DeadGodsBook
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He/Him / Occasional #TTRPG GM / I wanted to escape the angels and the damned – alone . . . as though by an oversight
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The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.
DOGE no longer has ‘centralized leadership’ under White House tech team, personnel head says
The team that was altered to house DOGE — formerly the U.S. Digital Service — is also still doing its own technology work across agencies.
www.nextgov.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.
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SCULLY: It's impossible. There's no one on earth who could teach you to fit that many marshmallows in your mouth.
MULDER: Daff righ...... No one...... on urff...
MULDER: Daff righ...... No one...... on urff...
December 7, 2024 at 5:42 AM
SCULLY: It's impossible. There's no one on earth who could teach you to fit that many marshmallows in your mouth.
MULDER: Daff righ...... No one...... on urff...
MULDER: Daff righ...... No one...... on urff...
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Ah shit
RIP to Udo Kier! What a cool actor, and he made to 81 too! He’s mind-controlling Soviet dinosaurs in heaven now 😢
November 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Ah shit
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I feel about Thanksgiving like I feel about platformers: extreme dread.
Silksong is fun though, so maybe.
Silksong is fun though, so maybe.
I feel about Thanksgiving like I feel about Silksong: git gud, bitch.
the “thanksgiving food is bad” discourse raises its ugly head every year, but the truth remains that thanksgiving food can be amazing as long as you know how to cook. the problem is we’re throwing a few million sunday drivers directly into a grand prix
November 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I feel about Thanksgiving like I feel about platformers: extreme dread.
Silksong is fun though, so maybe.
Silksong is fun though, so maybe.
I hope GRRM never “finishes” asoiaf because the finale is far less important than the ideas being developed from book to book. I think he should just work on side projects that interest him! Insisting a writer only iterate on their most popular work is going to just cause End of Evangelion
November 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I hope GRRM never “finishes” asoiaf because the finale is far less important than the ideas being developed from book to book. I think he should just work on side projects that interest him! Insisting a writer only iterate on their most popular work is going to just cause End of Evangelion
Really feeling like Pluribus is a pretty deeply reactionary show. That's not really diminishing my enjoyment of it, however.
I am kind of interested in the fact that it seem obsessed with The Good Place.
I am kind of interested in the fact that it seem obsessed with The Good Place.
November 22, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Really feeling like Pluribus is a pretty deeply reactionary show. That's not really diminishing my enjoyment of it, however.
I am kind of interested in the fact that it seem obsessed with The Good Place.
I am kind of interested in the fact that it seem obsessed with The Good Place.
Got my airpods pro replaced and I forgot music could sound this good
November 22, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Got my airpods pro replaced and I forgot music could sound this good
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He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
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What To Know About ‘Pluribus’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-pluribus/
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
What To Know About ‘Pluribus’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-pluribus/
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huh, i thought this was AI because there's no way someone could order such an ugly shirt
It is real:
November 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
huh, i thought this was AI because there's no way someone could order such an ugly shirt
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After Midnight Mass came out, I remember reading comments online from folk saying the Sheriff was playing the victim card, or that Islamophobia isn’t a thing anymore etc…
And then Zohran Mamdani enters the chat in 2025 and is greeted with abhorrent Islamophobia & 9/11 jibes.
Well well well…
And then Zohran Mamdani enters the chat in 2025 and is greeted with abhorrent Islamophobia & 9/11 jibes.
Well well well…
November 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
After Midnight Mass came out, I remember reading comments online from folk saying the Sheriff was playing the victim card, or that Islamophobia isn’t a thing anymore etc…
And then Zohran Mamdani enters the chat in 2025 and is greeted with abhorrent Islamophobia & 9/11 jibes.
Well well well…
And then Zohran Mamdani enters the chat in 2025 and is greeted with abhorrent Islamophobia & 9/11 jibes.
Well well well…
The US Constitution forbids that the legislature pass bills of attainder declaring an individual guilty and stripping them of civil rights and enacting punishments, but somehow the Executive has decided throughout multiple administrations that it retains that power.
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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November 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The US Constitution forbids that the legislature pass bills of attainder declaring an individual guilty and stripping them of civil rights and enacting punishments, but somehow the Executive has decided throughout multiple administrations that it retains that power.
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Today's tips: Salt meat you are going to cook 40 minutes to 24 hours in advance of cooking. You'll get better flavor and texture. Plan ahead. Meal prep is best when you think a day or two in advance.
Also, Invest in the growth of others. The strongest arm is the one that lifts someone up.
Also, Invest in the growth of others. The strongest arm is the one that lifts someone up.
November 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Today's tips: Salt meat you are going to cook 40 minutes to 24 hours in advance of cooking. You'll get better flavor and texture. Plan ahead. Meal prep is best when you think a day or two in advance.
Also, Invest in the growth of others. The strongest arm is the one that lifts someone up.
Also, Invest in the growth of others. The strongest arm is the one that lifts someone up.
