Matthew Skwarczek (he/they)

It's a bit labor-intense, becausw you have to fry a few things and temporarily squeeze out some juices, but I love making bigos (Polish hunter's stew) in the winter. Sauerkraut, cabbage, your meat of choice, onion, some prunes, and a few spices in the slow cooker--enjoy with bread

I'm also planning on getting it. The first Mega Man game I owned was Battle Network 5. But the Zero series has a special place in my heart because of a Newgrounds work called "MMZ: The Last Cataclysm"

Ah, but they're not YOUR vision

Tried making yerba mate with loose leaves for the first time in years.
...I have miscalculated

Oh God, I had toothaches in my root canals from sinusitis recently. My sympathies, and I wish you all the steam baths, saline washouts, and ibuprofen possible

There is an Aventon model, the Abound LR, that's right below $2K right now, but yeah, generally speaking e-cargo bikes are on the other side of the $2K line

I had a decent experience with a Giant e-bike at IMS a few years ago, and I think Liv, which is Giant's women's brand, has at least one e-bike model on clearance right now for under $2000. And I think some of my co-workers did an e-bike review not too long ago

Full-on cargo bike or a more straightforward, simpler e-bike?

I'd also suggest FE Awakening's "Pick a god and PRAY!" as going hard

I need to find time to play, I started a catboy paladin but life's gotten busy

And the same to you!

That bear is absolutely prepped for the winter

Don't have photos on hand, but it was either the Berserk Omnibus Vol 2 or the Barbarian's Bride Vol 3

Holy hell, I'm glad you're OK!

Oh HELL, I'm sorry, dude. Is anyone else at the compound affected?

I salute my fellow fact checkers--our work has never been more vital

Fortunately, some pain meds and decongestant spray after seeing the dentist are SEEMINGLY doing the job

Today I found out not only are your sinuses right above your upper teeth, but sometimes your sinuses sit so low that your teeth--including potential root canals--are basically in the sinuses

Born from Zoom-Zoom

I always think of Mazda as the Japanese Lancia minus the reliability issues, but I could see it being a Japanese Volvo, too

That's true

I also thought it was the plane

As someone who owned a turbo Stellantis--admittedly beforee Stellantis was a thing--product until recently, all I'll say is...be careful

May I ask which company made it?

Ado has a figurine?!

AMEN, this has been me these last few weeks

digital painting of two skeletons staring into a snowy tundra skeleton 1: how will we get through this? skeleton 2: I don't know but we are going together art by roxiqt.com

We can't give up now. ❄️

A drawing of a Metagross against a blue background

Not sure about my favorite trainer, but my favorite Pokémon is Metagross

One way of thinking about Twitter, especially in the Elon Musk era, is as the latest and most sophisticated version of the mailing lists that have powered the conservative movement, and the various scams and cons and schemes that constitute it, since the 1960s--in other words, as a huge and immediately accessible collection of suckers, waiting to have their avidity and paranoia exploited for cash. The predictions markets here are happy to play the same role with heavy X.com users as crypto scams and meme-stock hustlers did on the same site a few years ago, or as cash-for-gold ads did with Fox News viewers a decade before that, or as direct-mail get-rich-quick schemes did with Goldwater voters deep in prehistory.1 But the demand for dumb money created by the increasing annexation of our everyday social and cultural lives into casino-market hybrids like predictions markets (or, arguably, social media itself2) isn’t going to be satisfied solely by a pre-existing population of Birchite suckers. We talk a lot about the “male loneliness crisis” but in my estimation we don’t talk enough about the “male suckerfication crisis”: The process by which young men are continuously cultivated--by politicians, influencers, podcasters, sportscasters, and the very structure of social networks--as dupes and suckers, both for the enrichment and empowerment of Trumpist politicians and movements but also in service of the profits an ever-expanding roster of gambling and gambling-adjacent industries, among them app-enabled retail day-trading, crypto speculation, predictions markets, and of course, actual sports betting.

we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...