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Also #ttrpg don't sleep on this year's Solo But Not Alone!
90 #soloRPG titles for $10, all which which helps @takethis.org provide mental health supports in our communities.

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There's a HUGE variety here, from crunchy dungeon crawls to moody journaling games and more!

YouTube video by Alex Falcone Why Amazon sucks now.

I haven’t used Amazon in over a decade but the fact that prices are raised everywhere else to meet their “lowest price guarantee” is infuriating

Sleeping with Ghosts [oc, 2021]

One thing editors drilled into me was to use "farther" for physical distances, "further" for metaphorical ones.

I have a mnemonic for this:

Mercury is farther from the sun than Earth? Nothing could be further from the truth.

Two fountain pen ink drawings on a white paper background. The drawings depict a hill side view and the bark of a tree trunk. The drawings are monochrome blue and created with a fountain pen line hatching shading technique

Over the Fence & Into the Trees - my original hand-drawn fountain pen ink drawings on paper ✍️

Inspired by my walks in the Peak District hills and surrounding natural landscape of the Derbyshire countryside 🍂⛅

#inkdrawing #illustration #fountainpen #penandink #drawing #art #ukartist #nature

a close up of a woman 's face with her eyes closed and earrings . ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with her eyes closed and earrings .

I am watching a fountain pen ink swatch video and after she drops the ink from the pipette onto the paper, she *clutches chest* empties the extra ink into her rinse cup.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

We must make sure no more children are added to this list Every year, hundreds of children in the US gain access to firearms and unintentionally shoot themselves or someone else. This is #NotAnAccident.

Every year, hundreds of children in the US gain access to a firearm and unintentionally shoot themselves or someone else. So far in 2025, there have been at least 175 unintentional shootings by children, resulting in 72 deaths and 106 injuries nationally.

Advocates encourage safe gun storage following 5-year-old girl hospitalized after accidental shooting Officials said a 5-year-old girl was believed to have been shot after her 6-year-old brother accidentally discharged a gun.

A 5-year-old girl was unintentionally shot and wounded by her 6-year-old brother last week in Cincinnati, Ohio. Authorities have not yet shared how the children were able to access the gun.

These tragedies are preventable with secure gun storage.

Jesus Christ. DHS has held this guy in the hospital handcuffed to a bed and under constant guard for over a MONTH without ANY warrant or even ANY steps taken towards putting him into the removal system!

Not doing [first picture] because of [second picture]

true horror is realizing that this is not parody and in fact real

America is starting to reverse the trend with some local businesses only accepting credit card for purchases over a certain price due to fees.

One aspect I noticed recently is that in a setting where people are drinking booze it can make it hard to know how much is being spent and, therefore, drunk. Cash gave you a clear indicator.

and you should NOT be forced to sign up for a private surveillance company that will take your money above the asking price, take the merchant's money above the selling price, and tell the government + the highest bidder what you bought, what you paid and where you were (when).

In order to use a government's legal currency, someone should should just need a pulse. Nothing more. They shouldn't need to prove they are a citizen or have a "good" credit score. They shouldn't need to speak English or to afford or code a "smart" phone.

I’ve been trying to use cash more and it feels nice to be less surveilled/not have any of it skimmed off the top by a company, plus I think I am more careful about spending. You can see why those in power would hate it.

+ anyone who doesn't want their transactions tracked for a variety of reasons (sex worker, undocumented migrants, a woman with an abusive spouse, a person trying to evade their stalker, a college student trying to access birth control or HRT or gender affirming clothes w/o parents knowing, etc)

People who are increasingly locked out of mundane, small transactions, all over the world:

- the unbanked
- ppl w/o credit cards
- young ppl
- migrants
- ppl w/o homes
- ppl w/o cell phone
- ppl who cannot read
- ppl who are not computer literate
- ppl w "poor" credit
- many elderly & disabled ppl

"NO CASH ACCEPTED" is a global crisis. I have seen this on three continents now. It's anti-poor, anti-youth, anti-immigrant and pro-surveillance. I had thought it was an American problem, then a Western one, but surveillance capitalism is taking over even the smallest transactions globally.

ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

P.S. Don’t choose a scam VPN, not all VPNs are created equal.

YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz The Shocking Plan to Kill Online Privacy: A VPN Ban Will Break the Web

More context from Taylor Lorenz about why you should use a VPN and why it would be a mistake to ban them:

Defend VPNs from government bans! In the US? Don’t stop with signing the letter. Call your lawmakers now!

Sign here for Fight for the Future’s Defend VPNs campaign:

Fucking outstandingly done.

new pens! drawings i did at work in my sketchie book. touched up in procreate

Point blank asking for a significant raise and title change at my day job this year was one of the hardest things I've ever done, but I've gotten so old and so tired and was so out of fucks that I did it.

And reader, I got it.

Painting of a boar in a sweater with a mushroom basket, holding and smelling a mushroom.

Day 27 of #septempera - the connoisseur.

Really important to internalize that the president of the United States is ordering troops into major population centers precisely to create violent confrontations, for the sole purpose of intimidating, criminalizing and disabling opposition

Guess who got their COVID, flu and pneumonia vaccines today!