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Jess Mulligan

@jessmull.bsky.social

Online game maker and consultant. Author of Developing Online Games: An Insider's Guide. Also wrote the game industry column Biting the Hand... back in the 2000s. I don't answer DMs from people I don't know and usually block first & ask questions later.

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Yeah, can't be having empathy in the officer's corps. They might let a child survive or something.

27.02.2026 22:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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David's Sling (novel) - Wikipedia

Back in 1988, I read a book analogous to the situation we are heading towards. Scared the crap out of me then, and we were nowhere near the sophistication of technology we have now.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%2...

27.02.2026 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Agreed. Just made a $35 donation. Wish it could be more!

27.02.2026 15:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you, @aclu.org . This whole episode is egregious, state-sponsored discrimination. Heading to your site now to make a donation.

27.02.2026 15:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Picture of a cat sleeping in bed, head on pillow, covered with blanket. He's barely awake.

Picture of a cat sleeping in bed, head on pillow, covered with blanket. He's barely awake.

"Its Friday, leave me alone."

27.02.2026 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Voters Are So Embarrassed They Deny Voting for Him Supporters who now disapprove of him are far more likely to deny having voted for him in 2024.

It won't be long before they all deny voting for him.

www.thedailybeast.com/trump-voters...

26.02.2026 23:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Gong Show: The Unknown Comic
YouTube video by RBArchives Gong Show: The Unknown Comic

youtu.be/9BBZVQ4zBcU?...

26.02.2026 18:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Agreed, but at least the Gong Show was mildly entertaining.

26.02.2026 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm actually surprised that ICE is firing them. They are the perfect recruits, as far as ICE is concerned.

26.02.2026 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, this one hit like a sledgehammer. The tech bros are so far off in an alternate reality, they consider the rest of us NPCs.

25.02.2026 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I thought we were done with Yoo, that fucking wanker-canker on the ass of America.

24.02.2026 00:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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🀣

23.02.2026 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Pretty typical of the Trumpanistas; bad things happening to immigrants doesn't matter, until it happens to them.

23.02.2026 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

JFC, 15c?

Long term, we are so screwed.

23.02.2026 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Kash probably thinks that strippers are really into him.

23.02.2026 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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"Horrified" sums it up.

23.02.2026 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can you imagine meeting that thing in real life? I'm not sure I could run fast enough, 😱

23.02.2026 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Paranoid Style of Jeffrey Epstein Has Come for Us All The pedophile plutocrat had some peculiar predilectionsβ€”especially for academics and thinkers who showed a potential to further his grand experiments in inhumanity.

I wrote about how Epstein didn’t create a conspiracy, he fit into an existing framework and exploited the urge toward fascism and bigotry he and other men shared.

newrepublic.com/article/2068...

22.02.2026 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 247    πŸ” 88    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 7
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This is what being a good human being looks like.

22.02.2026 23:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did on J6 🩸🩸🩸

THIS IS WHAT AN INSURRECTION LOOKS LIKE ⬇️⬇️⬇️

22.02.2026 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 970    πŸ” 411    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 21
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I never thought I'd see such a spineless crop of Republicans.

22.02.2026 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Pox on Fools by Thomas Levenson: 9798217155002 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books An urgent and profound history of vaccine skepticism, seeking to understand how our three most common fears about vaccines hardened into a lethal ideologyβ€”from a leading science writer Since the...

Hive mind, publishing cohort:

You may have heard that I have a book coming out soon.* It's a brief polemical history of opposition to vaccines. I'm being asked by my publisher: index or no? Given current reading habits, is one an impediment or a necessity?

Got thoughts?

*Narr: They've heard:

20.02.2026 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 1
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With good news from SCOTUS (for once), we can all rest better today.

20.02.2026 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

(Lutnik and Bessent rushing to call their brokers to buy Ketchup futures.)

20.02.2026 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#BREAKING #SCOTUS blocks President Trump's tariffs.

20.02.2026 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1609    πŸ” 380    πŸ’¬ 76    πŸ“Œ 139

Buy those ketchup futures now.

20.02.2026 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Picture with text: The Royal Family are said to be devastated after Prince Andrew's car crash next Wednesday.

Picture with text: The Royal Family are said to be devastated after Prince Andrew's car crash next Wednesday.

"We told him that road was dangerous..."

20.02.2026 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"This is not the timeline I ordered, human. And where's my breakfast? How did I get stuck with this unbearable staff, anyway?

19.02.2026 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Diversity Is Our Strength This morning, Elon Musk – the world's richest man and a key ally to the president of the United States – posted the content below to the white nationalist chat room and CSAM emporium he owns There's ...

All right, I got mad enough to write a full post about all this:

15.02.2026 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 799    πŸ” 231    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 21

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19.02.2026 13:07 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0