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SteelPhoenix78 @steelphoenix78.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

@theredshirtguy.bsky.social Hi, Ian! I haven't checked Bluesky in a while, so if you've already posted about this, sorry, but what are your thoughts on how - if at all - the new material added in WoW Forever will be accounted for in the main Retail iterations of the game? Has Blizz commented on it?

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ACLU @aclu.org · 25/08/2026

President Trump's attempts to restrict mail-in voting are still blocked, thanks to our win earlier this month — and we'll fight to keep it that way. We'll always work to protect your right to vote.

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Supreme Court pauses lower court ruling on Trump's mail voting order as hurdles loom

The Supreme Court paused a lower court's ruling that blocked key parts of Trump's order to limit voting by mail for the midterms. But U.S. Postal Service work on the order remains blocked nationwide.

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SteelPhoenix78 @steelphoenix78.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

To everyone in the LGBTQIA+ community: As with every other month of the year, you have my support. Wishing you all a very Happy #PrideMonth 2026!

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SteelPhoenix78 @steelphoenix78.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

My yearly public service reminder that the *actual* anniversary of #StarWars is May 25th (release date of Episode IV). #MayThe4th

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Tim Rooney @urbaneturtle.com · 15/04/2026

A pretty comprehensive takedown of JD Vance by a Catholic priest, Msgr. Arthur Holquin open.substack.com/pub/liturgya...

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When the Neophyte Corrects the Vicar of Christ
On JD Vance, Theological Hubris, and the Gospel He Has Yet to Learn
There is a particular arrogance that takes root in the newly converted - the zeal of the autodidact who, having just discovered the tradition, mistakes enthusiasm for mastery. JD Vance, who received baptism into the Catholic Church in 2019 at the age of thirty-five, has now committed the singular error of instructing the Bishop of Rome to
"be careful when he talks about matters of theology!"
We should sit with the full weight of that sentence.
The Vice President of the United States - seven years a Catholic, formerly an evangelical, before that a self-described atheist - stood before a Turning Point USA audience in Georgia and publicly admonished Pope Leo XIV about theological precision. "If you're going to opine on matters of theology," Vance informed the successor of Peter, "you've got to be careful, you've got to make sure it's anchored in the truth."
The audacity is breathtaking. The irony is almost comic.

While Vance was dispensing theological warnings from a stage in Georgia, Pope Leo XIV was standing at the archaeological site of Hippo in Algeria - the episcopal see where St. Augustine served as bishop until his death in 430 A.D.
Vance, who claims Augustine as his patron saint and frequently invokes him in speeches, was lecturing on Augustinian just war theology to a political rally audience. The pope he was lecturing
- who served as Prior General of the Order of St.
Augustine for more than a decade and holds a doctorate in Canon Law from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas - was planting an olive tree at the very ground where Augustine lived, prayed, wrote, and died. If God governs history with a sense of irony, this moment surely pleased Him.
The occasion for Vance's correction was Pope Leo's statement that "God is never on the side of those who wield the sword." Vance responded by invoking the thousand-year tradition of Just War theory as if the pope were unaware of it. But Leo did not say war is never permissible. He said God is not simply enlisted as a combatant on any nation's side. That is not a negation of Just War doctrine. That is its foundation. The Catechism at
§2309 is unambiguous about the conditions that must all be simultaneously met for a war to be just. Archbishop Broglio stated plainly on Easter Sunday that the war against Iran does not meet those criteria. Cardinals Cupich, Mcelroy, and Tobin, along with Archbishop Coakley, have spoken with notable unanimity. Cardinal Tobin put it plainly: Pope Leo "will continue to speak clearly against war and other offenses against human dignity and to call for authentic dialogue, because the Church's witness is grounded in the peace of Christ, not in partisan interests." That is episcopal fidelity. What Vance offered was its precise opposite.

