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Stephen Raab

@onetruestephen.bsky.social

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Author of “Battle Buddy” in Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine. Opinions my own. Same handle on the old place.

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · Dec 28

Spotted at my local @barnesandnoble.com — January/February 2025 issue of @analogsf.bsky.social , featuring my debut short story “Battle Buddy”!

Get yours today!

January/February 2025 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 2h

We get the word ”money” from Moneta, an epithet of the Roman goddess Juno, after Roman soldiers in Gaul built a shrine to her following their guard geese warning them of a Gallic ambush. (The shrine later was colocated with a mint.)

hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 6h

believe it or not: geese in general (particularly canada geese) make excellent guard animals; they have good eyesight, are insanely territorial, and are stronger than they look

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 3h

Its funny in a very dark way that Drudge has a better editorial line on this admin than the Times

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 3h

This is the most American thing I’ve seen this year

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 3h

a basketball player dribbles the ball while another player tries to block his shot

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 4h

>Kristi Noem has entered the chat

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 6h

Let me emphasize once again that if you’re inclined toward “no deal is possible with these guys” then trying to make a reasonable deal and getting this reaction demonstrates that far better than just asserting it and refusing to try would have.

Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 12h

Memes serve as a tool of dark participation and are used purposefully “to disrupt, undermine, attack, resist or reappropriate discursive positions pertaining to public affairs narratives in the news” (Peters & Allan, 2021, pp. 2–3)

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 7h

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 7h

“Tony, you gotta be smart about how you write this—“

“Nah, fuck that motherfucker“

Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 16h

Hitting for the cycle?

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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 17h

My mistake, everyone, it turns out ICE has tear-gassed this Chicago man of God more than once and I chose a photo from the wrong incident!

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 19h

Here’s video of the incident

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 18h

If people can’t look at Schumer going on TV and saying “hey look at me being all reasonable” and understand what‘s really going on, they need to watch more wrestling.

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 23h

Every major city in Texas has a higher murder rate than Chicago

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 23h

Incredibly slimy and dishonest, but also... yes?

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 22h

“Long-standing proxy war rules” includes stuff like flying thousands of MiG sorties from off-limits airfields into North Korea, and then claiming you’re not doing that.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

we as liberals don't actually need to cede the idea of military effectiveness to the right. we should point out that these meathead morons are going to lose us a fucking war.

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 1d

People United Means Action

Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 1d

Read Theory

Woman Cozily Cupping Mug Secretly Thinking About Getting Absolutely Railed by Rachel Weisz

During a recent chilly night at home, 23-year-old Phoebe Murphy cupped a full mug of hot cocoa while secretly thinking about Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz banging her into oblivion. “I just don’t...

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 1d

It's a battle of wills with a dude in a frog suit doing pelvic thrusts. Do you know how much psychic damage that does?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Stephen Miller claims that in Portland "ICE officers have to street battles against antifa, hand to hand combat every night, to come and go from their building"

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 1d

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 1d

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHMYGOD
Trevor Lawrence is something else

Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 1d

menswear Guy rejected this as too easy

Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 1d

At least for the first decade or so of its release, Team Fortress 2 managed to keep cosmetics from mangling character silhouettes *too* badly, keeping characters readable in the heat of combat.

What am I supposed to do with this?

Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 2d

You’re not allowed to leave the stove until you’ve touched *every* burner

Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 2d

>William Lind has entered the chat

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