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This is the kind of banal reasoning we’ve come to expect from many socialists. “Racial disparities and overt racism are distractions from class solidarity. Just accept the racism and everything will improve.”
“Those of us on the left should be fighting to improve protections for workers of all races, and thereby for the betterment of people’s material conditions regardless of their views,” Arash Azizi argues:
Why the Cinnabon Story Doesn’t Make Me Happy
The left should be promoting working-class solidarity, not delighting in seeing workers summarily dismissed.
bit.ly
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is the kind of banal reasoning we’ve come to expect from many socialists. “Racial disparities and overt racism are distractions from class solidarity. Just accept the racism and everything will improve.”
This last quote really hits at the limitations of DND as a system for me. It tries to tell you that it’s a narrative game but nothing about the game drives the narrative, that’s all work the DM and the players need to take on.
Deciding that it's better to just produce a large number of loose outlines for a GM instead of a fully thought-out narrative arc makes sense, but it also feels like a concession. "We can't dream of anything cool to do with our product, so we'll leave that part to you."
December 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
This last quote really hits at the limitations of DND as a system for me. It tries to tell you that it’s a narrative game but nothing about the game drives the narrative, that’s all work the DM and the players need to take on.
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We had a whole Omelas about this!
Choir, let me share a thought with you.
If justice for child rapists disrupts society, then society needed to be disrupted.
Oh, he's a job creator? Oh, the economy will suffer? Oh, the uncertainty? Oh, our whole political system?
If it's built on raping children, burn it all the fuck down.
Amen.
If justice for child rapists disrupts society, then society needed to be disrupted.
Oh, he's a job creator? Oh, the economy will suffer? Oh, the uncertainty? Oh, our whole political system?
If it's built on raping children, burn it all the fuck down.
Amen.
November 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
We had a whole Omelas about this!
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This is a great piece
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This is a great piece
I work in regulatory compliance. You only design a process like this if you want no oversight. That is the only purpose.
DHS confirmed it has stopped automatically storing officials' text messages.
Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I work in regulatory compliance. You only design a process like this if you want no oversight. That is the only purpose.
If violence is never the answer why does the government wield it so effectively, and why is it eager to do so?
September 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
If violence is never the answer why does the government wield it so effectively, and why is it eager to do so?
With democrats like these who needs republicans?
September 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
With democrats like these who needs republicans?
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condemnations of political violence are well taken but it does feel as if some
prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.
prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.
September 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
condemnations of political violence are well taken but it does feel as if some
prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.
prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.
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I honestly can’t believe there are still any AI skeptics out there. This tech is obviously revolutionary
August 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I honestly can’t believe there are still any AI skeptics out there. This tech is obviously revolutionary
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All the dire implications notwithstanding it is hilarious how evil this technology is. Billions of dollars spent on this greasy lying stupid thing that was literally built to replace people, and everyone that uses it gets weaker, lazier, dumber, and sadder for having done so. Well done all around.
“On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists.” @lilashroff.bsky.social reports on how the chatbot was easily prompted to offer instructions for murder, self-mutilation, and devil worship: https://theatln.tc/Up7Ycoli
July 27, 2025 at 4:17 AM
All the dire implications notwithstanding it is hilarious how evil this technology is. Billions of dollars spent on this greasy lying stupid thing that was literally built to replace people, and everyone that uses it gets weaker, lazier, dumber, and sadder for having done so. Well done all around.
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I will never, ever vote for Gavin Newsom. Ever, under any circumstances. I don't care if he becomes the Dem nominee, he's still not getting my vote.
On a recent podcast Gavin Newsom tells Shawn Ryan how the Trans sports issue opened the door for him to change his mind on GAC for Trans Youth.
As someone who adored him since 2004 and voted for him 5 times, I can't wait for him to leave office.
There is no way I will be voting for him a 6th time.
As someone who adored him since 2004 and voted for him 5 times, I can't wait for him to leave office.
There is no way I will be voting for him a 6th time.
July 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I will never, ever vote for Gavin Newsom. Ever, under any circumstances. I don't care if he becomes the Dem nominee, he's still not getting my vote.
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Presenting the BRAND-NEW season - @dimension20.bsky.social On a Bus! 🚌
DM'd by Katie Marovitch, and as players: Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Jasmine Bhullar, and Mark Mercer!
DM'd by Katie Marovitch, and as players: Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Jasmine Bhullar, and Mark Mercer!
July 14, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Presenting the BRAND-NEW season - @dimension20.bsky.social On a Bus! 🚌
DM'd by Katie Marovitch, and as players: Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Jasmine Bhullar, and Mark Mercer!
DM'd by Katie Marovitch, and as players: Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Jasmine Bhullar, and Mark Mercer!
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"That’s the thing about negative energy, about hatred. It can be positive. It throws into relief all the things you know you like. It tells you, by elimination, what you’re about." This is my mantra. Thanks, Neil Tennant. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2015/11/20/d...
‘That’s the thing about negative energy, about hatred. It can be positive’
With Details joining the great auk, let’s take a minute to praise the stable of writers under James Truman’s stewardship in the mid nineties: Rob Sheffield, Chris Heath, Rob Tannenbaum,…
humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
"That’s the thing about negative energy, about hatred. It can be positive. It throws into relief all the things you know you like. It tells you, by elimination, what you’re about." This is my mantra. Thanks, Neil Tennant. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2015/11/20/d...
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I just got straight murdered by this. Like it didn’t just attack me, I am now dead
March 2, 2024 at 5:07 AM
I just got straight murdered by this. Like it didn’t just attack me, I am now dead
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one of the stranger phenomena in American life is that hate is supposed to flow in one direction (rural people get to hate urban people, Republicans get to hate Democrats) and if the hate goes the other way people pretend as if this is very upsetting.
The media made a HUGE deal out of "basket of deplorables" and "cling to their guns or religion."
But, of course, it will totally ignore Trump saying he hates Democrats: "I hate them. I believe they hate their country."
But, of course, it will totally ignore Trump saying he hates Democrats: "I hate them. I believe they hate their country."
in addition to his "shylocks" comment, i can't imagine the media backlash if Biden said anything like from this screenshot - that he "hates Republicans" - and i'm also tired of having this "IMAGINE IF BIDEN!" thought experiment but it's just a constant reminder of the double standards
July 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
one of the stranger phenomena in American life is that hate is supposed to flow in one direction (rural people get to hate urban people, Republicans get to hate Democrats) and if the hate goes the other way people pretend as if this is very upsetting.
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Don’t take the ICE job unless you want to have to flee an investigation for crimes against humanity ten years later.
July 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Don’t take the ICE job unless you want to have to flee an investigation for crimes against humanity ten years later.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Just feels real bad to be told your existence is too controversial to allow children to know about it
JUST IN: The Supreme Court rules in favor of parents who want to opt out of classes that use books with LGBTQ characters.
Supreme Court rules for religious opt-outs for kids in public schools
At issue was whether school systems are required to provide parents with an "opt-out" option when parents claim their religious beliefs conflict with their children's course material.
n.pr
June 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Just feels real bad to be told your existence is too controversial to allow children to know about it
It’s days like today that I really need ttrpgs. Surrounded by friends, kicking ass.
June 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
It’s days like today that I really need ttrpgs. Surrounded by friends, kicking ass.
“Your punishment is the person you will become” is one of the hardest sentences I have ever read and will ever read.
Dress it up in progressive language but you're cheating yourself by not doing the work. This is the worst thing about AI: millions of students refusing to learn, taking zero interest in the world around them, empty in mind and heart. Your punishment is the person you will become.
June 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
“Your punishment is the person you will become” is one of the hardest sentences I have ever read and will ever read.
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Video games are a meritocracy. You work hard, you get better, you win, because of the rigid (yet presumably fair) rules written by a computer.
That meritocracy, drilled into players for years, is why middle-aged straight, white men are such giant fucking babies about games.
That meritocracy, drilled into players for years, is why middle-aged straight, white men are such giant fucking babies about games.
June 13, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Video games are a meritocracy. You work hard, you get better, you win, because of the rigid (yet presumably fair) rules written by a computer.
That meritocracy, drilled into players for years, is why middle-aged straight, white men are such giant fucking babies about games.
That meritocracy, drilled into players for years, is why middle-aged straight, white men are such giant fucking babies about games.
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Never let oppressors tell you how to protest
Remember this image every time someone tells you that protesters are "hurting their cause."
Those people are the red bars. In 40 years, we'll look back at them the same way.
Those people are the red bars. In 40 years, we'll look back at them the same way.
June 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Never let oppressors tell you how to protest
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the literal history of the united states is groups of americans taking their grievances to the streets, often in ways far more violent than anything we have experienced in a generation
June 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
the literal history of the united states is groups of americans taking their grievances to the streets, often in ways far more violent than anything we have experienced in a generation
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So then Elon goes "Kill the Bill!" and Trump goes "Elon has TDS!" so Elon goes "I'm the reason Trump won!" so Trump goes "we waste billions on Elon!" so Elon goes "Epstein!" and a corpulent flunkie goes "Deport Elon!" and Elon goes "Impeach!"
And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.
And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.
June 6, 2025 at 3:33 AM
So then Elon goes "Kill the Bill!" and Trump goes "Elon has TDS!" so Elon goes "I'm the reason Trump won!" so Trump goes "we waste billions on Elon!" so Elon goes "Epstein!" and a corpulent flunkie goes "Deport Elon!" and Elon goes "Impeach!"
And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.
And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.