wade of mutilation

some of us in LA are fighting to maintain this concept

Oh wow! I shopped at Iliad when I lived in LA in in the early-mid 1990s. At the time I worked at Bookstar on Ventura Blvd—shoplifters would steal pricey art and photography books from us and sell them to Iliad.

Immigration officer after being forced to read 5 years of online leftist discourse

I would love to watch Musk and Bezos try to play Oxygen Not Included

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Image: Cover art for Comfort Creatures Text: “Blair Preston: The Human Zoo” Originally released in 2024 Blair Preston AKA Alexis's dad joins Alexis and Ella McLeod for this very special episode! Blair has some fantastic stories including getting bugs to the Smithsonian, sitting in a pit of rattlesnakes, and his police encounters with a raccoon! We hope you enjoy!

Image: Cover art for Bullseye with Jesse Thorn Text: “Hey What’s Your Job?” Host Jesse Thorn talks with eight Bullseye listeners with one thing in common: they have a cool job! Hear from robe makers, dark matter scientists, electricians, media archaeologists and more!

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YouTube video by The Band - Topic The Weight (Remastered 2000)

I pulled in to Nazareth, was feeling 'bout half past dead
I just need someplace where I can lay my head

youtu.be/xLFAQuWFcTo?...

In a recent poll of thieves who were crucified along with Jesus of Nazareth, 50% expressed approval of the controversial Jewish preacher and his teachings.

U.S. Plans to Scrutinize 5 Years of Social Media History for Foreign Tourists Even visitors from countries like Britain and France, whose citizens don’t need visas, would be required to share five years’ worth of social media.

Mandatory social media disclosure and surveillance “has not proven effective at finding terrorists and other bad guys,” EFF’s Sophia Cope told @NYTimes.com. “But it has chilled the free speech and invaded the privacy of innocent travelers” and Americans, too.
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I typed that without my glasses on. 😆

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SATURDAY!!!!
Just look at that lineup!!!!

Join us for live literature, and help raise funds for @translifeline.org

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My grasp of physics is thanks to figuring out Traveller space combat

YouTube video by Pelgrane Press The Best 13th Age Supplement #shorts

I think this 13th Age #TTRPG video came out really well. For one thing, im getting more confirtable on mic. youtube.com/shorts/hWCP1...

A page from the “Goodman says” column explaining how to use math to design characters in the Champions superhero roleplaying game more effectively and efficiently. This column is about how investing points in the Constitution ability can get you higher stats in Endurance, Energy Defense, Recovery, and Stun at a lower cost than if you invest points in them individually.

If my math teachers had graded my Champions characters instead of my test results I’d probably have gotten terrific grades.

A guy with a Napoleon III mustache is consulting a newspaper and speaking with a fellow sporting epaulets. FAUXPOLEON: I heard — and I don’t know if it’s true — that DOGS are just genetically modified HUMAN INFANTS. Isn’t that OUTRAGEOUS? Who DID that? What ELSE don’t we know about dogs?? E’PAUL: That is not true. FAUXPOLEON: I don’t KNOW if it’s true or not. But just think of what it MEANS! People EXPERIMENTING on BABIES! E’PAUL: Indeed. Good thing it’s not true! FAUXPOLEON: You gotta ADMIT that it’s SCARY to think about! E’PAUL: As a thought experiment? Okay. As a falsehood examined AS a falsehood on its face? Okay. E’PAUL: As a valid piece of actual real information worth debating as if it WERE true when it is demonstrably NOT? No. FAUXPOLEON: It MIGHT be true! E’PAUL: It is not. FAUXPOLEON: It might be SOMEDAY. E’PAUL: Okay. FAUXPOLEON: What should we DO about it? E’PAUL: Nothing. FAUXPOLEON: You’re so PASSIVE. You never want to take a STAND. E’PAUL: For… for DOGS BEING INFANTS? This is the hill you want to die on, huh

terrifying if true!

Wondermark #1020; The Unknown Knowns

RuneQuest: Warlords is out now! 9TH DECEMBER 2025, ANN ARBOR, MI: We're thrilled to announce RuneQuest: Warlords, a battle-scale turn-based strategy game set in the legendary RuneQuest universe, was officially released on Steam toda...

We're thrilled to announce RuneQuest: Warlords, a battle-scale turn-based strategy video game set in the legendary #RuneQuest universe, was officially released on Steam today.

lol

A painting of Noam Chomsky walking through a parking lot on a sunny, clear day, a plastic bag of groceries in one hand and his car keys in the other. He’s walking toward a brown 1970s van with art painted on the side that reads “Noam Chomsky” in groovy orange lettering with a stenciled portrait of his head.

“Signifier and Signified” by @brandonbird.bsky.social

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Merryshire Detective Club In a hole in the ground… they found a body. I know! Here in our beautiful, bucolic village, with its neat hedgerows and picturesque taverns and delight

@mytholder.bsky.social is currently writing a TTRPG of halfling detectives! pelgranepress.com/2025/08/06/m...

Is there a toggle in Star Trek Online that makes everything and everyone look like Lower Decks versions?

Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic THE ARCTIC CIRCLE—With a vow to destroy the abomination she had created if it was the last thing she ever did, television host Oprah Winfrey has spent weeks on a ship pursuing Dr. Phil through the Arc...

one of the funniest pieces The Onion has done all year, and it's been a GOOD YEAR.

theonion.com/oprah-pursue...

MURDER ON THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD: a Miss Marple Mystery

For the Queen Hear ye, hear ye: Your Grace is primed for her voyage, and has chosen you to accompany her! For the Queen is a card-driven collaborative storytelling game that invites you to tell a dramatic narrative...

Hey, look, For the Queen is on sale right now! If you don't have a copy for some reason, at sixteen canadian dollars you can't afford *not* to canada.critrole.com/collections/...

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Interior art from the DIE RPG by Stephanie Hans, with silhouettes of adventurers working their way down a ridgeline…with a titanic mechanical form on the distant horizon behind the clouds.

DAY 1, GAME 6: The comic DIE from @kierongillen.bsky.social is a terrific exploration of friends at the gaming table and gaming history, and his RPG born of the story (or is it the other way around?) is equally brilliant. My Fool die is a personal talisman. rowanrookanddecard.com/product/die-...

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

A black cat named Lucky (or Loki? I've heard him called both names) is standing outside a glass sliding door. He wears a light blue collar with a bell and a pebbled fleece doggie onesie printed with peppermint disc candies. His eyes are wide. He is clearly bewildered trying to figure out why someone who claims to love him would put him in dog clothes. For the umpeenth time I am bewildered that someone who claims to love this cat would not let him live inside as he did for roughly the first 2-3 years of his life.

The cat from next door is once again at my patio door begging for food and probably some assistance putting an end to his indignity.

Pink sparkly text "starting tomorrow, everything is going to be okay! They just annoinced it!" on a cheesy sharepic with a beach, white horses, angels, a teenage Britney Spears smiling into a camera, and lace curtains all half-transparent and layered on to of each other.