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the washington free beacon is trying to october surprise abdul by revealing his comms chief used to post bangers

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lula won and i've seen multiple independent posts by brazilian lesbians and sapphics all day about how they're going to have lots of sex with each other in celebration. beautiful

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Replying to @nataliereed84.bsky.social

…reason-worshipping literalism of Christianity onto worldviews that don’t approach divinity through that lens of Absolute Truth. Gods are, first and foremost, metaphors. They’re ways of conceptualizing things that are very very real. Like I was riffing the other day, Death, The Seasons, Pain…

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Ashitaka's story emphasizes the importance of having two girlfriends, one who is nice but evil and one who is mean but good, and you have to spend all of your time doing stuff for them

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social

Our guy walks into a totally unfamiliar environment with the craziest possible shit happening all around him and still somehow manages to make the correct moral choice like 85 times in a row.

a decade ago i tutored a french girl in english—asked her what she liked, she was a big fan of ed sheeran and bruno mars, i'd bring their lyrics in as texts i barely listen to music so discovered their discography as i did this prep. what i came to think and feel was:

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a decade ago i tutored a french girl in english—asked her what she liked, she was a big fan of ed sheeran and bruno mars, i'd bring their lyrics in as texts i barely listen to music so discovered their discography as i did this prep. what i came to think and feel was:

bruno mars is boring as a love song guy but incandescent as a hype good-vibes party guy there is something in ed sheeran's constant music references i can respect, as well as a clear care to his craft, but i can't stand him

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Just so we understand: “right wing wanker campaign to claim Doctors Without Borders are terrorists” means “the IDF is going to kill aid workers this week”.

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social

The British press has been extremely hostile towards Amnesty International, Medicins Sans Frontiers, Oxfam and others for decades because *they offer rival narratives that the public might listen to*, and that is not acceptable, to them.

related: all writing about pokémon gen 1 today contextualizes it in terms of later pokémon games instead of earlier RPGs

TAHK0@tahk0.bsky.social

I think the reason so many recent monster collecting games feel like they lack strong designs is because people are making (or stealing) pokemon again rather than making comic book werewolves that turn into battleships or making bug themed robots with swapable limbs

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also got a pet peeve where there's a gen 1 mechanic that they change in later games and people look back like "they based critical hit rate on SPEED?!?!" or "life before physical/special split?!" as if the modern games haven't kept gen 1 structures that are way more broken/constraining

related: all writing about pokémon gen 1 today contextualizes it in terms of later pokémon games instead of earlier RPGs

TAHK0@tahk0.bsky.social

I think the reason so many recent monster collecting games feel like they lack strong designs is because people are making (or stealing) pokemon again rather than making comic book werewolves that turn into battleships or making bug themed robots with swapable limbs