Ken Burnside
@kenburnside.bsky.social
Game designer @adastragames.com, writer, monkey servant of Theoden Cat, discusser of certain varieties of politics.
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Ken Burnside
@kenburnside.bsky.social
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Tagging you in for Recounting of the Arizona Minutemen Militia Girl Scout Cookie Burglary.
You may now prepare popcorn.
Tagging you in for Recounting of the Arizona Minutemen Militia Girl Scout Cookie Burglary.
You may now prepare popcorn.
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Iranian protester Saghar Etemadi , 22, has just died in hospital, two days after being shot by the Islamist regime during protests in Farsan, Bakhtiari province.
January 4, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Iranian protester Saghar Etemadi , 22, has just died in hospital, two days after being shot by the Islamist regime during protests in Farsan, Bakhtiari province.
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Seattle's defense decided to make every Niners offensive skill player regret touching a football once they got out of Pop Warner leagues.
Seattle's offense could've added 13 more points, but got sloppy.
Seattle's offense could've added 13 more points, but got sloppy.
January 4, 2026 at 3:48 AM
Seattle's defense decided to make every Niners offensive skill player regret touching a football once they got out of Pop Warner leagues.
Seattle's offense could've added 13 more points, but got sloppy.
Seattle's offense could've added 13 more points, but got sloppy.
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Read this thread. I don't know what to say, other than we can't live like this anymore.
I‘m discontinuing my social media use for the foreseeable future and I want to explain why.
I woke up in the new year to discover that some guy on here had saved photos I took on New Year’s Eve and used Grok to remove my clothes. I know this because he showed me.
I woke up in the new year to discover that some guy on here had saved photos I took on New Year’s Eve and used Grok to remove my clothes. I know this because he showed me.
January 4, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Read this thread. I don't know what to say, other than we can't live like this anymore.
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I'm getting marketing emails from OpenAI offering to sell me advertising on the ChatGPT platform.
#TTRPG creators, let's please agree not to feed this monster. I have big ethical concerns about the use of AI in general and those get much worse when advertising enters the picture.
#TTRPG creators, let's please agree not to feed this monster. I have big ethical concerns about the use of AI in general and those get much worse when advertising enters the picture.
January 3, 2026 at 6:00 PM
I'm getting marketing emails from OpenAI offering to sell me advertising on the ChatGPT platform.
#TTRPG creators, let's please agree not to feed this monster. I have big ethical concerns about the use of AI in general and those get much worse when advertising enters the picture.
#TTRPG creators, let's please agree not to feed this monster. I have big ethical concerns about the use of AI in general and those get much worse when advertising enters the picture.
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It's striking how much his story lines up with mine even though I was put into homeschool nearly 15 years before he was. I think it is an indictment of modern society as a whole that many women resort to homeschool simply because they are lonely and unfulfilled.
"To confront your homeschool teacher or to hurt them in ways they might never forgive is to risk losing not only a parent but also your entire childhood social sphere."
Harrowing new memoir details the dark side of homeschooling, being smothered by an obsessive mother: ‘My only teacher, friend, world entire’
In his new memoir, Stefan Merrill Block recalls his mother abruptly pulling him from school at age 9.
nypost.com
January 3, 2026 at 11:25 PM
It's striking how much his story lines up with mine even though I was put into homeschool nearly 15 years before he was. I think it is an indictment of modern society as a whole that many women resort to homeschool simply because they are lonely and unfulfilled.
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I would like to remind everyone that this guy will have to handle:
(1) Venezuela *and*
(2) a continuing resolution
Because the government shuts down again in... 27 days.
(1) Venezuela *and*
(2) a continuing resolution
Because the government shuts down again in... 27 days.
Press call with Chuck Schumer says he has been talking with his caucus "I've been talking to so many members of my caucus today. Everybody is very, very just totally, totally, totally troubled."
January 3, 2026 at 10:49 PM
I would like to remind everyone that this guy will have to handle:
(1) Venezuela *and*
(2) a continuing resolution
Because the government shuts down again in... 27 days.
(1) Venezuela *and*
(2) a continuing resolution
Because the government shuts down again in... 27 days.
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Revlimid has its origin in a pill that cost patients $7.50 each.
Decades later, the cancer drug costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply — even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture.
Our #8 most-read story of 2025:
Decades later, the cancer drug costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply — even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture.
Our #8 most-read story of 2025:
The Price of Remission: This Cancer Drug Saves Lives — but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why.
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...
www.propublica.org
January 4, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Revlimid has its origin in a pill that cost patients $7.50 each.
Decades later, the cancer drug costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply — even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture.
Our #8 most-read story of 2025:
Decades later, the cancer drug costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply — even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture.
Our #8 most-read story of 2025:
While pardoning another person convicted of drug charges. And another for hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud.
They massacred 40 people to capture one criminal indicted on drug charges
NYT:
At least 40 people were killed in the US attack on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians.
At least 40 people were killed in the US attack on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians.
January 4, 2026 at 12:09 AM
While pardoning another person convicted of drug charges. And another for hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud.
This budget shortfall stems from the GOP budget that passed in December.
A Roseburg organization that helps children who have been assaulted — the only one of its kind in the rural county — is pausing services amid a budget shortfall.
A Douglas County center that helps abused children struggles to stay open
The children’s advocacy center that provides medical examinations, therapy and other support for abused minors, is pausing its services.
www.opb.org
January 4, 2026 at 12:06 AM
This budget shortfall stems from the GOP budget that passed in December.
