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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 17h

Men think there's about equal numbers when there are 17% women, and that there are more women than men when there are 33% women. They may leave an area (a bar, a party) when there's 20% women, but it takes about 40% in a professional field for most men to abandon it; some will even change careers.

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 18h

"I never know when I might next get knocked off-kilter with something that puts me in the position, once again, of choosing between my dignity and the serenity of our relationship. Swallow shit, or ruin the entire afternoon?" web.archive.org/web/20130208...

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Shakesville: The Terrible Bargain We Have Regretfully Struck

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 19h

It ran 1982–1986, and was syndicated on USA Network in 1994. (Also syndicated in fall of 86; was probably available for at least a few years after the initial end.)

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 23h

The owners are not held liable for its harm, either; they're working hard to claim "we just made The Thing and it's the end users' jobs to use it without harming themselves; no, we're not providing instructions or safety features, but you totally can't hold us responsible when people believe it."

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 23h

Among the many issues: If you learn something, act on it, and cause harm, you can be held liable for the results. If an LLM "learns" something, and shares knowledge in a way that causes harm, it is not held liable - nobody pulls the plug on it if it kills someone. (Which has happened.)

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Trump-appointed head of DOJ's civil rights office wondering why the most powerful women in Washington are primarily on the left when the current vogue in right wing politics is debating the merits of the 19th Amendment

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's a soap opera. You can watch a handful of episodes of any soap opera to get the style/tone and most of the relevant tropes. The specific details you need to know are: 1. J.R. Ewing (the guy front & center on the cover) is the evil money tycoon.

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My job encouraged copilot use until they realized only the managers have "premium" accounts and the rest of us get 6 prompts/day. If you're stuck with "premium," find some time (token) wasting prompts to throw at it.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/10/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Witches Abroad “‘Blessings be on this house,’ Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house.”

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"what about people who don't like 'bullying' when the targets are wealthy cis het celebrities, but don't mind it when it's trans teens? Don't they deserve to make a living doing their cis-het-only art?" Err. No. I'm not stopping them from finding a market but I don't have to help.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

it is REALLY easy for folks to 'do the right thing' when they are getting bombarded with bad press. so in my mind i thought 'well, if they REALLY want to grow and learn, we can see if they REMEMBER this and actually care when the smoke clears and nobodys looking.' i have not been invited back.

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Also possible: If you didn't send your mail-in ballot early, deliver it to a polling place by hand on election day.

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They still do, but it's generally not strong enough nor in large enough quantities to dissolve a body. (Vinegar's acidic.) I suppose anyone with a power-tools workshop might have stronger acids used for cleaning metal & such. But still - maybe as much as a half-gallon. Not enough to fill a bathtub.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Good morning, sweetie. I have sad news. It didn't happen yet." "It?" "Yeah. You know. It." "Oh. IT! Oh, well. Maybe it'll happen later today."

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They are going to deregister as many Democrats as they can. And they're going to hype these numbers to try to convince you, "you don't need to vote; you've got this; one little vote won't matter." They'll try to push R's who would stay home that they need to vote. Don't be complacent.

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sincere religious beliefs don't have to comply with the official doctrines of any church. The fun one is the Catholic school refusing non-vaxed students. Parents can claim "religious beliefs" on the secular gov't but not on a school of that religion. www.catholicculture.org/commentary/f...

catholicculture.org

Florida’s upside-down dispute over religious freedom

In his challenge to the Florida bishops, the state's attorney general is upholding the Catholic understanding of religious freedom.

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is one of my favorites. I even made a tiny version of it (and a few other solo games) that fits in an Altoids tin.

Altoids tin with three tiny game books
A Fool's Errand, With These Phantom Hands, and My Welcomed Guest

A page from the tiny version of A Fool's Errand showing how to select the king and the goal of the conspiracy against him.

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 05/06/2026

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...

businessinsider.com

She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals.

Legal experts say employers must take AI-related religious objections seriously, as a 2023 ruling raised the bar for denying such accommodations.

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's always "why was she there/ what was she wearing/ who did she tell first" and never "why did he target her/ what did he do/ who else has he assaulted?"

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If the House goes blue: He's stalled significantly; a lot of inquiries and delays are possible. If House and Senate both go blue, there's the option of impeachment extravaganzas, and removing him, half of SCOTUS, various other judges, and cabinet officials.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm from Tumblr. Halloween season starts on August 1 and ends when the blinking Christmas lights have chased off all the pumpkin, ghost, and witch hat decorations. Except for Undertale fans, for whom Halloween is a year-round thing so they can mix their skeleton romances with Homestuck in April.

