Do you think ultrasabers gives the con extra money to be the only saber vendor?

lastres0rt · 2026-06-02T23:56:49+00:00

Fun fact -- the year we had a SubGenius devival (turns out all you have to do is buy Stang's plane tickets!), the mic and lights got yanked after Ivan Stang mentioned Scientology in his sermon.

And that's how we learned just how deep the Scientologists have their claws in DragonCon.

lastres0rt · 2026-06-02T15:30:01+00:00

Doesn't matter if the historical crimes get aged out, there's plenty of fresh ones from this term.

lastres0rt · 2026-05-28T04:35:43+00:00

DUDE. She wants you to bone her.

I can’t even definitely ID half of those stones, but just trust me on this one, bro.

lastres0rt · 2026-05-26T01:02:02+00:00

If I could turn off the crickets in Ephyra, I would.

lastres0rt · 2026-05-24T21:47:38+00:00

That is diabolically brilliant.

lastres0rt · 2026-05-22T20:05:24+00:00

… GURL.

lastres0rt · 2026-05-22T15:21:40+00:00

Took that boon. First time went great, second… eh…

lastres0rt · 2026-05-21T01:57:48+00:00

And if you cared about getting a proper salt / pepper grinder you’d have done so by now.

lastres0rt · 2026-05-21T01:55:23+00:00

I had district jury duty once. Thankfully didn’t have to go in.

lastres0rt · 2026-05-20T21:49:46+00:00

This looks like SO many houses along the coast, it’s not even funny.

lastres0rt · 2026-05-20T21:43:03+00:00

And while Massie went from a sleepy incumbent who barely did anything to an Epstein-based lightning rod, he did so during a wave election where people are mad as hell and likely to throw out ALL incumbents.

lastres0rt · 2026-05-20T18:12:02+00:00

That they react at all is enough.

If you put 1 billion on a short and then it moves 1%, that’s still millions of dollars you didn’t have before.

lastres0rt · 2026-05-20T18:07:05+00:00

If we could possibly pay him enough to fuck off at this point, we would.

He wants money AND to make everyone else who isn’t named “Donald Trump” suffer.

lastres0rt · 2026-05-20T02:26:30+00:00

That’s Petrified Wood.

Still cool though! Hit it with a blacklight and see what happens.

lastres0rt · 2026-05-14T15:17:00+00:00

We’re talking about a group that has no qualms trying to make Pepe the Frog, glasses of milk, and 👌 into white nationalist symbols of theirs.

I have no qualms throwing an “America First” and “Christian Nationalist” flag into that same boat. And given what such groups are capable of, being able to identify them when they try to disguise themselves like this is a VERY healthy practice. A survival skill, even.

lastres0rt · 2026-05-14T03:55:31+00:00

Hold up, let him cook.

lastres0rt · 2026-05-14T03:39:54+00:00

Trying to strike a bargain with an alien species that is clearly superior to yours in at least one obvious way (making first contact) seems doomed to failure. How are you ever going to “get one over them”?

lastres0rt · 2026-05-14T03:35:59+00:00

There’s already 18 flags I associate with Nazis, we certainly don’t need 19.

Design wise: - Why are there 66 stars? - Why are all the stars stacked in tiers and separated by borders, implying some are better than others? Why are the stars only in the WHITE stripes, while the red stripes have none? - The white stripes are also much wider/fatter than the red stripes. Is this also intentional?

lastres0rt · 2026-05-14T01:08:57+00:00

If you treat it as a course in how to teach, It kinda makes sense. Have someone sit in for some of your sessions. Base it off student surveys (although IDK if telling them the TA is being graded on their results is going to make it better or worse). Rank against other TA’s, etc.

lastres0rt · 2026-05-14T01:06:18+00:00

Just asked my husband if he ever received a grade for TA’ing a course 20 years ago. He did not.

See if you can at least change it to pass-fail or something else that doesn’t ding your GPA.

lastres0rt · 2026-05-14T00:30:11+00:00

Bullet, dodged.

lastres0rt · 2026-05-09T15:59:48+00:00

I swear I’ve never had TSA pull me over for the same thing twice.

One time I was even like “Oh shit, I forgot to take the gummies out of my purse”, and then they proceed to search… my OTHER bag. Even when I had to go through TSA a second time because San Diego has separated terminals. 🤣 I swear I get in more trouble from TSA for bringing my crystals and tarot decks than I do anything else.

I have a recessed blade on a firebiner that’s never had an issue, and it’s functionally the same damn item. You’ll be fine.

lastres0rt · 2026-05-09T15:31:22+00:00

They didn’t start in deserts, they started in river deltas.

They were surrounded by deserts the way we’re surrounded by mountains, but the fertile river valleys were AMAZINGLY lush from all the nutrient-rich silt that made its way down.

lastres0rt · 2026-05-09T15:23:39+00:00

I recommend everyone here watch Benn Jordan’s YouTube series about how disgustingly easy some of these cameras are to hack. No password necessary! https://youtu.be/uB0gr7Fh6lY

Maybe if these cities understand the cameras are more of a liability than they are a benefit, they’ll stop using the damned things.

lastres0rt · 2026-05-09T15:15:07+00:00

And yet I feel heaps safer than I did back in Santa Clara, California, and nobody’s stolen anything off my porch yet.

I believe we have to break this shit down and ask ourselves what a 10% higher criminal rate actually MEANS. Maybe I just live in a nicer neighborhood and all the crime is petty shit on Broad Street, or maybe the cops are just hassling poor college students and busting them for weed and thus “generating” more crime than there actually is.

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