Baba Corva

A small pottery vessel with an obscured fish and drippy glaze

Glazing has been the hardest part of pottery so far. It's not a skill thing - that's just learning the materials - it's that it's so hard to choose what combos to try out. This is my biggest experiment so far; it's obvs a work in progress, but I think it has some cool moments in there.

Ep 256: Face Full of Goo - Astronomica Team Meatbag continues mopping up the last of the Ashigaru on the fueling station. Later, they make a gruesome discovery which is totally not the most horrific discovery they've ever made but is defin...

We kick off this week's episode with some high energy combat, complete with hyper karate, space shotguns, and the dueling horror shows that are Hilde (aka the Goop Monster) and Hopper (the Robot)

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Episode 119 - Transmetropolitan Part 2

Part 2 of our Transmetropolitan episode covering issues 2-6 is now up. With an updated intro to briefly talk about some of the super neat world developments of the last week. We love it here!
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The same way you don't want people bombing you and your loved ones is the same exact thing that other people feel where they live.

My partner plays this and digs it. I love randomly checking in and seeing the beautifully rendered clothing - you can see whether something is applique or embroidery! - and how vibrant the city looks. It's got a learning curve for sure but there's a lot to look at while you figure it out.

the attack was so successful that it also killed a number of the contingency leaders. Which, maybe. But also Trump lies and exaggerates as easy as breathing so we'll probably have to wait for confirmation from a more truthful source.

Not an expert but I live with one (partner is military). He was explaining to me today that Iran has multiple contingencies for all their major leadership. We don't know who all of these people are but we likely know - or guess - who some are likely to be. Trump might be claiming that

Now, whether this is true is up for question. It is Trump, after all, dude never met a piece of information he wouldn't lie about or exaggerate to seem tough.

Iran has contingency choices for all leadership. We've known about this for a while but don't always know who those people might be. He's claiming the attack was so successful, it nocked out a number of those contingency leaders. (Source: my partner is military)

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

A strike in Iran hit a Girls school in Manib with the semi-official Tasnim news agency reporting more than 80, including children, were killed. This strike was geolocated by researchers including @ntabrizy.bsky.social , @chrisosieck.bsky.social and @annonemo.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/chri...

Okay, this one took me out

In my head this is a John Wick style story where you hunt down people who take more than pictures and leave more than footprints

Oh man, yeah, that's a thing, too.

A thing I think about all too often is how many men "know a guy" who had a false accusation but it wasn't false, they just didn't believe the guy they knew "would do that". Then all these guys' stories make it sound like false accusations happen all the time and dudes just never accept they're fake.

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Bonus: Revolt! - Astronomica You may have heard we got a bit of winter weather a couple weeks ago which means our dear Stardaddy had to do some catch up at the ol' day job. While he was out contributing to society, the rest of us...

Brand new regular episode drops tomorrow but did you know we did a bonus ep for the truly excellent GM-less ttrpg Revolt!

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I literally replied to you in good faith with my honest thoughts and why I have them? But they were too long to read so they don't count?

Ok, so you don't want to engage, you just want to make quips and feel right.

itself another form of misinformation.

So I ask: Is it not worth making an accurate claim about a political spectrum when discussing the prevalence of misinformation rather than implying that one group is magically more prone - or more to be looked down on - for spreading that misinformation?

it's a bit thin. That's not to say there's no evidence, maybe there's a ton more. I'd be interested to see it because this might tell us something interesting about how people are getting this misinformation. And that's why I said it was interesting to make this claim rather than that this claim is

So. I think it is *especially* important to be clear and accurate in claims about what "leftists" think about something when you are specifically addressing misinformation. You can even see further down the thread here some of the, let's call it evidence, for this claim. As others have pointed out,

larger problem within an entire movement or political spectrum. We've all seen it: the image of a post from someone we've never heard of hoisted up on Fox to show how the rabid "left" really does want to torch your Christmas tree and dress every child in non-gendered gray until the age of 18.

positions held by those the claimant identifies as "leftists". It's a way of saying "see, these people are idiots and you shouldn't listen to them about this or [insert other issue]". It's also pretty common to claim that a few individuals who are largely just randos are indicative of a

I broadly agree with this statement, however it is an extremely common practice to claim a negative behavior of "leftists" that either isn't happening as claimed or isn't being done by leftists. This can certainly be unintentional. It can also be very intentional with the goal of devaluing other

The "leftists are doing this" claim is certainly an interesting one to include on a post about how people are popularizing concerning misinformation

That's what always gets me. So many guys will be perfectly fine to your face but when their boys tell a joke, they get pissy when you question their laughter. I guess we're only people when they won't lose face in front of their friends.