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CrouchingPenguinHiddenSword

@sgtwaddles42.bsky.social

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Hoops, Tunes, and Profanity Veteran of the Forum Wars of the 2000s The name is a Halo reference I will never explain

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CrouchingPenguinHiddenSword @sgtwaddles42.bsky.social · Mar 25

In the interest of fulfilling the "Tunes" portion of my bio:

This video was the first time I heard Theon Cross

youtu.be/og523L05fkA?...

Theon Cross FYAH - livesession VG Buiten Spelen

YouTube video by vrije geluiden

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CrouchingPenguinHiddenSword @sgtwaddles42.bsky.social · 2h

Daaaaaamn

CrouchingPenguinHiddenSword @sgtwaddles42.bsky.social · 2h

Busy watching my Yankees lose but the TL tells me A'ja is Hooping hooping tonight
#WNBA

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 10h

This is a combination of an enormous public service and yet another proof of the utter rolling disaster the parasociality-industrial complex is.

Polygon @polygon.com · 11h

Twitch streamer Fandy gave a live birth in front of thousands of viewers who witnessed everything from contractions to the head crowning.

Twitch streamer gives birth in front 29,000 viewers, and chat was unhinged

Twitch streamer Fandy gave a live birth in front of thousands of viewers who witnessed everything from contractions to the head crowning.

www.polygon.com

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CrouchingPenguinHiddenSword @sgtwaddles42.bsky.social · 8h

Concord

I will not be taking questions at this time

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 8h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Sabreena Merchant @sabreenajm.bsky.social · 12h

Talked with the UNLV professor who made waves at the WNBA Finals with his Becky Hammon costume and what inspired his fandom of the Aces head coach.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/669...

Dana Evans with Becky Hammon look-a-like

Megan Gustafson with Becky Hammon look-a-like

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CrouchingPenguinHiddenSword @sgtwaddles42.bsky.social · 9h

...I will never forgive them...

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 9h

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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CrouchingPenguinHiddenSword @sgtwaddles42.bsky.social · 9h

"When your interests are strange, no one is a stranger."

— @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

i’d day this nails the South as well

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

i’d say the real killer feature of EVs is basically the lack of real maintenance costs.

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CrouchingPenguinHiddenSword @sgtwaddles42.bsky.social · 15h

Oh, Kimmel don't give a *Fuck*, I see

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1d

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

CrouchingPenguinHiddenSword @sgtwaddles42.bsky.social · 1d

LFG! Got a game

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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CrouchingPenguinHiddenSword @sgtwaddles42.bsky.social · 1d

I hate playoff baseball

I love playoff baseball

C'mon Yanks

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

... and then the distribution to those drugstore racks consolidated, dropping SF/F, and chain bookstores took off and books that could be sold as hardcovers that looked good on shelves were in demand, and then you started getting longer novels in the SF/F genre. Market imperatives always matter.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

Honestly if you want at least some insight as to why "classics of literature" are constructed as they are, it's worth knowing the market imperatives of the time. American science fiction and fantasy started in magazines and drugstore racks; short stories and 40K novels were how people go paid...

Crewman Six, Snack Viking @crewmansix.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this probably explains a lot more of the so-called classics of literature than is immediately obvious on the surface. 🤔

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Marty Scorsese, hands up in an arm chair: ABSOLUTE CINEMA

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

The lesson here is not really that Democratic leaders are old. It's that we haven't held Republican presidents accountable for wildly illegal, should-have-ended-presidencies crimes multiple times since Iran-Contra. So Nixon is the most recent example one can point to of accountability.

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d

Durbin is retiring, but this is a classic "Dem leaders are old" line.

Most conservatives now think Nixon did nothing wrong. Do people born after 1990 know what Nixon did? Doubtful

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Durbin: "What has taken place since January 20, 2025, would make even President Nixon recoil. This is your legacy, AG Bondi."

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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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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

It is unbelievably funny how load bearing American democratic norms turned out to be

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson ignores a question about when he'll swear in Rep.-elect Grijalva and walks away

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CrouchingPenguinHiddenSword @sgtwaddles42.bsky.social · 1d

It's both; Trump is in the same evolutionary line as Nixon, Reagan, and W (and ffs, stop downplaying how trash W was) but he's also an evolutionary leap

And this insistence you have that people only think things for clout is ridiculous

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

There’s this weird social cachet in pretending Trump is just a natural extension of the Reagan or Bush presidencies - a kind of “I knew what was going to happen before it was cool” thing - but neither of them, in their wildest excesses, would have contemplated even a quarter of this

CrouchingPenguinHiddenSword @sgtwaddles42.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing ruffles the equanimity of his spirit...We admire him as truly great, who...betraying no tremor in the writing or in the voice, can compose a poem under impending peril or hum a strain in the face of death.

These were known as samurai

🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 2d

I think a real problem in this world is a lack of posting bushido. You can go to war with the mods, with the big accounts, hell with the government itself on X the Everything Site, sometimes it is the honorable thing to do. But you should have your death poem written.

CrouchingPenguinHiddenSword @sgtwaddles42.bsky.social · 1d

”In the Arab city of Cordova, there were two miles of public lighting in the streets when London was a village—[Time to be great again, my Lord]—which is why my father made this war upon the Turks...And I, I long for the vanished gardens of Cordova. However, before the gardens must come fighting.”

CrouchingPenguinHiddenSword @sgtwaddles42.bsky.social · 2d

Paraphrasing Le Guin, but people really get hung up on thinking technology is only good or high quality if it's complex and looks fancy

Also, they never consider manufacture and maintenance as part of said complexity/fanciness

CrouchingPenguinHiddenSword @sgtwaddles42.bsky.social · 2d

This is true

...a mech would be cool though...

CrouchingPenguinHiddenSword @sgtwaddles42.bsky.social · 2d

My most controversial basketball opinion is that between Wilt, Shaq, and Hakeem, idc which one you put at 10

Snowden St. @snowden.st · 2d

i think it’s becoming almost a kind of language to let someone fill out what they love about basketball, as a top 10. If someone had Rodman in their top 10, I’d like the cut of their jib, even if I wasn’t quite there.