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big island being 4 provinces while all the other islands only getting one feels kinda bs. at least split Oahu into two to reflect its importance as a trade hub and THE main pacific port for travel in the later part of the EU time period.

Little bit cheeky today 😏

molokai showing tribal government bonuses instead of monarchy

I cant tell if Molokai is the bug or if the others are. Molokai being the only hawaiian country that's a tribe instead of a monarchy makes me think something didn't get fixed in time during last checks.

EUV map showing the hawaiian islands as playable countries.

screenshot of oahu showing leader (Nawele Maweke) with Kanaka Maoli culture and Tapu (Kapu) religion

The Hawaiian islands are playable!
They probably are a bit jank with little content, but I'm doing it for the meme. Gonna go with Oahu since I live there despite big island being the historic unifier. They also use the indigenous name for the culture! this is great!

$10,000 US?

Even with tariffs 👀

Angeln is a peninsula in Germany.

It is thought that a group of Germans called ‘The Angles’ left that area to settle in Great Britain.

People started calling the place they settled ‘Angle-land.’

This morphed into ‘England.’

We now speak ‘English.’

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Also, making beats live is crazy. I'm impressed by everything happening here. Sure there are presets you can use and he probably has a rolodex of chord progressions that work but it's really really hard to make that all go in the moment.

An illustration of Blau sleeping under the light of the moonlight. He seems to be sleeping peacefully, his briefs look like they’re holding a heavy package.

Snoozey shark, what is he dreaming about?

But if what you want from social media is civil disagreement and even arguing by invested people, this is LITERALLY what that looks like for chunks of this site.

If you don’t actually want this style of discussion, seems to me that systems where people can easily avoid interacting is really helpful

There's also something deeply ironic in Will's argument being that Important People(tm) need access to Everyone's Posts despite the author's consent when the person he's publicizing was blocked by so many people *because* she works for an AI company that ingests Bluesky posts without consent.

I am blocked by at least 100 times the number of people that person who's whining about block lists is blocked by! I do not have any problem whatsoever finding cool people to hang out with!

People blocking you, whether artisinally or via blocklist, are doing you the courtesy of signaling that you will not vibe well with each other and self-selecting out of the pool of people on Bluesky you will potentially have to deal with.

This is a line of thinking that will inevitably lead to the capital being burnt down and by capital I mean the majority of the District of Columbia, NoVA and Maryland so that’s a thing.

God, I'm so excited for this novel I want to write. There are characters in it I've wanted to write for ages. Y'all are gonna love them almost as much as I do if I have my way.

It's been so long since I've wanted to make things like character playlist and doodle concept art.

He has fully delegated a bunch of powers he’s not empowered to even have in the first place!

Not functionally the president, also not legally the president. It's very strange!!

The thing about Donald Trump is that in many ways that matter he is not functionally the president.

Yeah…
I’m gonna need to update to a new pc soon.
Mine is old enough that it needs a fair amount of time to load anything on the main menu.
Everyone else has been showing the game running super fast.

I am liking the mix of loading screens at least. Got one for India

the menu screen coming up really fast is nice, but rip my comp. it is not smoothly running through the screens like it should. great menu theme though.

EUV start screen with quote from Kamehameha I

it finally loaded, but it also means a change of plans. I had been thinking of doing hawaii or japan as my first campaign since where I live and where my fam is from, but had been almost going to do vencie for the achievement. But getting a Kamehameha quote is certainly a sign to try the islands.

Why is unpacking the eu5 files giving me over an hour eta?!

It’s down to half an hour, but still!
I thought pre load was meant to prevent this kind of waiting.

Which is it? End the filibuster and be legends, or only democrats can end the shutdown?

You only buy it once and that rankles them. They want to extract money from everyone forever and it’s making the entire medium worse.

It's cool how we keep proving over and over and over again that there's a significant market for narrative-heavy, character-driven, single-player experiences in video games and publishers just categorically refuse to believe us

80% of the food I ate when I was 9 years old in 1998 was blue

A fair and just outcome here would be that the defendant face an entire firing squad of sandwiches

Slimy Lawyer at trial: well how was the sandwich dressed when it happened?

Radovan~

full HD animated wallpaper loop
available on my store (reward 38 July)

animation by
@junkbyjess.bsky.social

Oh my goodness. Did they make it a space suit?

Republicans block full SNAP benefits from being paid out this month Senate Democrats tried to pass a resolution that would have immediately restored SNAP benefits on Monday. Republicans blocked it.

Republicans want 42 million Americans to go hungry.