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doomsuck.bsky.social @doomsuck.bsky.social · 1d

Antichamber does a little of this, and Superliminal does some similar playing on perspective

doomsuck.bsky.social @doomsuck.bsky.social · 1d

I know we all miss whatever video games came out when we were 12, but WOW did I not expect pressing F to pay respects would ever become something we'd yearn for

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doomsuck.bsky.social @doomsuck.bsky.social · 4d

Fantastic game and was likely to be niche regardless, but the ideal release window for a game about your plucky neighborhood SWAT team is probably not "between the killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd", either

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doomsuck.bsky.social @doomsuck.bsky.social · 5d

Maximizing cash flow, in one sense

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doomsuck.bsky.social @doomsuck.bsky.social · 6d

"Trump draws record-setting crowd"

doomsuck.bsky.social @doomsuck.bsky.social · 8d

Best case, the account is Barkley doing a bit

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doomsuck.bsky.social @doomsuck.bsky.social · 11d

As soon as they hit the underflow error, business is gonna be SICK

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doomsuck.bsky.social @doomsuck.bsky.social · 11d

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doomsuck.bsky.social @doomsuck.bsky.social · 11d

The slasher villain most likely to get stuck fumbling with a baby gate has got to be Jason, right?

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Illiterate Autodidact 🇵🇸🙂👍🇮🇱☹👎 @cigaretteliker.bsky.social · 13d

The virgin AGI existential risk vs the chad global warming

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 13d

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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doomsuck.bsky.social @doomsuck.bsky.social · 15d

I still love that this scene has a gigantic chalkboard full of equations when the point is "divide number by 2"

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doomsuck.bsky.social @doomsuck.bsky.social · 16d

Reminds me of barter economy hypotheticals. "Departing tenant A wants to leave their oven behind, but incoming tenant B has a nice oven and only wants a fridge."

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doomsuck.bsky.social @doomsuck.bsky.social · 16d

Even Martin Luther's big thing was rich people buying indulgences!

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doomsuck.bsky.social @doomsuck.bsky.social · 17d

Pretty cool to whine about how a written law gets in the way of their unwritten law, too

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Sep 20

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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doomsuck.bsky.social @doomsuck.bsky.social · 19d

Bret Deveraux's explanation of army-level "foraging" really brought the Third Amendment into focus for me as a sensible partner of the Fourth rather than a weirdo one-off. Even a fully loyal & well-behaved army on its own is a plague of locusts, and "fully" never happens

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doomsuck.bsky.social @doomsuck.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you for doing these! It's always a nice mix of new stuff and nudges to buy stuff I've already waitlisted, and the results are usually bangers. And even the stuff that I haven't loved have been really interesting swings

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doomsuck.bsky.social @doomsuck.bsky.social · 24d

For extra fun, the PSX release included an error in the tooltip for one of the signs

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doomsuck.bsky.social @doomsuck.bsky.social · 24d

Harvey Dent, for a couple of pages at least

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doomsuck.bsky.social @doomsuck.bsky.social · 24d

I dunno, they have started sharing a bunch of campaign staff off late, no? Main issue seeming to be that said staff are big fans of Matty

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doomsuck.bsky.social @doomsuck.bsky.social · 26d

All this is to say, a straight remake of the Arnold one is very Mr. Beast, this direction is more like NL

doomsuck.bsky.social @doomsuck.bsky.social · 26d

Admittedly it's probably not a "10 seconds of scrutiny" premise, but the in-world show seems like it'd be terrible. Arnold's at least in a closed arena, that'll keep moving. 30 days of Glen Powell laying low would be like 29.8 days of dead air with an occasional TikTok of action

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · Sep 24

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

I'm watching that documentary "Before Stonewall" about gay history
pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.

The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast
about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed
psychologists, a police officer, and one "known homosexual". The
"known homosexual" is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis
White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.
So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale
Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television
and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there's nothing
wrong with him mentally and he's never been arrested. When asked
whether he'd take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether
his family knows he's gay, he says that they didn't up until tonight, but
he guesses they're going to find out, and he'll probably be fired from
his job as well. So of course the host is like ... why are you doing this
interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says "I think
that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself."

1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.

Despite the pseudonym, Dale's boss did indeed recognize him from
the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into
ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten
a new job at a higher salary.
Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further.
It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity
agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that,
but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person
who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the
statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson's disclosure had
a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the
U.S.

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doomsuck.bsky.social @doomsuck.bsky.social · Sep 25

Training wheels are actually considered to be unhelpful-bordering-on-counterproductive these days. Stride bikes do the job better.

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