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Don’t send me an unsolicited picture of your peewee cocktapus unless you want me to… A: find your mom’s Facebook B: find a picture she uploaded of you reminiscing about what a nice young man you were C: badly photoshop that into a locket D: convince you I’m your daughter. Happy Father’s Day Daddy.

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Haha get their ass, PBS

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Look at this dog. No dog could have a face like this. What a dogface

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More people need to wean themselves off the xword and connections and nuke their subs, which is how the NYTimes's 200+ OpEd + editorial staff can go ham like this with fascistwashing takes

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Patreon is raising the percentage it takes from new creators (again), from 8% to 10%, on August 4. People with existing Patreon pages get grandfathered into the old rate. If you're thinking about making a page, best to do it and publish it now.

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This is quite the thought provoking video. I highly recommend it even if you aren't into to table top games

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If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.

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Samhain: You gotta call my man Brian Wellness, he'll set you up.

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If you like my stuff, I guarantee you'll like Amabel's!

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celebrating Bloomsday by remembering this banger from my "Hard Mode" video

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📌I'm Amabel (she/her), a board game designer. Out of my 80+ games, I'm best known for City of Six Moons and Irish Gauge. I co-own the publisher Hollandspiele. In my spare time I make video essays about the future & history of games. I'm a slutty poly trans woman, and I talk about all of the above.

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a thorough discussion of the possibilities of war elephants between myself and @sbmakesstuff.bsky.social (from episode 17 of our Humankind series) for my money, the best work I've ever done on her channel and it ain't even close

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I'm on apps specifically to find hookups & FWBs. For most folks, getting laid is predicated on attraction - how am I supposed to know if I want to spit in her mouth if I have no idea what she's into or who she is or why she's cool?

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came across a skeet of a moot talkin' about her gf - "she's so cool" - and then a skeet from that gf talking about her - "she's so rad" - and honestly, that's so cute! from personal experience, being mutually in awe of each other - not just liking each other, but in awe - is a good foundation!

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Holy moly, that video from a few months back just hit 15,000 views - which isn't much for YouTube, but is a lot for a channel that's lucky when the videos clear 1K! Thank you to everyone who has shared & recommended this - it really helps get these ideas to a wider audience! youtu.be/wG4zLcKsCiA

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Today on the stream, she's making me play something called Her Story! That is all the information she's given me, and she has refused to tell me anything else. I have no choice but to assume it's a rogue-like deckbuilder. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu9K...

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If you see a purple cloaked cultist with propaganda at a tabletop convention, it's probably us.

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which isn't to say one needs to know what they want from these apps - "figure out what I want" is valid! But if you've never thought about who you are or why you do the things you do, it's going to be so hard to make connections you gotta give folks something to connect to!

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one of the biggest red flags on dating apps are folks who are like "I don't like making bios, ask me anything" but give you one word non-answers The ability to talk about yourself is predicated on knowing who you are & what you want if you can't articulate that, what are you doing trying to date

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On this date in 2024, two things happened which have largely shaped the personal rhythm of the last year, and have provided a much-needed distraction from The Everything. First, City of Six Moons came out. 🧵

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This is one of the hardest things I've ever done: asking for help. After a financially devastating divorce, I am asking for help getting FFS, a gender-affirming surgery for which I am having to pay a vast majority out of pocket. Any bit helps. www.gofundme.com/f/help-blue-...

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Please admire this very good girl

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Women’s prisons were originally—and still are, to a great extent—about policing deviation from traditional hetero femininity. (cite: @hughryan.bsky.social ) I know a woman who was kicked from a reentry program for refusing to wear a dress.

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Meowie Antoinette

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Republicans are dressing as cops and assassinating members of congress and democrats are insisting protesters limit themselves to holding parades, giving their routes to the cops, and sitting on the ground passively to be brutalized by said cops.

