Joel Koepp

there's been so much bad-faith opposition to what are mostly modest reforms, particularly on minimum lot size requirements. that and all the scaremongering about "loss of local control"...when all the local control is what's gotten us into this supply bind.

Hieronymus Bosch painting, but make it real life in 2025

indeed

that in turn links to an FAQ i've maintained since the official one went offline. hit me up any time for help with the HIS/VQ VASSAL modules, which i also maintain.

get in there and give this game a shot--it's the least daunting 44 page rulebook you'll find. you can do it!

got a question about a card effect and don't feel like trawling through 20 years of BGG/Consimworld posts to find an answer? my card manifest web app has you covered: rozzwell.com/hismanifest/

the 2024 reprint already sold out, but there's a thriving online play community mostly using VASSAL. to find players, there's a Discord group typified by more casual, newbie-friendly play (discord.gg/RjK2AVr) and a WhatsApp group more competitive in nature (tinyurl.com/HISVQ)

fun chat--lots of enthusiasm for a big, meaty game that's still going strong almost 20 years after its debut! you're bound to get some listeners wondering how to dive in and get started--to that end, some ideas:

it's beyond preposterous for DOJ to frame ICE/CBP guys kitted out in military gear as the poor victims of "violent conduct"...do give me a break, my eyes can only roll so far

one thing it might mean is that there are a lot of reactionary centrist pundits and has-been political strategists who based their advice to Democrats on too-sweeping 2024 conclusions and forward-looking assumptions that aren't going to be as enduring as they figured

reading today's essential court coverage from @jonseidel.bsky.social about the Constitution-free hellscape that is the Broadview facility, the goons absolutely have to be put on notice that a reckoning WILL eventually come for the cornucopia of crimes

and process for Stephen Miller and co that will make the Nuremberg trials look like a tupperware party

you basically have to have an advanced degree in monitoring their trolling and AI slop to have understood this in the moment, it's probably healthy if you didn't

deeply unserious muppet, and yet this probably won't end up being in the top 5 stupidest things uttered this week because every day is a complete gong show

Spirit Halloween Post

going to fetch my walleye to fillet it and got a great shot of the moonlit dock. fall fishing trip in Ely, MN

it's hard to overstate what a shambles the Fall of Minneapolis is from inception to execution. its creator is a right-winger who washed out of local TV and is married to notorious MN MAGA chud Bob Kroll. the FP elevating and amplifying this pathetic hackery has had a long tail effect.

isn't 31 USC 5112 (n)(2)(E) the better fit here?

unfollowed him back in the Xitter days when exhaustingly terrible takes started to become his main deal. interest in having a Silver-Barro hybrid in my feed: nil

Sulzberger and most of the op-ed crew other than Jamelle:

BELLEND

has the appearance of standard homestead status--there is a separate DB field to show relative homestead and it's blank for their PID

a failed-upward homunculus who hasn't been right about a single thing in his adult life

(to be fair this doesn't uniquely describe ol' Kevin)

the start and end of the entire discussion surrounding this farcical stunt

Farthest I've gone in any direction:

W: Seattle
E: Tokyo
N: Isle of Skye
S: Naples, FL

the inbound loot (73m?) from the sales of Dewsbury-Hall, Broja, and Ugochukwu in a space of 2 days beggars belief--these guys barely saw meaningful time. it's a summer of miracles.

spotlighting this from a great thread--think about how incredibly overparked inner and mid-ring suburbs are. oceans of pavement to comply with 1960s-era junk science out of the ITE manual for how much parking certain uses "require". look at it now in the era of remote work and e-commerce. bonkers.

it'd be a real shame if the "little pigman" video had another revival now that our tendentiously stupid vice prez is groveling to eat shit on behalf of Dear Leader yet again

The Importance of Letting Voters Defend Their Rights in Court Courts have recognized a "private right of action" in the Voting Rights Act since the law’s inception.

Some stats in this regard at the Brennan Center: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

the very first line misspells his name, which seems entirely on-brand

guy with a head like a sweaty canned ham talks a big game behind the safety of a podcast mic, turns tissue paper soft and runs for the hills at the first sign of conflict in a real job. real shocker

actual data gets you nowhere with these people. data is the same as book learning, i.e. a bunch of soft liberal squish nonsense to be scorned. nothing is going to move them off their priors. they believe it because believing it is the requirement of belonging in the tribe