Has this president ever been briefed on the limited strategic value and potential negative consequences of airstrikes?

We shouldn’t take UFO/alien claims seriously. I’m tired of folks being duped by conmen, cultists, and pop culture into believing nonsense substack.com/@faranciaaba...

Fellas, is it out of pocket to frolic?

We must apply Trotsky's theory of uneven and combined development to Trump's brain.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/when-trump...

László Moholy-Nagy, Q 1 Suprematistic, 1923 #artbots #moma https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135945

Paul Signac (1863-1935) İstanbul

Yep, that’s the right answer

Two years ago, I heard that Taiwan's govt had unearthed surveillance files from the secret police of its authoritarian era. They were finally becoming open to the public, nearly four decades after Taiwan's democratisation. I wanted to see what was inside: www.economist.com/1843/2025/05...

@natetice.bsky.social what’s the best landing spot for Jalen Milroe? Rams?

Yente, Tapestry no. 6, 1958 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137859

Wonder if Rwanda waiting till now to launch a major military action through M23 in the DRC is linked to knowing there’s no chance America will get involved

We are mere days away from the Trump administration trying to get rid of modern sanitation a la the Spanish fascists like Cpt Aguilera seen here:

A leader that is perusing autarky is proposing illegally annexing territory? Wow! I don’t think that has ever happened before

Head VI, by Francis Bacon, 1949, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

Nosferatu was so much fun to watch, just everything you’d want in a movie

"Ants solving a geometric problem and it's amazing." This is a great example of 'emergent phenomenon': - None of the ants understand the problem they're solving. - None of them can see the whole shape. - A series of small decisions or rules add up to something with a new layer of complexity.

The Spiritual Strategic Retreat: a variation of the motte & bailey fallacy where the initial claim is measurable, testable, & falsifiable but when that position becomes untenable the claim morphs into a more spiritual, esoteric, and conspiratorial claim that is near impossible to (dis)prove

I think, in a decade or two, we will look at one of the impacts of social media is that it merged many strands of esotericism with fundamentalist Christianity. UFOs are demons, Atlantis is biblical, non-organic foods are spiritually unclean, etc.

It has been a, uh, difficult week but I have not laughed louder and harder at something in a very long time than at this.

What’s happening over New Jersey happened in Belgium in the very late 1980s and early 1990s. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian... Another fav example of weird social contagion is the windshield pitting epidemic in Washington state. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle...

This ridgeline plot and the unconventional use of shading from white to blue to indicate sea ice loss is great. It also reinforces the impression of a dense ice pack breaking up. Chart by @janatausch.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/63fb... #dataviz

To fellow reply guys: before you commit crimes that are on national news, think of a few people: your friends, family, and most importantly the people who you follow and repost on social media

y'all never listen to me, but here is what I posted yesterday on FB before we found out some details about the alleged shooter's ideology.

Let’s assume the new HTS-led govt in Syria reverts to a Salafist theocracy, the bad end state. I don’t know whether it’s likely, but I do think it would quickly end. Syria has too many power players that HTS just cannot wield a monopoly of violence without widespread legitimacy.

Assad being forced from Damascus really frees his schedule up to do a podcast tour with Rogan, Lex, and Alex Jones

Something to look out for: as the SDF makes gains in E. Syria, the likelihood of greater Turkish involvement looms in Syria, especially if the Assad govt keeps collapsing

Liberal Democracies around the world look to be in crisis or are stuck in an unending malaise, but thankfully the alternative options being implemented by other states look to be in even worse shape.

There needs to be more studies into what proportion of human action is relatively well thought out compared to spur of the moment action that is not thought out at all.

Day 7 of the Pentagon-run ‚Proud Prophet‘ real-time nuclear war game designed by Thomas Schelling and conducted by the United States, beginning on June 20, 1983, and lasting two weeks. (map via @nytimes.com)

if the moon didn’t want us to plant a flag the moon shouldn’t have lost

Usually people who believe in wacky ideas don’t take them that seriously. Sure, Bigfoot is real. Ok, what’s the ecological niche that it’s filling? What ape lineage are they related to? How did they cross the Bering land bridge? They must be consuming 5,000 calories per day right?

Every other week an NFL or a blue blood college football team absolutely botch a time management decision. It seems so easy to just not screw it up.

She's so crazzzzzzzzy! Love her!!!

From a German anti-tank manual. The dead zone for a T-34 tank driver's vision is just 5 meters, almost half as far as that of a modern civilian light truck. #tanktuesday

Watched @flintdibble.bsky.social’s response to Rogan/Hancock et al and it’s good. The one part that stuck with me is Dibble’s response to Hancock trying to insist even if vast swaths of the Sahara/Ocean have been surveyed there’s still a theoretical chance of some lost civilization.

Sharp view of Sombrero galaxy by JWST. Processed by @yuvharpaz.bsky.social nerdculture.de/@yuvharpaz/1... 🔭 🧪

The usual Trump dynamic is he comes out with a batshit insane idea and later a watered down version gets implemented that is still (very) bad but reduces the impact of the initial criticism upon would be voters as hyperbolic Idk what you do with this info tactically speaking???

Yahweh when putting on the finishing touches of Adam when crafting him out of clay: “now to do a little Manscaping”

It’s always fascinating to remember the idea that spitting cobras evolved their venom spitting in order to defend themselves from our ancestors (homo erectus) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A buildout of nuclear and renewables is not only necessary to combat climate change, but is a prerequisite of being able to deal with the next set of environmental issues like desalination, making agriculture more clean & efficient, creating green synthetic materials/fuels, etc

When it comes to political issues, I want to have opinions that accurately represent reality and are reasonable. I want to refine my own ideas about the world and come out better. You can’t really do that on the old app anymore. This site may be ephemeral, but I’ll give it shot

It’s kinda infuriating how conspiracy theories can’t be falsified to the believer. If there’s an investigation into UFOs and it’s concluded that there’s no aliens whipping around, then to the believer it’s just proof of a cover-up.

The Wikipedia current events portal is always handy to come across global events that don’t get covered by American media. How else was I supposed to learn about Abkhazian protests? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:...

Is there a disconnect between Trump’s 2nd admin being more policy & goal oriented (a la Project 2025) and it just being staffed by guys Trump watches on TV?

Ru posturing with nukes isn’t credible. Coercion with nuke threats rarely works, they’ve done threats before, and no one should believe nuclear retaliation over hitting tactical in Ru will trigger a response. The danger lies with Putin realizing that he’s lost credibility and tries to regain it

Many “heterodox” thinkers compare themselves to Galileo but actually think, act, and coddle up to power like Lysenko

Can’t wait to stick it to big pharma, get rid of vaccines, go full organic, chug raw milk, and return to the good old days of 50% child mortality rates. Wait…

“I’m going to need an environmental impact assessment before we can get this Hurricane Machine into action”

How do I get Armando Iannucci to get really into college football so he can make The Death of Stalin 2 but it’s about a coach retirement/firing and subsequent coaching search?