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This may sound odd, but this is just fascism. Fascism is obsessed with appearance as a symbol of economic stability and prosperity. It's putting a uniform on the public for the aesthetics of the state.
Trump's Transportation Secretary on how to improve air travel:
"People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly... We want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season, help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
"People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly... We want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season, help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
This may sound odd, but this is just fascism. Fascism is obsessed with appearance as a symbol of economic stability and prosperity. It's putting a uniform on the public for the aesthetics of the state.
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Gonna be extremely interesting when white people pretend they "don't understand" what defunding ICE actually means...
When in reality, they simply DO NOT WANT TO DO IT.
When in reality, they simply DO NOT WANT TO DO IT.
Tear gassing a one-year-old U.S. citizen.
Dragging a U.S. citizen on her way to work out of her car.
Throwing tear gas at a children’s Halloween parade.
It’s time to have a serious conversation about defunding ICE.
Dragging a U.S. citizen on her way to work out of her car.
Throwing tear gas at a children’s Halloween parade.
It’s time to have a serious conversation about defunding ICE.
November 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Gonna be extremely interesting when white people pretend they "don't understand" what defunding ICE actually means...
When in reality, they simply DO NOT WANT TO DO IT.
When in reality, they simply DO NOT WANT TO DO IT.
Great video on huge pieces of shit like Lawrence Krauss.
Mainstream news covered the Jeffrey Epstein emails related to ppl like Trump. Today, I want to take a look at Epstein's correspondence with prominent atheist and physicist Lawrence Krauss, who asked the pedophile's advice on responding to accusations of sexual assault skepchick.org/2025/11/so-i...
So I’m in the Epstein Files
Transcript: Look. I know that on this channel, I often criticize prominent people for actions that I find detestable: accepting dark money and failing to disclose it, producing propaganda for Big O…
skepchick.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Great video on huge pieces of shit like Lawrence Krauss.
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when you're doing princess play with a trad system while running an OSR module remember that rules elide for as long as the system matters and only when your players are in a fiction first actor stance
November 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
when you're doing princess play with a trad system while running an OSR module remember that rules elide for as long as the system matters and only when your players are in a fiction first actor stance
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Ah, seems Funko might be on the way out?
Not having to see those dead-eyed monstrosities taking up valuable space at every "nerd" shop (music, games, comics, etc.) will be a relief.
Not having to see those dead-eyed monstrosities taking up valuable space at every "nerd" shop (music, games, comics, etc.) will be a relief.
November 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Ah, seems Funko might be on the way out?
Not having to see those dead-eyed monstrosities taking up valuable space at every "nerd" shop (music, games, comics, etc.) will be a relief.
Not having to see those dead-eyed monstrosities taking up valuable space at every "nerd" shop (music, games, comics, etc.) will be a relief.
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I've written about "disordered counterpublics" groups that reinforce shared delusions Here, the LLM becomes a 1 person counterpublic. It mirrors assumptions, absorbs contradictions, & provides the sense of a responsive, confirming audience.
It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.
It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.
November 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I've written about "disordered counterpublics" groups that reinforce shared delusions Here, the LLM becomes a 1 person counterpublic. It mirrors assumptions, absorbs contradictions, & provides the sense of a responsive, confirming audience.
It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.
It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.
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yes! that IS the fucking lesson of the Holocaust! goddamn!
I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people."
www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfCons...
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November 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
yes! that IS the fucking lesson of the Holocaust! goddamn!
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Rights for me but not for thee
November 19, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Rights for me but not for thee
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With Galaxy Princess Zorana finally releasing this week, it seemed like a good time to talk about some of the influences behind the game...
store.steampowered.com/app/3069630/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3069630/...
Galaxy Princess Zorana on Steam
You are the Evil Emperor's only daughter, but can you claim the throne? Raise stats, make deals, appoint advisors, and scheme your way through the Imperial Election - unless an assassin gets you first...
store.steampowered.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
With Galaxy Princess Zorana finally releasing this week, it seemed like a good time to talk about some of the influences behind the game...
store.steampowered.com/app/3069630/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3069630/...
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As usual, @aftermath.site gets to the heart of the matter. aftermath.site/the-alters-a...
I'm Getting Real Tired Of Not Being Able To Trust That A Video Game Doesn't Have AI Crap In It - Aftermath
It sucks that players are having to scour every asset and line of dialogue
aftermath.site
November 17, 2025 at 10:36 AM
As usual, @aftermath.site gets to the heart of the matter. aftermath.site/the-alters-a...
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YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????
November 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????
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A lot of wealthy and powerful (and predominantly white, one imagines) people saw themselves in Ezra's hapless replies. They're not going to leave him to bleed out on the field. They will wrap him in bandages and wreath him in garlands. None will be allowed to note the gangrenous stench.
November 17, 2025 at 2:26 AM
A lot of wealthy and powerful (and predominantly white, one imagines) people saw themselves in Ezra's hapless replies. They're not going to leave him to bleed out on the field. They will wrap him in bandages and wreath him in garlands. None will be allowed to note the gangrenous stench.