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Mike Ferdinando

@mikeferdinando.bsky.social

I'm an GenX IT manager in higher education, whose passion is tabletop role-playing games. I'm also a leftist and antifascist. I'll mostly be posting about gaming and politics. Twitter refugee. Games I've written: https://mikeferdinando.itch.io

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Micah@rincewind.run · 2d ago

there are definitely downsides to the nuclear block but the reason I keep coming back to it as necessary and good is that it completely ruined the whole MAGA engagement model to the point that they prefer to mock us from the nazi bar rather than come here to troll us directly

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit

Mike Ferdinando@mikeferdinando.bsky.social · 5d ago

Amnesty International retracts its report on the anti-rights "Gender Critical" movement—whose entire purpose is to completely eliminate transgender people from society—and has the gall to apologize to those who want trans people dead. Do better, @amnesty.org I cancelled my recurring donation.

An Apology for A Growing Threat briefing, published on 8 July 2026

Amnesty International UK has made a public apology for the publication of the briefing “A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK”. Click here to read it in full.

amnesty.org.uk

Mike Ferdinando@mikeferdinando.bsky.social · last wk.

If you see me at GenCon, please get "my" name and contact info and send it to me! You've found my doppelgänger, and if we team up, we could get into some really awesome shenanigans!

🌱Elaine Lithgow - Back The Children Of Time RPG! 🕷️@elainelithgow.bsky.social · last wk.

If you see me at GenCon, pause and nod knowingly, as I'm clearly projecting my force ghost across the Atlantic just so you know that the force will be with you, always.

Strange Wonk in a Strange Land@stlwonk.bsky.social · last wk.

"There’s a common misconception that these right wing attacks on trans people and trans rights is a proportional response to liberal overreach — but this couldn’t be further from the truth. Social conservatives chose trans rights as the next battleground after losing on gay marriage"

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · last wk.

For @ms.now I wrote about Dylan Mulvaney's response to Trump using her to insult a CNN reporter at the White House Correspondents Dinner: www.ms.now/opinion/dyla...

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · last wk.

A woman’s Global Entry was revoked days after she legally observed ICE agents. ICE agents showed up to a polling place to demand a worker remove an anti-ICE post. A man was sentenced to 30 years in prison for moving a box of left-wing magazines. Trump’s crackdown on dissent is here. Be warned.

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · last wk.

I am very ashamed to live in a country where people will wake up with the terror that the secret police are coming to kidnap them, separate them from their families, and brutalize or even kill them because they are not white.

Micah@rincewind.run · last wk.

the lesson the center is going to have to learn here is that "this person is too ideologically extreme" simply no longer works as a "get out of competitive primary free" card, you need to convince the voters you're going to fight harder than your opponent or they'll be happy to give socialism a try

Amanda Marcotte@amandamarcotte.bsky.social · last wk.

Yup. When Musk says "no one" died, he's asserting that people of color are not people. Not that fact-checking is useless. But it needs to be paired with reminders that Musk is a racist who is asserting that non-white people aren't people. newrepublic.com/article/2135...

The Real Reason Elon Musk Keeps Insisting DOGE Cuts Killed “Zero” Kids

In his explosive interview with The Economist, the SpaceX billionaire inadvertently revealed something darker about his true vision for the future—and about his affinities with global fascism.

newrepublic.com

Evlyn Moreau@evlynmoreau.bsky.social · last wk.

If you are a big account and make a post about trans rights maybe address the anti trans comments that your post is receiving instead of leaving to trans people and other allies to do it for you. Should be basic.