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Caias Ward

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Pro Writer, CDCTP, Master HVACR Tech, He/Him I write working class speculative fiction. Fascists get nothing. Buy my games.

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New Storygame, Who Dis?

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Attention: all "alpha males" are now to be called "ligma males". Adjust your language accordingly.

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He did just call him a felon. Then Trump went 'but Hunter'...

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I don't feel the need to talk politely with people who support genocide, hate crimes, bigotry, anti-worker actions, or imperialism. Expecting me to do so means you prize civility over justice, and will weaponize civility to silence those seeking justice.

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One you put on the chaps, you have loaned them your ass. They are no longer "assless chaps", but something greater than they were before. You, too, are better for them, having entered into the symbiotic relationship with them. Their protection. Your ass.

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I wrote a roleplaying game about being members of a goblin jug band. Kind of had to use crowdfunding to make that thing happen, being a niche of a niche.

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Artists! What companies do you use to make and sell your stickers?

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Newbern, Alabama – a small town an hour away from Selma – will hold its first legitimate elections in over 60 years after a four-year legal battle The proposed settlement will also reinstate Patrick Braxton, who sued white leadership, as the mayor

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For Asteroid City, I think it was the framing device which kept me so pulled out of the work I couldn't buy into it.

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So, a human shield?

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Ordered my cover for my next RPG. Guess I'm going to have to publish the thing now...

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"You don't like being you? Try being someone else for a few hours!" Being playing over 40 years now.

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You don't have to be civil to racists. They rely on you thinking you do in order to validate their positions and make others think you are in the wrong for not being 'nice' or 'polite' to them. Go on. Be belligerent to a racist as a treat. You earned it.

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This work week was physically exhausting.

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"But Black Dynamite, all my writing is anti-establishment!"

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"Woof woof woof" Man of many dog imitations...

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Where is the TikTok "Tear down the Ten Commandments in the Classroom Challenge"?

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I know why the ultra wealthy seem so alien. That kind of money buys *agency*. You can literally reshape reality with those sums. You have no need to work within the systems in place. And this feeds back, where when they do run into something they can't reshape, *it* is the alien thing, not them.

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Certainly. We're all trapped in systems, but it doesn't mean we should run headlong into the most-worst option because it's easy. I was speaking more broadly.

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I helped found the funding of a science lab at Stockton working on climate matters with money from my union HVAC job. You don't have to be a fed to support arts, science, and equity. These people just want permission to not have to make ethical choices.

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Her feed on Twitter is like second-hand smelling burnt toast.

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She was always classist and big on respectability politics. She covered it well but lashed out at anyone who questioned her.

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And it's the same thing all the time:: TechBro (and Wu is a TechBro) gets the mildest pushback and swings hard right under the guise of "rationality" and "reason".

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Brianna Wu is on her shit again, in a now-deleted Tweet.

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But do they use pronouns?

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"I'mma smol bean, don't hold me responsible for war crimes or I'll cry uwu"

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The boy this man murdered was named Hazrat Ali Rohani.

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Two small cars, one for each foot!

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I'm sad I live in a world where even those close to me don't ask to read what I write or what my favorite dinosaur is... (It's Triceratops. He's a low-slung boy who protects his neck as the Wu-Tang commanded, what's not to love?)

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do you even KNOW how terrible someone has to be to make me be cheering on the issuers of the Stored Communications Act subpoena with accompanying gag order rather than the recipient of the etc? Anyway, let's go FBI!!!

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Commercial spaces are expensive to convert and lack windows. Also, even to encourage it would require massive changes to tax code before it could happen. But mostly, commercial buildings lack exterior windows compared to their square footage.

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(I'm a Master HVACR contractor in my state btw, so I'm talking from subject matter knowledge rather than the confidence of a mediocre White man.)

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Talk with three contractors, get all in quotes, pick what you like. Higher SEER the better.

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Sounds like a 1 ton system will do it, or 1.5 ton. Mitsubishi and Trane both have that size. Hm.

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Current system is forced air?

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Your technician should be able to size the unit appropriately. Is it a stock issue for the size you need?

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Remember when the most important issue was civility in politics because restaurant workers politely decline to serve Sarah Sanders and now everyone targeted by Trump or his cronies needs private security and we don’t talk about civility much anymore www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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My wife has a Black Baccara, which is a 5-10 zone

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The Cool S, if not hand-drawn, has no power.

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Please, this is artistic justice, not something playing to an obscene or prurient nature...

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The only people who've ever held Trump meaningfully accountable over the last nine years have been ordinary Americans and they've spent that entire time being lectured to and berated by elites who've failed to do anything.

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I work in a data center. Always a fun time when you get to hold the stick.

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Colm Meaney as O'Brien

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Hope everything came out alright!!!

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Writing some non-genre fiction. Let's see how this goes.

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This. A million times this. There are a lot of us anti-zionist jews out there. The israeli gov is a terrible, fucked up, den of fucked up. That doesn't make us bad jews, and it doesn't mean you get to be antisemitic about it.

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Does anyone have recommendations for blue-collar writers who write genre fiction, especially short stories? Recent work and authors would be appreciated.

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