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for everyone who didn't live through John Kerry's presidential campaign, be advised: "This stupid and immoral war would be good if I were managing it" is not the poll-tested flex you think it is
January 3, 2026 at 11:33 PM
for everyone who didn't live through John Kerry's presidential campaign, be advised: "This stupid and immoral war would be good if I were managing it" is not the poll-tested flex you think it is
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I don’t know what moment Chuck Schumer is made for, but it sure as shit isn’t this one.
Asked about the possibility of impeachment, Schumer says "we hope that we can have support from our Republican colleagues to put a brake on this long before it gets that far"
January 3, 2026 at 8:40 PM
I don’t know what moment Chuck Schumer is made for, but it sure as shit isn’t this one.
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How can the US DOJ charge a woman with accepting bribes in her own damn country?
January 3, 2026 at 11:59 PM
How can the US DOJ charge a woman with accepting bribes in her own damn country?
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“He was a dictator” fat nazis in plate carriers abduct your neighbors from the parking lot of target and send them to gulags.
January 3, 2026 at 10:17 PM
“He was a dictator” fat nazis in plate carriers abduct your neighbors from the parking lot of target and send them to gulags.
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Staffers chit-chat a LOT, too. The interns spill tea constantly, lifers meet at the Monocle and talk about their intense phone call floods or ask about "that survey that filled my inbox" and so on
January 3, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Staffers chit-chat a LOT, too. The interns spill tea constantly, lifers meet at the Monocle and talk about their intense phone call floods or ask about "that survey that filled my inbox" and so on
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12+ hours later we finally get an estimate of how many Venezuelans were killed
January 3, 2026 at 10:56 PM
12+ hours later we finally get an estimate of how many Venezuelans were killed
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Candid answer - as someone who handled constituent affairs calls for years - while they’re not checking the phone right now, the urgency of the moment is important.
Show them you care enough to make the weekend call, and be counted that way. Staffers will clock and report this upstream.
Show them you care enough to make the weekend call, and be counted that way. Staffers will clock and report this upstream.
Is there actually a benefit to leaving a VM now vs getting a staffer on Monday? Can do both but just curious
January 3, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Candid answer - as someone who handled constituent affairs calls for years - while they’re not checking the phone right now, the urgency of the moment is important.
Show them you care enough to make the weekend call, and be counted that way. Staffers will clock and report this upstream.
Show them you care enough to make the weekend call, and be counted that way. Staffers will clock and report this upstream.
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The recipes are good!
I’m an Autistic classically trained chef and I wrote a food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide titled COLOR TASTE TEXTURE! It’s useful for all ages, with no cooking experience needed. Food doesn’t need to be a fight. Explore eating with insight, loving kindness, and gentle humor.
Color Taste Texture by Matthew Broberg-Moffitt: 9780593538593 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
An accessible family cookbook that offers solutions rather than tricks to empower the food-averse, autistic, and picky eater, with 46 recipes. This much-needed cookbook combines tips and techniques.....
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
January 3, 2026 at 11:19 PM
The recipes are good!
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My writeup on yesterday: Katie Wilson Takes Office as Seattle’s Unabashed Urbanist Mayor
www.theurbanist.org/2026/01/03/k...
www.theurbanist.org/2026/01/03/k...
Katie Wilson Takes Office as Seattle’s Unabashed Urbanist Mayor » The Urbanist
# In remarks after being sworn in as Seattle's 58th mayor, Katie Wilson painted a vision of improving the daily lives of residents that was explicitly urbanist: focused around livability and ensuring ...
www.theurbanist.org
January 3, 2026 at 9:50 PM
My writeup on yesterday: Katie Wilson Takes Office as Seattle’s Unabashed Urbanist Mayor
www.theurbanist.org/2026/01/03/k...
www.theurbanist.org/2026/01/03/k...
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"In the two years after Roe fell, 412 people were prosecuted for pregnancy-related crimes, researchers at the reproductive justice group Pregnancy Justice found.
Sixteen of those prosecutions involved homicide charges"
Sixteen of those prosecutions involved homicide charges"
US woman charged with fetal homicide after allegedly inducing own abortion
Kentucky woman reportedly ordered medication to end her pregnancy and buried remains in her yard
www.theguardian.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:17 AM
"In the two years after Roe fell, 412 people were prosecuted for pregnancy-related crimes, researchers at the reproductive justice group Pregnancy Justice found.
Sixteen of those prosecutions involved homicide charges"
Sixteen of those prosecutions involved homicide charges"
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Unconstitutional force. Civilians dead. Congress bypassed. Oil interests front and center.
We’ve seen this movie before and it ends in blood. But we don’t have to do it again.
We’ve seen this movie before and it ends in blood. But we don’t have to do it again.
January 3, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Unconstitutional force. Civilians dead. Congress bypassed. Oil interests front and center.
We’ve seen this movie before and it ends in blood. But we don’t have to do it again.
We’ve seen this movie before and it ends in blood. But we don’t have to do it again.
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as always, follow the money
And there ya have it…
Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”
Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”
Finance Industry Eyes Investment Opportunities in Venezuela
Some on Wall Street are already considering possible investment opportunities in Venezuela following the capture of Nicolás Maduro, according to Charles Myers, chairman of consulting firm Signum Globa...
www.wsj.com
January 3, 2026 at 7:37 PM
as always, follow the money
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This is billionaire-controlled media. They want to sleepwalk us into another forever war. We must break free.
The Washington Post editorial board comes out in favor of the Venezuela attack/operation to capture Maduro
January 3, 2026 at 5:44 PM
This is billionaire-controlled media. They want to sleepwalk us into another forever war. We must break free.