Lyric
@sonatanote.bsky.social
Clef and co! Musings about whatever I feel like, but probably dice. 29, They/Them.
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the tension between the "this is not who we are" set vs the "this is exactly who we are" set (tabling the "who do you mean we" thing for now) i do think misses out on the "who we pretend to be" angle. i do think it's probably at least somewhat bad that we've completely stopped pretending
January 22, 2026 at 3:17 PM
the tension between the "this is not who we are" set vs the "this is exactly who we are" set (tabling the "who do you mean we" thing for now) i do think misses out on the "who we pretend to be" angle. i do think it's probably at least somewhat bad that we've completely stopped pretending
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Nekima Levy Armstrong is a former President of the Minneapolis NAACP. She was also a candidate for Mayor of Minneapolis in 2017, finishing in 5th place with 15% of the vote. (1/2)
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday said FBI and Homeland Security agents arrested Minneapolis civil rights activist Nekima Levy Armstrong in connection with the disruption of a church service on Sunday.
Minnesota activist arrested after church protest, U.S. attorney general says
Bondi in a post on X said Armstrong played a “key role in organizing” the interruption at Cities Church in St. Paul.
bit.ly
January 22, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Nekima Levy Armstrong is a former President of the Minneapolis NAACP. She was also a candidate for Mayor of Minneapolis in 2017, finishing in 5th place with 15% of the vote. (1/2)
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This should be boosted regardless if you're anywhere near Minnesota. Since organizing general strikes is something that should already be on the minds of Americans across the entire country, might as well talk about and support any where they may be popping up.
A major coalition is launching a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow, aimed at pushing out ICE.
It includes:
-Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005
-The MN AFL-CIO
-SEIU Local 26
-UNITE HERE Local 17
-CWA Local 7250
-Saint Paul and Minneapolis Federations of Educators
-Faith leaders
And more. 🧵
It includes:
-Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005
-The MN AFL-CIO
-SEIU Local 26
-UNITE HERE Local 17
-CWA Local 7250
-Saint Paul and Minneapolis Federations of Educators
-Faith leaders
And more. 🧵
January 22, 2026 at 4:29 PM
This should be boosted regardless if you're anywhere near Minnesota. Since organizing general strikes is something that should already be on the minds of Americans across the entire country, might as well talk about and support any where they may be popping up.
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For real, any of y'all in the path of this who aren't used to extreme cold, wind chills like this are serious. Cover your face as best you can, have decent gloves and socks (or hand and feet warmers), and make sure to layer up if you're going out.
- A Midwesterner who's worked in those temps before
- A Midwesterner who's worked in those temps before
January 22, 2026 at 5:12 PM
For real, any of y'all in the path of this who aren't used to extreme cold, wind chills like this are serious. Cover your face as best you can, have decent gloves and socks (or hand and feet warmers), and make sure to layer up if you're going out.
- A Midwesterner who's worked in those temps before
- A Midwesterner who's worked in those temps before
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In which I talk at length about how games are made here in the RRD swamp, and the difficulties of making our next one be about pirates www.patreon.com/posts/148772...
GETTING SALTY ABOUT IT: DESIGNING THE NEXT RESISTANCE GAME | Grant Howitt
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January 21, 2026 at 6:05 PM
In which I talk at length about how games are made here in the RRD swamp, and the difficulties of making our next one be about pirates www.patreon.com/posts/148772...
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Thinking about how bsky has the most horrible setting turned on by default that says "i don't want to see any other languages except English" and if no one tells you to put it on "no selection" you straight up won't see posts from people set to different languages on your TL.
And if you feel like it's getting worse, yes, it is. Non US traffic here is minimal. And criticising it, you get "skill issue" or "it's not an echo chamber!"
January 21, 2026 at 3:42 AM
Thinking about how bsky has the most horrible setting turned on by default that says "i don't want to see any other languages except English" and if no one tells you to put it on "no selection" you straight up won't see posts from people set to different languages on your TL.
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Good luck with that.
January 21, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Good luck with that.
It's an angry-pump-up-music kind of day
Any reccomendations from the crowd?
Any reccomendations from the crowd?
