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Got my ballot in! Yes for trains, no for weird anti-trans & dark money measures, let’s get Gabe gone.

if you’ve never read a rather haunted life about shirley jackson, I highly recommend it

This is why I say I am a descriptor not a predictor. Didn’t see this coming. And right how as a descriptor I do not have enough caffeine to process. Live at the time of my posting.

On this date in 1415 the battle of Agincourt took place. A fascinating bit of history that also gave us Shakespeare's masterpiece 'Henry V' and several glorious films. Here are clips from 3 films showing the famous, delicious, rousing speech:

This is so useful

And the skeletons are… ?

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

One more for the afternoon crowd. Two of the last lines of dialogue I wrote on the last BioWare game I shipped.

The AAA industry continues on its path towards becoming SSS: sports, sequels, and shooters. And some of those games are good, sure. But when they're all that remains in the big-budget space, it's no wonder most of the interesting work these days is being created by indie studios.

it cannot actually be ignored or danced around that the closure of BioWare came so soon after the Saudi and Jared Kushner acquisition of EA. they absolutely did take the studio making EA’s broadly queerest games out back and shoot it old yeller style. do not let yourself or colleagues ignore that

Anybody who can’t make money off Mass Effect should get out of the money-making business.

Read this, it’s good.

BRETT KAVANAUGH: "Can you explain exactly how the consent would work?" Just saying... if *I* were Brett Kavanaugh, *I* WOULDN'T ASK A QUESTION SHOWING THAT I WAS CONFUSED HOW CONSENT WORKS! But maybe that's just me.

It’s the first day of the Colorado Pen show and I’m v excite. If you’re in the Denver area and interested in fountain pens, drop on by — the pay-it-forward table alone will set you up with so much ink.

NEW: A source familiar with the Colorado Chamber of Commerce Gov forum says the candidates were provided with moderator Ed Sealover’s questions, word for word, in advance. GOP candidate Victor Marx is reading prepared answers, word for word, from a notebook on his lap.

They REALLY don't want the gays coming back.

Hey all....I just found out ANYONE can sign up for this on 10/1 at 4pm eastern. It is just me and the librarian talking horror for 1 hour. We are going to have a great time. There will be a recording which I will share as well: librarycalendar.fairfaxcounty.gov/event/174759...

ICE has been abducting van loads of people in Liberal, Dodge City, and Garden City, KS this week. www.kake.com/home/ice-con...

"He loves piña coladas (crickets), long walks on the beach (hiding in his burrow) & being mysterious (also hiding in his burrow)."

BREAKING: buckaroo banzai and the hong kong cavaliers will no longer be opening for ed sheeran www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAgn...

#BREAKING: Over public dissents from Justices Thomas and Alito, #SCOTUS *denies* the Trump administration’s request for a stay in the mail-in ballots case. The USPS Rule will remain blocked—almost certainly through the midterms.

This is very near the Kruse Ancestral Home in suburban Kansas City and, uh, if they're sending the vice president there to shore up votes, they are freaking the fuck out.

Alright 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice here we go.

The once-outstanding Baltimore Sun has switched to AI slop political cartoons on its editorial page. They are as ghastly as you would imagine. The Sun is now owned by the CEO of the rightwing Sinclair TV Empire. He turned it MAGA. The paper lost 25% of its circulation this year.

Fountain pens is a genre in this house.

*clears throat* WICKHILLS! Fun to read about, not to live in! Well I guess it depends on your neighbourhood There are some quite nice ones Anyway, just... GENERALLY more fun to read about, I'd say us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

NWS bulletin said the Longmont-based weather team was closed due to short-staffing.

Just make a film called PLATFORM where Depp plays Warren Ellis making a comeback. At least it would be transparent pisspuffinry.

If you're a normal person unlike this weirdo, I happen to have a supernatural thriller horror witchcraft novel with a same sex love triangle coming out 3 weeks from today.

Soooo sounds like Pelikan has royally fucked up the Hubs this year. Time for non-denominational fountain pen parties instead?

Peter Cullen, the legendary voice actor known for voicing Optimus Prime in the "Transformers" franchise, has died at 85

I propose that every person that genuinely hits the 500 drafts limit be sent a free journal and fountain pen.

of course tim curry broke bluesky, he was an icon for freaks (complimentary)

He’s gone to the one place that hasn’t been corrupted by capitalism 🫡

He was a wild and an untamed thing.

Every single post on my timeline--literally every one--is screaming grief

RIP, Dolly Parton. I watched 9 to 5 far more often than it made any sense for an elementary schooler in the early 80s to do so. Absolute legend, great in everything, and an even better human than she was a singer or songwriter or actress. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPQR...

"It's really nice. I wish more people knew about it — because I certainly didn't."

Colorado’s most prominent TV political journalist is no longer set to host a Colorado Chamber of Commerce forum between the two major-party candidates for governor. coloradomedia.substack.com/p/kyle-clark...

Denver/Colorado @tkingfisher.com fans: not a drill. If you have a Denver Library Card and want the Daggerbound audiobook log on right now. Six copies available for the release day.