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The difference between a melee weapon attack, attack with melee weapon, and melee attack with a weapon in D&D 5E, and why it matters.https://twitter.com/AngryManTV/status/1390743449721319428 Multiple people are asking me unironically

Context Clues in the Era of #MeToo Against all odds and much prevailing wisdom, the news audience trusts the news media. Here's why that's a problem.https://alexandraerin.substack.com/p/context-clues-in-the-era-of-metoo?r=22t0u&

I think my least favorite thing of the things that happens when you have a large-ish account on Twitter... not the worst one on an objective scale, but the one

The thing about NIMBYs (which, for the unfamiliar, stands for "Not In My Backyard") is that it illustrates a really common problem with the "my right to swing my fist"

There is no sound, practical way to ban cryptocurrency, but... ban cryptocurrency. Shun everybody who uses or enthuses over it. It's a racket that is making life worse for everybody

I hate how much joy the MRA/reactionary hatedom steals from us. Cute picture post of Spinerella and Netossa from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power going around, and I RTed

Reminder that if you don't use the tongue to make it, it's not French toast. Immediately muting this thread so I don't have to read any painfully unfunny "If it

In no particular order: Highlander (in continuity with The Series), Transformers (in loose continuity with G1 animated series and movie or reboot based on that gen), or Inhumanoids (reboot).https://twitter.com/PackardShow/status/13859869780

I mean, first, there's insufficient evidence to say they "put a built-in weakness" into his arm. For all we know, it's just a weakness, a consequence of the specific tech

I saw a spate of Christians, over Easter weekend and holy week more broadly, talking about the resurrection of Christ as a literal, historical, material event and the importance of

Being of the opinion that the sheer number of really messed up things in nature could not have arisen by accident or coincidence, I subscribe to the theory of inelegant

So, this might be timely to somebody, but a thing to remember about grief is that feelings arrive on their own schedule and logic.If your first response to hearing about