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DakotaVAdams

@toxicmicroceleb.bsky.social

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He/Him. Raised in Oathkeepers and the Militia Right, rural Montana delegate to the crash and burn DNC of '24 and (doomed) state legislature candidate on top of it. Sometimes a writer, becoming a local troublemaker, subject of a documentary, Aquarius ♒️.

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DakotaVAdams @toxicmicroceleb.bsky.social · 8d

The final test of if video games are really 'art' is if they can take on greater weight in hard times.

Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 10d

No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.

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Christopher Harrison @drharrison.bsky.social · 1h

Another interesting example of how these guys are failing at consolidation. European fascists cowed the church! Meanwhile Trump’s boys apparently fall in a Venn Diagram overlap between “Minor Demon” and “Vampire”

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 37m

he's doing the impossible: making it look cool to live in new york city

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 41m

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 39m

IT'S ALL CONNECTED TO THE LONG TRADITION OF PAINTING POIRROT DATING BACK TO THE 1700s IN EUROPE

that guy from Always Sunny with his whacky wall of documents and red string

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 1h

Hmm I’m quadruple dreaming and 78% of my dreams are incorporating LLMS for full dream optimized instrumentation, I’ve never read a book, but I can dream read 100 book summaries in 1.8 mins,

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 1h

It’s all happening on x dot com where I do my banking

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 45m

In ways above and beyond simply having a conservative GOP majority (which after all had already been the case for decades), they're just outright bad at the job. They're thoroughly unimpressive, even incompetent, as jurists, in ways that are not historically normal for the Supreme Court.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 40m

www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1h

legitimately i really do wish people would stop mistaking their own major depressive disorder for politics. it would be better for themselves and also the world

politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 2h

I feel like there's just a segment of the population, trans or cis or otherwise, who will always insist that being happy is fundamentally a character flaw that implies you are insufficiently aware of/don't care enough about the world's problems

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 1h

I feel like a lot of people have overindexed on "da troops" worship in the US because "we're going to pay just the military and only the military while we keep the rest of the government shut down" is not going to be perceived as "supporting the troops" outside of the NYT opinion columns

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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 1h

I love that idiots on this site feel compelled to relitigate the morality of America’s involvement in WW2 every few months.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 53m

vought justifies all of this as a vision of "separation of powers" — an idea that i'm more and more convinced doesn't actually exist, at least not in any strong form, in the constitution — but the thing that comes across is his basic contempt for representative government

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 58m

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 44m

One of the things that's kind of funny to think about is that if you really get down to the core of the systems, traditional RPGs with various status ailments and corresponding spells or potions to clear them are basically the same as a lot of "immersive (but not realistic)" medical systems

Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 53m

I feel like health/medical systems in games are the best example of this because every attempt to be "realistic" and "immersive" still kind of isn't but it's awful for the player experience unless you're a masochist

Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 8h

I love the "it's realistic.. Real life is brutal that is why you starve to death if you don't eat an entire roast chicken every 15 minutes" as a gaming philosophy.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 6h

"Preschool teacher who sings cute songs with little kids and is sad when kids are murdered" is truly the most batshit choice of personal nemesis.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 6h

Being mad at Ms Rachel is a pretty good tell that you're just mad that people care about Palestine at all— many such cases actually but in that context these people will die mad because people will always care

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

I know Trump and his minions all have sneering contempt for kids with special needs, but trust me when I say that their parents will absolutely fucking destroy anyone who messes with the special education supports to which they are entitled by law.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 6h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 4h

Read it all. From one small section:

Shortly after a man fired >500 rounds at CDC and killed a cop, the staff that safeguard employee, facility, and data security are gone. And the Office of Strategic Business Initiatives, that trains and supports risk management across the entire agency, is gone.

Beyond that, the CDC will not be able to function administratively, as the Office of Safety, Security, and Asset Management (OSSAM) office, which safeguards employee, facility, and data security at CDC lost its entire Occupational Health and Safety Office. Barely two months after a gunman shot more than 500 rounds at CDC and killed a police officer, the office devoted to employee safety has been The Workplace Health Office was also RIFed, as was the Office of Strategic Business Initiatives, which is charged with training and supporting risk management across the entire agency. Not only have the CDC employees been terminated, but the ones who remain will be forced to function within an organization that has eliminated mechanisms for looking after their well-being, safety, and ability to effectively do their jobs to carry out the CDC mission.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 2h

“Without U.S. Studebakers (trucks), we would have had nothing with which to pull our artillery." - Georgy Zhukov

A fleet of Studebaker trucks, provided by American lend lease to the Soviet Union, near Moscow in 1944

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 3h

If you're playing League of Legends in pisslow, there's a nonzero chance the guy yelling open mid is actually Bashar al-Assad

Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 10h

Some kid is doing the standard “ur mom” voice chat trash talk and they got no idea they’re talking to bashar al assad

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 3h

you’ve flung the worst fear
that can ever be hurled
a fear to bring children
into the world
for threatening my baby
unborn and unnamed
you ain’t worth the blood that flows through your veins

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 7h

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

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 4h

Today’s article is up and it’s FREE for all to read. Get your potted introduction to three of the leading French generals in #WW1 for starters:

achurchill.substack.com/p/free-artic...

FREE ARTICLE: French Command, 1914-18

Today I thought I’d revert to what I love best - bludgeoning you with French history.

achurchill.substack.com

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Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 3h

No “clean CR” exists when Trump defies Congress and unilaterally guts programs—from law enforcement to pediatric cancer research to clean energy projects.

Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.

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DakotaVAdams @toxicmicroceleb.bsky.social · 3h

Do or do not, there is no Fedpost.

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Bobby A-Morgue 🪦 @kunstderfuge.bsky.social · 3h

First woodstoving day of the season let's gooo

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