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Mike Draco’lantern 🎃

@digitaldraco.bsky.social

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Californian, leftish politics, psychology, photography, folklore, science, nerd stuff… [he/him] Creator of the Blueskywalkers feed for Star Wars fans: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7npnzio6e63coxgttadiyo34/feed/aaaeo2vyrtmoa

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Mike Draco’lantern 🎃 @digitaldraco.bsky.social · Jun 8

If you're in California and you see ICE in your area...

www.ccijustice.org/carrn

Los Angeles Raids and Rapid Response Network Hotline:

888-624-4752

#Immigration #ICERaids #LosAngeles

Find your local California Rapid Response hotline | CCIJ

Find your local California Rapid Response Network and hotline to report immigration enforcement activity and keep our communities safe!

www.ccijustice.org

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Mike Draco’lantern 🎃 @digitaldraco.bsky.social · 2h

Google "reasons for National Guard deployment".

Google "civil unrest San Francisco".

There is no hyperbole here. Being wishy washy on authoritarian actions will assure we never have elections again.

Mike Draco’lantern 🎃 @digitaldraco.bsky.social · 2h

There is ZERO civil unrest in San Francisco for the Guard to respond to.

Source: I live here.

They want the Guard in the city to do the same thing they're doing in Portland: trying to stir up trouble in a liberal/left city as pretense for even heavier handed force against citizens.

Mike Draco’lantern 🎃 @digitaldraco.bsky.social · 2h

Yes, you're very stupid. I can tell.

Sending the MILITARY into one of our own cities against our own civilians is LITERALLY fascist. Calling things EXACTLY what they are used to be a fine way to win elections.

Some people overuse it. This is not one of those occasions.

Be smarter. Try.

Mike Draco’lantern 🎃 @digitaldraco.bsky.social · 2h

Just spotted this, too.

bsky.app/profile/bobc...

Bob Calhoun @bobcalhoun.bsky.social · 4h

This article on his land grab in Hawaii was pretty eye opening for me. www.opb.org/article/2024...

A tech billionaire is quietly buying up land in Hawaii. No one knows why

A mystery has been brewing in a small ranching town on Hawaii's Big Island. Word has it that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff bought the land, stirring worries about what he plans to do with it.

www.opb.org

Mike Draco’lantern 🎃 @digitaldraco.bsky.social · 2h

That is not remotely a good point. That's fascism.

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Mike Draco’lantern 🎃 @digitaldraco.bsky.social · 2h

Honestly we need to deal with the YouTube grifter problem somehow, too.

Mike Draco’lantern 🎃 @digitaldraco.bsky.social · 2h

Honestly he’d quite possibly be under conservatorship or at least in a retirement home if it weren’t for his money.

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Mike Draco’lantern 🎃 @digitaldraco.bsky.social · 2h

Something about being unable to reason someone out of a belief they did not use reason to come to.

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Mike Draco’lantern 🎃 @digitaldraco.bsky.social · 3h

Under the Checkout button, click/tap the Adjust Donation box and move the First Book donation amount ➡️ all the way!)

Screenshot showing the amount of money going to Penguin Random house, First Book charity, and Humble bundle. The amounts are adjustable by sliders. The slider for the First Book charity is all the way to the right, giving the max amount.

Mike Draco’lantern 🎃 @digitaldraco.bsky.social · 3h

Hey, Star Warriors! (Is that too cheesy?)

Looking for a way to pass the time between now and The Mandalorian & Grogu?

You can get up to 16 #StarWars books for as little as $18 over at Humble Bundle now! 📚

(Pro tip: remember to max the donation to the First Book charity! See next post for how.)

Humble Book Bundle: Star Wars Novels: Go Beyond the Films

We’ve teamed up with Random House Worlds for our newest bundle, featuring all the Star Wars stories you won’t see in the movies. Pay what you want and support charity!

www.humblebundle.com

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 2d

ye see this shits not inevitable never give up in advance

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2d

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

www.jsonline.com

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 3h

fuck all the way off with this, my guy

AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 4h

Whew. “Myrna Melgar, an SF supervisor, said that Benioff’s comments about the National Guard and [47] ‘threw me for a loop.’ She speculated that his political shift might be for self-serving business reasons.
‘From…Marc Benioff, it’s particularly disappointing.’” 🤦🏽‍♀️ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Mike Draco’lantern 🎃 @digitaldraco.bsky.social · 3h

We’ll go just as hard or harder than Portland if they do.

