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Drew Habits @habits.bsky.social · 8h

Dishonorable mention for Halo 4. Halo 4 stinks. Yuck!

Drew Habits @habits.bsky.social · 8h

It's sort of funny the way it fails in interesting ways on a technical level, but no points for unintented humor. It slaps that it has the player waste a bunch of Klan guys, but Mafia III and Wolfenstein: The New Colossus do that, too, and those games have engaging stories and are fun to play

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Drew Habits @habits.bsky.social · 8h

Red Dead Redemption 2, the most overrated turd in Rockstar's catalog, which is a field crowded with overrated turds. 40% of the game is tutorials for stuff you'll never even have the opportunity to do again. The control choices are inexplicable. The plot stinks on ice. A pointless technical showcase

lex luddy (ichiban appreciator) @lexluddy.xyz · 14h

What's the worst game you finished/rolled credits on?

(games media folks, it can't be something you were assigned to review; this has to be something you subjected yourself to of your own free will)

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 15h

“Israel” killed most of the people who died on October 7th and it killed most of the hostages who died in Gaza. But all we hear in the West is Hamas, Hamas, Hamas, who, under international law, have the right to resist occupation by force. Any real peace will not include “Israel” at all.

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Drew Habits @habits.bsky.social · 12h

"Don't snitch" is one of my most central political beliefs

Drew Habits @habits.bsky.social · 16h

I'm sympathetic to this perspective but even as this same person says later in the thread, people who think like this always think the time for violence is a "later" that never comes. Whether Milan sees it this way or not, it becomes a rationalization for turning in activists who like smash a window

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 23h

(2) Just because violence may be necessary at some stage in this conflict does not mean that all violence is productive or useful.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 13h

they're prepping eulogies for a dude who a few months ago was angrily insisting on his right to run for reelection

LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 1d

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Drew Habits @habits.bsky.social · 14h

I can't remember any of the names, unfortunately, but the Baptist summer camp I spent many years attending and working at (despite being raised Catholic) had a legendary giant snapping turtle (mate to the definitely not plaster one mounted in the dining hall), a ghost girl (Sadie?), and a loose puma

Drew Habits @habits.bsky.social · 14h

One of his kids (along with several other civilians). Trump had spec ops perverts kill his daughter some years later. Reaching across the aisle!

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Steve Ahlquist @steveahlquist.bsky.social · 17h

Gavin Newsom will not save you…

Gavin Newsom Vetoes Important HRT Stockpiling Bill For Trans Californians, Signs Other Pro-LGBTQ+ Bills

The bill would have allowed transgender people to maintain a safe supply of medication in the era of government crackdowns on care.

open.substack.com

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 18h

I need ppl to understand that no matter how well meaning someone running as a democrat is, when they are absorbed and become somewhat dependent on the party, they will make concessions and use language they provide etc

It’s like how capitalists, no matter how well meaning, need to increase profit

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 1d

Today's the 959th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, so obviously I'm reposting my scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry in Playmobil.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

I need you all to remember this as well...that bluesky actively assisted in ethnically cleansing Palestinians

Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 1d

Just saw 2 Palestinian accounts vanish right after asking me for help--one a mother grieving her baby daughter who just died of starvation, another begging for help to keep her little sick, starving baby daughter alive. I cannot say what I think of Bluesky admin.

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Drew Habits @habits.bsky.social · 16h

The zionists broke the "ceasefire" in less than a day, but because the Magic Words were said, it's now ok to forget the ongoing genocide and welcome its perpetrators with open arms

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 1d

Eurovision Song Contest organisers will no longer meet online in November to vote on Israel's participation in the competition, following Middle East "developments", the European Broadcasting Union said

Eurovision organisers push back Israel decision

Eurovision Song Contest organisers will no longer meet online in November to vote on Israel's participation in the competition, following Middle East "developments", the European Broadcasting Union sa...

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unhinged leftist ☭🔻 @gnommunist.bsky.social · 1d

fascinating

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Drew Habits @habits.bsky.social · 16h

That freak is definitely cashing the hasbara checks

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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 1d

Once again: this is also happening in DC. Still.

It feels like we’ve been forgotten, maybe because there aren’t huge confrontations to run photos of. But our neighbors are still being taken every day. Routine traffic stops are now done by 12+ feds alongside local police.

Please talk about us too.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Drew Habits @habits.bsky.social · 16h

So yeah, go to the dogmatically ineffectual Dem GOTV parades, I'm not saying don't. I have! But don't let your personal aversion to violence curdle into dogmatic opposition. Again, I don't know that that's what Milan is saying here. I'm just saying it's a line of logic that can lead to collaboration

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Drew Habits @habits.bsky.social · 16h

And also

Black and white stills from a film of Kwame Ture giving a speech where he says "In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none, has none."

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Drew Habits @habits.bsky.social · 16h

I'm sympathetic to this perspective but even as this same person says later in the thread, people who think like this always think the time for violence is a "later" that never comes. Whether Milan sees it this way or not, it becomes a rationalization for turning in activists who like smash a window

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 23h

(2) Just because violence may be necessary at some stage in this conflict does not mean that all violence is productive or useful.

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Drew Habits @habits.bsky.social · 16h

Oh I did that a while ago lol

I was hoping you'd be willing to confront how normalizing doing harm leads to harm, but c'est la vie

Drew Habits @habits.bsky.social · 16h

I'm saying you're rationalizing to avoid cognitive dissonance. There are plenty of things you believe should change about society, you've just decided that caring for the disabled shouldn't be one of them, and confronting that would feel Bad. So you made a yell thread about why you shouldn't have to

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Drew Habits @habits.bsky.social · 16h

I know you reject it! We're wired to avoid cognitive dissonance because it doesn't feel very nice

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Drew Habits @habits.bsky.social · 17h

It's neither! They may disagree on many things and there's not like an annual conference, but they do all share a belief that they shouldn't be bothered. You seem to think it's necessary to just accept that that's ok, which I can't understand

Drew Habits @habits.bsky.social · 17h

I think expecting people to care about others is a pretty reasonable standard, even if most people would rather not meet that standard

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Drew Habits @habits.bsky.social · 17h

Both of these posts are answers to questions I didn't ask

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