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Getting magical items in D&D is probably my favorite part.

They're so cool and creative!



I wish the possum that just sniffed at our basement window a very fine evening.


[heads up: alcohol mention]

One of these years, I'm going to finally learn that when building a cocktail that needs to be stirred, I shouldn't add ice until after I've done that.

in reply to Zoot Allures

I mean, it matters to me because when I add ice before mixing, it gets harder to mix, and I prefer my cocktails properly mixed (when appropriate).
in reply to Spencer

To me, mixing occurs when I swallow that mouthful of whiskey and take a slug of coffee......(laughs)


To get my ham radio license, I have to give the government a mailing address that will be publicly accessible.

On the one hand, I definitely don't like the idea of my home address being searchable/scrapeable/more accessible to the federal government.

On the other, I don't really want to spend $120/yr on a PO box.

#amateurradio or #hamradio folks, any clever recommendations?

in reply to Spencer

As I understand it, it doesn't have to be where you live, but it does have to be an address where you can be contacted. People who live on RVs and boats have ways around this too.

Though, before you go too far down the rabbit-hole trying to avoid this, consider whether or not your home address is already public record...

in reply to abortretryfail

Yeah, that's my understanding as well. I may look to see if a friend or family member doesn't mind being my mailbox for this.

consider whether or not your home address is already public record...


This is a fair point, and, like I said above, I'm wary of expanding that surface cavalierly. My address is in public records—I know because I get a lot of mortgage junk mail—but not all public records are equally accessible. Some are accessible via request to the governing agency, whereas some (like radio licensee records) are available just via an open web form.

Wary doesn't necessarily mean I won't do it, I just want to think it through, y'know?

in reply to Spencer

Many countries publish the entire list of radio amateurs with full name and address.
Get over it.


I'm temporarily working from an air-conditioned office due to the heat wave from hell, so I'm using my laptop (which I've barely touched in a year).

Thanks to Navidrome, I can stream my music library from my server and rock out. And I can brag about it here on my social network.

Self-hosting is so rad.





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Police are on track to get more military hardware under Biden than they did under Trump:





I love how cats eventually become roommates. Winston is a cat, of course, but when I look at him and interact with him, my brain sees a small, fluffy person. We communicate with each other, I know his personality. I love it.



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Just so ya'll know, Disney sent a bunch of take down notices to every shop on etsy that has the words "Thor, Loki, Odin, Heimdall, or Frigga" in the listing title, tags, or description. They're literally trying to copyright Norse Gods, incase you didn't know how evil they were.


My cat Winston has decided that blueberries are his new favorite toy.




The point has been made repeatedly, but I still cannot get over how "there is a market for labor, sometimes market conditions change, and companies actually have to participate in that market" is being covered like some crisis that requires desperate and unorthodox measures.

"Desperate employers using perks, pay to lure workers"




Hell yeah.


BREAKING: New York Senate becomes first legislative body in the United States to pass right to repair legislation. Incredible win for people who have been fighting for this for years
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Hypolite Petovan
Thank you for the extra information, any chance for it to be considered next session?
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Spencer
yeah, damn, this "hell yeah" turned into an "oh hell" rather quickly 😢


Anyone know of good emergency preparedness/sufficiency resources that don't have an unsettling current of right-wing fearmongering or aggressive nationalism beneath them?
in reply to Spencer

Over on Scuttlebutt, someone pointed me to the idea of "community preparedness". It's excellent, and is really helping me find other resources! I especially liked their recommendation of the podcast "Live Like the World Is Dying", by Margaret Killjoy.




This is, to the letter, one of the motivating "passions" of fascism.

The Q bullshit is a violent fascist movement and we're watching it grow in real time.

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There isn't a single narrative. Multiple threads come together in the Quilt. What appears to tie them together is a fear that they have "lost" their country to a nefarious outside force. Sometimes it's Communists. Sometimes it's the Deep State. Sometimes it's a satanic cabal. 3/



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Let's talk about why cryptocurrency is the single factor that created the ransomware plague that is ravaging our healthcare system and public infrastructure. (1/) 🧵



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the AP is just asking for bad faith actors to scroll through 1000s of reporter tweets to find & report bias. they are making this up as they go along.

https://twitter.com/BGrueskin/status/1399032404644409350



I'm currently in the middle of about eight different books and all I want to do is start about that many more.

