Mike Timonin

It's game day! I'm going to trap my players in a semi-abandoned mine full of monsters! Ummm. Their characters - I'm going to trap their CHARACTERS in a mine.

#ttrpg

Justice for the ‘foremother of the reparations movement’ - Harvard Law School Advocates at Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School lead an effort to obtain a presidential posthumous pardon for Callie House, a formerly enslaved woman and early civil rights hero.

Question for #skystorians:

I'm teaching my students about Callie House (link below), and her efforts to force the government to disburse the $68 million collected as cotton taxes between 1862 and 1868 but never added to the Treasury. How would I check to see if the money still existed?

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My players, after drinking totally innocent tea from a nice little old lady...

Wrecking Ball?

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A black fluffy cat sits on top of a snake tank, partially illuminated by the sun lamp shining into the tank.

Pepper looks like she's the Bad Cop in a film noir...

I wouldn't think so; there's only so many ways to say "Hurry! Hurry hard!"

I don't really care super much about figure skating, but I have a new favorite figure skater...

Hey, I know that store! (I worked at the flagship in Elmira, and at the first expansion in Ithaca, for many many years.)

Also, I've played the game, and it really evokes the films. Very tense, with a strong sense of peril. It's not one I own, so I can't offer to run it for you.

100/100, would eat

Is the Chronicle still bothering to collect salary information on adjuncts or do we need to do another Google spreadsheet?

A clockwork aquanaut encounters various sea creatures. Its head is a transparent sphere that reveals mechanical components and blows bubbles. Painted with acrylics on wood.

Congratulations, Glendon! Thank you for this art share and all you do for the community here.
My name is Mike. I work with traditional media, usually creating art with fantastical themes.

Meme with 4 pictures and a caption in the center that says "Whoa Black Betty." Jar labeled Bramble Jam Plastic produce container labeled "rambutans" Photo of a man and woman watermarked "Pam Bellam" Shelf at a store with two panda lamps

Curling is PERFECT for the unathletic - you don't need to be an athlete to play. The big bonspiels in Canada used to be sponsored by beer and cigarette companies.

I've tried it once, it's lots of fun, I'd do it again.

I stand with County Executive Calvin Ball as he signs emergency legislation today prohibiting privately owned buildings from being used as ICE detention centers.

Howard County chose dignity, accountability, and its people. Tune into our event now:
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A German shepherd dog on a bed. It is clear that she has been murdered and has never been petted in her life.

Daffodil would like you to know that @ltimonin.bsky.social and I abandoned her with the children, who beat her with sticks and then murdered her with the vacuum cleaner, and now she is dead in the bedroom where no one pats her or pays any attention to her at all.

probably wise.

Joe Wheeler - who had led cavalry troops for the so-called confederacy during the Civil War - was appointed Major General over the volunteer cavalry during the Spanish-American War. At the battle of Las Guasimas, he encouraged his troops by saying "We've got the Damn Yankees on the run again!"

Just three colours? Lazy humorism!

I remember that election - he promised that if elected he would teach everyone in Canada how to yogic fly. Sadly, he lost.

Zombies in the Gene Pool. Also good.

Things I'd change - more workers, yes. More pay, obviously. Training for voters. Changes to the definitions of "electioneering" under NY law. (I'm legally not allowed to ask voters to remove their MAGA hats in a polling site.) Open primaries. Election day voter registration. More mail ballots. 4/4

Non-boring elections recently - the 2020 election wasn't boring. The 2023 school board election locally wasn't boring. And the municipal election last November - we got a non-credible bomb threat. That wasn't boring.

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It is a LONG shift - for a general election we start at 5am and finish up around 10pm. It's not, mostly, a physically demanding job; lots of standing and sitting and talking. It can be boring. Ideally it's boring. Non-boring elections are hectic. 2/4

Good thread. In New York, folks should know that poll workers are not volunteers, we get paid to be there. I dream of a time where there are enough people interested in working the election that my boss says "hey, you want to work a half day instead of the whole thing?" 1/4

As always, the answer to "what should I do if I'm worried about Rs loudly announcing their aspirations to try & ratfuck elections?" is go volunteer to be a poll worker or an elections observer. That is, if you actually want to so something beyond just wallowing in despair & untreated anxiety online

That's what I say, yeah. If kids don't play shinny on the local ponds, you aren't a hockey town. (Mind you, global warming makes shinny on local ponds less viable.)

I was going to do this, but as I started listing classes it became clear that I was super focused - no really fun classes, just History and English and then more History.

I did sit in on the first session of an economics class by accident, and I did take a class in linguistics taught by a blind guy

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Man, I feel you. I've been doing the adjunct thing for more than 20 years, and it doesn't ever really get easier or less irritating. BUT, if you love teaching, and you can cover your expenses in other ways, it's not a terrible gig.