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Stephen Raab

@onetruestephen.bsky.social

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Author of “Battle Buddy” in Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine. Opinions my own. Same handle on the old place.

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · Dec 28

Spotted at my local @barnesandnoble.com — January/February 2025 issue of @analogsf.bsky.social , featuring my debut short story “Battle Buddy”!

Get yours today!

January/February 2025 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 1h

“Idiots got rugged and lost their life savings” is how crypto people know it’s Tuesday

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 1h

Read Theory

The Gambler (2014) - F*** You Scene (7/10) | Movieclips

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 1h

The ”Diamond Hands, always hodl” memes were a total op

Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 1h

When winning becomes subordinate to playing

Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 1h

You get up $30M, you should have walked away from the table months ago

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 2h

R (Roosevelt) + L (BJ) = J (Joe)

Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 3h

It is true, you never seen Bruce Wayne and the Count at the same time

Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 15h

I have always believed the American Constitution is pretty good, considering.

I do maintain it would gobsmack the Founders that we have amended it only 27 times and have never removed a President

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He’d conclude the aliens are making them do it

Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 20h

Oil Campaign? What Oil Campaign?

Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 23h

Two feet for a catch is a good rule too

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 1d

A bunch of middle managers didn’t get to boss people around in person for eight months, and now America is voluntarily ceding its superpower status

Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 1d

Doing the Voight-Kampff test to prospective hopefuls as they recite common memes and seeing which ones they subconsciously recognize

a close up of a camera taking a picture of an eye

Alt: a close up of a camera taking a picture of an eye

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about the scene in MWII where Vargas insists that “this isn’t Mexico, this is Las Almas”

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

BF and COD should just emulate games like Front Mission and Ace Combat and try making wars in imaginary countries

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 2d

this is yet another example of why he’s the president our elites deserve. his narcissism is just an exaggerated and vulgarized caricature of the american exceptionalism they not only take for granted but actively refuse to relinquish despite the copious & mounting evidence.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

The widespread media decision to frame international affairs as "will Donnie get the prize he wants?" is pathetic.

He's not the protagonist of human events. And to the extent he's a significant character in world affairs, whether or not he gets a prize is one of the least important things about it.

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 1d

Penalty kicks, but for home runs

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 1d

He got the shots that his own HHS is telling you are not necessary

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 1d

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

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Zach Binney @binneyz.bsky.social · 1d

People need to get the fuck over COVID, man. If you're still mad about it: sorry, grow up. Because this is the result. Unfixable vandalism of the entire health apparatus in the United States.

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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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 1d

As ever, he showed us the way

Big Fucking Deal (Joe Biden) | Know Your Meme

"Big F*cking Deal" is a catchphrase and image macro based on an "inappropriate" statement by U.S. Vice President Joe Bid

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 10d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 1d

The Long Walk was good!

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 1d

This shit is crazy because they're just straight up on video hitting a car that was blocked in the street. The extent as to which DHS now just brazenly puts out lies is utterly obscene.

CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 1d

UPDATE: In emailed statement to me / @reason.com, DHS alleges that WGN-TV producer Debbie Brockman "threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer."

Screencap of email from DHS public affairs: Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin:

“U.S. Border Patrol was conducting immigration enforcement operations and when several violent agitators used their vehicles to block in agents in an effort to impede and assault federal officers. In fear of public safety and of law enforcement, officers used their service vehicle to strike a suspect’s vehicle and create an opening. As agents were driving, Deborah Brockman, a U.S. citizen, threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer.

“This incident is not isolated and reflects a growing and dangerous trend of illegal aliens violently resisting arrest and agitators and criminals ramming cars into our law enforcement officers. These attacks highlight the dangers our law enforcement officers face daily—all while receiving no pay thanks to the Democrats’ government shutdown.”

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 1d

Kicking the plumber out of my house and then getting mad my house still leaks

Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 1d

This is basically magical thinking. It is the thought process of a small, frightened child who just wants mommy to make the pain stop and is getting angry that she can't.
The issue is that this is a grown adult, not a small child, and also when the Democrats do things it's never good enough.

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