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@vannivan.bsky.social

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Staff member for RPG Limit Break and RetroGamingLiveTV. Retired from the speedrun grind. Marathon host extraordinaire. Favorite person of The Goodest Girl On All Of Twitch™️. he/him www.twitch.tv/vanni_van

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vanni_van @vannivan.bsky.social · May 17

The journey begins! In just a few hours I will be boarding a Denver-bound plane for @rpglimitbreak.bsky.social 2025, and I’ll be chronicling my experience there throughout the week here on my Bluesky, so keep an eye on this space and follow along with all of my adventures! #RPGLB2025

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vanni_van @vannivan.bsky.social · 5h

It’s hosting time for #TwitchCon at #GDQx as @shredberg.bsky.social zooms through Mario Kart World while we raise money for World Central Kitchen!

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vanni_van @vannivan.bsky.social · 7h

I AM HERE #TwitchCon

vanni_van @vannivan.bsky.social · 9h

Catch me there at the host desk in a few hours for the Mario Kart World run! #TwitchCon #GDQx

Games Done Quick @ #TwitchCon @gamesdonequick.com · 10h

GDQx is LIVE at #TwitchCon!!!!!!!!!

We're raising money all weekend long for @wck.org, so come find us in room 20C-D or watch from home at gdq.gg 🎉🎉🎉

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vanni_van @vannivan.bsky.social · 1d

All checked in and ready to go for #TwitchCon and #GDQx this weekend!

vanni_van @vannivan.bsky.social · 2d

This is an INCREDIBLY worthwhile cause, and I’m thrilled that I have the opportunity to help raise money for them! Catch me on both Friday AND Saturday hosting for #GDQx at #TwitchCon this year!

Games Done Quick @ #TwitchCon @gamesdonequick.com · 2d

We're proud to announce World Central Kitchen as this year's GDQx charity!!! 🎉

@wck.org is a nonprofit organization that is first to the frontlines providing fresh meals in response to crises having served over 500 million meals worldwide!

Learn more: wck.org

#TwitchCon

WCK founder, José Andrés, with the WCK team at Deir al-Balah Kitchen

vanni_van @vannivan.bsky.social · 3d

Titans fans need to start “we ass” chants in the stands when their team is playing (especially) poorly

vanni_van @vannivan.bsky.social · 10d

The fact that this dude currently seems to be the odds-on favorite to be the D on the 2028 ticket makes me incredibly uneasy.

We can do so much better than Newsom, but the real question is: will we?

vanni_van @vannivan.bsky.social · 10d

You could have just put a period after “Fox” and hit send

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vanni_van @vannivan.bsky.social · 11d

Actual bank manager here, been in the industry for nearly two decades. I can assure you that I think about bank fraud numerous times every day. And I certainly don’t need assistance from AI to do so.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Dr Oz: "We have an advantage with AI. You know why? We don't think the way fraudsters think. That's just not what our minds do. The bank managers don't think about bank fraud. They want to do loans and help businesses. Fraudsters think about fraud. So the AI can think the way a fraudster thinks."

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vanni_van @vannivan.bsky.social · 14d

This fucking nonsense bsky.app/profile/tiet...

TieTuesday @tietuesday.bsky.social · 14d

retroachievements.org/forums/topic...

Retroachievements using the "we're just neutral It's not political!" about allowing a romhack with pokemon named
"KuKlux" that's a ghost in a hood with the ability "Justified"

don't get me started on the "terrorist" pokemon

platforming hate isn't neutral

~Hack~ Pokemon Clover

Dear RetroAchievements community, We'd like to make a policy clarification regarding the User Code of Conduct's scope and our stance on content archival. Recent discussions in our community ha...

retroachievements.org

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vanni_van @vannivan.bsky.social · 14d

Unlike you nerds who are scrambling to delete your RetroAchievements accounts, I never created one in the first place #onestepahead #galaxybrain

a man wearing glasses and a black turtleneck is holding something in his hands and making a funny face .

ALT: a man wearing glasses and a black turtleneck is holding something in his hands and making a funny face .

media.tenor.com

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vanni_van @vannivan.bsky.social · 14d

Please. The Sharks already stink enough as it is. This is wholly unnecessary

vanni_van @vannivan.bsky.social · 14d

People need to stop being fair with Nazis, man

The facts that some of these mouth-breathers can’t see the difference between platforming “violence” and “iconography associated with ethnic cleansing” is one of those losing-faith-in-humanity moments

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vanni_van @vannivan.bsky.social · 14d

Legit question: do you have a humiliation fetish?

vanni_van @vannivan.bsky.social · 15d

OMG Sal Rosenberg! I haven’t heard that name in ages. To this day I will say “I have warts on my ass” in that accent whenever I hear someone doing too much complaining

vanni_van @vannivan.bsky.social · 15d

I agree that he has the right, but having a right doesn’t necessarily mean that invoking it is wise.

