Xeni Giardiniera

Holy shit

Illinois needs a progressive income tax. It should be on the ballot every year until it passes.

Almost every other funding idea they come up with is just bullshit nibbling around the edges in ways that still predominantly tax working people instead of those with real wealth.

I missed the great lights
Thought of angels anyway
An evening with friends

#haiku

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Blood pressure pro tip: expend energy giving money to the DSA rather than ranting about Dem leadership. This is just a note to self.

today is europe's 9-11

A gorilla in a food stained white tank top. He's smoking a cigarette, probably a Pall Mall.

"The next enclosure features the Western Lowlife Gorilla."
"You mean Western Lowland
Gorilla?"
"No."

I wouldn't flirt with a diagnosis. That's why I never go to a doctor no matter how bad I'm feeling.

It’s cool cool to not like D&D. I get it 150%. No shade.

But gosh I forgot how irritating it is to have people unsolicited rant at you about how people “really don’t want to play D&D” like it’s 1995 or 2005 or 2015 or….

Get new ideas. Please. I’m BEGGING you. Hating D&D isn’t a personality.

[if Chuck Schumer replaced Liam Neeson in Taken]

CHUCK SCHUMER: [on phone] I don’t know who you are or what you want, but I will find you and I will help you kill my daughter

“Comrade” has intense proxy pro-monarchist vibes.

Star Trek The Next Generation scene. We're in Picard's ready room. Picard is sitting like a normal guy at a desk in his uniform and across him is a hoighty toighty looking Vulcan lady with a tall hat and some fancy official looking clothing and accessories sitting across from him. Standing with hands resting on the 3rd chair is Mr. Data, in uniform. Closed caption reads, "Mr. Data, based"

I really should've gone to that show, I guess?

bro are you fucking kidding me

Hey, that's unfair. AltNPS was "I'm a secret white hat operator who's on your side and taking the system down from within" grift since at least a year before Q started posting.

Friends don't let friends follow Alt National Park Service. This is so weird and inappropriate!!!

They're cousins

finance guys on twitter are like "can't believe zohran hired lina khan. she wants to make it illegal to bundle memecoin futures into junk stocks and sell them to public worker pension plans. the public won't stand for it."

This one is personal to me.

AltNPS posted, so far only on Facebook, an extended piece of manipulative fanfiction about the recent abduction of a woman at a Chicago daycare center by ICE agents.

The video, which you've likely already seen, is horrific.

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I'll never forget my dad's last words: "It's way past Halloween. Why's this caution tape still on the elevator?"

Now THIS is the kind of thinking we need more of

News article that reads: Senate Democrats debate path to ending government shutdown A bipartisan group of senators is working on a possible deal to end the government shutdown, which has become the country’s longest.

Establishment Dems: “We just had a sweeping win proving people want us to fight for them and that we can beat the fascists.”
Also Establishment Dems: “Quick, back to capitulating!”

What an utterly spineless and embarrassing political party.

Unfair to say it COULD but indicate bodily harm.

For instance, it could've been real bad if any of that sandwich had gotten into the officer's mouth.

Screenshot of text from a DriveThruRPG publisher newsletter that reads: Upcoming Changes to Crowdfunding Marketing Emails Starting November 15, we're adjusting the process and clarifying the proper steps to get an email scheduled. These changes will clarify some of the process and requirements for getting these emails on the schedule. To see the changes in full, click here: Crowdfunding Promotional Emails. In short, though, the biggest change of note is that Non-Exclusive partners will be limited to only one customer email per campaign (vs. two emails, previously).

Screenshot of the Wikipedia article on "enshittification" that reads: Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two-sided market", where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them. The passage "finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves" is highlighted.

The latest from @drivethrurpg.com:

I think Dershowitz is gonna go out like John McAfee

I'll allow it

Wow. In another huge upset, Mesmero, the Master of Mentalism, has been elected mayor of Chicago. Political pundits are shocked - he’s a first-time candidate who barely spent anything on advertising, and there wasn’t even an election scheduled for today

I think Dershowitz is gonna go out like John McAfee

New York City too antisemitic for you? You’re going to love living in one of the places where they think Jews have horns.