Glowballist
@glowballist.bsky.social
Freakin' Rican 🇺🇲🇵🇷
History nerd, gamer, working on Latin (pretty good) and Ancient Greek (ehh)
Liberal Social Democrat and (small r) radical republican
History nerd, gamer, working on Latin (pretty good) and Ancient Greek (ehh)
Liberal Social Democrat and (small r) radical republican
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Glowballist
@glowballist.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Introducing myself:
Politically social liberal
Interests:
📜 History
🏛️ Classical languages (Latin and Greek)
⚔️ HEMA
🔫 Guns and weaponry (esp historical)
🤠 Historical reenactment
🎮 Videogames
Politically social liberal
Interests:
📜 History
🏛️ Classical languages (Latin and Greek)
⚔️ HEMA
🔫 Guns and weaponry (esp historical)
🤠 Historical reenactment
🎮 Videogames
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i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions
February 15, 2026 at 1:49 AM
i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions
This game changed my life.
Happy 28th anniversary Xenogears!
Truly a legend of the PS1 era and RPGs in general.
May it one day get a port. It probably never will but it's nice to dream.
Truly a legend of the PS1 era and RPGs in general.
May it one day get a port. It probably never will but it's nice to dream.
a couple of people standing on a bridge in front of a giant robot
Alt: a couple of people standing on a bridge in front of a giant robot
media.tenor.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:52 PM
This game changed my life.
One of the less well-known facts about Puerto Ricans is that you can tell a lot about their politics based on whether their Puerto Rican flags have American blue or Cuban blue.
February 10, 2026 at 8:37 PM
One of the less well-known facts about Puerto Ricans is that you can tell a lot about their politics based on whether their Puerto Rican flags have American blue or Cuban blue.
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It’s why I think a lot of American politics fall flat, because while they are all “conservative,” the new Anglo RW does not care about national security, it just is a racist movement who hates on immigrants/minorities and will gladly weaken its national standing to achieve this.
February 10, 2026 at 1:01 AM
It’s why I think a lot of American politics fall flat, because while they are all “conservative,” the new Anglo RW does not care about national security, it just is a racist movement who hates on immigrants/minorities and will gladly weaken its national standing to achieve this.
Since PR discourse is popular again, my personal opinion is statehood>independence>>>status quo.
February 9, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Since PR discourse is popular again, my personal opinion is statehood>independence>>>status quo.
It brings me no pleasure to say that the leftists were right about billionaires.
February 9, 2026 at 8:42 PM
It brings me no pleasure to say that the leftists were right about billionaires.
The next Democratic president better declare cold war on global fascism. Anything less would be a failure.
February 9, 2026 at 1:32 PM
The next Democratic president better declare cold war on global fascism. Anything less would be a failure.
When a mod is a 100% improvement over the original in every single way
February 4, 2026 at 9:07 PM
When a mod is a 100% improvement over the original in every single way
GOP branding is insane. Trump all but destroyed NATO cooperation and still +8 on national security, +1 on foreign policy!
"Who do you trust more on..."
🔴 National Security: R+8
🔴 Immigration: R+7
🔴 Trade: R+3
🔴 Debt: R+3
🔴 Foreign Policy: R+1
🔴 Taxes: R+1
🟣 Economy: Tie
🔵 Energy: D+4
🔵 Healthcare: D+11
🔵 Medicare: D+11
🔵 Abortion: D+15
🔵 LGBTQ: D+27
Morning Consult / Jan 25, 2026
🔴 National Security: R+8
🔴 Immigration: R+7
🔴 Trade: R+3
🔴 Debt: R+3
🔴 Foreign Policy: R+1
🔴 Taxes: R+1
🟣 Economy: Tie
🔵 Energy: D+4
🔵 Healthcare: D+11
🔵 Medicare: D+11
🔵 Abortion: D+15
🔵 LGBTQ: D+27
Morning Consult / Jan 25, 2026
January 27, 2026 at 6:59 PM
GOP branding is insane. Trump all but destroyed NATO cooperation and still +8 on national security, +1 on foreign policy!
Remember, patriots: We have faced worse odds before.
