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Bats and Wires

@batsandwires.bsky.social

Xennial game dev. Local progressive anti-fash hero.

created October 8, 2024

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Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

This guy is amazing. All of his stuff is so good.

2/9/2025, 10:52:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social)

It just occurred to me that JD Vance may have temporarily been president of these United States while trump was undergoing whatever treatment that caused his face to look like that.

1/9/2025, 11:45:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Underrated skeet.

1/9/2025, 8:34:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh the dialogue. Yeah it's hit or miss. I thought Judy was pretty great though.

1/9/2025, 8:12:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Explain?

1/9/2025, 8:06:01 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

My question is how in the hell has his actual condition not leaked yet? Press just isn't that interested, or?

1/9/2025, 2:23:20 AM | 37 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Nah

30/8/2025, 3:54:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) reposted

we were all happy for an evening and that’s not nothing

30/8/2025, 1:13:49 PM | 4336 433 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

I suppose the dopamine bump from the last 12 hours was pretty fun though.

30/8/2025, 1:12:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

😕

30/8/2025, 1:09:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 1:06:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

A hollow, metallic voice issues from the vox, "People are saying even in death I serve. I don't know if it's true, but big, powerful guardsmen come up to me, tears in their eyes, and say 'Sir, you are serving in death like no one has served before.' Isn't it wonderful?"

30/8/2025, 12:57:55 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Omfg wutlooool

30/8/2025, 5:00:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Probably setting ourselves up for some major disappointment but its a fun way to spend a Friday evening.

30/8/2025, 4:56:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started (@gothamgirlblue.com) reposted

If it’s true this weekend is going to be three days of jubilant debauchery unlike anything this country has ever seen

30/8/2025, 4:26:42 AM | 547 38 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Epic!

30/8/2025, 3:32:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

I dont think there's a word in the English language that puts me in more of an incandescent rage than 'bipartisan.'

28/8/2025, 10:30:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

It's much more akin to Putin's kleptocracy.

28/8/2025, 10:18:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

🖕

27/8/2025, 11:03:09 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

🖕

27/8/2025, 12:17:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you for consistently taking action against this injustice.

26/8/2025, 12:53:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Reading that article made me feel insane. No one on the Guardian's staff knows how LLMs work. We are so incredibly cooked.

26/8/2025, 12:27:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Governor JB Pritzker (@govpritzker.illinois.gov) reposted

To Donald Trump and his administration: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.

26/8/2025, 1:47:59 AM | 17781 3517 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social)

This is the way!

24/8/2025, 12:41:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social)

Pretty sure trump has successfully escaped the epstein thing. Attention spans too short, elected dems too feckless. Would love to be wrong.

23/8/2025, 7:17:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Damn right

19/8/2025, 11:40:07 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

WHY DOES SHE DRESS LIKE A MILKMAID CIRCA 1650???

19/8/2025, 4:02:16 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

How exactly is this legal? Under what authority is she being detained? I feel like im losing my mind.

19/8/2025, 12:41:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Is this their logo/visual brand identity? If so, it is amateur and truly awful.

18/8/2025, 3:43:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social)

Thinking about what would have happened to the sandwich thrower if he had been a Black man.

15/8/2025, 1:18:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Charles is, in fact, pointedly *not* in charge.

14/8/2025, 4:46:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

There's seriously some really good ideas in here that I agree with wholeheartedly.

13/8/2025, 10:28:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Cool, one less red state.

12/8/2025, 4:32:53 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oliver Willis (@owillis.bsky.social) reposted

I would love to have democrats who shit post as much from the left as Trump does. It would show you have a fucking pulse instead of looking like a goddamned robot who doesn’t give a shit.

12/8/2025, 12:45:45 PM | 68 14 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

We really have to take a page from the enemy playbook and normalize big ideas by talking about them non-stop until they no longer seem like big, ambitious, impossible things but instead normal, mundane and inevitable.

12/8/2025, 3:12:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social)

This. And we should start talking about and normalizing the idea right now.

11/8/2025, 3:32:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Guardian what are we doing here

9/8/2025, 1:00:50 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

And it was really getting under Trump's skin too. And then we just...dropped it?

6/8/2025, 2:38:20 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Hyped for this new reboot of The Office.

6/8/2025, 2:02:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

New contender for world's most punchable face.

6/8/2025, 1:40:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

😆

5/8/2025, 10:00:52 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Fantastic. And shines a light on the fact that our opposition party is clearly not doing its job.

5/8/2025, 1:42:51 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Do it anyway!

5/8/2025, 3:57:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social)

Can't really emphasize enough how critical it is that we redistrict California and other Democratic-controlled states regardless of the republicans' success or failure in Texas. Only aggressive, energetic, proactive efforts will give us a chance to beat back the even worse horrors to come.

4/8/2025, 11:32:00 PM | 2 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

So here's the thing...if they prevent redistrcting in Texas, that's awesome - we should still redistrict California anyway.

3/8/2025, 9:26:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

For god's sake we need to primary these people. My blood boils every time I see their names.

3/8/2025, 3:35:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Ah, yes. Tell me more of this "backlash."

2/8/2025, 11:31:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Just here for the ratio

2/8/2025, 3:47:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Interviewer did not do his job here.

1/8/2025, 6:08:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

IMO we should not back off regardless of what they do.

1/8/2025, 5:47:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

DO IT

1/8/2025, 5:45:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Ah, bummer 🫤

31/7/2025, 10:52:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Any medical professionals in the house know what that was though?

