Castle Tristenoira exists in three different times simultaneously, looming above the Lake of Red Tears, home of “Aggie” the undead sea serpent (Dana M Knutson box art for Ravenloft supplement Castles Forlorn by Lisa Smedman, TSR, 1993) oldschoolfrp.tumblr.com/post/710613053…
Antique silver memento mori watch, 925/000, pocket watch in the shape of a skull, richly decorated with engraving and fitted with silver chain and key. Movement with engraving: carnu a paris. wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/710617924…
Illustration by Charles Robertson for Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “The Sensitive Plant”, 1911. https://pipedreamdragon.tu Bing… 1960 Country Squire wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/710626622…
Postmortems and blame for the 2024 elections are thick on the ground, but amidst all those theories and pointed fingers, one explanation looms large and credible: the American housing emergency. If the system can't put a roof over your head, that system needs to go.
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American housing has been in crisis for decades, of course, but it keeps getting worse...and worse...and *worse*. Americans pay more for worse housing than at any time in their history.
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After 9/11, we were told that "no cost was too high" when it came to fighting terrorism, and indeed, the US did blow *trillions* on forever wars and regime change projects and black sites and kidnappings and dronings and gulags that were supposed to end terrorism.
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Back in the imperial core, we all got to play the home edition of the "no price is too high" War on Terror game. New, extremely invasive airport security measures were instituted.
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The Canadian national identity involves a lot of sneering at the US, but when it comes to oligarchy, Canada makes America look positively amateurish.
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The Biden administration disappointed, frustrated and enraged in so many ways, including abetting a genocide - but one consistent bright spot over the past four years was the unseen-for-generations frontal assault on corporate power and corporate corruption.
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The three words that define this battle above all others are "unfair and deceptive" - words that appear in Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act and other legislation modeled on it, like USC40 Section 41712(a).
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The core of the prepper fantasy: "What if the world ended in the *precise* way that made *me* the most important person?"
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The ultra-rich fantasize about emerging from luxury bunkers with an army of mercs and thumbdrives full of bitcoin to a world in ruins that they restructure using their "leadership skills."
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