Brian McNett
@b_mcnett
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Disabled / living with an invisible illness. Radical Mycologist & autodidact. Writer. He/His. Ace. Gnome appreciator. Tumblr:
Bremerton, WA
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I could use some sales here. This anthology is pretty good, if I don't say so myself. I'm proud of the work
@JenLRossman
and I did on it, and the contributors, who are all awesome.
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Congratulations, Christina, you have just won the Battle of Cynocephalae.
I don't know ANYTHING about military stuff but just based on the picture like probably from the side?
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It means we have billionaires who don’t pay taxes.
What does being the richest country in the world actually mean when the citizens of your country can’t afford healthcare, education, rent, or groceries?
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@lbrothers
That was traditionally how it was done to the detriment of every army to ever fight the Greek phalanx until the Romans, who spotted the same thing the OP did. The phalanx was awesome right up until the first army who figured out how to outflank it.
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@TheSenkari
That is what a flanking maneuver is: attacking from the sides. You’re not actually arguing the point.
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@_SJPeace_
America wouldn't need heroes like Kendrick Castillo if America had sensible gun laws. That young man would be alive now.
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@DrAndrewThaler
Quite honestly, even without being disgruntled, those engineers are being asked to pull 80-hour weeks. They're overworked and will make mistakes even without the desire to spite the new boss.
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@DutchGlaswegian
Unfortunately you’ve exceeded the parameters of the assignment, which was “defeat a Greek phalanx,” not “global thermonuclear war.” I’ll have to grade you appropriately.
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@LennyLiebmann
@baileys
MYcology beats URology hands down, or so said Bryce Kendrick D. Sc. (Professor Emeritus University of Waterloo). I was blessed to have him as one of several informal mentors.
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@lartist
@johnhaydenmpls
The cycle of life can be cruel, yes. But look at it this way: you fed a hungry hawk, and reduced the rodent population through natural processes. You’re a HERO.
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@ElieNYC
I don’t understand how this even made it to the SCOTUS, how the attorneys haven’t been disbarred, or even how the plaintiff isn’t herself facing prosecution. In the history of bad Supreme Court decisions, there have been a few real stinkers, but this one reeks.
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@joanimalfarm
@davidmweissman
Abortion is legal under Taliban rule, in case you didn't know.
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@ThatSamWinkler
His tomato math was horrible. He equates a tomato fruit with a tomato plant, vastly underestimating the number of plants you can get out of one tomato plant if you save the seed.
Then I vastly underestimates the amount of time required by neglecting the existence of SEASONS....
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@kithrup
@nolliepops
That's also why we call it "The Scottish Restaurant" and not "McDonald's."
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Yes, this is actually *flying*. I discovered that once you have two or more of these closed loops in flight, and they're close enough, you can bridge them together, and even fill in between them.
#Townscaper
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@dog_rates
@VioletTriple9
Great Prys are also 100% outdoor dogs. Just not suitable for indoors at all. Give them plenty of outdoor space and a herd or flock to protect and they are in their element. A working dog who knows what their job is.
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@KillaKamWasHere
@StolenDaughter
Because turning 26 was literally a death sentence, $16.50 is considered a decent wage by employers, and $1200/month reasonable for insulin which was never patented.
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@americanwombat
At the Battle of Cynocephalae in 197 BCE, the Romans defeated the Greek phalanx easily because the Greeks had failed to guard the flanks of their phalanx and, further, the Greek commanders could not turn the mass of men who comprised the phalanxes quickly enough...
So... Yes...
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Do any of you people know how hard it is to afford piano lessons WHEN YOU’RE A BEAR?
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Not satire, just straight up facts.
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@hankgreen
Googling "oak leaf galls" turns up the very interesting biology of the oak leaf gall wasp. Wasps lay their eggs inside the leaves of oak trees, and the plant forms the gall to protect itself from the irritant, thus providing protection for the wasp's eggs as well.
