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Michael “MacPaladin” Prokop @macpaladin.bsky.social · 5m

We need 9 Republicans to return to the chamber and draft a “Motion to Vacate the Chair” per the rules set in 2024. They can remove Mike Johnson and re-open Congress and get those fucking pedophiles.

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Sweet Plasmids (Simon) 🎮 @sweetsweetplasmids.bsky.social · 16h

Anxiety is shit. Low self esteem is shit.
But remember…
Comparison is the thief of joy.

Be proud of who you are. ✨

(A message I’m trying my best to tell myself as well)

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Michael “MacPaladin” Prokop @macpaladin.bsky.social · 18h

Second only to the turnout at Trump’s imaginary coronation as King of Fantasyland he hosted in his mind. ;)

It seriously, these turnouts are insane. #NoKings

50501 New York @50501newyork.bsky.social · 19h

There were at least 300,000 people at No Kings in NYC.

Three

Hundred

Thousand.

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Michael “MacPaladin” Prokop @macpaladin.bsky.social · 18h

The most striking thing about the narrative that comes from cult followers on the Right is the “we voted for this” nonsense. No you fucking didn’t, dude. Trump played “Opposites Day” on every campaign promise on the trail, and you bought it. The funniest being “drain the swamp”. He IS the swamp.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21h

Nye: We are here to tell our lawmakers that what's going on in our government is
wrong. They must stop the abuses of this petulant president and his circle of sycophants. No thrones, no crowns, no king

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Michael “MacPaladin” Prokop @macpaladin.bsky.social · 19h

Meanwhile, the Twitter/X timeline is melting down because Elon put Grok in charge of deciding what humans find interesting while providing vacuous content that could already be counted as “thread necrosis” in an effort to bury #NoKings content. It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood lol

Janette Moser @mjmoser.bsky.social · 19h

The fun thing about bsky is that the people who want to accumulate massive followings like they had on the other site somehow can’t do it.

Meanwhile I’m mean, curse a lot, and actively try to repel people and this place is like “hell yea.”

🤦‍♀️

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Michael “MacPaladin” Prokop @macpaladin.bsky.social · 1d

So tired and so late getting started. But hey, I finally got my USAA access, so hooray!

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 1d

They joined Bluesky because they can’t live without your attention. They don’t want to govern, they don’t even really want to “win” in a conventional sense, they just want to play online all day owning libs and it drives them crazy when they lose access to your one wild and precious life.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

www.cnn.com/2025/10/17/p...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Jeanine Pirro becoming the Washington Generals of prosecutors.

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Michael “MacPaladin” Prokop @macpaladin.bsky.social · 2d

Absolute disaster. I “stress sleep”/experience “stress fatigue” when things are not going right, and tonight would have been nice therapy playing games. But no, I had to fool around with Amex Support and then Tippy and Snowy *UNLOCKED* the back door and took a stroll around the neighborhood. D:

Michael “MacPaladin” Prokop @macpaladin.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll be on #Overwatch2 tonight at twitch.tv/ms_presents, and if any of my regular partners want to join up, that’s cool too. Last week was glitchy, but I have some ideas why and a possible solution. See you around 8pm Pacific!

Twitch

Twitch is the world

twitch.tv

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Michael “MacPaladin” Prokop @macpaladin.bsky.social · 2d

They want teen concubines for the rich, white masters. Elon Musk can’t make all the white babies himself. Well, he could if he wants the next generation to have ears on their foreheads.

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Michael “MacPaladin” Prokop @macpaladin.bsky.social · 2d

They’re obsessed with this “Replacement Theory” crap because there aren’t enough white babies being born

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Michael “MacPaladin” Prokop @macpaladin.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, come on now. What’s a few Geneva Conventions violations between friends, amirite?

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Michael “MacPaladin” Prokop @macpaladin.bsky.social · 2d

Could really add to the creep factor by saying “prospective parents”, like they’re on the fence about buying a house or something. Because nothing says “normal” like reducing human beings to commodities.

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Michael “MacPaladin” Prokop @macpaladin.bsky.social · 2d

My only issue with Mastodon… well, two: #1 discoverability is 0. There’s no algorithm to mess with. #2 is how slow the app runs on any of my phones. Decentralization has perks, but also pitfalls.

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Michael “MacPaladin” Prokop @macpaladin.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll be on #Overwatch2 tonight at twitch.tv/ms_presents, and if any of my regular partners want to join up, that’s cool too. Last week was glitchy, but I have some ideas why and a possible solution. See you around 8pm Pacific!

Twitch

Twitch is the world

twitch.tv

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Michael “MacPaladin” Prokop @macpaladin.bsky.social · 3d

We are live right now with Calvin of “Win With Dice” on twitch.tv/ms_presents #tabletop #lancer #pathfinder #ccg #tcg #podcast #stream Drop by and #follow!

Twitch

Twitch is the world

twitch.tv

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

AOC: When one party wants the votes of another party. You negotiate, you come to a compromise and you pass a bill. That is schoolhouse rock. And that is how things should be

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Michael “MacPaladin” Prokop @macpaladin.bsky.social · 3d

Johnson: “I didn’t see nuthin. I didn’t see nuthin’. In fact, I’m blind in my left eye and 43% blind in my right eye.”

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Kevin Edwards ( Retro Videogame development ) @kevedwardsretro.bsky.social · 9d

One of my favourite consoles, the Hudson Soft / NEC PC-Engine! Known as the TurboGrafx-16 in North America where, for some reason, it was re-housed in a large, ugly dark coloured case! Games were sold on slim HuCard cartridges and also CD-ROM, if you purchased the external drive. R-Type was amazing!

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Michael “MacPaladin” Prokop @macpaladin.bsky.social · 4d

Gottem

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 4d

MAGA Sen. Tim Sheehy froze after CNN’s Kaitlan Collins fact-checked his defense of the Trump administration’s decision to yank $1 billion in clean-energy funding from his own state.

MAGA Senator Left Speechless After Hearing Trump Cabinet Member’s Words

Sen. Tim Sheehy attempted a diversion and was surprised where he ended up.

trib.al

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 4d

There are much worse reasons to do something than “Will it make Stephen Miller angry?”

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

They are terrified of the No Kings rallies and doing everything they can to discredit them.

If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Emmer: "We call it the 'Hate America' rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up. The rumor is that they can't end this shutdown because this small but very violent and vocal group is the only one that's happy about this."

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Michael “MacPaladin” Prokop @macpaladin.bsky.social · 4d

A couple streams got cancelled this week: @shadowsmyst.bsky.social had dental surgery that aligned with Canadian Thanksgiving and @pettyfan45.bsky.social re-injured his eye during cleaning. I’ll be on twitch.tv/ms_presents Wednesday and Thursday nights for MSP #podcast and #Overwatch, respectively

Twitch

Twitch is the world

twitch.tv

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Michael “MacPaladin” Prokop @macpaladin.bsky.social · 12d

I’ll be at my usual haunt at twitch.tv/macpaladin shortly! (Just got home and my middle-aged body said it was time for the “porcelain throne”. I feel like I’ve been on a tether since my 30s lol) #smallstreamer #cityofheroes #middleagegamer

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Max Yeager 🔜 Lighbox Expo 528 @jaegerpilotmax.bsky.social · 13d

To be clear, I’m not going anywhere. Social media always goes bad somewhere because of the kind of people that operate them but that doesn’t take away the community I love here. I’m still active on like 3 platforms and this is still the best one by miles

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