Chris Thompson
@drchristhompson.bsky.social
Socialist game developer in Los Angeles. Flipper of tables and crafter of artful profanity. Viewpoints are my own. Punctuation atrocious by design; hyphens and em dashes are used interchangeably, and semicolons are just commas with jaunty hats. No regerts.
Just went through the hassle of factory resetting my phone to solve a problem that did not, in fact, get solved. Hell of a way to start the week.
November 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Just went through the hassle of factory resetting my phone to solve a problem that did not, in fact, get solved. Hell of a way to start the week.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die, Charlie Brown.
Charlie Brown, if someone asks you if you're a god, you say YES!
Ah, you think darkness is your ally, Charlie Brown?
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die, Charlie Brown.
This team is exhausting.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:18 AM
This team is exhausting.
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Donald Trump is moving too quickly to embrace Zohran Mamdani.
by Chuck Schumer
by Chuck Schumer
November 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Donald Trump is moving too quickly to embrace Zohran Mamdani.
by Chuck Schumer
by Chuck Schumer
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Workers in all industries have more in common with each other than the executives making millions. Solidarity with everyone who is not crossing the line or buying Starbucks while we’re on a ULP strike! Special thanks to @Teamsters, for not crossing the picket line and standing with us✊
November 23, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Workers in all industries have more in common with each other than the executives making millions. Solidarity with everyone who is not crossing the line or buying Starbucks while we’re on a ULP strike! Special thanks to @Teamsters, for not crossing the picket line and standing with us✊
GENITAL CHECKPOINTS AT EVERY PUBLIC BATHROOM. WE ARE THE PARTY OF PERSONAL LIBERTY.
I just want to say this right now, if a person demands to see my or anyone else's genitals in the bathroom i'm putting their face in the nearest toilet and flushing
November 23, 2025 at 4:56 AM
GENITAL CHECKPOINTS AT EVERY PUBLIC BATHROOM. WE ARE THE PARTY OF PERSONAL LIBERTY.
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republicans wisely trying to discount the epstein issue by screaming "nothing burger! NOTHING BURGER!" at an angry population who cannot currently afford beef
November 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
republicans wisely trying to discount the epstein issue by screaming "nothing burger! NOTHING BURGER!" at an angry population who cannot currently afford beef
What's your favorite song about the rain? Honorable mention to Purple and November.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZPu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZPu...
November 16, 2025 at 3:33 AM
What's your favorite song about the rain? Honorable mention to Purple and November.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZPu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZPu...
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God bless the Valley 🫡
This is why I love the 818. Even A listers are out here and no one gives a fuck
November 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
God bless the Valley 🫡
Pretty wild that, after all the terrible things he's done and all the terrible things he's yet to do, Trump is still only ever going to be the second biggest piece of shit to ever be president.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student...
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student...
![A screenshot from Wikipedia that reads, "The challenge of on-campus organising, in at least one respect, may be greater for the new SDS than for its predecessor in sixties. When in 1966, gubernatorial candidate Ronald Reagan promised to "clean up the mess" caused by "beatniks, radicals and filthy speech advocates" at Berkeley, like many public colleges across the country the University of California system did not charge tuition. Urged on by his adviser, the economist Roger A. Freeman, who cautioned against the "danger of producing an educated proletariat", Governor Reagan reduced state grants in favour of tuition accompanied by loans. The new costs to students, according to the governor, would "get rid of undesirables", those on campus "who are there to carry [picket] signs and not to study". Coinciding with the accelerated growth, and increasing ethnic diversity, of the student population, the policy was adopted nationwide during his presidency in the 1980s. Studies have found an association between the student loan burden and political engagement — evidence that it dissuades students, particularly from lower income backgrounds, from assuming the risks involved in political activism."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4i66gykunw63xkjljc52h2ju/bafkreia2fpzjyn2d2sx73g4xvpv5xkhl4sveml5zcraiyhpg44rl6nitvi@jpeg)
November 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Pretty wild that, after all the terrible things he's done and all the terrible things he's yet to do, Trump is still only ever going to be the second biggest piece of shit to ever be president.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student...
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student...
This would be an amazing amazing for a bold, young leader to step in and put his ass out to pasture. @schumer.senate.gov orchestrated this defeat, and rendered the last few weeks of fighting pointless.
He is not the leader for this fight. He's Neville fucking Chamberlain.
He is not the leader for this fight. He's Neville fucking Chamberlain.
The fact that none of the 8 Dems are up for re-election in 2026 is a pretty good sign @schumer.senate.gov engineered the surrender
November 10, 2025 at 4:41 AM
This would be an amazing amazing for a bold, young leader to step in and put his ass out to pasture. @schumer.senate.gov orchestrated this defeat, and rendered the last few weeks of fighting pointless.
