Reed the Frog

A slim frog-like mecha with extra, spidery arms, in an athletic hunched pose on all fours looking off to the side. It has a striking 2-tone colour scheme - the head and forearms are a vibrant red, with the rest a charcoal black, the HRF colours. The separation is scribbly, and it is decorated with graffiti. Its head is wide and flat with an organic shape, dominated by 3 large front-facing eyes - 2 at the edges of the face and one at the centre. There is also a 4th inset into the centre top of the head, pointing up. A thin medium-length antenna is on each side of the back of the head. Its hunchback torso has extra armour plates along the back, and a scratched shiny windshield in front, indicating the pilot lies inside. In front is a small bull bar to protect it. Attached to its side is a thin upraised gun barrel of a glue gun. Two long antennae sweep back from the upper back. Its organic-shaped main arms and legs look like slender toned muscle. Large hands and feet give a strong frog impression, as the digits end in big circular pads. Each pad has a yellow ribbon cable, which along with the metallic colour imply they are electromagnets. Thicker round cables wind up the forearm to plug in the inside of the elbow. On the outside of each shoulder are 2 more thin arms each, slightly longer than the mains, ending in tiny 2-fingered hands. The right pair rest lightly in front, and the left are raised, prepared for action. Graffii: On the upper back is "Passenger Princess", referencing its role riding allies around. Lower back armour plate, various thank you messages scrawled in different colours: Best Teammate, IOU, Thanks!, a heart, Lifesaver!, and 5 star support. Back head: bubble lettered word FROG, and the kanji for spider above one eye. A spider-limb forearm has "No-one left behind", and on a shin is "Hop 2 it!" Text below reads: HRF Nagaoi, Ride or Die Companion. Patellar Reflex Induction, K.R.A/GL Ejector, Positive Feedback Link, F.R.O.G. Art: Jonathan Caridia.

The last of 8 Hearth-7 homebrew mechs, the Nagaoi! This little guy rides allies around, slinging helpful effects while gumming up the works for hostiles.

This has been an excellent project and I've learned a lot! The last tweaks and final LCP should be done soon.

#Lancer #LancerRPG #mecha

Most people rejected his message. They hated Freud because he told them the truth.

photo of Alex Schaefer painting a bank across the street from him. It's a beautiful, bright, sunny day, and the pristine bank is contrasted nicely against the painting of the building consumed by a raging inferno.

Do y'all remember Alex Schaefer, the artist who would go around painting various real-world banks engulfed in flames?

I've been thinking about his work a lot lately, as we watch payment processors continue to punish people over porn.

""I'm afraid I could be arrested if I travel to that state for your wedding and need to use the restroom at the venue ..."

"People used to be excited about tech, now they dread what data you're going to steal next, they dread what violation of privacy or the environment will turn up next."

this whole missive will make you want to stand on your desk and yell "O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN!," but that bit really got me good

This is a fun principle to extend to all legal incantations. Paperwork doesn’t magically make you married. Paperwork doesn’t magically make you allowed to own a gun or a car. Paperwork doesn’t magically make you the owner of that house.

How Trump’s War on Iran Is Hastening the Coming MAGA Crack-Up Another Middle East war is exactly what the young voters and voters of color who flocked to Trump in 2024 did not sign up for.

Trump's Iran war is breaking up the MAGA coalition. Among young and nonwhite working class, only *one in five* approve, per new data I've obtained. That's extraordinary and heartening to see. It's also delivering another blow to Trump's "realignment." 1/

(new piece)
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there is an extremely long list of people who need to be held accountable in the next administration but sending the DOGE boys to big boy jail needs to be near the top of the list

Scene from a collapsed society

Mary Poppins was never shot down by a drone because of this one weird trick

Oh cool now the next generation has the opportunity to watch all their friends get blown up in order to further line the pockets of rich old perverts

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

I think people believe the point of progressive politics is to try to convince malicious, bad-faith bigots to not be violent, instead of defanging their movements and making them politically irrelevant.

It's not about "saving the souls of the lost". It's about making sure their harm is mitigated.