Behavior like this only seems to provide the context that all the talking heads were clamoring for regarding why he slid to the fifth round of the draft.

vanni_van @vannivan.bsky.social · 15d

Thinking something is an objective truth is by its very nature a subjective act. Not that I expect that to mean anything to these people, though.

vanni_van @vannivan.bsky.social · 15d

Exactly

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vanni_van @vannivan.bsky.social · 16d

This sounds like it was ripped from Hegseth’s speech yesterday

vanni_van @vannivan.bsky.social · 18d

I noticed that too. He’d be incredibly lucky to make it to the end of the season at this point.

vanni_van @vannivan.bsky.social · 20d

so which other friendos will I be seeing there? 🤔

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vanni_van @vannivan.bsky.social · 22d

YOINK

Thank you for the meme!

vanni_van @vannivan.bsky.social · 28d

“Although the police on the outside were forming their forces into flying wedges in an effort to break through the surging mobs, little impression was made on the uncontrollable mass of humanity” is giving me life

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 29d

This 1934 NYT article about a group of 75 Nazis in New Jersey getting the crap kicked out of them by 1000 “anti-Nazis” is no laughing matter and the writing is not highly entertaining.

Please do not laugh or smile while reading this as it is a very serious matter and violence is not funny.

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MOB OF 1,000 RAIDS JERSEY NAZI RALLY
Although the main disturbance occurred in the street outside the meeting place at 717 Lyons Avenue, another riot started simultaneously within the auditorium when the anti-Nazi group spread through the audience went into action.
15 Hurt in Wild Fighting at Irvington as 75 Hitlerites
From Here Arrive.
THIRTY-FIVE ARRESTS MADE
, Newark Reserves Called to Aid in Quelling Riot Lasting an Hour and a Half.
Special to THE NST YORx TENES.
IRVINGTON, N. J., May 21.-A vicious attack upon seventy-five members of Friends of 'the New Germany as they arrived dressed in their blue uniforms to attend a Nazi meeting here tonight developed into a riot that lasted an hour and a half. More than fifteen persons were injured, two of them being taken to hospitals. Thirty-five were arrested.
The riot eventually involved more than 1,000 persons and was put under control only after three squads of
Newark police reserves aug-
mented the local forces.
The po-
lice used their nightsticks and the invading anti-Nazis utilized brick-bats, broomsticks, rocks and stench bombs.
Hundreds Greet Arrivals.
The trouble started when two buses containing a New York delegation of Nazis dressed in light blue shirts, blue trousers and puttees drove up in front of the hall to attend the meeting being held by the local group of Friends of the New Germany. As the buses ar-rived, several hundred persons were gathered in the street.
As soon as the first Nazi alighted a group of men in two automobiles pulled up alongside and launched the attack. This was the cue for a general free-for-all fight and the extra detail of Irvington police were unable to cope with it.
As the Nazis piled out of the buses to enter the combat they were pounced upon by the invaders.
Fists swung right and left, missiles flew and men, grappling in individual contests, rolled on the street.
When the Newark reserves arrived the fighting was at its height.
Many of the Nazis had s…

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been converted into an arena for the general indoor mêlée.
Although the police on the outside were forming their forces into flying wedges in an effort to break through the surging mobs, little impression was made on the uncon-
trollable mass of humanity.
Those of the Nazis who were not
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able to reach the supposed sanctuary within the building were easily recognizable
targets,
because of
the bright hue of their uniforms.
for their assailants.
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Photographers.
As the fighting continued in the
ol open,
and the Nazis were getting
si scarcer by the minute, the enraged mobs turned upon the newspaper men and photographers.
Cameras
were broken, clothing torn to bits, eyes blackened.
Several policemen got in the way
of swinging fists
were knocked to the ground.
Pa-
trolmen Frank Dwyer and Morris Kerwan from Newark were severely slugged, but remained on duty
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to quell the riot.'
After an hour's battle outside the riot was considered under control and most of the police entered the building to curb the intermittent disturbances there.
Shortly after
the bulk of the police forces were withdrawn from
in front of the
building the anti-Nazi group took up a strategic
position
on the
opposite side of the street and dis-
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an avalanche of bricks
through the second story window.
Police rushed out of the building
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again to cope with the new situation and it was then that most of the arrests took place.
The capacity of the Irvington
patrol wagons was taxed so an or-
der was sent to Newark for additional transportation.
Meanwhile the two bus drivers se-came alarmed, especially after some of the mob saturated their conveyances with stench bombs, and drove away leaving the Nazis stranded.
When the riot was over the police had seventy-five New York
Nazis
on their hands and were wondering how to get them back home.
Shortly before midnight the last of the prisoners were
taken from
the hall to headquarters where they were charged with disorderly co…

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vanni_van @vannivan.bsky.social · 29d

Your heart must be as heavy as the crown on your head 👑

On behalf of all of the kitties that you’ve rescued and given a new lease on life, thank you king ❤️

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vanni_van @vannivan.bsky.social · 29d

That interaction being depicted using AI is extremely conservative-coded