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Stephen Raab

@onetruestephen.bsky.social

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Author of “Battle Buddy” in Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine. Opinions my own. Same handle on the old place.

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · Dec 28

Spotted at my local @barnesandnoble.com — January/February 2025 issue of @analogsf.bsky.social , featuring my debut short story “Battle Buddy”!

Get yours today!

January/February 2025 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 8d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 2h

The Long Walk was good!

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 3h

This shit is crazy because they're just straight up on video hitting a car that was blocked in the street. The extent as to which DHS now just brazenly puts out lies is utterly obscene.

CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 4h

UPDATE: In emailed statement to me / @reason.com, DHS alleges that WGN-TV producer Debbie Brockman "threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer."

Screencap of email from DHS public affairs: Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin:

“U.S. Border Patrol was conducting immigration enforcement operations and when several violent agitators used their vehicles to block in agents in an effort to impede and assault federal officers. In fear of public safety and of law enforcement, officers used their service vehicle to strike a suspect’s vehicle and create an opening. As agents were driving, Deborah Brockman, a U.S. citizen, threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer.

“This incident is not isolated and reflects a growing and dangerous trend of illegal aliens violently resisting arrest and agitators and criminals ramming cars into our law enforcement officers. These attacks highlight the dangers our law enforcement officers face daily—all while receiving no pay thanks to the Democrats’ government shutdown.”

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 3h

Kicking the plumber out of my house and then getting mad my house still leaks

Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 3h

This is basically magical thinking. It is the thought process of a small, frightened child who just wants mommy to make the pain stop and is getting angry that she can't.
The issue is that this is a grown adult, not a small child, and also when the Democrats do things it's never good enough.

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 3h

There was a tweet that did numbers during the Barrett confirmation that said Democrats should “throw a knockout gas grenade” into Congress to stop the confirmation

Like they’re GI Joe or something

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3h

Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

🇦🇷 🇺🇸

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 5h

I have a higher opinion of Jeffries than most people On Here, but the “distraction” talking point was abysmal

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 8h

Friends, some advice if you plan on spending time outside in an animal costume, sharing for no particular reason:

-You will sweat a lot more than you think. Have water/snacks

-You cannot move well (the Left Shark guy is a trained experienced professional dancer). Don’t run or you’ll trip and fall.

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 8h

Honesty some furries issuing a first-timers sheet of visibility/safety pointers could be really helpful

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 8h

This one has to be a parody of the Aloy thing, right?

Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 9h

I thought this was a story about a lawyer named James Indictment, which would be a new high water mark in the field of nominative determinism

Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 11h

The perils of tweet scheduling

Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 11h

Time for another twenty articles of innuendo about Biden inviting a Parkinson’s expert to the White House

Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 13h

American House of Cards did this too, but joint custody with Russian troops.

2013 really was a different time

Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 13h

*puts on safety helmet* this was a the West Wing storyline

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

This is Red Guards shit, I don't know why people keep getting mad at that comparison

Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 1d

Years ago I was teaching my gun history class and at the end of the quarter one of the students said that he was in the campus TPUSA chapter and they put him up to taking the class to spy on me but he felt bad about that because he loved the class and learned a lot and had a great time

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 21h

The Adagio is great

Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 21h

Homeopaths, man

Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 21h

Dart comes out of the medical tent after suffering a potential brain injury and Brian Daboll immediately smacks him in the back of the head

Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 21h

I was going to say this is the most Oscar Wilde thing I’ve ever seen that wasn’t written by Oscar Wilde

Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 21h

What triumph are we celebrating? His “perfect score” on the dementia test?

Should have a clock face on it

Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 1d

The first NCR troopers I schwacked were a misunderstanding due to me not knowing you have to “holster” your fists when you approach the guard tower

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

you draw closer and closer together as you try to decide whether to fire, based on what they're doing and saying, but the NPC is also reacting to you (though they have hidden, predetermined mood or intent as well.). If you don't fire on each other for those 30 seconds or whatever you can trade/talk.

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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 1d

During a government shutdown, the Trump administration is bailing out Argentina, whose president is fond of saying, “The state isn’t the solution, it’s the problem.”

David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 1d

Secretary Scott Bessent says the U.S. has “directly purchased Argentine pesos,” and the Treasury Department has “finalized a $20 billion currency swap framework with Argentina’s central bank.”

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 1d

He means before he runs again. He’s always “joking” about it

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

“Asshole with a thin leftist veneer” is what a substantial number of people want, because they don’t actually want to make the world better, they want to feel they’re part of a club and that their resentment of life and desire for someone to tell them how to think is justified.

fleurdor.bsky.social @fleurdor.bsky.social · 1d

I have never understood this guy's appeal. He's just an asshole with a thin leftist veneer. Like Vaush with even less substance.

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