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Nikolai Raven

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WNY-born-and-bred Cascadian. Movie and video game geek, sports enthusiast, politnik, cyclist, and writer. America created me. Now it gets to deal with me. Narrative writer @staroath.bsky.social. He/him.

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Latest posts by nikolai-raven.bsky.social on Bluesky

Today I learned that Trevor Noah is a Liverpool FC supporter!
#SportsSky #LiverpoolFC #soccer #PremierLeague

04.12.2025 03:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Someone needs to let the Supreme Court know that THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES IS A DESIGNATED PROTEST AREA!

Itโ€™s in that โ€œConstitutionโ€ thingie they apparently all swear to uphold!
#supremecourt

03.12.2025 13:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Really, Tennessee?
#election

03.12.2025 12:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m still not a fan of Gavin Newsom being a possible presidential candidate. But his trolling is beyond brilliant!
#gavinnewsom #trump #democrats

03.12.2025 01:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh, the ads I remember! Sonic, Mario 3, Crash Bandicoot, Earthworm Jim, Zelda II, Dr. Mario, Tetrisโ€ฆ

They REALLY donโ€™t make video game ads like they used to!

03.12.2025 01:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I know this sounds like a broken record now, but ICE has to be abolished.

The Democrats need to say that, stand by it, and follow it through.
#ice

03.12.2025 01:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Why the hell is there some kind of automatic swipe activation on my phone?

Iโ€™ve run down the battery because of that!
#iphone #apple #tech

03.12.2025 00:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Of course heโ€™s fighting with the architect. The architect knows what heโ€™s talking about.

02.12.2025 16:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This Christmas isnโ€™t about what I want for myself, but for others.

I want to see Republicans get fucking consequences for Christmas!
#democrats

02.12.2025 14:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The game mechanic where Baby Mario floated off crying after one hit may be the only thing that kept Yoshiโ€™s Island from attaining perfection.
#videogames #RetroGaming

02.12.2025 14:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What Christmas song are we singing along to?

02.12.2025 01:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Speaking of music, are you sick of losing Whamageddon?

Then this year, do Taylorgeddon! Same as Whamageddon, but you only lose if itโ€™s the Taylor Swift version of โ€œLast Christmas!โ€
#whamageddon #MusicSky #TaylorSwift #LastChristmas

02.12.2025 01:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Got into a major argument on Bluesky over rap music today.

I love rap, though. Especially 90s-early 00s rap. It had a very powerful influence on me as a writer.
#MusicSky

01.12.2025 23:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I apologize.

I visited to make what seemed to me a semantic argument. I didnโ€™t mean for it to blow up like this.

I hope my post about your original post was okay. (The one I wrote just a couple of minutes ago.)

01.12.2025 22:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Maybe you mean Eminem was the first musician you ever saw with an advisory sticker? First you ever liked with one?

Just asking. You DID acknowledge 2 Live Crew a little while ago.

01.12.2025 22:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A better way to put this may have been something like โ€œEminem turned my generation of white suburban kids into rap fans.โ€

I DO have to hold to task on 2 Live Crew and the Parental Advisory sticker, though. It was in a LOT of rap CDs before Eminem.
#MusicSky

01.12.2025 22:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Quoth the post:
THE
FIRST
YOUNG
WHITE
RAPPER

No qualifiers there. Just โ€œthe first.โ€

01.12.2025 21:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In other words, rap didnโ€™t exist before you were born? Because that what youโ€™re trying to imply by constantly squawking your โ€œof a certain ageโ€ argument.

01.12.2025 19:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is NOT about how good Eminem is. Itโ€™s about him being FIRST, which he isnโ€™t.

And as to how good he is? Yeah, he set a high bar. But that does NOT mean white rappers before him were NOT good.

01.12.2025 19:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Okay, I miss the old monetary system from JRPGs. You know, kill the bad guy, it gives you money.

Even video games are feeling the economy now!
#videogames #RetroGaming

01.12.2025 19:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Um, the Beastie Boys beat Eminem by almost 15 years. Eminem wasnโ€™t the first white rapper. He wasnโ€™t even the first GOOD white rapper or the first MAINSTREAM white rapper.

Oh, and 2 Live Crew was the group that got parental advisory stickers put on records.

01.12.2025 19:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Video game timing puzzles fucking SUCK!
#videogames

30.11.2025 21:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I suddenly have this urge to look for Lego city skylines.
#architecture

29.11.2025 16:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And now we apparently have AI companion dogs.

I'd say this is getting way out of hand, but its been out of hand for way too long already.
#ai #artificialintelligence

28.11.2025 23:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Happy Thanksgiving! And Pie Day!
#Thanksgiving #Thanksgiving2025

27.11.2025 15:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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09.11.2025 16:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 118    ๐Ÿ” 106    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

While the right lose their goddamn minds about a lone wolf doing something horrendous in DC today, letโ€™s not forget that last week in the White House they all gushed over a genocidal, journalist murdering tyrant whose country financed 9/11.

27.11.2025 02:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15625    ๐Ÿ” 4304    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 251    ๐Ÿ“Œ 136

So if the Department of Education starts refusing to recognize certain degrees, does that mean I can stop worrying about my student loan debt?
#departmentofeducation #studentloans #loandebtcrisis

26.11.2025 23:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Letโ€™s be honest, Iโ€™d drink any of those wines because of those names!

When choosing wines, always go with the best name!
#wine #food #foodie #Thanksgiving #Thanksgiving2025

26.11.2025 18:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hey, how many of those foreign MAGA accounts on Hellsite also have accounts on Youtube or Reddit or other sites like that?
#trump #maga #twitter

26.11.2025 13:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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