Raoul Duke
@raouldukeesq45.bsky.social
Better lives are possible…
You ever have one of those weekends where everything kinda has you feeling like "This is what my life is supposed to be?" I was not meant to endlessly labor, working a 9 to 5 job to barely keep on scrapping by. I was meant to do see friends, write, cook, do my youtube thing, cuddle with cats & nap.
November 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Better lives are possible…
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Don't make me tap the sign
youtu.be/3WSKKolgL2U?...
youtu.be/3WSKKolgL2U?...
October 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Don't make me tap the sign
youtu.be/3WSKKolgL2U?...
youtu.be/3WSKKolgL2U?...
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If history holds, from Chicago's police department censoring Macbeth for violence to Tumblr censoring renaissance art for b00bz, mockery won't change the mind of censors high on self-righteousness but it will damage their reputations and I'll take what I can get.
September 29, 2025 at 4:33 AM
If history holds, from Chicago's police department censoring Macbeth for violence to Tumblr censoring renaissance art for b00bz, mockery won't change the mind of censors high on self-righteousness but it will damage their reputations and I'll take what I can get.
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Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
September 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
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WE DID IT! We raised over $16,000 today for sex worker mutual aid! Many many more thanks and thoughts to come - but for now I’m exhausted, I’m elated, and I’m so grateful for everybody who showed up for @corntelethon.bsky.social today whether virtually, in studio, or via donation. 😌🥰🫶😹
September 5, 2025 at 8:06 AM
WE DID IT! We raised over $16,000 today for sex worker mutual aid! Many many more thanks and thoughts to come - but for now I’m exhausted, I’m elated, and I’m so grateful for everybody who showed up for @corntelethon.bsky.social today whether virtually, in studio, or via donation. 😌🥰🫶😹
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These guys are simply not smart.
September 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
These guys are simply not smart.
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Maybe a few more people will hear this now because somebody else said it?
Lord knows sex workers have been saying this about AV laws since 2023 and a whole lot of folks haven’t wanted to listen.
Lord knows sex workers have been saying this about AV laws since 2023 and a whole lot of folks haven’t wanted to listen.
Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.
While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
August 23, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Maybe a few more people will hear this now because somebody else said it?
Lord knows sex workers have been saying this about AV laws since 2023 and a whole lot of folks haven’t wanted to listen.
Lord knows sex workers have been saying this about AV laws since 2023 and a whole lot of folks haven’t wanted to listen.
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I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany.
But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.
But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.
SDCC ‘25: What to do if ICE crashes the con
If you see ICE or Border Patrol agents while attending San Diego Comic-Con, know your rights and exercise them.
If you see ICE or Border Patrol agents while attending San Diego Comic-Con, know your rights and exercise them.
SDCC ‘25: What to do if ICE crashes the con
If you see ICE or Border Patrol agents while attending San Diego Comic-Con, know your rights and exercise them.
www.comicsbeat.com
July 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany.
But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.
But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.
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Hulk Hogan ratted out other wrestlers attempting to unionize to save his own position and paycheck above anyone else's & gladly accepted funding from Peter Thiel for his Gawker court case that paved frequently abused legal precedents for the rich to shut down any media outlets that embarrass them.
July 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Hulk Hogan ratted out other wrestlers attempting to unionize to save his own position and paycheck above anyone else's & gladly accepted funding from Peter Thiel for his Gawker court case that paved frequently abused legal precedents for the rich to shut down any media outlets that embarrass them.
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I just paid my real estate taxes online. If you pay by echeck (which I did), no fee. However, if you pay any other way, credit, debit, Venmo, etc, they charge $40!! So, ppl who don’t have a checking acct, or enough $ in their acct (ie those who are struggling the most) get gouged. SUCH CRAP.
July 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I just paid my real estate taxes online. If you pay by echeck (which I did), no fee. However, if you pay any other way, credit, debit, Venmo, etc, they charge $40!! So, ppl who don’t have a checking acct, or enough $ in their acct (ie those who are struggling the most) get gouged. SUCH CRAP.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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Just so we understand with whom we have the pleasure.
Blech.
BLECH.
No. Not letting this go.
So, this is your regular reminder that CBS is trash.
Blech.
BLECH.
No. Not letting this go.
So, this is your regular reminder that CBS is trash.
June 27, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Just so we understand with whom we have the pleasure.
Blech.
BLECH.
No. Not letting this go.
So, this is your regular reminder that CBS is trash.
Blech.
BLECH.
No. Not letting this go.
