Shervyn

Sending love my friend.

Only thing in the world that scares me to my very quick.

Centrists is doing a lot of work there. 😂😢

Centrists losing ia a joy.

Ex Tenebris part 26 (episode 194) Podcast Episode · Black Armada Tales · 3 March · 47m

A new episode of Black Armada Tales launched yesterday!

Come and catch up with the latest mystery, The Wrecking Yard.

A Tenebrium capable ship arrived at The Forge shipyard needing emergency repairs. Carrying deadly cargo and hidin deadlier secrets.

#actualplay #realplay #ttrpg #spacegothic #rpg

Yes they are. But Americans have forgotten their existence.

Marjorie taylor Greene has strongly implied she resigned her seat because of death threats. It seems possible Romney chose not to run again because of death threats...

US judges recount death threats, 'swatting' after rulings against Trump A group of federal judges took the rare step of speaking out publicly about receiving death threats and mysterious pizza deliveries in the name of a judge's murdered son after they issued decisions bl...

The story I re-shared is by CBS, and it may be a relic of the pre-Ellison/Weiss era. Here's a summer-of-'25 piece about the same thing. It's not that there's no coverage; it's just that there isn't the kind of coverage that makes a sufficient impact or leads to change.

(Someone once told me the reason Mitt Romney was able to be somewhat independent as a Republican in the Senate was that he could afford fantastic security for himself and his family. And there have been some overview-pieces but it's still not part of the discourse the way it should be.)

I wish some major media outlets would do broad reports on the impact of death threats on our politics, and on who's doing them (MAGA men mostly from what I can tell), and why law enforcement appears to be doing so little about them. They are such a big (submerged) part of our politics now.

Thank you.

I was a big Fetterman fan - though I thought he would've been a better governor than senator. Didn't seem like a policy guy, did seem like someone who could run the state and who understood what people wanted.

Top-10 in my List Of People I Was Wrong About.

I grew up in primo Fetterman territory in central PA. I thought he was a breath of fresh air, but he also seemed just a little too performative. Like, real working class guys from PA wear their one suit when they go to an important event. They don’t wear a hoodie.

I think it’s genuine in both cases, but like all identities, it’s also kind of a performance too. Not all white working class guys get Nazi tattoos, but if you’re a downwardly mobile Hotchkiss guy, then you might *think* that’s what it looks like to be a white working class guy.

To be more specific, Fetterman and Platner’s white working class coded masculinity feels like a sensibility that’s especially alluring to someone who feels like they’re not living up to what a “successful” man in their family should be. So they become the authentic salt of the earth guy.

One shouldn’t be deterministic about this, people’s bios are all different, but sons of privilege and entitlement living lives of less privilege can develop flavors of populism that can be more or less inclusive and healthy.

Feels relevant that both Fetterman and Platner were/are downwardly mobile sons of the white upper-middle class. That can nurture a distinctly different bundle of resentments than are usually found in products of working or middle class households.

I used to kid that he has pictures. But after the Epstien files…he probably does.

Yeah. Haven’t heard from them since early Saturday morning. I say it is hard. Can’t afford to acknowledge how hard or I won’t be able to keep it together.

I know you’re just speaking your truth, but this made me guffaw. And I needed that guffaw. So, thank you.

Out: Vote Blue No Matter Who

In: PRIMARY THAT FUCKER OR YOU'RE A SUCKER

No that I am anything resembling fluent anymore. 45 years of never going back has a way of totally destroying one’s connection to a country.

Yeah. This.

(The ESL is a lie though…my parents spoke English at home because Farsi was spoken in the world around us, so I spoke both interchangeably growing up).

I think that’s right. But I find that people push back on my use because I’m not a southerner. And I point out that as an immigrant who speaks English as a second language I get to pick and choose.

You just won. How does that shit ball keep getting roles?

Y'know what you can do to help? Find a union to support. Any union. Love healthcare? Back a nurse's union. Love teachers? Back a teacher's union. Love getting the garbage picked up? Back a sanitation union. Love food safety? Back a food & commercial worker's union. Stand together. #SolidarityForever

I’m in the same boat. But partner doesn’t have it either.

Cover of World Wide Wrestling: Second Edition, textured beige background with orange, cream and purple text and graphic elements, in classic wrestling card style with banners of text over inset images of pro wrestlers, including The Champion (a woman with dark hair wearing 3 title belts and brandishing another) vs The Challenger (a large, muscled figure wearing an medieval-looking iron mask wielding a chair), and text reading With Special Attractions: HIgh-Flying Lucha Libre, Hardcore Brawls, Blood, Fighting Spirit, Grappling Skill, Iconic Feuds, and much more". The Professional Wrestling roleplaying game of Narrative Action, by Nathan D. Paoletta.

The GMs Day sale over at DriveThru is on, which means my PDFs over there are 40% off! If you've been curious about World Wide Wrestling or one of the WWWRPG Promotions like Warlock Pro or Five Rings Wrestling Alliance, it's a great time to check 'em out.

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I mean heck. I picked up my use of “y’all” at a very cold liberal arts school because it was ungendered.