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pouncequick

Transcript:

Be me, sleep deprived DM, half an hour ago

Get startled by phone ringing

It’s one of my players

Me: “Dude, it’s midnight, you good?”

Friend: Yeah yeah, sorry if I work you. Could I ask for a favor?”

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Me: “Uh, sure? Shoot.”

Friend: “My daughter can’t sleep, could you tell a quick story over speakerphone? She loves listening to the recordings of our sessions before bed, but I left my laptop at the office so I can’t play them.”

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Me: “She listens to us to fall asleep?”

Friend: “Yeah, but she really likes your plot and NPC acting bits. She calls you ‘dumb dumb mister.’ Guess Dungeon Master is a bit hard for a preschooler.”

Me: “Wow…well, if it will help her sleep, then sure.”

Friend: “Thank you! Okay, give me a sec to head back to her room.” (pause) “Okay, you’re on speaker.”

Me: “Hey, [daughters name], it’s uncle Anon.”

Daughter: (Happy gasp) “Dumb dumb Mister!”

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Me: “You ready for a story about… (DM IMPROV SKILLS ENGAGE)…the time your daddy and his friends went deep into a cursed temple to save a frost dragon egg?”

Daughter: (Incomprehensible happy squealing noises)

I then proceed to spend nearly 20 min spitballing a story over the phone for the most fascinated little girl until she eventually fell asleep. Friend thanks me for the help and says he’ll see me on game night.

Lay down in bed, actually feel content and comfortable for once. I should have thanked him.

I am the dumb dumb mister.

guerrillatech

mysharona1987

Is there going to be a later?

i-was-today-years-old-when

i learned that a makeup artist with Parkinson’s just launched a cosmetics brand for people with shaky hands (x)

shrewreadings

Have a link to the actual site!

https://www.guidebeauty.com

hollowedskin

hey neat! there are videos on their site about how to use each product, and they look fantastic. Also using my cheekbone as a rest/pivot point for my hand is how I do my eyeliner, its much easier.

starfleetsacademy

You can find your polling location at:

https://berniesanders.com/vote/

Make sure you get out there and vote!

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cwritesfiction

Noooooo I’m not reusing the same tropes in all my WIPs, I’m just (checks notes) “creating an author brand”

nogodsnokingsnomasters

Kent State University

tiredtransgal

“The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre)[3][4][5] were the shootings on May 4, 1970 of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces. Twenty-eight guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.[6][7]”

“There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of 4 million students,[10] and the event further affected public opinion, at an already socially contentious time, over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War.[11]”

Student strike of 4 million students! Let’s do that again lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

solarpunkcast

Don’t forget that basically half the country thought the students deserved it…

captain-rez

Another picture from Kent State.

But it was not just Kent State, eleven days later Mississippi Police fired 150 rounds into a dormitory at Jackson State College, killing 2 and wounding 15 black protesters.

saurons-optometrist

Btw half of the students killed at Kent State weren’t even protesting, they were just there

bando--grand-scamyon

What in the absolute fuck

wuh2k

When the Irish guy has known about this since he was like 8, but it’s suspiciously hard for Americans to learn about…

jehovahhthickness

I wanna be that CEO that pays their employees 70K a year like that white guy I be seeing all over the Internet. I can’t remember his name.

I’m not gonna be like Jeff Bezos but I do wanna be a multimillionaire 😂😂😂

jehovahhthickness

He took a pay cut. I’m not doing all of that. Ima just pay my people well and give top notch benefits.

jehovahhthickness

It gets better.

desperate-acts-of-capitalism

We are definitely going to talk about this guy on Buisness Desserts

Employees are not costs to be reduced, they are investments, they are assets that appreciate in value

jehovahhthickness

Absolutely

doebunnybooks

For the person commenting on not taking a pay cut, he HAD to change his lifestyle to be able to afford to pay his employees a living wage. He talked to accountants and they helped him break the numbers down based on data about the cost of living and various factors about the commute, housing issues, etc. All inspired by his best friend going nearly into debt over medical costs meanwhile he had several houses, a jet, and drank champagne daily.

He sold stock, houses, and changed his spending and as a result, his employees were overall happier and the way they worked improved. They all bought more shit and had more kids and did all the consumption people want for us while also enjoying their work and their boss enough to band together and buy him a fucking Tesla as a thank you.

And you know what he realized after taking his pay cut? He didn’t need the champagne or the girls or the “lifestyle” of being a billionaire. He feels fulfilled in his work and with the people he’s surrounded himself with and he feels that he’s made a step in the right direction that other businessmen and billionaires should follow.