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me: baby, I woke up and wanted pizza, and then I found a pizza in our room! Samhain (having bought a night pizza while I had slept): It's like a fairy tale! me: I'm a princess me: but, like, a kind of princess that isn't morally wrong to be Samhain: A pizza princess. me: yes

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Samhain (shares the song Rats): Anyway, that's Ghost's whole deal me: They sing songs about animals? Samhain: me: is there one about giraffes? me: giraffes aauuuuwaaauuugh

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I liked "An American Pickle" somewhat more than Samhain did, but we both cracked the heck up at this part, and I've been laughing about it throughout the last two days

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Samhain: It is the best Disney movie. me: what about pinnochio me: pinnochio has that innovative use of the multiplane camera Samhain: That's not fair. They had to cut all the planes out of Lilo and Stitch. It was after 2001.

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me: the last couple movies we watched were kinda intense Samhain: Something lighter, kind of breezy, got it. (two hours later) me: so the next time you pick something lighter I am going to ask you how many characters commit suicide in it Samhain: Okay, that's fair.

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Samhain: I am going to dip my fries in my chocolate frosty. me (happy for her): gross Samhain: It's not gross, it's delicious! me: that's what somebody told me once about smegma. she was lying Samhain: 🤢 Samhain: I need to think about something else. Please talk about anything else.

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me: I got some work done. I had to draw twenty horses Samhain: That's bullshit! You should just have to draw one horse and use it twenty times. Boom! Twenty horses! me: this is great wisdom Samhain: Or! Draw half a horse, paste it forty times. Boom! Twenty horses!

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Samhain: How much do you love me? Express it as a quantity. me: think of the biggest quantity you can, this is the variable x me: now, have a mol of that, 6 x 10 to the 23rd Samhain: I know what a mol is. me: THEN. square that shit Samhain: Damn. I just love you in the high thirties.

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me (waking her for today's stream): what's the plan Samhain: We get in the car, and drive to Tuscaloosa. me: dunno where that is Samhain: Okay. New plan. (laughing) me: can you do it without cracking up Samhain (no): New plan. In this one I'm a duck. me: did you confused dreams and plans again

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me: ...so that's why Cyclops is good at billiards Samhain: I should have just guessed a random X-Men character. It's always an X-Men with you. me: or Old English! Sometimes it's Old English! me: it could have been Grendel who was good at billiards me: but only before he met Beowulf

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me: I'll be back tonight. Be good. Samhain (unconvincingly): I will. me (narrows eyes, points): Be good. Samhain: I won't, but I will say I will. When you get home, I will have started three small fires, but I won't tell you where they are.

Haha get their ass, PBS

Look at this dog. No dog could have a face like this. What a dogface

More people need to wean themselves off the xword and connections and nuke their subs, which is how the NYTimes's 200+ OpEd + editorial staff can go ham like this with fascistwashing takes

Patreon is raising the percentage it takes from new creators (again), from 8% to 10%, on August 4. People with existing Patreon pages get grandfathered into the old rate. If you're thinking about making a page, best to do it and publish it now.

This is quite the thought provoking video. I highly recommend it even if you aren't into to table top games

If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.

Samhain: You gotta call my man Brian Wellness, he'll set you up.

If you like my stuff, I guarantee you'll like Amabel's!

celebrating Bloomsday by remembering this banger from my "Hard Mode" video

a thorough discussion of the possibilities of war elephants between myself and @sbmakesstuff.bsky.social (from episode 17 of our Humankind series) for my money, the best work I've ever done on her channel and it ain't even close

I'm on apps specifically to find hookups & FWBs. For most folks, getting laid is predicated on attraction - how am I supposed to know if I want to spit in her mouth if I have no idea what she's into or who she is or why she's cool?

came across a skeet of a moot talkin' about her gf - "she's so cool" - and then a skeet from that gf talking about her - "she's so rad" - and honestly, that's so cute! from personal experience, being mutually in awe of each other - not just liking each other, but in awe - is a good foundation!

Holy moly, that video from a few months back just hit 15,000 views - which isn't much for YouTube, but is a lot for a channel that's lucky when the videos clear 1K! Thank you to everyone who has shared & recommended this - it really helps get these ideas to a wider audience! youtu.be/wG4zLcKsCiA

Today on the stream, she's making me play something called Her Story! That is all the information she's given me, and she has refused to tell me anything else. I have no choice but to assume it's a rogue-like deckbuilder. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu9K...

