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Endgame, no question. I felt disrespected as a member of the audience and haven’t watched a marvel product in theaters since. and I’ll watch bad movies! I love watching bad movies!

I generally share Pope Francis’ belief that he hoped hell was empty. But what else do you say in response to this?

Another excellent piece from excellent journalists, covering something that had been biting at me. This country will never get its shit together until we figure out a way to deal with violence that isn't "lock someone up and throw away the key."

Is Redemption Possible in Oregon's Capital City? The Western Edge uncovered a manufactured crisis, backroom deals, political spending, AI slop and a city council bending to appease a police union.

A December media blitz over a police oversight board in Salem missed how the city’s police union leveraged political spending to control a controversial city decision.

The first investigation by The Western Edge is out now.

www.thewesternedge.media/p/is-redempt...

One of my favorite short games was when my old friend ran something using the Shadowrun setting but Blades in the Dark as the system. I HAVE scum and villainy but I've still yet to play it

So what's your favorite non-D&D system? if you could wave a magic wand and they were all talking about something else, what would it be? (I'm always looking to expand my collection)

If you wanted to adjust for body types you'd just be doing made to measure and then. Well. Also harder to automate in a different way. Some of this is the fact you can make a profit without automation by massive human rights abuses, but some of it is an actually difficult technical problem

Of course, every body is shaped differently—so if you're sewing industrially and want something to fit as many people as possible, you make it out of a knit or something else with stretch. Those materials are more prone to slipping and getting caught, which would make it harder to automate

I’m not an expert in industrial sewing work, but my guess is most of it is that cars are made of metal, which is not floppy and trying to run away from you the whole time. Fabric, on the other hand, is both of those things

The cover for The Mountain Goats’ 2023 album, Jenny from Thebes. It’s a black disc on black background with gold decoration in the style of Ancient Greek art. A woman is pointing and running away to the right, and a warrior is standing behind her, looking where she points.

Not the album I was going to pick, but on the Taylor Swift end of the spectrum at least when it comes to time period.

I think if I shared an album that came out when I was 19 people would not enjoy that knowledge

Pitchers And Catchers Report To Spring Training Dance

Pitchers And Catchers Report To Spring Training Dance https://theonion.com/pitchers-and-catchers-report-to-spring-training-dance/

Won't You Be My Neighbor? Woke Antifa's Secret Weapon

Authoritarians cannot understand regular people because they themselves are cowards

Fear motivates them, so they assume it motivates everyone. They can't imagine risking their lives for a stranger, for free

It's why they've beat a public retreat in Minneapolis, and it's how we'll ultimately win

We spent most of an evening walking around Rome. I taught her how to tell stars and planets apart in a tiny sliver of darker sky between streetlights on the Ponte Sisto. We both got freaked out by a Starlink cluster overhead. In 5 weeks we’ll be back in Rome again together

This is great. They should also be able to vote while in prison.

The 2026 Oregon Book Award Nominations Are Here You have two months to read the 2026 Oregon Book Award nominees before awards are announced.

Oh hey, look at that! @leahsottile.bsky.social was nominated for an Oregon Book Award for her absolute fever dream of incredible reporting, Blazing Eye Sees All.

Go get a copy if you haven't checked it out already! (And give me your fav recs from this list of incredible books.)

Macbeth: SHIT

WOOOOOOOOOO CURLING

I can understand why many politicians are hesitant to advocate for abolishing ICE, because doing so comes with significant risks like being remembered fondly by history and being beloved by your constituents

Can we do it regionally for the qualifying rounds? Because I have a pet theory that Salem’s drivers are the worst in the state and not only because I keep getting almost hit in crosswalks at a rate I’ve never experienced elsewhere in the world

I wouldnt make socrates drink hemlock but I'd beat his ass for sure

(Checks PFP) The left hates Shakespeare? News to me

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50

Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

As most states look to speed up releases, Louisiana has now adopted the harshest "truth in sentencing" law in the US:

ALL people in prison must serve at least 85% of their sentence before being eligible for release.

Even in the 1990s, TIS laws were restricted to violent crimes, not ALL crimes.

I think we should salt and burn dodger stadium

Yeah, I'm an EGOT

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A few broader thoughts:

1) This election happened, period.

2) It happened in Texas, no less.

3) It happened even though Trump himself took an intense interest in winning it.

If Trump could cancel elections or ordain their outcomes, then why didn't he do that tonight?

Election result poll modeling this year:

A huge political earthquake in Texas tonight as Democrats flipped a State Senate seat from red to blue in a district Trump won by 17 points.

Trump personally waded in — endorsing the Republican and personally urging base turnout — and was dealt a massive loss.

Democrats didn’t just see a 30-point shift in Texas and flip a State Senate seat red to blue: they did it while being outspent 20-to-1. This will send shockwaves through the Republican Party.