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6 Jan, 6 tweets, 1 min read
I could easily be wrong, but my guess is that this moment in American history will be the dividing line used by GOP members to insist they "weren't on THAT side."
The conflict inside the GOP, fundamentally, is between "get ready for 2022" power-wranglers and "no, burn it all down" bitter-enders who want 45 or nothing.
I don't think the latter have the juice to pull off a real military coup, only lots of damage to people and property. And they've given the former the perfect "Wasn't us!" excuse to power the next two years of "bipartisanship."
I hope that's the case; there is nothing about this that is *good*, only things that are *less bad*, not simply for political struggles but for the lives of many, many people in DC and the entire country.
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8 Jan
”We are legitimate, and the systems exist to protect us and maintain our role in society; others are illegitimate, and their attempts to change the system must be treated as an existential threat” has always been the underlying frame. This is just honesty.
It may have started as disillusionment, as uncertainty, as fear or even terror. “If this is what a world stacked in my favor looks like, what will it be without that?” But the answer is to build a more just world, where “having the system stacked in your favor” is unnecessary.
But that’s not what they decided to do.

They listened to a man who promised to make them great again. And when he failed they tried to take the symbol of power by force, because they are The Good Ones and a system that doesn’t treat them as such is broken.
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6 Jan
They have been doing that and more for a generation. They doxxed clinic workers. They doxed *spouses* of *nurses* and got them fired. They bombed clinics. They assassinated doctors. George Tiller was murdered *in his church* just 11y ago.
Talk about whether tactics are effective in securing change if you like. Talk about whether tactics are *morally and ethically acceptable* if you like. But this "what if anti-abortion protestors had been AGGRESSIVE?!??!!11??" stuff is just mind-blowing.
Obviously plenty of people who opposed abortion (plus contraceptives, sex ed, and other reproductive rights) just sat at home until it was time to vote. But the movement was fueled by *intense* targeting and personal demonization of public figures who supported abortion.
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30 Dec 20
Interesting little thread by @rodneylives, talking about ideas for a two-tiered HP system that tracks overall health and more serious wounds. The most familiar TTRPG for most people — D&D — has nothing like that, and while it's easy to follow the lack results in odd moments.
"Hit Points" in D&D (and many games it shaped) are a number representing how durable your character is, how much damage it can take before dying/passing out/being bumped out of combat/etc.
It's easy to explain, easy to learn, and easy to track. Early in many games, your HP is just a touch more (maybe even less) than some enemies can dish out in an attack. You have to be cautious, because a lucky hit could "one-shot" you.
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29 Dec 20
Fellow nerds: If you’re contemplating or using one of the new M1 Mac mini’s, and you’ve got a pile of USB peripheralage to wrangle, what‘s your approach?
The absolute dream would be a combination Thunderbolt usb hub with external power supply, an internal SSD bay, and the footprint of a mini for stacking. With stuff like a card reader and headphone/mic jacks. There’s one out there, but... no external power supply.
...which not only makes hefty usb peripherals a pain, apparently it also means the SSD powers down unsafely whenever the mini sleeps. siiiigh.
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Thanks to last night's thread I'm neck deep in flashback inducing weird xian 90s indie music. Definitely beats the literature.

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Not pictured: my patient spouse muttering, “there is NO science in that picture” in the background
An interesting side note: The late 80s-90s saw almost every Christian publishing company dive into the End Times™ genre, with the exception of Bethany House (now part of Baker). They solidly staked out and still dominate the Christian historical fiction space, AFAICT
Nothing was ever really the same after Left Behind; everything existed in its shadow and Tyndale ended up publishing or licensing no less than *counts, carries a three* seventy-eight books in the Left Behind universe.
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