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Mike Engel

@michaelengel.bsky.social

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I like D&D and baseball and other nerdy stuff. Liberal in a red state. he/him/his

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Mike Engel @michaelengel.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hi new peeps - Sometimes I will post about wrestling, and I'll try to use #WWEngel for that. I will also sometimes post about D&D and will try to use #DNDEngel - so if you don't wanna see that nonsense, you can mute those hashtags

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Effing Candle Co.® @effingcandleco.bsky.social · 1h

Halloween is coming. Stay vigilant 😤

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Mike Engel @michaelengel.bsky.social · 2h

Listen...

мɑгκ @drumrollplease.bsky.social · 20h

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Mike Engel @michaelengel.bsky.social · 7h

heard, chef

Mike Engel @michaelengel.bsky.social · 9h

woo! Happy birthday!

a person is covering their face with their hands and says `` happy fantastic birthday ! ''

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 17h

Not even bothering to hide it anymore

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Mike Engel @michaelengel.bsky.social · 21h

ho hum what a boring typical double play. be a little more creative next time

Mike Engel @michaelengel.bsky.social · 21h

Gonna need Rockhurst University to recreate that one too.

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Mike Engel @michaelengel.bsky.social · 21h

wait what

Mike Engel @michaelengel.bsky.social · 23h

ohhhh yeah, canadian thanksgiving - my sound is off so if they were talking about that...I guess that makes sense .... sorta

Mike Engel @michaelengel.bsky.social · 23h

why are they carving a turkey during the american league championship series

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Mike Engel @michaelengel.bsky.social · 1d

ope, didn't even matter now that there's another hit

Mike Engel @michaelengel.bsky.social · 1d

that was an important strikeout #analysis

Mike Engel @michaelengel.bsky.social · 1d

is this gonna be one of Those Games?

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Mike Engel @michaelengel.bsky.social · 1d

seattle wyd

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Mike Engel @michaelengel.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a number 21 jersey is surrounded by other soccer players

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Mike Engel @michaelengel.bsky.social · 1d

two young boys are playing an arcade game and one of them is wearing a green hat .

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Mike Engel @michaelengel.bsky.social · 1d

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matthew @pahuski.com · 1d

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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Mike Engel @michaelengel.bsky.social · 1d

Ya know, I'll deal with it if that's the case

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Mike Engel @michaelengel.bsky.social · 1d

He big dumped that over the fence

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 4d

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

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Mike Engel @michaelengel.bsky.social · 2d

man they shoulda kept making the Dark Crystal series
friggin netflix

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Mike Engel @michaelengel.bsky.social · 2d

can't believe we're only halfway through this Cubs/Brewers game

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 2d

There is a line during the debate on the Declaration of Independence in "1776" when one of the more feckless congressmen argues that it would be controversial to call the king a tyrant. Jefferson's response is something like, "The king is a tyrant whether we say so or not. We might as well say so."

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 2d

Pirate Wires—founded by Peter Thiel protege Mike Solana (with an investment from Thiel— whines that Wikipedia calls Trump an “authoritarian.” 10/10/25 … 1/ www.piratewires.com/p/wikipedia-...

Wikipedia Declares Trump an Authoritarian

a single editor repeatedly inserted the same "authoritarian" framing into multiple wikipedia articles, creating an illusion

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