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David Bushnell @taiwantempest.bsky.social · Mar 8

I’ve been lurking on here for a month now, so here’s a bit about my favorite things:

🏂 snowboarding
🕹️ Metroidvanias
🗡️ Hollow Knight
9️⃣ Sols
💍 LOtR
🛠️ Leftist
🧑‍💻 political scientist
🎤 Epic the Musical
🎸 punk rock
🧑‍🍳 cooking
🍞 baking
☄️Colony Sims
👨‍🚀 Oxygen Not Included

Mutuals appreciated
#promosky

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · Aug 15

tech ceo: we poured all our money and resources into creating you. please tell us how we can turn a profit
ai superintellegence: i don't know. you guys kinda chunked it ngl

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · Jul 26

Liberal condescension towards white workers is code for a broader anti-working class agenda.

Burying White Workers

Liberal condescension towards white workers is code for a broader anti-working class agenda

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · Feb 16

We got a Costco membership for the first time in our lives today. They asked why & I said because treat your workers well, you value diversity, & you didn’t cave in to authoritarian demands. He said: “We’ve been getting lots of folks saying that, thanks for joining.”

Who needs a gallon of ketchup?

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · Feb 16

He’s been co-POTUS for 4 weeks. Not even a month.

And they’re already calling for the likely future leader of the Democratic Party—a nonwhite woman—to be put in a cage. Twitter has many tweets like the one below.

Everyone needs to understand: America is on very limited time now.

Fascism is here.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Feb 20

Spineless, yellow-bellied, lily-livered, weak-kneed, pusillanimous chickenshits.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Jul 13

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended her department’s response to the Texas floods in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” disputing a New York Times report that FEMA failed to answer thousands of disaster assistance calls.

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · Jul 13

headline: "democrats lost voters on transgender rights."
the article:

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Jul 13

Marines and DHS arrest anti-ICE protester after children were spotted in chains at the federal detention center in LA

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · Jul 12

www.thenorthstar.com/p/israeli-se...

Israeli settlers just lynched an American from Tampa. And it seems like the America First crowd doesn't even care

Do you think anyone in the government is going to pursue his killers? How about the feds? Or maybe the government in Florida will care about one of their own, right? Or can Israelis do anything?

www.thenorthstar.com

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · Jul 11

After years of pushing harmful misinformation in the wake of climate disasters, Fox News is accusing Democrats and the media of politicizing the Texas flooding.

Fox News relentlessly politicized extreme weather events during the Biden era. Now it’s accusing Democrats and the media of politicizing the Texas flooding.

www.mediamatters.org

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · Jul 10

Oh man. This piece by @benmathislilley.bsky.social is *so good*. I want to make it assigned reading for every pundit in the country, and every Democrat, and every consultant.

Democrats Are at a Historic Low Point. A Certain Kind of Advice Brought Them Here—and They Can’t Stop Listening to It.

During the Reagan revolution, Democrats settled on a new way to win—and it’s destroying them now.

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · Jul 10

mondoweiss.net/2025/07/ice-...

ICE official: We used Canary Mission to find students to target for deportation

A senior ICE official says the Trump administration used the shadowy, anti-Palestine website Canary Mission to find students to target for deportation.

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · Jul 6

When things are dark and uncertain, I often turn to stories about older movements. Less because there's some sort of recipe to follow, though there are many old problems we don't respect as such, and more because it helps you accept yourself as one among millions, for centuries.

The black and red cover of Max Elbaum's Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals turn to Lenin, Mao, and Che

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ShethaDamnTruth 🌊🌊🌊 @shethadamntruth.bsky.social · Jul 6

ALERT! ALERT! ALERT!

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Angela 🐿️ McEwen @angelamcewen.bsky.social · Jul 5

Little girls were swept away by the dozens & killed by the flood while at summer camp & without FEMA FUNDING bedridden & disabled American are going to die from natural disasters they could have been rescued from & warned against.

I have never seen a more incompetent government ever. It’s insane.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · Jun 30

If everything is political, then nothing is political.

From Post-Politics to Hyper-Politics

If everything is political, then nothing is political.

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · Jun 30

Fox personalities and guests have characterized Trump as a peacemaker who should receive a Nobel Prize, defended his skirting of congressional approval for the strikes, and suggested an opportunity for “regime change” in Iran.

Fox News encouraged the US to directly attack inside Iran — and then praised Trump when he listened

Fox News spent the week following Israel’s June 12 attack on Iran demanding that President Donald Trump join the war while fearmongering about the threat Iran poses to the U.S. On June 17, The New Yor...

www.mediamatters.org

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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · Jun 30

👷‍♂️👨‍🏭🦠

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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · Jun 30

🏵🌻🌼

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · Jun 30

One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad is very much worth your time.

Holding up a copy of ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS by Omar El Akkad

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Jeffrey Keese @jeffreykeese.bsky.social · Jun 21

Meant to mention this last week, but if you have a young person in your life who’s into history or graphic novels or just good books, buy them George Takei’s “They Called Us Enemy.” My oldest couldn’t put it down.

Cover of George Takei’s They Called Us Enemy” showing a young Japanese American boy in a line of people being sent to an internment camp guarded by a uniformed American soldier

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · May 22

The suspect is 30-year old Elias Rodriguez of Chicago.

The Mayor of Washington DC has confirmed that this is being investigated as an act of terrorism.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · May 22

Now two Israeli embassy staff members have been confirmed to have been shot and killed.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · May 22

BREAKING:

At least two people have been shot and killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington DC.

At least one of the people is a staff member at the Israeli Embassy in Washington.

Per ABC News

David Bushnell @taiwantempest.bsky.social · May 21

Cello! then you could answer the phone “yellow, it’s mellow Cello”

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · May 21

Over two dozen disability rights activists were arrested on Capitol Hill last week when they protested the Trump-backed budget bill and its cuts to Medicaid.

“I know people that are going to die without their home care services, as this budget cuts Medicaid,” says Julie Farrar.

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Patrick Fenelon @patrickfenelon.bsky.social · May 21

Imagining Stavros as the Joe Rogan of the left, & I'm laughing my ass off at the thought of him giving a speech at the national convention

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · May 21

AI is an eldritch horror. it is a vast being without physical form. not truly alive or aware it consumes human knowledge and spits out a perversion. those who get close to it are driven mad and worship it as a deity that will lead them to salvation, even though it will lead them to destruction

David Bushnell @taiwantempest.bsky.social · May 15

Sounds like a really interesting departure from traditional multiplayer FPS titles, excited to try it. I’m a huge fan of AW, but wasn’t as big a fan of Control.

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andrew webster @andrewrweb.bsky.social · May 14

wrote about remedy pushing its narrative ambitions in a new direction with fbc: firebreak www.theverge.com/games/665752...

With FBC: Firebreak, Remedy wants to tell a different kind of story

Launching in June.

www.theverge.com

David Bushnell @taiwantempest.bsky.social · Apr 29

Maos little red book 🫢

David Bushnell @taiwantempest.bsky.social · Apr 29

Maos little red book 🫢