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Mel
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Very normal about my D&D characters. Will probably complain about fascism a lot and also talk about D&D stuff, maybe. Likes painting tiny minis and nails.

They/he queer
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So apparently I was right to shittalk m00t this week because it's been revealed that his boneheaded decision to establish /pol/ and subsequently ruin the website was allegedly born out of a one-on-one meeting with Jeffery Epstein.
January 31, 2026 at 3:18 AM
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For Liam.
January 30, 2026 at 7:04 AM
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This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.
yeah, just out of interest, how many people choose the pen on the right for real work or art? See a lot of them in professional workplaces, do you?
January 22, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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Apologies for any false raised hopes
January 21, 2026 at 4:35 AM
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This, ladies, gentlemen and those in between, is called 'clientalism'.

It is a scourge of authoritarian and single party states. You have to be in with the state/party to get basic services, access to education, pretty much anything.

www.cnn.com/2026/01/19/p...
Recruiter pitches joining the military to Minneapolis high school students to protect their families from ICE | CNN Politics
A military recruiter in Minnesota, pointing to fears over the ongoing ICE operations in Minneapolis, promoted joining the National Guard to high school students highlighting a program that can offer t...
www.cnn.com
January 20, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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The article says immigration agents took this kid's phone.

And then the phone showed up for sale at a vending machine near an ICE facility?

Did ICE agents STEAL and SELL this kid's PHONE?

This obviously isn't the worst of what's described in the article. But it tells you something.
January 13, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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December 19, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.
January 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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working on these ideas now
January 3, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Made a very normal level of prop for my solo D&D game yesterday of an entire 60 page hardcover book made from scratch. Surely, this is a normal level for a prop that's mostly some campaign lore and a dude talking about a boy he likes.
December 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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People sometimes ask me what harm AltNPS is doing, and it's this. This right here.

AltNPS didn't do ANYTHING for this cause, and never even mentioned it before today. @protectparks.bsky.social is who made the difference (among others), but lots of people will now believe it was AltNPS.
December 22, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.
December 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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PSA: Our roadmap for 2026:
December 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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There's a pretty great Tumblr post about this:
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Little Sunfish
November 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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and honestly im sick of not pushing back on this specifically

you want to advance human civilization?

- universal health care
- ubi
- green energy
- high speed rail and public transportation
- free education through college
November 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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The fuckers got away with it.

The company. The people who made the decisions. All of them.

They got away with killing hundreds for the sake of a few cents per share of increased earnings. 🤬
*US DISMISSES BOEING CRIMINAL CHARGE OVER 737 MAX JET CRASHES
November 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale

The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
November 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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You're not a shitposter just because what you post is absolute shit
October 24, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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"Federal agents are endangering neighbors, police + firefighters with their “relentless” use of tear gas, pepper spray + rubber bullets....A sniper with rubber bullets at the top of the ICE facility...shot protesters, breaking another building’s window..." blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/26/i...
ICE Is 'Making War' On Broadview — And It Must Stop, Suburban Mayor Says
Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson released a public letter Friday to Russell Hott, the local field office director for Homeland Security, criticizing federal agents' use of tear gas and rubber bullets ...
blockclubchicago.org
September 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Hi, I served in Afghanistan: this is an obscenity and a perversion against both Christianity and America. Fuck this shit forever. Thanks.
September 21, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."
Regardless of the disgraceful nonsense we will likely hear from this administration in the coming days on vaccine “recommendations,” Americas healthcare insurers issued a joint statement tonight saying coverage for Covid and flu shots will remain unchanged from prior years.

Speaks for itself.
September 17, 2025 at 3:03 AM
My wife and I play D&D to calm down and feel some joy. Like... So much D&D. She jokes that every time she gets stressed at politics, she adds another queer person as an NPC. It's a very queer world at this point, lol.
So like how are y'all dealing with the fear?
September 16, 2025 at 12:24 AM