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@MollyJongFast
Trump campaign uses photoshop of British citizen standing on a bridge across the Thames to sell hats made in China to opponents of multinationalism.
Sketchy as hell, CHECK!
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Five perfect loops, but two of them have four more loops inside them, for a total of 13 loops. All of them close enough together to bridge between them. Extended flying towns are possible.
#Townscaper
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@amurderof
@mollycrabapple
Oh, the agony of paying... *checks notes* ...0.05% per month on union dues. The folks making $100k/year shell out... $53.26 per paycheck. THE HORROR.
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1) Mermaids aren't real.
2) Transgressive policies of a majority-white American government are real.
Which of these you're upset about shows a lot about your character.
Black bodies are being shot up by police. Brown children are in concentration camps & are dying in them. Children are dying because of our war policies in the middle east.
All due to White transgression
White America is mad a black girl playing a fiction character in a Movie 😒
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No fooling. This is a rectangular loop in
#Townscaper
. I couldn't believe it when I saw it.
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@LennyLiebmann
@RedderMadderMan
@baileys
I have had enough of this constant pun-ishment. There isn't mushroom for argument anymorel.
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🎼If you're Nazi and you're fired it's your fault.🎶
🎼If you're Nazi and you're fired it's your fault.🎶
🎼If you're spotted in the mob
and now you've lost your job🎶
🎼If you're Nazi and you're fired it's your fault.🎶
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@Jonty_W
@danhett
@EwaSR
@DinobotTwit
Yes, that’s a fraudulent claim, or as the scammer sees it, “clever marketing.” As is the timer. They do print-on-demand, but “supply is limited?”
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In 2021, we'll need to institute the Office of Witchfinder-General, and place Rick Wilson in charge of leading all the "Witch Hunts."
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@iso_r
@northwestraven1
Literally... Michelle Obama: Let the poor people use food stamps at farmers markets and to buy vegetables from small farms.
Republicans: We'll hire a large corporation to contract your food box. What small farms?
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@pookietooth
@docrocktex26
These impoverished whites can literally not make the connection between there own woes and their votes to harm blacks. They are so desperately invested in hurting others that they willingly harm themselves; believing they are hurting 'undeserving' people far away.
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@BerniceKing
He's also wrong. There've been numerous wars across Europe in the 77 years since WWII ended. Too many examples to cite in a tweet.
Some have been ongoing for decades. It's convenient to forget that Armenia and Azerbaijan have been at war since 1988, for example.
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@GailSimone
Removal of the return to and scouring of the Shire. Changing Sauruman’s fate.
But mostly, dropping Tom Bombadil entirely. That would have annoyed Tolkien no end.
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@gaileyfrey
The segments were prerecorded.
This was PREVENTABLE.
The way for the old guard to remain relevant is for them to remain CURRENT, not to wallow in the memories of past inglory.
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@maximumplum
@hedavis_msc
Is he still being murdered? Didn't he get murdered months ago? Aposematic coloration!
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@FoodForFaeries
@QueerGirlEmilie
Of course not. If any of them did, they wouldn't be on the "not all men" list.
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"We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings."
—Ursula K. Le Guin
Capitalism's Big Lie in four words: "There is no alternative." Looters use this lie for cover, insisting that they're hard-nosed grownups living in the reality of human nature, incentives, and facts (which don't care about your feelings).
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You know what day it is today?
It's the 65th anniversary of the POLIO VACCINE!
Vaccines work. Use them.
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@KerbalSpaceP
I'm closing in on 14,000 hours.
I've been playing this game for the last six years.
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@GWillowWilson
@tithenai
Me too. Let's get
@Lin_Manuel
to sing "Cheesy Bacon Brussels Sprouts" to the tune of "Alexander Hamilton."
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@jbouie
@PrinceJvstin
Right. John Flune is 60. The minimum wage in 1978 was $2.65/hr. He made over double that. Inflation has reduced the value of a dollar FOURFOLD. So very nearly $25/hr in today's currency.
That restaurant job today should be paying $25/hr. IF that work had the same value.
