Just a bard with a thousand faces.

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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • True Pacifist Undertale just the other day. Which, to be fair, took me something like two years to get around to doing because I was way too lazy to deal with some of the ending fights of Neutral route.

    Now I have the itch to go back and play EarthBound again… Which may be related to the lo-fi Mother 2 mix that got posted earlier today over in the Music community.



  • Oh, yeah. I realize that there’s a lot of nuance at play. It’s just that I’m a historian who grew up in the Deep South, so I’m well aware that whatever other excuses and loopholes are used, it’s ultimately all about trying to reinstate segregation by another name. Because it always is.


  • Roberts’ opinion brought a strongly worded dissent from conservative Justice Clarence Thomas, who accused the majority — including his colleague Brett M. Kavanaugh — of creating a “consciously segregated districting system” in the name of the Voting Rights Act.

    I really want to know what he thinks the current system is if it’s not that.



  • Unfortunately, they’re capable and willing to make their own safe spaces for themselves

    I mean, the lovely thing about them doing that is that it then becomes increasingly easy to identify and communicate which places are cesspools to be avoided and also to mitigate access when possible. Quarantining isn’t really an option when everyone’s on one big website, but it’s a lot easier when folks are running their own boards and building their own communities.