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stop AAPI Hate.
Free Palestine
After some napkin math on all the outstanding Kickstarters I have that are well past their estimated delivery dates, I wish more KS would pad their estimates by a year minimum, then multiply by two. More people need to add "Oh, s#*t time to their estimates because there's often an "Oh, S#*t. 1/
August 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
After some napkin math on all the outstanding Kickstarters I have that are well past their estimated delivery dates, I wish more KS would pad their estimates by a year minimum, then multiply by two. More people need to add "Oh, s#*t time to their estimates because there's often an "Oh, S#*t. 1/
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One of the best films for candidly illustrating just how silly racism is. Sure, other parts haven't aged well, but damn if it still doesn't make me laugh.
August 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
One of the best films for candidly illustrating just how silly racism is. Sure, other parts haven't aged well, but damn if it still doesn't make me laugh.
An interesting tale. Many don't realize that while most of the people of Japanese descent sent to internment camps came from California, Oregon, and 1/
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How a popular Peruvian soft drink went ‘toe-to-toe’ with Coca-Cola
Inca Kola outshined Coca-Cola for decades, gaining a foothold during WWII through bodegas owned by a spurned community.
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An interesting tale. Many don't realize that while most of the people of Japanese descent sent to internment camps came from California, Oregon, and 1/
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Although I'd been playing TTRPGs for 12 years when Cyberpunk hit, it was the first TTRPG that spoke to my soul in so many ways. It's been a lifelong fave. Pondsmith should have been in a longtime ago and I can't help but think an AAA video game based on his work put him over the top. 1/
Congratulations to our newest Hall of Fame Inductee Cyberpunk by Mike Pondsmith!
August 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Although I'd been playing TTRPGs for 12 years when Cyberpunk hit, it was the first TTRPG that spoke to my soul in so many ways. It's been a lifelong fave. Pondsmith should have been in a longtime ago and I can't help but think an AAA video game based on his work put him over the top. 1/
Um, no. The second someone says something like "every single time" your BS meter should be going off. There are almost always exceptions (see what I did there). While the person higher on a staircase having more power in the dynamic is a decent 1/
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Man passionately explains the meaning of staircases in movies and now people can't unsee it
Once you hear this explanation, you start seeing it everywhere.
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August 2, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Um, no. The second someone says something like "every single time" your BS meter should be going off. There are almost always exceptions (see what I did there). While the person higher on a staircase having more power in the dynamic is a decent 1/
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If our "leaders" are willing to shut down to prevent the release of a list of pedophiles then they are more worthless than I imagined. I don't care who's in those files, GOP, Dem, independent they all need to be exposed.
July 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
If our "leaders" are willing to shut down to prevent the release of a list of pedophiles then they are more worthless than I imagined. I don't care who's in those files, GOP, Dem, independent they all need to be exposed.
Draining the Swamp, my Black tail feathers! This stinks of a cover-up and shows the GOP is just as corrupt as they claim their detectors are.
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Johnson Shuts Down House To Block Epstein Vote
Johnson accused the Democrats of using the House’s rules committee as a “political battering ram.”
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July 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Draining the Swamp, my Black tail feathers! This stinks of a cover-up and shows the GOP is just as corrupt as they claim their detectors are.
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While I love the sentiment I have to put my pedantic historian hat on. If while out in the wild and woolly internet, you see a quote attributed to Twain, Churchill, Voltaire, or Jefferson the odds a very high that they did not say the thing. If the quote is not accompanied by where they said the 1/
July 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
While I love the sentiment I have to put my pedantic historian hat on. If while out in the wild and woolly internet, you see a quote attributed to Twain, Churchill, Voltaire, or Jefferson the odds a very high that they did not say the thing. If the quote is not accompanied by where they said the 1/
The chances that this isn't to placate a President who hates criticism are slimmer than the humanitarian compassion of a 1%er. Allowing a President shutting down dissent is one key step on the road to a total dictatorship.
