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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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🚨🚨If you use kindle, Download your books before Amazon removes the ability next week. That is your money you spent and those are your books. 🚨🚨

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A Democrathicc Party to make FDR look like a conservative

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Answering some questions: the series covers the first novella "All Systems Red," I'm a consulting producer, and we've been working on it since 2021. (So it seems fast from the timing of the announcements but it has actually taken a million years in me-time.)

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And now, the UK cover to The Shattering Peace, which is pretty darn cool.

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Ex NFL player @chriswarcraft.bsky.social protesting the inclusion of a MAGA acronym in the Huntington Beach library plaque at last night’s council meeting. He was arrested and cited.

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Camo Specs Online is the leading resource for BattleTech players when it comes to painting units! No matter if you are looking for that perfect paint scheme, or trying to decide on which classic model to use for your Timber Wolf, the Camo Specs team has you covered. camospecs.com

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Following up the very large Wind and Truth with a bunch of short stories. First up is: First Dangle and Other Stories by @kevinhearne.bsky.social I love Kevin’s Iron Druid series and pretty much everything he has done. It’s nice to be back with my favorite Druids and their animal friends.

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The Upturned Table YouTube channel did a flipthrough review of Swords of the Serpentine! 📖⚔️ Check out their thoughts on this GUMSHOE-powered sword & sorcery RPG and see what secrets lie within its pages. #TTRPG #SwordsOfTheSerpentine #GUMSHOE bit.ly/4b8dW41

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My first Zaku kit. Definately felt the age on this one as it was produced in 2001. I do really love the Gatling shield.

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Oof, finally finished Wind and Truth. I used to love a giant door stop of a book but have found lately that they are just not as enjoyable as they used to be. I listened to it as an audio book and it was over 60 hours long. I’ll see how I’m feeling about Stormlight 6 in a few years.

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813 US billionaires held a record $6.72 trillion in wealth at the end of 2024. The bottom 50% of Americans held roughly $3.9 trillion in wealth. When 813 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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The geniuses at the Democratic Party settling on “maybe we were too woke” rather than “a cabal of billionaire pedophile Nazis are stealing your money and taking a sledgehammer to your future” is astonishing. Just one of those things

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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

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Finished up this synthwave Battletech Penetrator! #miniaturepainting

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Just in case people don't know the context, this is a policy called splitting the letters, developed by fundamentalist Christians to use feminist and queer language and culture to split the T off and then turn the others against each other. You can watch their 2017 conference planning it.

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Was thinking about the other day when I was looking up the Teapot Dome Scandal, and then, 100 years later, Americans looked at a fatuous, fraudulent game-show host sex criminal who embezzled money from his own children's cancer charity and said, "That guy should be our president again."

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Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it. Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on. Making this my pinned post.

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Checking out the lancer rpg one shot game jam, tons of cool stuff in here: itch.io/jam/lancer-o...

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‼️ The National Park Service has REMOVED mentions of transgender people being involved with Stonewall. Not only did the remove the world "Transgender" but changed "LGBTQ+" to "LGBQ+". The federal government is attempting to erase us and take away our history. This pride, we riot.

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Facts. thelifeofsharks.com/product/fact...

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Readers of Bluesky! The Beacon of #Booksky is lit! Respond below with the name, tag, and location of your favorite independent bookstore. Help other readers find these hidden treasures in their communities! Bookstores, chime in, too!

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You cannot make this up. DOGE's crusade isn't about government efficiency. It's about making Elon Musk richer at your expense.

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If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall. tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.

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This is the vital art we need in these troubled times

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It's a DORK TOWER MONDAY (special delayed TUESDAY edition): newsworthy new strip up now, at the Mothership: www.dorktower.com/2025/02/10/1... Repost/Reblog/Repeat, please and thank you!

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Once again: The animating purpose of representative democracy is to protect the rest of us from the whims of insane rich people, be they kings or oligarchs. Everything else is wainscoting.

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Incoming Asteroid xkcd.com/3049

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alright let's do this: call-your-reps scripts for people whose reps dgaf

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I hate that of all the fucking timelines I could be living in, I'm living in the absolute stupidest timeline. Every fucking day, we reach further, magnificent, unforetold levels of stupid. And tomorrow will be stupider.

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Hey! I'm going on tour in March and April! Ten cities! Plus festivals and conventions! You should come see me! All the details are at the link! whatever.scalzi.com/2025/02/10/a...

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Classifying all graphic novels as non-nutritious, requiring them to check out books they don’t want and limiting the ones they do want is not nudging. In particular, classing books they don’t want as “nutritious” is a bad way to approach both reading and nutrition.

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Just realized what DOGE reminds me of. Remember in Community when Chang took the dean hostage and gave weapons to 10yo boys and they took over the whole school, and the whole time you were like, SURELY SOMEONE WILL JUST PICK UP THOSE POINT-SIZED TWERPS AND THROW THEM IN A LOCKER?? Like, adults??

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Me: So this ex KGB guy is dictator of Russia. He puts decades into fomenting fascism around the world. In America, his tool is a game show host, who allies with an apartheid failson and a billionaire who takes the blood of young men for immortality. 80s sci-fi authors: Yep, that’s every cliché.

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Today I am on a movie set with a major star and it’s very exciting. I can’t talk about what movie it is but you’re all going to be thrilled.

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It's data analysis time at Evil Hat, so I'm back on my spreadsheet bullshit today. Who wants a look at how Evil Hat's catalog has performed in distribution invoices from 2010-2024 (+2025 YTD)? Being distro invoicing, it won't include IPR (we don't invoice them), digital, webstore, crowdfunding. 🧵

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Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

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Yup.

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Each commercial is longer than most Chiefs drives

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Monster Manual Content Added to D&D's Free Rules: A significant amount of statblocks from the Monster Manual are available for free. #ttrpg #dnd

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