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Please don't use unroller bots on my threads. ADHD, TTRPGs, Queer Shit, Nerd Shit, History, Animals. Will yell about Star Trek on demand. Queer, Disabled, He/Him 🐦@NomeDaBarbarian 💰 https://ko-fi.com/nomedabarbarian 📌 Denver

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · Oct 11

Time for the best first impression ever, fuck yeah. My name's Nome. I write words. Sometimes people think the words I write are good.

See below for my thread of threads of threads - things I've written that I'd like to be able to find or reference, many of them ported over from my time on Twitter.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 14h

Today I learned that I know one (1) person that willingly eats miracle whip.

Nome @nome.bsky.social · 19h

Whatever they tell you - Tuesday you can mostly just walk straight through security, standard or otherwise.

Nome @nome.bsky.social · 19h

Should be good - low volume day, less likely to have any kinds of delays.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 19h

When are you flying out?

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 20h

I have a hard time believing anyone is going to blame the democrats for this.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 20h

Small sample size, but the tsa folks here?

They've responded with a collection of sneers, eye rolls, and rude gestures to this nonsense.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 1d

I've also started pickling eggs, but that's also often more of a production than I can manage.

Still. Two hard boiled eggs brined with garlic, pepper, and Beets cuts the hunger pretty fantastically.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 1d

I make batches of sandwiches for work lunch, and I cook dinner for myself maybe two days a week. I am, otherwise, always just grazing from the batch food I've made, which is all I have the energy to do.

I've got dried fruit, nuts, and the like in the pantry to grab a handful of when needed.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 1d

One of my go-tos, while cooking something else, is to roast a pork loin or some chicken thighs or any other large piece of protein.

I slice it when it comes out of the oven, then throw it in a Tupperware in the fridge, and a lot of days I'll just pull a piece or two instead of eating a meal.

Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 1d

For any who need to hear this:

Most people, throughout history, have not had to cook every day. It's not weird to not always have the energy to do that. And when you have some but not tons of energy, a lot of packaged or frozen foods have gotten good in the past 20 years.

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 1d

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 1d

Got some really great stickers in the mail today from @theinfophile.bsky.social and @notthatcaltrans.bsky.social, thank you!!! I miss you ❤️

A group of colorful stickers on a white background. They say:
Unclench your jaw
Now that's what I call a trauma response
Eat the rich (pork flavored pink Churu tube)
Relax your shoulders
I was brave today (blue prize ribbon)
The catnip dispensary (black and white stoned tabby cat)

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 1d

Like, he makes it look easy because, in part, it's very easy to stand up for trans rights - they're so self evidently the correct thing to do

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 1d

ad revenue, paid algorithmic boosting, one-time subscription fees, and other services that would make money while still actually working, because there will always be new single people.

That's just not what those three companies want to do, and they don't need to compete.

Nome @nome.bsky.social · 1d

The problem is ultimately the profit motive, but it's not necessarily inherent to the app - the bigger problem is that they all get bought up by the same three companies, and then they aim to maximize profits in a standard enshittification loop.

You could fund them off of a combination of /

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 1d

this. and states are already under tremendous additional pressure from other federal cuts (like to medicaid and WIC). most of this federal public health capacity will not be picked back up. generational damage

Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

This assumes that state and local public health agencies are well funded. They are not. And the regional disparities are stark, so interstate collaboration will almost certainly drift towards those states that have better resources.

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Chris Berube @chrisberube.bsky.social · 1d

"Oh yeah? You like baseball? What if I make you smoke *an entire pack* of baseball?"

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BJ 🏳️‍⚧️ @bellamyj.blacksky.app · 1d

It is not too late for you to start wearing a mask in public.

It is not too late for you to start advocating clean air.

It is not too late for you to learn how to build your own air filters or to tap in with folks already doing so.

They want you sick. They want your neighbors sick. Tell them no.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 1d

TemTem was a great variation in the genre - a focus on the dual/triple battles, complex interactions, and actively managing stamina - without being inaccessible to a kid...

...but i wouldn't call it a hard or complicated game by any stretch, just a fun update.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 1d

Send Skubal to the Hague

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Big Natural Resources @dagnificent.bsky.social · 1d

It's happening again

Big Natural Resources @dagnificent.bsky.social · 3d

It's extremely confusing to have sports at the same time as fascism. I don't know what the posts mean.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 1d

And while we need to work together to bring about collective change and restore public health and science YOU too can literally start wearing a mask again tomorrow anywhere we share air, regardless of what anyone else does. You too can break a chain of transmission. So what choice will
You make?

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot stop the mass firings overnight. But I can wear a mask to protect myself and those around me

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

«ahem»
Rosie the Ribbiter

Thank you for you attention to this matter.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 1d

What's the over-under on the Mariners game lasting longer than the shutdown?

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