Ed Stern
@edstern.bsky.social
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Basic Prog Brit Woke Remoaner Centrist Dad. He/Him, Bi, ADHD, the usual. Former Splash Damage game dev. Full-Stack Narrative Designer/Game Writer available for hire: https://www.sternword.co.uk/
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edstern.bsky.social
Stuck here for a while.
G’wan then.
Answers guaranteed to be potentially honest.
ngl.link/edstern
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
This is tremendously useful in letting me know that nothing they write can be trusted
rmac.bsky.social
this is the dumbest shit i have ever read
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mikeblack114.bsky.social
tl;dr this is, as I've been screaming into the wind about for a week now, not just illegal as shit but fundamentally means the Constitution as written is no longer in effect

That said if you want an even deeper dive on the subject than I've done, this is a very good thread
bbkogan.bsky.social
Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/
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jamisonfoser.bsky.social
who among us hasn't talked about loving Hitler or worked tirelessly on behalf of a person we called "America's Hitler" or talked about sending our political opponents to gas chambers or incited a wave of hatred of immigrants with vicious lies
atrupar.com
JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."
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silvermansecurity.bsky.social
The responsible party: A 20-something white male, son of a minister who was also a cop, from a conservative Christian Utah family who had steeped himself in online channer & gamergate nihilism & may be groyper adjacent. But sure, waste the FINCEN people's time.
davidkurtz.bsky.social
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: “Charlie’s death is like a domestic 9/11. Just as after 9/11, and Osama bin Laden, the ultimate culprit, was captured, we are operationalizing the Treasury, and we are going to track down who is responsible for this.”

talkingpointsmemo.com/news/big-tal...
Big Talk: Treasury Secretary Declares New War on Terror Against the Left
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday that his department is in...
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self.agency
i have just been informed that, as republican officials, they are also fucking children
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originalsp.in
Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines.

We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.
originalsp.in
A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.
Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents
‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said
www.independent.co.uk
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hannahnicklin.bsky.social
📚 My current contract is coming to an end in Dec so I am now looking for new work!

⭐ I am an award-winning & expert/lead game writer & narrative designer.

🌎 I am interested in long & short term contracts & consultancy, ideally remote.

Let's chat!

hannahnicklin.com
linkedin.com/in/hannah-nicklin
A selection of images from games etc. Hannah Nicklin has worked on, a screencap or key art image from: Saltsea Chronicles, Black Mirror: Thronglets, Mutazione; and the cover of Writing for Games: Theory & Practice. Also featured two reviews. 

One from Eurogamer: 5/5 Saltsea Chronicles
"Onwards you go in pursuit of your missing crew, then, your story diverging further from mine with every island choice, with every flick of the head or settling of the lips. Memories/Artefacts? Skeptical/Curious? And astonishingly, through all these moving parts, all this phase space, my story still made rich sense, and actually built to a truly devastating climax.

Scream/Weep? Fittingly, for me, Saltsea Chronicles turned out to be a story about choices as well as a story made of choices. It made me think about the big decisions I make in life, but also the decisions that shape a life that I don't even notice having made. Ripples turning to waves and all that. You must play this. It's luminous."

The second of Mutazione from Gamespew, 9/10
"Mutazione is a game that builds up relationships within a community you instantly feel a part of. The main story is secondary to the real drama and the heart of the town, but it’s necessary. It’s extremely well-written, and the hand-drawn environments are beautifully designed. Die Gute Fabrik has crafted a sweet, powerful fairy tale that delves into the human psyche and allows you to reside there for five hours or so." A virtual biz card on a dark purple background, featuring an image of a white woman in glasses, with blonde hair, speaking at a podium. Next to it is the title Hannah Nicklin, and the details Creative Director, Narrative Lead/Designer, Senior Writer, Consultant.

 
11+ years experience in interactive narrative

•   3 games shipped as Lead (PC, Console, mobile)
•   Many more as consultant 
•   PhD in Interactive Practices
•   Masters & BA in Play/Screenwriting & Dramatic Arts
•   GDC Indie Summit Advisor, BAFTA Juror, TGA Future Class 
•   Author of Writing for Games: Theory & Practice

Black Mirror: Thronglets; Saltsea Chronicles; Mutazione; Saturnalia; Night School (A Netflix Studio); Cardboard Computer; Die Gute Fabrik; Draknek; Twisted Tree Games.

Based in: Sheffield, United Kingdom
Work in: Remote, CET-PST
LinkedIn.com/in/hannah-nicklin
hannahnicklin.com
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kashana.blacksky.app
The funniest part of all the billionaires are building bunker stories is the part where they’re sure the class hierarchy will survive the apocalypse.
aelkus.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article...

