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Brain Bear
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Playing ALL THE board games and regularly forgetting things while remaining a life-long resident of this Great Plains "Red State." Someday we'll be a bastion for socialist farmers again. Yeah, that could happen.

he/him/cis/whiteprivileged/ADHD...
Pinned
We need to weed out this mentality that people, other than our own special circles, have no inherent value. Their efforts and existence have meaning, even if we never directly benefit from them. Transactionalism is a disease, and it's spreading from the top.
Won in two out of three teams-of-2 games tonight. We switched up the pairings each time. Everybody had at least one win, but no more than two. One player unfortunately was first eliminated each time, which is the biggest downside of games like this.

#Unmatched #bgstats
November 16, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Bill Clinton being in the Epstein files is really pissing me off.

What am I going to do with my...

Clinton Bible
Clinton flag
Clinton coins
Clinton steaks
Clinton phone
Clinton watch
Clinton signs
Clinton University degree
Clinton sneakers???

I'm going to lose a fortune!
November 14, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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If Bill Clinton is implicated in the Epstein files I won’t have to burn my Bill Clinton flags and my Bill Clinton Tshirts and my Bill Clinton bikinis…

because I’m not in a cult.
November 15, 2025 at 4:37 AM
You know, Hitler gets a lot of flack, but he did kill Hitler.
November 15, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Penny for your thoughts.
Penny Sale!
In for a penny, in for a pound.
Penny ante.
Penny arcade.
Penny pinching.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Pretty penny.
Pennies from heaven.
Not a penny more.
Not a penny to their name.

Future generations: Judging us for our antiquated phrasing.
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Oooooh... I didn't know we had any of these. I wonder what's on it...

Oh, him.
I think we can hold off on finding a player for now.

See:
#InheritTheWind #ScopesMonkeyTrial
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I have come to a conclusion that 3-fighter group characters in #Unmatched are not balanced against single fighters. At least not when it comes to the trio of Jurassic Park Raptors.

Bloody Mary, Ghost Rider, Jekyll/Hyde, and the Invisible Man (even with his foggy tricks) all failed, more than once.
November 14, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This still makes me chuckle.

#StarTrekShitPosting
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Find the time to watch this and then reflect on the pressure to be divided, to see difference as a threat, in the U.S. and the world.
Can a Trans Woman Befriend a MAGA Mama?
YouTube video by The Enemies Project
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This game might pose a perfect balance of skill and luck. You could say half of my good decisions were based an observable game state, and the rest a matter of providence. Either way, it's pretty good time.

Won #TheOldKingsCrown on 2025-11-09 with 3 players, winning score: 16 #bgstats #boardgames
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A little two-handed solo before bed, and it was a great clash. Achilles, Patroclus, and Cage were all at 1 health before Luke maneuvered into an attack card to finish off Achilles. Misty was hanging in there at 3.
#boardgames
#Unmatched
November 8, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Well, it's a start.
I was mildly surprised to find myself letting out a breath of relief at this news. There are worse people in our government, sure, but can we please avoid reelecting career politicians, who mistake longevity for merit?
November 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Fiddlin' Bill says "That's just too much outfit for only one album!"

*For more listening pleasure--Write to Fiddlin' Bill Johnson, Rte. 1, Box 1, Sentinel Butte, N.D. 58664
November 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
We really need to start kicking these fuckers off our ride.
Alex Bruesewitz, an adviser to US President Donald Trump, told leaders of the far-right Alternative for Germany — classified as an extremist party by German authorities — that he sees them as “bold visionaries” shaping the country’s future.
Trump adviser to Germany’s AfD: ‘We are in this together’
MAGA social media guru Alex Bruesewitz visited Berlin to make common cause with the far-right Alternative for Germany at a time when the party is seeking allies in the U.S.
www.politico.eu
November 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I have very mixed feelings about this guy.
Curtis Sliwa, a character until the very end. "No regrets."
November 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I just think it's weird when people are clearly using FB's prompted greetings when it is the birthday of someone who has been dead for years.
"Smile: It's your birthday!"
"Enjoy your birthday! 🎉🎊🎂"
"Happy Birthday! Enjoy your day! 🎉🎈"

We are being programmed.
November 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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This is brilliant
November 3, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Wrapping up this festive Friday with a first time viewing of Withnail and I.

It is not what I expected: better, rawer, trippier. I don't think I've felt this way about a film since Easy Rider in my early 20s. Or maybe Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Natural Born Killers, even. Glorious madness.
November 1, 2025 at 4:21 AM
You got me. I snorted.
Finally, a beer that is not woke
October 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Scary!!!
October 29, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Speaking as a dude who has a yearly family reunion, "aunt" and "uncle" fill a role, what the fuck are you supposed to call all those other older people you're vaguely related to, do you think there's someone running around with an org chart saying who's a second cousin thrice removed or something
October 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
October 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Well, I'm sure he means well, like all the other Communist Marine Nazi Democrats do.

He probably flies the Stars and Bars in the back of his pickup truck window. No, not because he's a Confederate sympathizer, but just because it's like ironic and cool, bro.

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/10/...
Graham Platner’s claims that he didn’t know tattoo was Nazi-linked undercut by new evidence | CNN Politics
A KFile investigation has uncovered mounting evidence that Platner — a Marine veteran— was aware of and defended the use of Nazi symbolism that had come to be embraced by some members of the military.
amp.cnn.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I'm reminded of Nazi Germany, near the end of the war, when they diverted resources desperately needed elsewhere so that they could keep sending trains to concentration camps.

No reason, just a thought that popped into my head.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 20d
ICE agents are seizing more people from jails in the Austin area, sometimes visiting the facilities multiple times per day as the Trump administration ramps up immigration enforcement nationwide.
ICE is removing more people from Austin’s jails. Sometimes coming twice a day.
Data shows a growing number of people in Travis County jails find themselves facing deportation after sometimes routine run-ins with the police.
n.pr
October 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM