Gore Vidal and Orson Welles Play Warhammer
ORSON: I have only had one real enemy in life that I know about, and that is John Houseman. [Rolling unsuccessfully for charge on The Great Unclean One] Now I have two: John Houseman and the Great Horned Rat.
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GORE: As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. That’s five VPs to me for defeating the Poxbringer, Herald of Nurgle—

ORSON: Don’t be ridiculous. Sloppity Bilepiper still controls the objective. The Victory Points are mine.

GORE: According to the Victory Objectives, yes. But with the Clash of Titans auxiliary roll, I gain five points for killing a hero or monster.

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Daniel M. Lavery

@daniel_m_lavery

16 Jan

this will surprise no one who remembers Masha Gessen's fawning interview with Martina Navratilova at the height of her "I Hate Trans Women" world tour in 2019 without ever once mentioning her pivot to professional transmisogny... newyorker.com/news/our-colum…

@mckenziewark

but within a few days of Gessen's attempts to position themselves as an authority on trans youth, a polite intervention from @mckenziewark resulted in Gessen saying the quiet part loud:

https://twitter.com/mckenziewark/status/1349741374464208900

here's (most of) the thread for reference, Mckenzie was polite, friendly, reasonable, and that was all it took for Gessen to snap:

https://twitter.com/mckenziewark/status/1349741374464208900

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Daniel M. Lavery

@daniel_m_lavery

12 Oct 20

quick update my dog is asleep on my chest/left arm so i can't reach my phone to document but he is letting out a very small puff/squeak/almost snore every, i would say, two seconds

his head? tucked right under my chin

I can't take a picture so if you could all just single file walk through my living room and take a look that would probably be the easiest way to get the picture

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Daniel M. Lavery

@daniel_m_lavery

5 Jul 20

@graceelavery

Grace and I both knew pushing for accountability and further investigation at Menlo was going to come at a cost. We knew it would be slow, difficult, painful, and that we’d meet with resistance. @graceelavery

We’ve spoken to school administrators, the police, current and former parishioners, parents, investigators, lawyers, and church staff. We’ve gone public when other avenues failed.

Almost eight months after our first report in November, and still no one has interviewed the children who were in my brother’s care over the years.

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Daniel M. Lavery

@daniel_m_lavery

28 Jun 20

In November of last year, I reported to the Elders of Menlo Church that their senior pastor, John Ortberg, had conspired in secret to provide a person experiencing compulsive sexual feelings towards children with unsupervised access to young people through youth groups.

At that time, it was my hope that the Menlo Elders would conduct a confidential and thorough investigation of the report, and make such arrangements as were necessary to protect the community. In January, Menlo Church published the broad outlines of their investigation.

In my opinion, it was not a thorough one. The investigator did not, for example, interview a number of the key witnesses, nor do I believe did they investigate church-related work on international trips. Although Ortberg returned to the pulpit acknowledging vague regret,

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