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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled

@essencewarden.bsky.social
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It's Mike. I wish I only talked about tabletop games, writing, and comic books (and tea), but politics keep happening. I like He/Him, and I like She/Her, and I don't like Twitter anymore.

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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 2h
Coyote vs Acme was fine. I mean, I liked it. It wasn't amazing, but it didn't have to be, and it always should have just been released. The messages and acting were better than the actual plot progression.
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 10h
"Does he know?"
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 11h
Without guessing why, here's what I've observed: People (in the USA, at least, which is what I can speak to) felt social pressure not to make trouble in public. Somehow, it became clear that there are no real consequences for making trouble, so people stopped checking themselves.
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 13h
Finally tried to watch BIG MISTAKES, and like ... *every decision these characters make is frustrating*. So frustrating that I cannot finish this. Somehow, this is more frustrating than BEEF.
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 13h
"Incumbent president keeps on doing things he knows makes voters mad, tells voters to suck it up when confronted with their anger" is both an absolutely insane way to do politics and, bc of that insanity, is likely gonna produce a map of results that is unfamiliar to us compared to past results
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 16h
I find it so hard to morally bridge the gap between - No state or entity should be given permission to kill a person and - The entire planet would be better off if its ruiners were no longer alive Two ideas I put about an equal amount of stock into
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 16h
I remember answering the phone at work in like 2008 and a truck driver goes, "The road I was supposed to take has a low bridge. How else do I get there to deliver?" Dark ages.
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 16h
I imagine if cancer ran attack ads about chemo, most hosts would still vote for chemotherapy.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Excellent descriptor of Roman Catholicism tbh
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled for the first time that a Flock search was unconstitutional and violated a woman's Fourth Amendment rights. Oklahoma cop pulled over a woman and searched her in Flock "because he saw her license plate was from California" www.404media.co/federal-judg...
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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
People criticizing Pope Leo for blessing the White Sox but the last Pope Leo gave a special Papal medal to the guy who invented wine with cocaine in it. We just have to accept that Popes Leo like to party.
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The further adventures of "My Neighbors Elected Gutter Racists, Largely On Purpose"
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Starting a conspiracy theory where the Netflix sound is saying Bidoof and there were originally supposed to be all these Bidoof tie-ins, and then there was this huge falling-out between The Pokemon Company and Netflix that they're all still seething about to this very day
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Finally just turned off autocorrect and autocap out of spite. This is either going to go very well for me, or you're about to read some weird, weird shit.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
also, this shit is just run-of-the-mill segregationist ideology. the substance of keeperman and rufo's discussion is identical to the infamous line from the trial judge in loving v. virginia
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I get angry and/or joyful regularly, but I (rarely) get sad -- and when I do, I get *sad*. Like a minecart on track that won't stop until the track ends somewhere. Well, I'm in the cart. And it's fine; I know the track ends somewhere. But this fucking mine is *deep*. And regulations are lax.
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is so many guys Rotten players should have been / need to be Reverse Rudy'd by the people employed by the team gross enough to keep them on the roster.
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I have this quote, among others, hanging above my desk at work.
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Unsanctioned Buffoonery (Dan) @offtheupright.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The way I always say it is these are not low-trust people, but instead of putting appropriate amounts of trust into many people they put an insane amount of trust into a tiny handful of people who do not deserve it.
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Billy @billygomila.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Research" has unfortunately meant "Google until I find a result that confirms my priors" for a long time now
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don’t trust the mainstream media, but I feel like the primary alternate model, getting the news from the posts of a 14 year-old Romanian schizophrenic shitposter named “G00n3R the Swamp Pervert,” is not necessarily a superior alternative.
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I don't get how we have no mechanism for punishing attempts to try every nuisance lawsuit in your imagination to become a dictator. I don't mean impeachment. I mean a self-executing law. I get that we don't have those really in the USA, but hey, we ought to for this one.
