Glowballist
@glowballist.bsky.social
Freakin' Rican 🇺🇲🇵🇷
History nerd, gamer, swordfighter, working on Latin (pretty good) and Ancient Greek (ehh)
History nerd, gamer, swordfighter, working on Latin (pretty good) and Ancient Greek (ehh)
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Glowballist
@glowballist.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Introducing myself:
Politically social liberal
Interests:
📜 History
🏛️ Classical languages (Latin and Greek)
⚔️ HEMA
🔫 Guns and weaponry (esp historical)
🤠 Historical reenactment
🎮 Videogames
Politically social liberal
Interests:
📜 History
🏛️ Classical languages (Latin and Greek)
⚔️ HEMA
🔫 Guns and weaponry (esp historical)
🤠 Historical reenactment
🎮 Videogames
When a mod is a 100% improvement over the original in every single way
February 4, 2026 at 9:07 PM
When a mod is a 100% improvement over the original in every single way
GOP branding is insane. Trump all but destroyed NATO cooperation and still +8 on national security, +1 on foreign policy!
"Who do you trust more on..."
🔴 National Security: R+8
🔴 Immigration: R+7
🔴 Trade: R+3
🔴 Debt: R+3
🔴 Foreign Policy: R+1
🔴 Taxes: R+1
🟣 Economy: Tie
🔵 Energy: D+4
🔵 Healthcare: D+11
🔵 Medicare: D+11
🔵 Abortion: D+15
🔵 LGBTQ: D+27
Morning Consult / Jan 25, 2026
🔴 National Security: R+8
🔴 Immigration: R+7
🔴 Trade: R+3
🔴 Debt: R+3
🔴 Foreign Policy: R+1
🔴 Taxes: R+1
🟣 Economy: Tie
🔵 Energy: D+4
🔵 Healthcare: D+11
🔵 Medicare: D+11
🔵 Abortion: D+15
🔵 LGBTQ: D+27
Morning Consult / Jan 25, 2026
January 27, 2026 at 6:59 PM
GOP branding is insane. Trump all but destroyed NATO cooperation and still +8 on national security, +1 on foreign policy!
Remember, patriots: We have faced worse odds before.
January 27, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Remember, patriots: We have faced worse odds before.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Source: Norton, Mary Beth; 1774: The Long Year of Revolution; page xviii
January 26, 2026 at 1:06 PM
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Source: Norton, Mary Beth; 1774: The Long Year of Revolution; page xviii
Now that I have had time to dwell on it, Expedition 33 is in my top 5 favorite games, and the OST is #1, finally beating my beloved Xenogears for music.
June 2, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Now that I have had time to dwell on it, Expedition 33 is in my top 5 favorite games, and the OST is #1, finally beating my beloved Xenogears for music.
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Drives me up a wall seeing the right wingers who completely reject the “city on a hill” ethos claim to be pro “American exceptionalism.” It’s total opposition to everything that makes America special just wrapped in the stars & stripes to distract the rubes
May 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Drives me up a wall seeing the right wingers who completely reject the “city on a hill” ethos claim to be pro “American exceptionalism.” It’s total opposition to everything that makes America special just wrapped in the stars & stripes to distract the rubes
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and that is a problem for like the Bernie Sanders theory of change, where you turn out the huge population of disgruntled nonvoters and win big. these people are plainly not just waiting for social democracy
May 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
and that is a problem for like the Bernie Sanders theory of change, where you turn out the huge population of disgruntled nonvoters and win big. these people are plainly not just waiting for social democracy
Can confirm; my 7 year old showed me all this today.
May 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Can confirm; my 7 year old showed me all this today.
E33: The thought crossed my mind of how Act 2 would end, but I can't believe the mad lads actually did it.
May 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
E33: The thought crossed my mind of how Act 2 would end, but I can't believe the mad lads actually did it.
🟩 Beaten
🟨 Played partially
🟨 Played partially
May 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
🟩 Beaten
🟨 Played partially
🟨 Played partially
I want to participate in Expedition 33 discourse while it is still relevant but I don't want to be spoiled because I still haven't finished the game. The working gamer's dilemma.
