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What if, and I know this sounds crazy, but what if the federal workforce was actually doing a really good job before all this bullshit?

submitted 15 hours ago • 33 comments

avowed literally rips so hard what the FUCK

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

🎯

submitted 1 day ago • 531 comments

I don’t eat meat, but I do make exceptions for novelty meats. And, oh boy, I found a doozy. I give you Grundhofers, home of the world-famous gummy bear bratworst.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 1007 comments

The article I wanted to read! I’ve been thinking about the cars since the first episode.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

I just watched the latest episode of The Pitt and I shall now stick my head in the microwave for approximately 72 hours.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

the Pitt is a fantasy drama in which everything is the same as the real world except the nurses are woke

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 3 days ago • 2502 comments

Costco and Trader Joes are yin and yang. Together they form a harmonious balance. One sells big piles of normal food, the other sells small piles of weird food. These are the two food piles people need

submitted 4 days ago • 116 comments

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1444

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

I for one think it’s super cool that we can show an AI the first 5 minutes of a video game and it can learn and rebuild it for future preservation. I’m gonna try it with a lot of games I’ve missed over the years like Frog Fractions and Inscryption

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Every 20 minutes in Avowed you will find a skeleton with a dagger in its ribcage and a note like "damn, I sure hope Giancarlo doesn't stab me with a knife". This is called Storytelling, baby.

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

Please stop saying it saved money until you understand the value of what was cut. They are downsizing, and if the stuff getting cut had real value, its not a saving.

submitted 6 days ago • 294 comments

you stupid dumbshit goddamn motherfucker

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

submitted 9 days ago • 2240 comments

sry i've been laughing about this for two days

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

california ❤️

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

If you’re anything like @pftompkins.bsky.social, my DMs are open 😭

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

I skip that shit so fast.

submitted 9 days ago • 21 comments

damn this hits

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

The Saturday Night Massacre: sudden repeated firings of top government attorneys who refused to carry out illegal and unethical orders at a time long ago, a MAJOR plot point in the Watergate scandal that took down Nixon (nowadays just another weekend) … en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturda...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Avowed does a lot of exposition in illustration and I really enjoy that. Instead of paying a team to render an excruciatingly detailed cutscene you get gorgeous art. Honestly a more interesting use of resources to me.

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments

every day I think about the comms strategy of the korean opposition party in the wake of the coup and I get so burningly resentful that other countries have legislators who are awake

submitted 11 days ago • 221 comments

Pleased to report that I love Avowed, the latest RPG from Obsidian. I expected strong writing and combat, but what’s surprised me (and kept me wanting more even after 40 hours) is the exploration. Everywhere you turn there’s a secret or treasure or rooftop to climb — it’s dense and full of life.

submitted 12 days ago • 77 comments

I'll take the tiniest of victories at this point

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

BIG TENT PLEASE so tired of this punitive, exclusionary mindset, there's already a shitty party for that

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments