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Our plans got derailed by being advised of quest requirements so we're gonna be going 7.1 time

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apparently BWI has a vending machine with overpriced TCG booster packs.

just in case you wanted to play gatcha irl on the plane

Final Fantasy X-2 had a profound influence on my gender expression.

Trump Has Already Lost The War The question now is how bad does it get

“Billions wasted on military buildup. US lives lost. And an affordability crisis about to smack into the American public like a truck speeding down the freeway.”

Do cis people know that HRT is like... medically necessary care and not just a gee wiz for fun thing

beautiful.

in a week or so when my everything is more expensive I'll be sad, but right now this is bringing me so much joy.

we get to find out so fucking hard <3

guy who keeps publically giving no quarter commands: "why aren't my enemies surrendering????"

Israel is a tiny country that absolutely has to obey the US and the idea that it has somehow tricked America into attacking Iran is both horribly antisemitic and, I have to say, a very foreseeable consequence of American liberals insisting the Gaza genocide was carried out over American objections

The Colorado River will deliver less than a third of normal water flow this summer. And, Rocky Mountain ski season has been disastrously bad this year.

It is hard to overstate, for non-lawyers, just how milquetoast the ABA is in normal times. It’s supposed to be boring insurance lawyers leading workshops with boring tax lawyers, trying to drum up business.

A pissed off ABA is like dentists manning the barricades and singing Le Marseillaise.

Inside the Department of War are two wolves:

"We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting."

"How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"

It’s very funny to me that the same crowd that is terrified of big US cities thinks ships should just take a chance on the Strait of Hormuz right now.

FYI to trans people:

HRT Cafe has apparently shut down after too much media attention.

Please, take advice from an old trans woman:

Take those discussions underground. All of them. Anything that discusses what we need to survive & where to get it. Word of mouth and private forums only!

Cool, what about healthcare for trans youth? You've said nothing and done nothing for weeks.

flatly: everyone who works in tech is in danger and sooner than you think

LLMs are going to eat the software industry alive

one promise the cyberpunk future failed to deliver on is multinational corporations murdering each other en masse (and plenty of good paying jobs murdering corporate suits). would be a lot better if these guys were actually thinning out their ranks instead of banding together

This may upset you but if you cancel your subscription all you will do is hurt a news organization that is evil in a time when they’re struggling more than ever

Grandma jailed after AI error linked her to crime in state she never visited: lawyer The charges were later dismissed after bank records showed she was in Tennessee at the time

If only a college professor could condescendingly yell at her that AI is useful, I bet she’d feel so much better about all this

Comic.[A gantry straddles the intersection of two tectonic plates, one under water and the other on a mountain. A tether connected to a winch on the gantry making a “click click click” sound is connected to the oceanic crust and is pulling it up, causing it to fold. Two people are standing on the fold next to the hook, looking down toward the space between the subducted crust where a shining object sits.] [caption] PSA: Please stay out of the Pacific Ocean today. Someone lost their wedding ring in a subduction zone and USGS is pulling the plate back up to retrieve it.

Subduction Retrieval

xkcd.com/3218/

This is incredibly bad. Incredibly bad.
This is how you start the process of criminalizing all opposition to the fascist machinery of power and it happens quickly once this kind of bar is set and accepted as normal.

The elementary school crossing guards broke into a spontaneous “Ewwww!!” when a Cybertruck drove by. It’s so over. For Elon, but also for me, as they followed up their assertion that it’s a “Car for old men” with a quickly-blurted “No offense.”

there's probably lots of reasons why hooters failed but i think the largest, and hardest to see in a spreadsheet is that the plausibility of "liking it for the chicken wings" was shattered once you could get reasonably good wings almost anywhere else

The Road to Prairieland The crackdown on anti-ICE activists in Texas reflects a pattern of intensifying repression all around the country.

Extremely grim news from Texas.

Absurdly, a jury has decided to convict all of the defendants on most of the charges, including "Corruptly Concealing a Document" for moving a box of zines.

The jury's verdict:

www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/v...

Background on the case:

crimethinc.com/Prairieland

Horrific news. The defendants — including two trans women — are political prisoners persecuted for opposing the atrocities of a fascist regime.

But the Haymarket trial didn't kill anarchism or unions. Rigged, corrupt courts are an old weapon in the hands of tyrants. People always fight on anyway.

Hot take: if you can't cook well with tofu, you can't cook well.

Because tofu is a blank canvas. It does what you tell it to.

If you have the basics down—deep frying, searing, sauces, seasonings, etc.—you can make good tofu. If your tofu dishes suck... well.

BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI Three years after its pivot to AI, the writing is on the wall for BuzzFeed. The company said there's "substantial doubt" it can keep going.

This is the destination of every company that tries to replace creative human workers with AI slop.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

1. Bills & Resolutions (JUSTICE FOR HIND RAJAB) HR 7903 // S. 4905 [bill text]: Introduced 3/12/26 in the Senate by Welch (D-VT) and Van Hollen (D-MD), and in the House by Jacobs (D-CA), Castro (D-TX) and Jayapal (D-WA), the “Justice for Hind Rajab Act“, aka, “To call for accountability for the killing of innocent civilians, including 5-year-old Hind Rajab and two paramedics, in an attack in Gaza City on January 29, 2024, by Israel Defense Forces, to require the Secretary of State to report to Congress on the attack, and for other purposes.” Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on the Judiciary; and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Also see: press release – Welch, Jacobs Introduce Bicameral Bill Demanding Accountability for Hind Rajab, Palestinian Child Killed by Israeli Forces; one-pager on the bill; U.S. Lawmakers Introduce Hind Rajab Accountability Bill (Exclusive) (The Hollywood Reporter 3/12/26)

Proud to see that the JUSTICE FOR HIND RAJAB ACT has been introduced by Welch and Van Hollen in the Senate as well as by Jacobs and Castro in the House.

It demands a full federal accounting and investigation, to be reported to Congress, on the murder of innocent civilians in Gaza by the Israelis.

If the democrats don’t explicitly state that whiskey Pete Hegseth will be arrested it’s gonna be hard for them to get my vote

It's honestly blackpilled me a little how the last couple of years have revealed that so many people are just fundamentally averse to reading and writing and thinking as worthwhile human activities.

your vote is rarely the single decisive vote

but sometimes it is! and you never know when that might be