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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist

@nameshiv.bsky.social

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Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in @strangehorizons, @Slate, @LightspeedMag etc. http://shivramdas.net.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · Sep 4

4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day.

On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day

So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 22h

you know it

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 22h

me when I actually succeed at getting them to let me speak to a representative

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 23h

Exciting news! My novel Plague Birds, which was a finalist for the Nebula & Philip K. Dick Awards, will be rereleased by Apex Books @apexmag.bsky.social in an new edition with extra content in June 2026. And a sequel will be published by Apex in Oct. 2026. 1/
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/pla...

Cover of Plague Birds by Jason Sanford, which was a finalist for the Nebula and Philip K. Dick Awards.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 22h

bheja but not fry thats how perverse I am even the bheja lovers are appalled

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22h

I am not a constitutional scholar but I am pretty sure “the president my personally levy taxes and choose what they fund” is not in fact what the founders intended

George Pearkes @peark.es · 23h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

i don't think they should reopen the government. it's funny that they're already talking about figuring out how to pay the soldiery. your majesty the mercenaries are beginning to grumble about their wages but im sure it will be fine

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 22h

thisis how I feel about tomatoes

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 22h

bheja

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 22h

This is the sort of thing that coming out of retirement was designed for

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 22h

When this drops I will do my first full length game review in 12 years

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

Genuinely cannot wait for this, it is going to redefine the ways a game can suck ass

Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 2d

Elon Musk announces xAI game studio will release a great AI-generated game before end of 2026.

Powered by Grok, the studio aims to revolutionize gaming with dynamic, photo-realistic experiences.

#xAI #Grok #AIGaming

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 22h

I’m old enough to remember when Republicans in Congress sued President Obama, and a federal judge agreed with them, that he could not spend money to fund certain Obamacare programs without a congressional appropriation.

www.scotusblog.com/2016/05/judg...

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Drew T @dtipson.bsky.social · 1d

This is insane shit. This is exactly the sort of stuff that it’s her job to explain to us, the public, her employers.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

COONS: How did you conclude that these strikes on boats in the open ocean are legal?

BONDI: I'm not going to discuss any legal advice that my department may or may not have issued

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 1d

surreal af ngl

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 1d

somehow have gone from obsessively reading a certain author growing up to getting a text from them asking if I'll read their new book and share thoughts before they send it in and life gotta be the weirdest thing that ever existed

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 1d

me: fandom is so weird you get super invested in the doings of these other people who don't even care about your opinion most of the time and your entire day is based on whether they did good or feel bad and then you have to feel the same way

mom: This is just parenthood

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 1d

alright time to work lets do the fucking novel

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 1d

you have me erik

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 1d

you have a far higher opinion of them than I do in that case

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

Her contempt is extraordinary.

Trump thinks he's a king. He believes he's accountable to no one. Not Congress. Not the American people.

And so when his people testify before the Senate, they act like they are bound by no rules and no laws.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

DURBIN: You won't even say whether you talked to the WH about this?

BONDI: I'm not going to discuss any internal conversations with you

D: They're going to transfer TX Guard troops to the state of Illinois. What's the rationale?

B: I wish you loved Chicago as much as you hate President Trump

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

whats the point in "dealing" with the Trump administration when this is the person executing the deal, and is openly promising to violate the laws and break any agreeement? If you want to bargain for something in the shutdown fight, make firing Vought a condition of any funding package.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

This is rampant lawlessness

The law says what it says, and Russ Vought doesn't get to unilaterally change that

www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance

An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.

www.govexec.com

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 1d

do you know how long I spent trying to figure out what prescriptions had to do with the album

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 1d

"Everyone wrote off my dick but I HAD A CHIP ON THE SHOULDER"

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 1d

buddy finally realised that nobody cares what a coconut looks like from the inside

NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

What the fuck happened to you, man? Your ass used to be beautiful.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 1d

it's the weirdest thing, and these are people who are willing to lie with every breath every second of every day, like do you lose pedocon points in their circles for refuting allegations, what is even the reason for this

Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1d

Weirdest thing about Epstein is how people who lie about everything else, including the most easily provable things, always dodge rather than deny

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

The entire administration is "new legal analysis."

Is the President a King? Yes, according to new legal analysis. Can we fire civil servants, impound funds and eliminate agencies? *Touches earpiece* Yes, according to new legal analysis.

The shame is that SCOTUS has gone along with much of this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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