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Stephen Raab

@onetruestephen.bsky.social

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Author of “Battle Buddy” in Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine. Opinions my own. Same handle on the old place.

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · Dec 28

Spotted at my local @barnesandnoble.com — January/February 2025 issue of @analogsf.bsky.social , featuring my debut short story “Battle Buddy”!

Get yours today!

January/February 2025 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 2h

good advice but should this be in response to 11?

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 11h

At their core, what the political shitposters of social media really hate about ppl that go to a march like No Kings is it lays bare the fact that every single normie out there has more guts than they do and more determination to do something more than just poast about it online.

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 11h

Yes, in fact. I'm going on October 18. Are *you* actually going to throw bricks at ICE?

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 3h

Minnesota!

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Sick Hunt, Dracones @scalehelix.net · 4h

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 6h

The biggest weakness Democrats have is that they care about governing well, and Republicans just don’t

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 6h

I’ve wondered this myself, and about what happens when the shutdown gets into the phase where it starts to have real bite on real people and democrats care and republicans don’t.

Kelly Jelly 🪼 @kellybdevoe.bsky.social · 6h

What if Mike Johnson just kind of…refuses to bring the House back in session

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7h

I mean we should also be continuing to hammer how Noem is a puppy-killer and Trump is the only pet-hating president ever, too

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 8h

This takes me back to the first hourly job I ever had—sterilizing sugar beet plants for use in hybridizing.

That was the summer that “Call Me Maybe” was big, and the radio in the warehouse we were in played it at least three times every hour, ten hours a day.

Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 8h

When I started my career as a professor of tax law, I didn't expect that one day I would spend any amount of time writing about the production of sugar beets in the United States.

But here we are.

The story of sugar in Utah is the story of sugar beets. Even today, more than half of the sugar produced in the United States comes from sugar beets, and sugar beets have represented a critical crop for American farmers. The roots of U.S. sugar beet production go back to the 1850s, but production did not begin in earnest until the 1870s. In 1870, Scientific American pointed out that increasing sugar beet production in the United States would “enormously increase the wealth of the country.” At the time, it pointed out, Americans consumed at least $75 million worth of sugar, and seven-eighths of American sugar was imported. If the U.S. were self-sufficient, it could keep an additional $66 million in the country.

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 9h

And people claim Bruce Wayne never uses his money to help people

Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 9h

Is the deterrence working yet

Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 11h

Famously, no one has ever tried to get rid of Hamas by bombing them

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 16d

“If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” -Brett Kavanaugh

Melissa Gomez @melissagomez.bsky.social · 18d

Army vet George Retes Jr. was trying to get to work on July 10 at Glass House during an ICE raid. He was handcuffed and jailed for 3 days without explanation. After he wrote about his arrest, DHS accused him of assault, which he called a baffling accusation.
www.latimes.com/california/s...

A U.S. veteran spoke out against his wrongful arrest by ICE. Now he’s being accused of assault

George Retes Jr. wrote an op-ed about his arrest during the Glass House ICE raid in July. He says DHS is now spreading falsehoods against him for speaking out.

www.latimes.com

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 15h

can’t stop laughing at this, it’s perfect

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 15h

Showing up to No Kings with a sign reading “monarchy is an affront to human dignity but, when incorporated into a liberal democratic system, may nevertheless be a useful safety valve for nationalist and/or authoritarian impulses” and then getting clobbered by a Buttigieg-supporting grandmother

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 15h

Incidentally, I’ve been chafing a bit at the “No Kings” thing, because there are loads of monarchies that have more limits on executive power than the US does, but it has the great advantage that it makes Americans who want to oppose it sound, well, unamerican….

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 13h

Blinken. Garland slow-walked a lot of things (for reasons I’m not entirely unsympathetic to—you want to be very sure if you’re going to indict a former Chief Executive), but he was always going to run into SCOtUS deciding that (only certain) Presidents are above the law

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 14h

"Primary everyone" has quickly become "no primary ever if I like one of the candidates"

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 14h

Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate

Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 16h

What I will say is that we had little “get your last hit in” exchanges following Operation Midnight Hammer, and that ceasefire is holding—for now.

But these seem to be more widespread and systemic

Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 17h

One of the biggest messes I’ve ever seen in theaters was “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,” where four people ended up playing one character because Heath Ledger died halfway through shooting.

They tried to work it into the script—it didn’t work

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 17h

The only time I’m sympathetic to it is when the studio has gotten completely screwed—stuff like Carrie Fisher dying halfway through shooting for Episode IX

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

So much of the reaction to the latest Gaza deal acts as if Trump took office amidst a raging war, which simply isn't true.

There's a tendency in US media to praise Trump whenever the opportunity arises, as if they need to make up for all the factually accurate reporting that makes him look awful.

Opinion | Trump’s Nobel peace prize campaign is the least important part of the Gaza deal

If the ceasefire holds, the administration deserves much credit. But the fixation on Trump getting a prize distracts from things that actually matter.

www.msnbc.com

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 1d

I can already tell that "Trump may have been evil but he stopped a genocide Biden wouldn't!" is going to become an article of faith for the worst leftists alive for the next 70 fucking years or so, so I'm going to be clear. If you believe this, show yourself now so you can be blocked in advance.

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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 1d

So yes, but also, this looks like shit

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 1d

The whale video games have gotten too good

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2d

your tactic of protesting in an inflatable frog suit which gets normal people on your side is far inferior to my tactic of posting about laser blinding helicopter pilots which is both wildly illegal and, were it to succeed, would put basically *everyone* against me

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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 1d

Many people On Here think that capitalism is uniquely bad, but when you boil it down, their fundamental critique of capitalism is a critique of humanity and power, not a particular economic system.

SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 1d

What it feels like defending capitalism on Bluesky

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