Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 10:11 pm
Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 08:56 am

Who is the secret traitor? The former boy wonder, the wonder girl, the alien princess, the cyborg, the shape-shifter, the spooky witch, the speedster, or the geokinetic who frequently brags about being evil and betraying the team?
The Judas Contract by Marv Wolfman & George Pérez
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 07:34 am
So we're actually going to accept the Qatari 747 that's been described at a 'Flying Palace' as a grift, I mean, gift?
It's a hanger queen.
It's sat unused for 5 years. Has it been maintained? Can it even fly?
Don't know!
So, yeah... the cost to actually get that thing approved and airworthy? Unknown!
The cost to strip it down and make it the flying command post that is what Air Force One is supposed to be? Millions and millions!
tRump just wants to ride around in style, you know? In a couple of months it will be ready, he says.
Yeah, no. Unless he doesn't care or believe he needs the extra protection he already has with the present Air Force One.
Maybe the Qatar knows this and hopes that he'll get blown out of the sky? Eh, don't think so. They know where their bread is butter and tRump is a dope who can be bribed by shiny things that they don't want and apparently, nobody else does. .
It's a hanger queen.
It's sat unused for 5 years. Has it been maintained? Can it even fly?
Don't know!
So, yeah... the cost to actually get that thing approved and airworthy? Unknown!
The cost to strip it down and make it the flying command post that is what Air Force One is supposed to be? Millions and millions!
tRump just wants to ride around in style, you know? In a couple of months it will be ready, he says.
Yeah, no. Unless he doesn't care or believe he needs the extra protection he already has with the present Air Force One.
Maybe the Qatar knows this and hopes that he'll get blown out of the sky? Eh, don't think so. They know where their bread is butter and tRump is a dope who can be bribed by shiny things that they don't want and apparently, nobody else does. .
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 07:32 am
Isn't it funny how a party and a government is really big on 'person choice' in health care is now denying COVID vaccines to only those over 65?
No it isn't funny.
No it isn't funny.
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Monday, May 26th, 2025 12:53 am
but Paramount Plus won't cooperate at all. So I finally convinced E to watch some Prodigy with me!
Man, I really love that theme song. Also, I'm gonna just say, maybe it's because it's aimed at a younger audience but this show does the best technobabble - just enough to explain, not enough to confuse or bore.
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Man, I really love that theme song. Also, I'm gonna just say, maybe it's because it's aimed at a younger audience but this show does the best technobabble - just enough to explain, not enough to confuse or bore.
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 06:58 pm
The clowns running the FDA have proposed restricting access to covid vaccines, to people over 65 or who have certain medical conditions. There's a public docket for comments on the proposal.
Your Local Epidemiologist has a good post about the proposal, including that the people suggesting this know that nobody is going to do the placebo-controlled tests of new boosters they want to require.
Possible talking points include:
Families and caregivers wouldn't be eligible for the vaccine, even if they share a household, unlike the current UK recommendations.
Doctors, dentists, and other medical staff wouldn't be eligible either.
My own comment included that the reason I'd still be eligible for the vaccine is a lung problem caused by covid.
Seriously, this is just exhausting.
Your Local Epidemiologist has a good post about the proposal, including that the people suggesting this know that nobody is going to do the placebo-controlled tests of new boosters they want to require.
Possible talking points include:
Families and caregivers wouldn't be eligible for the vaccine, even if they share a household, unlike the current UK recommendations.
Doctors, dentists, and other medical staff wouldn't be eligible either.
My own comment included that the reason I'd still be eligible for the vaccine is a lung problem caused by covid.
Seriously, this is just exhausting.
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 04:17 pm
I filed my application for coverage under the federal dental insurance plan yesterday.
Finally.
Finally.
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 02:17 pm

The complete Omnibus with the rules and eight settings for Awfully Cheerful Engine, the cinematic action-comedy tabletop roleplaying game.
Bundle of Holding: Awfully Cheerful Engine
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 10:09 am

Darn kids, always battling ghosts and exposing conspiracies and making a mess...
Five SFF Works About Meddling, Mystery-Solving Kids
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 09:14 am

Recent third-party tabletop roleplaying adventures for Old-School Essentials.
Bundle of Holding: OSE Treasures 2
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 09:06 am

