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Just a guy raising some pets. Former professor of American history who loves to talk politics and Magic the Gathering. He/him.

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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · Dec 23

“AIs talking to AIs, both sides trying to scam the other” is the inevitable final destination of the technology

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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 44m

Hoagie was the role of a lifetime

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 55m

Never forget, there are literal children posting among us and you really don’t have any way to know

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 56m

Yeah but his auto sales have collapsed. The whole network of his is betting on the xAi to save them

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 1h

Elon is the closest I can think of and has definitely gone low profile since moving out of the White House but I also wouldn’t be surprised to see him make a return pretending nothing ever happened

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 1h

Unfortunately the police exist to protect capital, they will never be an ally against another law enforcement body

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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 2h

At this point he should sell it to Seth Green and let him finish the franchise in Robot Chicken form

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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 2h

America managed to frighten itself of strangers so much that it spent untold billions to create a roving force of masked kidnappers who don’t care who they snatch

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 6h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 3h

Just leaning into the royalty thing because why wouldn’t you, emoluments don’t exist and bribery isn’t real if you ask SCOTUS

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 6h

“AI education”

Okay class what is a prompt we could use to make a picture of Richard Nixon as a rabbit

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 6h

I can feel my soul withering as I recognize the dudes on the thumbnails are aging like I am

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 7h

Nintendo should just pony up the money and buy these guys a studio

Stealth40k @stealth40k.bsky.social · 10h

Masahiro Sakurai shared a photo of a Game Director dinner meeting he had for Tokyo Gameshow!

Participants:
- Hideki Kamiya
- Toby Fox
- Yoko Taro
- Jiro Ishii
- Kazutaka Kodaka
- Keiichiro Toyama

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 7h

At the end of the day, a South American political dissident with the ear of the POTUS is not gonna trash talk him if there’s a path towards power

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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 7h

This is the tightrope all the conservatives want to walk: Christianity rules no matter what so even slavers were actually righteous and good if they followed the Bible

It’s just abrogation of guilt and shame over the reality that the religion they follow isn’t actually from God

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 1d

Counterpoint:

You absolutely do not have to hand it to enslavers

Wilson: Now, one of the things I want to do is say: I’m really glad that slavery’s gone, and good riddance. And I want to say that the Southern slave owner, who read the books of Ephesians and Colossians and 1 Timothy and treated his slaves decently, remembering that he had a master in heaven who he studiously tried to obey — what Paul said slave owners were supposed to do — I would say he was not an orc, and he is part of the reason why slavery ended. In other words, I would say he’s a good guy.

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 7h

Less than a year before we reached hiding children from the secret police state

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 22h

Remember that there are righteous people among us, always.

Left: Netherlands, 1942

Right: Illinois, 2025

One day in the summer of 1942, after the onset of the deportations of the Jews from Holland to “the East”, a student, who was a courier for the ASG student underground group in Amsterdam, approached the de Vries family, asking them to hide a Jewish child. The de Vrieses, who had two children of their own, decided to accept the offer despite the risk that was involved in hiding Jews, and soon four year-old Louise Pinto was brought to their home.

Amid the smoke bombs and screams that ricocheted throughout a South Shore building last month during a massive military-style immigration raid, one man heard a knock on his door.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.

“I wasn’t planning on letting her stay, but I didn’t know what the hell was going on,” the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.

“I didn’t want them to take her,” said the man, who didn’t want to be named because he fears he’ll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.

“I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her, ‘Just stay there. Don’t open, don’t, shh, just stay quiet,’” he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 7h

This guy with his gummies

a cartoon of homer simpson talking on the phone

ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson talking on the phone

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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 8h

Do the armed goons make you nervous

WHAT ARE YOU HIDING

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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nattie winters @utilitylimb.bsky.social · Apr 18

🎵 life is like a hurricane /
here in duckburg /
flat beaks, quackers, budget cranes /
those are duck slurs 🎶

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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 20h

Kavanaugh Stops are the 2025 word of the year

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah they should conduct themselves with decorum like me, Kid Rock

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 1d

So as I understand it the main mechanical difference between sneak and ninjutsu is that sneak can be used for non creatures, and more importantly it involves casting a spell instead of being an ability.

Seems like a nice clean evergreen keyword that will be less tied to a specific creature type.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

Michelle Obama telling everyone she's been communicating with Osama Bin Laden

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 1d

That’s…very weird

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah that was my immediate understanding when I learned about them decades ago and then realized “oh this is never gonna materialize”

Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 1d

“Vexatious”

a man in a white shirt is standing in a room

ALT: a man in a white shirt is standing in a room

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Premium Steve @premiumsteve.bsky.social · 1d

I wanted to be into the sequel because it looked cool and I love Daft Punk but I just couldn’t get past the digital de aging