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he / him, 🏳️‍🌈 ✝️. i work on IR and security policy but mainly tweet about richard nixon, 60s americana, and film. design lead for TNO. makes silly election games.

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · Nov 9

one of the things i like to do in my free time is to create short games about history and politics. here’s a few of them below. 👇

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 7h

once made the tno server so, so mad by running into this guy but not having any idea who he was

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 7h

MatPat has been cast as Toy Bonnie in ‘FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDYS 2’

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 7h

my memory is hazy but i believe that the expected warning time if an icbm was fired from the ussr was about 22 minutes so sounds like bigelow and her screenwriter have done their research

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 7h

i believe in tests, under ideal conditions, that the gmd has an accuracy rate of approximately 55%, though if you fire three interceptors at a single warhead you can get up to ~90% accuracy

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 7h

finally, a dramatization of the ground-based midcourse defense system

NPR @npr.org · 14h

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch. n.pr/48przga

Every moment pops in the nuclear thriller 'A House of Dynamite'

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch.

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 8h

been a bit since i played so exact strategy is failing me. usually i try to get the elections scheduled as soon as possible thru advisors while shifting rapidly away from military production to agricultural

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 8h

did a nice set of 15 unassisted full body pull-ups : )

not much, i realize, but feels nice

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 9h

the joy of tik tok

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 9h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 10h

trump’s eyes look more puffy and frog like with each passing day

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 10h

(thank you for reading this silly little thread that I wrote on my phone while walking to the gym)

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 10h

really i think we just won’t do anything until it’s too late. we’ll continue to contaminate the time stream until someone ruptures something important, until it starts affecting the bottom line of powerful people like President Brown or Michael Rockefeller or something like that

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 10h

i hear that the industry is agreeing to self-regulate, to impose extra fees and standards on “important dates” but I think we all know that there’ll soon be boutique travel agencies offering the chance to kill Caesar if you pony up enough cash, if you know the right people

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 10h

but of course they ignore the studies, the magazine articles, the investigations.

the entire road to Golgatha is lined entirely with out-of-timers, laughing and jeering, snatching at the Divine’s garments.

they say every generation crucifies Christ and i guess that’s more true now than ever.

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 10h

some want to ban time travel entirely. they say that any amount of pollutants is a disaster, that we’re ruining lives, that we’re killing ourselves.

but obviously there’s now a huge sector of the economy built around it. a whole lobbying campaign. would you deny someone the chance to see Christ?

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 10h

of course because of the forever particles once you’ve traveled downstream you will always have traveled downstream and so those temporal pollutants just stay in the air forever.

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 10h

go on any social media platform and search “Dallas 1963” and you’ll see hundreds of TikTokers announcing the death of the president to shocked locals for online clout. look up “New York 2001” and catch teens trying to steal from the Looney Tunes Store beneath the World Trade Center.

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 10h

temporal overtourism has become such a huge problem. of course, we’re all aware of the situation in 1914 sarajevo—where the guise of “non-interference” has fallen away and locals hawk “I SURVIVED THE BLACK HAND” t-shirts to out-of-timers—but the problem is just getting worse

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 13h

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.
Love,
Ms Rachel

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 12h

i don't think it's a good thing that our electoral infrastructure is dependent on companies like this who, in turn, have to accommodate absurd and bad-faith claims but there's nothing i'm seeing right now that is setting off alarm bells for the end of the Republic. it's bad in a more mundane way.

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 12h

the biggest piece of political intrigue is them suddenly settling with some of their critics, but i think you could again view them as trying to remove an irritant for many red counties while also knowing that federal dollars may be impacted by them alienating Trump's surrogates

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 12h

We don't have enough information about what the new ownership intends to do yet, but it is not likely that they will be able to suddenly rig the entire system in favor of one side because the system itself is too decentralized and is not built for something like that.

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 12h

Liberty (née Dominion) appears to be trying to address the concerns articulated by Trump and other conservatives, which they would probably do regardless of owner because their machines are bought by both red and blue counties and their business model cannot handle being boycott by one side.

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 12h

it would probably just be easier for me to get a substack for inane cultural criticism instead of just constantly posting miscellaneous thoughts to bluesky but then i think about having to do that on top of my day job, on top of my tno shit, on top of my campaign trail shit, on top of my irl hobbies

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 12h

you could indeed do a much more “serious” and “grounded” take on Greek mythology and the complexities of the worship practices in Ancient Greece but this is also very much not what Hades is about and i don’t think anyone will leave the game confusing one for the other

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 12h

if there is one impulse i personally want to see less of in fantasy it is worldbuilding for its own sake.

in my opinion, fiction like this should be less concerned with scientific truths than it should be with emotional and social truths.

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 12h

the focus of Hades is not electric guitars or the religious practice of tarot or what the “world looks like for ordinary people”. it is instead trying to tell a story about a specific set of characters and using the Greek pantheon as a foundation for that to help you, the player, fill in the gaps.