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Jakespeare’s Ghost

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Jakespeare’s Ghost @swashbucklr.bsky.social · Feb 10

I would like an emotional support basilisk, and the emotional support would be the basilisk turning douchebags to stone.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 14h

The hostage release is a reminder of how bad the Dems are at politics. Not only did Biden refuse to force this deal on Netanyahu & thereby help Harris win, but most people aren’t even aware that Biden got way more Israeli hostages (over 100) released with his 2023 ceasefire than Trump did with his.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 20h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Jakespeare’s Ghost @swashbucklr.bsky.social · 1d

He might love it, but he doesn’t understand it. Moore hates fascists, after all. It’s all over Moore’s work.

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Jakespeare’s Ghost @swashbucklr.bsky.social · 1d

Wait until he watches Tron for the first time.

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Jakespeare’s Ghost @swashbucklr.bsky.social · 2d

I often say that the best things TFG did was pause student loans and fund COVID vaccines.

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Jakespeare’s Ghost @swashbucklr.bsky.social · 2d

Travel is my biggest expense, and it’s so worth it to see the world.

Jakespeare’s Ghost @swashbucklr.bsky.social · 3d

I just spent my afternoon playing FF Tactics on the couch and now it’s dark out.

Jakespeare’s Ghost @swashbucklr.bsky.social · 4d

Was completely surprised that IKEA didn’t have their almond torte in stock today, both at the restaurant and the marketplace. And disappointed.

Jakespeare’s Ghost @swashbucklr.bsky.social · 4d

Burger did the Bard’s Tale games, which were extremely formative for young Jake.

Jakespeare’s Ghost @swashbucklr.bsky.social · 4d

It is too hot in the sun and too cold in the shade. I feel betrayed somehow.

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Jakespeare’s Ghost @swashbucklr.bsky.social · 5d

I appreciate that your own books are in the chart!

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Jakespeare’s Ghost @swashbucklr.bsky.social · 5d

NEW ACHIEVEMENT: finished book six of Dungeon Crawler Carl.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 6d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 7d

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Jakespeare’s Ghost @swashbucklr.bsky.social · 7d

I play a pirate at my larp, and that’s all the context you need for this joke.

A discord comment with laugh reacts that reads: "Is that one of the eyeball creatures at the door?" "Ayе."

Jakespeare’s Ghost @swashbucklr.bsky.social · 10d

My first trip to the hot tub was with Eris. I was going to invite Artemis, but she’s too busy singing to enjoy the hot springs.

I was not expecting the result.

#Hades2 #Discordia

Jakespeare’s Ghost @swashbucklr.bsky.social · 10d

Still waiting for the 2A people who spent the last few decades certain that the black helicopters were coming to say something now that the black helicopters have come.

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 11d

I can’t begin to tell you how damaging “the world isn’t fair, get used to it” line has been to every child’s psyche growing up and therefore has led to a world that stays unfair. If we teach children to get used to an unfair world, we are destroying the possibility of a better world.

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Jakespeare’s Ghost @swashbucklr.bsky.social · 11d

No! I just had my own… experience.

Jakespeare’s Ghost @swashbucklr.bsky.social · 11d

Okay, next time y'all fight Chronos, pause the game. Trust me. #Hades2

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Jakespeare’s Ghost @swashbucklr.bsky.social · 11d

You know, any time Leon wants something, I want to support the other thing. I guess I have to get a second Netflix account.

Jakespeare’s Ghost @swashbucklr.bsky.social · 12d

My favorite thing about Final Fantasy Tactics is the fantasy that you can get any job you’re qualified for.

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Jakespeare’s Ghost @swashbucklr.bsky.social · 13d

Isn’t that the plot of Star Trek 4?

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Jakespeare’s Ghost @swashbucklr.bsky.social · 13d

Well, Amazon updated their shipping notification and I get it tomorrow. October 1st is better than October 4th.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

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