Scott Nickell

I'm not even sure "moderate" is the right word anymore. This is the low-end, bare-minimum option.

To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015

What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?

Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?

Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it.

He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.

Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.

There are certain fights that you need to either never pick in the first place or be certain you're willing to see all the way through.

The shutdown was one of them.

white square image. a page of a digital book appears at the center. the book page has a close-up of the cover art in the background. the attention is mostly on the yellow shading but there is orange shading in a small sliver to the right vertically (but not straight) down the page. “& daylight” heading text is at the top left of the page in bold white font black text reads discusses more about how the project (alt text won’t fit - msg me if you need help!) a white box with a black border and two columns contains the following black text: APRICITY - Marie Marchard DAYLIGHT - Oswald Perez FREQUENCY - Julia Beach GOSSAMER - Linda Crate HARBINGER - Madeleine Corley HEARTSICK - K Weber KERFUFFLE - Elizabeth Fletcher MIRACLE - Karen Steiger PERMISSION - Melinda Farrar PROLIX - Meesh Montoya REGENT - m klein SIMULTANEOUS - Norb Aikin SIPHON - Genevieve DeGuzman SYMPHONIC - Patrick Dorsey TIDE - Kris Lindbeck VERIFY - Kim Mannix WOMB - Kashiana Singh The following appears in black text outside of the box at the end of the page: I am really excited for all to read these poems... for the authors to see who contributed the words they were assigned... and for the word donors to see how their words inspired the authors! The page number six appears in black text at the bottom center

white square image with black text reads: on page 6 we have the intro to a new series of donated words writing. i called this section & DAYLIGHT. the background is a simple zoom-in of the front cover but with more attention paid to the yellow-shaded area. this portion of the book contains 17 original pieces - 16 poems & 1 microfiction - by 17 authors. i received 17 donated words for this project. i got creative in how i assigned words randomly to each author from the pool of 17 words. revisiting the WELCOME section (pages 2 & 3) you can find more detail as to the methods and tools i used. i decided to give each author 3 words, from those provided to us, to infuse into our writing. no 2 authors share more than one of the same donated words with the exception of one writer - who i gave 4 words - as she participated as an author in the first donated words collection, THIS ASSEMBLY, in 2019. each author was given an optional, unique challenge wherein they chose a word to incorporate into their piece. pages 7-24 contain these new works and show which words and challenges were weaved into them. i am so excited to take a deeper look into all of the resulting writing and the donated words and tie it all together! this has been a beautiful collaboration! you can get the free PDF here: tinyurl.com/2025daylight

white square image with black text reads: here are the words & word donors who made this project so vibrant: APRICITY - Marie Marchand DAYLIGHT - Oswald Perez FREQUENCY - Julia Beach GOSSAMER - Linda M. Crate HARBINGER - Madelinksi HEARTSICK - Kristi Weber KERFUFFLE - Elizabeth Fletcher MIRACLE - Karen Steiger PERMISSION - Melinda Farrar PROLIX - Meesh Montoya REGENT - m klein SIMULTANEOUS - Norb Aikin SIPHON - Genevieve DeGuzman SYMPHONIC - Patrick Dorsey TIDE - Kris Lindbeck VERIFY - Kim Mannix WOMB - Kashiana Singh

white square image with black text reads: our amazing authors who took on new challenges and created fantastic poems & microfiction: Julie Luepke K Weber Karen Steiger Kiley Lee Marie Marchand Melissa Flores Anderson Michael Metivier Millie H Misty D. Hudson Oswald Perez Preston Danvers Sara Matson Sarah O’Brien Scott Nickell Steph Patterson Tiffany Sciacca Will Davis

DAYLIGHT & TENFOLD ORIOLES walkthrough!

PAGE 6: & DAYLIGHT/intro to the project featuring 17 authors & 17 donated words

this resulted in 16 poems & 1 microfiction work! credits in thread!

i will be focusing on 1 poem at a time in the 17 posts ahead!

get the free PDF: tinyurl.com/2025daylight

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

I’m sorry, but There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day is a modern invention pushed by card companies. I only observe A Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing Day on the 14th.

a young boy is sitting in front of a group of people . Alt: Young Billy Mumy in the Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life," in which he plays a 6-year-old child with godlike powers. A pair of adult women behind him are clapping nervously at whatever he's smiling at, because he has the power to do horrible things to them, including banishing them to "the cornfield," a fate which apparently no one ever returns from.

Or that they're afraid of being wished into the cornfield.

You know the HR rep calls him "Mr. Zoombie" through the whole meeting.

I like to imagine a world where Robert Zombie had to go to an HR meeting about how he was making a hostile work environment for the witches

First panel: a guy leaning back, pointing his thumb behind him at a beautiful scenic vista with trees, a cliff, a river, and a sunset. The guy says "Yo, Elon. Check out this beautiful life of infinite possibilities your immense wealth gives you access to." Second panel: the guy is looking at a naked and dirty Elon Musk, who is surrounded by trash and has a smashed phone in front of him, and he holds a hammer. Musk yells "THE PEOPLE ON THIS FUCKING WEBSITE WON'T CALL ME THE MEME MAESTRO"

Oh my God, it's this cartoon. (Courtesy @smoothdunk2.bsky.social )

As a teen, I was in a youth orchestra that did a 3-week tour in Europe, and at one of the stops they served tongue. As word spread through the group what was on our plates, many were grossed out & quit eating. I didn't see the problem; it was basically like corned beef. It's just another muscle.

YouTube video by Monty Python Penis Song - Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

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"The pardons are primarily symbolic"

Symbolic, but with a kicker: Trump is letting people know that if you do something for him over the next 3+ years that might get you in trouble, he'll pardon you... so don't worry about going too far.

I'm already planning on Rosewater as soon as I finish Lamplight City.

I mean, I played some from time to time (Longest Journey, Blackwell series, a few others here & there), it's just there was a time I would've said it was my favorite genre, but then I went many years spending a lot more time on RPGs & strategy games.

Really, the problem is I need about 36 hours/day

And yet I saw them in a limitless stream—flapping, waddling, quacking, bleating—surging inhumanly in a grotesque saraband of fantastic nightmare. And one, who led the way, was clad in a ghoulishly humped yellow coat, and had a man’s hat perched on the shapeless thing that answered for a head. . . .

Since finishing Old Skies, I've played through Case of the Golden Idol, started on a replay of Longest Journey, gotten well into Lamplight City, and have a couple things I missed along the way like Simon the Sorcerer installed & waiting for me.

I didn't want to say anything immediately after finishing it, but I think @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social Old Skies is so good that it might have rekindled my love of point & click adventure games. I played a *lot* of them in high school/college, then went a long time playing them only rarely.

I guess I need to apologize to the writers of Alien: Prometheus. it turns out scientists really do touch everything like that

The law is the wire mother of social policy, I guess is what I’m saying.

Luke Skywalker could've saved himself some embarrassment if he'd followed this rule when he went looking for Yoda.

At this point, I think we're lucky they weren't trying to buy airplanes from a Spirit Halloween.

YouTube video by Color AI Incredible Tracking Shot From the Movie Wings (1927)

The famous dolly shot from "Wings" (1927). There's even an explicit reference to Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" (the parking law they're arrested for violating is section 27b/6). youtu.be/AO2KhMLJxq0?...

What we're watching: A new take on "Frankenstein," a lavish legal drama starring Kim Kardashian and a Tracy Morgan-led spinoff.

sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference

This sounds principled until you realize what it means in practice. If property rights trump every other consideration, then those with property set the terms. Those without property accept them. And because property compounds—wealth generates more wealth, ownership enables more ownership—you get systematic concentration of power in private hands.

This is an important read for thoughtful libertarians.

There is some reconstruction to be done.

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That essay pretty much describes where I'm at now, in terms of political philosophy.
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