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Alt Bureau of Labor Statistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · Aug 23

Honestly, I think that does it. I'm going to have to get this to the table.

Alt Bureau of Labor Statistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · Aug 23

Initial thoughts on The Lions of Tell-Arn Part II:
- A tad over-formatted
- Sometimes missing gameable info (you're telling me those tarnished silver rods have no treasure value?)
- Missed opportunities to give NPCs/monsters personality, esp. for the living giant
- Fantastic A+ module

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Alt Bureau of Labor Statistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · Aug 22

Little known fact, 1 billion kilograms of fentanyl are smuggled into the US through flat pack furniture every day

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · Aug 22

Donald Trump Announces Major Tariff Investigation on Furniture Imports 🏛️🪑

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · Aug 22

“It’s safe to elect Trump because the guardrails we voted to remove will keep him from removing the guardrails we removed.” -the average American actually thought this

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Aug 22

Fox 17 Nashville reports that Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from criminal detention in Tennessee and is on his way home to Maryland.

“Today, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free,” his attorney, @sean-hecker.bsky.social, said in a statement.

fox17.com/news/local/k...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia free from Tennessee jail and returning home to Maryland, lawyer says

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been freed from Putnam County Jail and is on his way to reunite with his family in Maryland, his lawyer confirms to FOX 17 News.

fox17.com

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · Aug 22

normal people don't say "triggered" or "heteronormative," they say they gave their life to christ in a cracker barrel parking lot

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Alt Bureau of Labor Statistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · Aug 22

The lesson: develop a smash hit indie game and then dangle the sequel over everyone’s head for years

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · Aug 22

“building high rise buildings next to single family zoned isn’t safe for many reasons”

meanwhile in Toronto

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · Aug 22

I know there's a lot of controversy about the Cracker Barrel logo, so I worked up a new option that should be good with everyone... The barrel is back, but it's now guarded by Scubble, The Cracker Goblin. I also worked up a new slogan for the company!

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · Aug 22

This sort of admission—the VP is involved in prosecutorial decisions, the "concerns" arise from political actors, and the administration knows they don't have probable cause—would have prompted the Founders to impeach everyone involved.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 22

JD Vance: "We're in the very early stages of an ongoing investigation into John Bolton ... if we think Ambassador Bolton committed a crime, of course eventually prosecutions will come ... there's a broad concern about Ambassador Bolton."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 22

That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.

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Alt Bureau of Labor Statistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · Aug 22

The important line is whether you read it as an ethical question about like utilitarianism or whether you read the actual words and interpreted them correctly

Alt Bureau of Labor Statistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · Aug 22

It’s genuinely just not a huge redesign. Also whatever these people are saying about loving the old design, clearly people weren’t eating there, so…

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Alt Bureau of Labor Statistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · Aug 22

Here’s the interiors they’re going apeshit over btw

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please be nice to patrick @nicetopatrick.bsky.social · Aug 22

holding heteronormative space for throwing third way out of the overton window

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Alt Bureau of Labor Statistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · Aug 22

It is your patriotic duty to fill out this survey. You don’t care that it costs the government money and you’re very likely to use it under any circumstance.

Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · Aug 22

Treasury is required to produce a report to Congress related to Direct File, the free tax filing option that the current administration intends to kill. They've created a survey with a bunch of leading questions. The survey deserves some responses supportive of the program to counteract its framing:

IRS asks for public input on free tax filing options to inform congressional report | Internal Revenue Service

IR-2025-85, Aug. 21, 2025 — The IRS invites the public to participate in an anonymous feedback survey on tax preparation and filing options, which will run through Sept. 5, 2025.

www.irs.gov

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Ample Vigour But A Scary Pun @amplevigour.bsky.social · Aug 22

i would simply mobilize the polis against our tyrant

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · Aug 22

This is like saying you should solve being short rent money this month by winning the lotto, it's just assuming a good outcome with nothing constructive behind it at all.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · Aug 22

It seems like we're perpetually one step away from realizing that the political press is the primary driving force of the polarization of the American political ecosystem.

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Alt Bureau of Labor Statistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · Aug 22

Preacher masculinity in shambles

Alt Bureau of Labor Statistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · Aug 22

Pervert masculinity has won absolute cultural victory on the right

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Aug 22

the guy who was following OnlyFans girls on main?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Aug 22

Breaking News: Joe Gruters, a Trump ally and a Florida state senator, won the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee after running unopposed.

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You Might Know Jack-O-Lantern @lessweirdjack.bsky.social · Aug 22

…in all seriousness how do you not it’s a giant restaurant selling a facsimile of an idealized past so it can sell fried apples and tchotchkes.

It’s a physical space of hyperreality where you eat biscuits and gravy. It’s the one place I’d take Klosterman and Derrida to eat at together if I could.

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Alt Bureau of Labor Statistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · Aug 22

The last time I was in a Cracker Barrel I said aloud “this is weirdly similar to eating at a Disney land restaurant. It’s highly themed to feel like grandma’s dining room, but at the same time it’s packed like a cafeteria, and there’s a gift shop”

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