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Paul
@oneofthegoodpauls.bsky.social
Alabama resident, on the left, former engineer, married with one kid, love videogames, sci-fi, and books. He/Him
I post ~10-20 times a day. Follow me, I won't take up too much of your feed.

I am 40 or 50 years old.
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Reposting this again. They're about 40% to their goal and this typically will stay open a month, to probably Feb 24. If you can, please support some brilliant writers who have been doing excellent work and will do excellent work in the future.
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Someone on a Discord pointed out the irony of Time magazine celebrating the 30th anniversary of Pokémon after having run this weird, Japanophobic article in 1999 that made the game seem like this insidious threat to American children.

time.com/archive/6737...
February 11, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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shit's been really crazy this past year, what with being laid off & now my lease isn't being renewed. i have until 4/30 to find another place. i'm trying to raise at least first months rent. let me bake for you! i do cookies, candy, your choice for a minimum donation of $30!
paypal.me/shannontiare
February 5, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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Our journey into platform adventures before Metroid continues. Can I get my fellow Americans to care about UK computer game history? (If you stick with it, you’ll be rewarded with some Japanese computer games soon.)

youtu.be/orrewVQYqzc
He Quit The Music Industry And Made A Hit Computer Game | MetroidMania (Dynamite Dan II (1986))
YouTube video by Critical Kate (of A Critical Hit!)
youtu.be
February 11, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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February 10, 2026 at 3:55 PM
I clicked the He and Him pronouns before seeing there was a He/Him so I clicked that one and unliked the first two, but now my pronouns are
He He/Him Him
February 11, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.
February 11, 2026 at 12:43 AM
I'm out here on the Internet arguing that Nien Nunb is a more important character than Chewbacca, and I mean it
February 10, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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This is the 38th time that the U.S. military has unlawfully killed civilians on the orders of Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump. At least 130 people — never charged with crimes, their identities unknown to their executioners — are now dead.
February 10, 2026 at 11:29 AM
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HDYGH, Robyn?
We chat the path from English lit to letting large birds fly, with a pit stop in Dollywood.

Robyn is currently the director of Auburn University's raptor center.
Spotify – Web Player
open.spotify.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:38 PM
I'm glad we finally have draughts
February 9, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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💯👇
February 9, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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The Ford worker who heckled Trump during a visit to the company's plant still has his job and "has no discipline on his record," a union official said
Ford worker who heckled Trump keeps job, 'no discipline' for incident
The United Auto Workers union said TJ Sabula remains employed and called out the president for making an obscene gesture toward the worker.
www.detroitnews.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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RIP Greg Brown, the guy who wrote “The Distance.”

www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
Greg Brown, founding guitarist of Cake and writer of ‘The Distance,’ dies
Greg Brown, a founding guitarist of the Sacramento band Cake, has died after a brief illness.
www.sfchronicle.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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In Boston ICE randomly pulled over this huge white Irish guy with a Mass drivers license, 20 years in the states, legal status, pending green card and have held him for 5 months, his citizen wife paid a $4k bond that was ignored(!) ICE forged his signature on deportation agreement, no appeal
Kerryman who is married, living and working legally in the United States for >20 years has been incarcerated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) since September 2025.

Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘Absolute hell’: Irish man with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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Holy shit! Look who's covering #Dekkar! (from Axiom's Instagram) #OnCinemaAtTheCinema
February 9, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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The rise of Chinese soft power (or hard power in this case) is complete.
February 8, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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$20,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE MIGHT BE IN THE UNDERWORLD BUT WE ARE OVER THE MOON BECAUSE WE HAVE RAISED OVER $20,000 FOR @raceforward.org!

#BTB26 DAY 2 IS STILL UNDERWAY AND Y'ALL MADE HAPPEN WITH YOUR DONOS! DON'T STOP HERE, LET'S KEEP IT GOING!

BLACK JOY, HECK YEAH!
gdq.gg/live
February 7, 2026 at 4:18 AM
I don't like those old men on the Muppets. They're mean, they should just go to see a different show
February 6, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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🎲 A new season of Adventuring Academy is coming!

Brennan will be joined by guests: Quinns, Em Friedman, Mica Burton, Jasper William Cartwright, Robbie Daymond, Aabria Iyengar, Oscar Montoya, Vic Michaelis, and Kimia Behpoornia!

Premieres Friday Feb. 20th, only on @dropout.tv!
February 6, 2026 at 6:31 PM
I was just on a walk and saw the most amusing hat. If taken at face value, the man wearing this hat apparently instills a great fear in the many species of fish — a fear perhaps only rivalled by the longing his presence promotes in women.
February 6, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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I think this headline from 2019 holds up pretty well.
www.welcometohellworld.com/the-presiden...
The president is a racist piece of shit
Does it make you feel better to hear it said plainly
www.welcometohellworld.com
January 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Me laughing it up watching Bitcoin crash: Please nobody tell me how the dollar is doing over the next few years
February 5, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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Legal US residents from around the country are being arrested and flown to concentration camps in places like El Paso. Those who manage to find legal help, get a court hearing and get released are released outside the camps, often thousands of miles from home, with only the clothes on their backs.
February 5, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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it's illegal to be queer in nigeria, but queer people still exist there (as they do everywhere). nigerian reporter ebenezer mowete spoke to queer local gamers about how they do and don't express their identities when they play --> www.mothership.blog/queer-nigeri...
We spoke to queer Nigerian gamers about the identities they hide online
Voice chat can mean teamwork, coordination, and banter, but for many of the queer Nigerian gamers we spoke to, the mic is a risk assessment tool.
www.mothership.blog
February 5, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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One of the reasons I so greatly dislike the “can men and women be friends?” nonsense (yes, full stop, shut up) is that it casts suspicion on people with opposite-sex friends instead of where it more often belongs: on people with no opposite-sex friends.
Anyway, yeah. The overwhelming impression one gets from so many of these emails is that a lot of them are guys who have never had a real, serious friendship with a woman in their lives.

Which sucks for them, but also sucks for every woman who has to deal with them, ever.
February 5, 2026 at 6:47 PM