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Sean

@rechief.bsky.social
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Formerly @re_chief on Twitter. I mostly post about #Apple products, #videogames, #politics, and #history. Likes and reposts are not necessarily endorsements.

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Matt Birchler @birchtree.me · 02/05/2025
🔗 The urge that comes with power birchtree.me/blog/the-urge-that-com…
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Nilay Patel on this week's The Vergecast: You can just see that they picked the finances over the product over and over again. And if they had just figured out a way to make in-app purchases worth more to developers than leaving the ecosystem, developers, I think, would have picked
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 02/05/2025
if you’re not ashamed to run this kind of trash you should leave journalism and find a career with fewer consequential ethical decisions like a real estate agent or a boat salesman
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
"We've got him on the ropes, let's take a break."
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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
It's incredible how every single institution that decided to comply with zero resistance and bend the knee to Trump are, without fail, all getting absolutely NOTHING out of it. They're still getting attacked and targeted and they STILL won't get the fuck up off the ground. Clown shit.
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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” 
Subheader:
“In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”
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👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Fuck John Lithgow, fuck Nick Frost, fuck anyone involved in that shitshow, I hope it ends all of their careers.
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Sean @rechief.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Also makes me wonder if this is how Mike Walz accidentally added Jeffrey Goldberg to the Signalgate chat. It was probably one of 1,700 constantly active Signal chats he and his buddies were in
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
media.tenor.com
a cartoon character says we 've tried nothing and were all out of ideas
ALT: a cartoon character says we 've tried nothing and were all out of ideas
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Sean @rechief.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
@thores.bsky.social would you?
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videl🐒image distribution @imgdist.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
drawing people i see in the city (48/?)
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Sean @rechief.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Fish and Chips It's considered more of a mid-range/priced food here in the US, but when I visited London after college I loved that there were grubby hole-in-the-wall chip shops on every street corner and I could just grab some whenever I wanted
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Bacun @bacun.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
cool dog i drew
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Sean @rechief.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
> makeup studio Also known as the Pentagon Gender Affirmation Station
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John Walton @thatjohn.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
So here in France we have a 5G-enabled electricity meter called Linky, which naturally here in the land where people who live in heaven think they live in hell there were all kinds of protests — Linky gives you cancer, makes your kids autistic, kills your dog, sets your house on fire, and so on.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Chotiner is a legitimately good journalist but it’s wild that people think he’s some sort of evil wizard because he says “what do you mean by that”
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/04/2025
Nigel Farage will be PM by 2029. The UK is heading towards fascism and labour is content to push it along.
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temmie @tuyoki.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
blue dog
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Nintendo of America [Twitter/X Mirror] @nintendoamericax.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Guide Eirika and Ephraim on their twin quest to rebuild Renais in Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, available now for #NintendoSwitchOnline + Expansion Pack members! #GameBoyAdvance
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colin feral @sal.gay · 21/04/2025
I swear to god we need Pizzaballa to be pope
Pierbattista Pizzaballa, 60, Italy

Photo of a man in priest’s vestments wearing glasses. He has a salt and pepper goatee and is holding his hands out, gesturing while taking
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 18/04/2025
hotdog car
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 17/04/2025
Legally defining "biological sex" to be just whatever the doctor said when you were born rather than it referring to your actual, material biological sex as it exists today is like legally defining Pi to be 3
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/04/2025
cuomo’s position here is basically that it is unsporting to do politics www.thedailybeast.com/andrew-cuomo...
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Andrew Cuomo Slams AOC’s Rally Tour for ‘Capitalizing’ on Voters’ Trump Fears
The New York City mayoral frontrunner also argued that the Democratic party had “hijacked” itself with cultural issues.
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Sean @rechief.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I can't believe a company named after an evil artifact is evil
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
ok cool i’ll just go to space
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Sean @rechief.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Off the top of my head, some awful meat zones in survival horror games: -RE1: the kitchen -Clock Tower: the uhh... kitchen -Haunting Ground: ... kitchen...
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 16/04/2025
I have been regularly stolen from by guys who dress like the dude on the left but never in my life by someone who dressed like the guy on the right
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Sean @rechief.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Interesting that they felt the need to speak anonymously about an opinion that they seem to believe is so obviously true. It's almost like they feel that tying that opinion to their identity could be extremely damaging to them!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/04/2025
if you lived through the lead up to the iraq war then you know that this is the most delusional thing anyone has ever said
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I want them all unmasked. I want Noem, Homan, and Miller to someday be tried for their crimes against humanity. Ditto for the ICE agents and other officers who abuse innocent tourists, college students, and refugees When all this is over, I want justice. My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
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When this is over, U.S. rights abusers must be tried for crimes against humanity
Escalating reports of human rights crimes from Kristi Noem's propaganda to ICE cruelty must be wiped clean with justice.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 14/04/2025
Yeah as a practical matter I don't think this dynamic is getting enough attention. If the White House brings back Abrego Garcia, he gets to talk about what he saw and experienced. One press conference pulls back the curtain on the whole thing. They can't have that.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 13/04/2025
“Bluesky is too much of an echo chamber” have you spent five minutes in a political discussion here
Lobster fighting meme

