Swords Without Master A ttrpg of strange sorceries, ferocious deeds, and astounding wonder by Epidiah Ravachol.

Swords Without Master as an actual game! Not just buried in a zine! This is one of my favorite RPG/storygames; do it.

Also, just loading the bus: it stops and everyone has to do their own little transaction? Screw that, let's just drive.

My favorite deranged story is Lewandowski repeatedly retaliating against top DHS lawyers who won’t let him have a badge and govt issued gun like a big boy.

AI enthusiasm in my coworkers makes my skin crawl. I'm sure I'm just unusually pessimistic, but it just seems like an act of frenzied collective suicide.

Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino praised agent after shooting Marimar Martinez in Chicago, evidence shows A trove of evidence was released Tuesday in the controversial shooting of Marimar Martinez by a Border Patrol agent at the height of Operation Midway Blitz last October, including a body-worn camer…

Hours after Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum shot a Chicago woman 5 times, his boss, Cmdr. Greg Bovino, emailed him about extending his mandatory retirement.
"In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much left to do!!” Bovino wrote
Story:
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/10/m...

Yes, that's the goal. It's frustrating that the media act like this is just a series of weird surprises

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

The New Fabio Is Claude

fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

Gerda Wegener, Girl and Pug in An Automobile
(sketch for Front Page illustration in 'Vore Damer')

House of David (commune) - Wikipedia

TIL that an extremely skeevy early 20th century cult also fielded an extremely popular baseball team.

AI democratizes the arts the way a forest fire democratizes the forest. Like yeah, I guess it is all reduced to the same ruins afterward; take that trees.

Is there a name for "Yes but the fact that I fell for it just proves how true it is"?

I refuse to believe this isn't Wangechi Mutu

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

I always assume that it's because anyone not repelled by AI "arts" also tends to misunderstand art itself, and thus has no taste (not even that they don't share _my_ taste; just no taste at all).

"""[for MAGA,] Art does not serve anything like empathy, awe, catharsis, or transcendence. Rather, it’s a crude thing, a means of communicating cheap platitudes and reflexive ideology"""

I talked to a woman who quit an AUSA job recently. She was asked by main DOJ to dismiss a Medicare fraud prosecution because the defendant was the daughter of a girlfriend of a MAGA figure.

Tbh I would expect that they'd just pepper spray me immediately out of spite, because they know they're untouchable.

You could certainly counterargue that it is effectively a very expensive heuristic code-transform script and we'd all be better off just using lisp, but the world has unfortunately made their choice.

A narrow way in which it "works" is the performance of coding tasks that are easy to define in natural language but crushingly repetitive due to inexpressive languages and libraries. Statistically, within certain boundaries, it's much faster than a person and not more error-prone.

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

Is there a complement Turing test, for someone so boring that I suspect they're a bot?

1. Iron journalist rule: some people are authentic and some people aren’t. Farmers? Authentic. College profs? Not. There are around 1.9 million farms in America, and 1.5 million college teachers. Farmers aren’t authentic because there’s more of them. It's because journalists love cliches.

Stygian Library and Gardens of Ynn in cart!

Like, all evidence suggests that Vance is an absolute piece of shit. This is not solely because he's morally corrupt.

Technically the statement in the post is correct: empathy does not require agreement. However, I am not happy for them. I've wriggled out of your extremely leaky trap.

TikTok Strikes Deal for New U.S. Entity, Ending Long Legal Saga

The NYT can't be bothered to mention to readers that the new TikTok owners have a long history of not just repeated privacy violations, but overt support for anti-democratic right wing extremism. Just isn't of interest to the authors.

Bounced hard off of Ruskin's Stones of Venice. The guy is just such an insufferable prick that it feels like I can get better, less obnoxious insights elsewhere. Am I missing something?