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103 years ago today, Mother Jones lead a march of miners’ children through the streets of Charleston, West Virginia.

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borja gonzález

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Born to be wild

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questions for tumblr users over 30

what part of your body always hurts?

how many pills do you take a day?

do you require anything to sleep or are you rawdogging it?

what’s the one skincare essential for you?

how did you celebrate turning 30?

what’s the best part of not being 20 anymore?

do you find yourself turning into your parents/parental figures?

do you do things on your days off or are you a homebody?

what’s one thing you always keep on you?

are you where you thought you’d be when you were 21?

are your grandparents still alive?

how many weddings have you been invited to?

have you been in any weddings?

do you have a car? if so, how old is it?

when did you get your first gray hair?

do you have a “grandma hobby” yet?

what’s your favorite grocery store?

what’s the last teenager meme/trend you understood?

how old is your oldest active fandom account?

what did your first email end with?

what website did you first ever sign up for and do you remember the username?

what was your first cell phone carrier?

and what was your first cell phone?

are you on your own phone plan or do you share?

do you remember your childhood landline phone number?

what’s your “the expensive version is actually better” product?

what will you never spend big money on again?

what’s your longest subscription that you still use?

do you feel like you’ve “calmed down” since your 20’s?

what’s one piece of niche advice you’d give to your younger self?

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23. A Samsung flip phone? Or a Nokia brick? Can't remember which is first

25. Yes

27. Professional software as an individual instead of a studio

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Louis Moe

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Nazgûl on winged beast (Russ Nicholson, from "Lore of the Rings: Tolkien's Rings in D&D" by Stephen Bland, White Dwarf 32, Games Workshop, August 1982)

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Bainligor

Image © TSR. inc., by Glen Michael Angus

[Commissioned by @listmaker-lastcity​. The bainligor is a monster from Dragon Magazine, updated and included in the 2e Monstrous Compendium Annual 4. The sheer volume of monsters from 2nd Edition D&D is faintly astounding, and was what got me into D&D in the first place (my first book was the 2nd Edition Monstrous Manual, although I never played 2e outside of the Baldur’s Gate computer game series). The bainligor definitely feel like the desmodu in being flightless bat-men, and there’s some interesting thematic parallels that could be explored in a game (the demosdu are crafters and alchemists, while bainligors disdain material possessions; the desmodu are good but feed on blood, whereas the bainligors are evil but have generalist diets). ]

Bainligor CR 4 NE Monstrous Humanoid This creature resembles a humanoid bat shorter than a man, with spindly limbs tipped in claws. Its ears are oversized, its face wrinkled, and its mouth filled with small, sharp teeth.

The bainligors are a species of flightless bat-people, mean spirited and nomadic. Although they can survive on little more than carrion and molds, they enjoy killing and eating other sapient creatures to demonstrate their strength and power over them. They are pack hunters, striking from ambush and overwhelming their prey. Although they typically fight with fang and claw, they can focus their echolocation abilities into a stunning strike.

Bainligors live in a cruel gerontocracy, where the old dictate the behavior of the young. Competition for rank is fierce between members of the same age cohort. Such competitions involve counting kills, engaging in feats of bravery, and eating truly vile and poisonous foods. Murder is not uncommon between rival bainligors, and is only punished if the killer is foolish enough to get caught. They pride themselves on their “self-reliance”, disdaining weapons and armor and destroying the gear of their victims out of spite. They are related to desmodu, although which species came first is a matter of debate. The two species despise each other, but desmodu typically have the upper hand in any battle that may occur between them unless the bainligors have the support of their Revered Ones.

A bainligor reaches sexual maturity at 15 years of age and 4 feet tall. They grow slowly throughout their lifetime. If not done in through violence or disease, they can grow to 6 feet and 100 years of age, whereupon they typically attempt to transform themselves into Revered Ones.

Elder Bainligors and Bainligor Revered Ones An elder bainligor (50 years or older) is treated as having the advanced simple template. Such elders must survive for decades more before attempting the ritual of transformation into a Revered One. The elder bainligor eats a variety of poisonous and psychoactive fungi to prepare, then fasts to death while meditating on sinister powers. If the ritual is successful, the bainligor elder becomes a Revered One, a mummy-like undead of great strength and agility. A Revered One is an undead creature with 10 Hit Dice, DR 5/-, claw attacks that deal 1d12 damage, and a sonic attack that deals 10d6 damage in a 30 foot cone 3 times per day. A bainligor revered one is a CR 8 monster.

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The USPS does not lose or spend billions a year. It was making a profit until a Republican Congress tried to sabotage it by forcing it to fund pensions for 80 years out. Now it's struggling to do that, of course. But that money doesn't evaporate, it goes into pension funds. Of course, the Republicans' ultimate goal is to eliminate the USPS so only private industry will deliver mail, so they keep on going after it, even though a postal service is specifically dictated in the Constitution. But that's what this claim is about.