Please read the article and his statements on twitter because it’s eye-opening to see that you CAN be successful doing things ethically.

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sensiblereblogifposts

Reblog if you’re a joyless communist

tikkunolamorgtfo

Buy Tony’s Chocolonely Slave-free Chocolate. Fuck Nestle.

aimmyarrowshigh

There’s a whole movement of ethical, slave-free chocolate companies, and the advocates who work to track the legal battle to make ALL chocolate slave-free, worldwide, at http://www.slavefreechocolate.org

You can see the current (2020) list of slave-free chocolate companies on their website at http://www.slavefreechocolate.org/ethical-chocolate-companies, or below if you don’t click links:

Aloha Feels Chocolate

Alma Chocolate

Alter Eco Chocolate

Amano Chocolate

Askinoise Chocolate

The Beach Chocolate Factory

Belicious

Black Mountain Chocolate

Cacaoteca

Cacao Medium

Caribeans Chocolate

Castronovo Chocolate

Choquiero Chocolate

ChoCoaque Chocolates

Chocolate and Love

Chocolate Cartel

Chocolat Celeste

Chocolate Tree

Chocolate Troubadour

Choconat

COCO Chocolate

Compartes Chocolates

Dandelion Chocolate

Dark Forest Chocolate

Denman Island Chocolate

Dick Taylor Craft Chocolate

Diego’s Chocolate

Divine Chocolate Co.

Eating Evolved

Eat Your Hat

Eclipse Chocolate

El Ceibo

The Endangered Species

Endorfin Foods

Enliven Cocoa

ENNA Chocolate

Equal Exchange

Fairafric

Fine and Raw Chocolate

Fire Fly Chocolate

Forever Cocoa

Fresco Chocolate

Fruition Chocolate

Gayleen’s Decadence

GEPA Chocolate

Giddy Yo Yo

Grenada Chocolate Company

Grocer’s Daughter Chocolate

Guittard

Habitual Chocolate

Hilo Shark Chocolate

HNINA Gourmet

Hogarth Chocolate

Honest Chocolate

Hooray Tuffles

Indi Chocolate

L.A. Burdick Chocolates

La Iguana Chocolate

La Siembra Cooperative

Lillie Belle Farms

Madecasse

Maverick Chocolate Company

Mayan Monkey

Mayordomo

Mexican Arabica Bean Company-Wholesale

Mia Chocolate

Montezuma’s Chocolates

Nayah Amazon Chocolates

Neary Nógs

Newman’s Own Organics

PARRÉ Chocolat

Pasha Chocolate

Purdy’s Chocolate

Omanahene Cocoa Bean Company

Ombar

OpuLux Fair Trade Chocolate

Original Hawaiian Chocolate

Parliament Chocolate

Montevérgine

Patric Chocolate

Plamil Organic Chocolate

Potomac Chocolate

Pure Lovin’ Chocolate

Raaka Chocolate

Rain Republic

Rapunzel Pure Organics

Ritual Chocolate

River Seas Chocolate

Samaritan Xocolata

Sappho Chocolates

Seed & Bean Chocolate

Shaman Chocolates

Sibú Chocolate

Solkiki Chocolate

Sweet Impact Chocolate

Taza Chocolate

Terra Nostra Organic

Terroir Chocolate

TCHO

The Xocolate Bar

Theo Chocolate

The Original Chocolate Bar

Tobago Estate Chocolate

TONY’S CHOCOLONELY

Truffle Pig Chocolates

Twenty-Four Blackbirds Chocolate

Valrhona Chocolate

Videri Chocolate Factory

Viva Cacao Can

Vivani Chocolate

Vosges

Wei of Chocolate

Xocolatl Chocolate

Zaks Chocolate

Zotter

Nestle’s net worth as of today is 10.46 BILLION dollars.

The largest, most prosperous of these slave-free chocolate companies (Vosges, which is also a female-owned corp if that matters to you!) is worth… $100 million.

That means that Nestle has $10,360,000,000 more dollars with which to pay its employees, INCLUDING AND ESPECIALLY the cacao farmers who are the backbone of their entire industry.

