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Increasingly Invisible Older Woman@pierrette1789.bsky.social |
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Carol Monahan: 30yr tabletop game-industry veteran. Ask me about the WotC basement! 😏
I've been @robespierrette for 20 years, but somebody’s camping on that here. 🤷♀️
VP of Crab Fragment, James Ernest’s game design studio: crabfragmentlabs.com
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Mitchell Epner
@mitchellepner.bsky.social
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If this were a normal election, President Biden would be extolling excellent economic news: inflation looks like it has not only been tamed, but turned around. Median wage growth (which excises returns for the top 1%) is outpacing inflation significantly. Unemployment is near record lows.
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Greg Greene
@greene.haus
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"Fasten your seat belts": buddy, Mr. Executive Editor of the New York Times, if Trump wins a second term on a program of authoritarian consolidation and takes office equipped with executive impunity, yours and other news outlets' concern shouldn't be the White House, but safe houses.
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Increasingly Invisible Older Woman
@pierrette1789.bsky.social
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My last babysitting job was during college - I babysat for an 11yo kid of a “returning student”, because it was illegal for her to leave him home alone. I did my homework, he did his, snd I tried not to bug him… or get offended when he was super-excited to turn 12 and be rid of me. 😏
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Increasingly Invisible Older Woman
@pierrette1789.bsky.social
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The perfect time for Biden to resign, IMHO, is next February. Kick Trump to the curb, hold the party together, get inaugurated, and suddenly discover a deep need to spend more time with the family. That’s how we’ll get our first female President, because sexism. 🫤
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Brendel
@brendelbored.bsky.social
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Them going after furries is a 1000x tougher fight for them than any judicial or civil rights organization they’ve messed with before
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Aaron Sojourner
@aaronsojourner.org
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"We're gonna put kids in cages. It's gonna be glorious." - Mike Davis, former Chief Counsel of Nominations for Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Grassley, on what he'd do if he worked in the next Trump administration's Justice Department.
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
@diplomatofnight.com
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Do not fret I have been reliably told it is okay to give the Israelis these bombs that are used to kill children because if we didn't then someone else might give them bombs to kill children with and then we wouldn't have the leverage and influence that we refuse to use
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Michael Clark
@smintheus.bsky.social
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Democratic messaging should be shifting from "Look up Project 2025" to "Learn *more about P2025". Partly bc the more you know about P2025, the more horrifying it is. Mostly bc the best political propaganda encourages ppl to find ways to invest further in things they know & ideas they already hold.
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Amanda Smith
@amandasmith.bsky.social
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Call your rep today to encourage them to support AOC’s articles of impeachment. I will block anyone who tells me why they, personally, cannot and therefore why it’s pointless.
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Paperback Paradise
@paperbackparadise.bsky.social
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Book
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
@gonebabygone.bsky.social
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It’s a workers’ party now
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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not sure what’s going here but there is basically no way that anyone who works for The Heritage Foundation would be shaken by learning that the organization opposes abortion and Obamacare
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Angie Wang
@okchickadee.bsky.social
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OMG.
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Increasingly Invisible Older Woman
@pierrette1789.bsky.social
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Quote-posting for the nominative determinism. An expert whose visits are being mischaracterized is named “Cannard” (😒 canard )
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And, experts visit the WH all the time w/regards to policy issues & impending ones. The NYT could have also checked up on any legislation that might be related to an expert's visit to the WH, rather than running this irresponsible headline & article.
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Mark Chadbourn
@chadbourn.bsky.social
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More on that “peace” agenda. Medvedev: “Even if Ukraine surrenders the territories we claim and renounces NATO aspirations in exchange for a peace deal, sooner or later we would still have to put the nail into the coffin of Ukrainian statehood and return the rest of the country’s lands to Russia”.
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Mondoweiss
@mondoweiss.net
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Israel’s leading paper says its own army deliberately killed Israelis on October 7. But in the U.S. media: silence.
mondoweiss.net/2024/07/isra...
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Increasingly Invisible Older Woman
@pierrette1789.bsky.social
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I recently applied for (but didn’t get considered) for a COO position with a small-becoming-midsize company. I thought that having built out multiple departments at a startup, followed by 20 years as an entrepreneur (including being in their field) might get me an interview. But no, I guess. 😒🤷♀️
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B. A. Friedman
@bafriedman.bsky.social
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DHS is the agency to worry about under any administration. It’s a Frankenstein’s monster of bad ideas and the Coast Guard.
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Increasingly Invisible Older Woman
@pierrette1789.bsky.social
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BTW: You should follow me back, or send me a msg here, or on LinkedIn, or wherever-the-f#%%. We really need to swap game-industry war-stories! 😁
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Boomer NV
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Portland Man
@erikgunderson.bsky.social
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I always said that it was very weird that in the Great Cultural Divorce, liberals should wind up with the NFL. Yet here we are. Also I'd like to thank Project 2025 for imposing their religious preferences on me in the name of [checks notes] religious freedom.
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Jessica Pishko
@jesspish.bsky.social
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Tired: Project 2025 wants to bring back the Sabbath. Wired: Project 2025 will ban Sunday sportsball games and forget about getting beer.
