Emily Rand

A graphic on the English-language broadcast of South Korea's LoL Champions Korea detailing the two finals teams' most recent appearances in the finals. The GenG side lists nine finals appearances including this one. The BFX side lists just this finals appearance.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

I should add, this is in relation to having a forward-facing job. I don't have to pretend to be alright in...life. I can just be mad and sad. ^ ^;

Increasingly often, it's very difficult to pretend to be alright.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

I'm so fucking sick of and from all of this.

"Si la vie humaine n'a pas de prix, nous agissons toujours comme si quelque chose dépassait, en valeur, la vie humaine... Mais quoi ?"

The Handbasket 100% independent journalism by Marisa Kabas

Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media.

Off the top of my head:

www.thehandbasket.co
404media.co
www.garbageday.email

Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.

How to Support Trans People in All 50 States A curated list of 100 organizations supporting trans rights and livelihood to which you can donate.

as long as folks are enthusiastically donating to state level trans orgs today, figured I'd reup this list the @them.us team and I put together a few years back: www.them.us/story/orgs-f...

(some info may be outdated, but use this as a jumping-off point!)

the dissonance between successful adult media crackdowns and the failure to prosecute politicians and leaders for connections to epstein will never get old for me.

it’s so transparent how much states want to censor free expression but not actually tackle systemic abuse by the rich and powerful.

There's very little chance that I will leave a lasting legacy of note outside of my immediate friends and family (even in esports I'll be a blip on the radar). All I can do is do better to make my existence a net positive in said immediate friends/family groups and local communities.

A quote from FFVII Remake character Barret Wallace stating: "A good man who serves a great evil is not without sin. He must recognize and accept his complicity. He must open his eyes to the truth! That his corporate masters are profiting from the planet's pain. Only then can he redeem himself."

Also this quote from Barret still slaps

Screaming from an office on the 63rd floor (nearly 3,000 words on Reeve Tuesti) Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VII Remake are anime series, right? Okay, good. I don’t usually spoiler tag anything because I make the assumption that readers are coming with the knowled…

I've been thinking a lot about Reeve Tuesti again and kind of want to write an addendum to this post I wrote years ago: formeinfullbloom.wordpress.com/2020/05/27/s...

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license.

They can't even escape this by moving to another state.

This was Game 1 of iG/WBG.

A League of Legends gold graph depicting several gold lead changes in a 40-plus-minute game between Invictus Gaming and Weibo Gaming in the LoL Pro League.

Haven't posted one of these in a while but today in LPL gold graphs...

If you're old enough to have watched .hack//Sign you should probably be more worried about .back//Pain

aka "Snowmaggedon 2015"

Apropos of nothing, a reminder ^ ^;;;; bsky.app/profile/emil...

I don't think anyone outside of New England can truly understand what a stranglehold the Blizzard of '78 has on the memory of a generation.

Me: talking to my parents during any major snowstorm
Them: "This is just like/not as bad as the Blizzard of '78!"

still frame from the beginning of Twin Peaks it is February 24th and Special Agent Dale Cooper arrived in the town of Twin Peaks

Good morning

You haven't lived until you and your idiot friends are doing a tournament where you can only use remote mines on Archives.

Watching Goldeneye for the first time in ages and all I can think of is "Wow! I recognize this from the Goldeneye video game I played every snow day when I was a kid." The game was more faithful to the movie than I ever knew/realized.

It's been a pretty great Olympics for goalie enjoyers (me, I'm goalie enjoyers).

Actually ridiculous performance from Hellebuyck today.

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

The Agony in the Garden, by Eugène Delacroix, 1827, 📸 by @ElsaGarrison

We're old T_T