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cool! For the first time in a while, we've hit the "If I post, or even read, *anything* else today, it will not go well for me" threshold. Take care of yourselves.
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Suzzi @suzzisulli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Historians will never believe that the once powerful American military was run by a failed Fox News host and he hired 3 rich, white men who had never served to be in charge of “the future of warfare”. What a fucking joke! #Blues
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g.h. kirsch @gh-kirsch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Let me see if I've got this right. The team of lawyers who stole an election in Florida, and gave W the presidency, are now the Scotus team at the center of the GOP theft of our democracy.
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My partner and I don't have a car (I don't drive or bike), and when we take the bus or a Lyft or walk through and visit spots in, say, more than one neighborhood in one weekend, the folks at work tell me, "Whoa, you guys are always busy."
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
END THE FUCKING DEATH PENALTY
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The circumstances are *awful*, but the AEW show tonight that some of my friends are at is legendary. RIP the Bastard. Up the wrestlers. What a night. And it's only like 2/3 done.
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My partner is *perplexed* that my BlueSky feed only told me about the Cornell rapists two days ago and not (apparently) several years ago. I don't really know how to respond to that.
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I honestly forgot, this was the part of that bill that a lot of us were waiting for, because it's going to fuck large numbers of people as a self-own October Surprise.
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Both of those movies kinda suck shit and also this is true. Into Darkness was a fucking *failure*
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
No matter who you are or what you want: If you vote for a candidate on the basis that you believe they will do only the things you want, *that will not happen* Politicians have agency. Elect a piece of shit with shit for brains and a heart of lead, you get whatever they excrete.
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Google AI's impression of my Twitter handle is "a Magic: the Gathering player or fan who famously interacted with Mark Rosewater in 2011." And that mostly false factoid is, genuinely, more recognition than I expected to have attached to my name. Not sure what to do with that.
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Barack Obama and a bunch of otherwise abhorrent Blue Dogs made a gig lifestyle possible without incurring a lifetime of crushing debt.
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Organic exchange of ideas and viewpoints pales in comparison to *my* social media strategy of being witnessed by bloodbags (my followers)."
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most labor-intensive project of the year, support staff quit, boss is away and can't help, the free coffee tastes awful and I can't buy better coffee for two hours. Hank-Williams-ass day
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Like, we would literally be better off if we simply did not have a president after Biden's term expired and shit just went on autopilot.
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Frat contacts privilege putting ghouls into positions of power gets my fucking bile up like little else.
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When can I go into the supermarket and buy what I need with Expressive Julie Newmar Faces?
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wish you could block people physically. Like, I'd hit the Block button, and they'd bounce back, startled, while trying to walk into the kitchen or something.
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm weirdly happy that there's even one The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis GIF
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Dobie Gillis & Dwayne Hickman: Rejection Scene
ALT: Dobie Gillis & Dwayne Hickman: Rejection Scene
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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We already have all the smart cool people on our side and it’s not enough to win, we need those other ones too
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jaykwonovich.bsky.social @jaykwonovich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I want him woke, I want his family woke, I want his dog to have pronouns.
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No Doubt Man Pointing Down
ALT: No Doubt Man Pointing Down
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
26 years ago, in writing "The Way I Am," Eminem had more awareness of the difference between memetic "information" and the truth than *most* of This App has, and that's ... that's sad, folks.
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Related: the best Batman stories in the modern day are the ones where it's largely focused on his friends or foes going "🙄 Fuckin' Batman, right?" and doing their own thing while Batman is in it for ten minutes just like "Justice *has* no social skills 🦇 🦇"
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Theseus, His Sails Unfurled @essencewarden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Spending my lunch break cleaning up the 11-page timeline of our D&D campaign for posterity, wyd
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𝔻𝕒𝕟 🏈🍻💀 @danmynrd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
will cinemasins and its accolytes ever answer for thier many crimes
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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There are more Cornell frat boys accused of raping one woman than there are trans athletes competing in all of NCAA sports.
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