I need to finish reading some books.



[share author='Alex Kaplan' profile='https://twitter.com/AlKapDC' avatar='https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1157823312099254277/46gjFiVv.jpg' link='https://twitter.com/AlKapDC/status/1399123326304403457' posted='2021-05-30 21:59:30']Former national security advisor Michael Flynn at the QAnon Dallas event endorses a military coup happening in the US like it did in Myanmar. The military coup in Myanmar has been widely praised in the QAnon community.
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Yesterday's crafting project: finally assembling my #piecepack! I did some serious redesigning this week, and sat down yesterday with my long #themagnusarchives backlog and put it all together.

I plan to release the files and create a version for sale on The Game Crafter soon.



I started a 3D print last night and woke up to find it had warped a little bit on the bottom. Not enough to ruin the print, but enough to be noticeably bothersome.

I rather wish it had been ruined, so I would feel justified in scrapping the whole thing and starting again. But since it's technically usable as-is, the real waste would be discarding a usable print because it doesn't look perfect.

Damn. 😔






I want to note, on top of the queerphobia and sexual puritanism here, that these photos are obviously paparazzi bullshit taken from distance with a telephoto lens. This is 100% punishing private behavior among consenting adults purely because someone violated their privacy.

https://twitter.com/TheIndyFilm/status/1398651748718415872



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Okay, here we go. This is boring but I guess I'm doing it.

This story of Eric Carle and his publisher "fighting bitterly over the stomachache scene" in The Very Hungry Caterpillar is fake. Eric Carle never said this, the interview is a parody, it was an April Fools joke. 1/?





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One example: Anti-homeless architecture isn't just about "cleaning up the streets," or whatever: it's a constant reminder to labor that if you don't keep coming back to work, there is no place, there is no rest, for you here.

https://twitter.com/elfsternberg/status/1398112342181781507





If you're not willing to kill the senate filibuster to properly investigate an armed insurrection against the U.S. Capitol and secure the basic right to vote in elections, you are favoring the made-up procedural rules of a democracy over the actual fucking democracy itself.



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The DNC chair leaving to join a union-busting law firm is a little on the nose





FYI in Britain this is already a thing that exists and you have to pay them to investigate you before you can get your birth certificate changed

https://twitter.com/bilericoproject/status/1397984866210299904





Democrats control the executive and legislature of history's mightiest empire and have a majority of the public at their back.

They need to do something about this instead of asking for permission to cut the noose around their own necks.

https://twitter.com/BrendanNyhan/status/1397967570611933189



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New:

A MAGA-obsessed, AR-15-centric religious sect has bought a sprawling compound in Texas, which it hopes will be a safe haven to "patriots" from what they believe is an imminent "deep state" war. The property was listed at just under $1 million.






SCOOP: We have everything that happened at Citizen when it put a bounty on an innocent man's head. Internal comms before, during, and after. Some of the wildest behavior I have ever seen in my entire life:


you utter buffoons

you useless shitgarglers


NEWS:

A new analysis of 2020 circulating among Dems finds that House Ds spent huge sums on ads touting bipartisanship while the GOP spent massively on tarring Dems as socialists.

The study shows Ds badly need to improve in prosecuting GOP radicalization:



Thread.

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STRATEGY MEMO: @LeaderMcConnell is reported to be begging Republican Senators, asking them for a personal favor, which is voting against the January 6th commission. What conceivable reason could there be for the Senate Minority Leader to vote against finding out every detail 1/



[share author='genehack has antibodies to the S protein 🙌' profile='https://twitter.com/genehack' avatar='https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1347434954725105665/l2FJWg93.jpg' link='https://twitter.com/genehack/status/1398009915294158850' posted='2021-05-27 20:15:12']Hey #SalemOR folks, please join me in boycotting the downtown Grand Theater. This event is not acceptable in our community, and if the Grant wants to host this racist, they’re not acceptable in our community either. #noToleranceForIntolerance

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Joe Manchin said, “I’m not ready to destroy our government,” by investigating...the people who tried to destroy our government.

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