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The Cactus

@razorbladecactus.bsky.social
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Political Analyst, Holocaust Historian, Novelist, and recurring presence at the Ohio Renaissance Festival

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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Our government is trying to eradicate the bison herds on federal land in Montana. OUR GOVERNMENT IS ATTEMPTING TO REPEAT THE BISON EXTERMINATION COMMITTED IN THE WESTWARD GENOCIDE ON BEHALF OF BEEF COMPANIES. #america #bison #firstnationsrights #handsoff
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 14/02/2026
What’s it like to celebrate your 12th birthday in an immigrant detention center? No cake. No presents. No party. Kamilla’s parents told me they planned to buy their daughter a pack of M&Ms — among the only sweets available in the commissary — and pray they get out soon. Please read their story:
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'Even in Russia, they don't treat children like this': A family's nightmare in ICE detention
A Russian couple and their children sought asylum in the U.S. In a Texas detention center, they say they endured worms in the food and hourslong waits for medicine.
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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I think one of the most fascinating things about the Predator franchise has to be the narrative underpinning that the Yautja are inherently more honorable than humanity. Where humans in the movies often get needlessly cruel and underhanded, Yautja almost NEVER cross that line #predator #yautja
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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I've been going over the latest release of the Epstein Files, and...my gods. Those nutjobs were 100% right about there being a conspiracy of global pedophilic elites tying each other together with blackmail and evil indulgences. They were just wrong about Trump not being involved. #epstein #doj
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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Hey, really important note: they are firing Bovino, Noem, and likely Miller to convince Americans that the problem is fixed and they can stop being angry. DO NOT FALL FOR IT. The problem is Trump and ICE, not just the people in charge of ICE. #usa #minneapolis
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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
BREAKING: ICE Field Commander Bovino has reportesly been removed from his position, as per reporting from the Atlantic THEY'RE AFRAID OF US! WE ARE WINNING! #minnesota #minneapolis #ice #news
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Breaking: Republican candidate for Minnesota Governor Chris Madel drops out of the race. “I can’t look my daughters in the eye and say I’m running as a Republican, when they’re pulling over Hispanics and Asians because of the color of the skin... I did not sign up for that.”
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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
SPREAD THE BANNER OF RESISTANCE. ALL OF AMERICA STANDS BEHIND MINNESOTA #RAISETHELOON #minnesota #minneapolis #alexpretti
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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
It appears that all new videos and bulletins about Minneapolis from creators are being throttled on Tiktok today, 1/25/26. Multiple creators reporting zero views over extended periods, unable to access help center, and bulletin boards being force-closed. Oracle is censoring americans #tiktok
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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
What you need to know about Oracle buying out Tiktok. Oracle's owner, Larry Ellison, is an IDF megadonor with terrifying beliefs about how much AI should be forced into people's lives, so... (1/6)
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The Trump administration’s release of the Epstein grand jury documents are entirely redacted. It’s 119 pages of just black rectangles.
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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
open.substack.com/pub/andreasc... I've written another article! This one explores how grief is a unifying lens behind the most effective horror stories, such as Silent Hill 2 and the Descent. Check it out! #horror #media #analysis #gaming #movies #books
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Pyramid-Head, Ravens, and Car Crashes
How Tragedy Informs the Horror Stories that Linger
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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Hey, so the Trump administration created a bunch of BlueSky accounts for the sole purpose of harassing left leaning accounts. Here's a link to the full blocklist bsky.app/profile/did:... #america #usa #politics #leftsky
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down. All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown. So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 28/09/2025
Found a good post on leaflet about moss. “They’re like tiny forests” betweencollapseandbloom.leaflet.pub/3lyilstxjgc2n
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Do we want to live in a world where even moss is perceived as a threat? - Between Collapse and Bloom
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Skylight Social @skylight.social · 22/09/2025
Skylight Social’s latest update! We’ve created an FYP, featuring creator-made feeds! ⬆️Swipe up for discovery ⬅️ Swipe left (or tap right) to stay on that feed/topic Shoutouts: @richferro.com #skylightsocial #skylight
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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Hey all! I'm investing more time in my passion for writing, which means more info about the world of Parafyx coming soon! #writing #books #thecycleofthestars
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
This week, a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service broke the law when it decided not to protect gray wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains under the federal Endangered Species Act. www.humaneworld.org/en/blog/laws...
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Breaking: We’ve won our lawsuit on behalf of wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains
This week, a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service broke the law when it decided not to protect gray wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains under the federal Endangered Species A...
