king toot uncommon :bc: 🏴

if you like, or are at least curious about, Actual Play stuff, and you rightly think Harry Potter is extremely problematic, I absolutely recommend Dimension 20's deconstruction of it: https://youtu.be/C1VffF1Z5-Y?si=AMM11UmGn2h_JKnn

#ttrpg #actualplay #dimension20

kotek needs a high-profile conflict with trump soon, where she is seen to stand up to him or the administration, or she will soon not be governor #orpol

Reading It Did Happen Here and realizing all the hard and scary work so many people did to wrest Portland from neo-Nazi dominance in the 80s. Those of us (and I only include myself very lightly in this number) who stood up to Patriot Prayer and Proud Boys when they tried to take it back, we stood on shoulders of truly remarkable comrades. #pdx #AntiFascist #NaziPunksFuckOff

The lesson of the day is: if you're writing something you will one day sell, you need a tarpit to keep AI people from stealing it. If you're posting radical political shit, you need that in as many subreddits as possible so you can make the stochastic parrot breeders mad. #ai #AI_slop

So I gutted my way through FFX, and it was in fact a real slog. An enjoyable slog (is that a thing?), but it is a really heavy, slow game. Absolute banger nü-metal intro song. Last time I played it I was a forlorn college student. X-2 came out while I still had access to a PS2 but I passed on it, it seemed goofy. But!...

Actually I'm really digging X-2. If FFX was intentional, methodical, a meditation on death with a water-polo minigame, soaring instrumentals punctuated by metal, then X-2 is entirely the opposite. I heard it described as Final Fantasy: Charlie's Angels, and well, not wrong! But there's nothing bad about a fun adventure with a banger J-Pop intro song (and sequence), a gambling minigame, and heist movie music and aesthetics.

All this to say, sucks that I was a chauvinist hater back then, this game owns.

#FinalFantasy #FFX #FinalFantasyX #FinalFantasyX2

replaying FFX and I had forgotten that a bikini milf ghost sorceress wants to kill you for heresy

#FinalFantasyX #wtf

Had a wild conversation with a local PDX mom about Multnomah County's Preschool for All that made me wonder if politics really isn't completely over.

Background: A handful of us were hanging out in a place where people would generally shoot the shit and also a place that attracts that "comfortable middle income" part of the so-called working class.

We had just had a chat with a friend who is a little hard up, and who is up for a raise at work. She expressed that she was hoping the raise was "this much" but not "that much" because she's pregnant and can't afford to lose OHP (Oregon Medicare). We'll call this person Emma.

The other person (we'll call her Liz) went on a mini-rant about Preschool for All (despite planning to be using the service soon), claiming that the large number of new providers in Northeast was a sign that the administrators didn't care about poor people.

She went on to express that liberal sort of concern that there is no means testing in the program. I pointed out that means testing is the reason Emma doesn't want a raise and that that is bad for an economy, and she conceded that at least.

A moment later, she half-lamented, "I guess they're going to get what they want, which is a higher birth rate."
Me: 🤔
Liz: "Yeah, my husband and I are now thinking we could afford another kid if we're in Preschool for All."
Me: <nervous laughter because why are you upset about this>

I don't know who Liz thinks pushed Preschool for All to the ballot box and ran the canvassing for it. Maybe this is just a case of "Friends don't let friends read the Oregonian."

This is just one data point, but it seems absolutely counter to the argument that you get socialism to be popular by enacting socialism at the ballot box. That said, PfA is a good in itself so I'm glad it is in force even if it isn't going to bring the Rev. Thoughts? Too much emphasis on one person's experience? Indicative of an unsolved issue in popular ideology?

#pdx #socialism #PreschoolForAll #UniversalChildcare

Creating a horrifying drink called the Cypress: it's just Mocha and Chai

#SDET #QA #TerribleJokes

Literary ass bumper sticker idea: "i side with those who favor fire"

#fuckICE #RobertFrost

KATU covering the pro-invasion rally of like two dozen people breathlessly and fully ignoring the much larger anti-invasion rally, the consent manufacturing machine really squealing from the strain #katu #portland #pdx #iran #NoWarForOil

The fact that KATU is running a long ass right-wing propaganda "national news" segment that's taking the whole morning news show is definitely a sign that they know they're losing

#Portland #katu #ABC

"all you had to do was pay us enough to live" #LAFires #KimberlyClark #poverty #uspol

ACAB both does and does not include the third policeman #FlannOBrien

hotboxing the total perspective vortex #hgttg