January 21, 2026 at 4:39 PM
It's an angry-pump-up-music kind of day
Any reccomendations from the crowd?
Any reccomendations from the crowd?
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I have been told that this undercover ICE agent tried to get observers to scan a QR code “for his website”. The QR code did not resolve to a link.
DO NOT SCAN UNKNOWN QR CODES FROM STRANGERS.
This is a massive security risk! Bad things can happen to you if you do it!
Stay frosty, friends.
DO NOT SCAN UNKNOWN QR CODES FROM STRANGERS.
This is a massive security risk! Bad things can happen to you if you do it!
Stay frosty, friends.
Every day some story breaks me some. Today it’s the guy who approached parents at a school patrol, told them he was with Indivisible, and asked about how the patrol system works. The parents gave vague answers, followed him back to his car — and of course it was ICE.
January 21, 2026 at 3:29 PM
I have been told that this undercover ICE agent tried to get observers to scan a QR code “for his website”. The QR code did not resolve to a link.
DO NOT SCAN UNKNOWN QR CODES FROM STRANGERS.
This is a massive security risk! Bad things can happen to you if you do it!
Stay frosty, friends.
DO NOT SCAN UNKNOWN QR CODES FROM STRANGERS.
This is a massive security risk! Bad things can happen to you if you do it!
Stay frosty, friends.
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If you're only reading headlines and see "Trump Says He Won't Use Force" it will give you a misimpression of both how bellicose this speech is and how dug in he is on Greenland.
January 21, 2026 at 2:16 PM
If you're only reading headlines and see "Trump Says He Won't Use Force" it will give you a misimpression of both how bellicose this speech is and how dug in he is on Greenland.
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I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 1:57 AM
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
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hey I like that we're all posting thru it but I also wanted to say, in case anybody else is feeling it, that I'm pretty scared and genuinely think that we've passed a real rubicon in the past week or so and that being at the mercy of a handful of dumbfuck lunatics really does a number on your soul.
January 20, 2026 at 8:54 PM
hey I like that we're all posting thru it but I also wanted to say, in case anybody else is feeling it, that I'm pretty scared and genuinely think that we've passed a real rubicon in the past week or so and that being at the mercy of a handful of dumbfuck lunatics really does a number on your soul.
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periodic reminder that this account is one of the worst engagement farmers on here and X—which is saying a lot I know—and you're better off ignoring their exaggerated, bait-y aggregations
(the Bloomberg story does not say "may," this is merely speculative analysis based on a few stray comments)
(the Bloomberg story does not say "may," this is merely speculative analysis based on a few stray comments)
BREAKING: Europe may begin selling U.S. assets in response to a new conflict with the US, a move that could trigger a dollar collapse, per Bloomberg.
January 20, 2026 at 6:37 PM
periodic reminder that this account is one of the worst engagement farmers on here and X—which is saying a lot I know—and you're better off ignoring their exaggerated, bait-y aggregations
(the Bloomberg story does not say "may," this is merely speculative analysis based on a few stray comments)
(the Bloomberg story does not say "may," this is merely speculative analysis based on a few stray comments)
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1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees
ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
🧵
ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
popular.info
January 20, 2026 at 1:42 PM
1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees
ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
🧵
ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
🧵
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Total cave-in. Billions more to terrorize Americans and ethnically cleanse the US.
Staring at a five-alarm fire, Democrats work up a good mouthful of spit.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Democrats Support Bill That Would Give ICE $10 Billion
The party has few good options for restraining ICE, which is flush with cash thanks to the passage of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill.
www.huffpost.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Total cave-in. Billions more to terrorize Americans and ethnically cleanse the US.
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Important perspective from Greenland.
January 20, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Important perspective from Greenland.
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if you live in maryland please be aware: ICE has access to md's drivers licensing system. they are using our licenses to find matches in their facial recognition systems and pulling our addresses.
please share, it's urgent
please share, it's urgent
ICE has banged on my door twice in the past 24 hours, screaming at me thru the window. i have safely sent my child off to her grandparents. i am not suicidal. i am physically disabled and unarmed. i'm in baltimore county. they have been spotted all across MD. be safe.
