Back of Beyond Cosplay

it drives you insane how much erosion of freedom is justified by concern for kids when the people who actually hurt them will never face consequences

They're Coming for Our Daughters The conservative plan to shrink girls’ futures

The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.”

The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
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“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”

my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

Well, good thing we didn’t silo off a bunch of important game knowledge in individual discords instead of forums or wikis or gamefaqs for some reason

(please don't lecture me on the ethics of recording professional theater performances. Yes, we can argue very well it can be disruptive to audiences. But on the other hand the inequity of access to theater and cost is exclusionary to huge swaths of the country who would want to pay to watch it)

I have been SO ANNOYED with myself for ignoring a show I don't know, only for it to leave our area.
And even more irksome. I'll listen to the studio released tracks and not feel it- but then someone releases a fan recording of it and ITS STUNNING BEYOND WORDS

One challenge to myself is that this year I'm going to take myself to the theater and opera more often. I'm so close to good theaters that get touring productions, there's no reason I can't buy a cheap balcony seat to just experience a show that I don't know

I'm so excited! I'm going to see Phantom tomorrow and Outsiders next month!

Sorry to vent on main but I'm just so sick of being a grown-ass adult online who can't openly enjoy talking about or drawing sex stuff even in completely adult spaces where all minors are completely banned just because everyone has gotta be such fascist controlling fucking babies about it

If Discord is going to treat everyone as teens by Default, let them have it their way.

Teens, no credit card, so no Nitro or any sort of paid service for them. Fuck around and find out.

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Image of the Yeti in the skiing Windows game SkiFree eating the player

Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics

How TrumpRx drug prices compare to generic alternatives Patients could save more buying non-branded copycat drugs, even if they don't have insurance.

More than half the drugs on the TrumpRx site have a cheaper generic version on the market.

Pristiq, an antidepressant, is available with a TrumpRx coupon for ~$200 for a 30-day supply.

A generic version is on GoodRx for less than $30 and Mark Cuban's CostPlusDrugs for $16.65.

i think about this every day and the more history i learn, the truer it becomes

I just finished Shield of Sparrows. Do I want to start Manacled next or Metal Slinger? I cant decide ^^;

New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped

Hiring the guy who torched Tumblr as the Washington Post CEO is one of the more blatant examples of how failure is a feature of the role. Not only can C suite people fuck up on a massive scale with no consequences, there is strategic value in dropping a fuckup into a role like that

"Tell me you know nothing about the Muppets without telling me you know nothing about the Muppets."

Here’s an iPlayer capture where the US broadcast didn’t mute the boo’s.

The US broadcaster is scrambling all over the internet to do DMCA takedowns of the reality of the moment.

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GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

I'm not sure what to make of it, but every Somali I represent in immigration court currently (8 of them) have today had their hearings cancelled and their judges reassigned. They're now all assigned to a video judge from Louisiana and scheduled for court hearing in one month. 🧵

Lol, no problem.
I normally don't mind fighting worbla, but of course this one had to be difficult.

Ironically as to tights, I ended up wearing 3 tights on top of each of each other bc of course it's a weird print in game to match the look

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

Slamming forehead on table

The entire outfit and all the rest of the hammer minus this bit are made by me. That part was just a fiddly pain in the butt

Thank you!

This is the netting actually. I commissioned them to make this on the hammer. Bc back then I didn't have access to a 3d printer, and every time I tried making this out of worbla, the heat from ine side would come through and warp the opposite side while I was working on it

Health Insurance Claim Denied? See What Insurers Said Behind the Scenes Learn how to request your health insurance claim file, which can include details about what your insurer is saying about you and your case.

When an insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, it generates a file, which should contain all records associated with your case, including documents explaining why the claim was denied.

You have a right to see this file.

(Published May 2023)