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Had my first game of #Oathmark after a paint marathon to finish two small armies (1500 pts each). Fast and fun rank and file system with old school minis – what's not to love? Minis aren't 100% yet. Banners are still missing, for instance. But first, got to finish 150 or so more minis ...

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Who'd have thought that these severely damaged idiots would some day be at odds with one another? "Everybody" would be the answer to this question, if we disregarded the MAGAs (which we should). But the speed and verocity at which it's happening is fun to watch. Thank you, #Ketamine.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

So here's the trick: 1. Fill your admin with the most unqualified doofuses you can find. 2. Wait for it to fail, which it will. 3. Blame the failure on whatever you don't like. In this case, any attacks would be blamed first and foremost on immigration. q.e.d. and all that jazz.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Insider? "Nestbeschmutzer". Outsider? "Kümmer dich um deinen eigenen Kram." Manchmal scheint es, als wären Konservative autorität... oh.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Well, at least one thing's for certain: Putin likes Taco.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Even if the number should be way off, it's assuredly greater than zero, because that's how shit works. You dumb sicko, you've got blood on your hands. #LetThatSinkIn. Could also tell you where to put that chainsaw. Might even help with your bladder issues, if you put it in deep enough.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

“I said go ahead and punch me in the face and he did,” #Musk said, allegedly to Miller, not his kid burdened with the world's most stupid name. If you read anything about Musk's #BlackEye and how he got it from a 5 year old, now you know what he's lying about. #Allegedly

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

While folk songs are still in semi-vogue (is that a word?), may I introduce you (if necessary) to Pat the Bunny? This song in particular exemplifies what being a young lefty was about back in the day, including the defeatism and contradictions. Probably, maybe, perhaps: still? [Lyrics in comments]

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

If you want the Democratic Party to never again have any relevance, just go with what this dude from the "Third Way" says. (Rant down below.)

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

So according to his lawyers (which are just the best, believe me) the network is wielding "the First Amendment as a sword.” That's no good. Everybody knows that the First Amendment must be wielded as a warhammer. And just in case you don't remember: trump declined to be interviwed by 60 Minutes.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Racism, misogyny, and everything else that's used to divide us is ultimately in service of a class war most don't even realize is happening. Always has been, but they're getting bolder by the second.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

"Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country." Yeah, actual quote. This must be the 4D Chess they keep talking about, because this shit is stupid on oh so many dimensions: judical, factual, grammatical, humanitarian, ...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Quick reminder that you can use 10 Minute Mail to register to any site that forces you to register.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Wunderbare Auf- und Weiterarbeitung, aber was haste anderes erwartet? Wenn nur der Verfassungsschutz vergleichbar professionell wäre ...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

If you're still loyal to trump, I'd want you to write down what he'd have to do to lose your support. If you can't, ask yourself why. If you can, keep that piece of paper close by. Yeah, that's not how deprogramming works. This is more for the folks who don't believe it's a cult.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Sure, I'm a Marvel fanboy, and one of five people who really liked #Eternals, so take it with a truckload of salt if you must. West Chesapeake Bay #Thunderbolts was exactly the kind of movie the MCU needed. Not the grandest story ever told, but deeply personal. Not solved by punching harder ...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

It's important to ridicule fascists, because they hate that and it's fun to watch them crumble. But never stop there.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Hot take: Viagra can be a kind of gender-affirming care.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

You don't need me to recommend #Sinners to you, it's obviously great, and might even be better than you expect. What I'm here to point out that the title of the film in Germany is "Blood & Sinners", because Germans are a little dim-witted? [RE: Thor: Ragnarok]

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Arcs is such a beautiful, enticing and all around great game. Can't recommend it enough. But like Root and Oath before it, don't let the art style fool you, it's also brutal. Which in the world of board games is refreshingly retro.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

"Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" is right out of Baron Münchhausen. It's not possible, y'know? Also, why on the topic of the right wing not understanding shit: the saying about "one bad apple" continues with "spoils the bunch".

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Why do political cartoonists so often add the names of the people they depict, even though they are easy to identify? For example:

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

"Maßgeblich sind Verstöße gegen die Menschenwürde, das Rechtsstaats- oder das Demokratieprinzip." [surprisedPikachu.gif]

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments