It's Me, Mike Olson
@devlin1.bsky.social
Freelance writer and game designer. West Coast Adventurers Guild writer. Legends of Greyhawk Story Lead (Wild Coast and Bandit Kingdoms Divisions). Diablo TTRPG developer-person. Creator of dispassionate, professional summaries of myself.
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Also, its illegal to discuss gender in some American universities now.
This is the second time in three months a DHS agent called a US citizen a "bitch" as he shot her. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...
January 10, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Also, its illegal to discuss gender in some American universities now.
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when it's definitely going the way you thought it would
January 10, 2026 at 6:06 PM
when it's definitely going the way you thought it would
Yeah, get our ass!
Japan is cosplaying what it’s like to be in America…
now.
now.
January 11, 2026 at 5:14 AM
Yeah, get our ass!
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again
When you go to protests you’re going to encounter some corny and cringe people you’re not fully aligned with in various ways and I think that’s OK and not something to get Yosemite Sam mad about.
seeing some centrists complaining about "internet leftists" and inferring that "winemoms" outnumbered them at the rallies today, can you stop making this all about you man? The people, united, etc
January 11, 2026 at 12:19 AM
again
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Granted I’m biased but I actually don’t think that looking like a lesbian should justify summary executions.
January 11, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Granted I’m biased but I actually don’t think that looking like a lesbian should justify summary executions.
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If you’re worried that “protesters getting out of hand” will give the President a reason to implement martial law in an American city, what do you think is happening now? They’re kidnapping and murdering people and the cops are being sent in to arrest people for noise complaints?
January 11, 2026 at 2:52 AM
If you’re worried that “protesters getting out of hand” will give the President a reason to implement martial law in an American city, what do you think is happening now? They’re kidnapping and murdering people and the cops are being sent in to arrest people for noise complaints?
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ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis or we WILL lock up our own citizens
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says 29 people were arrested in downtown last night during a noise demonstration at a hotel reportedly housing ICE agents: "For those that are taking the bait and causing property damage or otherwise, there are consequences. We're holding the line here all the way."
January 10, 2026 at 8:40 PM
ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis or we WILL lock up our own citizens
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maybe heading towards some of those weeks where decades happen
BREAKING: The UK Government is working with Canada and Australia to launch a coordinated ban on X, per the Telegraph
January 11, 2026 at 3:13 AM
maybe heading towards some of those weeks where decades happen
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New Episode Alert!
Grab your ice axes and pitons! Meaghan is taking Deanna (and YOU) on an trip to Everest.
In the first of her three part series, Meaghan explains her unhealthy fixation on the many failed expeditions to the summit of Everest.
open.spotify.com/episode/2uPp...
Grab your ice axes and pitons! Meaghan is taking Deanna (and YOU) on an trip to Everest.
In the first of her three part series, Meaghan explains her unhealthy fixation on the many failed expeditions to the summit of Everest.
open.spotify.com/episode/2uPp...
The First Everest Expeditions, Pt. 1
open.spotify.com
January 10, 2026 at 6:56 PM
New Episode Alert!
Grab your ice axes and pitons! Meaghan is taking Deanna (and YOU) on an trip to Everest.
In the first of her three part series, Meaghan explains her unhealthy fixation on the many failed expeditions to the summit of Everest.
open.spotify.com/episode/2uPp...
Grab your ice axes and pitons! Meaghan is taking Deanna (and YOU) on an trip to Everest.
In the first of her three part series, Meaghan explains her unhealthy fixation on the many failed expeditions to the summit of Everest.
open.spotify.com/episode/2uPp...
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We've made the most detailed interactive map of Faerûn!
It has 3,700 pinned locations, each one supported by a #dnd source
Filter through 16 categories to explore the continent in detail
⚠️ Due to the size of the dataset, loading may take some time
forgottenrealms.fand...
It has 3,700 pinned locations, each one supported by a #dnd source
Filter through 16 categories to explore the continent in detail
⚠️ Due to the size of the dataset, loading may take some time
forgottenrealms.fand...
January 10, 2026 at 1:59 PM
We've made the most detailed interactive map of Faerûn!
It has 3,700 pinned locations, each one supported by a #dnd source
Filter through 16 categories to explore the continent in detail
⚠️ Due to the size of the dataset, loading may take some time
forgottenrealms.fand...
It has 3,700 pinned locations, each one supported by a #dnd source
Filter through 16 categories to explore the continent in detail
⚠️ Due to the size of the dataset, loading may take some time
forgottenrealms.fand...
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Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it's Saturday.
Rep. Angie Craig: "We were told because this facility is being funding by the 'Big Beautiful Bill,' not the congressional appropriations act, that we would not be allowed to enter the facility. That's complete nonsense ... I informed them they were violating the law. They said they didn't care."
January 10, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it's Saturday.