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Skydance CEO met with FCC chair ahead of "Late Show" cancellation
The meeting came two days before CBS abruptly announced that it is canceling "The Late Show."
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July 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The chances that this isn't to placate a President who hates criticism are slimmer than the humanitarian compassion of a 1%er. Allowing a President shutting down dissent is one key step on the road to a total dictatorship.
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Meanwhile, some children born on bases overseas toservice members have been deported. So the "honor" for families and service members only for some.
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Kristi Noem announces new TSA security lane for families and military members
The new security lane for military members comes amid broader changes Noem is implementing to TSA policy.
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July 19, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Meanwhile, some children born on bases overseas toservice members have been deported. So the "honor" for families and service members only for some.
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I can only admire how this man stays positive after all he's been through.
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Exonerated in Alice Sebold’s Rape, He Lost a Chance to Tell His Story
Timothy Mucciante, a former lawyer convicted of fraud, helped exonerate Anthony Broadwater of rape in 2021. Soon after, their friendship fell apart.
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July 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I can only admire how this man stays positive after all he's been through.
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Don't think for one second that colonialism ended in the 20th Century, it is alive and well. Its remnants still ravage Africa, Asia, and more, and many people around the world are still ruled by colonial powers.
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Former colonial ruler France hands over its last military bases in Senegal
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July 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Don't think for one second that colonialism ended in the 20th Century, it is alive and well. Its remnants still ravage Africa, Asia, and more, and many people around the world are still ruled by colonial powers.
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Ah, Texas and Fox News, what a team. Where bigotry and ignorance are expected and controversies are controversial. 🙄
July 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Ah, Texas and Fox News, what a team. Where bigotry and ignorance are expected and controversies are controversial. 🙄
People in red states voted for these guys. It's callous and maybe a bit cruel but maybe the losses in GOP states, that many people said would be some of the hardest hit, will open some eyes.
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Senator Hawley Aims to Roll Back Medicaid Cuts He Voted for in Trump Policy Bill
The Republican senator introduced a bill Tuesday that would block restrictions on key strategies that states rely on to finance Medicaid and double a rural hospital fund.
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July 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
People in red states voted for these guys. It's callous and maybe a bit cruel but maybe the losses in GOP states, that many people said would be some of the hardest hit, will open some eyes.
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I'm replaying Horizon Forbidden West and while it's one of my favorite games I just got to the one part that grates on me. I don't mind character death but Varl's death bugs me for a few key reasons. The Devs had to know after the first game that some fans shipped Aloy and Varl. Unintended 1/
July 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I'm replaying Horizon Forbidden West and while it's one of my favorite games I just got to the one part that grates on me. I don't mind character death but Varl's death bugs me for a few key reasons. The Devs had to know after the first game that some fans shipped Aloy and Varl. Unintended 1/
Like in gambling, if the house makes the rules and SCOTUS allows them to do so, the house will always win and the current administration will become an unopposed dictatorship.
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Trump tells Texas Republicans to redraw the state congressional map to help keep House majority
President Donald Trump is pushing Republicans in Texas to redraw the state's congressional maps to help ensure the party keeps its majority in the U.S.
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July 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Like in gambling, if the house makes the rules and SCOTUS allows them to do so, the house will always win and the current administration will become an unopposed dictatorship.
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America used to at least publicly pretend it had some principles that eschewed being complicit in torture.
ICE may deport some migrants to 'third countries' without assurances they won't be tortured, memo says share.google/CUDhsi8VZzeb...
ICE may deport some migrants to 'third countries' without assurances they won't be tortured, memo says share.google/CUDhsi8VZzeb...
ICE may deport some migrants to 'third countries' without assurances they won't be tortured, memo says
The memo instructs ICE employees on how to deport people to countries other than their country of origin, in some cases in as little as six hours.
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July 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
America used to at least publicly pretend it had some principles that eschewed being complicit in torture.
