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A few things! 1) In our ongoing 5e D&D campaign, my werewolf paladin got to lay a critical haymaker smite with her final spell slot on a large minotaur animated skeleton! It lumbered up to attack our kobold rogue while my character was standing just around the corner. She looked up, grinned...

https://themilitaryanalyst.com/2025/06/27/russias-economy-brace-for-impact/

https://mastodon.social/@quillmatiq/114750551642943504

I just wanted the other BM Maximals to get core releases, so we can have the Maximals at the right scale when Hasbro is attempting to be consistant at that elsewhere in the line.

https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/06/26/repub/trump-drive-to-defund-npr-pbs-resisted-by-republicans-from-rural-states/ Deadline to pass it to the President is July 18th, so there's a chance they may just run the clock out on it...

https://infosec.exchange/@0x00string/114750061421657209

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/the-resume-is-dying-and-ai-is-holding-the-smoking-gun/

https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/06/25/repub/trump-administration-sues-entire-court-bench-in-maryland-over-pause-in-deportations/

Catching up on the RFC stream from last week, turns out Hasbro did a 3% layoff early last week. Most of the other bits from that they talked about aren't really relevant to TF though since they're focused on RPGs as a topic.

That's why I added the caveat about if it's something you can discuss openly. I am aware there are plenty of things that one might be doing that you don't talk about outside encrypted channels, and ideally not even then. Just pointing out that just going around mimicing Rattrap is not preparing.

So what are you doing to prepare then(assuming it's something you can discuss openly, of course) other than doomsaying? If all you're doing is saying "We doomed, smoke 'em" then that's not preparing, that's just giving in to despair.

https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/06/24/repub/gop-leaders-in-us-senate-struggle-to-redo-mega-bill-by-july-fourth-deadline/

In real time though? I doubt Bibi or the head of his armed forces has a Trump Truth.social feed pinned to their desktop... and obeying is another matter entirely of course, as already mentioned. There's a device, called a phone. If world leaders wanted instant response or communication with...

Well, that ceasefire didn't last very long... Does he really think the Israeli government is constantly scrolling his social media posts?

Another category of people affected is ordinary tourists: https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/politics/german-tourist-with-us-visa-reflects-on-being-held-in-ice-custody-for-weeks/3786489/ More on that first case mentioned in the quote...

VCR is just Video Cassette Recorder, and theoretically applies to Betamax players too.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crenzwyvpn1o Coffee enemas? Really?

Wouldn't be just oil either, depending on how much other shipping uses that strait. When the Houthis were striking merchant traffic, it actually caused a shortage on shipping containers and jacked prices up on them, per an RPG book publisher who was having to deal with said container shortage...