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@ChuckWendig
I love the bit about you being an "unknown author." They bought a book which literally has the words "New York Times Bestselling Author" on the cover.
But sure, "Chuck Wendig: Man-Woman — Enemy of a crumbling nation." It's your new byline.
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@SchoenUaGudTime
@TheOnion
No, they abandoned that when Trump got elected. It's been straight news ever since.
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@thegallowboob
@quartzen
The research was attempting to see if giving the rats a complex task to do would decrease their stress levels. I'd say the answer was yes. The rats actually enjoyed it and didn't need the food reward to encourage them.
The full study was far more involved than this.
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@BoundingComics
Thank you for issuing a "correction." Try pulling the story instead. Also, still delete your account.
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@ChestnutClub
@gabimoskowitz
You should see how much MORE fat and salt they use at restaurants.
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@That_Chemist
Even after overcoming the not inconsiderable engineering difficulties involved with working with this devil’s brew, the end result, to put it mildly, is a great big middle finger to everyone and everything at the launch site. Never use near anyone you even middlingly care about.
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@PeterJohn501
@JamesSurowiecki
The high school in question is the same one I graduated from 41 years ago in the town in which I still live and I watched this go down. The Supreme Court's decision is COUNTER-FACTUAL.
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@RogerBrunke
@TristanACooper
They're trying to make the genie look like Will Smith. That's the bit which doesn't work. The closer you get to something (or someone) real in CGI, the worse it looks.
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@davidmweissman
Republicans have no desire to have more Americans working if credit for it goes to Democrats. They have no desire for putting America to work if it means taxing the rich. They want Democratic leadership to fail allowing them to take over. It’s not enough to win. Others must lose.
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@nataliathebug
@53Adrianbarr
@superherofae
Bring on the universal basic income and a society in which everyone has their food, medical, and housing needs covered. Jobs can then be used for supplemental income and paying for internet gaming.
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@MollyJongFast
You know that all their enemies can't EACH be the anti-christ. They're going to have to decide at some point.
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I had to play with the prompt to get the AI to give me something other than pages of handwritten text, or cities built of bookshelves, but here's a portrait of a contemplative
@neilhimself
with too many eyes (The hair came out nice, though).
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@catvalente
I remember when AOL banned all mention of "breasts" which ended both the Breast Cancer Survivor's Group and deleted every last chicken breast recipe. You couldn't even say you were keeping abreast of the news on AOL. No one ever learns, do they?
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@krassenstein
Total mystery. A guy whose business was being propped up by his kids and a corrupt lawyer, totally reliant on mob money to keep his cash flow... That should totally work as a leader of the free world, right?
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@TheRickWilson
Brooklyn is a horrible place for a space elevator! It's not EQUATORIAL! The structural stress exceeds the Young's Modulus for all known materials. You have to build a space elevator on the equator. It's like the wall. It. Doesn't. Work.
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@davidmweissman
An entire plane-load of future COVID-19 patients prepare to attend the latest super-spreader event.
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@erinbiba
@crippledscholar
@jpbrammer
Clearly, you have never had to deal with the Amalgamated Union of Squirridae and Other Small Mammals. When a deputation of squirrels come to your door, they come bearing a list of grievences. You'd better have corn and peanuts handy.
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This is true. I'm 55. I'm not going to "outgrow" my asexuality, or "find that perfect someone." I'm not NOT a man because I don't have sex.
A reminder to stop infantilizing asexual and aromantic people. We aren't asexual and/or aromantic because of "immaturity."
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From
@BorowitzReport
. One can only hope.
Musk Sells Twitter After It Fails to Make Him Interesting via
@NewYorker
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I've spent a lifetime being told I'm things I'm not. That I have feelings I don't have. That I'm someone other than who I am. When are you going to stop TELLING me who I am and listen to who I am?
Posts like this assert a narrative that so-called "made up" identities are desperate cries for attention rather than new ways of understanding the complexity of human existence and unifying a misunderstood community.