An assortment of short pieces from the author of Delicious in Dungeon.
Ryuu no Gakkou wa Yama no Ue Kui Ryouko Works By Ryōko Kui
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2025 07:15 am
The leopards eat your face,
The leopards eat your face,
Hi-Ho, you're chewy-oh!
The leopards eat your face.
You voted for the Don,
You voted for the Don,
Hi-Ho, you're chewy-oh!
You voted for the Don.
You bought into the con,
You bought into the con,
Hi-Ho, you're chewy-oh!
You bought into the con.
You're really screwed you know,
You're really screwed you know,
Hi-Ho, you're chewy-oh!
You're really screwed you know.
The leopards eat your face,
The leopards eat your face,
Hi-Ho, you're chewy-oh!
The leopards eat your face.
The leopards eat your face,
Hi-Ho, you're chewy-oh!
The leopards eat your face.
You voted for the Don,
You voted for the Don,
Hi-Ho, you're chewy-oh!
You voted for the Don.
You bought into the con,
You bought into the con,
Hi-Ho, you're chewy-oh!
You bought into the con.
You're really screwed you know,
You're really screwed you know,
Hi-Ho, you're chewy-oh!
You're really screwed you know.
The leopards eat your face,
The leopards eat your face,
Hi-Ho, you're chewy-oh!
The leopards eat your face.
Sunday, May 25th, 2025 03:49 pm
We're pretty clear on the cause, she got tangled up in some vines, and we've washed her foot carefully with soap and water. We'll wash all of her later and maybe soak her foot with some epsom salt, that should help. Well, I mean, the bath will just make her smell better, but the soak should help. I really, really don't want to go to the vet this week if I can avoid it, but if the swelling won't go down we may have to.
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2025 03:53 pm
Got a notice from Campus Health that I may have been exposed to measles in Hagey Hall on the 8th, between 5 PM and 11 PM.
Oddly, that's not a one-to-one correspondence with my shift on the 8th. My shift started at 3:45 PM. The client's company was there before me, so if they were the source, the warning should begin earlier. I wonder what time Plant Ops evening shifts begin?
Oddly, that's not a one-to-one correspondence with my shift on the 8th. My shift started at 3:45 PM. The client's company was there before me, so if they were the source, the warning should begin earlier. I wonder what time Plant Ops evening shifts begin?
Tuesday, May 20th, 2025 09:01 am

A horny but pious Mormon and a hot but godless scientist witness the wrath of an angry god.
That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made by Eric James Stone
Monday, May 19th, 2025 09:44 pm
When the march on the Tower of Guidance begins, Sothe knows his place is at Micaiah's side.Read here on AO3.
But Micaiah sends Sothe with Tibarn's army instead, to watch over Pelleas there.
Tibarn, the man who's threatened to kill Sothe once before. Tibarn, a man Sothe doesn't much respect or like. Tibarn, who is not Micaiah.
And also: Tibarn, the man that Sothe keeps having weird dreams about, ever since he threatened to kill him.
Sothe/Tibarn/Reyson, ~10k words.
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Saturday, May 24th, 2025 05:17 pm
I named her that, not the company. I thought it was a pretty, old-fashioned name, something buoyed by the fact that Charlotte in Charlotte Sometimes is told by her 50-years-ago counterpart's younger sister that it's funny that she has such an old-fashioned name - and that book was written in the 1960s!
Take a look at how often the names "Emma" and "Charlotte" appear on each state's top three names for girls.
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Take a look at how often the names "Emma" and "Charlotte" appear on each state's top three names for girls.
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Monday, May 19th, 2025 05:04 pm
With or without feet.
There's a few people in that thread adamantly going up and down asserting that, duh, how could the rest of us be so dumb as to not know that certain types of toilets are specifically designed to be flushed with the foot. None of them have provided any sort of evidence for this claim, which makes me think that their evidence boils down to "Mommy told me when I was a kid" or "Well, I flush with a foot so I just sort of assumed", and - man, I hate when people do that. Fucking back up your claims, or at least qualify them. "I was told by my preschool teacher, but I've never verified it" would be a lot more honest and less annoying.
Anyway, I have emailed the manufacturer most often mentioned in the comments to ask for their opinion. Mostly because that is how things ought to be done, but also because if these flushers are designed to be flushed with the foot, great, but if not then we have to ask if the other contingent, which is equally vociferously asserting that foot flushing increases wear and tear on the mechanism and causes breakdowns, needs to be taken seriously. Because what's really not okay is breaking the toilet for everybody who comes after you - and sure, you'll say that you are not the sole person responsible for breaking the toilet that much faster, but c'mon, everybody says that.
So let's see what we see, and in the meantime, let's also all wash our hands. With soap and water, thanks.
There's a few people in that thread adamantly going up and down asserting that, duh, how could the rest of us be so dumb as to not know that certain types of toilets are specifically designed to be flushed with the foot. None of them have provided any sort of evidence for this claim, which makes me think that their evidence boils down to "Mommy told me when I was a kid" or "Well, I flush with a foot so I just sort of assumed", and - man, I hate when people do that. Fucking back up your claims, or at least qualify them. "I was told by my preschool teacher, but I've never verified it" would be a lot more honest and less annoying.
Anyway, I have emailed the manufacturer most often mentioned in the comments to ask for their opinion. Mostly because that is how things ought to be done, but also because if these flushers are designed to be flushed with the foot, great, but if not then we have to ask if the other contingent, which is equally vociferously asserting that foot flushing increases wear and tear on the mechanism and causes breakdowns, needs to be taken seriously. Because what's really not okay is breaking the toilet for everybody who comes after you - and sure, you'll say that you are not the sole person responsible for breaking the toilet that much faster, but c'mon, everybody says that.
So let's see what we see, and in the meantime, let's also all wash our hands. With soap and water, thanks.
Monday, May 19th, 2025 01:58 pm

Rulebooks, Adventure Anthologies, + 4 adventures for the Old-School Essentials tabletop roleplaying rules set from Necrotic Gnome.
Old-School Essentials Advanced Fantasy Bundle
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