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Emma Spookdel @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 15m

Fields Sisters undefeated: racism comes before race.

mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · 2h

"Ta-Nehisi Coates, in Palestine, May 2023, observes black Israeli soldiers "lording their power over Palestinians, many of whom would, in America, have been seen as 'white'. This reminds him "of something [he has] long known: that race is a species of power and nothing else."

(h/t Jeremy Bushnell)

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Emma Spookdel @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah if he were doing it to like, present a defense of blue state diversity to try to get a “you know what I don’t agree but I respect it” response from them or their audience I might be skeptical but I wouldn’t consider it disqualifying. That is not what he did.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Emma Spookdel @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 2h

I frankly do not even want to think about the scenario where he’s the nominee. Got to stop it before then or at least make it unacceptable for him to hold to his Starmerite position.

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Emma Spookdel @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 2h

The attitude of “these ideas broke containment” is better applied to the question of, say, whether streamers should debate transphobes or not. But Newsom wasn’t even debating, he was staking out a position for his presidential run that if he’s captain of the ship, he throws us overboard.

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Emma Spookdel @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 2h

It’s relevant because he’s clearly going to run for president. We can and should sink him in the Dem primary over that because there will be other alternatives and the winner’s position on trans rights will be seen as a referendum on our place as a minority worth defending or not.

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Emma Spookdel @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 2h

Menswear Guy's tailor stitching another lanyard onto the sleeve of his suit coat like the ground crew painting another little swastika on the side of Chuck Yeager's P-51.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

Matt Stoller being very Matt Stoller, calling someone else a "classic left poseur snob"

Matt Stoller being eviscerated by @dieworkwear.bsky.social

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Emma Spookdel @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 5h

Rodgers just needed a weak division

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Sara Dee @trisaratops.bsky.social · 8h

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Emma Spookdel @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 6h

It is fundamentally left-punching, it just isn’t understood as such by them or their audience because they are “the left” within this marginal struggle and they call their targets “the right.” But the effect is the same.

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Emma Spookdel @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 6h

This is the fundamental problem with ultras of any stripe, whether communist or anarchist or Berniecrat or whatever: they view the stakes of politics as hegemony within the left. The events and consequences of actual politics serve only to produce talking points to throw at their intraleft opponents

socdoneleft @socdoneleft.bsky.social · 7h

A big problem: In most communist spaces you get WAY more clout for attacking leftists than attacking rightists.

Like: Trump & rightist media are working night and day to label anti-fascism as "terrorism" & ban that opposition -- and you're focused on lying about Mamdani?

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Emma Spookdel @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 6h

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 8h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Emma Spookdel @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 6h

If this happened today there would be breathless threads on this website about how this makes Grant the REAL slave power.

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 7h

God you gotta love Ulysses Grant

As for provisions, Grant remembered what he had learned after Van Dorn’s destruction of his supply base the previous December. This time he intended to cut loose from his base, travel light, and live off the country. Although civilians were going hungry in Mississippi, Grant was confident that his soldiers would not. A powerful army on the move could seize supplies that penniless women and children could not afford to buy. For the next two weeks the Yankee soldiers lived well on hams, poultry, vegetables, milk, and honey as they stripped bare the plantations in their path. Some of these midwestern farm boys proved to be expert foragers. When an irate planter rode up on a mile and complained to a division commander that plundering troops had robbed him of everything he owned, the general looked him in the eye and said “Well those men didn’t belong to my division at all, because if they were my men they wouldn’t have left you that mule”

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Emma Spookdel @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 7h

People do call the same kind of game “zeldalikes” when they are top down or 3D! It’s madness!

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Emma Spookdel @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah I feel like of the three this one bothers me the least

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Emma Spookdel @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 7h

The classic movement abilities in Zelda are items: hookshot crosses gaps, bombs, hammer and/or lifting gauntlets to get through large rocks, opening doors by lighting torches or shooting something with an arrow or boomerang.

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Emma Spookdel @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah most Zelda games are basically the same structure but top down or 3D. The last two major releases weee more in the open world vein but most Zelda games are built on the same loop that many Metroidvanias are

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Emma Spookdel @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 10h

Apparently “Roguelike” is an older term than I realized

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Emma Spookdel @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah and links awakening but platforming is basically essential to side scrollers. You’re only a platformer if you specialize in it (eg Celeste)

Emma Spookdel @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 11h

That works too except they’re more of a maze than an open world generally.

Emma Spookdel @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 11h

This kind of makes them the same as “Soulslikes” too, just that the latter are characterized by greater difficulty, especially with bosses. But like, some shooters are hard and others are easy. I feel like these are both just subgenres of the thing Miyamoto invented with the Legend of Zelda.

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Emma Spookdel @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 11h

Really “Metroidvanias” are just action-adventure side scrollers. They’re the same thing as Zelda just that Zelda (with one exception) is mostly top down or 3D.

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Emma Spookdel @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 11h

Can we come up with proper genre names for “metroidvania,” “roguelike,” and “soulslike?” There’s been like a decade or so where these were established genres. It feels like calling GoldenEye or Half-Life a “Doom clone” at this his point.

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 14h

"If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter." -- Justice Kavanaugh

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 16h

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

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