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Man I chose a really bad (good?) time to stop drinking.

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Oh man. She's been really good for us.

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I live in the Twin Cities and am in an email group, a text chain, and participate in fund raising to plow my alley. My kids know all the houses with kids within 2 blocks. Wtf is this shit?

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I have often believed that Stephenson's Cryptonomicon was a sign of bad things to come and I am continually rewarded with this view. wtf

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I guess "viewers like you" means white people.

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The ACA fight taught me that there are a lot of people who would rather make shit up than fight for what's possible.

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The one time Democrats had a filibuster proof trifecta they passed the most important health care law of me entire life. I hadn't had regular health insurance for 8 years when the ACA passed. It cost 25% of my income to pay for my wife's medicines. And then the GOP SCOTUS still destroyed half of it!

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My wife is such a nice person that one of my (self appointed) responsibilities is holding onto grudges for her. "That woman made you cry once. That man made a lot of gross sexist jokes about you." Nobody asked me, but I must do my duty. 🫡

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We sang the Battle Hymn at my veteran grandfather's funeral. He served in all of WWII and Korea and became a civil rights activist when he came home. He loved that song; it was his Christianity; militant and loving.

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Who could have guessed that Trump wouldn't play fair with Arab Americans? Everyone really listened to that hateful man and thought he wasn't talking about them, just someone else.

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Finished my #BladesintheDark campaign today. My group agreed it would be fun to go out in a blaze of glory and betray each other, so the final mission was PVP where half the party backed the Ancient Evil the game was built around, the other half fought back. Evil won. Everyone had a good time.

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Similarly, being a guy really into Weimar era Germany has been miserable for me since 2016.

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It is bad that the general who tried to reign in Trump is now being punished by our idiot God King?

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This is correct. It is good game design when you find so many goddamn missiles you can't move and have to make hard choices about what you carry. The fact that you do not like it is not actually evidence of bad game design.

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What's wild is how much transhuman/upload/clone scifi fails to account for this attitude. We can upload into the cloud! No, a terrible homunculus with my memories is being uploaded into the cloud. The Singularity is just a horror story for me.

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what happened to his legs

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I walk my dog on streets that conservatives think you need 360 degree situational awareness and a concealed firearm. I mean, it explains a lot about why we're different.

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It was very enlightening when my wife and I tried to have a "natural birth" and interacted with a lot of folks from both the left and right that had WILD and dangerous ideas about medicine, children, sex and health.

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Fuck yes!

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I started subscribing to the post as a law student, I canceled this year. As long as Bezos owns the paper I'm not going to trust it.

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I've had a Washington Post subscription for almost 19 years. I canceled this year. I won't ever consider coming back unless Bezos sells the paper. Can't trust it. As far as I'm concerned the paper dealt itself a lethal blow this October. I'm done.

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This is happening because the Dems got sworn-in in secret and didn't attend today to deny quorum to the Republicans. They're now to invalidate the unlawful assembly. That's the "cool shit"

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I read this book during jury duty and this section is both bizarrely pornographic and the least sexy thing I've ever read.

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Age of Apocalypse was where I stopped collecting as a kid. Years later I'd discover Hellblazer and Swamp Thing and fall in love again, but AoA sucked all the joy out of me.

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I'm on vacation reading whatever I like, and it has given me another opportunity to be furious that Iain Banks' Culture novels still can't be purchased digitally because of silly bullshit. Give me Excession and Inversions!!!

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But there's no hell, which this one time is a super bummer.

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In case you're feeling down: Kissinger is still dead

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Dukakis losing to Bush.

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We have a two party system because it is accidentally baked into the structure of our constitution and voting system. The only way to "reform" that is a constitutional convention. Good luck! In the meantime, you're gonna actually have to figure out how to make the Dems useful, sorry.

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@johnharper.bsky.social Running a #BladesintheDark holiday game this week. Here's my pitch: In Doskvol, everyone celebrates Laststar, the final week of Starfall before the New Year. Originally an Iruvian holiday dedicated to the placement of the final Star Pillar in the city of U'Duasha...

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I've really been enjoying my latest #BladesintheDark campaign. After 5 years of gaming someone actually "beat" the game in a campaign, our Slide has officially retired with 4 wealth and 3 traumas. Never seen it actually happen in all my years of GMing.

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