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@radicalhistory.bsky.social

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History-knower. Shitposter. Gamer-American. Co-host of Dungeon Master of None. History writing and videos at radicalhistory.substack.com

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Rob @radicalhistory.bsky.social · Nov 11

I'm Rob, I write a newsletter called Radical History (radicalhistory.substack.com), give talks on the same here in Portland, OR, and am the co-host of Dungeon Master of None, a TTRPG podcast about getting started running/playing in games (not an AP). In my day job I'm a lifeguard, which rules IMO.

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Rob @radicalhistory.bsky.social · 18h

I doubt this will have even a fraction of the impact that one ill-advised tweet from a leftist college student will have but it sure is interesting to read what these little Eichmanns say when they think it's safe

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Ducky (Maybe) 🦆 @justducky.bsky.social · 1d

A comparative breakdown of professional wrestling legend Bruno Sammartino and all around piece of shit Christopher Columbus

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emily @soupmuse.bsky.social · 1d

you know what WOULD have Portland on fire?

Zenith Energy's so-called 'renewable' fuels.

(like literally the rivers themselves on fire)

emily @soupmuse.bsky.social · 1d

if the federal government truly cared about public safety in Portland, they would help us shut down the CEI hub which threatens to cause the biggest industrial disaster in US history.

submit your comments by Friday.

actionnetwork.org/letters/demand-a-safer-portland-stop-the-cei-hub-time-bomb

Demand a Safer Portland! Stop the CEI Hub Time Bomb!

Tell City Hall to Choose Public Health and Safety Over Corporate Profits at the CEI Hub Portland faces a historic choice—one that will determine our city’s safety and environmental legacy for generat...

actionnetwork.org

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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 1d

"True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice."

- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 3/3

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Rob @radicalhistory.bsky.social · 1d

Came here to say this, absolute banger, holds up immensely, never not relevant/timely

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Apr 26

foone, on tumblr:
"The thing neurotypicals tend not to understand about the ADHD brain is that it really only has two gears

I turn to the chalkboard and carefully write out

WORKIN' HARD

HARDLY WORKIN'"

kaminarider:
"Much like a cars transmission getting stuck between gears the adhd brain can also access a secret mode called HORKLY WARDIN' that feels bad"

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Rob @radicalhistory.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think it's antisemitic to make fun of people claiming gumbo is an Israeli food but I guess I am willing to admit that there are advanced forms of bigotry with which I am unfamiliar

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ToughSF @toughsf.bsky.social · 3d

Railguns powered by explosive flug generators, from an LNLL-LANL program:
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/106...
2.7 kg of HE was used to deliver up to 2 MA of current.
The next step was to develop a hybrid railgun which was both strip generator and coaxial railgun with an annular projectile.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 3d

He thought, I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

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Cari Luna @cariluna.bsky.social · 3d

A note from war-ravaged Portland:

cariluna.com/war-ravaged-...

War-Ravaged Portland

I was thinking that I might take some photos on my walk tomorrow to show you Portland in all of its overcast autumn glory, but you don’t need to see images of our tree-lined streets and our communi…

cariluna.com

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 3d

i’m running for president in 2028, this is my platform:

- no more spam texts and calls
- smaller cars with weaker headlights
- imprison every person in ice and the trump administration on a remote island for a thousand years

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 4d

A WARRIOR FEARS NOTHING, NOT EVEN ASKING FOR HELP.

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ladies and gentlemen, the weekend 😌 @craigweekends.bsky.social · 4d

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · Apr 9

Corn Diggers (1967-circa 1986): A corn-based cracker/chip hybrid from Nabisco, meant to taste like hot buttered corn, and shaped like little shovels/scoops for eating with dip.

Two men in collared shirts and sweaters sit on the sideline of a football game. One holds up a bag of corn diggers, the other a jar of Planters cheez balls

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Rob @radicalhistory.bsky.social · 4d

My games have produced a lot of funny quips but our last session included a major miscommunication that resulted in a combat and this might be the best bit yet

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 4d

Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade.

And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 6d

WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances

It reads:

"This man is your FRIEND

He fights for FREEDOM"

The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 6d

Death seems the only desirable sequel for a career like this

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 6d

One of the reasons they're having trouble concocting a Left Wing Terrorism epidemic is basically nobody in this country has ever met a left wing person. You might as well say we're being invaded by the smurfs

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Rob @radicalhistory.bsky.social · 6d

Oh no, they got us

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

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Leon Scarillaro 👻 @barilleon.com · 6d

Game Jam called "Make It Fit" where we try to force a system to do something that it shouldn't do at all while still maintaining the ethos of the system. Farming mechanics in Blades in the Dark. Orbital Blues dating simulator. Draw Steel store management sim.

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Rob @radicalhistory.bsky.social · 6d

This is sorta funny but I hope every "Portland resident" that gave a quote for this knows that if/when Trump's goons turn violent that blood will be on their hands

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

PORTLAND: Fake News Ignores Antifa Violence, Residents’ Pleas for Help

For years, an Antifa-led hellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks on federal officers and property —

www.whitehouse.gov

Rob @radicalhistory.bsky.social · 7d

Love this energy comrade, keep up the good fight 🫡

Rob @radicalhistory.bsky.social · 7d

The 2016 election was almost ten years ago

Freddie Mercury's Cat Chauffeur @libbityboo.bsky.social · 8d

Race not class, shove that in your bernie blowholes

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Leger-Felicite SCARElax 👻🇵🇸 @segatape.bsky.social · Apr 24

legal twitter threads as a non-lawyer always are like

judge: so you would say that the spudge test applies here?

doj guy: conditionally, yes

judge: you think the spudge test is conditional in this case

and then a bunch of responses of like "LMAOOOOO he is COOKED holy shit"

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