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VanVelding
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I sometimes make things on the internet. Battletech. Star Trek. US politics. Video games.

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There are 1,700 ballots that need signature confirmation. That is enough to change the election.

Go. Check. Your. Ballot.

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November 11, 2025 at 2:31 AM
7 years and 850 hours later, I can't believe I just got a new achievement in HBS' #BattleTech
November 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Pips #85 Hard 🔴
1:21
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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I started to render up examples to upload the FJ ships to thingiverse, but something I should also get up there is my regula/office kit you can use to build either configuration or your own.
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Everyone says the first season of DS9 is rough, but I'm watching "Past Prologue" and it is, without hyperbole, peak Trek.
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Mamdani is going to enact Shyamalan Law, which nobody could have predicted.
Mamdani is going to implement Sharknado law. All confirmed tornados will have sharks added.
Mamdani is going to implement Shampoo law. NYC will now be forced to lather, rinse, and repeat.
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I am so frequently wrong about things.
I don't think Chuck Schumer is great at his job, but the front pages of ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CBS, and CNN right now have the story that Democrats tried to end the shut down and Republicans rejected it.
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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CALL.

YOUR.

SENATORS.
November 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Find your senators at reps.fyi or call 202-224-3121
November 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Mechwarrio 5: Mercs progress.
Brion's Legion CO: "We will assault these mercenaries with two Riflemen."
Brion's Legion Intelligence Officer: "Sir, they have a Dire Wolf, an Atlas, and, somehow, Yen-Lo-Wang."
BL CO: "Hmmm...deploy on low ground."
November 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Pips #84 Hard 🔴
1:40
November 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Wonder if you could do a West Wing-influenced comedy about staff in Congress RN.
Bradley Whitford-type: "The President's new plan is single-payer healthcare."
Allison Janney-type: "That's our plan."
BWt: "Not anymore. Now we hate it."
AJt: "So we're stopping it?"
BWt: "Of course not. It's our plan."
Hey kids the Trump Healthcare
Plan just dropped!
November 9, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Pips #83 Hard 🔴
1:22
November 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
As someone who's never been to a Panera Bread before, how do you sell tomato soup and sell grilled cheese, but cut the grilled cheese horizontally? How do you fuck up that bad?
November 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
If all this other shit wasn't bad enough, George Lucas was right.
I still cannot believe that some of the most politically relevant movies of the recent era are the damn Star Wars prequels.
November 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco/Bay Area - here are some restaurants helping with food if you’re struggling with loss of SNAP benefits.

Please share!
November 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I don't think Chuck Schumer is great at his job, but the front pages of ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CBS, and CNN right now have the story that Democrats tried to end the shut down and Republicans rejected it.
November 7, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I believe in a corporate death penalty and believe if a company's policies kill or allow a person to be killed, the CEO and one shareholder should get 2 in the back of the head.
November 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Connections
Puzzle #879
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November 7, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Apparently, they're releasing Mechwarrior5:Clans DLC for Tukayyid. I have high expectations for it; these guys have got "throw waves of metal at the player until they lose the will to live" down pat.
November 7, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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