeword with Vassar/Arc because he just would NOT stop saying odd shit in front of people Epstein wanted to impress.

Michael Vassar/Arc is one of my three LessWrong exes. He's the one who called me a 5y/o in a hot 20y/o's body. He's the one who stuck his dick in my mouth while I was waking up in his borrowed apartment.

It is the start of Banned Books Week and as such it's an EXCELLLLENT moment to donate to @authorsabb.bsky.social. We are laser focused on tbe single issue of fighting book bans. It's hard work, and we've done it with all volunteers for about 3 years-- and now we finally have a program manager.

He’s my Senator and I call his office frequently. (215) 405-9660

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The oldest audio TTRPG Actual Plays predate large corporate ad-based file hosting. The oldest I know of had to shut down their original site & slowly port to Patreon hosting because bot activity made maintenance costs unsustainable.