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Physics Professor, Transformers enthusiast, comics reader and reviewer, etc. He/him.
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People who know me from elsewhere who are part of a new migration wave, please don't be offended if I don't follow back. My feed is about as active as I can manage following right now.
How I'm walking out of 2025
December 28, 2025 at 5:51 AM
How I'm walking out of 2025
Okay, finally found the time to watch Rise Up Dead Man. Almost didn't make it to Blanc's appearance...as someone raised Catholic, even though my Church wasn't anywhere near that bad, the opening part was ROUGH. Very easy to see my childhood experience taking that type of turn with a bad pastor.
December 28, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Okay, finally found the time to watch Rise Up Dead Man. Almost didn't make it to Blanc's appearance...as someone raised Catholic, even though my Church wasn't anywhere near that bad, the opening part was ROUGH. Very easy to see my childhood experience taking that type of turn with a bad pastor.
So, MASK (80s cartoon) in :Otherspace. I think the masks themselves would be Loadout, as they don't actually do enough to meet the level of Theme. Everyone would have a variant on Experimental Vehicle, with the drawback of "Civilian Disguise" (when in disguise, -1 penalty to things it tries.) 1/
December 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
So, MASK (80s cartoon) in :Otherspace. I think the masks themselves would be Loadout, as they don't actually do enough to meet the level of Theme. Everyone would have a variant on Experimental Vehicle, with the drawback of "Civilian Disguise" (when in disguise, -1 penalty to things it tries.) 1/
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This is the second time in recent memory that the goat has been destroyed by a literal force of nature. First the birds, now the winds.
How the fuck do I write *this* up?
How the fuck do I write *this* up?
Gävlebocken (the Gavle Goat)
YouTube video by Gävlebocken
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December 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This is the second time in recent memory that the goat has been destroyed by a literal force of nature. First the birds, now the winds.
How the fuck do I write *this* up?
How the fuck do I write *this* up?
And that getting socks for Christmas will actually be kinda cool.
I wish we could explain to small children that some day, getting in bed and going to sleep will become the highlight of their lives.
December 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
And that getting socks for Christmas will actually be kinda cool.
By freeing them from having to find an artist willing to put their fever dreams into viewable form, AI has allowed the worst people you know to express their inner selves through art. It's like the special glasses from They Live or 3D Man's Skrull-seeing goggles, but the monsters put them on.
December 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
By freeing them from having to find an artist willing to put their fever dreams into viewable form, AI has allowed the worst people you know to express their inner selves through art. It's like the special glasses from They Live or 3D Man's Skrull-seeing goggles, but the monsters put them on.
And now to bring an annual tradition here as well.
December 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
And now to bring an annual tradition here as well.
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, nonetheless did not ever do anything else interesting enough to merit appearing in any other stories. Probably for the best, though. It sucks to be a protagonist.
December 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, nonetheless did not ever do anything else interesting enough to merit appearing in any other stories. Probably for the best, though. It sucks to be a protagonist.
"There have always been two kinds of people: those who worry about their investments, and those who [use our service]." Got it, those without money to invest aren't actually people. Quiet part out loud.
December 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
"There have always been two kinds of people: those who worry about their investments, and those who [use our service]." Got it, those without money to invest aren't actually people. Quiet part out loud.
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Santa's Beard. youtu.be/xKBk4aP4-nE
They Might Be Giants - Santa's Beard (Official Audio)
YouTube video by ParticleMen
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December 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Santa's Beard. youtu.be/xKBk4aP4-nE
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GM: Feels like wild magic, really. Someone could attune it. It might do something.
PARTY: …
GM: Let me rephrase that. It’ll DEFINITELY do something.
PARTY: …….no.
PARTY: …
GM: Let me rephrase that. It’ll DEFINITELY do something.
PARTY: …….no.
December 24, 2025 at 2:44 AM
GM: Feels like wild magic, really. Someone could attune it. It might do something.
PARTY: …
GM: Let me rephrase that. It’ll DEFINITELY do something.
PARTY: …….no.
PARTY: …
GM: Let me rephrase that. It’ll DEFINITELY do something.
PARTY: …….no.
Pet peeve: (non-collectible) card game that doesn't come with long-term storage for the cards. They come wrapped in plastic, and it's your job as consumer to find a way that will let you both play the game and not end up with a big box full of cards rattling around in it. (Rubber bands fail.)
December 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Pet peeve: (non-collectible) card game that doesn't come with long-term storage for the cards. They come wrapped in plastic, and it's your job as consumer to find a way that will let you both play the game and not end up with a big box full of cards rattling around in it. (Rubber bands fail.)
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Well I'm not in this comic but here it is anyway, choke on it I guess -- nonadventures.com/2025/12/23/s...
The Non-Adventures of Wonderella » Archive » SCARY Tale of New York
nonadventures.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Well I'm not in this comic but here it is anyway, choke on it I guess -- nonadventures.com/2025/12/23/s...
