Stephen Raab
@onetruestephen.bsky.social
Author of “Battle Buddy” in Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine. Opinions my own. Same handle on the old place.
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Stephen Raab
@onetruestephen.bsky.social
· Dec 28
Spotted at my local @barnesandnoble.com — January/February 2025 issue of @analogsf.bsky.social , featuring my debut short story “Battle Buddy”!
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Duck just tastes amazing any way you slice it. The best poultry and it’s not close
If you're going to commit to "we do this rarely" poultry, duck is better.
And with modern family sizes, it makes more sense.
And with modern family sizes, it makes more sense.
November 24, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Duck just tastes amazing any way you slice it. The best poultry and it’s not close
The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that, Charlie Brown?
One does not simply walk into Mordor, Charlie Brown
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that, Charlie Brown?
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When people call him a Zionist it's literally just that he doesn't hate Jewish people
I saw someone call Zohran a zionist and huh, I guess words don’t have meanings anymore
November 24, 2025 at 12:49 AM
When people call him a Zionist it's literally just that he doesn't hate Jewish people
“You ordered it, and we’re not leaving the restaurant until you eat the *whole* thing, young man”
Joe Median: "you better not get us involved in any fucking wars, but if you do, you better never leave, that's coward shit"
November 24, 2025 at 1:22 AM
“You ordered it, and we’re not leaving the restaurant until you eat the *whole* thing, young man”
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Americans do not under any circumstances want to enter a war, nor do they under any circumstances want to exit a war.
Trump had found an issue more unpopular than his handling of inflation - attacking Venezuela:
www.cbsnews.com/feature/cbs-...
www.cbsnews.com/feature/cbs-...
November 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Americans do not under any circumstances want to enter a war, nor do they under any circumstances want to exit a war.
”Hey remember when ‘by Taylor Sheridan’ was an endorsement, not a warning?”
Wind River rocks. One of the most intense gunfights I’ve seen in a movie.
I love Wind River. It's not well enough known or appreciated imo
November 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
”Hey remember when ‘by Taylor Sheridan’ was an endorsement, not a warning?”
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"Listen guys, I know we were all completely justified to hate Joe Biden as much as we did, and in fact it's possible we did not hate him enough, aways gotta leave that possibility open! But maybe we um... don't uh... don't hate *Trump* as much as we should...? Biden bad though, don't get me wrong!!"
November 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
"Listen guys, I know we were all completely justified to hate Joe Biden as much as we did, and in fact it's possible we did not hate him enough, aways gotta leave that possibility open! But maybe we um... don't uh... don't hate *Trump* as much as we should...? Biden bad though, don't get me wrong!!"
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Words cannot express my love of the entire concept or the Bespoke Sports Team-Specific Hallmark Christmas Movie, one of the most American things that could ever exist
November 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Words cannot express my love of the entire concept or the Bespoke Sports Team-Specific Hallmark Christmas Movie, one of the most American things that could ever exist
What’s the highest-profile sporting event that James Comey has *ever* been seen attending?
im sure i can be credibly accused of libbing out here, but my general impression with people taking these sorts of jobs is they usually spend the vast bulk of their time doing them. it's a 4-year gig at best. how do you justify to yourself going to ufc and concerts all the time on taxpayers' dimes?
November 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
What’s the highest-profile sporting event that James Comey has *ever* been seen attending?
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these people basically just take luxury government jets and go to fancy events like make a wish kids while their minions flashbang your elderly neighbors
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 AM
these people basically just take luxury government jets and go to fancy events like make a wish kids while their minions flashbang your elderly neighbors
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It was though
Slotkin: "He's trying to distract us from the big stories of last week, the Epstein files and economy. He's tweeting 'the economy is the best it's ever been' -- amazing considering the public isn't stupid. It reminded me of Joe Biden. Biden tried to tell us for a year that the economy was great."
November 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
It was though
ELO doesn’t lie
My 7yo just said I’m “one of the best moms in the world” and when I questioned “one of the best?” He said “I know a some other moms.” Looool.
November 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
ELO doesn’t lie
“I hate Jeffries and Schumer, I’ll work out the reasons later”
Is that the point? Because I've got other people swearing that Shachtman is saying that Schumer and Jeffries are fools for not embracing Mamdani in spite of his owning or whatever of Trump.
November 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
“I hate Jeffries and Schumer, I’ll work out the reasons later”
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
It may have been a mistake for Syracuse to take their entire recruiting class from Bishop Sycamore
Do they let Notre Dame and Syracuse move to a running clock?
November 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
It may have been a mistake for Syracuse to take their entire recruiting class from Bishop Sycamore
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people are reading "catch-and-kill" in the journalistic sense but she was probably just finding raccoons for him to eat
November 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
people are reading "catch-and-kill" in the journalistic sense but she was probably just finding raccoons for him to eat
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Just remembering how one of the most important and widely read and dropped-with-maximally-damaging-timing "Biden is old and senile" pieces was reported by Nuzzi. It makes you think!
well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
November 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Just remembering how one of the most important and widely read and dropped-with-maximally-damaging-timing "Biden is old and senile" pieces was reported by Nuzzi. It makes you think!
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As mayor of New York Mamdani controls access to the one thing Trump values above all else: tickets to CATS.
November 22, 2025 at 1:09 AM
As mayor of New York Mamdani controls access to the one thing Trump values above all else: tickets to CATS.
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i think this is basically right, trump’s vision for america is an extractive multi-commodity export economy. a deliberate resource curse that requires minimal labor inputs and can be controlled via as few nodes as possible. bsky.app/profile/mugr...
It's literally why America has two two parties it does, one party represents natural resource extraction, high volume low margin low skill management and investments, the other represents high margin highly educated skilled work and investment vehicles.
November 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
i think this is basically right, trump’s vision for america is an extractive multi-commodity export economy. a deliberate resource curse that requires minimal labor inputs and can be controlled via as few nodes as possible. bsky.app/profile/mugr...
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She was a true believer and the Epstein cover-up shattered her entire world lmao
In her resignation statement, MTG breaks very dramatically with the secret-plan conspiracy theorists about what’s happening in DC.
November 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
She was a true believer and the Epstein cover-up shattered her entire world lmao
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Ok, pretty funny of Zohran’s people to put out the absolute model of the sort of statement that drives Bluesky absolutely *insane* to be studiously ignored On Here because of the source
November 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Ok, pretty funny of Zohran’s people to put out the absolute model of the sort of statement that drives Bluesky absolutely *insane* to be studiously ignored On Here because of the source
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trump is, first and foremost, a starfucker
November 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
trump is, first and foremost, a starfucker
Oof.mp3
Oh my god that is the worst possible answer
November 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Oof.mp3
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"She’s not trying to rebuild her reputation as a journalist—she’s building a different kind of brand entirely, one where being interesting matters more than being ethical, where attention is the only currency that still spends."
The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
The Olivia Nuzzi Comeback Is Everything Wrong With Modern Media
Olivia Nuzzi’s comeback isn’t a personal scandal story—it’s proof that today’s media rewards access, personality, and controversy more than ethics.
www.mediaite.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"She’s not trying to rebuild her reputation as a journalist—she’s building a different kind of brand entirely, one where being interesting matters more than being ethical, where attention is the only currency that still spends."
The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
This expansion really shook up the Rock-Paper-Scissors meta
kinda sorta but it’s complicated (and yeah, you can…sever the cable)
November 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This expansion really shook up the Rock-Paper-Scissors meta