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Bill Thompson

@billcubbieblue.bsky.social
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Father, husband, Critical Care Paramedic, communist (of the council variety), union member, Wobbly, and baseball lover. I write about unaffiliated baseball for Words Above Replacement and movies at Bill's Movie Emporium.

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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 8h
Example #1,000,000,000 of how zionists choose willful ignorance of what their ideology actually means and why it's important to push back against zionism in totality.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Made ice cream today that ended up being 317 calories and 53 grams of protein for a pint. Sometimes, life is good.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@klaxoncomms.com Listening to your Canticle for Leibowitz EP and in the beginning you voice a distaste for Robert Heinlein's work. As someone who read Heinlein when he was young then didn't read almost any fiction for like 25 years before getting back into it, would you be willing to share why?
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"The dictatorship of a party is the form in which the dictatorship of the proletariat is actually prevented." (Jan Appel)
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It feels like there's a group of people who look at how AI is literally burning up the planet while exploiting marginalized people and say, "I don't give a fuck, give me that AI slop." Those people are fucking morons who deserve to be publicly skewered.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He's a social democrat and this is the definition of how social democracy works, not socialism.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Another doozy of a month,
Books I read in September, 2026.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Jesus, you lot are pathetic. He ran in an election, if you wanted his votes you should have sucked less to get them. To treat him as a pariah because he engaged in the same sort of democracy that you love and champion everywhere else is the height of liberal idiocy.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One day MLB will realize that people just want baseball and not dumb gimmicky shit that desecrates a grand site. Or, we'll get lucky and the people will realize we don't need MLB to get baseball.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@betterreadpod.bsky.social Man, I just stumbled across your pod this week, and I've loved every ep I've listened to. Sucks that you're not a thing anymore, cause y'all are great.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The ABL being on MLB TV is both good and problematic. I continue to support increased visibility for all unaffiliated leagues, but I will always rail against the baseball hegemony MLB is trying to build, and any association by an unaffiliated league with MLB supports that goal.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Been on a med for a few years. Suddenly my health insurance needs prior authorization. Doc provides it only for United to say they won't cover my med, but I can go through a third party, which they conveniently own, who will cover the cost as long as I use their mail order pharmacy. Fuck capitalism.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Vote blue, no matter who.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Nah, it's not. There's no two state solution. The occupying apartheid state needs to be gone.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Choosing Clinton lying about an affair over him destroying unions and the economy with NAFTA or Biden for running again over him murdering who knows how many with his removal of COVID era safeguards and ignoring of an active genocide are insane choices.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I'm of two minds on this. She's right that physical fitness from the proletariat is subverted by the bourgeoise to serve their needs. But, at the same time I believe in the idea of proletarian fitness to live our best lives and to fight when the time comes. The attacks against her are stupid though.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
God, I love unaffiliated baseball!
Chicago Dogs hat.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
May be even worse in EMS education, where it's nonstop products being shoved at you as a teacher that per your institution, "you need to use, you'll love it" only for it to be some hackneyed bullshit that makes teaching more difficult. It's not all AI, but it's definitely gotten worse with AI.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Nothing to add, it was also this. No one goes as hard as Vegeta.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Coyote vs Acme was tremendous, in a lot of different ways.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The article may not be saying, "Fuck Driveline." But, I will always say, fuck, Driveline.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Think twice before you weep for the loss of this class traitor.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
@cacomixpod.bsky.social Question for you, if you have the time. Any general comic book podcasts you recommend? I can't read like I used to, but I'd like to keep up with general happenings, but so far I haven't found anything that is like that. Thanks.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
August was another good month.
Collage of books I finished in August.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Yet folks will still vote for Dems and support them as the "lesser evil" because they enjoy being led to slaughter by bourgeois ghouls like Jeffries.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Muscle Milk protein shakes are among the worst I've ever tried. Shouldn't have to shake the motherfuckers until my arms ready to fall off only to be met with a bland as fuck clotted cream shake.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Reading Fellowship of the Ring for the first time. Folks, Tom Bombadil, I think I really hate this guy.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
He killed a mass murderer, that shouldn't spark outrage in anyone.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Finished Gun Man. Next up,
Cover to The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Finished Party and Class. Next pamphlet up,
Title page to Marking Out the Foundations by Amadeo Bordiga
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Finished Socialism and Nation. Next pamphlet up,
Title page to Party and Class by Amadeo Bordiga
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Finished The Hobbit. Next up,
Cover to Gun Man by Loren D. Estleman
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Finished The Historical Crisis of Capital and "Our" Theory of Imperialism. Next pamphlet up,
Title page to Socialism and Nation by Amadeo Bordiga
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Finished Party as Articulator. Next pamphlet up,
Title page to The Historical Crisis of Capital and "Our" Theory of Imperialism by The Solar Collective
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Articles like this show how little people understand about modern 911 dispatching. With the way ProQA is structured, the majority of systems have been using the equivalent of AI for years now. The human element was removed in favor of algorithms decades ago, this is a mere continuation of that.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Passan carrying water for cheap ownership, what's new? Dude sold his soul for access a long time ago. As for the Brewers, as a Mikwaukeean, they have the entire fan base convinced it's them versus the world. Reporting like this just feeds into the, "we're just wittle guys, doing our best" bullshit.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Finished Astro City: MetroBook 1. Next up,
Cover to The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Example number infinity of how Dems are as awful as they come.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Finished Victorian Psycho. Next up,
Cover to Astro City: MetroBook 1 by Kurt Busiek and Brent E. Anderson
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The full throated racism of liberals is honestly more concerning than that of conservatives, because at least conservatives recognize they are terrible people and own it.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
9 year old just described her favorite type of mystery book and I really can't wait for her to discover Agatha Christie.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Finished Murder on the Orient Express. Next up,
Cover to Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today I learned that calling out a genocidaire for being a genocidaire is divisive as opposed to what it actually is: holding people accountable and refusing to vote for a god damn genocidaire.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Father-in-law gifted me his entire The Wheel of Time collection, including a The World of The Wheel of Time source book.
Whole lotta books
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Finished Revolution Against the State: The Context and Significance of Marx's Later Writings. Next pamphlet up,
Title page to Party as Articulator by Salar Mohandesi
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Finished Six of Crows. Next up,
Cover to Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Another decent month.
Books I read in the month of July, 2026.
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Finished Economics, Politics and the Age of Inflation. Next up,
Cover to Russia: Revolution and Counter Revolution, 1917-1924 - A View from the Communist Left by Jock Domnic
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Finished Practical Reflexivity in Marx. Next pamphlet up,
Title page to Revolution Against the State: The Context and Significance of Marx's Later Writings by Derek Sayer & Philip Corrigan
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Bill Thompson @billcubbieblue.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
@cacomixpod.bsky.social Question for you. Lately I've been listening to a fair amount of talk about AI in novels, has it's usage become common in comics as well? Are there all kinds of niche and self-published comics that are entirely written by AI, like there are in the book publishing world?
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