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QuoProQuid

@quoproquid.bsky.social

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he / him, 🏳️‍🌈 ✝️. i work on IR and security policy but mainly tweet about richard nixon, 60s americana, and film. design lead for TNO. makes silly election games.

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · Nov 9

one of the things i like to do in my free time is to create short games about history and politics. here’s a few of them below. 👇

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 27m

this is what mystery solving does to kids. it chews them up and spits them out.

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 29m

ruh-ro rhaggy, roo’ve been radicalized!

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 30m

shaggy and scooby have been exposed to so much extreme unmasking content that it doesn’t even effect them anymore. you gaze into the rubber mask and the rubber mask gazes into you.

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 1h

of course, Vance also styles himself as a disciple of Carl Schmitt and the world’s most cynical political operator and also has a pretty long history of keeping up groupchats with teens so maybe we should acknowledge that as well

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 1h

like, there are elected officials, party chairs, chiefs of staff, and administration officials in that group chat where people were posting about gas chambers and, “I’m ready to watch people burn now.”

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 1h

1. these people are in their late 20s and early 30s and hold important positions within the party and on the Hill

2. threatening to throw your opposition into gas showers, posting “i love Hitler”, and thinking of rape as “epic” isn’t normal. that Vance thinks it is is revealing

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 3h

one might write about the performance of "foreignness" and why this appears to be a largely Anglosphere phenomenon (conferences seem to take place exclusively in the US and Canada)

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 3h

going through photos for micronation conventions and the aesthetic inspiration for these almost uniformly falls into one of three buckets:
a. pre-WWI european monarchies (specifically a kind of "Ruritanian romance")
b. Brezhnev
c. Gaddafi

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 4h

meanwhile, the dude who has unwittingly triggered all this refuses to acknowledge anything that's happening and seems fully content letting hinako take the brunt of the abuse so long as he doesn't have to confront it

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 5h

the hinako-rinko rivalry in silent hill f is so sad, especially because the main antagonizing party seems fully aware that none of this is the other's fault but can't get past her jealousy.

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 6h

as catholics, we are taught death is the end of one's earthly pilgrimage and we shall not return to other earthly lives.

regretfully, i have been revived with the Reincarnate spell, separating me from the community of saints and turning me into a gnome. which body will be raised on judgment day?

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 6h

holy father, i fucked up real bad and entered a contract with an infernal prior to my conversion. does that contract preclude the salvation of my immortal soul? does christ's saving grace have limitations in this fucked-up fantasy world we live in?

sorry for cussing, holy father.

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 7h

it's not clear to me if there is a commonly accepted master list with a clear statement of what each one's attitudes and goals are in their own words

i instead just have like 20+ webpages from different orgs all providing slightly different "primers" that veer toward jargon

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 7h

im gonna be real, i don't understand like 70% of the dsa caucuses and don't think it's super healthy that a bunch of members tell me that they steer very far away from them

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 8h

what precautions may i take to avoid being placed within a zone of truth without my knowledge?

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 8h

If I am a priest, I am bound by the seal of confession not to divulge anything revealed to me by penitents during Reconciliation.

However, I have been placed within the Zone of Truth by some bandits. What are my options and obligations to preserve the sacramental seal?

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 8h

while traversing a dungeon, my party and i came across and killed a mimic in the form of a treasure chest.

it is the lenten season, but a treasure chest is not an object with meat. may we cook and eat this thing or does the requirement of abstinence extend to mimics and similar creatures?

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 8h

i'm a faithful catholic trapped in high fantasy.

according to the catechsims of the catholic church, i am prohibited from using magic and sorcery even for restoring health. if i become a cleric or paladin for christ, am i still prohibited from casting cure wounds? does this extend to revivifies?

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 9h

ryan is not popular in the state either for separate reasons (losing, lobbying). party has a massive recruitment problem

and yeah, just speaking from personal experience, a lot of people in their 20s and teens are still pissed off about COVID.

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 9h

barring unexpected developments, i don’t think any city in Ohio is well-positioned to become a second Madison

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 10h

the path back would probably look something like Kansas, which unfortunately had to go through the “Kansas Experiment” before they elected a pretty moderate Democratic governor

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 10h

i do also think the Ohio Democratic Party is really struggling to find its place right now. big cities like Cleveland are no longer big enough to support the rest of the party and while there has been movement in the affluent suburbs, it hasn’t been enough to break through anywhere notable

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 10h

I think that putting forth a woman who, in the minds of many Zoomers, is directly responsible for the disruption they faced in their early lives and made them sacrifice for the benefit of the larger population, was a bad idea

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 19h

boy general meetings sure are fascinating

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 1d

mr president, you must stop body shaming yourself.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I'm just a little busy. I'd love to go to Argentina. I'd like to be like Biden. I'd like to go to the beach. My legs are not quite as thin as his. My legs are slightly heavier, my arms are slightly larger. My body is a little bit larger than his. I'm not sure it would be appreciated."

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