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Colin Campbell

@claidheamh.bsky.social

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Security geek. Runner. History nerd. TTRPG gamer. He/Him

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Colin Campbell @claidheamh.bsky.social · 1h

"That's why you're the judge and I'm the... law-talking-guy"

Colin Campbell @claidheamh.bsky.social · 4h

We do pretty well in Eastern MA. We don’t have a huge house but we don’t have electric bills for 8-9 months a year.

Colin Campbell @claidheamh.bsky.social · 4h

We are entering the season where I look at the solar panels on my roof and shake my head sadly.

Colin Campbell @claidheamh.bsky.social · 5h

This is so brilliant and deserves to be his real legacy

Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 5h

This imagined defense by Cheney ("What I Got Right About the Iraq War") from The Onion in 2023 ought to run as a sidebar to every obit that's published this week: is.gd/mzdB9j

It's easy for armchair critics to condemn the Iraq War. But you have to remember what things were like back in 2003. People actually trusted the government and had faith in the idea of America, Trust and faith aren't very sturdy things to build a perpetual war machine on, and they don’t make alot of money, either. The Iraq War eroded faith in the government and drove more Americans into suspicion and hatred, just as we hoped it would. Combine that with rising inequality and the American cult of the individual, and you have a perfect recipe for ensuring that most Americans are too disillusioned to mount collective resistance to any governmental transgressions. That's what I always hoped the Iraq War might accomplish, and man, it fels good to be right.

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Colin Campbell @claidheamh.bsky.social · 15h

Stretches the definition of popular a little, but Outland (1981) with Connery

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Colin Campbell @claidheamh.bsky.social · 15h

IIRC - Linda Hamilton said of him (after their marriage) something like: “ Jim really loves strong women characters. He just doesn’t know how to live with them.”

Colin Campbell @claidheamh.bsky.social · 16h

Me too. T1 might be my all time favorite movie, but I unreservedly love them both.

Colin Campbell @claidheamh.bsky.social · 16h

I’m unsure about this one - T2 is objectively better movie, but T1 is a tight, suspenseful little stalker movie - I think they’re 2 almost 2 different genres (not Alien level, but close)

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Colin Campbell @claidheamh.bsky.social · 16h

Michelle Pfeiffer…

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Colin Campbell @claidheamh.bsky.social · 17h

If you take Precise Shot you should be able to nail an agent with a sandwich without endangering your fellow protesters

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Colin Campbell @claidheamh.bsky.social · 17h

That scene is SO GOOD

Colin Campbell @claidheamh.bsky.social · 17h

Half Life 2

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Colin Campbell @claidheamh.bsky.social · 1d

Really missed out on calling the evil boy band the Misfits

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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 1d

New awareness campaign

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Colin Campbell @claidheamh.bsky.social · 1d

There was a fascinating podcast (TAL?) years ago that talked about the rates of medical disability in certain counties of the US that were almost solely manual labor jobs in the economy (industrial, farming, etc) and doctors marking people as disabled because they were physically unable to work.