May 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I want to participate in Expedition 33 discourse while it is still relevant but I don't want to be spoiled because I still haven't finished the game. The working gamer's dilemma.
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you're literally expected to have counterintuitive, savvy, contrarian views, and people get extraordinarily angry if you say "nah I think the obvious thing you've always heard is right"
May 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
you're literally expected to have counterintuitive, savvy, contrarian views, and people get extraordinarily angry if you say "nah I think the obvious thing you've always heard is right"
80 years ago: "Beaten Nazis Ask for Mercy"
May 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
80 years ago: "Beaten Nazis Ask for Mercy"
What if the Cardinals are just smoking a lot of weed in there and that's where the smoke comes from?
May 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
What if the Cardinals are just smoking a lot of weed in there and that's where the smoke comes from?
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…weird how that works.
May 4, 2025 at 10:38 PM
…weird how that works.
If a religion considers vanity a virtue and empathy a sin, that religion, whatever it calls itself, is not Christianity.
Why read past headlines: Perhaps you're hip enough to have heard of this trend.
Still, I dig in and connect it to larger and troubling right-wing Christian discourse, including the claim that empathy is a "sin".
www.salon.com/2025/05/05/t...
Still, I dig in and connect it to larger and troubling right-wing Christian discourse, including the claim that empathy is a "sin".
www.salon.com/2025/05/05/t...
The "Jesus glow" trend exposes the emptiness of social media religion
Conservative Christians are hawking faith like it's the hot new beauty treatment
www.salon.com
May 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
If a religion considers vanity a virtue and empathy a sin, that religion, whatever it calls itself, is not Christianity.
People of my generation will not inherit the world we were promised. And this is after weathering two once-in-a-century recessions, student debt, and high housing costs.
It was a world historical fumble that changed the trajectory of America in a way we won't recover from in my lifetime.
Every now and then I just pause and think that … we could have just elected Kamala Harris, and we’d still have an economy that was the strongest in the world; we’d still have an American-led trans-Atlantic order; we’d be assured that our universities would remain the envy of the world; … (1/x)
April 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
People of my generation will not inherit the world we were promised. And this is after weathering two once-in-a-century recessions, student debt, and high housing costs.
Happy RIP Bozo day to all those who celebrate.
April 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Happy RIP Bozo day to all those who celebrate.
Holy shit, the strongest intro I can think of! I knew what was going to happen and I was still devastated!
April 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Holy shit, the strongest intro I can think of! I knew what was going to happen and I was still devastated!
Very appropriate timing
The second Core Expansion for Crusader Kings III, Khans of the Steppe & the free 1.16.0 “Chamfron" update are out now!
🐎 New Nomadic Government type
🧭 Migration
🤝 Confederations
🌾 Great Steppe Situation
🦅 Greatest of Khans storyline
And more!
Read the full changelog here: pdxint.at/4izB0L6
🐎 New Nomadic Government type
🧭 Migration
🤝 Confederations
🌾 Great Steppe Situation
🦅 Greatest of Khans storyline
And more!
Read the full changelog here: pdxint.at/4izB0L6
April 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Very appropriate timing
One of the reasons Millennials are to the left of where we would otherwise be given our age and income is that we were promised certain things if we followed the rules, and these have been denied to us at every stage in our adult lives.
“The constitutional settlement that once governed the United States has broken down. The world that we knew is gone.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-present-...
The Present Crisis and the End of the Long '90s
The constitutional settlement that governed America from the end of the Volcker Shock in 1982 to the re-election of Donald Trump in 2024 encompassed three profound domains: politics, economics, and cu...
www.liberalcurrents.com
April 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
One of the reasons Millennials are to the left of where we would otherwise be given our age and income is that we were promised certain things if we followed the rules, and these have been denied to us at every stage in our adult lives.
Hell of a week to have upgraded my PC.
April 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Hell of a week to have upgraded my PC.
Great article. This part in particular stuck out to me.
April 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Great article. This part in particular stuck out to me.
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