CombatWombatEsq

Ooo, this is the first I’ve heard of this. Tell me more about that.

For the curious, these are the seven and nine of swords respectively from the Rider-Waite deck, which is one of the most well-known tarot decks. While the meaning of the nine of swords is approximately correct in the meme (anxiety, hopelessness), the seven of swords is a bit more of a stretch — I usually read it as deception or trickery.

Forgive my Amerigocentrism, but while the article links this to the 2/7 end to the PTC’s mandate, I think this is more caused by Judge Reyes’ 2/3 grant of a stay on terminating the Temporary Protected Status for Haitian immigrants. If you recall during the election, there were a nexus of lies the Trump campaign told about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, and in her opinion, the judge made very clear that any end to the favored status would have to be preceded by a return to safety in Haiti. It would seem that the Trump admin feels it needs to drum up support from MAGA, who seem to be flagging somewhat, by playing the hits (so to speak) — finally deporting the Haitians they were so hateful towards, and putting on a performance about securing Haiti is the first step towards that.

If you plan to attend a live sports event in the future, remember: you can just shout things. It’s a space where reacting to strong emotions with shouting is explicitly allowed. Generally speaking it’s a safe environment, since you have to go through a metal detector and there are security guards. And everyone around you will know that the thing you shouted was by a human, because it’s a lot more expensive to run a bot farm in a stadium than on Twitter.

Do make sure that you understand when it is appropriate to shout things. You’ll generally want to wait for a break in play. But you don’t necessarily need to be a fan; if you want to shout something (especially during the Star-Spangled Banner), you can buy a ticket just to shout things.

Wing Commander was absolutely my favorite game franchise as a kid. Armada was my favorite, but Privateer was also fantastic. The first one had this branching structure, where you could fail some objectives but still complete the mission and that would lead to different endings, and it blew my mind. That franchise is why I played video games with the y axis inverted into the late aughts.

It seems to be associated with fyld.com. The site is incredibly light on details, but there does seem to be a link to join a discord and a place to put your email address, neither of which I intend to do. As best I can tell, someone or some ones have decided to make the worst possible web archiver by putting it all on the blockchain.

Sure but did you ask Jeeves? Did you check the dog pile? What did lycos say?

I meant more in the sense of: why does this sonnet exist? Why does the speaker stay around to pen and publish the poem? Hamlet fears what dreams may come; why this author?

I think the most traditional turn for sonnet like this would be the “perchance to dream; aye, there’s the rub.”

If you have a contributor you trust, transfer control to them. If not, last one out gets the lights.

I’m so excited to get yelled at by rank-and-file Democrats for not turning out to vote when Republicans win 99% of the vote in the midterms.

Your safe is NOT secure! Inside it are papers that have all sorts of personal identification — taxes, deeds, identification. Anyone who gets into your safe, like police or hackers, can learn everything about you!

If you want to be private, you must burn them.