January 27, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Remember, patriots: We have faced worse odds before.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Source: Norton, Mary Beth; 1774: The Long Year of Revolution; page xviii
January 26, 2026 at 1:06 PM
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Source: Norton, Mary Beth; 1774: The Long Year of Revolution; page xviii
Now that I have had time to dwell on it, Expedition 33 is in my top 5 favorite games, and the OST is #1, finally beating my beloved Xenogears for music.
June 2, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Now that I have had time to dwell on it, Expedition 33 is in my top 5 favorite games, and the OST is #1, finally beating my beloved Xenogears for music.
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Drives me up a wall seeing the right wingers who completely reject the “city on a hill” ethos claim to be pro “American exceptionalism.” It’s total opposition to everything that makes America special just wrapped in the stars & stripes to distract the rubes
May 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Drives me up a wall seeing the right wingers who completely reject the “city on a hill” ethos claim to be pro “American exceptionalism.” It’s total opposition to everything that makes America special just wrapped in the stars & stripes to distract the rubes
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and that is a problem for like the Bernie Sanders theory of change, where you turn out the huge population of disgruntled nonvoters and win big. these people are plainly not just waiting for social democracy
May 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
and that is a problem for like the Bernie Sanders theory of change, where you turn out the huge population of disgruntled nonvoters and win big. these people are plainly not just waiting for social democracy
Can confirm; my 7 year old showed me all this today.
May 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Can confirm; my 7 year old showed me all this today.
E33: The thought crossed my mind of how Act 2 would end, but I can't believe the mad lads actually did it.
May 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
E33: The thought crossed my mind of how Act 2 would end, but I can't believe the mad lads actually did it.
🟩 Beaten
🟨 Played partially
🟨 Played partially
May 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
🟩 Beaten
🟨 Played partially
🟨 Played partially
I want to participate in Expedition 33 discourse while it is still relevant but I don't want to be spoiled because I still haven't finished the game. The working gamer's dilemma.
May 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I want to participate in Expedition 33 discourse while it is still relevant but I don't want to be spoiled because I still haven't finished the game. The working gamer's dilemma.
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you're literally expected to have counterintuitive, savvy, contrarian views, and people get extraordinarily angry if you say "nah I think the obvious thing you've always heard is right"
May 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
you're literally expected to have counterintuitive, savvy, contrarian views, and people get extraordinarily angry if you say "nah I think the obvious thing you've always heard is right"
80 years ago: "Beaten Nazis Ask for Mercy"
May 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
80 years ago: "Beaten Nazis Ask for Mercy"
What if the Cardinals are just smoking a lot of weed in there and that's where the smoke comes from?
May 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
What if the Cardinals are just smoking a lot of weed in there and that's where the smoke comes from?
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…weird how that works.
May 4, 2025 at 10:38 PM
…weird how that works.
If a religion considers vanity a virtue and empathy a sin, that religion, whatever it calls itself, is not Christianity.
Why read past headlines: Perhaps you're hip enough to have heard of this trend.
Still, I dig in and connect it to larger and troubling right-wing Christian discourse, including the claim that empathy is a "sin".
www.salon.com/2025/05/05/t...
Still, I dig in and connect it to larger and troubling right-wing Christian discourse, including the claim that empathy is a "sin".
www.salon.com/2025/05/05/t...
The "Jesus glow" trend exposes the emptiness of social media religion
Conservative Christians are hawking faith like it's the hot new beauty treatment
www.salon.com
May 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
If a religion considers vanity a virtue and empathy a sin, that religion, whatever it calls itself, is not Christianity.
People of my generation will not inherit the world we were promised. And this is after weathering two once-in-a-century recessions, student debt, and high housing costs.
It was a world historical fumble that changed the trajectory of America in a way we won't recover from in my lifetime.
Every now and then I just pause and think that … we could have just elected Kamala Harris, and we’d still have an economy that was the strongest in the world; we’d still have an American-led trans-Atlantic order; we’d be assured that our universities would remain the envy of the world; … (1/x)
April 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
People of my generation will not inherit the world we were promised. And this is after weathering two once-in-a-century recessions, student debt, and high housing costs.