Mosh

Mosh

@mosh3.bsky.social

City firefighter/EMT, enjoyer of games, TV, movies, books, and natural and unnatural vistas

64 followers96 following177 posts

Comparisons are often drawn between the Holocaust and Palestinian genocide, and I understand why, but I'm reading Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and I think the genocide of the Native North Americans bears a much closer resemblance.

Lies, treaties made and quickly broken, massacres of large civilian populations justified by sporadic incidents of frontier violence. Settlers encroaching on territory they feel belongs to them by religious right. Starvation and sexual violence as tools. The hallmarks are all there.

Mosh reposted

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

A heat wave killing twelve thousand people in Western Europe is the kind of thing sci fi writers would have written 15 years ago as the spur that finally got the world to take major climate action. Instead the response has been a big shrug. It will happen again. And worse. And where you live.

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com

At least 12,000 excess deaths were recorded across nine European countries during June's heatwave, national statistics indicated, a toll that could yet rise as more data is released, according to an AFP analysis. u.afp.com/Sr3s

It was my choice to join the fire department. I even enjoy the adrenaline rush of a "good" call. It still sucks shit when I see dead kids and burned bodies. I still think arsonists are bad even though I volunteered to fight fire.

ex-Lethality Jane@lethalityjane.bsky.social

You sent yourself to war! You joined after the 2003 invasion of Iraq! Your parents didn't want you to join! You did it anyway!

It's a shame that Platner's most vocal critics are so insufferable because the guy really is problematic. Still rather have him in the Senate than a Republican from Maine.

I think it's okay not to love an email job, but there are many alternatives before diving into crazy wing nut rabbit holes. Be a firefighter! Learn to love EMS! Learn a trade. Get into nursing. Join the military (warning: you may get deployed into illegal wars).

This post is unavailable.

Mosh reposted

just read a story about a little boy in SC who just learned to ride a bike but he was unvaxxed and got measles and got really sick and got a spinal tap and then pumped with medicines and then his brain swelled anyway and now he won't ever walk or eat on his own and he definitely won't ride a bike

Ghost of Tsushima is so funny. Whole time brother Jin is agonizing about the moral corruption of assassination. Meanwhile I keep failing stealth checks so Samurai Sakai spends the whole game cutting Mongols down in the sickest ways imaginable.

Mosh reposted

An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.

This post is unavailable.

Mosh reposted

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Better video. Crystal clear. He shouldn't have been confronted in the first place. He never reaches for his gun. An agent finds the gun, yells "gun", and removes it from his person while the rest brutalize him. Another agent hears "gun" and panic shoots. These agents are guilty of murder.

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com

UPDATE: @dropsitenews.com has obtained the very graphic video from the lady in the pink coat, which shows ICE executing yet another person in broad daylight:

I don't want to hear "I didn't post the video because it's horrific". It is horrific. So everyone should watch it. Everyone should watch this execution by Nazis in our streets before the Nazis in our government start lying about this man being armed. Fuck ICE, fuck Trump, fuck the Nazi GOP.

thegregshea.bsky.social@thegregshea.bsky.social

Then I will. www.facebook.com/reel/8493348...

Mosh reposted

Replying to @en.afp.com

#UPDATE Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, speaking at Davos, said "instead of becoming a truly global power, Europe remains a beautiful but fragmented kaleidoscope of small and middle powers," adding: "Europe looks lost trying to convince the US president to change"

You won't believe how troubled we are!

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social

Press call with Chuck Schumer says he has been talking with his caucus "I've been talking to so many members of my caucus today. Everybody is very, very just totally, totally, totally troubled."

This guy is so unbearably disconnected from every day life it's incredible. We already have to do that you clown.

Mark Cuban@mcuban.bsky.social

For all Universal HC/Single Payer/M4A advocates. What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ? Who in the USA gov runs the program? R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?

Mamdani and AOC have to live with the Democratic machine to get anything done - that's understandable. Actively campaigning *against* Ossé doesn't have to be part of that equation! Just don't endorse right now. Pivot when you get the question. But let DSA run their challenger.

AZ Intel@azintel.bsky.social

New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will reportedly attend the NYC-DSA endorsement meeting tonight and advocate against endorsing Chi Ossé for Congress. - Politico

A 15 year car loan is diabolical. The Trump administration's next solution to the affordability crisis? Indentured servitude!

The War Monitor@warmonitor.net

They’re only pushing longer home and auto loans because his policies have made life unaffordable for most Americans.

Jon Lovett is a gay man marrying a transgender person who proudly wears feminine clothing and clearly feels very strongly about issues dealing with gender and sexuality. People really just get on this app and say shit.

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social

Now that I think of it, the comfort certain people have with antisemitic iconography is very much connected to gender panic. “Neurotic, effete wordcel with an expensive diploma and IBS” is a very specific stereotype to be contrasted with “masculine, blue collar tribune of the volk.”

Blue Sky has spent the last 48 hours melting down over Platner and Crooked Media and has massively redirected its attention from the catastrophe that is our current head of government. We're about to invade Venezuela. Hard to imagine how fascism beat these clowns.

Platner should probably stop trying to defend himself being a juvenile prick and just drop out. It doesn't deserve this level of attention from the left-liberal coalition that jumps at every opportunity to chew on its own tail.

Mosh reposted

This isn't even a slight exaggeration. He is actively working on destroying the US's entire vaccine infrastructure. The HepB vote will be tomorrow, where they will get rid of the birth dose and recommend it at 30 days, dooming a bunch of infants to chronic infection ft. cirrhosis, cancer, and death.

Mosh reposted

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

This is insane, absolutely disgusting behavior by the Feds. Emergency workers have got to stand up and say no to fascism, because it is going to creep into every aspect of our lives.

Lisa Song@lisalsong.bsky.social

Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...

'Liberals' like Bill Maher paved the road Trump's regime rolled into power.

Blue Georgia@bluegeorgia.bsky.social

Bill Maher warns of a "slow-moving coup — masked police, troops in DC, federalized forces setting up a permanent security state so even if Dems win, Trump won’t give up power. "The next coup will go a lot smoother than the last one."

Mosh reposted

Teen cousins on their way to a family birthday in Las Vegas were detained near an ICE protest—targeted for simply “looking illegal.” “We're minors just trying to go home,” one told an officer. “Doesn't matter, you guys are illegal,” he replied. They left with bloody legs, bruised arms, faces.

Mosh reposted

This rules for a lot of reasons, but especially because it dispels the myths that A.) old games were never political and B.) games like this are just stories, they aren't "about" anything. Should serve as a reminder to anyone writing about games why we should be close reading 'em.

Jason@envinyon.bsky.social

OH MY FUCKING GOOOODDDDDDDDD MATSUNO YOU ARE THE ETERNAL GOAT

Mosh reposted

Mosh reposted

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

Marco Foster@marcofoster.bsky.social

HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center

Mosh reposted

I have in general become way less tolerant of ‘crunchy’ bullshit since ascension of people like RFK jr. to actual power. Sorry but the obnoxious Reddit science and logic guys were right, you should be scorned for believing objectively wrong things about consequential issues.

Mosh reposted

Senate Democrats watching scenes like this and thinking “how can we signal that we’re on the same side of this House Republican?”

News Eye@newseye.bsky.social

Wow. Rep. Chuck Edwards is getting torn apart at a town hall in Asheville, NC. “I’m a veteran & you don’t give a fuck about me. You don’t get to do this to us!” Edwards orders veteran to be thrown out. We’re approaching a tipping point now. Anger across the country is going to boil over soon.