Bo Thompson
Retired Educator / Learning Scientist
Solo Game Developer
Pixel Artist
Worked on a bunch of JRPGs back in the day
Male presenting NB
Pronouns: Any if you must
Avatar alt: Pixel art of a male presenting Black person with pink hair in Kente Kufi and Robes
- Never underestimate the ability for Democrats to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory if it allows them to take a more moderate position. Truly, the only party that could Both-Sides the literal battle between good and evil.
- "Democrats will now get the fight they should want: a hardball negotiation over DHS funding alone...ICE is terrorizing America’s streets right now. Democrats have the ability and the leverage to play hardball for some of these reforms right now." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
- No, I get it. Politics was too hard so now they want to put a spit shine on things and really spruce the place up. Turn themselves into a regular Saks. Here's the thing: Saks is filing Chapter 11 at the moment and I don't even hate their politics. Ain't gonna cut it, chief.
- One of the more interesting things in an excellent anime OVA Read or Die! was the notion that many of those fighting were fictionalized replicas of real people brought to life through magic and readers' beliefs. A kind of proxy ghost, if you will. Using AI to fake and puppet the dead feels similar.
- Regret is a fascinating thing. I regret plenty in my life, but I can sincerely say the number of times I've harmed others? I regret only a handful. In each event, I did not understand the full weight of the harm I did until much later, and even if they recovered? I will carry those memories forever.
- Look, is it an unorthodox approach to closed shop unionization? Sure, but you know I support a good union and you really couldn't have negotiated better pay.
- look at what hustle culture has done to us www.newsobserver.com/news/state/n...
- A lot of people are hung up on the "rare misstep" statement here, but I'm here to tell you that they're right. It WAS a rare misstep for Miller. Usually when he urinates all over some topic it's intentional. This time it erupted like a bout of moral incontinence. Embarrassing from a seasoned pro.
- I'm always super cognizant of folks who dismiss the culture of some diasporic group as less valid than the people still in their motherland. I think it says a LOT about you if you think cultures can only be valid and develop on native soil, rather than being something people carry away and adapt.
- (This thought brought to you by reading someone insist "Italian" American food is somehow just a cheap knockoff of "real Italian food." Genuinely I hope they choke on a pasta shape they can't name. Strozzapreti would make a poetic choice.)
- Between this and the 4th year associate just getting the US attorney nomination, I would be willing to state I don't the DOJ legal corps are having a "good time." Not in any technical sense.
- They say that if you really want to turn voters around on a progressive candidate, the secret is to trash their current candidate of choice while implying that being gentler with establishment's ego makes another a better choice. I do hear, from men, compliance is an attractive feature in a woman.🤮
- From the Editorial Board: The good news for voters otherwise predisposed to Kat Abughazaleh is that there’s a youthful progressive candidate in the race with similar views but who comes with a record of service and without the ego: Bushra Amiwala. trib.al/LXhfqMv
- It's rare that you get to experience something that truly deserves to be called this word, but the Epstein files really are a lurid examination into how much they've achieved behind the scenes.
