The Technocratic Union

NEW: Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons told Congress today that local law enforcement in Colorado leaked word of a raid, allowing gang members to clear out of apartments.

Those apartments were being cleared out weeks earlier.

Tonight, ICE deleted social media posts with the claim.

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"Clan Ventrue saves the world"

the rollout of the mRNA vaccines was one of the greatest public health triumphs in history and the end result has been the all-around triumph of the antivax movement and I will never get over it

the master's tools rule. you should steal them. if you don't, you had better hope whoever does likes you and your cause

a man in a blue jacket is looking at a woman in a black shirt . ALT: a man in a blue jacket is looking at a woman in a black shirt .

>Thank you.
>I appreciate your merriment.
>Stay safe, citizen!
>*insert socially appropriate previously approved greeting*
>*omit previously expected menu response*

//That's probably a better way of expressing what I meant.

How very Ray Bradbury.

Congratulations upon your continued existence for another revolution around the Sun.

A very Happy Birthday to @satyrosphilbrucato.bsky.social. Moderate levels of merriment will be allowed for all Citizens who are not currently on field duty, as well as a ration of cake that may be acquired from the break room. #ttrpg #mta #TeamTechnocracy

//It may be far too obvious to say so, but I was a fan of that gradual subversion, from "These are the bad guys who hate joy." to "These are the bad guys, but they believe in their cause." to "These are the bad guys, but they have a point." to finally "These may be the good guys."

County fairs, travelling carnivals, and mysterious shops that you don't recall being there yesterday, just like they used to.

Hooray, fewer gullible Ordinary Citizens being taken for a ride by other Ordinary Citizens pretending to be one of you.

But it's an eternity of the same old power games, the same ridiculous rivalries and grudges, the same endless political maneuvering. You grow in power without growing in wisdom or insight. You know everything and understand nothing.

//This goes for #WoD games in general. I've found that they tend to be quite comfortable exploring the gray areas of morality, and tend to lead to more questions than answers.

YouTube video by Zombie Orpheus Entertainment DARK DUNGEONS Full Trailer (Ultra HD)

No, that wasn't racist so much as it was a continuation of the Satanic Panic of the 1980s that originally targeted Dungeons & Dragons. youtu.be/8qc9JiIiOSQ?...

1. What makes you think that we don't have back channels?

2. We understand choice, just not why someone would choose eternal stagnation. But again, there's no accounting for taste.

1. As pleasant as it would be to claim otherwise, we did not kick out the Adepts. They left due to a long period of conflict with the other Conventions over policy issues, culminating in blaming us for Turing's death.

2. That's not an answer. Existence for the sake of existence? How empty.

As a convenience if desired, not as the sole option.

Why?

And once he got there the work was too hard, so he took a shortcut and became a glorified hedge mage with a skin condition and a liquid diet.

Extra centuries of what, though?

And then he ran out of ideas so he decided to give up real power in order to be a zombie with good publicity because he couldn't hack it as an RD.

Then why pick him as an example?

An eternity limited to the hours between sunset and sunrise and a single source of sustenance. To each their own.

However multitudinous that madman's myriad flaws may have been, it should be noted just how many of your kind he managed to outliv before dying not of old age, but in battle.

It's a fine enough goal, longevity, but at what price? Better a dignified death and immortality through one's deeds than eternal unlife experienced only from the shadows.

While Statistical Inevitability is certainly something to avoid, we fail to see how turning oneself into an eternal twisted mockery of humanity is a superior outcome, but obviously that depends upon one's personal priorities.

That level of scientific insight and enlightenment essentially means that one has learned to transform any element into any other element, including ones that do not yet appear on the periodic table (though some may require the use of other disciplines, such as Primal Utility or Forces).

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Post your favorite "Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.

Samwise