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I didn’t really expect such a small change as ripping our Twitter link out of #LineaSketch and replacing it with our Mastodon to feel as good as it did but boy, did it. Lots more to go. 👍

a long and beautifully introspective text that unfortunately entirely ignores the main, most obvious and prominent problem, distracted by interesting, complex details:

newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01

no problem in reading the #russian classics even despite all it's imperialistic load...

...if one already knows and understands it's own classics!

that's exactly the problem: #pushkin (as a symbol of the russian world) has always tried to _replace_ local cultures!

don't you see it, clever analysts?

In case you wonder how progress looks like. A war crime opener into war crimes, sprinkled with some more war crimes. They can't do proper house-to-house combat while taking towns, so they resort to this.

reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/

P.S. There's more than ethics and morals when it comes to waging a lawful war. There's also pragmatism. If and its people who are waging this war would want to retain the occupied territories and exploit them as conquerors would normally do, they would've waged a just war. The things they do is a clear indicator that they're interested in things *other than* the territory and *other than* exploitation of Ukraine. They are interested in PR. A soldier vanya is interested in r*ping and stealing, an officer borya is interested in not getting assaulted by zagradotryad kadyrovites, general tolik is interested in reporting "progress" and the people at the top are interested in showing their population that they are strong and capable. And this is important — their population: babushkas, village alcoholics and even moscovites and those living in the swamps of neva... Most of them are happy that someone finally got it worse than them. And that someone is so close, nearby! They listen to their pundits whenever their army makes "progress" and they are elated, ecstatic. We see that in the polls that actual independent journalists from inside russia publish on youtube. These are the real goals of the war. And today's video of russian war crimes from Maryinka illustrates it by showing army's modus operandi.

I keep being both ahead and behind of at the same time.

In the spirit of time traveling, here's the Feb 4th entry.

More -compatible goodies from the adventure we're making with .

If you don't buy @lootthebody's the moment you learn about its existence, you have no soul.

michaelchsiung.itch.io/skate-w <- PDF (because saving trees is cool and buying paper stuff without a necessity is not);
lootthebody.bandcamp.com/album <- supporting musical album which is really cool and on topic and awesome!

As a rollerblading enthusiast, eagerly waiting for the rollerblade supplement! 🤣

More consumables in support of my content!

The pamphlet reads:

> Do more with less: take sage Ksrakk's crystalline chocolate on an adventure with you!

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Wow, I didn't get ill after going to crowded places (while wearing a mask, of course) over winter holidays etc., but now I was basically chilling at home and got ill. I think I started washing hands less thoroughly and started touching my face again, and it makes all the difference.

Stop idolizing Navalny. His rhetoric is undemocratic!🙏🏻 In 2014, Navalny said that if he became president of Russia, he would not return control of Crimea to #Ukraine. “The occupied peninsula is not a sandwich for it to be passed back and forth”, argued Navalny.

There are many issues with him.

Presenting some more in support of content, sort of.

Every paranoid wizard should have a potion of refocus in their bag!

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Feb 1st supporting is an (sorry, mom) spell "Liquid Manipulation".

It was way harder to come up with interesting semantics for it, but actually writing stuff for OSE is so much easier than for .

games, as opposed to games have wordiness in their DNA, and writing wordy texts is a breeze!

Also, don't worry, I remember that I owe January some content, I'll publish more backlog soon. If someone wants to run an session, feel free to reach out to me for all the rule cards in one place and in a hyperlinked format. It's rules-distributed (kinda rules light, but you can hand out the rules on demand to your players, making them the lawyers of some marginal mechanics they asked for to have fun), crunchy, tactical and ready to play.

I'm still alive! I know everyone was super worried. At any rate here is my catch up sphere for the 9 days I've missed of #dungeon23 Behold the Daucus Proletariat Commune!

The seven rooms of this particular sphere! Two remaining neutral rooms, and a new sphere coming!

#dnd #dungeonsanddragons #troika #ttrpg #TTRPGs #beggarrpgs

Please, don't watch stuff until the end of war. He and his people are the enemies of !

Thousands of archivists and librarians over here gesticulating *yes, finally, we've been saying this for a decade+*

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

You know the drill by now. I don't like talking about Black history. Americans know Black history. I want to talk about white American history. In other words, racism, and the erasure of both positive achievements of, and injustices suffered by, non-white people. That's what people don't know.

Try this: Ask your white US friends what the statue of liberty celebrates.

Now ask your Black friends. Or French folk of any color.

#BlackMastodon

Here's my Jan 18th entry. Grapple mechanics made fun in . No opposed rolls, just difficult martial artist (strength) checks and still a fun and meaninful tactical mini-game! And, in the best tradition of , some combat moves that are relevant to the rules.

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@jonn

Thinking further on this, hosting in places like Iceland, Finland, Romania, maybe Bulgaria (still?), etc. can be a way to differentiate your server from others.

"Hosted in Iceland"

A geographically diverse Fediverse increases it's strength.

@jonn

It's a hard problem, in that in the end, you're still on a corporate / military network.

I'm not saying it is a solution, but it may be worth considering hosting in countries like Iceland, that have more protections (see: Icelandic Modern Media Initiative).

No matter what the hardware is, you should still have backups, as they can just power off your server. :)

I don't know Digital Ocean's physical network offhand.

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