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It’s pretty obvious that the ICE (and similar) tactic of having officers shout conflicting instructions is a deliberate policy, since it forces you to “fail to comply” with one of them, thereby justifying any and all actions they take, including murdering you.
So, the training seems to be working.
So, the training seems to be working.
January 10, 2026 at 4:24 PM
It’s pretty obvious that the ICE (and similar) tactic of having officers shout conflicting instructions is a deliberate policy, since it forces you to “fail to comply” with one of them, thereby justifying any and all actions they take, including murdering you.
So, the training seems to be working.
So, the training seems to be working.
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I have a note: journalists shouldn’t post AI slop in a time of national crisis
January 10, 2026 at 4:19 PM
I have a note: journalists shouldn’t post AI slop in a time of national crisis
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People out there annoyed at politicians saying “fuck” should spend a little more time fighting fascism and a lot less time policing the usage of a word you can hear in a PG-13 movie.
January 10, 2026 at 3:49 PM
People out there annoyed at politicians saying “fuck” should spend a little more time fighting fascism and a lot less time policing the usage of a word you can hear in a PG-13 movie.
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“A school official, speaking to MPR News on condition of anonymity, said many students sheltered in a nearby library.” Libraries offer so many kinds of shelter, refuge, galvanization, conviviality, etc. They’re under attack by this regime, too, and must be defended.
Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*.
workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...
workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...
January 10, 2026 at 4:37 PM
“A school official, speaking to MPR News on condition of anonymity, said many students sheltered in a nearby library.” Libraries offer so many kinds of shelter, refuge, galvanization, conviviality, etc. They’re under attack by this regime, too, and must be defended.
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new block for you
Nov ‘24 never beating the allegations
Nov ‘24 never beating the allegations
January 10, 2026 at 4:43 PM
new block for you
Nov ‘24 never beating the allegations
Nov ‘24 never beating the allegations
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I'm sorry, but you cannot reason with folks who are not embarrassed to wear this kit on the streets of the United States of America.
January 10, 2026 at 2:49 PM
I'm sorry, but you cannot reason with folks who are not embarrassed to wear this kit on the streets of the United States of America.
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ICE agents are more likely to accidentally shoot and kill themselves than be killed by an immigrant.
Pizza delivery drivers face far more danger than ICE and police.
Pizza delivery drivers face far more danger than ICE and police.
January 10, 2026 at 2:11 PM
ICE agents are more likely to accidentally shoot and kill themselves than be killed by an immigrant.
Pizza delivery drivers face far more danger than ICE and police.
Pizza delivery drivers face far more danger than ICE and police.
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“They need better training” is just the liberal way of wanting nothing to change but also wanting to feel good about nothing changing
January 10, 2026 at 2:13 PM
“They need better training” is just the liberal way of wanting nothing to change but also wanting to feel good about nothing changing
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"The media has largely let [tech companies] set the terms of the debate, right down to the terminology used in any discussion of these systems."
From @nannainie.bsky.social & me in @techpolicypress.bsky.social on how to spot and resist anthropomorphizing language about so-called "AI".
From @nannainie.bsky.social & me in @techpolicypress.bsky.social on how to spot and resist anthropomorphizing language about so-called "AI".
We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI' | TechPolicy.Press
We share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.
www.techpolicy.press
January 9, 2026 at 1:31 PM
"The media has largely let [tech companies] set the terms of the debate, right down to the terminology used in any discussion of these systems."
From @nannainie.bsky.social & me in @techpolicypress.bsky.social on how to spot and resist anthropomorphizing language about so-called "AI".
From @nannainie.bsky.social & me in @techpolicypress.bsky.social on how to spot and resist anthropomorphizing language about so-called "AI".
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Definitely offer them some response on their consideration of incorporating plagiarism machines that are destroying the environment to provide tools that most people don't want.
Discord wants to know how you feel about AI.
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January 10, 2026 at 8:29 AM
Definitely offer them some response on their consideration of incorporating plagiarism machines that are destroying the environment to provide tools that most people don't want.
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Have barely been able to get anything done this week, so I wrote this instead.
In this week's Friday newsletter: Emily St. James (@emilystjams.bsky.social) on cycles of trauma and the necessity of abolishing ICE.
The only way to fix ICE is to get rid of it
The nation's traumatized response to 9/11 has spiraled utterly out of control.
episodes.ghost.io
January 9, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Have barely been able to get anything done this week, so I wrote this instead.
I can't decide if he'd have a cyanide tablet hidden in a false tooth, or if he'd relish going to trial so he could proclaim the righteousness of his evil to the world Sideshow Bob-style.
Photographs of Stephen Miller being led in handcuffs from his home
January 10, 2026 at 5:13 AM
I can't decide if he'd have a cyanide tablet hidden in a false tooth, or if he'd relish going to trial so he could proclaim the righteousness of his evil to the world Sideshow Bob-style.