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Richard Lovejoy

@theharpomarxist.bsky.social

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he/him/his 40’s Actor/Writer/Co-host of Gamers With Jobs Conference Call podcast. Film- https://vimeo.com/324892134 Podcast- GamersWithJobs.com Theatre- http://vimeo.com/1022915026 Fiscally Communist, socially Anarchist, extremely pro-Oxford comma.

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Richard Lovejoy @theharpomarxist.bsky.social · Sep 18

I was the 88,443rd person on here in reality but in spirit I’m more of the 87,583rd.

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Richard Lovejoy @theharpomarxist.bsky.social · 12h

Anyone claiming Dems need to be “more centrist” to win is either a conservative who wants Dems to lose, a bot, or a total fucking idiot who is choosing to ignore all available information and/or has no morals/beliefs.

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Beyond The Mac Rainbow @macrogers.bsky.social · 12h

Against some very stiff competition, this is the worst thing the second Trump Administration as done. I appreciate the AP's work to keep it from becoming yesterday's news.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 16h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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Richard Lovejoy @theharpomarxist.bsky.social · 2d

Terrific meeting you and your wife at dinner last night. I hope you enjoy our city and see (and eat!) lots of terrific things while you are here.

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cthul huramchek @uel.bsky.social · 3d

How in God’s name do you choose a best soundtrack for this year. How do you pit Expedition 33, Silksong, and Hades 2 against each other for music. Each one is monumental, comparing them to each other is absurd when each could retroactively win so many years on their own

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 3d

Mamdani was 9 years old on 9/11. This is just gutter racism from Debra Messing.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3d

The funniest thing in the world is someone posting something egregiously fake followed by “let that sink in.”

Debra Messing: @emmabenson92 I have nothing against Socialism, don't know where you got that. I voted against M because he celebrated 9/11.
Let that sink in. I love my country. My reasoning is not Islamophobia. I I've chosen to live in the most beautifully diverse city in the world.

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Richard Lovejoy @theharpomarxist.bsky.social · 3d

ME, A WRITER AT A FIRM THAT HAS EMBRACED AI: I fucking hate having to edit slop. I wish people would just write me a brief and let me compose from scratch. Everything touched by AI is profoundly bad.

DISCOURSE KNOWER: [Whispers in my ear.]

ME: I have just been informed that what I said was racist.

Richard Lovejoy @theharpomarxist.bsky.social · 3d

I am thankful that even liberals are mad at both of them in NYC. We want them primaried.

Honestly, their inability to quickly back and endorse our extremely likable and popular democratic primary winner and Cuomo immediately seeking help from Trump made some of the kayfabe impossible to ignore.

Richard Lovejoy @theharpomarxist.bsky.social · 5d

Don Draper (playing Silksong): Peggy, listen to me. It will shock you how often the floor is lava.

Richard Lovejoy @theharpomarxist.bsky.social · 5d

That was a scary three to five minutes, but the crisis is over.

Richard Lovejoy @theharpomarxist.bsky.social · 5d

A-ha. I found my prescription sunglasses. Time to turn on all my lights and crack this case.

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Richard Lovejoy @theharpomarxist.bsky.social · 5d

I put my glasses down randomly and walked away and then forgot where I put them and now I can’t find them because I can’t see.

How will I get out of this jam?

SPOILER: Posting through it hasn’t worked. But it was nice to distract myself from the prison of my own making.

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Richard Lovejoy @theharpomarxist.bsky.social · 5d

Talking to @worldofkir.bsky.social about the EA acquisition. He said “art and capitalism are not compatible” which is extremely true.

I think art is evidence that humanity and capitalism are not compatible.

Richard Lovejoy @theharpomarxist.bsky.social · 5d

Apparently, having money makes you more likely to be a coward. Which is weird, because if I had Tim Cook levels of fuck you money, I would be very quick to say “fuck you” when appropriate.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 6d

There's nothing illegal about ICE block. This is solely about Apple appeasing the Trump regime.

With Google removing sideloading next year, these companies will have total control over what runs on your phone.

www.businessinsider.com/apple-iceblo...

Apple removes ICEBlock app from App Store

Apple on Thursday removed the immigration enforcement tracking app, ICEBlock, from the App Store, citing "safety risks."

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4:13 🌒 @lunarbreeclipse.blacksky.app · 6d

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Just Ben @justanotherben.bsky.social · 5d

These guys come from the depths of meme culture totally divorced from the source material and that gave birth to the memes in the first place. Which is not surprising since they can basically only experience media as an expression or critique of their own fucked up worldview.

kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 5d

The Department of Homeland Security using clips from Twin Peaks in their cringe and racist anti immigration edits….

Life after all criminal aliens are deported

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Richard Lovejoy @theharpomarxist.bsky.social · 6d

A couple months ago I woke up at like 5am for no apparent reason, and, in an effort to make the best of it, wrote a piece of short fiction, immediately submitting it somewhere. Its been a hot minute since I did prose, and that felt really good to do.

Today I learned it got accepted.

Richard Lovejoy @theharpomarxist.bsky.social · 7d

I was getting some street cart coffee, and someone didn’t have cash. The cart was cash only and I just got promoted so I bought the man a coffee.

We chatted, and when he learned I was a writer he was floored people still do that for money. He said he assumed we all got replaced by LLMs.

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“james adomian” @jadomian.bsky.social · 8d

Don’t take your phones to town son
Leave your phones at home Bill
Don’t take your phones to town …

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 8d

The is currently the front page of hud dot gov #hatchact

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Richard Lovejoy @theharpomarxist.bsky.social · 7d

Hades 2
Cloverpit
Silent Hill f

The latest Gamers With Jobs has all of those plus a really meaty discussion about what we lose when reviews from games journalists are replaced by reviews from influencers and hobbyists.

(Sidebar for Final Fantasy Tactics sickos - I’ll be discussing that next week)

GWJ Conference Call 990

www.gamerswithjobs.com

Richard Lovejoy @theharpomarxist.bsky.social · 8d

Rough day for me to choose to release my turn based desert making game about chiropractor who becomes a baker, Final Flantasy: Chiropractics

Richard Lovejoy @theharpomarxist.bsky.social · 8d

My stance that “dumb assholes shouldn’t have any political power” has often been called “extremist” by liberals, who insist we need to listen to dumb assholes and try to have “productive conversations and debates” with them. They insist a functional government needs a strong dumb asshole party.

Richard Lovejoy @theharpomarxist.bsky.social · 9d

I am happy to email you, but if you ever autogenerate or accept the Google suggestion of a response, you are dead to me.

Richard Lovejoy @theharpomarxist.bsky.social · 9d

One way you know Mario doesn’t have ADHD is that when he encounters a Boo, he knows to look at it to freeze it in its tracks and he leverages that weakness to navigate the level.

An ADHD Mario would simply forget the Boo was there once he looked away and get his ass killed.