This narrative is dangerous.
Demisexuality is valid.
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21 Million reasons to kick the GOP out of Congress this fall.
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Honestly, this is some of
@ChuckTingle
's best work. I believe it's worth at least a nomination.
while we are talking about hugos award please remember that this year i would like to say please nominate best short story name of NOT POUNDED IN THE BUTT BY ANYTHING AND THAT'S OKAY this year this is important tale and i think it will prove love is real
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@JoePort
@CoreyStewartVA
Literally. Corey Stewart is crediting Kaine for fighting Hitler 14 years before Kaine was born, and hoping to ride this meme into Congress.
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Oh, look!
@GailSimone
is in my top trends again today.
#3FavoriteMutants
! Mine are:
Kitty Pride,
Kitty Pride,
and (surprise)
Kitty Pride.
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@Ebonyteach
@nkjemisin
Wages started failing to keep pace with inflation back before *I* graduated from college in 1983. It took me decades to pay off loans that were paltry by today’s standards. It definitely far far worse now.
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He’s not a master strategist with some overarching plan. He’s a racist and a fascist. That and his narcissism is all there is to see here.
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I discussed this yesterday with my mom (who is 84), and in the course of the conversation she mentioned off-hand that the early-teen boys next door were "as big as you are."
They're 14 and 15, and neither one is over 5'. I'm 6' Mom is 5'2".
This is still bothering me. A lot. Because it's an amazingly efficient intersection of racism, classism, ableism, and sexism, and that's a lot to put on what's supposed to be Free Candy For Everyone Night.
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@GWillowWilson
@tithenai
@Lin_Manuel
We gonna rise UP
(we gonna eat our Brussels sprouts)
We keep our eyes UP
(they're such delicious Brussels sprouts... Okay, I'll show myself out now.
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@sibrownphoto
@LGAdamsWriter
@baileys
Oh shit no. Let's not even go into an organism which exists as free-living individuals and mates as a mass of undifferentiated plasmodium.
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@RogerBrunke
@TristanACooper
Robin Williams didn't need his face pasted on the genie to "sell" us. His voice acting sold it. Will Smith has that as well if they'd let him, but Will Smith isn't Robin Williams, so Disney is cautious. Wrongly so, I think.
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@iantDC
@BenjaminPDixon
You reform it by burning it all to the ground, salting the earth beneath it and starting over with something entirely different.
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@mollycrabapple
Someone does not understand how collective bargaining works, and it's NOT the intended audience of this campaign.
I particularly love the bit where they describe paying union dues as if it were a bad thing.
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If the extremist political right can suppress the votes of black people, they can suppress the votes of ANY person. If one person suffers from oppression ALL ARE OPPRESSED. When you punch down, the floor collapses and everything over it falls.
Seriously, when has there ever *not* been an effort underway to suppress the minority vote in America? 🤷🏾♀️
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Yes.
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Having no desire for sex does not equate with having a desire to be alone, or to have no romance or to not be in a relationship. I have no desire to be alone, am passionately romantic and luckily have been in a ten-year relationship. None of those things makes me NOT asexual
Relationships without sex...
Relationships without romance...
Relationships without sex, but with romance...
Relationships without romance, but with sex...
Relationships without sex or romance, but with sensual intimacy...
Relationships without attraction...
exist and are valid
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@ValueStockGeek
@chrismartenson
@ReformedBroker
The problem with this?
Those "uncool" cities are "uncool" for a very good reason.
The jobs are not there. The services are not there. The education is not there. The people are not there. They're not "uncool" cities. They're cities which are struggling.
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Simply Walked Into Mordor.
Ruin LORD OF THE RINGS in four words.
_______ _______ ________ ________
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@_SJPeace_
I would hope that she is FIRED. "Suspended" is such a mild word.
@JenksBoardwalk
, this is a national outrage. This isn't just seven girls discriminated against by one employee. This is America being defiled. Your corporate banality doesn't help.
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