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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 2h

Out-pedant-ing the pedants? I like your style.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 5h

I think what's bothering me about all these statements I'm seeing from politicians that are variations of "Israeli hostages and Palestinians are returning to their homes, yay" is that Israelis are returning to their homes and Palestinians are returning to uninhabitable post apocalyptic rubble.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

Department of State v
@StateDept
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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 12h

this is the most like a mike tyson's punch out guy i have ever seen anyone look

Brewers outfielder Sal Frelick making an intense face as he prepares to throw the ball

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 5h

All my Snoos, gone

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 5h

Me! Me! I controverse! Genocide IS a war crime, so, grammatically, that's similar to saying "yes, the movie Beethoven DOES star a dog, but it also stars a Saint Bernard." Your word choice of "but" is controversial because it is not the best conjunction to connect those two thoughts! J'accuse!

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 5h

Burying the lede here. He also said Charlie Kirk didn't love his enemies even though people kept telling him that and that he was quicker than Charlie Kirk when it came to dodging bullets.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 5h

President Trump criticized what he cast as “radical left violence” as he awarded Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Trump Assails Violence From Left, Awards Kirk Medal of Freedom

President Donald Trump criticized what he cast as “radical left violence” as he awarded Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom, honoring the conservative activist whose death spurred an administration effort targeting left-leaning groups.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 10h

You might think Ryan is exaggerating but I used to go to a regular dinner that gradually got taken over by young Republican staffers and I promise you he is not.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 10h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Matt Orion @orionjack.bsky.social · 8h

Tuesdays aren’t the same without him

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 6h

If your definition of "tankie" doesn't involve a sweeping image of the Communists' tanks rolling into view across a hilly landscape at dawn while majestic music begins to soar then your definition sucks and I don't want it

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 6h

If neither of those men had died of heart attacks within eighteen months of the release of this tape they'd be VERY cross being written about in this way.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 7h

Lads, I don’t think “We were fooled into doing genocide by mean fascists who outwitted us effortlessly” is a winner

JOE BIDEN HAD A PEACE DEAL IN PLACE, BUT THEN NETANYAHU AND TRUMP MET IN MAR-A-LAGO AND DECIDED THAT KEEPING THE WAR GOING WOULD BENEFIT THEM BOTH.
TEN MONTHS LATER, THEY'RE SIGNING THE EXACT DEAL BIDEN BROKERED.
DON'T BE FOOLED!

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 6h

Counter-offer: anyone complaining about use of the word "tankie" should be forced to get in a tank and liberate me from my fascist government.

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 7h

I made this helpful picture to help you identify Mac 128/512/Plus keyboard cables.

How to identify a Macintosh keyboard cable

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St1ka @st1ka.bsky.social · 10h

I am covering EVERY First Person Shooter EVER made in Japan.

From 1985 to 2025, that's over 40 years and 70 games of gaming history.

Link: youtu.be/F80Cl6WzBNo?...

This was without a doubt the most ambitious video I've ever made.

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 8h

(Point of that second sentence being that there's literally no advantage to FPGA over software emulation for those kinds of things)

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 8h

I would accept going as far as more powerful arcade platforms based on that generation of gaming hardware, eg. Naomi, Naomi 2, PS2, GameCube, Triforce, etc.

Everything after that, including the OG XBox, used a USB stack for controller input and had an OS layer between the hardware and games anyways

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 13h

Janet Mills has announced a run for U.S. Senate. If elected, she would be 85 at the end of her first time.

If you care about democracy, generational renewal, and leadership that actually serves working people—You should want new leadership in Graham Platner.
open.substack.com/pub/qasimras...

79-Year-Old Janet Mills Launches Senate Run—Why We Must Choose Graham Platner Instead

U.S. Marine Veteran Graham Platner (41) represents a new hope and the voice of the American people—it's time to elect him as our next U.S. Senator from Maine

open.substack.com

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 8h

*sigh*

So what's the recommended fork of gzdoom, then?

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 11h

like there is absolutely no way to not understand this as collective punishment, right? there's no fig leaf of it being about Hamas

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 11h

BREAKING: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza, accusing Hamas of violating ceasefire with slow release of dead hostages, AP sources say.

Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

The tenuous ceasefire in the two-year Israel-Hamas war is being tested as complex issues remain a day after widespread jubilation over the return to Israel of the last 20 living hostages held in Gaza and the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 11h

Sums it all up

Martin Konený
@MartinKonecny
X.com
EU Commission press briefing
yesterday:
Journalist: You've said that Russia should repay for reconstruction of Ukraine. Do you believe Israel should repay for reconstruction of Gaza?
EU chief spox: It's an interesting question, on which I have no

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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 21h

Wanna feel old?

The Dreamcast released 10 years ago.

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 17h

Today is Ada Lovelace Day.

Ada Lovelace Day - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 17h

“Israeli” ceasefires only ever apply to the other party. They’ll continue to kill whomever they want, whenever they want until they are stopped. They see themselves as occupying an altogether different moral plane than their enemies, like any colonizer.

Tweet from Quds News Network @QudsNen
BREAKING: Three Palestinians were killed after Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on residents inspecting their homes in the Shujaiyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

Biden let Bibi play him for a fool, to his face, badly damaging his own political standing and that of his party, all in service of a genocidal campaign of retribution

all out of, as far as I can tell, a devout belief that Israel can do no wrong

that is his legacy and he brought it on himself

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

i do not have a lot of tolerance for people whining that Netanyahu fucked Biden over in order to get Trump in office so he could do whatever he wanted. yeah. he absolutely did that. that was obvious before 10/7.

there is no person on Earth more incompetent as a foreign policy thinker than Biden

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