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Kat Corrine 🏳️⚧️✨
@katcorrine.bsky.social
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yeah it's not great kids are falling for this but the professional, educated adults taking the bait is what's really concerning. also we've just replaced step one of munroe's citogenesis with poorly implemented hallucination machines
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Bossett
@bossett.social
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Bad, but kids are stupid - they can learn past this (I hope). I've seen professional adults use chatgpt as a source (referenced and everything) because they "couldn't find this fact anywhere else". And then - because they're trusted professionals - other people cite *that* work, and...
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John Leavitt
@leavittalone.bsky.social
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everything about downward mobility is presented first as a fun lifestyle choice - you’re not a hobo chasing precarious warehouse job you’re a fun, freedom loving car dweller! It’s not a tenement it’s a new lifestyle hack! It’s not moonshine it’s unarmed bourbon!
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Ed Zitron
@zitron.bsky.social
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i deeply underestimated how many people would see this lol
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@crashcityrocker.bsky.social
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I’ve done ad campaigns before and will run it for $20/hr. My national campaign will be ad buys on every NFL game with a anti-Trump ads whose goal is to get everyone watching the game to turn to the MAGAest dude in the room and go “what the fuck, man? What is this shit?”
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Increasingly Invisible Older Woman
@pierrette1789.bsky.social
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Sometimes I get to make the closing announcements at work. I delight in saying, “The time is now 6pm, which means we are *closed*. If you’re still here, and you don’t work here, come up to a register immediately, so we can let you out!” 😂
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Increasingly Invisible Older Woman
@pierrette1789.bsky.social
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I have been working retail recently, because ageism (see my handle 🙄), and thank God the minimum wage in Seattle is almost $20/hr. It almost feels like I’m getting paid. 😅
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Jessica Pishko
@jesspish.bsky.social
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Viable rural organizing strategy: Trump will make every rural town a Bitcoin mining nightmare.
time.com/6982015/bitc...
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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My Solomonic view is that NYT—perhaps the president’s primary persecutor recently—showed its whole ass with this swiss-cheese Parkinson’s specialist story. It’s blatantly copied from right-wing charlatans, unvetted. And a nimbler White House and campaign would be making it pay dearly for that.
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A.R. Moxon
@juliusgoat.bsky.social
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It feels as if the more you differentiate from fascists the more popular you get, just a random thing I noticed.
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Tikkun Olamunist - ירמל גרױס
@tikkunolamunist.bsky.social
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From the Mishnah (Pirkei Avos), one of my favorite Jewish quotes.
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Increasingly Invisible Older Woman
@pierrette1789.bsky.social
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And then I spent months trying to convince everyone not to order so much FE. *I* called Belgium to stop the presses when it all went to shit.😒 IMHO, the ECP worried the bubble was soon to burst. They rescheduled FE (which got them royalties) ahead of Homelands (which got them none). 🤔
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Increasingly Invisible Older Woman
@pierrette1789.bsky.social
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There’s a story out there (on Planet Money!) of the East Coast Playtesters saying it was a strategic decision (theirs) to overprint Fallen Empires “to purposefully tank the secondary market”. 🙄 I was on the show floor with Peter when my biggest customers pressured him to “print to order”. 😒
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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NYT Coup Attempt Fails; Relied On Annoying People Nobody Wanted To Talk To And Wordle Hints
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Timothy Burke
@bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us
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It was a common euphemism for Jews who marched with MLK and others
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Increasingly Invisible Older Woman
@pierrette1789.bsky.social
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::choking:: Oh. My. 😒
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Increasingly Invisible Older Woman
@pierrette1789.bsky.social
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And now it’s almost red as it sets…
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Increasingly Invisible Older Woman
@pierrette1789.bsky.social
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I’m all ears. 😆
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Increasingly Invisible Older Woman
@pierrette1789.bsky.social
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I’ve known Doug since I used to buy comics from his shop in St. Louis in the ‘80s.😁 The Aronses were late additions at Wizards, whom I occasionally had friction with - one of several reasons I didn’t wind up at the Pikachu Mill™️. 😏
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Increasingly Invisible Older Woman
@pierrette1789.bsky.social
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I was at Wizards of the Coast so early, there was no such thing as an NDA. And in a grievous oversight, Hasbro didn’t make me sign one, either. Probably thought Wizards had me under one. 😏 Sadly my long-proposed memoir title got scooped: “House of Cards” 😁
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Increasingly Invisible Older Woman
@pierrette1789.bsky.social
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Little tiny crescent #moon from our place in #Vegas.
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Popehat
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Regular old murderer expresses disgust for serial killer
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Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
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One thing I've learned the hard way in news is that whenever there's a situation where I think "this is untenable, it can't go on like this!" it's goes on for a shockingly long time.
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Bxknits
@bxknits.bsky.social
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What It’s Like to Survive Measles
Gift article
wapo.st/3RVXw6F
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Annee B.
@anneebananee.bsky.social
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I agree with this writer…
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/o...
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trc
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The American Elevator Explains Why Housing Costs Have Skyrocketed www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/o...
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Rebecca Brückmann
@historleans.bsky.social
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Well, calling it out is a good start, @washingtonpost.com. Now: How about you do some journalism, then, and cover the GOP's 2024 platform and "Project 2025" in depth and on your front page, perhaps even without the insincere and lazy "some experts say" and "both sides" qualifiers? wapo.st/3VWvtoD
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