Zia @ZiaMacPine@awoo.space
Just a pine marten who likes to bake, art by billcatter
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Joined Jun 2017
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Hey FC 2023 attendees! I'll be tabling this year at booth 116-B alongside FablePaint.
Keel plushes are EXTREMELY limited but I will only sell them on Saturday. Be sure to stop by and get a space gator hug!
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Since (e: I am told that) Fandom apparently intends to remove text walkthroughs from GameFAQs (which Fandom now owns), a tip of the hat to Reddit user prograc, who scraped all of GameFAQs up through March 23, 2020; the full archive is available here: https://archive.org/details/Gamespot_Gamefaqs_TXTs
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furcon announcement!
Hey folks! I'll be at #FC2023 this week, at Table 5 in Dealer's Room West! I'll be doing con sketches as usual, and I'll also have a limited supply of #MyBiggerBoyfriend button sets, stickers, and magnets! Or, just stop by to say hello if you're there!
So make sure you're vaccinated, pack those masks, travel safe and I'll see you in San Jose! ❤️
Content Warning: speaker of the house
The entire thing is a mess but we knew it would be a mess going in and the repu licans looking like disorganized twerps is just fine with me
Content Warning: speaker of the house
Well it took 14 tries but Kevin McCarthy got there. Good for him?
Anyway golf claps aside this really was ridiculous. A speaker's job is all about knowing what votea you have and knowing how to negotiate and McCarthy has proven he has a severe deficiency in both columns
Content Warning-- Speaker of the House
Can he win? Sure, but this has been one embarrassment for him after another so good luck to him, his power is cracked.
Content Warning-- Speaker of the House
Cool, McCarthy made some deala and got some more votes. What exactly he promised is unclear and he still lost the 13th attempt so....
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“In #Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment and counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
Make sure everyone understands this — It’s costing us far too much to NOT provide housing and supports to those who are homeless.
Content Warning - American Politics
Well not for a while at least, if this dragged on for months it would be "bad" but that seems unlikely.
Content Warning - American Politics
So keep on with the speaker votes lads, take as long as you want. Biden is essentially providing sensible and stable governance and you arent needed.
Content Warning - American Politics
Congress isnt paralyzed. The House is. The Senate is fully functional (to whatever degree you can say that about the chamber)
All reports agree the Biden administration strategy is to just keep nominating judges and personnel across the bureaucracy. As that doesnt need the House theyre doing that, which even ifn
the House was functional would still be the plan
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Protip:
When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,
"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes
I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."
Content Warning - American Politics
The key difference here is that Pelosi for any of her flaws would not have gone to a vote on the floor if it wasnt assured. She would have stepped down.
There have been people running for speaker in the last century who realized they didnt have the votes. NEWT GINGRICH did that.
Content Warning - American Politics
I LOVE HE MOVED INTO THE OFFICE BEFORE THE VOTE DESPITE KNOWING HE DIDNT HAVE IT LOCKED UP. THE DINGUS LIKELY MADE EVEN MORE PEOPLE ANGRY
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The have no cogent argument or demands, they have no alternative, and there is no plan. This is hilarious. As long as Dems vote Jeffries and stay in their seats then this stays and Republicans look like utter fools
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Lol he lost the second vote with even less supporr. Oh heavens this looks hilariously week
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Inexplicably, I have dodged COVID so far. I feel very lucky
RT @hanalyst@twitter.com
Ok, who made it to 2023 without ever having a positive Covid test? Tell me I’m not alone here.
Content Warning - American Politics
Also not to put too fine a point in it but McCarthy is one of the most ideologically "conservative" leaders we could potentially have in the last 30 years so...
Just a pine marten who likes to bake, art by billcatter
he/him
Lawful Neutral
Joined Jun 2017