If you see a purple cloaked cultist with propaganda at a tabletop convention, it's probably us.

which isn't to say one needs to know what they want from these apps - "figure out what I want" is valid! But if you've never thought about who you are or why you do the things you do, it's going to be so hard to make connections you gotta give folks something to connect to!

one of the biggest red flags on dating apps are folks who are like "I don't like making bios, ask me anything" but give you one word non-answers The ability to talk about yourself is predicated on knowing who you are & what you want if you can't articulate that, what are you doing trying to date

On this date in 2024, two things happened which have largely shaped the personal rhythm of the last year, and have provided a much-needed distraction from The Everything. First, City of Six Moons came out. 🧵

This is one of the hardest things I've ever done: asking for help. After a financially devastating divorce, I am asking for help getting FFS, a gender-affirming surgery for which I am having to pay a vast majority out of pocket. Any bit helps. www.gofundme.com/f/help-blue-...

Please admire this very good girl

Women’s prisons were originally—and still are, to a great extent—about policing deviation from traditional hetero femininity. (cite: @hughryan.bsky.social ) I know a woman who was kicked from a reentry program for refusing to wear a dress.

Meowie Antoinette

Republicans are dressing as cops and assassinating members of congress and democrats are insisting protesters limit themselves to holding parades, giving their routes to the cops, and sitting on the ground passively to be brutalized by said cops.

me: baby, I woke up and wanted pizza, and then I found a pizza in our room! Samhain (having bought a night pizza while I had slept): It's like a fairy tale! me: I'm a princess me: but, like, a kind of princess that isn't morally wrong to be Samhain: A pizza princess. me: yes

Samhain (shares the song Rats): Anyway, that's Ghost's whole deal me: They sing songs about animals? Samhain: me: is there one about giraffes? me: giraffes aauuuuwaaauuugh

I liked "An American Pickle" somewhat more than Samhain did, but we both cracked the heck up at this part, and I've been laughing about it throughout the last two days

Samhain: It is the best Disney movie. me: what about pinnochio me: pinnochio has that innovative use of the multiplane camera Samhain: That's not fair. They had to cut all the planes out of Lilo and Stitch. It was after 2001.

me: the last couple movies we watched were kinda intense Samhain: Something lighter, kind of breezy, got it. (two hours later) me: so the next time you pick something lighter I am going to ask you how many characters commit suicide in it Samhain: Okay, that's fair.

Samhain: I am going to dip my fries in my chocolate frosty. me (happy for her): gross Samhain: It's not gross, it's delicious! me: that's what somebody told me once about smegma. she was lying Samhain: 🤢 Samhain: I need to think about something else. Please talk about anything else.

me: I got some work done. I had to draw twenty horses Samhain: That's bullshit! You should just have to draw one horse and use it twenty times. Boom! Twenty horses! me: this is great wisdom Samhain: Or! Draw half a horse, paste it forty times. Boom! Twenty horses!

Samhain: How much do you love me? Express it as a quantity. me: think of the biggest quantity you can, this is the variable x me: now, have a mol of that, 6 x 10 to the 23rd Samhain: I know what a mol is. me: THEN. square that shit Samhain: Damn. I just love you in the high thirties.

me (waking her for today's stream): what's the plan Samhain: We get in the car, and drive to Tuscaloosa. me: dunno where that is Samhain: Okay. New plan. (laughing) me: can you do it without cracking up Samhain (no): New plan. In this one I'm a duck. me: did you confused dreams and plans again

me: ...so that's why Cyclops is good at billiards Samhain: I should have just guessed a random X-Men character. It's always an X-Men with you. me: or Old English! Sometimes it's Old English! me: it could have been Grendel who was good at billiards me: but only before he met Beowulf

me: I'll be back tonight. Be good. Samhain (unconvincingly): I will. me (narrows eyes, points): Be good. Samhain: I won't, but I will say I will. When you get home, I will have started three small fires, but I won't tell you where they are.

Pinky 👹🩷🥩

forgot to put in the little 🧵 so you know this is a thread