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Mod, Politics & Science Junkie, RA/QA Evangelist, MENA in B'more. Overthinking TTRPGs. A weird panoply 🏳️‍🌈. He/They. No kings, no castes, no corruption.
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We haven't talked enough about how #measles can be a major reason why you die ***after*** you recover from it. It causes Immune Amnesia, aka your body forgets how to fight other diseases. Fortunately, there's a solution...the MMR vaccine. www.uclahealth.org/news/article...

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

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While I'm sure the work they do is something they take pride in, I do have to wonder why so much of Bluesky is continuing to take the tune that "look it's the same, we should just go to the source!" instead of "Oh dear god, it's all the same garbage status chasing and we shouldn't buy any!"

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

✨ IN 90 MINUTES ✨ Games For Raices continues with our final Commander game starring this cool group: ▪️Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls (@lonzogonzo.bsky.social) ▪️Teval, the Balanced Scale (@dustehill.bsky.social) ▪️Dee Kay, Finder of the Lost (@gemmathegerm.bsky.social) ▪️The Wise Mothman (ME)

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

My wife doesn't realize she's a better idle worldbuilder than I am, and it pains me her creations may never properly see the light of day. Her (jokingly): "Okay, but why do you need a walking robot to fight ticks? Why not just have it fly at that point? And be a squid. A hummingbird squid."

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

As we see more and more DNC governors like Whitmer capitulate to Trump, I hope folks are really starting to understand that the machine that runs this nation (regardless of major party) isn't based on ethics or human rights, but what megacorps and the ultra rich want for themselves.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

submitted 1 day ago • 1640 comments

Are we still doing dire wolf discourse? This essay by @sabs.bsky.social is one of my favorite examples of science writing defector.com/what-kind-of...

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

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submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

New York Times served up an instant classic out-of-touch headline describing RFK Jr. as "hitting his stride" but you know what's actually hitting it's stride? Measles! From @melodyschreiber.com newrepublic.com/article/1939...

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

I don't know how I missed it, but apparently there was a [Youtube] demonstration on how terrifying pure fluorine is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzIH... Yes, #TTRPG folks, this is exactly what you can use as inspiration for all the fire magics folks will say "no, it couldn't get THAT hot, could it?!"

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So in trying to figure out just how much bullshit Trump's gestapo would need to pull to claim I'm not a US citizen, I just discovered I may have had ancestors on the Mayflower. If it's true, I apologize to all the indigenous folks who my family screwed over.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.

submitted 2 days ago • 367 comments

I'd bet most Americans don't realize the six Nazi extermination camps during World War II also involved rendition to a foreign country. Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, Chełmno and Majdanek were all located in Poland. Not Germany. Important historical fact.

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

the secret to roleplaying is that anybody can put any words in any order they want at any time. tabletop RPGs are not about giving people this power; they are about giving people enough of a scaffold to make them start doing it on their own

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

United States Disappeared Tracker: 1214 and growing. public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

submitted 3 days ago • 108 comments

I'm sure I'm not the first person to say this, but the horrifying irony of these ICE raids is that cartels and mobs are now at liberty to abduct people while posing as ICE agents (or with ICE agents on their payroll). Trump is literally making the drug problem worse with this.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments