Jared Rascher (He/Him)

Back in the day when hermits could give you herbal remedies for radiation poisoning.

I think every episode of @thac0withadvantage.bsky.social is entertaining and worth listening to, but I really liked how @orikes.bsky.social and I talked about the concept of the five room dungeon in this episode. This is the kind of episode I would love to point to as an example of what we do. #DnD

"Much like my boss lost his second election as was seen as a traitor to the country, then managed to win four years later, we're hoping the Confederacy can pull out a surprise win 160 years later."

The most noteworthy thing about this bit of Trump being publicly creepy is that he's being creepy about lusting after someone that looks like Tiffany instead of someone that reminds him of Ivanka.

We're on the verge of voting not really mattering anymore, and the President is covering up what he did when he hung out with a pedophile trafficer that provided underage girls for rich guys, but somehow we're going to argue assuming his facts, about a thing he presents.

I hate it when people call everything Trump does via the government a distraction if its not the issue they think is the most important, but this? WTF is this? Why? He's being a creep to distract people from him being a creep. How is this a reaction to this?

The president claims an actress is Republican and publically lusts after her, and the response from a significant portion of the internet is to try to post women they assume are liberal that they think are better looking than the object of the President's lust. This is the response, huh?

An image from Snopes about Sydney Sweeney voting for Trump, which indicates that its unfounded and unverified, and came from a random post on Twitter not connected to her.

Trump is one of those family members you're being told to check in on because they believe everything they agree with online because it must be true.

Finally got to see Fantastic Four.

Somebody at Fox has to feel REALLY bad for convincing everyone there that you can't make Galactus work in live action.

If the president issued an executive order instituting the Purge, I don't think there would be any outrage. Instead of outrage, we'd literally start talking about legality, hope that judges would block it, and move on with our day saying "oh well, guess we can't do anything until the next election."

"But we have to do something." Sure, but not that. Making voting matter LESS is not the way to break the hold someone has to power they are abusing.

I hate to burst anyone's bubble but an asshole in power that is closer to being on "your side" threatening to disenfranchise an entire voting base in the opposite direction isn't a win for democracy its a win for assholes in power being able to having pissing contests by taking away people's rights.

I'm pretty sure I could stop if I just put on that 10 hour loop of the Mortal Kombat theme. But then I would be listening to the 10 hour loop of the Mortal Kombat theme.

Day Two of having the K-Pop Demon Hunters sountrack on repeat. I'm pretty sure I can stop listening now. I've heard this enough times. After I listen to Golden one more time.

Good lord, if we could quit trying to make the bad sci fi things real and just stick to utopian societies that cure known diseases and let us teleport places instead of getting in cars, that would be nice.

But not those mooks on Yancy Street. Yeesh.

I was going to see it Saturday night, but the constant 90 degree weather and going in and out of air conditioning has been killing me with kicking up migraines, so I had to cancel. I've got tickets for this Saturday again.

This would make Jack Kirby proud.

Also, prime "I don't personally know anyone from a particular group or demographic so I can make a blanket comment about them because no one close to me will call me out" behavior.

That was a weird fucking hill to die on, I'll say that.

I fully expect most of the news media to let Trump claim "befuddlement, while still having 100% use of his faculties" as he walks back saying that Epstein stole a young girl from him.

I think I know of what you speak, and it was sad to see.

I'm pretty far left these days, and trust me, I will not gainsay you about the way the military has been used in the last few decades. But I just can't in good conscience keep following you if you're going to say, as an absolute, that everyone in the military is an "unthinking murderer."

A screenshot from Ground News showing various headlines, including "Trump says Epstein 'stole' young women workers from Mar-a-Lago Spa," "Rogan: Trum administration 'gaslighting' supporters on Epstein," and "Marjorie Taylor Greene is first Republican lawmaker to call Gaza crisis a 'genocide.'"

Wow that's a wild range of headlines in Trumpland today.

I literally know what an organ is in regards to music, and somehow when I first read that, I was still wondering what makes music "organ music." Is it about hearts, livers, spleens . . . ?

I have two smaller Classics edition models, the Optimus and Bumblebee from Rise of the Beasts. The movie designs aren't my favorites, but they were a lot of fun to put together.

I've been very tempted to get the Blockees Action Edition model kits, because they're neat looking Transformers that also let me build something when I need something to fidget with while distressing.

Oh, the rabbit hole I could go down finding a 1/12 scale car for this . . . :)

I found some shipping container props that are about 8 in by 8 in that I think I might pick up, and put at least one in the lower section. I could put some non-flyers higher up and get them some verticality.

Marvel Legends on a cubicle shelf, with a cardboard building at the far end. A Silver Sufer figure is posed "flying" over the building, with a Galactus figure looming over Ben, Reed, and Sue, and Johnny "flying" over them at the far end.

Marvel Legends on a cubicle shelf, with a cardboard building at the far end. A Silver Sufer figure is posed "flying" over the building, with a Galactus figure looming over Ben, Reed, and Sue, and Johnny "flying" over them at the far end. There is also a Rom action figure behind Johnny, another building, and the Fantasticar toy parked on top of that building.

Marvel Legends on a cubicle shelf, with a cardboard building at the far end. A Silver Sufer figure is posed "flying" over the building, with a Galactus figure looming over Ben, Reed, and Sue, and Johnny "flying" over them at the far end. Behind Johnny, a Rom action figured is also posed in "flight."

A wide shot of the cubicle shelf, with cardboard buildings on both ends. A Silver Surfer action figure is posed on top of one building, and a Fantasticar Toy is parked on the roof of another. Johnny and Rom action figures are posed in flight to the side of one building, and a 19" Galactus figure is posed in front of the other building. In between are Sue, Reed, and Ben, looking up at the Galactus figure.

Not 100% happy with this display. I underestimated how big the buildings would be, but I do like having one next to Galactus to show him as being taller. I'm mainly not happy with the middle space where Reed, Sue, and Ben are at.

A blue box to the left with four sillhouette-style humans, each notably wearing wizard-like robes from the Harry Potter universe. The box says Codenames and Back to Hogwarts on it, with Harry Potter in golden letters at the bottom. To the right, a cartoon astronaut head in a Harry Potter scarf winks, a variation of the logo of board game publisher Czech Games Edition.

Reviewers including No Pun Included and Shut Up & Sit Down are boycotting Codenames publisher CGE for releasing a new Harry Potter-themed game while ignoring JK Rowling’s anti-trans rhetoric:

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