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Fils de Cœur de Lion

@gregpf4.bsky.social
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scientist, outdoorsman, life enthusiast

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Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What increasingly keeps me up at night is that Trump's pattern of "If I can't have it, I will destroy it" likely applies to the whole world.
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Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Trump regime isn't just evil. They are anti-good. They actively go out of their way to punish those seeking to do good. That's a new level of depravity that I can't think of a historical comparison for. Plenty of regimes have been far more murderous, but none this spiteful or petty.
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Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Flock Cameras look exactly like Combine tech in Half Life 2. Take from that what you will.
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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We have more technology, more productive capacity and more wealth than any civilisation in history. Yet we are exhausted, insecure, in debt, struggling to afford homes, food and energy, while a tiny minority accumulate more than they could spend in a thousand lifetimes. We. Are. Being. Robbed.
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Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Its so exhausting to constantly have to devise good-faith arguments that can anticipate and withstand bad-faith critiques.
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Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Its so strange to be in the time when elderly people have color photos of themselves when they were children. For a long while, that black and white/color transition was a stark generational divide.
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Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Discouraging seeing the smug reactions about Platner from fellow progressives. We deserve better candidates who have been vetted more carefully, and we need to find a replacement, but this is bad. It hurts our chances of unseating Collins and taking control of the Senate and saving our democracy.
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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The Vandal Follow my cartoons and accompanying written commentary on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com For @rawstory.com
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Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Let's have a do-over and call the 250th anniversary of the US June 21, 2038--250 years after the Constitution was ratified by all 13 original states and the US came into being as a Government.
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Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The thing about living in a failing empire is that the decline can last for hundreds of years, without resolution or catharsis, just an endless series of crises and lowering of expectations and standards, with low key bad vibes the whole time.
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Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
We should give every person running for public office and every political appointee the Voight-Kampff test.
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Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Trump's continual "changing his mind" also serves as a reminder that there is no longer any coherent US foreign policy or set of strategic goals. Its all just the whims of one careless, bored man. Its an authoritarian flex.
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Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Sometimes I am hopeful, thinking about Japan and Germany's postwar revivals, that we will come out of this and be a flourishing democracy again. But then I remember that the US was the architect of those reforms, and there is nobody who will have the same power and influence to do the same for us.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Happy Birthday David Attenborough! From the earliest days of television, to controller of BBC2, to bringing the wonders, beauty and fragility of the natural world to our eyes & attention - you’re a legend! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Lindsey Rachev @lrachev.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
NASA reminded us all that, even in the darkest of times, our flag is still there. 🇺🇸 ❤️
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PhillipUSA @phillipusa.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I hate him.
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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 07/04/2026
We have been saying this for a year now: STOP PRESCRIBING ACTIONS TO THEM IN ADVANCE. If we say things like "they'll never impeach!" that *gives them permission* to never do it. Don't obey in advance. Don't prescribe their actions in advance. Demand better of them. Be relentless.
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Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
No matter your beliefs, Good Friday serves as a reminder of the injustice, cruelty, and inhumanity that reigns in the absence of conscience and empathy. It is the default state of the world, and it is our shared moral duty to constantly work for something better.
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Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Chrono Cross is the first Squaresoft game that I quit. I finally reached the end, wasn't nearly strong enough to beat final boss, and I just can't bring myself to go back to the arcane set of elaborate multi character fetch quests to get better gear. Its just not fun. I really wanted it to be.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I don’t think there is ever a great time for humanity to turn our future over to a set of intelligent machines, but I know that doing so while the globe is dominated by an Epstein Class of anti-human fascists is definitely the worst time.
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Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Distraction from the Epstein Files or depraved nihilistic sadism, both are plausible and entirely sufficient to explain the evil Trump is unleashing on the world. Nothing is beyond these people. And they will never stop of their own accord.
