GrokMonkey.bsky.social

Some guy. Mostly has an account to keep tabs on a few things. Likes RPGs and talking about them.

[Paradroid @Andr3Ag0g]

@CSMFHT We used to write on a wax tablet with a sharp stick, which was the stylus at the time

[Fiona Small @FionaSmall]

Pope Francis W

[vera @veritablevera]

jj abrams: "omg what if chewbacca finally got the medal that he didn't get in the original movie!"

tony gilroy: "German Sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920) once said that a government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence, a trend that still--"

[GrokMonkey.bsky.social @TELNETmonk]

@BEv0ND3R @YuriCuckMeister Read the entire paragraph.

[Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks]

For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free

Another world is possible if we fight for it

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[Dune Quotes @DuneQuoteBot]

Most civilization is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons.

[Ajay Singh Chaudhary @materialist_jew]

Two images of the *present* - it's already here

[GrokMonkey.bsky.social @TELNETmonk]

@Hbomberguy You used to be able to buy the first spiderman comic for twelve cents, and now it costs more than three million dollars.
Surely this is the government's fault.

[GrokMonkey.bsky.social @TELNETmonk]

@AlexandriaMonik @MagpieOfficial These are so good!

[Progressive Caucus @USProgressives]

Corporations will literally sue the government before they let you cancel your $8.99/month subscription

[Micah Sifry @Mlsif]

Thread. If you aren't out canvassing or phonebanking or friendbanking, here's how to be a more effective "keyboard warrior." Please RT and share.

[Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey]

No bank executives arrested for laundering $670,000,000 in drug cartel money. But jump a turnstile and get arrested or shot for $2.90.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

In 2019, Donald Trump was fined $2 million- and three of his children ordered to take training classes - as their penalty for misappropriating funds from charities they ran for their own use.

[Nathan Goldwag 🇺🇦 @GoldwagNathan]

This is a such a fundamental betrayal of @JDVance's role as an elected official that it's hard to even find the words to express it. Deliberately, gleefully spreading a blood libel against his own constituents, trying to drum up chaos and hatred for his own advantage. Grotesque.

[Gillian Branstetter @GBBranstetter]

TX Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the federal government over decades-old privacy regulations that he says are blocking him from accessing medical records of Texan women and transgender people who've accessed abortion or gender-affirming care.

[flglmn @flglmn]

never mind the MCU, if james dean took his shirt off in any mid-tier sitcom these days it would be a punchline

[GrokMonkey.bsky.social @TELNETmonk]

@DemiplaneRPG @roll20app Hmm. Brindlewood Bay, but instead of NPCs the adventure is about engaging with hidden roles the players get assigned at the start? Gets you the after-the-fact solutions the different endings have. A lot of burden on the players, though.

[GrokMonkey.bsky.social @TELNETmonk]

@SpaceCaptSteve @ManMadeMoon And his shifty, untrustworthy twin, Lore!