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Mike Ferdinando @mikeferdinando.bsky.social · 5h

This song has been on repeat in my head for a while now...

youtu.be/-sOSr7n_8YU

Cheap Perfume-It's Okay To Punch Nazis

YouTube video by Cheap Perfume Band

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Mike Ferdinando @mikeferdinando.bsky.social · 1d

I still remember the phone number of the house we lived in before my parents split up in 1977. I still know my grandmother's number, and she died in 1990. And I remember several of my high school friends' numbers from the 80s.

I don't have either my wife's or kid's cell number memorized!

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Mike Ferdinando @mikeferdinando.bsky.social · 1d

If the rating system has become "5 stars = minimally adequate, <5 stars = abyssmal," that what the hell is the point of a "star" rating system. Use "Thumbs up/thumbs down" instead.

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Olivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 1d

Luigi Mangione

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

a foundational belief of the modern right is that there is no such thing as organic disagreement with their policies, it’s all directed from the top down

they just can’t conceive that ordinary people find them horrifying

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · Jul 2

1) cops never actually do this.

2) any who would are the ones you definitely want gone.

Amir Talai @amirtalai.bsky.social · Jul 2

zohran come to Los Angeles!!!!!!!!!

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

The Dem establishment is going to back Mills over the absolute phenom outsider Platner in Maine, which tells you everything you need to know about how well they understand the current moment & how prepared they are to meet it.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 1d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 3d

Like I know there are edgelord leftists out there who look down their noses at shit like No Kings but sorry you guys, the more mass protest looks fun and family-friendly, the bigger it gets and the better its chances of being broadly effective

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 3d

Portland does not own the patent on inflatable animal costume protests, come on people

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Mike Ferdinando @mikeferdinando.bsky.social · 2d

DW was a revelation: this was the collaborative game experience I'd been fighting Pathfinder into trying to provide for years. From there I dove head first into the deep end of indie RPGs and story-games.

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Mike Ferdinando @mikeferdinando.bsky.social · 2d

I've been gaming since 1981. It was all trad until 2015: D&D (BX/AD&D/3.x/4e), Traveller, Champions, GURPS, Call of Cthulhu, and Pathfinder. I burned out GMing a years-long PF campaign and pulled the plug.

Then I fell into a group playing Dungeon World. And that game Opened My Brain!

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Mike Ferdinando @mikeferdinando.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of Spooky Month, share a 4-word horror story that only people in your profession would understand.

"We've changed the specs."

The Allie B. You Were Afraid Of @madpierrot.design · 2d

The level design changed.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Mike Ferdinando @mikeferdinando.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent thread on the fascist accelerationist ideology that has become the raison d'être of the Trump regime.

Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Essential point:

"Key to... Vought’s worldview is the idea that the constitutional order - and with it the “natural” order itself - has been destroyed: The revolution has already happened, “the Left” won. Therefore, conservatives categorically err when they try to preserve what is no more."

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

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Mike Ferdinando @mikeferdinando.bsky.social · 3d

Renegade Studios ran a similarly gigantic WoD 5e bundle about a year ago, and there is not a whole lot of overlap between that bundle and this one!

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 4d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 4d

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

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Mike Ferdinando @mikeferdinando.bsky.social · 4d

I'll be the NYC march, and I'll be wearing my "All You Fascists Bound to Lose" Woody Guthrie t-shirt!!

Micah @rincewind.run · 4d

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 4d

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 4d

First they ignore you
Then they laugh at you
Then they fight you
Then you win

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Justin McElroy @thoughtographic.bsky.social · 4d

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

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Mike Ferdinando @mikeferdinando.bsky.social · 4d

Even arch-capitalists like JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon are predicting a MAJOR "market correction" for AI and related industries within the next six months to two years.

Given how much the AI industry is propping up the US economy, this will trigger a 2008-level global recession.

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Mike Ferdinando @mikeferdinando.bsky.social · 4d

This is my dance about how much transphobes suck.

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Mike Ferdinando @mikeferdinando.bsky.social · 4d

Make a movie better by adding "John Carpenter's" to the title...

John Carpenter's Attack of the Clones

🎃 Agent Pumpkin 🎃 @agentpumpkin.bsky.social · 4d

Make a movie better by adding "John Carpenter's" to the title.

John Carpenter's Paddington

James Hodden @jameshodden.bsky.social · 4d

Make a movie better by adding "John Carpenter's" to the title.

John Carpenter's Seven Brides For Seven Brothers.

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