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It's Mike. I wish I only talked about tabletop games, writing, and comic books (and tea), but politics keep happening. I like He/Him, and I like She/Her, and I don't like Twitter anymore.

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There's sweet potato pie lattes and, in a different yam-adjacent flavor note niche, ube lattes.

08.10.2025 03:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't prefer any "fall" pies tbh. All year round, I pretty much just want cherry, peach or pecan.

08.10.2025 03:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

False. All parts of the brownie are equal, depending on whether you feel more or less chewy.

Unless your brownies are crumbly and the edges just break off, in which case, you gotta get better or just give up making brownies.

08.10.2025 03:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Correct.

08.10.2025 01:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Correct.

This also goes for PSL (broke) vs. sweet potato latte (bespoke)

08.10.2025 01:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Reply with some innocuous opinion (that has no stakes and is not about morality or something) and I'll insist you're wrong, you're correct, or admit I have no fucking idea. Then you can talk shit about my assertion, or we can gloat about being correct.

AKA what the internet *used* to be about.

08.10.2025 01:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Both of those were sold to conglomerates, and the tequila was only ever Sammy IIRC

08.10.2025 01:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've had this, and my review isn't as glowing, but I'm not mad I bought it.

I do want to try the Smashing Pumpkins whisky but I don't actually want Corgan getting my money if I can help it.

08.10.2025 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

When Kamala first replaced Biden, there were like *no* Trump commercials on TV.

By late October, I had to pre-mute every single commercial break because there were so many disgusting bigot ads.

Interested to see how much airtime they buy and what it says. So far the message is mostly term limits.

08.10.2025 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Way more Vote Yes commercials than Vote No, at least on Jeopardy and Wheel -- but if it's anything like last year, the GOP will buy a bunch of airtime at the wire.

This one is important to advertise because yeehaw PA swing voters in my experience *love* term limits. "PRIMARY EVERYONE" types.

08.10.2025 01:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago (RNS) β€” Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as β€˜Love thy neighbor’ and β€˜Who w...

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

07.10.2025 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2106    πŸ” 833    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 80
08.10.2025 00:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Go do cool shit! Do it tomorrow! Do it loud!

08.10.2025 00:47 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It would be more entertaining to watch a blank wall for a half-hour than Lee Greenwood for any length of time.

08.10.2025 00:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think that person is on your side this time btw

08.10.2025 00:15 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm just thinking, even Sally Yates or Peter Strzok is probably not even using "I was fired" as a resume item.

08.10.2025 00:14 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And unless it makes the news somehow (and even then), there is no way for your new potential employer to know whether you actually got fired for the good reason you're claiming.

08.10.2025 00:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is out of hand. These agents are there to cause trouble and violence, not to keep people safe. These are the scenes that play out in war torn, destitute countries - not America.

07.10.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3106    πŸ” 1292    πŸ’¬ 307    πŸ“Œ 90

yeah, okay, "democrats and republicans serve the same masters" you can go and fuck off too, little buddy. i do not play that game. one party gives a shit and is trying to chart a way forward, the other is a pack of howling fascists, fuckshits like you are how Trump got elected.

07.10.2025 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah like, sorry, but don't trust anything digital with anything you don't want people to see.

This means you, my Facebook friends who still say crazy shit in the DMs

07.10.2025 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It does feel like a logical fallacy kinda

"Since their efforts don't work, they must be grifters"

I'm genuinely curious *why* they don't get traction when they seem to do the same thing from the other side, but I'm not finding any articles lambasting the org as a grift right now

07.10.2025 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

It's surreal that we're watching the Attorney General, the head of the FBI, and the Speaker of the House running a cover-up in plain view but at this point I don't know how else you interpret things like this.

07.10.2025 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 128    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

I still always get wiz on my cheesesteaks

Yes, sharp provolone (and even cooper sharp) are "better"

They ain't wiz

I said what the fuck I said

07.10.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Get you a spicy fish stew

07.10.2025 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Do they think the only type of wife is Tradwife or something?

07.10.2025 17:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I really don't understand why we never see Satanic Temple cases that get to SCOTUS and argue the inverse of these on behalf of religious freedom.

07.10.2025 17:52 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't believe this is the plan.

I do believe it's important to prepare people to fight it, to say it out loud and make them deny it, in case it should become the plan.

07.10.2025 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Standing outside the Supreme Court today, I heard stories from people who were tortured in the name of "conversion therapy," from a mother who lost a son who'd endured it

This is not a theoretical legal issue, there are real people who have suffered who need to be protected from medical malpractice

07.10.2025 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 139    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

He very obviously and overtly wants a closed system of only American products and purchases. Like so obviously. All the tariffs are prohibitively high.

07.10.2025 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So to recap:

- They control every branch that can shut down the government
- They have chosen to shut down the government, causing federal workers not to get paid
- They have chosen never to pay those workers

07.10.2025 15:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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