So, this is your regular reminder that CBS is trash.
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It's also worth mentioning that Les Moonves, head of CBS at the time, sabotaged Janet Jackson's career for not delivering a groveling apology to him after a certain ramen-haired dweeb pulled open her top during the Super Bowl.
www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...
www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...
Report: Les Moonves Harbored a Years-Long Grudge Against Janet Jackson
Following her wardrobe malfunction at the 2004 Super Bowl—the halftime show we’ll apparently never be able to put behind us—the embattled CBS chief reportedly wanted to sabotage the singer’s career.
www.vanityfair.com
June 27, 2025 at 12:28 AM
It's also worth mentioning that Les Moonves, head of CBS at the time, sabotaged Janet Jackson's career for not delivering a groveling apology to him after a certain ramen-haired dweeb pulled open her top during the Super Bowl.
www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...
www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...
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It's also one of several reasons Paramount+ is a streaming service I have never tried and never will. I will never give them a penny. I bought classic Star Trek box sets on disc used, ditto a few other series. I am committed to physical media but most especially in this case.
June 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
It's also one of several reasons Paramount+ is a streaming service I have never tried and never will. I will never give them a penny. I bought classic Star Trek box sets on disc used, ditto a few other series. I am committed to physical media but most especially in this case.
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This case stuck with me because this was not he said, she said. He was caught on camera, every allegation she made was backed up via recordings, and she still was the one whose career was ruined.
Weatherly, as an interchangeable white guy in shows gramps likes, was the one deemed essential.
Weatherly, as an interchangeable white guy in shows gramps likes, was the one deemed essential.
June 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
This case stuck with me because this was not he said, she said. He was caught on camera, every allegation she made was backed up via recordings, and she still was the one whose career was ruined.
Weatherly, as an interchangeable white guy in shows gramps likes, was the one deemed essential.
Weatherly, as an interchangeable white guy in shows gramps likes, was the one deemed essential.
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I hope she finds success, fulfillment and healing in her new career but "stepping away" doesn't really describe what was done. (CBS indicated that she invited harassment as an immodest harlot because she wore a swimsuit-- at the beach)
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
Eliza Dushku: "I can't go back to a system that requires me to sign away my rights"
In 2017, the actor discovered that a 'forced arbitration clause' in her contract prevented her from taking a sexual harassment case against CBS to court. Now, after testifying to Congress, she's ready...
www.harpersbazaar.com
June 27, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I hope she finds success, fulfillment and healing in her new career but "stepping away" doesn't really describe what was done. (CBS indicated that she invited harassment as an immodest harlot because she wore a swimsuit-- at the beach)
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
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All the best to her and a reminder that Michael Weatherly, who harassed her, was caught on camera doing so and was enthusiastically defended by CBS (who put Dushku through the wringer), is headlining an NCIS spinoff.
Nearly a decade after Eliza Dushku stepped away acting, the 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' alum is embarking on a new career in mental health counseling: 'True calling.'
Buffy star Eliza Dushku enters new career in mental health counseling 8 years after last role
Nearly a decade after Eliza Dushku stepped away acting, the 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' alum is embarking on a new career in mental health counseling: 'True calling.'
bit.ly
June 27, 2025 at 12:16 AM
All the best to her and a reminder that Michael Weatherly, who harassed her, was caught on camera doing so and was enthusiastically defended by CBS (who put Dushku through the wringer), is headlining an NCIS spinoff.
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leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
June 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
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This is the spirit of Los Angeles.
This is California.
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
#FreeDavidEndRaids
This is California.
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
#FreeDavidEndRaids
June 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This is the spirit of Los Angeles.
This is California.
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
#FreeDavidEndRaids
This is California.
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
#FreeDavidEndRaids
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unlike Vietnam or Afghanistan at least the Marines coming to.L.A. know exactly what this fight is all about
June 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
unlike Vietnam or Afghanistan at least the Marines coming to.L.A. know exactly what this fight is all about
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if white Americans didn’t want Mexicans in California maybe they should not have conquered California from Mexico and then spent 150 years building up an economy entirely dependent on the flow of people and goods across the border just a thought
June 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
if white Americans didn’t want Mexicans in California maybe they should not have conquered California from Mexico and then spent 150 years building up an economy entirely dependent on the flow of people and goods across the border just a thought
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Protesters instigating violence in Boston, March 5, 1770.
June 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Protesters instigating violence in Boston, March 5, 1770.
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Fight the Empire.
June 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Fight the Empire.