If all of these companies worth LITERAL BILLIONS OF DOLLARS less than Nestle can afford to be slave-free, so can fucking Nestle.

elljayvee

I’m very happy Guittard is on this list; in addition to preferring my chocolate slavery-free, I also cannot have soy lecithin. Guittard does not use soy lecithin; they use sunflower lecithin. Many smaller brands that buy Guittard’s couverture are therefore also slavery-free.

cimness

This is great for us who want to buy slave-free chocolate, but hopefully governments will still institute much stricter anti-slavery measures in the future that will cost Nestle (including anyone buying Nestle) more money. Because there are a LOT of people who won’t have heard about this list or don’t have access to other options or who will always buy the cheapest option. Which is why the government should intervene to add the cost for everybody to take the temptation away from them.

notdeadjustgettingoffline-deact

“joe bidens gonna win :(“ not if u get out there n fuckin vote! look how close these numbers are. keep in mind it’s about 2000 delegates needed

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desultory-suggestions

You deserve to eat

You don’t have to earn it

You don’t have to justify it

You deserve to eat

sappharah

i’m always so amazed when i hear americans say shit like “healthcare is a privilege, not a right”. like how do you reach a point in your life where you think people deserve to die because they can’t afford healthcare. what in the actual fuck is wrong with you.

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socially-awkward-supervillian

Fun fact: Cheetahs only attack prey that runs

youwinagainmoffat-blog

jesus that is good to know.

chandra75-deactivated20180905

Yup, that’s the point you just stay still and let it do whatever the fuck it wants that doesn’t involved you getting eaten.

magehenry-moved-blog

REALLY FUN FACT for big cats cheetahs are fucking docile as shit

my grandfather ran a cheetah sanctuary in south africa and he’d just lie with them and sleep among them and they’d rub against him and chirp at him they’re big fucking babies

pkmnbreederbrianna

Another Fun Fact: Cheetahs are incredibly nervous animals. One of the (many) reason’s they’re going extinct is that cheetahs are so sensitive and nervous, some of them are literally too nervous to breed. Others will breed, but stress themselves out so much, they’ll lose their cubs. So zoos with breeding programs had to figure out how to make cheetahs comfortable enough to first of all, get laid and secondly - not spazz themselves into miscarrying. So what’d they do? They gave the cheetah’s their very own Service Dogs! The dogs make them feel safe, protected and secure!

emo-islandniles

AJHHHHFDDGHH SO PRECIOUS

renirabbit

this post just got so much better

enjoying-nudiustertian-deactiva

THIS IS OFFICIALLY MY FAVOURITE POST

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sashayed

this is emmett and cullen they are best friends

clover11-10

This is the greatest thing I’ve seen all day.

Dogs are truly angels.

justdailystories

Someone Illustrated the Best News Stories From 2019 and Now Our Hearts Are Warm

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skootdawg

Sperm whale mimics a spinning diver.

gallusrostromegalus

Humans: *encounters Earth’s Largest Carnivore, who would could swallow them whole, probably*

Human: … Spin?

Earth’s largest carnivore, with a brain that weighs almost as much as this naked beach ape*: SPIN!

regaldragonempress

WHAT DO YOU MEAN SPERM WHALES ARE CARNIVORES

I THOUGHT THEY ATE KRILL AND STUFF LIKE OTHER WHALES

gallusrostromegalus

Nope! Sperm whales eat extremely large deep-sea squids, like the Giant and Colossal Squids. They have also been known to opportunistically eat dead whales, sharks, and seals, but not actively hunt them. They got real big teeth for it too:

However, they only have teeth on thier bottom jaw! they have corresponding holes in their top jaw for the teeth to lock into, which makes hanging onto a slippery, boneless squid:

It should be noted that the human here isn’t in particular danger of being eaten on purpose, but an accidental swing of it’s multi-ton head, a clip from the teeth, or being directly in the line of it’s sonar could seriously injure or kill them- Divers that have been in the direct line of echolocation for a sperm whale calf have described being hit with the soundwave like “being kicked by a horse” and some have suffered internal organ damage. Sperm whales, like other large whales, aren’t particularly aggressive towards humans, but they are still very large wild animals who behave in unpredictable ways.

I know that in US waters, it’s illegal to intentionally come within 300 yards of any whale or dolphin, and if one appears closer you should turn off your engine or stop paddling to avoid accidental injury to you or it. This human is doing something dangerous and ill-advised, but it’s still hopeful that we can love something like a 130,000 lb deep-diving, squid-eating Oceanic former ungulate.

extremelyloudgamerkeyboard

Im.sorry I’ve lived my entire life not realizing that echolocation could possibly be felt and I have to come to terms with the fact that whales have sonic attacks

smitethestate

If you’ve already voted via mail-in or absentee ballot and your candidate dropped out, check your state’s laws on whether or not you can change it. Some will let you declare the vote invalid if it’s in the mail but hasn’t been counted yet. If you’ve marked and sealed your ballot but not mailed it, you may be able to just open it again, change your vote, tape up the envelope and send it in (Washington State lets you do this).

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