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Centre-left politics. Fan of AS Roma and the New York Mets, for my sins. Nerd stuff

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · Jan 1

🚨 IMPORTANT: If you begin playing Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace at exactly 11:38:48 PM then Trade Federation Viceroy Nute Gunray will say “Ah, Victory” at exactly midnight. Start the new year off right.

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 54m

IIRC the A New Hope one was “what if Luke’s torpedos don’t destroy the Death Star” and I don’t remember the others

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 55m

It’s on Marvel Unlimited now! Marvel own all the dark horse SW comics

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 56m

Dark Horse did “Infinities” in the early 00s which was basically a What If? For each of the OT

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 1h

(It doesn’t really automatically or systematically favour anyone. Generally speaking the most and least left wing members of the coalition are disadvantaged by both setups but you can argue the primary system gives more left wing candidates a higher ceiling than a post election system would!)

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 1h

Many people seem to assume that this arrangement automatically disadvantages the left positions within such a coalition but this is pretty obviously untrue

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 2h

We won series against both the Tigers and the Mariners in late 2025, so really how good can they be?

(I believe we won a series against every single remaining playoff team in fact)

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 2h

I just see a guy whose team lost his last start

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 2h

a couple of cartoon animals standing next to each other .

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 2h

I am fairly neutral on the NL Central showdown tbf

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 2h

I went into class when the score was 3-2 and I see the baseball game has proceeded not necessarily to Seattle’s advantage

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 2h

a dog standing next to a cupcake on a red cloth

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 4h

Maybe the team just want to clinch at home

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 4h

(Whereas the matchup for the Phillies is *extremely* grim though that means better times ahead if they can make it through tonight. Nola vs Yamamoto in LA…)

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 4h

Oh it’s very likely, I fear. NYY are *heavily* favoured today between being at home and having Schittler vs an overtaxed Jays bullpen game

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 4h

I have heard the argument made that this sums up the difference between Star Wars and Star Trek, which is also the difference between 'Space Fantasy' and 'Sci Fi'; one cares about shit like logistics and one absolutely does not. It's not 100% right but there's a point

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 4h

TBF the Blue Jays yesterday are the runaway winners of the 2025 Mets Impression with the combo of scoring a ton of early runs, starter handed the lead gets in trouble and gets pulled early, offence suddenly goes ice cold, bullpen implodes entirely. I watched that game so many times this year

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 4h

@paulframe85.bsky.social that was very Metsian of your offence

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 4h

You will wind up back in “logically the events of Empire Strikes Back must take place over literally years”

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 4h

Never ever think about the logistics of time and space in Star Wars, it absolutely does not work in any instance

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 6h

gotta turn power over to the Neimoidians

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 6h

and you cannot deny that that government spent much more time arguing about women than it did building nuclear reactors, so she's right

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 7h

His idea of “the governing class” appears interchangeable with “the liberal cultural establishment”, despite fourteen years of Tory governments.

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 8h

"Maybe Americans don't actually want cheaper goods" is certainly a take that a person can have in the year of our lord 2025

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Davy Crockett @davidcrockett08.bsky.social · 8h

We literally just had a Presidency fail because of expensive consumer goods and the current President is also unpopular due to expensive consumer goods but trust the Ivy Leaguer turned cable TV news host that Globalization Is Bad For You Because Neoliberalism.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 9h

Basically this was the entire logic fo neoliberalism and globalization - yes lots of job destruction, but prices falling on all kinds of goods and new jobs in new areas. It was taken as gospel that all of it was a net benefit, but that's a bit harder argument to make these days.

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 8h

shuffles onstage as Bad Bunny covers YMCA