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Wannabe Filmmaker, Writer, Intelligent Person. Proud Bisexual. Self-taught Chinese Historian. Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@jdkessey LinkTREE: https://linktr.ee/jdkessey CURRENT PROJECT: Development 25%
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Me and the boys have been going into the Gloom in Helldivers 2. This is what it feels like.

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Forgot to do this last week but I highly recommend Sun Shuyun's "The Long March." Along with it being a history of the year-long retreat, it's also a travelogue mixed with oral history from the men and women who walked it.

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its amazing the way conservative arguments fall completely apart in court when there are actually penalties for lying

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Up to the final third and ya, I can see how Pol Pot was inspired by the Maoists (not completely mind you).

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He's lying to you

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"Officials have cited “poor performance” when terminating thousands of federal workers. In many cases it’s not true, according to employees embroiled in the blitz, many of whom are now seeking legal advice." - The Guardian

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It did the best thing about soft science fiction. It grabbed a relatable concept (being forced to be a different person for work), exagerated it and twisted it around to help us see the situation in a different light.

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Whenever you study a person, place, or period of history you'll inevitably interact with people related to or the descendants of that history.

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Theres a tendency online to see people of note and try to caste them as being on our side or the enemy side politically. Its done by people who feel uncomfortable with nuance and need the world to be an uphill struggle against the forces of evil.

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Among the many, many hypocrisies of Shapiro as a free speech hero is that he went to Hungary to celebrate a government that bills itself explicitly as "illiberal" and has shut down entire areas of studies and universities.

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Statement from the Musk-appointed head of SSA celebrating the deletion of research grants studying the financial security of the older adults and the disabled. Just one way that the richest man in the world is dictating societal priorities. www.ssa.gov/news/press/r...

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A lot of people figured Hamas must be the good guys because of how much netanyahu sucks, but as it has continued to turn out, Hamas sucks too in similar but different ways

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Finally on SBS NOW so I'm finally getting to it. #filmsky #thekillingfields

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Taiwan President Lai meets with Akie Abe, widow of slain prime minister www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02...

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An old friend of mine has suffered a traumatic brain injury and is unable to continue their work as a community nurse in the Philly area. They, their partner, and their kid could really use some help right now, if you have anything to share.

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Finally came in the mail. Gonna note take/mark for future research once my work pile is more manageable.

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One of the reasons AOC is so effective as a communicator is because she presents being in Congress as a calling, not a job.

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2/3 of the way through @cynicalhistorian.bsky.social video on American Education and the attacks against it. Recommending it to everyone I can. It will remain an important subject to struggle we'll struggle with for the next four years. youtu.be/B6g8z1Z7Lt4

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Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours

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Decided to check Tesla stock to verify a claim and HOLY SHIT THIS IS BAD* *For Elon Musk

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NEWS Ashley St. Clair, the mother of Elon Musk’s 13th child, has filed for sole custody in court. @taylorlorenz.bsky.social scoops Full Story: bit.ly/4gNSBhP

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Musk has the resources to sue anyone till the end of time and his cultists are some of the most ruthless and cruel people you'll ever encounter.

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Time Ghost did a pretty good summary of the Chinese Nationalists after WW2, the disillusion with the KMT government, and the defections during the resumed Chinese Civil War. #Chinesehistory #history #china youtu.be/fA7pyAKLfjI

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When a man with a gun jokes, you pay attention to the gun and not the joke

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I don't blame people for solving little plot puzzles* in Severance because the show does contain those mystery box elements but what I enjoy about it is the fresh take on cyberpunk and the idea that a worker is a person despite what Corporate tells you *drawing diagrams is still going way too far

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Hunter S. Thompson, a giant of the written word, ended his life on this day 20 years ago. 📚 ✍️

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Action Item: We need to grow this platform to undo so much propaganda and ignorance. I'm constantly looking up various orgs, businesses, & publications on here. If I don't find them, I send them a message innocently asking, "Hey, are you on Bluesky? I don't see you." Hoping to plant seeds. Join me?

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I will never stop thinking about this Gabe Newell quote

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French language advertising poster for the 1947 movie "The Lady from Shanghai".

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In the newly released game Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, the two protagonists crash-land in 1937 Shanghai—a level teeming with reimagined Chinese advertising posters,... 1/2

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by the way these are literally the exact same dumbass motherfuckers, not like them, the literal exact same fucking guys, saying government is inefficient and you should cancel it to give them all the governments money so they can provide you services instead

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