Andy of Autumn
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Andy of Autumn
@andysmaps.bsky.social
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Mapmaker. Scribbler. Yeller. Painter now? Following me is a poor life choice. Sorry.
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when you have defeated the interloper
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Viva la Vida is Austin, TX's longest running Dia de los Muertos celebration, in its 39th year, sponsored by the Mexic-Arte Museum.

This year's parade had a special theme of 'Flores de la Ofrenda' (flowers of the altar), celebrating the significance of the marigold, chrysanthemum & carnation.
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Hey, I can talk about EU5 now.

It's good! It is very complex, it is complex by the standards of a Paradox game. But it also embraces a historical vision that sees a wider range of actors than just states - both people within states and people outside of them.
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Miscellania: Europa Universalis V Confirmed! (First Impressions)
Something different this week! The folks at Paradox Development Studios were nice enough to give me a review copy of the upcoming Europa Universalis V (releasing Nov. 4) ahead of release so that I …
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Finding out at the last minute that no other parents are able to help take this group of middle schoolers trick-or-treating and it's all on me to keep track of them all. 😬
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This part! Platner's platform at present is a generic dime-store knockoff of Bernie Sanders's, and he brings absolutely nothing new or unique to the table as a candidate. His actual *campaign* itself is running almost entirely on white "working class" aesthetics – which is all that they are!
Most of the defenses of Platner are like "yeah he made a stupid personal life decision but you have to weigh that against his great political views" and to me that seems like some serious begging the question?
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ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume
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My last Halloween as a Controller.

Time for a (Nintendo) Switch.
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Love ‘em.
Nothing is scarier to Warhammer fans than loose adherence to canon!
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I used to drive through this exact intersection a few times a week on my way to and from work and, I get it
Someone in my neighborhood got FED. UP.
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“We’re building a new cryptocurrency that will—“

Stop right there. You working on something also isn’t news. That’s PR. You want positive spin and investment in your company and industry.

That is not the responsibility of any self-respecting newsroom.
the center must never miss an opportunity to purge the far left even when the problem is clearly someone the centrist consultants plucked up and made into The Future
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BREAKING via AP

Judges order the federal government to use contingency funds for SNAP food aid payments during the shutdown.
I quite liked this one! In between the "OH GOD WHAT"
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so many people have a problem with "the far left" because they think far left is jacobin, pod save america types and bernie sanders

your real problem is with centrists. there is no meaningful representation of leftist politics in the US today
I think we all need to take a moment and identify the fact that the current spat of Nazi apology (Graham Platner) is coming from the far-left, not the liberal base.

The far-left has had a Nazi problem for a long time. Not like the right, at all, but significant enough that it needs to be purged.
no, you just want a purge of the far left because they disagreed with you about something.
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Seven venial sins this week, huh? Lets see seven of those fingers
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I think @sgj.bsky.social should write a follow-up to the excellent “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter” except this time it’s a supernatural entity slaughtering polyamorous couples who are searching for single ladies.

Call it “The Unicorn Hunter Hunter.”
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A reminder that the original Hallowe'en jack o' lanterns date back to 18th century Ireland if not earlier, were based on a shady boozy blacksmith called Stingy Jack who cheated the devil & was trapped between 2 worlds, were carved from turnips and looked like this:
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Tomorrow when the traveler passes these trunkless legs, he will remark on how nothing beside remains round the decay of that colossal wreck

But tonight, the visage gazes at the stars its sculptor and subject once knew well. Through shattered stone eyes, there are twice as many stars as usual.
Even if it doesn't go on a model, it can make a good basing bit! Even out of scale, as these 10mm WW2 soldiers got put oonto a 2mm? church. I've used industrial pipes on Battletech minis.
But I don't have a big collection yet, so I love that my LGS sells bits by-the-bag from nicely organized jars.
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A truly extraordinary document. Judge Rodriguez throws out the indictment because "the Government’s conduct is so shocking to the universal sense of justice that it should be deprived of the opportunity to prosecute the Defendant." Hard to count all the different ways ICE lied throughout this case.
As Marcy notes, @seamushughes.bsky.social is doing such critically important work. Here, folks should read Judge Rodriguez's opinion (to which Marcy links) for themselves.

It's a chilling account of what's become standard practice in ICE arrests these days—from a district judge who is no firebrand.
This dismissal opinion on a failed ICE arrest that @seamushughes.bsky.social found is worth reading in its entirety. Come for the debunking of DHS "fiction," stay for the snark about wiener dog, but definitely take time to read the 18 USC 111 analysis.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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you know someone hasn’t studied the history of liberalism when they assume that if you anger and demean liberals past a certain point, they’ll just politely give up
I think fundamentally the problem with post liberal thinkers is that they seem to assume that vanquishing liberalism results in their enemies being converted or defeated and not becoming radicalized into enemies who no longer extend the mercies they once did.