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Weapons Manufacturing Enthusiast aka Worldly Tooter

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Weapons Manufacturing Enthusiast aka Worldly Tooter @adamsull.bsky.social · Nov 12

Hi, BS! It’s my birthday and I want more followers (I’m shallow) so I’m doing the introduction thing:

I’m 55 today, so 💯Gen X. Used to call myself an actor but it turns out I just liked hanging out with theater people. Now I do PR for architects.

I ran for Congress once.

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 4h

Seeing multiple news orgs join together to reject the Pentagon's gag rules and now multiple airports refuse to air partisan govt propaganda.

There've been weeks when the wind is at authoritarians' backs. Let's hope these suggest a different wind direction this week. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

O'Hare and Midway airports won't show Kristi Noem video criticizing Democrats for government shutdown

O'Hare and Midway airports in Chicago have decided not to show travelers a video of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem criticizing Democrats for the ongoing federal government shutdown.

www.cbsnews.com

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Weapons Manufacturing Enthusiast aka Worldly Tooter @adamsull.bsky.social · 6h

Sending peace, comfort and strength. Losing a parent is always hard.

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Weapons Manufacturing Enthusiast aka Worldly Tooter @adamsull.bsky.social · 4d

If you have a problem with people rallying to say "no kings," maybe you're not the best judge of who hates America.

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Weapons Manufacturing Enthusiast aka Worldly Tooter @adamsull.bsky.social · 1d

How, HOW did I go from less than 30 minutes wait time back to "more than an hour?" This sucks, it's ridiculous, go back to print to order.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous People's Day

BOOOOlioraptor, PhD (spooky version) @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 1d

Janet saying: Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

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Matt Cohen @mattcohen.bsky.social · Jul 9

If you want to submit an online comment to your senator or representative, you have to first use a drop-down menu to select a topic for your message... and the list of topics is going to be sanitized in a way that obstructs you from being heard.
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This is the drop-down menu that lets you pick a topic before sending a message to Senator Chris Murphy. Other members of Congress use similar drop down menus.

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Weapons Manufacturing Enthusiast aka Worldly Tooter @adamsull.bsky.social · 4d

two young men are standing next to each other holding microphones and talking .

Alt: two young men smiling, the one with the microphone says "i agree, i agree, i strongly agree"

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Weapons Manufacturing Enthusiast aka Worldly Tooter @adamsull.bsky.social · 4d

There is the one wheel spell that has a new Sneak mechanic that is very similar to ninjutsu, but still a good point

Weapons Manufacturing Enthusiast aka Worldly Tooter @adamsull.bsky.social · 4d

a man wearing a necklace and a gray shirt says that 's a good point though

Alt: a man says that's a good point though

media.tenor.com

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Weapons Manufacturing Enthusiast aka Worldly Tooter @adamsull.bsky.social · 4d

If you have a problem with people rallying to say "no kings," maybe you're not the best judge of who hates America.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 5d

its very much "all the crooks in gotham have too much sense to stand up to the joker but guys like two-face are just insane enough to do it"

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 5d

One of the things that's terrifying about what's happening now is the number of Republicans who won't stand up to Trump because they're cowards who are terrified of backlash. MGT strikes me as just unhinged enough to not be sensitive to that, which turns out to be a liability for them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Marjorie Taylor Greene on CNN (!): "I'm getting phone calls from people that are saying if the ACA tax credits expire, they aren't gonna be able to have health insurance. They're going to have to drop it."

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 5d

Whether it’s Joe Biden attending weekly mass or Donald Trump’s ICE agents shooting a priest in the face with a pepper ball, presidents of both sides have directly engaged with the Catholic faith.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 5d

The South Carolina senator behind SB 323 says his bill wouldn't outlaw birth control.

But we found a pamphlet he wrote that says “all forms of the birth control pill” kill a “human being.”

jessica.substack.com/p/abortion-a...

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 6d

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Weapons Manufacturing Enthusiast aka Worldly Tooter @adamsull.bsky.social · 6d

a black and white drawing of a man smiling in a circle .

Alt: Pip Boy from Fallout gives the thumbs up and winks in black and white

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Matt Cohen @mattcohen.bsky.social · 6d

People keep saying that "history will remember" the truth about what's happening now, but it won't. The news is the first draft of history and it is being written and published by cowards.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 7d

Never, ever Newsom. Fuck that guy.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 7d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 8d

Like, I think a lot of the hostility to UB would be way less, if not entirely gone, if it was more the "one lotr/ff big set and one who/40k small product per year" model than 4 out of the 7 tentpole sets.

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Weapons Manufacturing Enthusiast aka Worldly Tooter @adamsull.bsky.social · 7d

Nice! STOOOOOORRRMM CROOOOOOWWS!

Weapons Manufacturing Enthusiast aka Worldly Tooter @adamsull.bsky.social · 8d

We need to argue about this at great length

Weapons Manufacturing Enthusiast aka Worldly Tooter @adamsull.bsky.social · 8d

I was thinking for months about whether and how to build Iron Man, then WM emerged and I was like oh shit that's IT. My build isn't even particularly optimized, it's entirely about making bombs and blowing things up. So much fun.

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Weapons Manufacturing Enthusiast aka Worldly Tooter @adamsull.bsky.social · 8d

So many great ones but I just love Weapons Manufacturing from EOE, just a sick design.

Second for me might be Tempest Hawk, which finally got me to build one of THOSE commander decks, but not until Choco emerged as the ideal card for the CZ

magic the gathering card "weapons manufacturing"

magic the gathering card "choco, seeker of paradise"

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Weapons Manufacturing Enthusiast aka Worldly Tooter @adamsull.bsky.social · 8d

She should have left off after # 5. The rest sound like this:

"6. ... that does the 'both sides are bad' thing in all cases.
7. ... that foregrounds conservative views.
8. ... that chases ambulances and clicks.
9. ... that is written by AI.
10. ... that presents facts which confirm (y)our priors."

Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 8d

This list could easily be condensed to five items

Weapons Manufacturing Enthusiast aka Worldly Tooter @adamsull.bsky.social · 8d

Depends. Would you be arguing in bad faith?

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