World’s Eye

Cover art for Phish’s 1989 self-released debut album, Junta. A black and white drawing, signed, “Pollock 12/89,” in the lower right corner. “Phish,” is written in a whimsical font over black across the top. Tree trunks bound the left and right edges, with the branches reaching into the blackness and behind the band’s name. Just below is a tiny cartoonish house between a few roughly bent posts where the moon and 3 stars are suspended with string. Occupying most of the lower 9/16th is a scene of a room. There are 6 noses with spindly legs and large feet marching across the top of the ceiling. Within the room, a large bald man with exaggerated facial features sits in a chair resting his left hand on a table, wearing black pants and a white tank top. A window is behind him, through which a rough shape resembling a fir tree is seen. A mouse wearing a top hat, coat, and bow tie is standing at the other end of the table and exclaiming at the man. On the floor, to the right, another mouse holding a gun exclaims at a smaller man, also holding a gun, reaching for the doorknob on the right wall. The door has a small, barred window near the top, and a door for the mouse at the bottom. The man is also bald with exaggerated facial features, and is wearing white pants and a coat with tails. A wine bottle and book are on the floor under the table. Against the wall and just to the right of the table is a television on a stand showing an angry looking figure sitting at a table or desk with a paper and pencil. On the wall above the television to the left is a mounted fish, and to the right is a shelf holding two slumped-over dolls with x’s for eyes and striped stockings.

i was a tourist there once on a geology field trip. camped at the state park. i would say it something like taw-hannock.

it was malpractice to leave a seat open last time for andy harris, a fascist traitor.

classic. have you heard the live performance, ‘down from the mountain?’

We simply do not have to live this way.

crime is down, actually.

The first thing everyone in this country who is anti-fascist can do now is to join something where people are already gathering to address any issue. Can't find anything you want to join, then make your own thing and invite people to join you. This is not a time for Lone Rangers.

@governor.ca.gov is not your friend.

looking forward to when we learn about the historical mistakes of capitalism.

unfollowed.

trains solve basically all the issues tesla attempts to address.

check out strategicon, which runs orccon over presidents’ day weekend, gamex over memorial day weekend, and gateway over labor day weekend:

www.strategicon.net

a bit of much needed good news concerning the ongoing struggle for basic humanity:

why are you uncritically platforming nazi disinformation, @economist.com?

This!
All across our nation it is the same story.

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exactly. the problem isn’t the thing. it’s the privatization and profiteering of the thing.

i’m old enough to remember when trump fired high ranking national security council staff for supposed disloyalty three months ago, directly after a meeting with loomer.

What’s happening is eugenics.

Cutting Medicaid. Telling you COVID is mild. Blocking climate research. Rolling back trans rights. Police militarization and brutality. All of it.

Fascism is built on eugenics. So is racism, classism, transphobia, etc.

Any resistance must center disability justice.

Gotta go with:

“Wheels Of Confusion/The Straightener”
“Supernaut”
“Sabbra Cadabra”
“Rat Salad”
“Under The Sun/Every Day Comes And Goes”

a cameo will run you 3 months rent.

got in the first session of my ongoing monster of the week campaign in over 2 months. wrapped up the previous mystery and started the next.

could’ve had a real one.

“freedom fries”

indeed. i seem to remember a lot more cross talk and snacking back in the day, though.

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check @happyjacksrpg.bsky.social if you haven’t already. less raw now than in the early days, but otherwise exactly as you described.

fireflies are out

howdy. i’m probably here because you were included in a trpg starter pack of some sort. i tend to favor apocalypse engine and single session low prep games, with a dash of more traditional systems that aren’t d20.

Hey folks. How’s your supply lines? Water/meds/food/safe place to sleep? How’s your heart? Centered, clear? How are you set to help others through hard times like it’s the reason we are together on the planet? I don’t need to see your answers, but I do ask that you know what your answers are.