Allan
@allanshoe.bsky.social
Working at Epic Games, formerly BioWare. Interests in games of all kind and history. These interests often overlap :P
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they are desperately fighting to prevent the release of other stuff
November 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
they are desperately fighting to prevent the release of other stuff
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It cannot be remembered enough that these were the same people who got worked up about drag brunches
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
It cannot be remembered enough that these were the same people who got worked up about drag brunches
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one of the complex legacies of Pope Francis is that he publicly said a lot of very ugly things about ‘gender ideology’, but had personal friendships with a lot of Catholic trans women who felt really supported by him. Leo welcoming them publicly feels like a promising sign. I am EYEING HIM CLOSELY
NEW: Pope Leo XIV will share a meal this Sunday with Alessia Nobile and four fellow transgender Catholic activists, during the Vatican’s Jubilee of the Poor — marking the most significant public encounter shared between a pope and the trans community.
NEW: Transgender Activists to Dine with Pope Leo XIV during Sunday's Jubilee for the Poor
Papal luncheon with trans advocate Alessia Nobile set for Sunday at Vatican’s Jubilee of the Poor, highlighting a legacy of outreach and hopes for continued inclusion.
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:35 AM
one of the complex legacies of Pope Francis is that he publicly said a lot of very ugly things about ‘gender ideology’, but had personal friendships with a lot of Catholic trans women who felt really supported by him. Leo welcoming them publicly feels like a promising sign. I am EYEING HIM CLOSELY
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I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
November 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
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Really difficult to overstate the fury one should feel that the GOP and institutions like the New York Times went all in on transphobia as some mortal threat to women and girls while covering up something like this.
When you read these Epstein emails, you start to understand why so many prominent conservatives are obsessed with checking the genitals of children. It's a big thing for them!
November 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Really difficult to overstate the fury one should feel that the GOP and institutions like the New York Times went all in on transphobia as some mortal threat to women and girls while covering up something like this.
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Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
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"You know us...So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong."
Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror"
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...
Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror"
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...
November 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
"You know us...So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong."
Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror"
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...
Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror"
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...
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I dunno but if you’re feeling defensive about NYT taking heat for decades of feigning ignorance on Epstein, maybe sit in your feels and reflect. Because without any public whipping at all @jkbjournalist.bsky.social went at the story head on and now we’re here.
November 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I dunno but if you’re feeling defensive about NYT taking heat for decades of feigning ignorance on Epstein, maybe sit in your feels and reflect. Because without any public whipping at all @jkbjournalist.bsky.social went at the story head on and now we’re here.
Given how eager the NYT seemed to want to run stories about emails, or about what Mamdani attended at college... I feel that the best case interpretation of this is that while you went into it genuinely, your organization and colleagues were content stonewalling you for leads and other information.
The emails that you’re seeing now are news in themselves, but that’s because of how they’re coming out—a congressional committee released them—& the context in which they’re being viewed. A guy emailing a reporter talking about old girlfriends or saying someone is “dirty” is not a whole news story.
November 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Given how eager the NYT seemed to want to run stories about emails, or about what Mamdani attended at college... I feel that the best case interpretation of this is that while you went into it genuinely, your organization and colleagues were content stonewalling you for leads and other information.
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New York Times social media guidelines prohibit expression suggesting partiality on things like ICE, execution of foreigners in fishing boats, or whether law is a thing.
However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.
However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.
Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."
![From:
Thomas Jr., Landon
Sent:
9/27/2017 2:47:47 PM
To:
Subject:
Got another call from Connelly..
Importance:
High
Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
He is digging around again -- not clear if its another book/or expanded paperback version. Was asking me all sorts of questions about why you hired Ken Starr. I told him I had no idea - I think he is doing some Trump-related digging too.
Anyway, for what its worth...
Landon Thomas, Jr.
Financial Reporter
New York Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/landon_ir thomas/index.h
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November 13, 2025 at 4:09 AM
New York Times social media guidelines prohibit expression suggesting partiality on things like ICE, execution of foreigners in fishing boats, or whether law is a thing.
However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.
However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.
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Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
PSA 💜
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This isn't politics anymore. This is morality, and the dismantling of the Patriarchy....these nasty, disgusting men, AND the tratiorist women who support and defend them must be exposed and removed from public discourse for the safety of all of the women and children of the world.
November 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This isn't politics anymore. This is morality, and the dismantling of the Patriarchy....these nasty, disgusting men, AND the tratiorist women who support and defend them must be exposed and removed from public discourse for the safety of all of the women and children of the world.
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We have some good neighbors.
November 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
We have some good neighbors.
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man we need a way to say "the moral rot and depravity of this country's elite must be burned out of it with cleansing fire" that isn't wildly reactionary-coded
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
man we need a way to say "the moral rot and depravity of this country's elite must be burned out of it with cleansing fire" that isn't wildly reactionary-coded
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So uh... how many high profile journalists were buddies with Epstein? I'm concerned that the number seems larger than 0.
