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Chris Thompson

@drchristhompson.bsky.social

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Socialist game developer in Los Angeles. Flipper of tables and crafter of artful profanity. Viewpoints are my own. Punctuation atrocious by design; hyphens and em dashes are used interchangeably, and semicolons are just commas with jaunty hats. No regerts.

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Chris Thompson @drchristhompson.bsky.social · 6d

If you're here about the Christmas Carol tweet from 2021: I deeply regret sending it, please leave me the fuck alone. Thank you.

Chris Thompson @drchristhompson.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"Low repro hard crash"

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Chris Thompson @drchristhompson.bsky.social · 3d

Don't forget a reddit post describing your exact issue, where the top voted reply is some chump saying, "You should just Google it".

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Dean Van Nguyen @deanvannguyen.bsky.social · 3d

Very refreshing to see a left wing politician not treat this question like some kind of minefield that needs to be carefully negotiated

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Chris Thompson @drchristhompson.bsky.social · 3d

Bro, that looks jank AF even to me, and I didn't think Mass Effect Andromeda was that bad.

Chris Thompson @drchristhompson.bsky.social · 3d

BEHOLD! A VERY REAL AND NORMAL FACE MADE BY A PERSON WHO DEFINITELY EXISTS!

Chris Thompson @drchristhompson.bsky.social · 5d

Essay | After 65 Years, Critics Need To Recognize To Lennon and McCartney's Songwriting

Chris Thompson @drchristhompson.bsky.social · 5d

I long for a society that believes that ordinary things can be beautiful.
youtu.be/tWYxrowovts?...

How Did The World Get So Ugly?

YouTube video by The Cultural Tutor | Sheehan Quirke

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Chris Thompson @drchristhompson.bsky.social · 5d

Wolcott, CT. Pronounced "WOOL-kit" by locals.

Chris Thompson @drchristhompson.bsky.social · 5d

Down in LA we have Los Feliz.

Chris Thompson @drchristhompson.bsky.social · 6d

If you're here about the Christmas Carol tweet from 2021: I deeply regret sending it, please leave me the fuck alone. Thank you.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Chris Thompson @drchristhompson.bsky.social · 8d

Stephen Miller watched PCU and thought David Spade was the good guy.

Chris Thompson @drchristhompson.bsky.social · 8d

Hell yes. Just remember that negating CU is going to require getting corporatist Dems to fall in line, and primarying those who won't.

Big Tents and Big Ideas aren't mutually exclusive, as long as we don't fall back into the "Vote Blue No Matter Who" trap.

Chris Thompson @drchristhompson.bsky.social · 8d

It's a bad sign when even the Moby Dick account appears to have given up.

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 9d

random allusions to whales

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 9d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Chris Thompson @drchristhompson.bsky.social · 10d

Has Grok really not complained about Elmo yet? I could have sworn that happened already...

Chris Thompson @drchristhompson.bsky.social · 13d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNLF...

Homer Simpson- “You have my undivided attention”

YouTube video by TrojanHawk

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Chris Thompson @drchristhompson.bsky.social · 13d

This is the difference between being "Pro-Labor" instead of merely "Pro-Union". "Pro-Labor" means supporting new sectors of the workforce in their endeavors to organize, while "Pro-Union" just means paying lip service to the existing power structures already in place.

Moderate Democrats take note.

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Chris Thompson @drchristhompson.bsky.social · 13d

...and now back to your regularly scheduled screaming into the void.

Chris Thompson @drchristhompson.bsky.social · 13d

I don't use this platform to talk about my professional life very much (that's what LinkedIn is for), but I am very proud of this game and encourage you all to play it:
store.steampowered.com/app/3989390/...

SLEEP AWAKE Demo on Steam

In the last known city on Earth, people are disappearing in their sleep. Those who remain exist in a crisis of reckless experiments to keep awake. You must navigate depraved death cults, otherworldly ...

store.steampowered.com

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Chris Thompson @drchristhompson.bsky.social · 13d

Last week I went to my GP, seeking an MRI for a bad sprain that I was worried was a tear. I had already gone to Urgent Care and gotten X-rays.

She refused to refer me to the MRI, and instead told me to just take more ibuprofen. She said if I really wanted an MRI, I should go to the ER instead.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 13d

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

Chris Thompson @drchristhompson.bsky.social · 13d

As time goes on and different trends come into and out of fashion, I'm realizing that getting rid of my "Bruce Lee Is My Homeboy" shirt was, in hindsight, a poor decision.

Chris Thompson @drchristhompson.bsky.social · 14d

Someone in Canada just pulled the "Oops! ALL Quarians!" lever for the next Mass Effect game.

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Adam Tool @adamtool.itch.io · 15d

Meanwhile at the Riyadh comedy festival

Screenshot of The Princess Bride’s Inigo Montoya with text that says “Hello. My name is Pete Davidson. You killed my father. Prepare to laugh”

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Chris Thompson @drchristhompson.bsky.social · 14d

AIPAC should not be legal. Foreign governments should not have the power to influence elections or purchase the influence of elected officials.

Step one of getting dark money out of American politics is to elect politicians who are committed to not accepting dark money.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 15d

It’s official: AIPAC is trying to buy my election to keep me out of Congress.

Apparently, I’m a “dangerous detractor”... by believing Palestinians (like myself and my family) deserve basic human rights.

But we’re not going to let AIPAC win.

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