I have a relative who firmly believes that the blame belongs on individuals not systems. And like, I get where he's coming from, but systems define what choices people *can* make and what choices they are incentivized to make. Fix the damned system.
Yup utterly baffling to me. It used to be my main I can buy locally instead of from Amazon option. If someone decided to waltz into the we don't suck as bad as everyone else space right now they'd make a killing. I literally haven't found a replacement for them, but I'm also never going back.
Well that's one of the fastest follows I've ever clicked.
1985, I was nine. I didn't learn about it until my 40's
People really do not want to talk about the reality of the Covid pandemic being a test we failed in regards to eugenics and Necro politics being normalized and centralized as facets of governmental response to everything from climate, pandemics to war.
This shift was a direct shift towards fascism
The ex-skinheads I know have all gone hard in the be good people direction, even if they started out on the wrong end of that spectrum.
Even before we get frost, my garden kale is sweet! It just gets even better after it frosts.
It is one of the deeper disconnects in world view that I have with people who were raised as Christian. Explaining that you are not the harm that was done, it's just a thing that needs fixing is almost impossible.
This is so important
And I could do a whole thread on how Christianity fucked up our culture around apologies and shame and being other-oriented vs self-oriented when addressing harm
focusing on self-flagellation is selfish
and it’s a construction that makes people want to avoid being wrong
Kale blew my mind. What do you mean kale is supposed to be sweet?
Ugh. The amount of "words have meaning" that I want to smack this person over the head with.
Hmm, I might actually do that.
I loved my Swiss army knife as a kid. It had all the things, although I pretty much only used it for carving sticks.
Harvest
©2026 - acrylics on cast resin and paper
I was wondering why I hadn't heard Oberwiess's name recently. They can keep him.
Pretty sure my AEG playtester NDA expired over a decade ago.. That man was quite the piece of ego in a suit. I have friends who worked under him at AEG and man, the stories are pretty much never ending.
These days I'm pretty ok with it, and mostly happy to be asked, but oof, being 12 and dragged up to the front of a classroom to have someone use me like a doll to show how my joints moved was kinda traumatic.
I dealt with teaching hospitals and cutting edge surgeries when I was a kid, and omg. Sometimes it was really cool being able to show off how weird I was, and sometimes it was like being an object put on display.
This. Omg, so much this. Writing is mostly me figuring out how to clarify what I think and more specifically why I think it. Much of the time I'm learning that as I write.
Many times I will do that and then immediately realize it does need saying out loud, but now I know it and can build on it.
Did this piece for a class and it drove me mildly bonkers. I got a say you really nailed the face.
Eight small miniature bases with a multitude of cat miniatures on them.
Finished these little guys up a couple of weeks ago. Nice to have one less thing poking at me to get it done already.
Currently working on the still life flat. Just needs to be matted and that one will be finished as well. Something about this time of year produces a spree of finishing projects.
I feel like I need a list of 1980 and 90's movies that I can point people at at go "this, only worse"
This looks excellent. Do you know where I can find something like this for Lake County?
I admit I was thinking more in relation to board games and somewhat lesser minis games. But there are a lot of RPGs where if they don't have a good index the book is unusable, and that feels like a problem.
Not just explaining, but explaining to people with no background knowledge. Sooo many games treat their rulebooks like technical manuals, it's nuts. A good rulebook should feel like a demo script not a textbook.
As someone who has done a lot of teaching and demoing of games, the number of times that I have desperately wanted to rewrite a rulebook is more than I can count.
Agreed, and because of that I wince every time I read a poorly written rulebook. Newbies have a hard enough time without having to bounce across 16 pages of dense reiterative language that could be condensed down to 8 and some pictures if the writer had any sense of clarity and brevity.
I've been pretty uncomfortable with calamari ever since I started learning about octopi. On the other hand the more I learn about chickens the more fine I am with eating them.