He is not the leader for this fight. He's Neville fucking Chamberlain.
He is not the leader for this fight. He's Neville fucking Chamberlain.
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The Dem senators who were willing to step up and vote no collectively have enough votes to remove Schumer as leader. This is a moment of crisis. Until I see someone take a shot, they’re all suspect.
March 14, 2025 at 3:26 AM
The Dem senators who were willing to step up and vote no collectively have enough votes to remove Schumer as leader. This is a moment of crisis. Until I see someone take a shot, they’re all suspect.
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Feeling low today, might go walk around Target because I know the employees have to smile at me.
DONT WORRY IM NOT GONNA BUY ANYTHING
DONT WORRY IM NOT GONNA BUY ANYTHING
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Feeling low today, might go walk around Target because I know the employees have to smile at me.
DONT WORRY IM NOT GONNA BUY ANYTHING
DONT WORRY IM NOT GONNA BUY ANYTHING
Restricting travel rights for a vulnerable minority is a precursor to throwing them in camps. This administration is being crystal clear about what they aim to do, and they know they have vanishingly little time to do it.
I am very scared for my trans friends right now.
I am very scared for my trans friends right now.
The court's decision is not a final ruling, however; it just permits Trump's passport policy to go into effect while litigation continues in the lower courts. n.pr/47WNjiF
Supreme Court allows Trump to prohibit gender election on passports
The court's decision is not a final ruling, however; it just permits Trump's passport policy to go into effect while litigation continues in the lower courts.
n.pr
November 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Restricting travel rights for a vulnerable minority is a precursor to throwing them in camps. This administration is being crystal clear about what they aim to do, and they know they have vanishingly little time to do it.
I am very scared for my trans friends right now.
I am very scared for my trans friends right now.
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Very sorry to hear about the passing of Dick Cheney.
...not that he's dead, of course. But that it was from heart disease, instead of trapped in a burning car, screaming as the flames slowly licked the flesh from his bones, feeling his own eyeballs melt down his face.
But I'll take what I can get.
...not that he's dead, of course. But that it was from heart disease, instead of trapped in a burning car, screaming as the flames slowly licked the flesh from his bones, feeling his own eyeballs melt down his face.
But I'll take what I can get.
November 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Very sorry to hear about the passing of Dick Cheney.
...not that he's dead, of course. But that it was from heart disease, instead of trapped in a burning car, screaming as the flames slowly licked the flesh from his bones, feeling his own eyeballs melt down his face.
But I'll take what I can get.
...not that he's dead, of course. But that it was from heart disease, instead of trapped in a burning car, screaming as the flames slowly licked the flesh from his bones, feeling his own eyeballs melt down his face.
But I'll take what I can get.
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trump is what happens when a man desperately craves love from his dad and vance is what happens when a man desperately craves love from his mom
sure it's frighteningly easy to manipulate trump. but somehow vance is even worse. he will be and do anything his handlers dictate. marry a south asian and write a book about being a hick yes mistress chua. convert to catholicism and be a nazi yes master thiel. terrifying cipher of a man
October 31, 2025 at 4:52 PM
trump is what happens when a man desperately craves love from his dad and vance is what happens when a man desperately craves love from his mom
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This Platner thing is a mess, but I gotta say this:
Why, in 2025, would a nazi need to pretend to be a Democrat, when the other party is actively rewarding and platforming candidates for being loud-and-proud nazis? Why wouldn't he just run as a Republican?
Why, in 2025, would a nazi need to pretend to be a Democrat, when the other party is actively rewarding and platforming candidates for being loud-and-proud nazis? Why wouldn't he just run as a Republican?
October 29, 2025 at 7:09 AM
This Platner thing is a mess, but I gotta say this:
Why, in 2025, would a nazi need to pretend to be a Democrat, when the other party is actively rewarding and platforming candidates for being loud-and-proud nazis? Why wouldn't he just run as a Republican?
Why, in 2025, would a nazi need to pretend to be a Democrat, when the other party is actively rewarding and platforming candidates for being loud-and-proud nazis? Why wouldn't he just run as a Republican?
There should be a city ordinance barring radio stations from playing "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" by The Flaming Lips before noon.
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
There should be a city ordinance barring radio stations from playing "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" by The Flaming Lips before noon.
Sharing to remind myself to read this later, but also maybe one or two of you will be interested.
Funnily enough, I just tonight started Eric Holt-Giménez’s “The Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism” which right out of the gate touched on the mystification of capitalism, particularly in the USA.
October 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Sharing to remind myself to read this later, but also maybe one or two of you will be interested.