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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent

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Did some cool things. Now concentrating on dad stuff. I rage against the dying of the light.

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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
He’s gone full Joe Seed
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Props to Far Cry 5 also nailing the aesthetic
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We are all Meloni in this moment
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Virtuous”
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
But all of this is to be expected from a guy that salutes in this particular manner. It remains remarkable that so many spilled so much ink debating the nature and intent of this gesture.
Elon Musk giving the Nazi salute
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
His vision for a company town on Earth / company world on Mars probably borrows many of the same themes.
Watson said Black employees at Tesla experienced "rampant racism" that was left unchecked for years, and that workers referred to the factory as a "slaveship",
"the plantation" and "The Elon Slave Labor Association" - spelling out TESLA.
One Black worker told state lawyers that he heard racial slurs as often as 50-100
times a day.
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sounds like an absolute hell hole
Brett Watson, a lawyer for the California Civil Rights Department, started by showing the court a series of photographs taken throughout Tesla's Fremont factory.
There was the N-word scratched on to a grey-blue metal surface and written in black marker on a wall. "KKK", swastikas, the Confederate flag, a white supremacist logo and "go back to Africa" had also been found scrawled in bathrooms, lockers, workplace benches and lunch tables, according to court documents.
Watson listed a long string of racial epithets workers said were directed personally at them, including one incident where a Black worker said he was asked:
"You want to hang from a tree?"
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
*Tinnitus sounds*
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“JD?”
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“JD?”
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Trump has had a stroke”
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The new space cowboy lever gun designs push in that direction
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It is time for a culturally-relevant title to replace the Czars. Make the Grand Poobah a symbol of authority once again!
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
QOTD: What’s your favorite M3?
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
AI: allowing armed forces to rapidly make more bad decisions than ever before. I get trying to beat the OODA loop but there’s also such a thing as flailing and wasted effort www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
But science knows the score
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Fixed it
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Surely a coincidence. The world would be such a better place if these self-hating people figured out how to live with themselves as well balanced adults.
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ruh roh. Toronto SD and Ottawa KS had better tread lightly
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It’s easy to miss the symbolism but if you look at the shading on the knee you can just make out Christ on the cross. Otherwise it’s anybody’s guess.
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Just making up numbers
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I don’t know about Spin City, but he sure looks like he’d fit in as a villain in Frank Miller’s Sin City
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Meanwhile. The polycrisis of their own making continues to expand. www.ft.com/content/acb6...
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
LOOK AT IT. SMOKIN’! Anybody have info about what’s going on on the top deck/turret? What variant are we looking at? Is this an engineer vehicle or MRT?
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Yes.
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Canada’s unemployment rate is not 10%. It is easily verified. He. Lies. About. Everything. He. Is. Unhinged. #impeach
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
As a U.S. counterpart told me during the U.S.M.C.A. negotiations in 2018, we are 10 times bigger than you, so we should get our way 10 times more than you do. The laughably flimsy, constantly changing justifications for the president's tariffs are in fact part of the point. True power is being able to do whatever you like for whatever reason you like, or for no reason at all.
The rest of the world saw that, too, last week, when tariffs were imposed on more than 80 countries on the grounds that they were violating forced labor provisions. This from a White House that is friendlier with China than it is with its NATO allies.
You don't need to have attended meetings in the Oval Office or have a degree in international relations to see that this is what is going on. The president has been his usual, utterly transparent self.
Since Mr. Trump was elected a second time, he has repeatedly described Canada as the 51st state and our prime minister as a governor. The tariffs would not be levied, he has pointed out over and over again, if Canada were to accept absorption. After the new measures were announced this month, Mr. Trump insisted that Canada was entirely at Washington's mercy: "They need us to survive. Without us, there's no way they can survive."
As Stephen Miller, one of Mr. Trump's top advisers, explained to CNN's Jake Tapper at the beginning of this year, "We live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else, but we live in a world - in the real world, Jake - that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power."
In other words, this isn't about wine sales or how Canada manages its forests or reviving U.S. manufacturing. It's about whether Canada is prepared to accept a profound change in its relationship with the United States.
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I have never seen it summed up more concisely
Only the Trump administration would treat highly consequential economic talks with a major partner as an opportunity to dictate measures affecting that partner's national security. Trump's policy is, essentially, "We're America, bitch, so do as we say."
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Many thanks to Husqvarna for making PPE worth wearing. You saved me from a bit of a scratch today.
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Ah, that took longer than I thought
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
They get an all-expenses paid trip on account of these bad boys.
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Might have something to do with this
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
True but all evidence points to the farts being industrial grade, so the basics may not be on the most solid foundation.
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
AYFKM? I hope the folks that believed him the first time around about not vaccinating sue him for everything he’s worth. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
He’s spinning through the cycle at a high rate
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The GOAT
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
CPE Ground’s job just got a lot easier
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Grand stratergy
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I love my timeline
Screenshot of a Bluesky timeline 

Top post: “hey friend listen, I know the world is scary right now but it’s gonna get way worse” meme

Bottom post: The average sea surface temperature globally is surging to new record highs for this time of year, well above the historic warmth in 2023 and 2024. How anomalous will it get over the next year as El Niño tightens its grip?
Track the data at zacklabe.com/clim
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Donald *John* Trump
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Audie Murphy (or the vast majority of soldiers of the time) didn’t fit the bill, either.
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This rub some dirt on it attitude about concussions pisses me off. MTBI are no joke, particularly when blast-induced. The full impact may not be immediately apparent, but they will eventually bear them. Not that I expect dudebro lethality kings like Pete&Co to appreciate that.
"They are determined to get back in the fight," Parnell said of the affected service members. "The vast majority of injuries experienced were minor concussions.
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Easy peasy. Just turn the machine upside down
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The temptation must be borderline irresistible
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This is not how one leads into the future. Really worried about China overtaking America? This all but guarantees it in time. Turning America into a Cybertron of AI data centers won’t make up for it either. www.instagram.com/reel/DZ_KTN5...
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Time to bring out the ol’ head of lettuce for the Strait of Hormuz.
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Quantum payment formulas to Iran have not yet collapsed and remain entangled.
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Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Are the hyphenated and unhyphenated churches different, or is Lee just not a very good reader?
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