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Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Happy 40th birthday to the Legend of Zelda. The greatest Christmas present I have ever received. If you were 7 years old in 1986, this was pure magic. And I'm grateful to be somebody for who the magic stayed.
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Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
"I felt like Good wasn't working well enough for me, so I switched to Evil" is one hell of an admission a lot of people seem comfortable making.
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Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
"Reading between the lines" doesn't mean you shouldn't also, like, read the actual lines.
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Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
One of the biggest problems is that people with money only seem to want to use it to get more money. Nothing else works like that.
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Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
It turns out that Final Fantasy VI held the most important political lesson of my life: just because someone is a ridiculous clown doesn't mean they aren't also a nihilistic, sadistic monster. And they don't need a reason to burn the world to the ground, they'll do it for amusement alone.
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The Devil @iamdevil.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Not normal.
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Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
It turns out that having and standing by principles, rather than just being strategic, is actually a really good strategy.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 25/01/2026
“Please get the truth out about our son.” Read and share the statement from the parents of Alex Pretti, the VA ICU nurse who was shot and killed by border patrol.
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Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
They are liars to the core. They murder the truth. And its a shockingly short distance to murdering their fellow human beings, because without the truth, nothing matters. There is no wrong or right, or good or evil. They will lose. But the price to us all is getting steeper every day.
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Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
2020: "I don't know why you were are all so worried about the toddler with the handgun, he keeps missing everyone so far!" 2026: "Well what were you expecting if you let a toddler have a handgun!?!"
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Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Maybe its selfish, but I don't care about the current sorry state of the gaming industry, because I have such a huge backlog of excellent games, mods, and homebrews that even if another game never came out, I won't get through my current library during my lifetime.
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Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Abolishing ICE doesn't mean not having any immigration enforcement. It means realizing that the current agency is terminally compromised and needs to be replaced in its entirety. Reform isn't enough.
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Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
It is never "too late" to defeat fascism. In fact, their defeat is inevitable. It is only that the costs of doing so continue to rise, and they can rise catastrophically high.
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Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
"But what if we gave the biggest toddler in the world the biggest gun in the world?"
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Maria Shriver, niece of JFK: He was a man interested in the arts, culture, education, language, history... It is beyond comprehension that the president has sought to rename this great memorial. C’mon my fellow Americans! Wake up! This is not dignified. This is not funny... It’s downright weird.
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shaunofthedead.bsky.social @shaunofthedead.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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Cliff Pervocracy @pervocracy.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
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EDC🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇰🇨🇦🇦🇺🇵🇹🇩🇪🇮🇹🇫🇮🇸🇪 @simplyedc.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and moral, then it’s not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power. - Dwight Eisenhower
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Eric Gordy @ericgordy.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), p. 333
“To this aversion of the intellectual elite for official historiography, to its conviction that history, which was a forgery anyway, might as well be the playground of crackpots, must be added the terrible, demoralizing fascination in the possibility that gigantic lies and monstrous falsehoods can eventually be established as unquestioned facts, that man may be free to change his own past at will, and the difference between truth and falsehood may cease to be objective and become a mere matter of power and cleverness, of pressure and infinite repetition.”
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders. What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
At this point, impeachment and removal would be a mercy.
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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Notice the official framing of the swastika-lenient policy as "potentially divisive" suggests that hate symbols are the cause of division rather than the expression of it.
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Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I'm beginning to think that in the Boy Who Cried Wolf, there was, in fact a wolf every time, but nobody wanted to deal with it.
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Fils de Cœur de Lion @gregpf4.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
If a swastika isn't a hate symbol, then what is?
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
"... A swastika is one of the most clear definitional and most violent symbols of hatred in all of humanity, let alone in the United States, and so to remove that from designation ... is quite shocking and it indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements ..." Rep. AOC
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/11/2025
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 05/11/2025
I think a lot of people have been noticing this over the past couple years but courage and conviction wins people over. Drawing lines and plotting indifference curves to figure out what you believe in turns them off
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless. Remember this.
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