everyone is leftists, including the lobsters
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
"The left went too far" in contemporary U.S. politics is almost always a lie and a very convenient way to rationalize moral failure. For example, "MeToo went too far" replaces "I do not care about sexual violence or its victims and I don't want to have to even feel bad about that"
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
You don’t have to be particularly sharp to decipher the code here. But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.
Palantir @PalantirTech • 26m
Dropping at select colleges today.

[Embedded image of a billboard ad:]

A moment of reckoning has
arrived for the West.
Our culture has fallen into shallow consumerism while abandoning national purpose. Too few in Silicon Valley have asked what ought to be built - and why.
We did.
We built Palantir to ensure America's future, not to tinker at the margins. On the factory floor, in the operating room, across the battlefield - we build to dominate.
Join us.
[signed by the Palantir founder]
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Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I wonder how it would go for a public defender or plaintiffs' lawyer to waltz into court and say "nope I don't have the information you ordered, Your Honor, because my client feels like keeping it under wraps"
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11/04/2025
Counterpoint: The past few months internally and externally have made extremely clear why unionizing is actually a very good idea.
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Claire Roe @claireroe.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Lady Dimitrescu bathed in shadow... and blood #re8 #ladydimitrescu
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Sean @rechief.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
JK Rowling is cruel and stupid.
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Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
While there are a lot of explanations of the Trump administration's intransigence, I wonder how much is driven by a concern that if even one person is released from this particular prison then you'll have a witness to what is going on there.
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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The face of a man who has never experienced joy lol
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/04/2025
This is a bad look. Bottom line.
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BlueSpark|Commissions open @bluespark777.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Adobe situation was pretty funny
Adobe walks in
Gets laser exploded by blue fly
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Pumpkin Spice Stoneth @stoneth.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Who would win? Adobe, one of the most famous creative design software companies ever. Or Bluesky, all of Adobe's pissed off past userbase all in one place?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/04/2025
me this morning www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...
There is a hypothetical president with a hypothetically similar agenda who could answer these questions. This actual president cannot. He did not reason himself into his preoccupation with tariffs and can neither reason nor speak coherently about them. There is no grand plan or strategic vision, no matter what his advisers claim — only the impulsive actions of a mad king, untethered from any responsibility to the nation or its people. For as much as the president’s apologists would like us to believe otherwise, Trump’s tariffs are not a policy as we traditionally understand it. What they are is an instantiation of his psyche: a concrete expression of his zero-sum worldview.

The fundamental truth of Donald Trump is that he apparently cannot conceive of any relationship between individuals, peoples or states as anything other than a status game, a competition for dominance. His long history of scams, hostile litigation — not to mention his frequent refusal to pay contractors, lawyers, brokers and other people who were working for him — is evidence enough of the reality that a deal with Trump is less an agreement between equals than an opportunity for Trump to abuse and exploit the other party for his own benefit. For Trump, there is no such thing as a mutually beneficial relationship or a positive-sum outcome. In every interaction, no matter how trivial or insignificant, someone has to win and someone has to lose. And Trump, as we all know, is a winner.
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Sean @rechief.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
And they all suck
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 08/04/2025
This is a great point. For example, when I look back at the epochal changes of this past January, I would personally have voted not to confirm Marco Rubio
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