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Alex Faciane 🦧💥 @facianea.bsky.social · 1h

It’s between this and I Married Myself

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Sparks -Those Mysteries (Official Visualisers)

YouTube video by S P A R K S

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Alex Faciane 🦧💥 @facianea.bsky.social · 16h

yo how the FUCK do u bop vagullion in ys

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 20h

You would not believe how many stories like this have been popping up over the last ~5 years

Not just full games cancelled—entire characters and plot lines removed or changed, leaving less time for making the *rest of the game better*, to try avoiding a small and malicious contingent of voices.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 21h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Alex Faciane 🦧💥 @facianea.bsky.social · 5d

Fully agree, and I’m not saying I don’t like, do, watch, and play stuff just for my own easy pleasure, just don’t think it’s worth like, going online to yell to the community about how something that wasn’t made for me wasn’t made for me. It feels like complaining to the void rather than engaging.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 6d

If you say Dems should negotiate with Trump, please confirm you've read the pre-shutdown Trump EO that authorizes you and yours to be probed as terrorists if you commit any thought-crime listed on the right-hand side of this Ken Klippenstein report excerpt.

*That* is who you want to negotiate with.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 6d

There are no "Democrat [sic] Agencies."

Just fascist thugs in the White House.

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Alex Faciane 🦧💥 @facianea.bsky.social · 6d

I get like, genuinely depressed at how clearly everyone’s vocal outward enjoyment of stuff is almost fully based on how closely it matches their pre-existing preferences, like they’ve got nothing to learn and view “enduring” anything less than ideal in that respect as suffering. Discourse issue.

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Time Extension @timeextension.com · 6d

Ghost In The Shell On PS1 Happened Because Masamune Shirow Loved Jumping Flash. (Repost)

Ghost In The Shell On PS1 Happened Because Masamune Shirow Loved Jumping Flash

A man of good taste, clearly

www.timeextension.com

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C. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 7d

the government should not be able to smash into your home and drag you into the street for no reason. it's kind of a core civil right, perhaps THE core civil right.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7d

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops").

Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties.

Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let him go.

“I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up,” Jones said. “I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.”

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 7d

Remembering how the media reported that the Trump campaign not only denied intent to follow Project 2025, but insisted that anyone associated would be barred from the administration.

@politico.com had a big piece about it.

Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 7d

President Trump says he is meeting today with Russ Vought, OMB director and "of PROJECT 2025 Fame," to discuss cuts to "Democrat Agencies."

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 7d

This is illegal, plain and simple, with penalties including removal from federal service, debarment from federal employment for five years, and a fine of $1000. 5 U.S.C. § 7326.

A country which valued the rule of law would enforce its laws.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7d

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.

Version of original on left, updated on right:

Thank you for your email. There is a temporary shutdown of the U.S. government due to a lapse in appropriations. I will respond to your message as soon as possible after the temporary shutdown ends. Please visit ED.gov for the latest information on the
Department's operational status.
Thank you.

Thank you for contacting me. On September 19, 2025, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5371, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democrat Senators are blocking passage of H.R. 5371 in the Senate which has led to a lapse in appropriations. Due to the lapse in appropriations I am currently in furlough status. I will respond to emails once government functions resume.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 7d

Secretary Hegseth is trying to bend the military to his extreme ideology by going after women in combat roles, imposing discriminatory grooming policies, and making it harder for service members to report assaults, bias, and other abuses.

This makes all of us less safe.

Hegseth to upend troops’ access to watchdog, whistleblower complaints

New Pentagon directives will overhaul the channels that allow troops and defense personnel to file whistleblower complaints, report toxic leadership or point out discrimination.

wapo.st

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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 8d

Wake Up! Trump Is Moving Swiftly to Become the First American Dictator

Will American democracy survive this onslaught, straight out of the Dictator’s Playbook? To a large extent, that will depend on you, me, and our elected officials summoning the courage to resist and protest loudly. And our media to call it out for what it is.

www.commondreams.org

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9d

Exhibit A at The Hague just dropped

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 9d

17 people are dead from US strikes in the Caribbean this month and we still don't really know who they are and so far the president and VP have made jokes about scared fishermen.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Trump brags to military leaders about his strikes on boats: "They don't want go fishing. I don't blame them. There will be no fishing today. It's amazing what strength will do."

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9d

Spent the last decade reading conservative blogs use the word "Orwellian" more than they used the word "the" and now they're literally just saying "War is Peace" out loud in front of everybody.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 9d

Calling every general in the world back to the US to deliver the speech you give yourself in the mirror every morning.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah this sounds safe

Pentagon Pete’s ‘Manic’ Meltdowns Exposed by Aides

The former Fox News host is reportedly spiraling out of control.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Alex Faciane 🦧💥 @facianea.bsky.social · 9d

just buy ketsui deathtiny already

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

The near daily barrage of deadly mass shootings in America feels like low level warfare against normal citizens who just want to live in peace. And because people keep electing Republicans who won’t do anything about it there’s no solution in sight.

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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 10d

The first nine months of the Trump administration provide ample evidence of how much ground it has covered—or more fittingly, ravaged?https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-makes-us-worse

10 Ways Trump 2.0 Is Making Our Lives Worse | Common Dreams

Common to all of these aggressive moves is an ideology based purely on profiteering: The single guiding principle of this administration appears to be how much money can be extracted.

www.commondreams.org

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Alex Faciane 🦧💥 @facianea.bsky.social · 10d

Support our Star Wars Podcast! It would really help!

Star Wars: Old Canon Book Club @swocbc.bsky.social · 13d

To support us, head to Patreon.com/SWOCBC, where we're currently doing a bonus series that goes through every single issue of the Star Wars Insider! Issue 16 LIVE NOW!

Thumbnail for our Inside the Insider episode, which features Sean Patrick Flanery from Young Indiana Jones!

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Alex Faciane 🦧💥 @facianea.bsky.social · 12d

a close up of a cartoon character with goggles on .

Alt: a close up of a cartoon character with goggles on . it’s sebulba from star wars phantom menace. the crowd loves him

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Grasshopper Manufacture Inc. @ghmofficial.bsky.social · 12d

If you haven’t seen the updated Steam page, we have a new gameplay trailer for #RomeoIsADeadMan - and we’ve uploaded it to #GhA POR VOUS!😘🤘
It's got a bunch of new footage, and it's all action - none of that talky nonsense!

👇WITNESS IT!👇
youtu.be/FHng8C-N9bw

#RiaDM

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Alex Faciane 🦧💥 @facianea.bsky.social · 12d

ICYMI NEW SWOCBC

Star Wars: Old Canon Book Club @swocbc.bsky.social · 13d

HONK! HONK! THIS IS THE SPACE GOOSE! NEW EPISODE OF OUR ILLUSTRIOUS CHRONOLOGICAL SURVEY OF OLD STAR WARS CANON! HONK HONK! WE'RE READING OLD BEAUTIFUL MARVEL COMICS!! @facianea.bsky.social @jessecox.bsky.social and DAVIS!? on YT or wherever you get your podcasts!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TgK...

The Original Marvel Years, Vol. 5 Part 1 | Star Wars Old Canon Book Club: Episode 32

YouTube video by Star Wars Old Canon Book Club

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