Tombstone of an unknown Roman woman at Vindolanda. Found used in 4th century wall repairs, the local buff sandstone was quarried in the 3rd century, so the tomb may date to that period. @vindolandatrust.bsky.social #TombTuesday

Five years ago.

cool, now we can undress missiles

And a spear too. Spearhead was a far right paramilitary group led by Colin Jordan in the 1950s and 60s. At first, I thought this logo was a spoof but apparently it’s for real.

For balance, as I do spend a lot of time poo-pooing suggestions that this or that thing is meant as a Nazi allusion, I should point out here that I absolutely believe that this logo is meant as a Nazi allusion, it’s an open and shut case.

When I marched against the Vietnam war, I never imagined that in old age I'd be rooting for the Danish Empire www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

“America cannot leave that future in the hands of regimes that despise our values and seek to undermine our security,” So tell us what you really feel about NATO and the EU...

There’s basically three possible reads here, all very bad: 1. You’re willing to post on any site where you can get a few hundred views 2. You’re making this argument without knowing any of the actual numbers 3. You’re being disingenuous because you want to stay on Twitter

Unusually, Eric Adams has done the most predictable thing possible.

That's a Russian Shahed drone in the middle

“Starmer has no -ism, no natural constituency, no base beyond a couple of dozen weird technocracy stans on Bluesky.” Let’s be clear that anyone who wants technocracy hates Starmer too. He’s the opposite of a technocrat: he knowingly chooses to do the most damaging wrong thing.

I've been warning for a long time now that LLMs and LLM-based tools are good at generating code that they're bad at modifying later. They'll paint themselves - and you, and your business - into a corner.

ICE shut down the oldest Mexican restaurant in my hometown of Forest Lake, Minnesota -- a city that voted overwhelmingly for Trump (and Pete Hegseth's hometown too) Feel safer yet?

Jon Stewart puts all of what just happened in ONE WEEKEND into perspective. It’s comedy but also contains a deadly serious and moving summary of the death of a nation.

Jon on ICE's Killing of Renee Good and Trump's Model of Compliance for Protesters youtu.be/-IcUQkvoRIc

Fundraiser for Minneapolis ICE shooter that’s already raised $178,000 casually points out that the mayor is Jewish 😬

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA....AAHAHAHAHAHAHA! THE FOREIGNERS ARE EATING UP ALL YOUR GROK WATTAGE?????? THAT is your pitch????

Brandon Siguenza, observer, abducted by ICE: "At one point during my detention, I was offered money or legal protection for any undocumented family members or the, which I don't have, or, in exchange for the names of undocumented persons or in exchange for the names of protest organizers."

WITH LION BOD AND MANLY HEAD THIS SHAPE INSPIRES UNCANNY DREAD BURMA-SHAVE

Having been around many ICE/CBP career people in my life, this speaks very accurately to me.

one of the most effective weapons we have against fascism is mockery, especially when its really funny

if you put this in a script even erin brockovitch would be like “too on the nose, dial it back”

I would like to bet a dollar that this is because the ultra-sophisticated DOGE AI flagged some phrase like "a diversity of offerings at the salad bar" in a budget.

One basic pattern here is that DHS officials are engaging in violence simply because they are irritated at citizens protesting them. There is no plausible threat of violence here. He just wants to inflict pain, and believes there will be no penalty for doing so.

ICE is now behaving in such a way that even Tucker Carlson’s favorite Holocaust minimizing, Hitler-apologist “historian” is like “hey now guys, this is getting a little out of hand.”

ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. Some observations from four days on the ground in Minneapolis. www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...

Australia’s US Ambassador to leave post after clashing with Trump

DHS Releases List Of Mothers Driving Cars

DOJ Releases Jerome Powell Deepfake Nudes https://theonion.com/doj-releases-jerome-powell-deepfake-nudes/

My notebook and pen are not sitting on the nightstand listening to me, you creepy box of LinkedIn sprites.

things off the top of my head that i can think of that conservatives have called tyranny - health care subsidies - seeing pronouns in an email - being suspended from a social media platform - pride month - baking a cake for a same sex wedding - legal rulings against donald trump - EV benchmarks

Breaking News: Minnesota and Illinois separately sued the Trump administration over its ICE deployments, saying they were unconstitutional.

Trump's thugs are going hog wild and tossing gas around in one of the busiest commercial districts in Minneapolis, just a mile or so from where I live. Complete insanity. (vid via Ford Fischer on X)

I don't know who needs to hear it, but those big train horns jerry rigged to run off of cordless impact drivers are on sale right now, in case you find yourself somewhere where you need to make a lot of noise very quickly. bosshorn.com/products/dew...

Frey: "You cannot drag pregnant women through the snow. You're not allowed to take teenagers out of their car and detain them when they are in fact American citizens. That is against the law in every state. That is against our US Constitution."

Really wonder what kind of wild fictions people who support this tell themselves.

FX markets

Sorry Kemi, just checking - child porn is ok if it's made by companies, yes? Wow. And there was me thinking child sex abuse was horrific, but it turns out all a paedophile ring needs to do to make their activities acceptable is apply to Companies House. *Next week: Should kiddie porn attract VAT?*

Folks, is it a good sign of faith in your economy when you are instituting capital controls?

The creation of CSAM on X is unrelated to whether children use the site or not. So what Badenoch appears to be arguing is that only adults should be allowed to look at CSAM. She’s also implying that that it’s rather judgy and illiberal of the govt to “not like” a CSAM generator

Bessent: "For individuals who want to wire money out of the country, they're gonna have to tick a box whether they are or are not on public assistance. Then we're going to start pushing over the coming days and weeks that if you're on public assistance, you cannot wire money out of the country."

“The company is accused of failing to disclose a ‘key defect’ in the car’s ‘overly touch-sensitive capacitive steering wheels, [which] results in sudden and unintended acceleration while owners are driving’.”

There are now at least 365 UK MPs with accounts on Bluesky – more than half (56%) of all MPs 🔴 This includes nearly 70% of Labour MPs 🔶 Nearly 90% of Lib Dem MPs 🟢 All the 4 Green MPs 🔵 But only 5% of Conservative MPs ➡️ No Reform MPs

Florida Rep Randy Fine has introduced a bill authorising Trump to annexe Greenland and set it on a pathway to becoming America's 51st state.

It’s a puzzler, for sure

Senators are worried

X Users Ask Grok To Put More Clothes On Elon Musk Pictures https://theonion.com/x-users-ask-grok-to-put-more-clothes-on-elon-musk-pictures/

In the face of the Trump Administration’s cruelty and intimidation, Illinois is standing up for our people. Today, we are once again taking Trump to court to hold his administration accountable for its unlawful tactics, unnecessary escalations, and flagrant abuses of power.

Its not that the media is not covering what is happening, but it does feel like the military occupation of an American city should be treated as a national crisis.

Made me laugh