aramis87

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[–] aramis87@fedia.io 2 points 1 hour ago

You don't have to do massive or big tournaments - go small instead! More fun and way less pressure. I've done a few ttrpg tournaments at GenCon and another few at my LFGS. My sister sometimes did small local puzzle tournaments like for KenKen and Sudoku.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 11 points 1 hour ago

You forgot the resource extraction to create the product and the environmental damage and pollution that results :(

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 2 points 1 hour ago

What's been happening is that, when one big protest is over, they announce the date for the next one. So if you hear about a big protest that's just happened, look for social media posts about that protest that also list the date of the next protest. I'm not on reddit anymore, but imgur has been really good about that.

When you go to a local protest, ask where the organizers posted the information to, then check in there periodically. [You can also give them a phone number or email address, but I worry about how far that information will travel.] Or there are apps where you feed it a URL and it'll notify you if there are any changes to that page. Also ask if the protest is a one-off or recurring protest: my area has three different protests that happen every week, so they're not advertised as much as the one-offs.

Depending on your state, your state or regional 50501 subreddit may have info on upcoming protests, as might /r/protestfinderusa . There's also No Voice Unheard, No Act Too Small, and The Big List of Protests which is not as active as it was originally but still sometimes useful.

There's Indivisible which has many different types of events and is useful, though I feel they're a bit too close to the Democratic party for my tastes.

For days when you want to take action, hit up Five Calls, which gives you a list of upcoming items to talk with your Congresscritters about, and iirc also gives you their contact info. [Right now, calling is considered more effective than letters or emails.] I don't know what the current numbers are, but one reason the Congresscritters have been more responsive to right-wing issues is that (at least as of last year), for every "left-wing" phone call they got, they also got four "right-wing" calls. So even if you can't protest, make some calls!

And finally, while my preferred site has definitely changed over time, my current "most useful" site is this Google Doc sheet.

Again, not all the protests are listed everywhere, but hopefully this post can get you started!

Oh, and btw, it looks like the next "big" protest is September 1st, but attend any protests that you can. Big numbers are important - but so is local representation! We want people to know that the resistance isn't just in big cities or far away, it's local as well. We need people to know that there are resistors everywhere, and that they should consider joining us, or doing whatever small acts of resistance they're capable of.

Edit: feel free to cross-post this comment anywhere you think it might be useful, including back to reddit (which I'm not on anymore).

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 33 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

To put into perspective how bad that jobs report is, you need to remember that January through July 2020 included three months of lockdown, shutdowns, and a worldwide pandemic.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I'm sure Susan Collins will be concerned and Lisa Murkowski will be disappointed that he didn't keep to some nebulous standard she expected and trump will have learned his lesson ....

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

Afaik, unless you have eye surgery, floaters are stuck in your eye forever, it's just that many eventually sink out of your field of vision. If you have large new floaters, especially if there are multiple new ones that appear suddenly, I'd recommend seeing an eye doctor - it's how I found out I'd torn my retina, which was at risk of detaching and possibly making me partially blind.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 12 points 3 days ago

They should force him to repay the money being spent to renovate the plane.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 76 points 3 days ago

Locals don't want to work for what you want to pay them.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Again, people don't "steal" other people, they steal things.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 54 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I'm not interested in anyone, unless they're speaking out against the regime now. She's not, so she can just step back.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 45 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Just gonna point out that you don't "steal" people, you steal things. Which tells you all you need to know about trump.

 

Sorry if I'm in the wrong place. Is there a setting where I can turn off people's ability to PM me? The spamgirl is annoying me, and I'm sure more will follow in her wake.

On other sites with spam issues, I'd turn off the ability for people to PM me and, if they asked on a thread I was on, I'd either re-enable PMs or add them to an approved users list. I thought I'd seen that ability here (I'm on the plain web version of fedia.io), but may well have been confusing it with some other site.

Thank you!

 

Archive link: https://archive.is/aQYaj

 

Unsilent Night is happening 6pm Sunday; meet at the Guardhouse at Rittenhouse Square. The music you hear changes on how many people are playing which tracks, where you are in the crowd, and how the environment you're moving through reflects or deadens the sound. It's pretty cool - join us for a (cold) stroll on Sunday evening!

 
 

There are five games to play, including a strike-themed take on Wordle.

 

A Pennsylvania woman whose absentee ballot was returned to her instead of being counted said she flew from Berlin back to her home state to vote in person.

 

A Pennsylvania woman whose absentee ballot was returned to her instead of being counted said she flew from Berlin back to her home state to vote in person.

 

Colin Gray, whose son is charged with the slayings of 4 people at Apalachee High School, asked a judge to be separated from other inmates behind bars.

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