Ferrett Steinmetz

Amazing how "Give money back to ordinary people" becomes an impossible task while "Fling cash at billionaires" requires not so much as a single actual lawyer involved

roadhouseendgame i was talking to my mom about cardassians and said something along the lines of what must it be like to be a cardassian civilian. like abstractly knowing the rest of the galaxy thinks of your species as 'the evil ones' and kinda sorta knowing your government runs labor camps and torture prisons and is a military empire, and it's a huge deal for everyone else in the galaxy, but you just like run a restaurant so it's not a big part of your daily life, so you just like, go about your day and make soup and don't think about it' and then halfway through my sentence i actually heard myself and then had to go sit down for like ten minutes. like sat down in a chair and stared at the floor for ten minutes

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One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

Big hugs, love.

A corollary to this: Democrats believe that it's impossible to sway public opinion because they personally overlooked talk radio and podcasts, and as such never heard the intense and constant barrage of propaganda it took to entrench these folks into hating trans people/libs/etc in the first place.

Yep. Godzilla steps on all the annoying/evil characters and sets the good folks free.

This is an AWESOME American Beauty. Kevin Spacey as a pancake.

I support auto-replacing Matthew Broderick with Kermit in all future and past movies.

I mean, you don't even have to work to get Godzilla into Everything Everywhere All At Once! It's a TOTAL gimme.

My Dinner with Godzilla
Godzilla and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Godzillas Everywhere All At Once
Pride and Prejudice and Godzilla
West Side Godzilla*

*The Godzillas and the Mothras have been feuding for millions of years, can true love find a way to bring them together**?

**No.

Plot twist: He doesn't shrink into infinity, he returns to his regular size, then ACTUAL kaiju

Grave of the Fireflies turns into an epic revenge saga, with the kids riding Godzilla at the Americans.

Whiplash? Two self-absorbed egotists get devoured mid-jazz riff.

Apocalypse Now: "I love the smell of atomic breath in the morning."

Aliens? Oh come ON.

Going down the list of IMDB's top 100 movies, and EVERY ONE could use a Godzilla.

Shawshank Redemption with a Godzilla-enhanced breakout? Would watch.

Dark Knight vs. Godzilla? Obvious slam-dunk.

12 Angry Men and a Kaiju? ABSOLUTELY.

Gini and I got a lot happier once we stopped considering the next homeowner. :)

It's nice editing Magic articles again. I missed this.

Thank you! I hope you recover swiftly.

#KindleBookGiveAway
I seem to have finally gotten my brains back after a round of not Covid, not flu.
To celebrate, here are some books.
Specifically, The Uploaded by @theferrett.bsky.social

I was wondering how long it was gonna be before you bumped Jason. Good work!

90% of RPG conflicts on Reddit are answered with "You folks want different things, you should not be at the same table."

I don't disagree with you at all except on one point: I've known lots of players who really really just wanted the staircase. Actual threats trouble them. And I think part of the reason D&D is so successful is because the core mechanics indeed drift towards that lack of challenge as you level up.

Vineyard dogs are the BEST. There's a book on the wine dogs of California, and they're all good puppers.

At least in America, he was like the Temu version of Prince Charles, and that's saying something.

My Uncle Tommy was a hemophiliac. He should have died before he was two. But I watched medical technology catch up with him, year by year, getting better.

He spent his entire life being given only another three years to live, yet he made it to fifty.

Medical progress is the real deal, buddies.

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

1st panel: green guy on the floor sweating in pain and says "I'm dying! Call 911!' the blue guy sweating and nervous says 'call?' 2nd panel: blue guy sweating and nervous and looking at phone says 'c-can I text them? and off panel the other guy says 'you have to call!' 3rd panel: the guy sweating and nervous just staring at phone 4th panel: blue guy says 'sorry' as the green guy is a ghost now and says 'it's okay, I understand' Mrlovenstein.com

Artist: Mrlovenstein.com

The drunk uncle theory.

You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

....I did not need to know this, but I am horrifically fascinated.

I definitely have, and on multiple occasions already, but it's mostly in sites trying to go viral through outrage.

Everyone, but especially journalists, needs to be very careful about saying someone is "in the Epstein Files" just because they come up in a text search.

I mean, Janis Joplin is in the Epstein Files, but that doesn't make her guilty of sex trafficking. Epstein got a newsletter from a music shop.