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Michael Baginski

@bagman.bsky.social

Sometimes writer. Mostly security guard as of late. Will forever love Tim Curry. @bagmanman from Twitter Written for Polygon, Fandom, Unwinnable, UppercutCrit, and more. https://t.co/Phzz9cAepq

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Latest posts by bagman.bsky.social on Bluesky

This game did so much for me at 21 years old. It had a huge impact on me and continues to showed me what games can be and do in the space.

09.02.2026 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This game means so much to me when I played it 10 years ago at 21 years old, and it will forever have a place in my heart. Meeting some of the team at PlayStation Experience in 2015, and even some at Indiecade at Astoria at the time meant the world to me. Long live Campo Santo forever.

09.02.2026 23:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

presumably because most media ownership aligns with trumpism financially and therefore hires the kinds of writers and editors who are at best too feckless to be honest about the GOP

04.02.2026 12:59 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The GOP endlessly does this weird pseudo-populist pantomime on antitrust and propaganda and speech and the press is unwilling to clearly call it out as bullshit in ledes and headlines

04.02.2026 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 113    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Netflix CEO Clashes With MAGA Senator in Fiery Hearing β€œAlmost half of your content for children promotes a transgender ideology agenda,” Sen. Josh Hawley claimed to Ted Sarandos on Tuesday.

If you're writing about this story it should not take you until the 10th paragraph to inform your readers the GOP is engaged in theater to ensure that right wing billionaire Larry Ellison can buy Warner Brothers and CNN

04.02.2026 12:56 β€” πŸ‘ 407    πŸ” 111    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 5
@hehimta on twitter quote tweet

update: jk rowling has somehow (despite maritime law) wiped over a decade of port logs/etc, her boat is completely delisted. strange behaviour.

@hehimta on twitter oh tweet

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just watched in realtime as jk rowling's superyacht samsara was completely removed from marinetraffic and other services, not just AIS off; the entire vessel...

@hehimta on twitter quote tweet update: jk rowling has somehow (despite maritime law) wiped over a decade of port logs/etc, her boat is completely delisted. strange behaviour. @hehimta on twitter oh tweet BREAKING A just watched in realtime as jk rowling's superyacht samsara was completely removed from marinetraffic and other services, not just AIS off; the entire vessel...

Following the release of the Epstein files Jk Rowling has deleted a decade of port logs belonging to the Super yacht Samsara.

What is she hiding?

03.02.2026 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 6987    πŸ” 2365    πŸ’¬ 129    πŸ“Œ 355

your regular reminder that journalism isn’t β€œdying” - it is being killed

01.02.2026 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 64    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
venmo: @renthelpmpls

venmo: @renthelpmpls

if you feel like passing around a link today and helping fundraise for rent that will actually get paid today (and in the next few days for families who have a grace period) you can send here.

we will be going hard all day. i won’t be posting about it because I don’t want to flood your feeds.

31.01.2026 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 529    πŸ” 603    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 30

I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.

01.02.2026 00:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3911    πŸ” 2069    πŸ’¬ 63    πŸ“Œ 80

in my view anything that announces right out of the gate that it wants to be mainstream, even going so far as to use the word, well, you already know all you need to know about it, but that's just me

29.01.2026 23:52 β€” πŸ‘ 205    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
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MinnMax is teaming up with @giantbomb.bsky.social this Friday at 5pm Central for an ICE Out charity stream from our studio in Minneapolis.

It'll be simulcast on all channels...

www.twitch.tv/minnmaxshow
www.youtube.com/minnmax
www.twitch.tv/giantbomb
www.youtube.com/giantbomb

27.01.2026 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1572    πŸ” 491    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 21
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Protester in Minnesota: I’m 70 years old and I’m fucking angry *disappears into gas*

24.01.2026 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 7763    πŸ” 2281    πŸ’¬ 142    πŸ“Œ 182

These insecure motherfuckers

24.01.2026 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Indeed.

23.01.2026 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

23.01.2026 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 16195    πŸ” 20386    πŸ’¬ 215    πŸ“Œ 349

The UK government doing this to restrict the online interactions of everyday folk while simultaneously propping up and protecting the website manufacturing CSAM should lay bare their values, or lack of, if the past few years hadn't done that for you plenty already

13.01.2026 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats to your team on all of this!! Im very happy about this.

10.01.2026 22:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Your daily reminder that having to do this radiates weakness, not strength. Yes, there are people who will buy this. But if they thought enough people were going to buy it, they wouldn’t have to do this.

They have to do the hard sell precisely because they know how many people aren’t buying it.

08.01.2026 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 748    πŸ” 189    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 9

Here are your rights if ICE knocks on your door

08.01.2026 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 541    πŸ” 437    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 5

Kids are dying because they can't get basic services they need and the media focus here is on autism in particular when top health officials are engaging in eugenicist, eliminationist rhetoric? With quotes about ABA bringing 'normality'? Where is autistic joy? Where is ANY criticism of ABA?

23.12.2025 15:05 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The uncritical acceptance of ABA=good illustrates why we need not just more disabled reporters, editors, and other staff, but specifically disabled people covering disabiltiy and newsrooms respecting disability as a beat. Lot of parents-of quoted in here, but I don't see autistic self-advocates.

23.12.2025 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 152    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

23.12.2025 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 35927    πŸ” 18286    πŸ’¬ 563    πŸ“Œ 1737

Excluding costs, the biggest impediment to AI adoption in game dev is that the output quality sucks ass and it makes games worse. AI adopters need everyone to use it so that people lower their standards and become more okay with buying garbage

22.12.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 373    πŸ” 101    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œAn American Nightmare”: Three Men Deported to CECOT and Their Families Reflect on Their Monthslong Ordeal For months, Carmen, Lina and Doris awaited news about their loved ones, who were sent to a maximum-security Salvadoran prison by the Trump administration. Now that the families have been reunited, the...

CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.

22.12.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2629    πŸ” 1170    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 29

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the β€œhas never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

22.12.2025 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 15321    πŸ” 3211    πŸ’¬ 299    πŸ“Œ 123

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ahmed. Ahmed owned a small shop before this and was just starting his life. He’s trying to take care of his parents and his brother Abood. His father has pulmonary fibrosis- they are fundraising to get a solar panel for his oxygen machine.

22.12.2025 09:35 β€” πŸ‘ 141    πŸ” 170    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3

Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment.

It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.

18.12.2025 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1882    πŸ” 514    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 20

This is such a misunderstanding of why writers, artists, and designers do research to begin with, which is to find something unexpected, not capture the average or find reference for the default.

And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit

18.12.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3297    πŸ” 853    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 29

Keep in mind that if you turn up a troubling inspection report, it doesn’t necessarily mean that your drug is compromised.

Doctors and pharmacists advise that you not stop taking your medications. Instead, you should talk to your health care provider about any concerns.

18.12.2025 15:05 β€” πŸ‘ 222    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1

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