GTA 6 is a perfect summary of the total death of whatever was interesting about games because everything it promises- an immersive world, intricate story you get to change at will- was perfected by janky pieces of shit from the 2000's that kept crashing (New Vegas and Stalker)
Feedback for this episode was really positive and @pinstripebungle.bsky.social was incredibly generous with his time and knowledge, so we’ve unlocked it for all listeners. Enjoy.
BLOOD WORK@bloodwork.show · 5d agoBLOOD WORK / EPISODE 48 PAPER WORK: IMMIGRATION, ISLAMOPHOBIA & BUREAUCRACY w/ JOSEF BURTON @pinstripebungle.bsky.social Josef enters the Zone to talk about his experience working in the U.S. State Department and discuss the quiet violence work of diplomats, administrators and functionaries.
*nervously looking around my house for a gun to photograph* listen to blood work everyone- especially this time. this is the closest I've ever gotten to explaining my whole "thing" all at once in one sitting and I think the conversation goes to some fascinating places.
BLOOD WORK@bloodwork.show · 5d agoBLOOD WORK / EPISODE 48 PAPER WORK: IMMIGRATION, ISLAMOPHOBIA & BUREAUCRACY w/ JOSEF BURTON @pinstripebungle.bsky.social Josef enters the Zone to talk about his experience working in the U.S. State Department and discuss the quiet violence work of diplomats, administrators and functionaries.
only in America could there be a bullshit health craze centered around eating burgers, fries, and a milkshake
"Lake America" instantly just absolutely clogged with algae. Six uniformed National Guard guys standing on a beach dumping windex into it. It smells like a turtle tank.
here's a really funny line in an article i'm reading: "Proponents of orbital data centers argue that companies like SpaceX have likely built contingency plans for withstanding radiation"
This has been on of those posts which has lived in my head rent free to the point that when I DJ'd last month I made sure to reference it, I'm not sure if anyone at #EMFcamp got the joke or not but it was for me so that's not the point.
The thread o’ tweets@threadotweets.bsky.social · 2y ago
describing the morning she wrote both Jolene and I Will Always Love You as "a particularly good writing day" one of the funniest things I can possibly think of
look as a gülenist enes kanter literally doesn’t know a way to exist in the world that isnt attaching himself to a monied grifter network that will provide him with status and a good living for saying the right things and being on the team. being a transphobe is his last shot.
love this series because its about the wish fulfillment fantasy of being a junior diplomat cut off from HQ so you just get to do whatever you want
Michael Whelan@michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 2w agoFOREIGNER (1994) Acrylic on Watercolor Board Two hundred years ago, a spaceship dropped out of hyperspace at the wrong destination. The human colonists find the planet below inhabited by a race advanced only to the level of steam-engine technology. 1/4 #bookssky #art 🪐📚
deftly slipping the hard boiled egg I'm carrying into my pocket as I enter the bakery that sells both savory pastries and hard boiled eggs so that they're unaware I intend to get a pastry and eat it with the hard boiled egg I've carried from home, which is much less expensive
I mean genuinely the main emotion that I’m filled with after this weekend, seeing the president, walking through his throngs of fans, attending the worst circus I’ve ever witnessed, is like: man I’m not letting this guy kill me. I simply refuse to lose to him
The Eddie Gallagher affair is the single most important development in civ-mil relations of at least the 2010s and 2020s
rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 2w agoi think it's that hegseth has serial killer motivations and trump respects and admires that
Remember what happened the last time a country flew too close to Turkey while bombing northern Syria?
I am trying to think of a more evil job title than "ICE deportation liaison to US Embassy Tel Aviv" and I am coming up blank on that one.
this might be my first "I am never leaving this website" moment for bluesky
hoochie coup@hoochiecoup.bsky.social · 3w agoAnother thing worth noting is that cyclists did a lot of work to advance the drivers as murderers/cars as weapons narrative currently being employed by ICE
Iranian conscript writing on a missle (in perfect nastaliq calligraphic script); “whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance” American junior enlisted;
Much as we should acknowledge Actually Existing DSA FoPo, lets not ignore Actually Existing Liberal FoPo. One of those ran the country and shipped $10s of billions of weapons to Israel during a genocide and the other is mostly online people LARPing or endorsing city counselor races.
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · last mo.Pro-Israel, pro-Saudi, pro-Emirati, pro-Egypt, doesn't disclose donors, has an actual, literal genocidaire on its board, is more influential than people like to admit, is technically not in charge of anyone etc.
Under Actually Existing Liberal FoPo, I was told to not use the phrases "International Humanitarian Law" or "International Law" with the Israelis as this would "shut down the conversation" (those were the exact words used)
Travis@someforeignfield.bsky.social · last mo.Under Actually Existing Liberal FoPo, I was chastised for taking notes during a call where a partner in Gaza described being shot at by the IDF and having their USAID-funded food supplies stolen by the IDF. They didn't want a record of this conversation.
just finished 2666 and I'm floored. like it was that good. Bolaño was that guy.
remembering the vaudeville guy that inspired pee wee herman...he's on a level of being an old Bitch that i can only aspire to
is anyone here a sex worker who has had recent difficulty at US border crossings, even while traveling personally? would you be willing to speak anonymously about that? I'm writing a piece on what could be a bigger effort by DHS to ID face out sex workers via facial recognition.
There is this very grating habit on the part of basically every senior member of the Biden, Obama, Clinton etcetera administrations to do this where they just straight up pretend they had no culpability in the things they're criticizing from those administrations. It's literally your fault.
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 2mo agoPatently pathetic and outright misleading of Jeffrey Goldberg to let Wright say something like this without explicitly mentioning and acknowledging that he was part of one of those administrations at the highest level.
making public proclamations about manly warrior ethos while your navy is on the losing side of an attritional fight for a strategic sea route you really really need open for your vague and almost undefined war goals is giving pure uncut imperial japan
Nodding and snapping so hard I develop a blister on my thumb
It will be so sick if Bluesky has a moral panic over Charli XCX.
The perfect example of how good Israel has had it for seven decades is that its version of the state backed KKK can hold an American member of Congress at gunpoint with guns made by Americans and that Congressman will still go home and say they don't want to be too mean to Israel.
LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍@lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 2mo agoGenuinely the guy is like "yeah, some settler gangs kidnapped me, but let's still send the state more bombs and interceptors". This shouldn't be hard to outflank!
