Jonathan Dresner
@jondresner
Japan/World/Food/Migration historian. Nerd, geek, comics. Blogger. Rootless Cosmopolitan. Still masking. Views expressed are mine alone (RTs are someone else's). Cis he/him/his. Same handle on Spore.Social. There are no good-faith anti-trans arguments.
Trust the computer, they said. AI knows what it's doing, they said. Language and culture, it's all in the algorithm, they said...
Post one photo of a painting that you took with your very own hands.
I couldn't get this image to download into my android/samsung: had to email it to myself...
If you see this, I implore you to quote skeet with an unusual image from your posting device without explanation. Still definitely use alt text, though.
A police helicopter circled the 300-ish protesters in Odenton for about half an hour. Absolutely pointless.
Oy vey. In addition to the present unnecessary and unconstitutional death and destruction and chaos, why would anyone negotiate with the US in good faith after this?
Monster poisons were usually die-or-don't, but assassin poisons could be ranked by damage. Some monster poisons were "so many hp per round until dead" if memory serves.
If you see this, I IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation
Sometimes you sit in chair, and sometimes chair sits you down [this post will self-destruct in 10... 9...]
Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains. [I was deep in my folk era in the 90s, and don't actually own albums by any of the above-named acts]
It would be funny if one sent you to baseball discourse and the other to discussions of seafaring employment.
Missions Accomplished! The funniest thing about #SPX is the surprised look on artists' faces when you tell them it's your first time at SPX (because of living in Kansas, moving basically next door) because it's such an important industry event!
Finally got around to putting up the window decorations, which include a lot of crystals