Bill Pees

My kingdom for an edit button. Or a second coming of anti-monarchial sentiment.

I ought right told some teen last night, who was demonstratively taking more candy than he thought was expected, "Look this whole thing is supposed to be about harassing old people. You're supposed to be like, 'Give me candy, old man. Or else.'"

I fed the neighborhood 68 hotdogs on buns with condiments, 2 gallons of cider, 24 donuts, and two piles of candy.

The Great Pumpkin is a God of Community. Hail the Great Pumpkin.

This is really where I should be deploying the full force of privately squatting an IP for TTRPG. Harvest the list of all the tropes HP touches, and vanity publish a supplement for Mage: The Ascension that hits everything important.

Lifelong demographically mediocre Ohioan here, "aunt" and "uncle" are exactly what we always called my parents' cousins. Both sides, no mention of "... once removed" anything at all.

What makes it worse still is how hard the wealthy have fought to end democracy so they can continue to profit from all the ways they deprive us of our dignity

The dust that is bane.
The grail of the king.
The blade on the stove.
Hail on the wing.
The jade in the cove.
The creed of sight.
The shade in the grove
The speed of light
The seed of night

The tomb, a shell
The womb, a well
The knife draws blood
The doom, a bell
The wife draws flood.
The gust of the rain
The life draws mud.
The rust on the chain.
The nail in the ring

100%

I think I'm a real communist because I want to use the money rich people steal from people doing the work, to do all those things.

For whatever it's worth, though I may not always be checking in with y'all individually, I am rooting for each of you who has their priorities right. People. And including, yourself.

I didn't grow up in absolute chaos to let all this intimidate me 70% of the way through life.

Make it worth it.

A casting exchange showing characters in The Big Lebowski cast as characters in Dune; Lebowski as Harkonnen, the Dude ash Paul Atreides, Walter Sobchak as Duncan Idaho, Donnie as Wellington Yueh, Brandt as Gurney Halleck, Flea (the Nihilist) as Feyd Rautha, Jesus as the Beast Rabban, The Stranger as Thufir Hawat, Maude as Rev Mother Mohiam, and Bunny as Lady Jessica.

"That spice production really tied the universe together."

That's how you do it.

Is Coleville neurotypical or not? I love the way he very precisely and explicitly brings closure to all his own rhetoric. I just realized that about him. He often seems a little too stage-actor-for-this-movie, but he's a great communicator in an unusual way.

... it without a sense of a profound paralysis in the centrist party.

So like I guess there will be less opportunity this time round to say shit like "the citizens didn't really know what the Reich was doing."

I should have read a book about conditions at that time, by now. :/

A large minority of people really, sincerely, wanted (mostly out of ignorance of what it would look like) the government to be destroyed from within. And institutional and contemporary gerrymandering, plus appeals to all the bigotry, got them the means.

I also credit that they couldn't have done...

Hang in there my brother in Humanity.

We're doing what we can do. Keep our peeps alive.

This platform is not entirely working for me. I know that I can "love" somebody's post for e.g., speaking truth about a dire situation. But I don't like putting hearts next to dire situations, and "...somebody's post speaking truth about..." is just not getting me there. My brain: so dumb.

Black and white photo of a woman inter 20s or 30s, with short hair, looking over one shoulder

Can we just appreciate how stunning young Ursula K Le Guin was

Oh you know the answer: It is now!

It's a whole lotta "I tried nothing but I'm all out of ideas." Or like sitting on your ass at one end of a room when someone says "We need to pick up this mess," and saying "But I can't reach any of it from here."

Pretending you know "what will really happen" well enough to make it a guiding principle in formulating a response to a problem is not really distinct from the crappiest possible status-quo-ism, no matter how much we all love saying '... but I'm a realist.'

...everyone agrees to say "Other people will never agree to address X," that it will never be addressed.

"I don't think that people will go along with that" is an /extremely/ limited argument to bring to any conversation.

Nash Equilibrium is Gaslighting.

When people considering the proposition: X is wrong, trouble themselves to enunciate "... but people will never do anything to address X," they do so despite the fact that it's substantially /because/...

At a work event last week, I heard so many coworkers desperate for a village who in the same breath, complained about community problems that would have benefitted from *them* acting like a villager. Sometimes we have to make small sacrifices to keep ourselves and our community from being sacrificed

My average rate of adoption of a(n entirely) new mechanics config of a game like D&D, is 30 years.

I'm not going to look at Pathfinder 2E until at least 2034.

When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong – faster & fstr & fstr. They put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it’s too late. -BG

Hey, I heard AWS was down and it made me realise how down I've been since our connection was lost; I'm banking on us being able to reconnect wherever you are in the world and that together we can work to restore our valuable collaborative partnership.

I had a long convo last Friday with our IT PM about the CIO saying: "It's OK to write code with AI, but you're still responsible for it..." and he COULD NOT acknowledge that that premise about accountability would have a half life of 35 minutes.

"What did you dream...
That's all right, we told you what to dream"

Barring DR I meant to say.