does being a comms staffer give you actual brain damage? because i can't think of any other explanation for official politician accounts tweeting out video games spliced with war footage or posts with *checks notes* about the murder of school children

daryl hannah is so, so right to do this. the way they depict her, a real person, is just outrageously misogynistic.

no forever wars? no, forever wars!

stagflation time, bb

very much in favor of content warnings before ttrpgs so people can understand if there’s subject matter that will be included that they don’t want to grapple with, but did just have a guy utter the phrase “content warning for comedy”

deleted a post because it was just me getting angry. i just really, really get upset that people are already trying to minimize scores of dead children or make it relevant only insofar as it relates to the emotional journey of some random airman

i mean... it's honest. people will die. americans should be aware of the costs that their leaders are willing to impose on them.

im not sure how its possible but every new rendering from the administration of the ballroom is bigger and uglier than the last. the latest one looks like the stapled a goddamn amazon fulfillment center onto the white house.

they double bombed an elementary school for girls

trying to play chess while quite drunk

one of my favorite characters that i've made for a one-shot campaign was a golem rogue named "P.F." who was constructed out of thousands of old, cheap mass-market paperbacks and spoke and acted exclusively in cliches from detective and crime novels

lot of people on this site and twitter that i enjoy talking to and whose thoughts i respect but im always reluctant to reach out for fear of being a burden and/or assuming that friendly public interactions mean they want me prattling endlessly in their DMs

hello welcome to my 1930s heated rivalry AU. it's just the 1939 film "ninotchka" but gay.

kids nowadays never say, "now that's a fine how do you do" or "here's a couplah smackeroonies for your trouble, hot stuff" and i think that says a lot about society today

i don't really like to call people out but a lot of online discourse on reading and literacy seems motivated primarily by a desire to make the original poster seem morally and intellectually superior than their peers

"We should worry less about autonomous robots, and more about pseudo-autonomous systems embedded in bureaucracies that enable them to do things that they used not be able to do, but with a lot of slop."

Hey, remember how we let a nazi near-trillionaire annihilate the US state capacity? I know it was a whole year ago, but it turns out that this has consequences beyond "murdering 14 million people by ending USAID" (which apparently no one cared about).

What a guy

econom

reading "Bombing to Win" on the subway and shaking my head to show everyone I'm against bombing to win

i now forgive dallas and the state of texas for the assassination of our beloved president john f kennedy

glad that my personal assessment that crockett would probably win was entirely off base

ok

oh my god i had no idea they were making this. fuck, fuck, fuck. this is going to be my own personal 9/11. fuck.

bsky.app/profile/taal... saw this, and at least Mousavi backed up by Guardian reporting

Really getting tired of people who have never read anything about the history of US/Israel relations acting like it’s a one way street, as if American politicians don’t utilize Israel(both the actual state and the country as it exists in the American imagination) for their own parochial purposes

it's part of the nature of the internet but i always get a kick when i see someone with a luna pfp and a profile name like, "manic pixie dream bitch 🔞" drop detailed analysis of US interceptor missile production before immediately returning to retweeting helluva boss fanart

i'd need to check the gallup archives but pretty sure that support for the war with iran is already below where support for the vietnam war was in 1974

In terms of severity: Strait of Hormuz closure (temporary, reversable) < Strait closure-forced upstream shut-ins (can be reversed, but gets tricky) < Iranian attacks on GCC infrastructure/facilities (everything can be repaired, but attacks can require far longer work)

at what point does wikipedia finally call it "a war"?

traveling to the united kingdom but only so i might learn about these wonderful "bins" that much of the country appears so enthralled by

oh, ok!

notice a familiar face here? somewhere in the bottom right hand corner or so?

I like the film Jackie bc it shows that “Camelot” was an actively constructed project, the work of a traumatized woman searching for meaning in the aftermath of horrific violence, and it concludes that, for all the spectacle, what matters most is getting up each day and living for others, not legacy

developing a theory that Americans mainly get big-budget Kennedy-centric projects when the national mood is really rancid and people are desperate for something larger than life to believe in

Warner: "There was no imminent threat to the United States by the Iranians. There was a threat to Israel. If we equate a threat to Israel as the equivalent of an imminent threat to the US, then we are in uncharted territory."

gun in mouth

holding out hope that gecqua evolves merely into a blue Gex

wow that's crazy. who would have thought

my thought on pokemon starters is that any time i see a pokemon with big eyes like this and a very lithe design, i know it is going to evolve into something unpleasantly humanoid

Prof. Robert Pape: "I have studied every air campaign since WWI... I've modelled the bombing of Fordow and regime change in Iran for 20 years... We are now in the grip of the escalation trap... This has never worked in over 100 years... Trump is up against the weight of history".

you can tell they're getting nervous about the press latching onto the lack of coherent, achievable goals for Operation Epic Fursona because they keep saying "we're laying out CLEAR objectives"

thinking about the nsa supervisor who let off jonathan pollard with a slap on the wrist after he claimed the reason he was late for an interview is because he was being hunted by an elite squad of IRA assassins

muted my Grand Vizier groupchat because dudes were messaging me at all hours of the day with shit like, “sire, i implore you to reconsider” and “my lord, please, the economy…”

all you need for a good JFK costume is a suit, some well-coiffed hair, crippling back pain, and an unhealthy dependence on painkillers and various mystery tonics

The Department of War regretfully informs you your husband has died lethalitymaxxing in Operation Epic Furry

an elderly, insulated strongman who believes he is immune to popular pressures as he goes about trying to build a legacy for himself, pursuing aggressive military operations to permanently change borders on the map and address grievances that are incoherent to all but the most ardent nationalists?

trying to write fiction for contemporary personalities will have me searching things like: * kevin o'leary cnn panel * kevin o'leary cnn panel inauguration * kevin o'leary dog * kevin o'leary dog breed * kevin o'leary dog photos * kevin o'leary dog photos -kasparian

famous last words

CAINE HEGSETH WHERE IS THE FUCKING AIRSPACE DECONFLICTION