The deeper problem is not merely that Vance is wrong about just war. It is the ecclesiological framework he is importing from American Christian nationalism into a tradition that explicitly rejects it. Vance told Fox News that "in some cases it would be best for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality, to stick to matters of what's going on in the Catholic Church, and let the president of the United States stick to dictating public policy." Let that formulation stand naked for a moment. The pope — who holds a universal pastoral office precisely because the Gospel speaks to every dimension of human life — is being instructed to confine himself to the sacristy, while the president is assigned the role of
"dictating" the political world. This is not a Catholic understanding of faith and public life.
Catholic Social Teaching from Rerum Novarum onward has always insisted that the Gospel is not a private spiritual comfort but a public moral claim. When Vance tells the pope to stay in his lane, he is not defending Catholic doctrine. He is betraying it.

JD Vance's forthcoming book on his Catholic faith is titled Communion. Its cover features a United Methodist church. I do not say this merely to mock. Symbolism matters in Catholic theology, and the symbolism here is telling. A book about Catholic unity, bearing Protestant ecclesial architecture on its cover, written by a man who publicly contradicts the pope on Just War doctrine - this is not communion. This is confusion dressed in piety. Archbishop Coakley said it plainly: "The Pope is not Trump's rival, nor is the Pope a politician. He is the Vicar of Christ who speaks from the truth of the Gospel and for the care of souls." Communion, in Catholic theology, is not a feeling of spiritual warmth. It is a participation in the Body of Christ that carries radical obligations — to the poor, the stranger, the enemy, to peace. It is a table the powerful do not preside over. They are guests at it, like everyone else.
A seven-year Catholic who tells the pope to watch his theology, while defending an administration that posted an Al image of the president as Jesus Christ and refused to apologize, is not in communion with the tradition he claims to be writing about. He is in communion with power.
And that, as Augustine himself understood deeply, is a very different thing.

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SteelPhoenix78 @steelphoenix78.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I can't speak for anyone else, but I for one have had just about enough of this miserable son of a bitch and his horseshit.

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SteelPhoenix78 @steelphoenix78.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Whether something as wonderful as this happens in 37 years in Bozeman, Montana, or at some place & time yet unknown, may we all continue to dream of and strive towards a better, brighter, more hopeful future for all. Happy #FirstContactDay. #StarTrek #April5th2063 www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhDD...

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April 5, 2063

YouTube video by April 5, 2063

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Whether it happens 6 hours from now, 6 days from now, 6 weeks from now, 6 months from now, or 6 years from now, it will be one of the largest worldwide celebrations in the history of the human race.

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SteelPhoenix78 @steelphoenix78.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

To everyone who has, through it all, continued to support Trump up to now: If the worst should come to pass regarding the war Trump started against Iran, I want you to remember that you were offered a different path for our country and for the world. And you said "No."

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SteelPhoenix78 @steelphoenix78.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Death apparently Chuck Norrised yesterday in a Hawaii hospital.

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

“If a Creator God exists, would He or She or It... prefer a kind of sodden blockhead who worships while understanding nothing? Or would He prefer His votaries to admire the real universe in all its intricacy?” — Carl Sagan

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SteelPhoenix78 @steelphoenix78.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Happy Heavenly Birthday, Dad. I love you, and I miss you.

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James Davis @jamesdavismakes.com · 04/03/2026

Life is taking a weird turn into limbo. Still, despite it all, this scene lives rent free and is kinda holding it all together.

Huey: What do you do when you can't do nothing, but there's nothing you can do?

Robert: You do what you can.

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SteelPhoenix78 @steelphoenix78.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

So, in my Biology class today, I may have finished a lesson on transcription & translation (going from DNA to RNA to amino acids) by playing - and singing - this tune that fans of #MassEffect should all know very well... #MordinSolus drive.google.com/file/d/1rNnD...

Lyrics to be sung to the tune of "Battle Hymn of the Republic"

"Glycine, valine, leucine, isoleucine, alanine,
They all are aliphatic, so you will not see a ring!
The lone human amino acid with one is proline.
From protein we are formed!

