Stephen Lea Sheppard

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

YOU CAN GET EVERY DISCWORLD TOME ON EBOOK FOR LESS THAN THE COST OF A SUBWAY FOOTLONG COMBO.

USUALLY GETTING EVERY SINGLE BOOK LEGALLY IS LIKE 400+

NOT.

A.

DRILL.

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This is the second-worst way to be reminded of my favorite anime, after the thing with the lead writer becoming a far-right ultranationalist.

Scapegoating trans people is morally wrong, but that's not the only reason cis people should be offended by it. When someone asks you to hate someone, it's because they think you're a sucker. I'm no mark and these people can fuck off if they want me to jump on their hate bandwagon.

“That soup sure looks good,” he said to himself, and then clicked the image for more detail.

F2P fighting game based on Netflix’s Arcane.

How could you, Saitama?

POP FACT: Everyone who watched The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show died one week later, due to CBS accidentally booking John, Paul, George and Ringu

DHS: Our officer was ambushed and beaten with snow shovels and broom handles. This was an attempted murder of federal law enforcement.

ICE says federal agents appear to have lied about confrontation that led to shooting

Agents had initially said that two men — Alfredo Aljorna and Julio Sosa Celis – assaulted them with a broom and a shovel before one of them shot Sosa Celis. But that account was quickly called into question, and prosecutors now say “newly discovered evidence” contradicts the officers’ story.

The default assumption should be that they’re lying

This will happen once everyone in power has been dealing with the effects of chronic COVID infections since they were children.

For what it’s worth the actual answer is taking public air quality seriously the way we started having to take public water quality seriously when cholera infections in cities became a problem.

All of this is disappointing. None of this is surprising.

“Why is everyone dying of early-onset cancers and blood clots and have worse flu infections than ever before?” it’s COVID and no one will admit it because admitting that is scary and people want to feel safe, to the point where they value feeling safe over being safe.

I mask. I work from home. I don’t go to restaurants. It doesn’t surprise me nobody wants to give up restaurants or dating or get fired by a boss who (correctly) thinks customers find a masked food server off-putting. I fucking hate masking. Everyone should be masking. People aren’t going to mask.

People talk around COVID instead of addressing it because there’s no easy way to avoid COVID infections without foundational lifestyle changes. Masking means quitting restaurants in specific and social eating in general; it means inviting social and maybe professional censure. Nobody wants those!

There’s something about a well-planned project in an advanced state that seems to discourage engagement, isn’t there? The novelty-seeking part of the brain goes “No more novelty here” and fucks right off.

I mean there was one guy who had a really amazing set of converted Legion of the Damned.

Actually that's not true, sometimes I use it to look at unpainted kitbashes or terrain.

I use it exclusively to look at painted minis.

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

Martok looking at him just having killed Gowron and looking back at the fight in the Dominion prison camp thinking "We all thought that clone was the second coming of Kahless the Unforgettable but maybe it's this guy?"

...out of nowhere and honor duels a bad Emperor or potential Emperor to death and sets a better candidate on the throne. It's happend twice! Two nickels!

Not the first person to make this observation but I really like how by the end of DS9 Worf is this fuckin' rando from a disgraced House serving as a lieutenant commander or whatever in an entire other navy but whenever the Klingon Empire is in its hour of greatest need he shows up...

it drives you insane how much erosion of freedom is justified by concern for kids when the people who actually hurt them will never face consequences

A screenshot of a tweet that says: Your art will betray you. It will look better in your head than on paper. It will make you feel untalented some days. Love it anyway. Because one day, it will also surprise you, fulfill you, and remind you why you started.

Throwback to something worth repeating.

Stage magicians with the same exaggeration of normal human competence limit as action moves put on their protagonists. The John-McClane-jumping-out-of-a-skyscraper-window-and-swinging-back-into-a-lower-floor-via-firehose of stage magic.

It occurs to me that in my description of fascism here I am engaging in a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus by which I am portraying them as at the same time too strong and too weak. Huh.

So Luthen Rael vs. Grand Admiral Thrawn is pretty hard to do well because they come from works with opposed theses.

That's scary! It's also, according to the thesis of works like Andor, inherently impossible, like more impossible than a hate-powered wizard.