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Travis Smith

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mcc @dryad.technology · 2h
Video games are RUINING gaming. RT if you think gaming was better before games
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 2h
Imagining people who do evil things to be devoid of empathy is a way of comforting oneself, because we all know that we feel empathy and therefore are not the kind of person who could do *that.* It’s much scarier to know that a conglomeration of circumstances can turn basically anybody bad.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 15h
Ken Paxton told a group of conservative donors and lobbyists last week that Trump’s midterm convention in Dallas had hurt Paxton politically, according to an audio recording obtained by the @nytimes.com. @teddyschleifer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Ken Paxton, G.O.P. Nominee in Texas, Privately Said Trump’s Convention Hurt Him
Ken Paxton, one of the party’s top Senate candidates and a Trump loyalist, said that “everybody’s numbers dropped” after the event, according to audio obtained by The Times.
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Travis Smith @travissmith.site · 30/09/2026
The political parties are Gender, exhibit 37,158.
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Travis Smith @travissmith.site · 29/09/2026
The transparency of the whole scene is really the icing on the cake. The redness in his face is really what’s ultimately disqualifying in a Republican nominee. It shows that he still feels shame.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Travis Smith @travissmith.site · 28/09/2026
The most effective political ad is just quoting them
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beef @beeftheobeast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
very cool
A fat white rabbit with gray ears, red eyes, and a gray nose with the caption “share if you agree”
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Travis Smith @travissmith.site · 23/09/2026
They’re throwing “national security concerns” at everything from “I want a ballroom and an arch” to “I don’t like news reporters.” Just the most transparent fig leaf to ask SCOTUS to let him be just a little dictator-ish.
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Travis Smith @travissmith.site · 22/09/2026
Absolutely delightful how ADP has a bright mode only splash page to sort you to an optional dark mode login page which forwards you to a bright mode only application.
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Travis Smith @travissmith.site · 22/09/2026
Yin and yang take many forms, but this feels heavy handed
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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Evangelion Screenshots @ngescreenshot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Travis Smith @travissmith.site · 17/09/2026
We’re winning.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I endorse this billboard
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Travis Smith @travissmith.site · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: working for the world’s worst boss sucks
reuters.com
EXCLUSIVE: US Postal Service chief told associates he wants to quit, sources say
The head of the U.S. Postal Service ​has told confidants that he is deeply discouraged by his job and wants to resign, according to four people familiar with his thinking, as the ‌agency comes under s...
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
sorry that's as LinkedIn posty as I plan on getting on here today
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
and there it is -- Trump says that if the Supreme Court doesn't allow him to put his name on the Kennedy Center then it will close down for good
The Board of The Kennedy Center today agreed, almost unanimously, to close the Building for Safety reasons, and so that it can begin the process of Reconstruction. The closing will take place immediately, however, the Renovation and Reconstruction, which is a very large and complex job, cannot begin until such time as the D.C. Circuit rules on the Board’s approved name. If the ruling is a negative one, which it should not be, and is not overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Reconstruction and the Renovation of The Kennedy Center will not take place. The attorneys from the DOJ will ask for an expedited appeal. In the meantime, 17 Million Dollars, raised by President Trump, has been put into The Kennedy Center account to keep it afloat. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Travis Smith @travissmith.site · 15/09/2026
Supreme Court rejects Trump mail ballot restrictions for now ahead of midterms apnews.com/article/trum...
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 10/09/2026
Once the majority has decided a marginalized group is the demon in one part of a story, it’s easier to paint them as demons in another.  But it doesn't have to be this way. These books offer a humane approach to trans athletes:
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Let Them Play: How Welcoming Trans Athletes Can Improve Sports Culture for All
Three recent books press us to understand the humanity and lives of gender-expansive athletes.
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woke stifler @yelix.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
also, like, i dunno, just play other games in the meantime? there are so many of them dude
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Jordan Starkweather ✨ @jackal27.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Takaya Imamura, who worked at Nintendo for 32+ years, believes that the Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake’s art is primarily thanks to Shigeru Miyamoto’s love of Ningyōgeki (Japanese Marionettes). credit to @drechin_ on twitter for making an excellent thread on this
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
similar systems were part of the mass crackdown in Xinjiang, largely in order to provide a fig-leaf of justification for arresting people for the crime of being Uyghur
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Travis Smith @travissmith.site · 09/09/2026
Some of the CAN-US energy trade takes on this site are just utterly ignorant. Canada exports more nat gas to non-US markets than ever? That’s because global LNG infrastructure is coming online and was always going to happen. Where will tar sands oil go? US, because that’s where the refineries are.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 09/09/2026
it comes off as Guys Building The Doom Machines standing around and going "the doom machines could quite likely kill us all, and we should coordinate on stopping them from killing us all, although I *personally* am going to keep focusing on becoming ultra-rich from building the Doom Machines"
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The role of "protector" under patriarchy seems to mean "I wield the option of violence" that can also be turned directly on women who are not obedient, aka submit to being protected according to his rules.
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鋼のStephen Meyerink @sjmtaelus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
there's something beautifully poetic about witnessing yet another full on meltdown over the graphics in a zelda game... and they say you can never go back home
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Rep. Vikki Goodwin @vikkigoodwintx.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Families are struggling to survive. We can’t wait any longer to #RaiseTheWage Every legislative session, I’ve filed a bill to raise the minimum wage. When I’m Lt. Governor, we’ll make sure everyone is making a living wage — regardless of industry, tips, or disability.
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Travis Smith @travissmith.site · 06/09/2026
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Classic Nintendo NES Controller & Box
Alt: Clip from a commercial for the Nintendo Entertainment System featuring the controller & console
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Travis Smith @travissmith.site · 04/09/2026
@flosportstv.bsky.social Finally updated the schedule to include @top14rugby.bsky.social.
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Travis Smith @travissmith.site · 04/09/2026
What a privilege to be able to bumble through the world so blithely and yet still force the world to keep them at the center of attention
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EXCLUSIVE: US military turns off ad trackers on devices amid Middle East targeting reports
The effort to ​reduce the location data generated by smartphones comes as military officials weigh increasingly strict restrictions on phone use overall.
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Travis Smith @travissmith.site · 03/09/2026
reuters.com
EXCLUSIVE: Kennedy asked to remove Pennsylvania measles death from CDC tally, sources say
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked his new CDC director to remove a reference to two Pennsylvania deaths from the agency’s online measles tally after he questioned whether the disease c...
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Travis Smith @travissmith.site · 01/09/2026
We must crush the racists at the polls and expel them from polite society.
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EXCLUSIVE: US may require parents to prove citizenship to get passports for their children
The U.S. State Department has proposed requiring parents applying for passports for their ​children to provide proof of their own citizenship or immigration status as part of President Donald Trump's ...
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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Game publishers want the staffing of film and TV without the unions that make gig-to-gig work a viable living and a sustainable business.
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
‘You can’t own a game’ rendered like the old anti piracy ads
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Travis Smith @travissmith.site · 28/08/2026
Every now and then, a cricket or footie post slips across my Discover feed to remind me that BlueSky is the sports app
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Travis Smith @travissmith.site · 27/08/2026
Right in line with my thinking on almost everything (just don’t do voting on the internet)
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Americans Are Spending Luxury Dollars for Dive-Bar Service
The government’s onerous rules impose a burdensome tax on time.
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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
You don’t say.
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Travis Smith @travissmith.site · 26/08/2026
reuters.com
Meta reaches $16.68 billion settlement over social media harms to children
The settlement was reached during a California federal trial over claims brought by 29 states, averting one of the highest-profile tests yet of allegations that social media companies harmed young use...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2026
you need to read the use of "woke" here with a hard R
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Trump Officials Propose Sale of ‘Woke’ Painting by Kehinde Wiley (Gift Article)
The State Department recently removed the painting of Dominicans from a U.S. embassy, noting it was by the artist who made Barack Obama’s presidential portrait.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
is this cancel culture
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Travis Smith @travissmith.site · 20/08/2026
I’m telling my kids that we used to have to scavenge for our video games in the wilds like this
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Travis Smith @travissmith.site · 19/08/2026
Wired is doing great work in the era of techno fascism
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
it was a very two americas moment to cover the opening of a shelter for homeless queer youth in need of immediate housing right after reading an op ed about how it's not good to cut off your family for being unsupportive
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If the U.S. had a professional diplomatic corps, the government could have teams dedicated to each conflict. They could draw on regional experts, military analysts, intel, or nuclear scientists as needed. Ah well, you work with what you’ve got. Jared and Steve will just have to step up even more.
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Meredith Nudo 🤌🏻 @meredithnudo.myatproto.social · 15/08/2026
Most Houstonians are living paycheck-to-paycheck if they're not below the poverty line. But that doesn't mean enjoying world-class performing arts is locked to them. I spoke to some orgs who offer pay-what-you-can pricing to ensure accessible theater and music. www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-cul...
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Houston’s Best Theaters Want You to Come—No Matter What You Can Pay
Pay what you wish, pay what you can, or pay nothing at all.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
From this review- “Think of all the diligent, decent black academics who have been lumbered with the embarrassment of having Arday as a figurehead” - no, think of *why* black academics are held collectively responsible in ways that white academics are not
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Gabriel S. Jacobs @gsjphd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
let's be real: plagiarism scandals in academia happen all the time (not because academics plagiarize a lot, but just because of how many millions of faculty there are around the world) and it is never general-public news unless the culprit is a member of a minority.
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Travis Smith @travissmith.site · 14/08/2026
We need to ban class action waivers and mandatory arbitration in mass form contracts.
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