Faxe MacAran CR: Twelve Months & Under the Healing Sign

I don't disagree, but that's not a switch that can be made instantly and at a global level the calculus has been that it's easier to keep Iran happy than it is to invest in the switch over. It's shortsighted but it doesn't change the fact that it's what's best for the oligarchs.

If you play Eve Online imagine taking a hauler (or even a battleship) and pulling up next to a freighter. Imagine trying to fly the freighter manually through an astroid belt without bumping any of them.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

Defund billionaires. Seriously. We have a choice. Democracy or billionaires. Take their money.

What do you want to bet this little tantrum on the WaPo's opinion page is because someone ahead of Professor Jakub Grygiel in the queue at some coffee shop had an elaborate coffee order and he hasn't been able to let it go ever since

But ... But what if I want to?

Hey can you put alt text on posts like this? It won't take but a moment to type out something this short and makes all the difference between someone with visual impairment being able to engage with it or being totally shut out.

Guess What Moderate Democratic Voters Aren’t Anymore? Moderate. Two new polls suggest that moderate Democrats, too, want higher taxes on the rich and some measure of economic populism. Moderate isn’t what it was in 1992.

Third Way and other "moderate" Democratic groups and elites constantly bash progressive politicians and ideas. But moderate Democratic VOTERS really like raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations, Medicare-for-all, and Bernie Sanders. newrepublic.com/article/2074...

My hot writing take about tense and POV is stop blaming YA for why some adult romance readers are demanding first person POV. Deal with your own readers. Stop using YA as a cudgel for everything you think is wrong with adult books.

teewatterss on Threads: “losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”

10/10 take. no notes

Not all the angelic powers are in Heaven, y'know? There are days when God says ro one or another of them, "Hey, it's *your* day to walk with the one who flies the Bat."

If you don’t use alt text, please know you’d be so much cooler and looks smarter if you did

they knew they could get away with it because they practiced all those times on the “narco-terrorist” boats, where they also killed the survivors, and nobody sent them to The Hague about it so they are running completely unchecked right now with full use of the arsenal. I do not know how this ends

Bob was nothing like Bob, but also simultaneously the best character in the show.

I'm about half way through 12 Months, and it reminds me a lot of how Cold Days felt after Changes and Ghost Story. I'm enjoying it, and really appreciate him taking a book to deal with the fallout of everything that happened.

roadhouseendgame i was talking to my mom about cardassians and said something along the lines of what must it be like to be a cardassian civilian. like abstractly knowing the rest of the galaxy thinks of your species as 'the evil ones' and kinda sorta knowing your government runs labor camps and torture prisons and is a military empire, and it's a huge deal for everyone else in the galaxy, but you just like run a restaurant so it's not a big part of your daily life, so you just like, go about your day and make soup and don't think about it' and then halfway through my sentence i actually heard myself and then had to go sit down for like ten minutes. like sat down in a chair and stared at the floor for ten minutes

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A picture of my right hand. I am wearing a silver great serpent ring in my 4th finger and all of my nails are painted a dark green. The paint is somewhat uneven with some stains on the cuticle and skin around the nail but is otherwise ok.

It's not actually #SelfieSunday and this arguably isn't a selfie but I don't care.

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.

Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

That said, it's perfectly valid if that doesn't work for you. If you value a friendship with someone who does this, I'd say communicate to them that this friendship needs more active tending on their part.

I just had a phone call tonight with a friend (who shares this penchant) that I haven't spoken with on more than a year and haven't texted on 9 months.

We picked back up like it had been a week apart.

This is very much a common neurodivergent thing.

Things, even people I care about get brushed to far corners of my awareness when they are often out of sight. It's not that we don't care we just sometimes need a reminder.

i feel strongly that anyone that thinks that there is a nefarious cabal of surgeons and doctors Transing people should be forced to try and schedule one (1) transsexual procedure

Image description: headline saying Breaking Trump becomes first president to bomb 7 countries in one year. Below are pictures of damaged or destroyed buildings in Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen.

"Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts"

Ugh, this is so stupid. If we’re going to stop charging the clocks, we should switch to standard time. All of the evidence I have seen says standard time is better for your health. #BC #YVR @davidebybc.bsky.social @bcgovernment.bsky.social news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...

Fun* fact: Earthsong finished ten years ago!

*the fun part is that you get to feel OLD

Quote from Washington Times editorial board "[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

Again, I will be strongly engaged in the primary process for the Democratic Party's nominee for President in 2028.
But I will support whoever wins, even if it's not my preferred candidate.
The stakes are too high to be selfish.

That worked well for me until I picked up MZB