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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 2h

I dunno, man, I used to work in a banquet/production kitchen, I’ve seen some pretty big batches of bechemel…

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 12h

the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 13h

I can’t wait till the elections are done and I can start working on my test batches of thanksgiving focaccia

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 13h

It doesn’t even take an entire bag of flour to bake a whole-ass bread, what the hell is she making

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 15h

Wait, what do you mean protesters are trying to topple a right wing government in the developing world? I thought we got rid of USAID

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 16h

A bunch of them self-identify as Maoists, there’s no seriousness to be had

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Seniority on appropriations* and unlimited flip-vote hall passes *which also provided lots of opportunities for illegal corruption schemes, so that’s fun.

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oh yeah, she’s sounded like that for a few years now.

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Well, if you ever want some stupid suggestions for how galactic affairs could express themselves at a player level and drive a space captain to drink, hit me up.

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I dig it. And I’ll have to take a look into that.

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Admittedly my vision of this concept leaned hard into almost farce-levels of “you’re not just a nobody, you’re sometimes the universe’s punching bag” type storytelling.

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A slight combination of narrative and “prices” would be having side missions that cross into the realm of absurdly volatile but low-impact on failure. “The society you were running a job for collapsed while you were in hyperspace and now their currency and supplies are worthless” level stuff

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Keep me updated, for real. The concept has been percolating in my brain for ages and it just seems like too much fun of an idea to never see developed.

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Dude must have a panic attack during Toyotathon bsky.app/profile/thro...

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

What Id love is an Escape Velocity-style game set in a universe that it basically a Grand Strategy session where everything is just about to pop off, and you’re just some nobody space pilot with no power to shape anything, but events just keep piling up and making your life chaos

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The storylines and events and universe-building of Stellaris always seemed really cool to me; I’ve just never really been able to get myself to click with Grand Strategy gameplay yet.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I do think this should put some of the hand-wringing over the uniquely sinful American electorate, uniquely feckless institutions, etc in perspective. The truth is that there is a large trans-national constituency of people who actively want this. They aren’t deceived. They want this.

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Vampires have a whole thing about counting, he’ll be great at those

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

…you sure you don’t want to apologize even a little Because that’s pretty bad

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I keep the alt text in a note on my phone for handy reference.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Economic anxiety just off the charts here. She’s just calling out for better antitrust policy; Carter’s deregulation definitely got to her

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Also how have you never had a mango lassi before, how have you survived.

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Can’t remember where exactly, but one of the cities I worked in in 2018 had an Indian place that sold Mango Lassi by the half-gallon, which feels like the only appropriate portion.

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A) use coconut milk, it’s amazing. B) I swear, the exact same brand and product tastes better when I’ve bought it from H-Mart than when I get it from a different grocery store.

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He seems to genuinely believe that USAID was a load-bearing component of whatever version of The Cathedral he hallucinates, so probably a little of column A, a little of column B

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We're ten years into this and I still find it striking the degrees to which political reporters will go (esp at the NYT) to be deferential to Trump in a way they would never ever do for anyone else, least of all a Democrat

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m getting these the next time I’m in Chicago, goddamn.

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the glory of multicultural civilization.

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I bet it looks really suspicious if you’re dumb and didn’t pay attention.

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Steinman related thought I had today: Alone by Heart has enough Steinman attributes that I’m honestly a little surprised he wasn’t involved with it

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

How’s your It’s All Coming Back to Me Now?

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You eat a lot of Saudi racehorses there, buddy?

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I regret to inform you you’re gonna get slammed with pro-Collins content.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026

I think it is very important that Big Balls, personally, goes to jail there are a lot of young goons who think they are invincible and it is important to make it clear that they are not

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm a gold-star atheist, 'the Enlightenment didn't go far enough', 'astrology isn't just a bit of fun its an insult to human intelligence'-ass shape rotator and yet I will ALWAYS buy a Scrub Daddy and a Scrub Mommy together so they don't get lonely.

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Look, that rounds up to 2k, which is 2/3rds of the way to 3k, which is practically 5k, and all numbers are actually revisionist so it’s really infinity elections they’ve won.

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Green Party apologists will insist that they’ve won thousands of elections (over the span of like 40 years) and then you see the list they’re using and it includes a bunch of non-contested non-partisan municipal positions won by someone who later changed their voter reg to Green.

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This fucking rocks, dude. I expect to be seeing ads about this by the end of the week

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That’s one way to describe a slumlord, I guess.

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yeah this is the kind of “you’re not from here, you’re from Away” attitude that people recognize as dumb bullshit when it’s a thing in someplace like Maine, but somehow different when they do it

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[Insert Ghost Joke In Post]-alanche @travalanch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It was actually just during a bog-standard interview; I can’t remember what publication at the moment

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

the thing about Trump we know from an entire lifetime of him building things is that he can post about how his arch has gun turrets and death rays and a rocket launcher and then when it's built it'll just be a guy up there with finger guns making pew pew sounds

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