This is exactly right, but the push "to protect children" by a technology sector that is actively harming children—and everyone else in the process—is happening worldwide.

Early Iran strikes cost $5.6 billion in munitions, Pentagon estimates The figure, accounting for the war’s first two days, is likely to intensify concerns in Congress that U.S. forces are churning through a scarce supply of advanced weaponry.

The Pentagon calculated it was spending $1 billion a day on Trump and Netanyahu’s war. The truth? It was $3 billion…and that’s just for munitions.

Plus they’ve alarmed everyone by burning through scarce munitions in a matter of days.

In Senate Race, Talarico Challenges ‘Heretical’ Right-Wing Christianity

It's about time someone called out those fascists for being the heretics they are.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

Surely the President’s task force on antisemitism will be looking into this pronto to figure out how this could have happened.

In my game PtS, you play an agent of an organization of supernaturally empowered adventurers working to protect, preserve, and reclaim magic, mystical artifacts, and monsters on behalf of and as part of the cultures they belong to. Think BPRD meets anticolonial Indiana Jones in a pulp universe.

A post from Mike LaPorte, a head of talent acquisition on LinkedIn: "I owe job seekers an apology. Not for anything I did intentionally. But for what the industry I've spent my career in has normalized. We normalized ghosting candidates after interviews. Just never responding. Like the 3 hours they spent preparing and the PTO they burned to come in didn't matter. We normalized job descriptions that are 40% aspirational fiction. Listing 15 "required" qualifications when we'd happily hire someone with 8 of them. We normalized 6 round interview processes for mid level roles. Panel interviews where half the people in the room haven't read the resume. We normalized asking candidates to show all their cards, current comp, competing offers, career goals, while giving them almost nothing in return. We normalized treating candidates like a pipeline metric instead of people making one of the most consequential decisions of their lives. I'm not saying every recruiter does this. I know a lot of great ones who fight these patterns every day. But as an industry we've built a system that asks candidates to invest enormous time, energy, and emotional labor into a process that gives them almost nothing back unless they get the offer. That's broken. And a lot of it has nothing to do with technology. It's choices we stopped questioning. But I do think we can build better systems and smarter tools to start fixing it. What would you change first? Genuinely asking."

Then let us begin normalizing the acknowledgment and understanding of this grim reality so many have found themselves ensnared in. A large number simply don't know because they're not currently affected by it. The existence of this post alone is a wonderful beginning move.

you have more in common with a homeless person than *any* member of the gentry. remember that and don't forget it -- class issues and disparities affect movements far, far more than we talk about, particularly within marginalized groups.

yes, exactly, this website has the only AI enthusiasts I actually am interested in talking to, because they're not insane

HORMUZ TRACKER: Iran-Linked Ships Are the Only Ones to Transit Strait of Hormuz transit remains near a standstill for a seventh day, with Iran-linked ships the only commercial vessels making the crossing in the past 24 hours.

Bloomberg’s built a ship tracker and absolutely nothing is moving in the Persian Gulf rn — www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

the thing that will always haunt me is how we could have given all these people something far more stable than a muddled promise of non-enforcement — there's no substantive social reason not to just hand out citizenship to anyone who spends a few years here, without all these fucking traps & hoops.

long overdue comm for @feelingbleu.bsky.social !

This is what ecocide looks like.

Yeah. And it's run on slave labor.

“An organization like FAFO could allow prosecutors to trade research on novel legal theories designed to head off immunity arguments, share recommendations for expert witnesses, and even help strategize on how to sue the federal government to access evidence or get a case back into state court. It could facilitate collaboration between prosecutors in neighboring counties both subjected to CBP and ICE deployments, or between a local DA and their state AG. “A lot of what we’re looking at has not been tried yet in the court system,” Conover said. “Rather than each one of us facing something, God forbid, like Minneapolis and finding ourselves having to invent the wheel, we can do it together.””

Struck by this quote from Tuscon’s local prosecutor on why she joined a nationwide group discussing how to prosecute federal agents

boltsmag.org/how-state-an...

Defund the military.

Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...