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History tidbit: In addition to the over 120,000 Japanese Americans sent to camps in the US during WWII about 1700 Peruvians of Japanese descent were deported from Peru to US camps, as the US deemed them a security threat. None ever received reparations.
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Japanese Peruvians in the United States | EBSCO
Japanese Peruvians in the United States represent a unique community formed primarily during World War II, following significant anti-Japanese sentiment in Peru. In 1940, there were approximately 30,0...
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July 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
History tidbit: In addition to the over 120,000 Japanese Americans sent to camps in the US during WWII about 1700 Peruvians of Japanese descent were deported from Peru to US camps, as the US deemed them a security threat. None ever received reparations.
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In my TTRPG class, which I am teaching again this summer, we look at excerpts from several TTRPGs and I ask the students to the reflections on how these games deal with culture and identity. They can pick any three games from the course. Once again, Thirsty Sword Lesbians and Coyote and Coyote 1/
July 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
In my TTRPG class, which I am teaching again this summer, we look at excerpts from several TTRPGs and I ask the students to the reflections on how these games deal with culture and identity. They can pick any three games from the course. Once again, Thirsty Sword Lesbians and Coyote and Coyote 1/
Ex-Superman Dean Cain Says James Gunn Made a ‘Mistake’ Calling Superman an ‘Immigrant’ and ‘It’s Going to Hurt’ the Box Office: ‘How Woke Is Hollywood Going to Make This Character?’
For sake's fuck Superman is, by definition, an undocumented immigrant.
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For sake's fuck Superman is, by definition, an undocumented immigrant.
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Ex-Superman Dean Cain Says James Gunn Made a ‘Mistake’ Calling Superman an ‘Immigrant’ and ‘It’s Going to Hurt’ the Box Office: ‘How Woke Is Hollywood Going to Make This Character?’
Dean Cain, who played Superman from 1993 to 1997 on ABC’s “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman,” recently told TMZ (via Entertainment Weekly) that he’s wary about Hollywood making the Man of ...
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July 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Ex-Superman Dean Cain Says James Gunn Made a ‘Mistake’ Calling Superman an ‘Immigrant’ and ‘It’s Going to Hurt’ the Box Office: ‘How Woke Is Hollywood Going to Make This Character?’
For sake's fuck Superman is, by definition, an undocumented immigrant.
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For sake's fuck Superman is, by definition, an undocumented immigrant.
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This case may be so relevant
Based on recent cases I could see fundamentalist Christians trying to argue that teaching their kids evolution in public schools violates their religious freedom so they want to opt out, and this SCOTUS may let them.
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Based on recent cases I could see fundamentalist Christians trying to argue that teaching their kids evolution in public schools violates their religious freedom so they want to opt out, and this SCOTUS may let them.
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100 years after evolution went on trial, the Scopes case still reverberates
One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in American history, over the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution.
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July 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
This case may be so relevant
Based on recent cases I could see fundamentalist Christians trying to argue that teaching their kids evolution in public schools violates their religious freedom so they want to opt out, and this SCOTUS may let them.
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Based on recent cases I could see fundamentalist Christians trying to argue that teaching their kids evolution in public schools violates their religious freedom so they want to opt out, and this SCOTUS may let them.
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What worries me more than masked ICE officers disappearing people off the streets, is when they get so confident in their power that they stop wearing masks.
July 6, 2025 at 3:18 AM
What worries me more than masked ICE officers disappearing people off the streets, is when they get so confident in their power that they stop wearing masks.
For those keeping score at home, look up the last time the US had an America First movement. Disbanded after the US officially entered WWII they were, up until that moment an organization whose mostly white membership had a various points expressed pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic, and anti-immigrant ideas.
July 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
For those keeping score at home, look up the last time the US had an America First movement. Disbanded after the US officially entered WWII they were, up until that moment an organization whose mostly white membership had a various points expressed pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic, and anti-immigrant ideas.