November 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
So uh... how many high profile journalists were buddies with Epstein? I'm concerned that the number seems larger than 0.
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Wild how every single member of the political and business elite went into full drooling fascism the second the prospect of consequences for abhorrent behavior started to seem possible
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Wild how every single member of the political and business elite went into full drooling fascism the second the prospect of consequences for abhorrent behavior started to seem possible
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It was located entirely within my kitchen.
November 12, 2025 at 5:21 AM
It was located entirely within my kitchen.
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YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT! I HAVE WRITTEN A NEW ARTICLE!
this one's a bit weird; rather than doing my usual "trying to organize my thoughts and building a winding case that builds on itself," I decided to show you what my EARLY article creation process looks like:
docseuss.medium.com/some-loosely...
this one's a bit weird; rather than doing my usual "trying to organize my thoughts and building a winding case that builds on itself," I decided to show you what my EARLY article creation process looks like:
docseuss.medium.com/some-loosely...
some loosely organized thoughts about dialogue sysin games
think of this as me trying to find out what parts of dialogue choices are load bearing game design and what else can be done with dialogue.
docseuss.medium.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 AM
YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT! I HAVE WRITTEN A NEW ARTICLE!
this one's a bit weird; rather than doing my usual "trying to organize my thoughts and building a winding case that builds on itself," I decided to show you what my EARLY article creation process looks like:
docseuss.medium.com/some-loosely...
this one's a bit weird; rather than doing my usual "trying to organize my thoughts and building a winding case that builds on itself," I decided to show you what my EARLY article creation process looks like:
docseuss.medium.com/some-loosely...
I'm not overly surprised that Carney is actually a piece of shit and just helps reinforce a feeling that the political elite are in cahoots.
Feels an awful lot like Labour in the UK who had huge support because *NOT* doing right wing stuff, and then once in power doing a bunch of right-wing stuff.
Feels an awful lot like Labour in the UK who had huge support because *NOT* doing right wing stuff, and then once in power doing a bunch of right-wing stuff.
The idea of CRA “lean[ing] into AI to free up staff resources” should be setting off some red flags. Other departments are being forced too.
He’s cutting “development funding for global health programs” and funding for public transit. Cutting back on Statistics Canada seems so short-sighted too.
He’s cutting “development funding for global health programs” and funding for public transit. Cutting back on Statistics Canada seems so short-sighted too.
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I'm not overly surprised that Carney is actually a piece of shit and just helps reinforce a feeling that the political elite are in cahoots.
Feels an awful lot like Labour in the UK who had huge support because *NOT* doing right wing stuff, and then once in power doing a bunch of right-wing stuff.
Feels an awful lot like Labour in the UK who had huge support because *NOT* doing right wing stuff, and then once in power doing a bunch of right-wing stuff.
Of course apropos to my previous repost, very understandable that there's a lot of this feeling going around (myself included)
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Of course apropos to my previous repost, very understandable that there's a lot of this feeling going around (myself included)
End of a lengthy thread (so easier to scroll up and read) but saw a few people I know and trust and are also outraged at the current moment.
Note that while he states some impressions of things, there is often subtext/caveats of "if the Dems use this appropriately" which we're all skeptical of rn.
Note that while he states some impressions of things, there is often subtext/caveats of "if the Dems use this appropriately" which we're all skeptical of rn.
For those interested, last night I wrote about what's in the CR deal for Congress. If you want a slightly more coherent take...
firstbranchforecast.substack.com/p/whats-in-t...
firstbranchforecast.substack.com/p/whats-in-t...
What's in the CR Deal for Congress?
With a vote as early as tonight, we quickly ran the numbers
firstbranchforecast.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
End of a lengthy thread (so easier to scroll up and read) but saw a few people I know and trust and are also outraged at the current moment.
Note that while he states some impressions of things, there is often subtext/caveats of "if the Dems use this appropriately" which we're all skeptical of rn.
Note that while he states some impressions of things, there is often subtext/caveats of "if the Dems use this appropriately" which we're all skeptical of rn.
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You are loved. Pass it on.
November 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
You are loved. Pass it on.
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All of these political experts in my replies and I've never run into a single one of them when I'm on the Hill doing a bicameral briefing on SNAP and Medicaid.
It's so goddamn strange, where are all of you vaunted experts hiding????
It's so goddamn strange, where are all of you vaunted experts hiding????
November 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
All of these political experts in my replies and I've never run into a single one of them when I'm on the Hill doing a bicameral briefing on SNAP and Medicaid.
It's so goddamn strange, where are all of you vaunted experts hiding????
It's so goddamn strange, where are all of you vaunted experts hiding????
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The thing about the "I voted against this" position Schumer is taking is that either he is trying to mislead Dem voters by implying he didn't support reopening right now, or he has no control over his caucus.
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The thing about the "I voted against this" position Schumer is taking is that either he is trying to mislead Dem voters by implying he didn't support reopening right now, or he has no control over his caucus.