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Hey MSTies, we TRAINED for this… this is a high quality version of the 60 minutes segment that got pulled last night. You know what to do…
archive.org/details/ceco...
archive.org/details/ceco...
December 23, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Hey MSTies, we TRAINED for this… this is a high quality version of the 60 minutes segment that got pulled last night. You know what to do…
archive.org/details/ceco...
archive.org/details/ceco...
The only thing golden about this fleet will be all the opportunities for graft. They'll spend enough to build a dozen battleships and yet nothing will ever lay keel.
December 23, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The only thing golden about this fleet will be all the opportunities for graft. They'll spend enough to build a dozen battleships and yet nothing will ever lay keel.
Very rude of my subconscious this morning. Woke at 8:52AM from a dream in which I was not only about to be late for my 9AM class, I was missing an 8:30 commitment I'd made, AND realized after sitting in bad traffic that I'd left my phone (needed for 2FA) home.
Campus is CLOSED today.
Campus is CLOSED today.
December 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Very rude of my subconscious this morning. Woke at 8:52AM from a dream in which I was not only about to be late for my 9AM class, I was missing an 8:30 commitment I'd made, AND realized after sitting in bad traffic that I'd left my phone (needed for 2FA) home.
Campus is CLOSED today.
Campus is CLOSED today.
Time to pirate 60 Minutes segments, I guess?
December 22, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Time to pirate 60 Minutes segments, I guess?
Sports (and "sports") exist on a continuum from PvE (difficulty set by the environment, get best score) to PvP (difficulty set by other players). Racing is largely PvE with varying amounts of allowed griefing. Fencing is pure PvP. Golf is functionally a single-player PvE quarter-eater.
December 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Sports (and "sports") exist on a continuum from PvE (difficulty set by the environment, get best score) to PvP (difficulty set by other players). Racing is largely PvE with varying amounts of allowed griefing. Fencing is pure PvP. Golf is functionally a single-player PvE quarter-eater.
epstein.jpg
December 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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great weekend for dipshits being punched in the face
🚨 Andrew Tate has been BATTERED and comprehensively beaten by a novice boxer, Chase DeMoor
December 21, 2025 at 1:06 AM
great weekend for dipshits being punched in the face
(Sees "LOTR Bands" in Trending, clicks on it.)
They joke, but most of this stuff shows up on Lord of the Rings Online, usually hanging out in Breetown. Hit up the Peregrine server.
(The game lets you use a plugin to play prepared music, many people multibox to be one-player bands.)
They joke, but most of this stuff shows up on Lord of the Rings Online, usually hanging out in Breetown. Hit up the Peregrine server.
(The game lets you use a plugin to play prepared music, many people multibox to be one-player bands.)
December 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
(Sees "LOTR Bands" in Trending, clicks on it.)
They joke, but most of this stuff shows up on Lord of the Rings Online, usually hanging out in Breetown. Hit up the Peregrine server.
(The game lets you use a plugin to play prepared music, many people multibox to be one-player bands.)
They joke, but most of this stuff shows up on Lord of the Rings Online, usually hanging out in Breetown. Hit up the Peregrine server.
(The game lets you use a plugin to play prepared music, many people multibox to be one-player bands.)
If you've ever had an art teacher tell you that comics/manga/cartooning isn't Real Art, it's not just snobbery, it's the long-lasting fallout of a CIA operation.
December 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you've ever had an art teacher tell you that comics/manga/cartooning isn't Real Art, it's not just snobbery, it's the long-lasting fallout of a CIA operation.
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Pope Leo XIV just appointed Fr. Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez — an immigrant from the Dominican Republic who became a U.S. citizen in 2018 — as bishop of Palm Beach.
That’s right: the Catholic diocese that includes Trump’s Mar-a-Lago is now led by an immigrant priest who’s marched against ICE’s abuse.
That’s right: the Catholic diocese that includes Trump’s Mar-a-Lago is now led by an immigrant priest who’s marched against ICE’s abuse.
Pope Leo XIV Sends a Migrant Bishop to Mar-a-Lago
In a move loaded with symbolism, the new bishop of Palm Beach — home to Mar-a-Lago — is a Queens immigrant priest known for defending migrants and the poor.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Pope Leo XIV just appointed Fr. Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez — an immigrant from the Dominican Republic who became a U.S. citizen in 2018 — as bishop of Palm Beach.
That’s right: the Catholic diocese that includes Trump’s Mar-a-Lago is now led by an immigrant priest who’s marched against ICE’s abuse.
That’s right: the Catholic diocese that includes Trump’s Mar-a-Lago is now led by an immigrant priest who’s marched against ICE’s abuse.
Mario Cuomo said, "You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose."
Wussolini does both in Vogon Poetry.
Wussolini does both in Vogon Poetry.
December 20, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Mario Cuomo said, "You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose."
Wussolini does both in Vogon Poetry.
Wussolini does both in Vogon Poetry.