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Reader of SF/F, history, politics. Intermittent writer, engineer, Quaker. GameDev-adjacent-ish.
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13.02.2026 20:34 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Imagine living in a country funding a livestreamed genocide, starving other countries, building concentration camps at home, shooting protestors, arresting people for abortion, & led by puppets who allowed the 1% to steal all the wealth & rape children...
& still... doing nothing. Totally cooked.
Every day I play a game called "WTF is DJT talking about?" in which I try to guess WTF he's talking about, purely based on Aaron Rupar's @atrupar.com typed quotes, because I can't bear to listen to DJT myself.
13.02.2026 19:59 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"Sure we've consistently found out that the CIA did illegal things we didn't learn about until 20 years later since the 1940's, but they've been completely trustworthy and done nothing wrong for the last 19 ยฝ years, so we have to assume they're telling the truth."
13.02.2026 19:53 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Boyfriend Dungeon capsule art featruing sunder and an MC in an embrace
It's a great weekend to smooch swords ๐๐ก
13.02.2026 18:20 โ ๐ 35 ๐ 9 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I think it's a good sign that normies today are doing things that Willem van Spronsen gave his life doing only 7 years ago.
13.02.2026 18:03 โ ๐ 130 ๐ 30 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 0AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."
13.02.2026 17:50 โ ๐ 14559 ๐ 4460 ๐ฌ 453 ๐ 396Happy birthday in advance!
13.02.2026 19:08 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0NEW in Bolts: Iowa's high court recently ended the practice of making defendants pay fees for charges that get dismissed. Prosecutors are backing a bill to undo that ruling so they can keep using fees as leverage for plea deals.
Our new story with The Marshall Project:
I empathize with this person. I really do. But:
1) We tried to warn y'all about these fashy VC billionaire losers for decades. I didn't lose any heroes in the Epstein file revelations.๐คท๐ฟโโ๏ธ
2) The people I love don't "shrug or tacitly support" ethnic cleansing. Because the people I love, aren't nazis.
NEW: In Iowa, when someone's charges are *dismissed,* they still had to pay court fees. So prosecutors pressured ppl into pleading guilty: 'plead guilty, you'll have no fees. (If you win, you'll owe $$.)'
Iowa's Supreme Court struck that down in January... but prosecutors want to bring it all back:
Trump posted a video depicting the first Black president and his wife as apes and his excuse for this is that it's a riff on The Lion King, a movie that does not feature any apes. Somehow this was a one-day story and we've already moved on.
13.02.2026 03:30 โ ๐ 8155 ๐ 1900 ๐ฌ 273 ๐ 99Oh, man, to live somewhere where you can just open a waymo door and get some poor person an easy Dash.
13.02.2026 03:25 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0American Samoans occupy a strange in-between as U.S. nationals but not citizens. They pay taxes, have Social Security numbers, and can join the militaryโbut they canโt vote. A voter fraud case in Alaska highlights their unusual predicament.
13.02.2026 01:02 โ ๐ 124 ๐ 51 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 4BREAKING: Judge Leon *rejects* Secretary Hegseth's bid to punish Sen. Kelly for advising troops to ignore illegal orders. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
12.02.2026 17:45 โ ๐ 2958 ๐ 729 ๐ฌ 60 ๐ 82Nah this is the funniest way to fumble the bag Iโve seen all month hahahaha she used it like โAw nuts!โ
12.02.2026 17:13 โ ๐ 72 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 11 ๐ 0Always good to remember how the revolutionaries thought cops should be treated. Hours of spitting, insulting, throwing objects hard enough to knock them down, and so on, but they didn't get any convictions for the protestors.
Modern "patriots", meanwhile:
"Crispus Attucks should have complied!"
I immediately thought of coconut water vendors at the chickenbus stops in Guatemala with their little sandwich baggies tied up with the straw.
12.02.2026 04:21 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Andrew Paul Johnson, who I wrote about in November, was found guilty of five charges.
11.02.2026 21:57 โ ๐ 458 ๐ 208 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 23For GENERATIONS
11.02.2026 21:43 โ ๐ 87 ๐ 28 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0In christofascist America, we have to protest in the streets because local cops beat the shit out of our kids because our kids protested in the streets because federal cops are kidnapping kids
11.02.2026 18:51 โ ๐ 331 ๐ 141 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 5This is one of the silliest headlines I've read in a long time.
Gen Z and Millennials are making smart choices for their health ("gut healthy juices") and for their wallets (Costco rotisserie are $5 for an ENTIRE ALREADY COOKED CHICKEN *in this economy*).
Leave these (not-so-)young people ALONE.
A 23-year veteran. Iโm sure training and more body cameras will fix it.
11.02.2026 04:25 โ ๐ 370 ๐ 115 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 3Lutnick last year on his visit to Epstein's house in 2005: "My wife and I decided that I will never be in the room with that disgusting person ever again." (Lutnick testified under oath today that he visited Epstein's island in 2012.)
11.02.2026 01:00 โ ๐ 3899 ๐ 1211 ๐ฌ 412 ๐ 116The video is of course of Aurora IL PD cops beating the fuck out of minor kids exercising their constitutionally protected rights to assembly and speech to protest police state brutality against their friends and family
11.02.2026 00:21 โ ๐ 696 ๐ 227 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 2The Santa Clara County DA has pursued felony charges for several pro-Palestine student protesters from Stanford University and is seeking $329,000 in restitution. โIt would ruin my family financially for the rest of our lives,โ says one defendant.
10.02.2026 23:00 โ ๐ 48 ๐ 20 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0Holy shit lmao holy shit
10.02.2026 23:43 โ ๐ 435 ๐ 50 ๐ฌ 25 ๐ 10We're past the point where this is fraud. They claim to offer news.
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