Avram Grumer

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The magic circle comes from modern Neo-Pagan magical practice, right?

Which is a form of religion, and a lot of money-related behaviors look a lot like religion when you poke at them. (This forms the premise of Max Gladstone’s Craft Sequence series of fantasy novels.)

… So this seems to me like a vaguely similar thing. The money operates kind of like a magic circle, taking the rule “Such-and-such a thing is not worth doing,” and suspending it.

And more generally, the quest to earn money imposes all sorts of weird, game-like rules upon us.

Hm. The thought is kind of vague and half-formed in my head, but…

Like, there’s this thing in our society where you might do some unusual thing for enjoyment — like play ttRPGs! — and some people will mock that, but if you make money doing it, they’ll respect it (perhaps grudgingly).

Do you see a relationship between this idea — the inverted magic circle — and the general principle in our society that activities that are usually considered not to be worthwhile become worthwhile when money can be earned through them?

Didn't realize it till just now, but DeNovo feels a bit like Jeffrey Epstein.

Not exactly, but that level of connection to bad stuff, plus his abusive and manipulative tendencies.

“Renewen” sounds like plausible Middle English.

John Wayne - Wikipedia

There’s a pretty well-known case of a Marion taking the name John in his professional work that I’d expect even the most cis of people to be aware of.

Texas is afraid of summoning a superhero with the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the stamina of Atlas, the speed of Mercury, the foresight of Wotan, the cleverness of Odysseus, and the healing powers of Wong Tai Sin.

The name's Les. Les Miserables. Falsely accused? Unjustly imprisoned? If you've got the bread, you've got a lawyer.

Dude, I’m asking you to look more closely at the actual words of the post to which you responded, which you are obviously misreading as an endorsement of a view that it describes as a “naive fantasy,” and your response has been to make something up.

A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social (Let us table the discussion of whether this naive fantasy has any basis in reality or plausibility. the point is we fucking HATE THEM at least as much as many of you do.) 3:22 AM • Mar 3, 2026

Reread the post below, paying special attention to the highlighted sentence. What role do you think is being played by the phrase “naive fantasy”?

Plenty of Americans also thought Trump would be good for business!

Is this a case of someone using “table” as a verb in the American sense (to postpone a discussion, perhaps indefinitely) and you reading it in the British sense (to introduce a topic for discussion)?

I’m not enjoying this latest edition of the Paranoia RPG.

How about the building in the Bronx (3235 Grand Concourse) where Penny Marshall, Neil Simon, Paddy Chayefsky, Calvin Klein, and Ralph Lauren all lived as kids? (Not at the same time, unfortunately.)

Brett McGurk is on Colbert, and I'm disappointed that he isn't voiced by H Jon Benjamin.

There really are people who just log on each day looking for someone to be awful to.

Would you go into that heart if you were Jesus?

We are rapidly approaching the GOP/WWE singularity, if we haven’t already arrived at it.

Christianity for the MAGA crowd exists only as an in-group for the basis of social discrimination. It has no real content.

It’s certainly not what Platner’s fans are looking for.

An image of 17 AI company logos. They all look like more or less stylized buttholes.

Why does the entire industry look like they had a logo drawing contest and the only rule was “eat this acid and draw a butthole”?

I agree that grieving a son lost in a tank mishap is not much different from grieving a son lost in a highway car crash.

But I’d be shocked if someone said “Killing civilians in some random unrelated nation is justified payback for my son who died in a car crash.” Wouldn’t you?

I remember when the government would lie to us first in order to get backing fo war in the Middle East. Lying to us after is just offensive.

I tried a couple of Sugarbees last year, and wasn't impressed. I'm in the northeast, though.

Also, a lot of the fruit I had last year was disappointing. It might have been a bad year.

I enjoy Bluesky & a lot of my favorite internet people are here but there is no denying it is the Park Slope Food Coop of social networks

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth orders cancellation of DOD ties with Columbia beginning in 2026-27 academic year Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered the cancellation of the Department of Defense’s ties with Columbia beginning in the 2026-27 academic year, arguing that Columbia and other universities are “w...

Okay I mean this has been a student organizing demand for a long time, so, W

www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/02...

we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me