Dan
@schlompkins.bsky.social
video game marketer (job) and indie developer (fun), probably retired TV writer, former national news producer. My iMDB is a train wreck. 🇱🇧/🇺🇸
I have never played a cod but I thought these games were like war porn missions for chuds to pretend they’re in real combat or something? were there kaijus in Desert Storm?
November 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I have never played a cod but I thought these games were like war porn missions for chuds to pretend they’re in real combat or something? were there kaijus in Desert Storm?
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Also, just mentioning that Microsoft are still a BDS boycott primary target, so even if you don't care about a mega-budget AAA game cheaping out and using generic AI-generated art, you should care because the publisher *called the FBI* to investigate their own staff for anti-genocidal sentiments.
November 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Also, just mentioning that Microsoft are still a BDS boycott primary target, so even if you don't care about a mega-budget AAA game cheaping out and using generic AI-generated art, you should care because the publisher *called the FBI* to investigate their own staff for anti-genocidal sentiments.
November 15, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
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You know, with 5-6 guys you can just flip these things. Just an observation.
Yes let's put these things on the 10 and the 405. Waymo sucks and they're nothing more than surveillance cop cars posing as taxis that run over bodega cats
November 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
You know, with 5-6 guys you can just flip these things. Just an observation.
I do not like the weather in LA but it does make you extra appreciate the rare cool autumn morning when the air smells like things other than concrete about to burst into flames
November 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I do not like the weather in LA but it does make you extra appreciate the rare cool autumn morning when the air smells like things other than concrete about to burst into flames
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This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
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"A promise of a vote on healthcare"
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
"A promise of a vote on healthcare"
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Bluesky has too many people with masters degrees posting "kush got me feeling like the Irish Alf"
September 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Bluesky has too many people with masters degrees posting "kush got me feeling like the Irish Alf"
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just to clarify (and kevin knows this so don’t @ him) call no matter who your senators are. the caucus will pay attention to backlash
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
just to clarify (and kevin knows this so don’t @ him) call no matter who your senators are. the caucus will pay attention to backlash
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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
oh baby that’s what we call legal precedent. Hope ICE likes soft-boiled eggs on an everything bagel
November 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
oh baby that’s what we call legal precedent. Hope ICE likes soft-boiled eggs on an everything bagel
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[adult who lives in a world full of needless pain and misery, burdened by the crushing weight of life in a daily basis making it nearly impossible to enjoy anything] I just think all art was coincidentally better when I was a teenager
November 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
[adult who lives in a world full of needless pain and misery, burdened by the crushing weight of life in a daily basis making it nearly impossible to enjoy anything] I just think all art was coincidentally better when I was a teenager
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Heartbroken to hear the news that Dick Cheney died today instead of 30 years ago at the Hague.
November 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Heartbroken to hear the news that Dick Cheney died today instead of 30 years ago at the Hague.
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DON'T FORGET!
November 1, 2025 at 11:52 PM
DON'T FORGET!
I know I’m suffering from hustle culture brain worms but one of the all-time most annoying moments is desperately trying to get something done and realizing you can’t wait any longer without eating before your body completely shuts down, like I know I need calories to survive but bitch I am BUSY
October 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I know I’m suffering from hustle culture brain worms but one of the all-time most annoying moments is desperately trying to get something done and realizing you can’t wait any longer without eating before your body completely shuts down, like I know I need calories to survive but bitch I am BUSY
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stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude
October 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude
Jack Skellington finding a circle of trees themed after American holidays and picking the door with a big cutout of Charlie Kirk’s face
October 25, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Jack Skellington finding a circle of trees themed after American holidays and picking the door with a big cutout of Charlie Kirk’s face
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Live look at my interest in any of their games
October 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Live look at my interest in any of their games
My extremely talented friend and TV writer colleague Dani Parker made this fantastic short visual novel, which dropped today. Short, creepy as fuck, fantastically well-written and illustrated, and it’s $3 on Steam right now. Get your spooky season on y’all!
store.steampowered.com/app/3877760/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3877760/...
Save 40% on Twincantation on Steam
Cozy and heartfelt or unnerving supernatural horror? You decide as a teen sneaking out to hold a seance for your lost twin in this short visual novel.
store.steampowered.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
My extremely talented friend and TV writer colleague Dani Parker made this fantastic short visual novel, which dropped today. Short, creepy as fuck, fantastically well-written and illustrated, and it’s $3 on Steam right now. Get your spooky season on y’all!
store.steampowered.com/app/3877760/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3877760/...
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I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 18, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Say what you want about Bluesky, but the block functionality and block lists have been incredible at starving some of the worst people of attention. Two clicks and you're done.
It also seems like a culture thing here, like there's less trawling for fights and more people just smashing "block"
It also seems like a culture thing here, like there's less trawling for fights and more people just smashing "block"
October 18, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Say what you want about Bluesky, but the block functionality and block lists have been incredible at starving some of the worst people of attention. Two clicks and you're done.
It also seems like a culture thing here, like there's less trawling for fights and more people just smashing "block"
It also seems like a culture thing here, like there's less trawling for fights and more people just smashing "block"
BUSINESS WOMAN GOOD AT BUSINESS, CLAP OR ELSE YOU HATE ALL WOMAN, I NO MAKE RULES
This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss
The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.
www.theatlantic.com
October 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
BUSINESS WOMAN GOOD AT BUSINESS, CLAP OR ELSE YOU HATE ALL WOMAN, I NO MAKE RULES
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The Oregon National Guard general says if they were to be deployed, they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters and not ICE
October 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The Oregon National Guard general says if they were to be deployed, they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters and not ICE