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Note titled “Halloween” with the entries “Koko the gorilla + jealousy professor” and “Nuclear Semiotics?”

Our shared note with ideas for next year’s couple’s costume is going great!

Catching up on @3d6downtheline.com’s playthrough of Gradient Descent for #MothershipMonth25. “Mothership doesn’t use 3d6 for stats, but sadly we can’t change the name of our show to 2d10+25 Down the Line” — the average stat roll is a 36. “36 Down the Line” was RIGHT there!

“I’m sorry I made a sad face when you said ‘I just want to try a flight of anything’” — @sasquatchewan.bsky.social

I guess this extends the scope of the question to include “are ‘spells’ and ‘items,’ etc., game rules and/or setting material?” To which I say yes to either/both.

I feel like this is what the term “splatbook” is meant for, but I anticipate a few issues with association and connotation.

It's October now, so everyone has to say happy birthday to the bisexual Wikipedia skeleton

If you are preparing for Imelda and own a portable generator, make sure your have working carbon monoxide alarms on every level of your home. One portable generator can produce as much carbon monoxide as hundreds of cars. CO is a deadly gas you can't see or smell and can kill within minutes.

A tuxedo cat lurks menacingly at the photographer from beside her on the bed. She has started to purr expectantly.

yes I see you are trying to go to bed but have you considered… cat

Tons of weapons/armor/architecture in fantasy. Pauldron, cuirass, vambrace, gauntlet, grieves.

Battlements, parapets, crenellations. Dolmen, menhir. Spire. Catacombs. Midden.

I like the more setting-agnostic descriptors, e.g. “bodily” courtesy of @3d6downtheline.com

A graph of Covid rates. It's more complex than can be described here, but the important bit is that the rates have gone up a lot since late July, nearly to the heights of last winter.

Hey, so...Covid rates have gotten real high. Maybe change your behavior to fit this new risk profile? Stop eating indoors at restaurants, mask on mass transit, that kind of thing?

kaiju wrestling??

Wife has taken to calling regular goldfish crackers “flavorless-blasted”

I stopped masking (except in airports/planes) for at least a year and a half because everyone else I knew had and I wasn’t hearing anything about COVID any more. Now we’ve been back at it for over a year and will continue for the foreseeable future. It was no big deal to just… start over again!

"it's a horrible painful shot in the stomach and you have to get a bunch of them" is a small price to pay for NOT DYING OF RABIES but that hasn't been true for decades, it's just 2-4 regular jabs in the arm over a couple of weeks, get it if you are bitten by a feral cat or find a bat in your house.

Broken record territory rapidly approaching, but once again: Homelessness is not a societal inevitability. It's a policy failure.

This is a solvable issue with a known solution, even under capitalism, because that solution is less expensive than the current responses.

We just don't want to do it.

Microdosing getting a new car by letting my 15 year old old vehicle fall a little bit apart and then getting it properly fixed up again only AFTER I’m used to it sucking a little bit.

Today I went to the tailor having lost my ticket and she said “It’s okay, I remember you, you have the very nice husband!” I cannot emphasize enough: she has literally never heard him speak. This happens aaaaallll the time.

I still think that scene where they have to shovel off the roof in Chernobyl is the most intense fear a TV show has ever made me feel. Every time I think about it even years after watching I want to throw up.

this survey took less than two minutes

yes, it's inane. do it anyway

Tuna sweat

@sasquatchewan.bsky.social of Jack Nicholson, "Huh, son of a bitch, he’s real”

We simply do not have to live this way.

The COVID-19 pandemic undermined the right in several key ways:

1) It showed us which workers are essential and empowered them.

2) It showed that the markets can’t solve everything.

2) It threatened GOP political prospects in a critical election.

4) Government relief proved popular and effective

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My maintenance guy who always wears an n95 at my request & waves away gratitude with “you should feel safe in your own home” brought me a plate from the building bbq so I wouldn’t feel left out.

He said he wore a mask I gave him to the birth of his granddaughter.

Keep educating & resourcing folks!

honestly "the chatbots are essentially the fae" would probably be better for normies as a mental model

GUTTER+ @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social ?! More likely than you think ;)

i honestly dont know what gutter is but i love their marketing

Somebody with $50 should try for “Unforgiveness”

Evlyn’s art is such an inspiration 😮‍💨