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking."
Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?
The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans
www.bbc.com
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plodinnotts.bsky.social
and seeing as many are coming off the sickness benefit ESA, there are more sick people on UC and more not working - it's a policy change not a demographic one and not a symptom of a broken society or personal failings
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plodinnotts.bsky.social
it's mostly people who don't understand the system(or choose not for political purposes) calling the movement of people from other benefits on to Uniersal Credit (nearly complete - well in to 7 figures) as a huge increase in claims rather than a net zero change in the number of people on benefits
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
briefly interrupting my shame posting to tap one of the other signs: a society that would like to keep functioning must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
nickturse.bsky.social
SCOOP: Trump Fabricates Story of Hand-to-Hand Combat Between Troops and Child Gangsters in D.C.

Trump’s claim that National Guard members beat child gang members on the streets of Washington was disputed even by the military.

theintercept.com/2025/10/15/t...
Trump Fabricates Story of Hand-to-Hand Combat Between Troops and Child Gangsters in D.C.
Trump’s claim that National Guard members beat child gang members on the streets of Washington was disputed even by the military.
theintercept.com
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whstancil.bsky.social
Democrats manage to reinvent these meme proposals every single election cycle AND NEVER NOTICE THEY DON'T WORK. It's astounding. Biden really did invest hundreds of billions of dollars into Rust Belt economies... and for his efforts was rewarded with searing unpopularity
sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
by my count there are four vague proposals offered: national service, investing in rural communities, reform the supreme court, repeal citizens' united via constitutional amendment

one of these is profoundly important. the other three are memes.
edstern.bsky.social
The younger guy she tells you not to worry about.
rocketengine.bsky.social
航空自衛隊 大型破壊機救難消防車
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tom-clark.bsky.social
In one crisp para — & the 2 charts he highlights — @chrisgiles.ft.com bursts a huge number of “welfare” myths www.ft.com/content/ee67...
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
We got $20 billion for Argentina though.
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kateriga.bsky.social
In the story the GOP justices told Wed, Louisiana’s cracking and packing of black voters to decrease their electoral power isn't racial discrimination - but remedying that theft is. Against white voters. It's the central grievance of Republican politics.

talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...
In Supreme Court Land, Fixing Discrimination Against Black Voters Is The Real Racism
A central grievance motivating today’s conservative legal movement — and the Republican...
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cnlester.bsky.social
I still have the letter I got back from William Hague when I wrote to him as a queer teenager arguing for the end of Section 28 and the equalisation of the age of consent - he confidently asserted that Section 28 would never be repealed and age of consent never equalised.
nateo.bsky.social
Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.
William Hague: Why I’ll banish ‘safe spaces’ at Oxford
The new chancellor tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that there will be no ‘cancel culture’ and students should expect to hear things that upset them
October 14 2025, The Times
The new chancellor of Oxford University has said there will be no safe spaces for students and warned would-be undergraduates that they will “hear things that will upset and offend them”.
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Jus kidz having fun being a lil edgy bsky.app/profile/suga...
sugarcubedog.bsky.social
Here are the grown “kids”. That one guy looks late 40’s. These are the Hitler lovers.
Vermont state senator Sam Douglass. Bland white guy with glasses and beard. Brown hair. Man in poorly fitting dark suit with glasses and dark hair. Yes he’s white. William Hendrix who is the communications assistant to vile Kris Kobach, Kansas AG. Bobby Walker, dark hair and dressed exactly like trump. Not a kid at all. He’s vice chair of New York State young republicans. I guess young means under 50. Peter Giunta looks like he’s in his 40’s. I don’t know his age. Also dressed like trump in an ill-fitting suit. He has one of the worst combovers I’ve ever seen. Beard and mustache. He’s the chair of the NY state young republicans. He looks like the type of guy that looks through your windows at night.
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wesleymorgan.bsky.social
Chicago, LA, etc. have already become something that to me is more worrying than Trump’s “training ground for the military”: training grounds for a rapidly expanding parallel domestic paramilitary force—CBP—that lacks the military’s guardrails and is eager to do what the military is reluctant to.
kschake.bsky.social
"The United States cannot remain a federalist system when soldiers from one state are sent to police another state against the explicit wishes of its elected leaders and when the justification for it is a lie.” @amandacarpenter.bsky.social
The ‘Chipocalypse’ is now
A training ground for the military?
www.ifyoucankeepit.org
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kschake.bsky.social
"The United States cannot remain a federalist system when soldiers from one state are sent to police another state against the explicit wishes of its elected leaders and when the justification for it is a lie.” @amandacarpenter.bsky.social
The ‘Chipocalypse’ is now
A training ground for the military?
www.ifyoucankeepit.org
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radleybalko.bsky.social
There is no evidence that the man who murdered Kirk had any ties to any progressive nonprofits.
feolski.bsky.social
"Scott Bessent said that his department is launching a War on Terror-style campaign against progressive nonprofits."
“Charlie’s death is like a domestic 9/11,” Bessent said. “Just as after 9/11, and Osama bin Laden... was captured... we are going to track down who is responsible for this.”
Big Talk: Treasury Secretary Declares New War on Terror Against the Left
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday that his department is in...
talkingpointsmemo.com
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bencollins.bsky.social
Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.
atrupar.com
Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"