"With two hydroxyl groups, you'll find serine and threonine!
For sulfur, look to cysteine or to methionine!
For bases, you have arginine, lysine, and histidine.
From protein we are formed! (Now the aromatics!)

"Tryptophan and tyrosine and phenylalanine!
Aspartic and glutamic are both acids, as we've seen!
For amides, see asparagine, and also glutamine!
From protein we are formed!"

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SteelPhoenix78 @steelphoenix78.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Prince Andrew gets arrested for his involvement with Epstein, but Trump is still in office as POTUS. It's a hell of a thing when the United States of America is outdone by the **BRITISH MONARCHY** in terms of holding elites accountable for their actions, and during our 250th birthday year, no less.

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SteelPhoenix78 @steelphoenix78.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

A very dear friend who I've known since childhood is in a very bad way healthwise, & his wife has set up a GoFundMe page...I can confirm that this is 100% legitimate.This man is like a brother to me, and I would be extremely grateful to you sharing this link www.gofundme.com/f/praying-fo...

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Donate to Praying for Jonathan and his health, organized by Kim Holmes

Jonathan’s Health On Monday, January 12th we went to the ER because Jonathan was ha… Kim Holmes needs your support for Praying for Jonathan and his health

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⭐️ The cabbit of the stars ⭐️ @tommothecabbit.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm. The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him. Happy Black History Month.

Jerry Lawson, the inventor of the video game cartridge.

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SteelPhoenix78 @steelphoenix78.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

@sassiestminx.bsky.social Hi! I just saw this post of yours on Twitter, and it is an absolutely *brilliant* idea! I don't know that it would be very effective for me to do so, but I plan on writing a letter to my Representative (John Joyce-R) suggesting something like this! x.com/SassiestMinx...

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

They'd already taken the gun away. They are trying to frame it like his using his second amendment right meant they could kill him. They are framing it like him using his first amendment right is why they could arrest him. EVERY person in this country should be horrified by this. Nobody is safe.

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I'm not showing any more pictures because the rest of it is disgusting. He falls to the ground. And the agents around him UNLOAD on his dead body, then start pointing their guns at the people who are observing. It is disgusting and harrowing. Every American is at risk of these Nazis destroying us.

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I'm not going to show you the next couple shots graphically because I don't want to focus on the shooting outside of who did it. That motherfucker shot him, close range, three times, while he was already wounded by his buddy's negligent discharge, and disarmed.

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The shooting was the result of idiots being fucking idiots. The first shot came from this motherfucker who got clocked in the head by another idiot moving right behind him while he had a loaded gun to someone in their custody. He gets hit in the head and pulls the trigger, hitting Alex in the armor.

The dumbass with a loaded gun pressed into Alex Pretti's back

Head gets pushed down and the shot rings out, you can see the smoke coming from the center where his guns at

He is pulled out by other agents, you can see the gun in his hands.

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A total of sixteen shots were fired. All of the shots were from ICE agents into someone whom they had in custody, over the fact that someone who had already secured a firearm screamed "GUN GUN GUN" ... as he was walking away with the gun.

The unidentifed Nazi who shouted "GUN GUN GUN"

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Cannot stress this enough CONTENT WARNING I tried to do this as tastefully as I could but also it's important people understand the order of events and the actual facts of the matter. If you're not up for seeing someone in their last moments, please keep yourself safe and scroll past this quickly.

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

An analysis of the video of the execution of Alex Pretti by ICE traitors: They are openly and willfully lying to you. They purposefully staged the situation and executed an American Civilian in order to put pressure on those documenting their illegal activities. CONTENT WARNING - BRUTAL IMAGERY

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Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

No sense in trying to outlogic evil, but these guys sure do a fucking bad job at making it seem like they need to exist. The more money you invest in it, the worse the fictional problem gets according to them.

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Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Even if you were gullible enough to believe that immigrants are responsible for rampant crime waves that need to be reigned in, wouldn't this imply that ICE has been dogshit at its job this entire time if the situation has only worsened on their watch, as they argue?

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