Robin Joan S

You've got to see it to bereave it

@slightlyrecklessgames.com Will there be a physical release of Berserkr and accompanying materials?

Sorcerer (1977), Dir. William Friedkin

sure the pedophile felon president just illegally bombed a country that may have nukes while federal forces under his command murder and harass people in america and immigrants are tortured and he moves forward with plans to build concentration camps and sorry idk where i was going fuck all of this

Change your gender, become a poet, catapult yourself into the sun. There are no rules. You can do anything you want.

"average person wuthers 3 heights a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person wuthers 0 heights per year. Heights Georg, who lives in cave & wuthers over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

a werewolf in front of a house wearing a ‘BE MINE’ heart and holding a sign that reads ‘THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE’ above a photo of bad bunny

a neighbor set up this werewolf for halloween and instead of taking it down they just update it with seasonal outfit changes. now it’s dressed for valentine’s day and holding a sign with a picture of bad bunny and his super bowl slogan. i love him.

"we don't want people thinking Democrats are for open borders" I am! who gives a shit!!! my life has been immeasurably improved by the presence of immigrants in my community, regardless of their status, there is literally no downside there! why would I give a shit!!!!

A big part of the "ICE and Border Patrol guys could never make it in the military or a real police force" rhetoric is just cope that allows folks to keep pretending that cops and military don't have large numbers of violent, sociopathic toolbags themselves. They do.

A core feature of Narrative Therapy is that we build our identities from the stories we tell and are told around/about us. If the story is "Spike's a clumsy bastard" then when I drop a glass taking it out of the dishwasher it's MY Fault, not that the glass is slippery.

Watching doc about resilience that reaffirms many changes I made last few years to my mental outlook (I read a LOT of brain books). Brains are hallucination engines. If the story is the world is shit, everything is fucked, brain reframes every interaction this way. It impacts behavior; shuts us down

"Outback Steakhouse: No Rules, Just Right" replaced an earlier slogan, "Outback Steakhouse: Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

I'm about 20K words into a manuscript. I don't think it's good at the moment but that can come later. Right now I just enjoy the process of writing. I hope it will continue to bring me joy as I get ever closer to the finish.

[extremely Suzanne Vega voice]

I am sitting
in the morning
in a lone and
level desert
there are two legs
vast and trunkless
and a visage
shattered half-sunk
and the pedestal beside it
reads “my name is Ozymandias
I’m the king of kings and you shall
look on my works and despair”

Velvet Goldmine

The last of the original Garbage Pail Kids has died in custody

We're thankful to Dean Spade for lifting up prison pen-palling. As more and more people, especially trans and disabled people, migrants, and BIPOC, are criminalized and incarcerated, we need to hold them down. Almost a third of our numbers are trans and many are very isolated

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Gustav Klimt, Death and Life, 1908

A screenshot from Spotify showing the song Protect Ya Neck by Wi-Tang Clan

Venom is an example of a villain who evolved into a hero because he was popular with readers and writers decided to rehabilitate him. By contrast, Magneto evolved into a hero because every decade since Reagan it's harder and harder to pretend he's wrong

I can’t find the lie in this.

Having some stress about teaching under my dead name. But in these times, you can't trust anybody. Someday it'll be different.

*taps mic* I'm going to try and be more active on here. I'm going through a big change. I was hired as a long term sub for 6th grade ELA. So I'll be teaching for a couple of months. Headlong and flaming. "My body is afraid, but I am not"

@scumbelievable.bsky.social Devoured Black Flame in a day. Absolute banger. That end tho! Really captured the feeling of getting your true name.

Cover of the Zine entitled, "Training Martial Arts for Anti-Fascism: What to train, how to begin, what to focus on, and how to prepare for real world community defense".

If you want to train martial arts to protect your community, then this zine is for you. It will guide you through everything you need to know, complete with which styles are effective, how to train them, and how to prepare for real world scenarios. Click the link here:
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So you want to make a solo game? How to get started

A short intro to making your own solo TTRPG

open.substack.com/pub/davidbla...

I've often speculated why you don't return to America. Did you abscond with the church funds? Run off with a senator's wife? I like to think you killed a man. It's the Romantic in me.

of a desperate attempt to escape from a rational world and the boredom of consumerism.' "Consumerism leads to social pathology? Hard to believe? •It paves the way. Half the goods we buy these days are not much more than adult toys. The danger is that consumerism will need something close to fascism in order to keep growing. Take the Metro-Centre and its flat sales. Close your eyes a little and it already looks like a Nuremberg rally. The ranks of sales counters, the long straight aisles, the signs and banners, the whole theatrical aspect? 'No jackboots, though,' I pointed out. 'No ranting führers' Not yet. Anyway, they belong to the politics of the street. Our "streets" are the cable TV consumer channels. Our party insignia are the gold and platinum loyalty cards. Faintly risible? Yes, but people thought the Nazis were a bit of a joke. The consumer society is a kind of soft police state. We think we have choice, but everything is compulsory. We have to keep buying or we fail as citizens. Consumerism creates huge unconscious needs that only fascism can satisfy. If anything, fascism is the form that consumerism takes when it opts for elective madness. You can see it here already? 'In bosky Surrey? I don't think so.' 'It's coming, Richard. Maxted pursed his lips, as if to shut out all 105

This, from JG Ballard’s 2006 novel “Kingdom Come” (about a massive shopping mall in suburbia) is so prophetically on point it hurts

It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts