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Nov 19, 2022

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Nov 23, 2022

Forever Climbing by CatKing_Catkin - Dice Will Roll (Podcast) archiveofourown.org/works/43219087 Liang Shen is fascinated despite himself by Tino's relationship to failure. Tino tries to explain it.

Nov 23, 2022

Forever Climbing by CatKing_Catkin - Dice Will Roll (Podcast) archiveofourown.org/works/43219087 Liang Shen is fascinated despite himself by Tino's relationship to failure. Tino tries to explain it.

This thread is essentially my entire lifetime work experience. Healthcare was lean-staffed into permanent crisis mode, hit a REAL crisis, and now what? Now it feels like nothing was learned and we're still trying to manage by "trimming the fat" off a goddamn skeleton.

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Courtney Milan

@courtneymilan

I feel like a lot of corporate end-times staffing (not just Twitter) looks like this: some paper pusher sees what “all hands on deck” looks like in an emergency and thinks, “what the hell, why aren’t they working like that all the time.”

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SpeakOutSister

@speakoutsister

Why is it that people who say "why can't trans people just be gender non conforming" seemingly can't or won't acknowledge that the social penalties for being gender non conforming are very high? As any actually gender non conforming person can tell you.

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Iron Spike

@Iron_Spike

You got finessed. Learn from that or don't, up to you. But don't pretend the rest of us fell for the smoke-and-mirrors show to dull the pain of your gullibility.

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Iron Spike

@Iron_Spike

There were people, orgs, accounts, and experts— real ones, not 17-year-olds with a Tiktok and an affiliate link— waving red flags in *2020.* You just didn't give a shit, you were too greedy and got fleeced, *exactly like they said you would.* Spare me the self-soothing spin.

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Iron Spike

@Iron_Spike

Annoyed by the "He fooled everybody" or "No one saw it coming" spins that always follow in the wake of every kryphto disaster. No, he didn't fucking "fool everybody." Bitch, he fooled YOU & your friends. You & your friends who sneered and insulted EVERYONE who tried to warn you.

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More Perfect Union

@MorePerfectUS

BREAKING: Medieval Times workers in California have won their union election. This is the second castle to unionize. Workers told us they perform up to 21 shows a week, are routinely injured, and paid poverty wages.

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@JennyENicholson

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Jenny Nicholson

@JennyENicholson

Also apparently they've removed the "gold" from the game & now when you do a quest the actor gives you a "trinket" (a feather, one of those vase filler beads, a shiny rock etc which have been gifted/traded to the actors by other guests), which still have no function in game

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Jenny Nicholson

@JennyENicholson

My friend kindly went to Evermore on Sat intending to get me some merch that they now allegedly have & you won't believe what happened next

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Dmitry Grozoubinski

@DmitryOpines

The replies under every engineer tweeting they've just been fired from Twitter are filled with newly verified and incredibly divorced men gloating the engineer will never work again, and tech leads from giant companies offering them jobs.

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Courtney Milan

@courtneymilan

This is a great way for nobody to ever tell you you're about to step into a pit of snakes.

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Casey Newton

@CaseyNewton

NEW: Employees who have criticized Elon Musk in Twitter’s Slack channels were fired overnight over email. “We regret to inform you that your employment is terminated immediately,” they’re being told over email. “Your recent behavior has violated company policy.”

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A lot of these women sell the idea that tradw1fery IS "freedom" for them because they enjoy cooking, cleaning, etc. Good for you, Janet, but the men in this space aren't relegating you to the kitchen because they think you're happier there. They think its where you BELONG.

If you can find someone who will give you both, then great! But trading your freedom in exchange for the promise of love and care is never going to have a happy ending.

Its a fantasy that sells the idea of being loved, cherished, and taken care of in exchange for taking care of someone in turn. But honestly I think a lot of people need to come to terms with the idea that being independent and free is better than being "cherished"

I don't know why I've been thinking about the renewed spread of tradw1fe propaganda this Tuesday morning but I have been. Its a stupid, dangerous idea but on some level I do understand how it could get its hooks into people, especially young women.

Dan Olson

@FoldableHuman

It's so unbelievably funny that apparently Sammy was personally handling FTX's "multi-billion dollar" finances by eyeballing account balances.

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SBF

@SBF_FTX

Nov 10, 2022

5) The full story here is one I'm still fleshing out every detail of, but as a very high level, I fucked up twice. The first time, a poor internal labeling of bank-related accounts meant that I was substantially off on my sense of users' margin. I thought it was way lower.

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Dan Olson

@FoldableHuman

A lot of crypto pumpers cope by saying “every scam that fails makes the space more honest” but very little has changed since MtGOX and every exchange is run like this

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SBF

@SBF_FTX

2) I'm really sorry, again, that we ended up here. Hopefully things can find a way to recover. Hopefully this can bring some amount of transparency, trust, and governance to them. Ultimately hopefully it can be better for customers.

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Dan Olson

@FoldableHuman

Nov 12, 2022

Been seeing a big uptick in advance fee scams and cheque-forwarding scams across the internet, especially wrapped in offers for entry-level jobs.

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Matt Novak

@paleofuture

"I’m very skeptical of books. I don’t want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that." lithub.com/crypto-nerd-sa

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Tom Sutcliffe

@tds153

This, from an interview with Sam Bankman-Fried (whose crypto exchange has just imploded) is very funny. That loser Tolstoy. Think of the time he could have saved.

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Ryan Broderick

@broderick

We are watching Silicon Valley have a massive collective midlife crisis and it is very sad and very funny garbageday.email/p/a-millennial

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one of the most amazing things the human brain can do is when you shake an opaque bottle and get an idea of how full it is by how the weight shifts. there's got to be incredible math going on under the hood there

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luc

@LucDrawsThings

my babies 💙❤️💛 [Shadowed]

Three characters standing in a line on a white background. Misha, a tall, skinny man, is on the left. He has dark blue, straight hair that reaches his shoulders, tan skin, and purple eyes. He's wearing mostly blue and has a necklace with a red gem in it. Riya, a short, slender androgyne, is in the middle. They have lightly-freckled midtone brown skin, slightly curly red hair styled into a long braid, and thinly-irised bright green eyes that are cat-like in shape, but lack pupils. They wear a black sleeve over their right arm, and a dark grey outfit with a red cloak bound by a golden clasp with a H on it. Aya, a short, fat young black woman, is on the right. She has golden-blonde, tightly-curled hair pushed back out of her face by goggles that sit on her forehead and possess blue lenses. She is smiling. Her eyes are orange-brown, her outfit is orange and yellow, and she's holding a green potion in an alchemical vial.

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luc

@LucDrawsThings

saint of swords [Dice Will Roll, Royari San Sarnax]

A bust of Royari San Sarnax from Dice Will Roll: Extinction Curse. They are looking to the left and smiling, with a slightly dulled, sepia colour palette. The background is yellow with a beige circle behind them.

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Ian D

@dixonij

El*n woke up this morning and decided to snarkily reply to a Senator who had legit concerns about misinformation on the website he owned... But it just so happens to be a Senator with oversight on subcommittees that *checks notes* pertains to all of his 3 major companies.

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Kyle Griffin

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Breaking: NBC News projects: Katie Hobbs (D) wins Arizona Governor. Democrat Gain.

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Daniel Dale

@ddale8

In my view, the five most aggressively dishonest 2020 election deniers who were on the ballot for key state offices were Arizona’s Kari Lake and Mark Finchem, Pennsylvania’s Doug Mastriano, Nevada’s Jim Marchant and Michigan’s Kristina Karamo. All of them have been defeated.

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Robert Reich

@RBReich

Dems flipped both the Minnesota and Michigan legislatures. They should join the National Popular Vote Compact, which — when activated — awards electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. Each state that joins brings us closer to making the Electoral College moot.

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God help me, I enjoy Lolo's horribly little mouth sounds. They're very Stitch-esque.

The narrative throughline of Sangku starting the episode with a vignette of having to stand up against the force of the ocean and then ending the episode having to tank the largest team in the tournament is not lost on me and is very good.

#DiceWillRoll "As you all know, I think a little bit of stealing is okay." "Do you even have pockets?" "He has a mouth." *sound of a pile of coins being spit out*

T. Greg Doucette

@greg_doucette

Though we joke about war oxen and pickup-mounted trebuchets and Second Amendment rights to own a ballista, this thread is a reminder that

@NeolithicSheep

lives his creed too:

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Shepherd

@NeolithicSheep

Anyway @greg_doucette nearly got a call because the cops were mad I stopped to ask a Black woman if she and her child were ok because like 6 pigs were arresting the man they were with and it's cold and I offered to stay with them till their friends arrived to get them.

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David Nir

@DavidNir

Why GA matters—immensely: 1) 51 seats is always better than 50–takes power from Sinema/Manchin, extra vote in case of absences, don’t need VP to break ties, etc. 2) Warnock is an amazing senator 3) Black representation matters, period 4) 2024 map is very tough for Dems

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Molly White

@molly0xFFF

i never thought i would find a spreadsheet funny, but the FTX balance sheet leaked by the

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Mark Joseph Stern

@mjs_DC

If Warnock wins the Georgia runoff, Schumer can pick up the pace of judicial confirmations. No more Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocks that force Democrats to waste time on floor votes for discharge petitions. 51-49 would be huge.

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(Though I still think one of the most comical parts of the OG Tomb of Horrors was the stipulation that rogues could only do damage to Acererak by chucking gemstones with a value of at least 10,000 GP at him.)

Early D&D actually loved setting up their Lose Conditions, I remember that the Tomb of Horrors had several rooms that a creative party probably could have worked around except for the adventure literally stating "no, these rooms are inescapable and the PC is doomed."