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I sometimes make things on the internet. Battletech. Star Trek. US politics. Video games. he/him
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Happy Birthday @TheKateMulgrew ! You are a treasured artist and dear friend! With love, Roberto.

Ugh. Framed #1144 🎥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 framed.wtf

I'll never forgive Star Trek: Picard for knowing they need to fight the Borg One Last Time (TM) and given a fucking collection of hero ships to embarrass Kivas Fajo, they rip the cloaking device out of a centennial Klingon ship, take the Galaxy-class, and leave the Defiant in spacedock. 🤡 crew

If this makes you happy you've been walked to a dark as hell place. And I am sad for you.

Am I doing this right: "whats good?"

One of my favorite SNL bits is "World's Most Evil Invention," which is relevant for the hubbub over Star Wars: Andor discussing sexual assault. Warning: Lots of literally evil things discussed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Ng...

On this day 80 years ago, Benito Mussolini was executed by an Italian partisan in Giulino di Mezzegra, then hung from the Piazzale Loreto in Milan the following day. Happy Mussolini Execution Day to all who celebrate.

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

Shadowheart: "Help! My party has risen as undead and they're trying to kill me!" Patrons of the Last Light Inn: *cocks wands* "We'll help you all right." Patrons of the Last Light Inn: *Kills my party living and undead, lights corpses on fire, throws ashes into a bottomless chasm.*

"Hey, VanVelding. Your Baldur's Gate party still in that Duergar camp?" ...technically.

Due to the mass-casualty event in Vancouver, St Paul's, VGH, & Lions Gate hospitals have activated a code orange. These hospitals will be needing blood donations urgently. Blood clinics are closed Sundays, but please consider donating Monday if you're in the Vancouver area. #Vancouver

Another update to the map of protests against the Supreme Court judgement (Green markers for completed demos, red for upcoming) www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e... 76 protests and counting! Keep following and supporting @whatthetrans.com for updates

The people who told us we HAD TO go back to work within the first year of COVID to PrOtEcT tHe EcOnOmY are the exact same people saying we now have to EnDuRe PaIn for the economy. Why is it always the workers sacrificing for the rich mans economy?

"Why won't you people have children?!"

Everyone's talking about BG3's second act, but I've been playing for months and I'm still futzing around on the sword coast and get warnings that I suck too much when I look to go west. WTF?

...fuck... okay Framed #1141 🎥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ framed.wtf

I know I'm from a red state and live in a red state, but JFC, New York, WTF?

THIS IS WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT. Bad shit happens and people react immediately. This is awesome.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

The entire transcript of Time's interview with Trump is insane. Just to pick one moment: Trump says Biden would never do an interview with Time, then when told that he had asks how it went, then when told he can read it himself says that he had read it and it didn't go well time.com/7280114/dona...

It’s April 25th!

Tennis Balls xkcd.com/3080

What has technology wrought? What base horrors? I have made this AI as horny as a real human! *Shows you upside down calculator that says BOOBS*

If only there was a system by which we could take financially secure adults and seamlessly use an existing transaction, like taxes, to give them additional money. Some kind of "credit" on "taxes" for having a "child." We'll workshop it.

Framed #1140 🎥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ framed.wtf

“is my calculator horny?“ our tech columnist asks. “i entered 5318008 into it and turned it upside down. what i saw surprised me”

I'd like a feed of randos with 5 figures of followers so I could pop in there and block a few dozen political posters when I get bored.

Ah, poo. Framed #1139 🎥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 framed.wtf

I’m begging the libs to stop using ai generative images to make their point because it completely undermines it😭 like I also want to make fun of the bad people but that ain’t it

This sounds a bit like the opening salvo of a class war…. Right? Like…. They’re tanking the economy and squeezing blood from stones.

Good morning, friends. If you missed this yesterday, allow me to tell you that I'm on this week's Inside of You podcast with Michael Rosenbaum. It's available wherever you get your podcasts. Here's another, different, clip from our conversation..

We heard that several students received the text as well as a professor not currently employed at Barnard. It's not clear how the government obtained professors' or students' personal cell phone #s or names. If you got this & want to talk, I'm on signal @akelalacy.17 theintercept.com/2025/04/23/t...