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🌟Content creators🌟 Looking for streamers/youtubers and creators that would be interested in streaming Out Of Sight later this year! 🧸 Give a holla here and I send you more info in the upcoming weeks! ❤️ (And…The demo will be live tomorrow for #steamnextfest for a free try all week 😁🌟)

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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

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This is how we lose every deep-cover agent in the entire CIA, right? Jokes aside, this hallucinatory effort at micro-management is going to cost countless jobs after they run the replies through whatever AI-powered algorithm they think can accurately evaluate millions of replies. wapo.st/4hJCL94

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@forbeck.com nice email making the rounds this morning! #Marvel #Avengers #MarvelMultiverseRPG view.mail.marvel.com?qs=09f7b2781...

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This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

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I once had a friend come over to play a board game. It took 3-4 hours to set it up. By the time we were finished, it was past dinner time and I was like, there is “no fucking way I’m playing this.”

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We gamers have all been there. :) Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours — theonion.com/exhausted-fr...

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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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Marvel is planting Easter eggs everywhere these days! IYKYK. :) (This was in an article in today's Washington Post. And, of course, the "real" Rogers is from Brooklyn.)

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I’m not sure the world has seen a genuine supervillain until 2025. Of course there’ve been countless monsters: hitler, Stalin, pol pot. But a real life figure who fits the Gotham/Metropolis model. Plutocrat bigwig who is actually deeply evil & wants to run the world for cartoonishly stupid reasons.

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We are at the mercy of billionaires in so many ways. NetEase Founder Reportedly Almost Canceled Marvel Rivals Because it Didn't Use Original IP - IGN

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Awful: Numerous scientists and researchers were just fired at NIH's center for treating Alzheimer's, sources tell me. They fear Trump-Musk cuts could dramatically set back our ability to treat dementias. New reporting from me here: newrepublic.com/article/1917...

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A few people have kindly lobbed this into the tl, but here's my own gift link: Me, in NYT Opinion, arguing we're not failing to handle H5N1 flu in cattle because the response is based on plans for bird flu in poultry and doesn't match dairy farming structures. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/o...

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For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26. Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency. It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.

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Hey so help us raise some money for trans kids! There's a lot of awesome stuff in this auction, including 4 mini-quilt trans pride flags that @thescatto.bsky.social made! Links in thread below. #ofmdcraftfair

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It was 35 years ago this month that I came back to the US after working at Games Workshop in Nottingham on a student work visa for six months, a job I landed fresh out of college. An epic tale in itself.) They'd offered me a permanent job, but I wanted to get back to my girlfriend back in Ann Arbor.

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Scoop --> Trump-Musk cuts just resulted in the firing of numerous top researchers at NIH's center for combating Alzheimer's, sources tell me. They predict big setbacks to fighting dementias. This cause was once championed by Republicans. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/1917...

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We are doomed to relive every stupid thing about the 80s. Only this it’s not just the mistakes of the 1980s corporate greed. It’s also the 1880s post reconstruction environment, and the 1780s love of slavery. :(

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The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

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“put it on his fucking gravestone”

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🚨 The Senate is expected to vote on the confirmation of Kash Patel for FBI Director TODAY. Call your Senators to block this vengeful attack dog who will undoubtedly weaponize the FBI against anyone Trump dislikes. 🔥📞🔥 5calls.org/issue/kash-p...

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NEW: The director of data science and engineering for what is now known as the US DOGE Service has resigned. "If DOGE truly was concerned with efficiency, they wouldn’t have fired experts in procurement," she writes, "who prevent waste up front." This is by @makenakelly.bsky.social

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Marvel mastermind Matt “Thor”beck thunders in to - and out of - the Vikings & Valkyries podcast this week. Episode 13 is a great place to pick up the saga. rss.com/podcasts/vik... @forbeck.com

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My wife was laid off today by EA. She’s an awesome video game producer with more than two decades of experience. If anyone is in need or knows of anyone in need of a producer please DM me. Greatly appreciate any leads.

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POLITICO: Trump “surprised his own staff” by endorsing a budget that cuts Medicaid, now open to “altering” (CUTTING) Medicare — Just as many warned all along. While cutting trillions in taxes for the rich. Because they don’t actually care about the debt. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

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Trump: I AM A KING! NYT: Trump displays a "fondness for regal themes"

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