Kelly

You owe her a coke… for eternity……

Some AO3 author just discovered that whatever they write will come to pass in reality

I live in a time when "a cabal of pedophiles runs the country" and "the national media have been engaging in a multi a year long conspiracy to end democracy" are factual statements and I want a refund

Ok: everyone should try transitioning, as a right of passage.

Nothing irreversible, try out some pronouns, navigate the world as a different gender for a bit, maybe do HRT for a few weeks to see how it feels.

If they find out it’s not for them, that’s cool, still learned something useful.

RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:

saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3

and a worker tier whose emails are like:

Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

that's so weird like there wasn't a big interest in an inconvenience store

ok maybe the craziest thing about these epstein emails is how many of them are still emailing like this after october 2016 and the wikileaks dnc emails

I recommend Puzzmo, as I am currently addicted to Pile-Up Poker

genuinely very few things more satisfying than reading the kinds of emails rich and famous people send each other

The more I think on it, I think the final boss theme of Delubrum Reginae ("The Queen Awakens") might be the best track in all of XIV's OST. Stellar in in-game presentation, in composition, and has insanely good instrument use across how many sections? Like 5? 6?

yooooooooo

guy who finally decides today he has enough information to conclude donald trump is a pedophile

Tweet by Joyce Carol Oates: "wherever he goes, he wants to leave"--that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation. QT of @avidreader1000 Wherever he goes, he wants to leave: SA, Canada, ultimately the U.S. in the long run, based on his behavior. This also includes Earth. A continuous disavowal of your home is odd, to say the least. He seems to have no c...

“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”

it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet

this is not "everyone is twelve" theory. this is the slightly rarer but typically much more consequential "no one knows what lawyers do" theory

In the sublime survival horror game Conscript, cigarettes are currency, and you can trade them for supplies with other soldiers

history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting

Delayed air travel is probably the only element of the government shutdown that actually inconvenienced dems in Congress, unsurprising that they folded basically immediately

DONALD TRUMP: [asleep, drooling on long red tie]

SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in

just learning about the united states democratic party

i've been thinking a lot about "elegant" mechanics in games recently. by "elegant" i mean, essentially, "a multipurpose tool" or "an answer that supports two questions".

an example of this is the Portal gun - it can be used for transporting items, but also clever movement, and eventually "combat"

1/: In 2001, Lord of the Clans, which focused on the orc Thrall, was published. This was before WCIII had come out, let alone WoW. I found when describing the book, talking about orc culture and honor, most people were confused--the only orcs they knew about were Tolkien's.

Honestly this shit is what gives me hope.

At a time when the government is falling apart, citizens are hungrier and angrier than they've been in decades, the Republicans just had a crushing loss and the President is golfing and building a ballroom

They've got "b-but genders!" to no effect

Brian saying "You're too late Mammon, I am now forklift certified"

luckily for democrats, the big ask for the vast majority of those voters on the left is ‘don’t publicly sell us out’ so this is like a trolley problem where there’s no one on one of the tracks and there’s also no trolley unless you drive one in yourself from the maintenance area

i think we can justifiably slice this thinner. trans issues are of very low salience to the voters democrats need to win on their right flank, and of very high salience to the voters democrats need to win on their left flank

I’ve decided that Celsius Watermelon Ice flavor is objectively the best one