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Scott Zumwalt

@drainsmith.bsky.social

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I make stuff for games. Social Justice Werewolf. The Genesys RPG guy. San Marcos, TX https://linktr.ee/drainsmith

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Scott Zumwalt @drainsmith.bsky.social · 2d

More people in government need to play Civilization or even Twilight Imperium.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

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Scott Zumwalt @drainsmith.bsky.social · 2d

what the fuck

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Scott Zumwalt @drainsmith.bsky.social · 3d

More organs means more human

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Scott Zumwalt @drainsmith.bsky.social · 4d

Whatever's coming is going to be so much worse and so much *dumber* than we can imagine.

Scott Zumwalt @drainsmith.bsky.social · 5d

Art by Bo Hampton age 9

Scott Zumwalt @drainsmith.bsky.social · 7d

@actordougjones.bsky.social would hate this.

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Scott Zumwalt @drainsmith.bsky.social · 7d

I'm looking forward to the singularity where games are fully produced and played by AI and us humans can focus on what really matters: working shitty jobs.

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 12d

You can ask a DM anything about their next RPG campaign. You can ask about the lore, the backstory, the worldbuilding, or the magic system. You can ask about the geography of the realm and the politics between rival kingdoms.

The ONLY thing you can't ask is when they're gonna get it to the table.

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 13d

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

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Scott Zumwalt @drainsmith.bsky.social · 15d

oh bother

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Scott Zumwalt @drainsmith.bsky.social · 17d

a bald man in a suit is sitting in a chair with his mouth open and says liquid hot magma .

ALT: a bald man in a suit is sitting in a chair with his mouth open and says liquid hot magma .

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Scott Zumwalt @drainsmith.bsky.social · 27d

GUL DUKAT HAD A DAUGHTER

Scott Zumwalt @drainsmith.bsky.social · 27d

a man with suspenders and a mustache says " it 'll just work itself out naturally "

ALT: a man with suspenders and a mustache says " it 'll just work itself out naturally "

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29d

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things.

I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father.

Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking.

She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking.

I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person.
My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right".

None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing,

enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got.
Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived.

Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.

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Scott Zumwalt @drainsmith.bsky.social · 29d

In lieu of Christmas Ghost technology, the people will find other methods to change minds. Debate does not work.

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Long Live the Gerontocracy @urban-achiever.bsky.social · Sep 13

I guess he got his wish.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · Sep 11

We cannot move forward or escape this nightmare until mainstream figures finally admit that there are many, many people on the right - including some of its most powerful voices - who are openly seeking violence and tyranny and exploit every situation to move it closer.

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Scott Zumwalt @drainsmith.bsky.social · Sep 11

The whole NPC meme stuff really exemplifies this.

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Signing Mass Effect @ Essen! @ithayla.bsky.social · Sep 11

i just think it's funny* that they go 'political violence is never ok' then turn around and vote to dehumanize trans people, immigrants, and palestinians

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Scott Zumwalt @drainsmith.bsky.social · Sep 10

Is flying a flag at double mast a thing?

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Scott Zumwalt @drainsmith.bsky.social · Sep 10

Nice day we're having.

Scott Zumwalt @drainsmith.bsky.social · Sep 10

I cut my hair.

Scott Zumwalt @drainsmith.bsky.social · Sep 9

*Looks up from eating sloppy joe* They can see me in my house?

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · Sep 9

Having a depressive episode but I don’t want to give up my holodeck slot so I just lie there in the empty room staring up at the grid.

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Scott Zumwalt @drainsmith.bsky.social · Sep 9

Andor is so perfect.