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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 18h

100%!! The way we have to do politics is so absurd on its face. Why does Donald Fucking Trump get to make decisions about a woman working at a linen factory in a town of 300 people in Indiana and the conversations she has with her doctor?? Different worlds!

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 19h

Oof sorry you're feeling sick. But that sounds like a damn good morning.

Speaking of scary, its about time to put on the Joe Moore Halloween album for its annual listen!

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 19h

Hey Joe! How's your morning?

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 20h

Its hard for a lot of ppl to hear "compromise" when the stakes are so high - like genocide, healthcare, climate crisis, racist police, concentration camps. We don't need to compromise OUR positions on that. But we can support politicians who don't further ALL of those goals, but further others.

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 20h

Haha for sure! I didn't get that impression at all!

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 20h

Open to real debate/discussion. Not swarms of internet radicals circle-jerking about how no one understands anything but them.

Ugh. I gotta learn just to not engage that corrupted underden of social media.

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 20h

Not gonna spend my morning engaging with troll-ass pseudo-leftists who can't stand the idea of their own ideas making progress. So many of these people would rather be smug underdogs on the internet than see real reform. Blocks engaged.

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 1d

The Steam reviews for the EARTH MUST DIE Demo have certainly taken an unusual turn. We get an altogether better class of reviews here at Size Five Games

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Steam review: This game doesn’t merely ooze with charm — it secretes it, thick and slow, from pores that shouldn’t exist. Each surface trembles as if beneath it, something vast and unseen squirms and breathes. The charm is alive here, a sentient fluid that remembers older, wetter worlds. It seeps between pixels, whispering through the code in languages not meant for lungs.

It pulses beneath the menus like veins beneath translucent flesh, its rhythm too steady to be human. Sometimes the charm glistens with a light that isn’t reflection, a phosphorescent shimmer like the soft wink of something watching from the dark. When you play, it reaches back — not maliciously, but hungrily — tasting you through the buttons and wires.

And when you close it, you’ll feel it still. In your fingertips. In your teeth. In the soft, wet corners of your dreams.

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 20h

Ever do ANYthing to further reform or just talk shit on the internet, little guy?

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 20h

God did you take this bullshit from list of "cliche Leftist troll quotes"? Or did fuckin AI write it for you? What you're saying has no literal meaning. You're unpractical, unserious, and a literal blockade for people doing real reform. If you're NOT a fed, you're sure doing the work of one.

mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 20h

You're completely unserious. You're actively standing in the way of reform. My guess? A fed or a troll farm creep. No one real, with real political values could be as delusional as this.

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 20h

Who would be a better candidate for mayor then? Who would better wield political power to further your goals?

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 20h

Way too many leftists were not actually serious advocates of the cause, and just devotees to the personality cult of Bernie Sanders.

Or this account is just a fuckin' fed trying to sew discord among real leftists.

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 20h

Christ, leftists will turn on literally any politician that comes close to being able to make a difference. They turned on AOC, Liz Warren, and now Mamdani. They have no sense of practicality, coalition, or long-term progress. This is why the Right and the moderate Dems kick our asses all the time.

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 1d

This shouldn't have even had to be a request. Of all the places in our lives being invaded by armed goons ("civilian" or not), an indie-folk show is probably the most absurd.

Shit like this is not done for "safety", it's done as a statement of values. Fuck The Caverns. @thecavernstn.bsky.social

Neko Case Ends Tennessee Show Early After Venue Refuses To Remove Armed Guard

Neko Case played a show Thursday night at the Caverns in the tiny Tennessee town of Pelham — or at least she started to, before walking off stage after her first few songs. The reason for her departur...

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 2d

Zohran Mamdani’s campaign shows that democratic socialists can win support from all corners. The tens of thousands of DSA members turning out to canvas in NYC “are not only Zohran Mamdani’s socialists; they’re Michael Harrington’s socialists, too.” From Harold Meyerson: trib.al/xAWFNLZ

The Rift in American Socialism

Today on TAP: Realists (Mamdani, AOC) seek immersion in mass politics; fundamentalists oppose it.

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 2d

Not terribly! More like "very spooky".

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 3d

Folks, this game is a triumph of art, animation, and imagination. It legit feels like you're playing a lost Disney classic, but scary. The animation is woven into gameplay, so immersion is deep. I'll have more to say on Save Your Game, but check this one out.

store.steampowered.com/app/2428980/...

Save 20% on Bye Sweet Carole on Steam

Bye Sweet Carole is a narrative-horror adventure game completely hand-drawn in the style of classic animated films. Follow the trail of missing Carole Simmons and uncover the dark secrets hidden behin...

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 3d

Damn, they arrested Sophie Scholl again ☹️

Photo of Sophie Scholl taken by the Gestapo at the time of her arrest in 1933

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 4d

Absolutely love your reccs and pick new games up from them constantly. Your work is incredibly appreciated!!

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 4d

November 5th. VERY stoked for this game.

Foolish Mortals Point & Click Adventure Game @inklingwood.bsky.social · 4d

Our hand-drawn, full-length, fully voiced point & click adventure game Foolish Mortals releases November 5, 2025! 👻 www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0rN...

A wedding... vanished. A treasure... lost. A heart... broken.

Wishlist us now! store.steampowered.com/app/1848440/...

Foolish Mortals Release Date Trailer - November 5, 2025

YouTube video by Inklingwood Studios

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 4d

This would be wild.

Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 4d

I would like something good to happen

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 4d

I would like something good to happen

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 4d

I love @meredithshiner.com she’s so smart

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 4d

“Let Republicans have the literal blood of American citizens on their hands—and make that the central issue of the shutdown. Otherwise, enjoy having your health care subsidy debate in the gulags these people would happily send us all to. I hear that poll-tests great.”

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

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mattaukamp @mattaukamp.bsky.social · 5d

Oh holy shit! Bulb Boy 2 is out in 2 weeks!! And possibly in time for Spooky Month on Save Your Game?? Very stoked for this!

Bulbware | developing Bulb Boy 2: Jar of Despair @bulbware.bsky.social · 11d

Over three weeks left to the release of Bulb Boy 2: Jar of Despair on #Steam so... We just released a totally new demo version of the game! 🔥

Hop on Steam game page and play it now! 💛💛💛

Can't wait to hear your feedback! 💡

#bulbware #bulbboy #indiegames

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