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Saw this deer on a hike with @wplalonde recently.
Sorry about the quality, compression really did a number on this one and it's a bit late for me to fix it now.
Topic: Gaming and Gender names
Dear folks who are respectful of preferred genders...
I play a breeding game, Ark. Some pets have no gender, and can breed with any member of it's/their species. I like to put 'Ms' for my ladies, and 'Mr' for my dudes in other species.
Do I name the non-gender as Mx, or something else? I been naming them Mx, but dont want to be offensive.
Opinions appreciated.
A+ joke
News: Senator-elect Peggy Flanagan calls for new leadership of Senate Democrats
"I am tremendously grateful for Chuck Schumer's leadership … and I think it is time for new leadership," Flanagan said, repeating a campaign promise to support an alternative.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/senator-elect-peggy-flanagan-calls-201746908.html
Just do it!
OK I looked up "Hoist with his own petard" and it means one is tossed up in the air by the bomb they were making for others.
So it's the Republicans who thought they'd just gerrymander their way to endless power who have been hoisted by their own disgusting pasta plate looking maps.
Contemporary version: "Fracked by their own grenades"
"Lauren Boebert would need to win 51.3% of the remaining vote to catch or overtake Eileen Laubacher, who leads." per NBC News
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-elections/colorado-us-house-district-4-results
End her.
WHAT ARE NEXT?
Are there any differences in, say, the amount of grassroots organizing in FL vs other states? Or other reasons that things turned out the way they did?
I think demographics have always had an impact in FL, particularly elderly retirees. Maybe it's just a steeper hill to climb.
@darth_hideout
Great questions. But I really don't have guesses for any of them.
We used to be a 'purple state'. That feels like so long ago...
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Saw this deer on a hike with @wplalonde recently.
Sorry about the quality, compression really did a number on this one and it's a bit late for me to fix it now.
#library holds are fucking metal, what do you mean I click a little button that says "yes I would like to read this book" and then little trucks drive all around my city so I can pick up said book at a convenient location close to me???
I am reminded of "if libraries didn't already exist, there's no way we'd get them today". WE MUST PROTECT THEM AT ALL COSTS
Seeing videos of Minnesotans placing their "I Voted" stickers on the memorial to the victims murdered by ICE broke me this morning.
Identify the Anime by the first 5 seconds, difficulty impossible:
[summer sky and the sound of cicadas]
Idea for your next setting with a quadrupedal main species: flip-out chest-chair/cruthes that lets them stay horizontal while using their front limbs.
Learning about the 300 year history of the gay bestie
It’s difficult to overstate how much even a purple Texas would break the mainspring of Republican presidential politics. The math of reaching 270 electoral votes gets really difficult if they can’t rely on picking up 40 from Texas
Let's go even better. Dems have earned enough power to end the electoral college entirely.
Has anyone seen an explanation from #Apple or a designer post on social or whatever as to why they changed the #AppleMusic logo to plain black and white? I am not vibing with it in the slightest. I might even be negative vibing with it. Bizarre decision.
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![The cicisbeo was better tolerated if he was known to be homosexual. Louise d'Épinay wrote from Paris to her friend Ferdinando Galiani about the impending departure of marchese Alvise Mocenigo, the Venetian ambassador, whose tastes the ambassador had displayed in Paris:
Nothing equals the friendly companionship afforded to a woman by men of those persuasions. To the rest of you, so full of yourselves, one can't say a word that you don't take as provocation. ... Whereas with those gentlemen one knows quite well that they want no more of us than we of them—one feels in no danger and deliciously free"[14]](https://cdn.masto.host/postsratpictures/media_attachments/files/117/561/231/532/407/446/original/2c7ad79e4e353dd7.jpeg)