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It looks like they collected comments & feedback from all over, handed the "assemble into a listicle" job to an intern who promptly fed all the feedback into AI and published the results without even proofreading. I hope someone has the complete list saved out somewhere.

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NPC was a ttrpg term long before it showed up in video games.

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There are multiple communities. There's a 2nd community that doesn't directly share their interests but also doesn't mind them. It's not like the rest of us can make them go away, stop playing the games, stop using the hashtags on social media sites.

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There's always been a solid faction of guys whose interest in ttrpgs is the fantasy of beating up or killing anyone they don't like. They just wanted to call them "orcs" so they could handwave deniability about their racism. Many of them also want the fantasy of women as property.

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The ebook is free at Project Gutenberg, in several formats. (Swami Panchadasi was apparently a pseudonym. How surprising.) www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12480

gutenberg.org

Clairvoyance and Occult Powers by William Walker Atkinson

Clairvoyance and Occult Powers by William Walker Atkinson. Free eBook digitized and proofread by volunteers.

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And also: a lot of characters won't translate well, so you'd need a GM who loves dealing with the arguments and making endless judgment calls about what details convert and what don't. …D&D has spell lists. Fate doesn't. Jumping between them is non-trivial.

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Had a GM friend who wanted to try something like this - test new systems by shifting the same party into new character sheets every handful of sessions. I pointed out that you'd need players who love writing up characters, which is not the same as people who like playing or who play well.

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've had friends who've had luck with simple HTML/CSS uses. Which they still had to fix, but not entirely rewrite. It was described as being like having a particularly stupid junior programmer on tap.

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

He seems to be saying that AI code is entirely unchecked; doesn't seem to acknowledge "AI-gen code reviewed by expert, confirmed to do exactly what they want it to do - they just didn't have to type it up." I am aware this is a pretty small slice compared to the amount of vibe-coding submissions.

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What PbtA games don't use the 2d6 "6 or less /7-9/ 10+ (/12+)" rolls and playbooks? (Brindlewood Bay doesn't technically have playbooks, but that's because it'd be "here's 30-ish playbooks each with only 1 move." Other than that, it's the same structure.)

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

He met one of those bible-thumper types once, who asked him, "what would you be doing, if you were REALLY following God's plan for you? if you were doing EXACTLY what God wanted you to do?" And he thought, and replied, "I think I'd be a janitor. At a post office."

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My dad was a mail carrier until it was too hard on his back, and he switched to being a janitor at the post office. He worked that job for over 30 years until he retired (with a pension that was something like 85% of his paycheck, because he'd started when gov't pension plans were good).

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If I'm going to use them, I unlock them and fix the metadata & bookmarks. I rarely fix the missing tags because I don't use screen readers, and either adding all tags manually or fixing autotagging is painfully slow.

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have a lot of #ttrpg PDFs. Many have no bookmarks, no tags, no title or author in the metadata. Sometimes they have a title like "EML324r.qxd" and an author like "Administrator@CX1297-C" And fairly often, they're locked to prevent any changes to those.

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 01/10/2026

The family of Renee Good, the Minneapolis woman who was fatally shot by a federal immigration enforcement agent near her home in January, filed two federal lawsuits Thursday alleging wrongful death, among other contentions.

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Live: Renee Good’s family files lawsuits over fatal shooting by ICE agent

Renee Good was fatally shot on Jan. 7 in south Minneapolis by ICE agent Jonathan Ross.

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'd never heard of Rising Damp. But, although I theoretically could have watched it, it aired on a different continent.

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Trump himself is not the one facing contempt of court charges (and potentially a ruling against the DoJ) for failing to turn over the memo.

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I recognize Theban; I am too lazy/tired to decode right now.

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dafoppishdandy @alabasterffxiv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

mamdani has approved free suppressants and bite-resistant neck wraps for all uninsured omegas living in new york city

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1. Some people like formulaic stories. 2. That doesn't mean AI can follow the formula. Formulaic stories, especially romances, are not a list of plot events; they're a matter of emotional resonances in a specific order. AI can put plot details in order; it fails at evoking the desired emotions.

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Rules light" is often used to mean "there's no range charts for guns and you can do combat without a grid/hex-map." Has nothing to do with how complex the game is, just whether or not it's got wargame-miniatures level of tactical detail for combat.

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Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There may be a handful of other clothing types that are made by machine. (Hats, gloves, scarves, other knitwear; dunno if there's simple sewn items that machines can do yet. I'm sure someone's working on it.) They're all still designed by humans, even the most formulaic of patterns.

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