https://wdldiamond.blog/2025/02/21/shadows-and-darkness/
Shadows and Darkness - Short Stories, New - Free to Read on W.D.L Diamond
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Licht im Dunkeln

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https://wdldiamond.blog/2025/02/04/the-hunted/
The Hunted - Short Stories - Free to Read on W.D.L Diamond Blog
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If you're looking for a beautiful and flavorful 2D souls-like, you need to be playing Blasphemous 2!

#blasphemous #game #gaming #videogame #review #soulslike #blog #darkfantasy #dark #xbox #playstation #steam #nintendo

https://churapereviews.com/2025/01/02/why-blasphemous-2-is-a-must-play-for-gamers/

If you're in the mode for a casual souls-like with solid flavor and gameplay, you might want to look at Lords of the Fallen, especially since it is on sale on Steam!

#soulslike #fantasy #dark #gaming #videogame #game #review #blog #pc #steam #wintersale

https://churapereviews.com/2024/12/21/lords-of-the-fallen-review-a-casual-souls-like-experience/

Wings Of An Angel – Blame The Pain Of Infinite Sadness, That Shall Forever Remain The Guardian, But Not The Empire
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https://wingsofanangel.bandcamp.com/album/blame-the-pain-of-infinite-sadness-that-shall-forever-remain-the-guardian-but-not-the-empire

Different though they be,
the #Mercers and the #DeVoses share another common trait:
both families are part of the right-wing political donor network built by #Charles and #David #Koch,
principals in Koch Industries,
the second-largest privately held company in the United States, according to Forbes.

Yet each power-donor family has also built its own assemblage of political organizations and entities.
Most of these are nonprofit organizations, but a few, such as the Koch-controlled data firm #i360
—a platform for collecting and processing voter data that is poised to gain operational control over the Republican Party
—are privately held, for-profit companies.
This makes the Kochs much more than an outsize example of the destructive force of “corporate money” in the political system;
rather, their efforts exemplify the rapid cartelization of our public life under a network of private wealth.
The Koch donor network is, by and large, a confluence of capital collected by privately held companies.
In essence, the money that flows through the Koch network of interlocking political entities isn’t just “#dark #money”
—it’s money double-dipped in darkness,
🔸first through the rules governing the companies from whence it came,
🔸and again as it flows into a political system clogged with equally opaque nonprofit political operations that exist outside of the political party structure.

#Mercer money is often double-dark, as well.
It’s said that the father-and-daughter team would like to build a constellation of their own institutions
to challenge the Kochs’ sprawling collection of nonprofit think tanks, advocacy groups, and the occasional for-profit political venture.
Witness Robert Mercer’s investment in a for-profit voter data startup that the Ted Cruz campaign subcontracted to use in the 2016 election cycle.
(Both Mercers backed Cruz during the GOP primary.)