Megan

you sell mugs @dropout.tv
why not also coasters

also @dropout.tv i am begging you and other d&d-adjacent properties to consider: my friends and I game together and would fucking love themed [drink]-coasters.

I bring a coaster to darts, so I can tell which is my drink, and people think I'm a genius. Imagine a d&d table.

eat trash
beat trash

my critical role c1 shirts & old-ass thinkgeek shirts get the most comments & conversations

anyway
I wish more [Fantasy High is cool but there are more different seasons] Dimension 20 -related shirts on @dropout.tv showed up, not just enamel pins, because the shirts get the most interaction for me

I enjoy being extra (potentially, but, increasingly, unlikely not extra) more than I enjoy hiding

also discussing at darts how to share a National Theatre sub (~$130/yr), like I totally will, we just gotta meet up weekly for it to matter

but I might rn just for the Frankensteins

like NeverAfter was also awesome, and I am still catching up on befores (Misfits & Magic, etc.) but I think Burrow's End is still my favorite

I really should start asking what fave Dim20 campaign (me? Burrow's End. will make me cry but also so goooooood)

darts telling me that mtv is shutting down

hwat

no

I have the kickstarter hat for the animated series, so I enjoy the number of people who start off the series even if amazon

as an oldie of campaign 1, I like to ask what starter more than fave (though they will gush more on fave) because it's nice to know even stuff I haven't seen yet

I enjoy listening to people gush about their fave or what gripped them (starter).

anyway random in a bar started with Dim20 + anime voices (Matt Mercer, but also once I mentioned Laura Bailey/Lust), then did campaign 1, 2, and some of 4.

(I did campaign 1 as it aired + some of c2, had to stop because Caleb was A Lot as a fellow depressive + joined translation some.)

the number of times my old Critical Role shirts have given me some "nice shirt!" compliment & I turn around like "ok but hey which campaign is your fave/starter" and then also how recently the starter is anime or Dimension20 on @dropout.tv & then they go over to Critical Role

like I'm excited, but also holy shit, I don't remember VA leaning like this, ever, especially this side of the mountains.

Roanoke County (which is usually at least light red) went 16 points bluer than in 2021.

From AP (Associated Press) election coverage: Map of Virginia with its counties' borders visible. Richmond (capital) and Norfolk are labeled on the map. The map is also a graph, with vertical spikes in each county area showing the voting margin shift in either the Democrat (blue) or Republican (red) directions and the size of the spike showing the size of the margin. Every single county and city shows a blue spike, from as small as 4.5 points to as big as 22+ points. Text below the graph clarifies the comparison: "Margin shift compares each county's latest results to its vote margin in the 2021 governor election. This comparison is available once a county or county equivalent reports at least 50% of its estimated expected vote."

yo! what?!

SW VA is still mostly red results but some of those SW spikes are *double-digits* margins toward blue.

I cannot stress that the work that people have been doing for years in the southeast is paying off and needs to be celebrated.

my state delegate went blue 👀 like, yeah, the university means a chunk of blue, but the state delegate district is usually red enough to stay red.

2 0 2 5 Updates Key Races N.Y.C. Mayor Va. Gov. County Margin Shift from 2024 pres. T Votes Loudoun Spanberger +29 * 12 pts. 164,366 Prince William Spanberger +34 × 16 pts. 161,419 Portsmouth Spanberger +47 * 8.1 pts. 29,956 Washington Earle-Sears +49 * 4.5 pts. 20,927 Louisa Earle-Sears +20 * 6.5 pts. 18,719 Orange Earle-Sears +15 * 9.3 pts. 17,127 Powhatan Earle-Sears +40 * 4.4 pts. 16,957 Pulaski Earle-Sears +38 * 7.1 pts. 12,466 Dinwiddie Earle-Sears +17 ~ 6.3 pts. 11,974 Harrisonburg Spanberger +41 × 15 pts. 11,753 Manassas Spanberger +30 * 16 pts. 11,514 Carroll Earle-Sears +57 ~ 6.1 pts. 11,277 Wise Earle-Sears +59 ~ 4.6 pts. 10,962 Fairfax City Spanberger +45 * 11 pts. 10,232 Fredericksburg Spanberger +43 * 11 pts. 10,191 Salem Earle-Sears +12 6.9 pts. 9,374 King William Earle-Sears +34 * 7.1 pts. 8,999 Russell Earle-Sears +63 * 4.9 pts. 8,860

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.

I do the mental math but then calculator check tips/things that affect other people.

notes:
- I do mental four-function math weekly for darts while tipsy/drunk
- former engineering major
- not ADHD

so tempted to mail back the map of bus routes & show that I started voting more when a public transit line actually ran all the way to the polling place and back, versus the first polling place I was assigned to that was out in suburb hell.

some voter record sent me a notice with my every 4yrs record and then redacted names but records of my neighbors, and it goes back to years I wasn't even at this address because it's an apartment.

What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this.

can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

"Bury him face down." This barn burner of an obit might feel hyperbolic to people who entered the world in the wake of 9/11; it's not. Cheney was one of the architects of today's American Christian conservatism. He was directly responsible for millions of deaths. Salt the earth where he's buried.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

when the republicans' ad has voiceover "when the democrats controlled virginia" but then aoc is in the image, and then later they have just the president's old rally, for a *state election*, you know they're really reaching and out of real gas on their actual candidates

does the essay library only work for video essayists, or can simply writer essayists come too for translatable skills?

imagine a local/state/fed rep who has like a newsletter or something that summarizes work DONE instead of this sending promises to personal addresses only when it's an election

on the other hand, why are video essays allowed to be plural hours but essay-reading is "longform" the moment it goes past 15min.

I think my logic is sound and my flow is OK, but I have a habit of going far too big, too complicated for the essay space, and need someone to slap my hand down sometimes.