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Barbara Neuhoff @barbaraneuhoff.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"
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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Look, Count of Monte Cristo will always be my favorite book. But WOW there are moments in it that you want to resurrect Dumas and ask "really? That's really what you thought would make a character cooler?" YES THIS IS ABOUT HAYDEÉ #books #montecristo #fiction #writer
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
AI is not just a symptom of an unfair society, it is the symbol of it. It is designed to actively make the average Joe who uses it dumber while making the men who own it richer, consuming billions of gallons in drinkable water every year. The very *idea* of Generative AI must be slaughtered. #ai
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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Behold, the map of my fantasy series! Been working on The Cycle of the Stars for ten years and got my IP copyright filing approved with the USCO! #books #fantasy #writer
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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
The most pathetic, pitiable thing about the billionaire class is that even with all the wealth in the world, they have nothing. No burning convictions so dear they compel them to act, no great truths that they clutch to their hearts like they do gold. They are WEAKER for their wealth #eatterich
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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Ozzy's death hits hard. Joke all you want about his oddities, but the man built one of the most revolutionary genres in music with nothing but his buddies, passion, and a shit-ton of drugs. Even now, it feels fake to say he's dead. Even in death, he's an immortal legend. #ozzy #rock #metal
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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
As someone who studied and read Lovecraft extensively as an English major...the guy was NOT good at writing. He was just prolific. He borrowed from much better writers like Bierce, Chambers, and Poe without understanding anything about what made their work good.
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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
As a horror junkie, it's shocking to me how many movies I can't watch anymore now that i'm a father. Like, my god there are a LOT of movies that are very okay with horrific violence towards children in the name of genre expectation. YES, DAMIEN LEONE, I'm talking to you. #horror
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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Any government which forces toddlers to represent themselves alone in court is evil beyond forgiveness, beyond redemption, and beyond humanity.
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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Good night to everyone except: -Splatterpunk writers who use SA for shock factor -fantasy authors who write about fighting imperialism while supporting real world imperialism. - People who use generative AI for any reason. -people who think hope is an immature narrative theme. #writing
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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
What happened to Mikayla Raines, owner and operator of Save-A-Fox charity, was monstrous. There are no excuses or justifications for the sustained campaign of lies and brigading against her on social media which drove her to this.
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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
No gods No kings No dogma Only humanity Only compassion Only the love of our world.
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repugfascistrebel.bsky.social @repugfascistrebel.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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Trueharmony @trueharmony.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Brands during Pride month: 🌈 Exxon: no matter who you love, we’ll make sure your children don’t have a livable planet 🌈 Amazon: we treat all of our warehouse workers like dirt, regardless of their sexual orientation 🌈 Raytheon: our tomahawk missiles don’t discriminate
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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Happy #Pride Month. This is your reminder that LGBT+ rights were earned in the blood of fighters like Ms. Marsha P Johnson, and sometimes throwing heavy shit really does solve the problem
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Fletchgod Apocalypse @michaelrfletcher.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Also, AI is not an "accessibility aid" to art. Disabled people have been making art for centuries and not needed a machine to do it for them. Either learn your craft or admit you don't have what it takes. #ai #aiart #art #artists
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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
"But I only use AI to get ideas" then you are not creative. You are not an artist. Literally the most fundamental element of the creative process is coming up with the idea yourself. That is where we get the word "creative" from. If you cannot create, you cannot make art. #art #aiart #artists
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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The entire purpose of AI image and text generation is to produce the end product of the artistic process, without actually including any of the artistic process vital to creating the end product. It is an attempt to turn art into solely a commodity. Ergo, it is not art #aiart #art #writing #artists
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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Chief Keef could survive the eclipse, but Guts could never survive O Block #berserk #chicago
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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Kill Creek by Scott Thomas is something I wish more horror authors would be willing to do with the haunted house: namely, let the Haunted House drop bodies and actually meet the stakes set for it. #horror #books
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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
The only issue Dems need to be running on for the next 4 years is this: an unwavering promise to imprison every active ICE officer for human trafficking And since we now know ICE is tracking everyone who criticizes them: suck my American born-and-bred fat one, you Nazis #ice #America
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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I think my biggest problem with Arcane S2 is that it throws away literally all of the most compelling pieces of the plot from Season 1, and then REFUSES (aggressively, I might add) to have any discussion about the sociopolitical conflict that was the main driving factor of the story #arcane
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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I have no issue with romantasy. There is a dedicated shelf specifically for it in my wife and I's home library. What I have an issue with is the total reduction of popular fantasy into loosely strung together tropes that are incapable of telling their own stories.
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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Emma Frost in Rivals is just the Zoomer generation's version of that one milf from Bleach, I said what I said. #marvelrivals #bleach #shitpost
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The Cactus @razorbladecactus.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Wanna help public media like PBS and NPR? Go to protectmypublicmedia.org News and educational programming should remain free for ALL
protectmypublicmedia.org
Protect My Public Media
Take a stand for the local stations and programs you love.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 06/05/2025
Under RFK Jr., ‘Make America Healthy Again’ means junk science like ‘survival of the fittest.’ Read more from @laurenleffer.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
A photo illustration of RFK Jr set against disease molecules in the background. A headline from The Verge reads "Death is the policy"
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Adam Zyglis @adamzyglis.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Puppets…
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Pat Wahler @patwahlerauthor.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Legit! #writers #booksky #writingcommunity
Text: Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and INsecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out. -Gabino Iglesias
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