31/7/2025, 10:43:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

I'd like Van Hollen to run. He's been fantastic.

31/7/2025, 10:22:15 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted

It just keeps coming… CBS uncovered a mystery third person caught on jailhouse cameras the night Epstein died. Not named. Not mentioned in the DOJ report. Spotted near his cell just after 4 a.m., two hours before he was found dead. Why now? Somebody wants this out.

31/7/2025, 8:05:12 PM | 10867 5092 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Lol ok

31/7/2025, 5:48:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh damn 😆... Um how about... Children of the Kale #MildHorror

31/7/2025, 3:20:44 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Friday the 12th #MildHorror

31/7/2025, 2:53:20 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Weird Dream Where I Was Naked at School on Elm Street #MildHorror

31/7/2025, 2:49:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Next step is James Carville and Rahm Emanuel crawling out of the woodwork to tell podcasters that democrats have abandoned middle America by focusing solely on Sydney Sweeny's jeans instead of sensible kitchen table issues.

31/7/2025, 12:55:55 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) reposted

Democrats should respond by gerrymandering their states. If Supreme Court is fine with Republicans doing it in Texas, then do the same and pick up more seats. Take on fascists.

30/7/2025, 8:53:24 PM | 1735 442 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

She may want to get that finger looked at.

30/7/2025, 8:45:24 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

It's the best weapon and the dems are too inept to actually ever use it.

29/7/2025, 7:49:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Hi democrats, look what you just got for free. Use this or nah?

29/7/2025, 6:35:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Unless I'm misunderstanding...this seems like a bit of a damning admission??

29/7/2025, 6:28:58 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Like who is this guy's audience, exactly? Hes a loathsome pos and literally no one likes him.

29/7/2025, 5:10:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Hard co-sign!

29/7/2025, 3:55:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Would love to inform all of these presidential hopefuls that appearing on right-wing podcasts is a fucking dealbreaker.

29/7/2025, 3:25:08 PM | 26 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 (@theswprincess.bsky.social) reposted

Thankful for @vanhollen.senate.gov & other Maryland Democrats who tried to inspect an ICE facility in Baltimore yesterday. The lawmakers waited for hours to be let in, and denied entry. They had a sit-in in a building hallway. Investigate ICE. THIS IS ILLEGAL. youtube.com/shorts/2PFSs...

29/7/2025, 2:51:46 PM | 512 262 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social)

Chris Van Hollen has been doing incredible, important work bringing attention to the wide range of injustices occurring during this administration. Massive kudos.

29/7/2025, 3:16:31 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Just look at this dead-eyed, soulless wank.

28/7/2025, 11:27:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

When they go Moria, we take the East Road

28/7/2025, 9:58:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Wild to vote for any ticket Palin was on, regardless of admiration for McCain.

28/7/2025, 9:06:02 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

You'd think we'd be buying up ad space and running this on loop. That's what an opposition party would be doing.

27/7/2025, 6:18:30 PM | 50 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Good riddance.

27/7/2025, 2:50:30 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

When is he ever *not* doing something fucked up with an animal?

26/7/2025, 11:56:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

This animal thing has got to be a kink for him. There is simply no other explanation.

26/7/2025, 11:55:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Also, they aren't even unanimously opposing republicans. Far too often they are collaborating with them and it is enraging.

26/7/2025, 8:21:53 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Normally when people make "mistakes" this stupid and harmful, they get fired from their jobs.

24/7/2025, 5:44:24 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

It's the same bunch of assholes. Don't be dense.

22/7/2025, 11:07:40 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Right?

21/7/2025, 11:13:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Abu Ghraib was practice for what they would eventually do here.

21/7/2025, 11:12:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social)

"I like him because he tells it like it is.."

21/7/2025, 10:23:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

I...like it?

21/7/2025, 10:22:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Ok hear me out

21/7/2025, 10:19:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

"It's not your country, it's our country, whether you like it or not." 💯💯

20/7/2025, 6:20:21 PM | 35 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

I would not be worried if i were Mamdani. You couldn't have a less scary opponent than Hakeem Jefferies. Except for maybe Chuck Schumer.

19/7/2025, 11:46:48 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Kennedy (@helenkennedy.bsky.social) reposted

People freaking out at stories about Trump and Epstein that are not new at all underscore the need for all that stuff to get published again, because people weren't paying attention the first time around.

19/7/2025, 9:50:25 PM | 1720 307 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

I still use it. Alongside affinity photo

19/7/2025, 6:55:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Solid reference.

18/7/2025, 6:26:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

This post didn't go the way you thought it would, did it.

17/7/2025, 6:36:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

A well-earned ratio for Alex Lee.

17/7/2025, 6:29:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh yeah? Are they going low? Should we go high? This is loser energy. And in this environment, losing means more people dying.

17/7/2025, 6:19:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Fucking wow.

17/7/2025, 5:57:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

This is an insane post.

15/7/2025, 10:44:05 PM | 16 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Anti-rizz

14/7/2025, 5:37:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

Wait yes why did that used to happen??

14/7/2025, 3:45:34 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture WIRED (@wired.com) reposted

BREAKING: Metadata shows the FBI’s ‘raw’ Jeffrey Epstein prison video was likely modified. 🧵

11/7/2025, 4:27:14 PM | 14783 4934 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bats and Wires (@batsandwires.bsky.social) reply parent

NPR what the fuck is this. What are we doing here?

10/7/2025, 2:29:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view