January 20, 2026 at 9:24 AM
if you live in maryland please be aware: ICE has access to md's drivers licensing system. they are using our licenses to find matches in their facial recognition systems and pulling our addresses.
please share, it's urgent
please share, it's urgent
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If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status.
Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487
Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487
January 19, 2026 at 7:23 PM
If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status.
Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487
Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487
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I don't know how to tell people that coding and game development, like everything else, aren't inherent talents. A lot of people say "I could never do that," but literally the only thing stopping you is yourself. You COULD do that, you just have to learn.
January 19, 2026 at 4:49 PM
I don't know how to tell people that coding and game development, like everything else, aren't inherent talents. A lot of people say "I could never do that," but literally the only thing stopping you is yourself. You COULD do that, you just have to learn.
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US politicians just seem to bedrock believe that americans care about absolutely nothing except their own selfish interests, and that appealing to their sense of decency ever in any way is a losing proposition and you should never do it.
January 19, 2026 at 6:25 AM
US politicians just seem to bedrock believe that americans care about absolutely nothing except their own selfish interests, and that appealing to their sense of decency ever in any way is a losing proposition and you should never do it.
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PMG won the Knickerbocker Award for Best Games Journalism last night at the @nyvgcc.bsky.social!
It feels like we've come such a long way since we first launched this thing nearly eight years ago, but winning a journalism award at an event in NEW YORK CITY still seems totally mad to me.
It feels like we've come such a long way since we first launched this thing nearly eight years ago, but winning a journalism award at an event in NEW YORK CITY still seems totally mad to me.
January 19, 2026 at 9:54 AM
PMG won the Knickerbocker Award for Best Games Journalism last night at the @nyvgcc.bsky.social!
It feels like we've come such a long way since we first launched this thing nearly eight years ago, but winning a journalism award at an event in NEW YORK CITY still seems totally mad to me.
It feels like we've come such a long way since we first launched this thing nearly eight years ago, but winning a journalism award at an event in NEW YORK CITY still seems totally mad to me.
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Establishment Dems responding to the threatened annexation of Greenland by messaging about cost of living issues really don’t understand that to Europeans it looks like they either don’t see this as a crisis or are tacitly in favor of it. 1/x
January 19, 2026 at 4:35 AM
Establishment Dems responding to the threatened annexation of Greenland by messaging about cost of living issues really don’t understand that to Europeans it looks like they either don’t see this as a crisis or are tacitly in favor of it. 1/x
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Dangerously cold temperatures are forecast to impact the north-central to northeastern United States over the next few days. Be sure to wear warm clothing if outdoors and know what to do if someone might have frostbite or hypothermia. 🥶
January 18, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Dangerously cold temperatures are forecast to impact the north-central to northeastern United States over the next few days. Be sure to wear warm clothing if outdoors and know what to do if someone might have frostbite or hypothermia. 🥶
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still criminal that the 1000xresist soundtrack didn't get more recognition. it's a masterpiece sunsetvisitor.bandcamp.com
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An independent video game studio based in Vancouver, Canada. Dedicated to telling diverse stories through the lens of speculative fiction.
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January 16, 2026 at 9:08 AM
still criminal that the 1000xresist soundtrack didn't get more recognition. it's a masterpiece sunsetvisitor.bandcamp.com
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NEW VIDEO ALERT:
230 games came out on Steam the first week of 2026. I looked at every page to see what I could learn about the state of Steam. It made me feel like I was dying.
youtu.be/Yjf-GPp3n5k
230 games came out on Steam the first week of 2026. I looked at every page to see what I could learn about the state of Steam. It made me feel like I was dying.
youtu.be/Yjf-GPp3n5k
January 16, 2026 at 6:31 PM
NEW VIDEO ALERT:
230 games came out on Steam the first week of 2026. I looked at every page to see what I could learn about the state of Steam. It made me feel like I was dying.
youtu.be/Yjf-GPp3n5k
230 games came out on Steam the first week of 2026. I looked at every page to see what I could learn about the state of Steam. It made me feel like I was dying.
youtu.be/Yjf-GPp3n5k