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Mike Draco’lantern 🎃 @digitaldraco.bsky.social · 2d

Over on Threads, when people are discussing social media platforms, I frequently see criticisms of BlueSky feeling very cliqueish.

This past week has very much reinforced that this observation is 1,000% correct in multiple ways.

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Mike Draco’lantern 🎃 @digitaldraco.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a big tendency online to both assume one individual is an exact representative of a group and ascribe all the negative stereotypes one assumes of the group to that person AND to take one individual’s negative behaviors to be representative of whatever group they supposedly represent.

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Mike Draco’lantern 🎃 @digitaldraco.bsky.social · 1d

I swear some of these people (like Eg) cannot be real humans.

gargalorian.bsky.social @gargalorian... • 24m
I'm sorry but during the last 8 months we reached the point where we had American mercenaries shooting at civilians under the pretense that they were there to provide them with food and Biden's policies are the ones that will be remembered? Ok

Eg last name @bigguylife420.bsky.... • 2m
No one's falling for this shit anymore

Mike Draco’lantern 🎃 @digitaldraco.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, they digitally put him into a teaser trailer for the movie last month for literally no good reason (not that any reason would be good but it’s just his face over Leto’s and it’s just “Look! Here’s that popular sociopath you all like for some reason!”

Mike Draco’lantern 🎃 @digitaldraco.bsky.social · 1d

It would be nice if companies would just stop aligning themselves with garbage people like this!

Mike Draco’lantern 🎃 @digitaldraco.bsky.social · 1d

When I saw the first trailer with Tron stuff in the “real world” I was SO hyped. I very much want to see this on a huge screen but, now I don’t want to be rewarding Disney for these choices, as much as I want to support the other actors.

I’ll maybe watch it when it’s “free” on D+ I suppose.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1d

I think people on the broad left need to stop getting in front of themselves like this and be able to trumpet a victory for people won by beating the fuck out of the GOP until they cave *as a victory for us and for Americans* rather than as a secret GOP win.

Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 2d

If Dems win the standoff and get their policy demands, yes they will have substantively helped millions of Americans (a good thing, to be clear), but also they will have kept Republicans from a self-inflicted wound in upcoming elections

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Mike Draco’lantern 🎃 @digitaldraco.bsky.social · 2d

The @nin.com soundtrack is one of the few redeeming things about this and I feel like Trent would agree.

Unfortunately this is the also first Tron movie to have PoC leads: Greta Lee & Jodie Turner-Smith.

It has been a very white franchise up til now.

And their movie is being sabotaged.

#TronAres

Photograph of Greta Lee, a Korean American actress, at the London premiere of the movie Tron Ares. She is standing on a black carpet with the movie's title in red on it. She is wearing a grey dress with a low, u shaped neckline.

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Mike Draco’lantern 🎃 @digitaldraco.bsky.social · 2d

Granted she said she was in meetings all day that ran over so she was probably easy to impress at that point but, still. lol

Also discovered we're on the same page about a lot of stuff so that was cool.

Mike Draco’lantern 🎃 @digitaldraco.bsky.social · 2d

My supervisor asked me to lead a meeting while he's OOO.

I met with his supervisor today to review discussion points for the meeting. I had a draft agenda already printed out for both of us. Her response to that simple act was "You're awesome!"

It's nice when the little things are appreciated.

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Mike Draco’lantern 🎃 @digitaldraco.bsky.social · 2d

Me: I really love #Tron!

#TronAres marketing:

• We cast Jared Leto and we're going to prominently feature him and only him and leave out the rest of the cast!

• Mr. Beast!

• Red carpet Tesla robot + Grok appearance!

Me:

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Mike Draco’lantern 🎃 @digitaldraco.bsky.social · 2d

I see this the most with leftists attacking their straw-libs and of course right wingers are absolutely even more guilty of it.

I generally (personally!) see progressives, pragmatic leftists, and left-liberals do this the least.