protector of the sword coast <3

@tryhardsars figured out how to play bg3 with a psychedelics filter

putting wyll in charge of your trading for warlock charisma reasons and then giving some stuff to merchants for free to up their approval and get better deals later is so funny because it makes total sense mechanically but when you have him just hand over gold to the nice tiefling blacksmith it does read like your party is maybe experiencing the natural consequences of letting the nicest guy ever handle the bartering

Gortash hasn't made Baldur's Gate safe - he's made it a prison. And when his army breaks through, the people will have nowhere to run.

there is one type of game and it is called Settler Colonialism Simulator. some people play Settler Colonialism Simulator for Boys (anno, destiny, red dead redemption, borderlands) and some people play Settler Colonialism Simulator for Girls (animal crossing new horizons, pokemon legends arceus, stardew valley) and then the girls and boys share minecraft

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my ideal existence is not knowing about the oscars or the super bowl or any of that horseshit...I jerk off to clear running water and live off whatever wanders into my open mouth

Transfeminism isnt niche internet discourse if the FBI is telling a transfeminist author to stop publishing

@bundleofstx !!!

Deadass people need to act on this

Feel free to link your kofi and your writings here, this post has gotten way more attention than I anticipated and it should be spent on supporting you.

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Funniest effect I've had from taking estrogen, by far, is that every single incident where a guy tried to explain basic warhammer 40k lore to me unprompted has happened after starting HRT

Funny, isn't the stereotype we're usually the ones wanting to explain W40K to anyone who'll listen?

I am so, so sorry to be the bearer of terrible news about the demographics of the average game store where people play 40k

You ever see something innocuous, minding its own business on the clearance shelf at Michael’s and before you know it, it takes over your life for a few weeks?

So it was with this desktop greenhouse.

I took it home and after taking an appropriate time to “season” my idea in my mind (read: a month or two) I set to make my vision of a mini botanical garden a reality.

I started by removing the heavy glass panels and building a raised floor above the latch. I wanted to use the base as a foundation on the building.

I wrapped the foundation in plastic stone textured flooring (meant for Christmas villages) and built a pond at one end of the same. I then gave it a more realistic paint job and designed a rough layout for my plants and displays.

I also knew I wanted to make the ironwork significantly more intricate, but I wasn’t sure how just yet…

Up next - PLANTS! I went wild making all kinds of plants. Some were specific species and some were more conceptual.

I made several trees with polymer clay and moss, cacti out of beads and flocking, cattails out of raffia, hot glue and coffee grounds, and giant monstera leaves out of paper and wire.

This part should have taken me a long time, but it really came together fast. I loved finding ways to replicate natural shapes and patterns using bits of this and that.

I did make adjustments to my plans as I went like eliminating benches in favor of a simpler overall design.

Then I needed to fill my pond with water. For this I used resin. Lily pads were added to the top layer, and I wired in simple LED fairy lights. The batteries are kept in the box under the foundation.

In a weekend frenzy I added more plants, metal (paper) steps, new (plexi)glass windows, a roof, wrought-iron vines (paper again), doors that open, and a hose reel disguising the latch. Suddenly, a project I thought would take months was finished…

I love my desktop botanical garden. Right now it sits on a simple lazy Susan in my office. But I’d love to get it a proper display box to protect from dust.

Thank you for coming on this little journey with me. This piece packs a lot of joy into a tiny space. I always love building miniatures, and I’ll be doing more in the future I’m sure.

I'd so deeply like to believe every engineer around me is on the same wavelength understanding that building AI tooling is building (most of our) own career graves. Just with the pressure on our backs of "get fired now for not doing this or get fired later when the AI replaces us."

But then also I see an effusively pro-AI LinkedIn post from my boss and I just. You understand the never-subtly-stated goal is job elimination, yeah? You and so many other people across so many other sectors. "AI can do for $20/month what an expert would charge hundreds an hour for!" That's you! You're the expert!!! The only winners here are the company owners paying an AI subscription instead of paying employee packages, and the AI sellers laughing to the bank.

They're not being subtle! The company will work you to the grindstone and keep with this pattern of "unprecedented" ~10% annual layoffs, that started in 2023 and won't stop. The desk next to you is empty. Bob used to sit there. Theo used to sit in the next room. I'm not insane. They want you to make the AI and then they want you gone! Hello! Hello?

engineers/developers built their own graves by refusing to unionize because their pay & benefits were better than other specialties even within the same company. people legitimately thought that the $300-500k big tech salaries were because they were genius inventors and not because of labor scarcity that companies resolved within a couple decades through STEM training programs & offshoring jobs.

like in every other industry, automation would not be this level of a threat to people's livelihoods if the working class were effectively organized. if AI didn't exist, companies would be continuing to find new & innovative ways to pay workers from the global south pennies to do the same work.

I used the phrase "waiting on tenterhooks" and then thought "what the hell is a tenterhook".

It's these things! So when you're waiting on tenterhooks, you're stretched tight like a piece of cloth. Very evocative, now that I know what it means.

like 40% of english idioms are just Textiles Again

I think garashir fans will have Garak eroticising Bashir's deceptive abilities post-outing, but not enough have His eroticising the augmentations themselves. Garak was explicitly appreciative of Bashir being "strong" in distant voices. Hes from a culture with strict hierarchy from birth. You think he isnt going to be horny about his situationship turning out to be genetically designed to be at the top of the hierarchy? You think the fascist imperialist isnt going to be hot for the ubermensch metaphor?

Not to mention the fact, with the reveal of the augmentations, Bashir become much more attainable in a way he wasnt before. If the federation hates him, how much easier does it become to drive a wedge in between? How much more justifiable does spiriting him away to cardassia become if the federation wasnt home to begin with?

i’m going to spare you all from having to read the repulsive garbage matt walsh spewed to garner this reply, but god damn if this isn’t a precision orbital strike

This is funny and true, but I disagree with the passive voice used for his widow.

He got shot and his wife fucked everyone

Oh, is that why she started a Christian Dating App?

I’m fucking ascending- 😭😭😭

I need to pay a little more attention to the news, I was NOOOT aware of this.

Disappointed to report that the dating app is fake...

With a heavy heart, it is my duty to not spread misinformation. Even when it's funny and about terrible people.