[me telling my story how I successfully led a commando raid on a cargo ship that was breaking sanctions] it was crazy [friend who once got a text from me where I accidentally called the grinch the grink] was it onboard the grink?

i fixed it, it works, and now i'm pretty sure this makes me a Living God

Speaking to the broader point one of the most flaccid and deadening things about 2010s-20s moral rhetoric has been the de facto replacement of moral language with misused therapeutic language. Talking like John Brown or the Second Inaugural has a normative power that therapy speak lacks.

🧪🏺 WOWWWW New dates in SE Asia for rock paintings - major implications: - nature of early aesthetics, innovations - relationship to oldest known Australian settlement? - and (IMO) impacts claims that cave art in Europe >50 Ka is necessarily work of #Neanderthals www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I patiently explain to the Secretary of General of NATO that leashes are Republican coded but dog girls are Democrat coded but only if they're trans as he nods and writes down "ASK FRANCE FOR MORE NUKES" in his notepad.

just had the idea "richard scarry tarot deck" and im utterly sick that it doesn't appear to already be a thing

on the one hand, the crystal slab of madness is a dark miracle of human engineering savvy. on the other, the cracked screen has progressed to ghost input stage of failure. on bookmark home it tries to order a title about CA water policy.

Hi, Chicago expert here! This is not funny, Chicagoans only respond "livin' the dream" when in extreme distress!

i think my gondor grift at the dawn of the Fourth Age would be an organic soil amendment angle, rounding up horse apples from the mearas and the elf-steeds. municipal contracts for poop chutes on the wagons & carriages, like the wiener fiaker

Photo of the Day: A large tree has recently fallen onto the beach of Rakata, exposing its strong radial roots, because the beach is constantly eroding. The scene of the caldera of Krakatau is illuminated with a bright full moon.

i'm increasingly persuaded by one might call the latter day Rent-a-Sage | gilroy-andor friction forward narrative analytical frame which says look if you gotta get your formalwear from the drycleaners for a loved one's wedding, that may turn into an epic saga. it's the same for heroes but bigger

britain should hand over nuclear arsenal in trust to independent scotland

EXC: Zack Polanski tells us Britain should consider closing US military bases, leave Nato and denuclearise, as he begins to flesh out the Greens’ foreign policy. Also spells out to @pippacrerar.bsky.social and me his red lines in any coalition talks to come. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

the way every hedge healer and jackass ranger throws it around i reckon it'll be 10-15 years into the Fourth Age at most and there's going to be umpteen different sorcerous and mundane maladies that are totally athelas-resistant

i was going to go into a riff on caradras / redhorn and the physical description of the mountains and nearby rivers reflecting the prolific mineralization which attracted dwarven miners, a rio tinto type situation. but turns out: nerd geologists already got there 30 years ago and more

think i'm going to let my NSS card lapse. all the great secrets under the earth are just empty night. nothing to find, nothing to do. spending my free time in a cave. compulsive snacking. spiraling negative thoughts. kind of wretched. hate the dark. hate the light. hate the 2ndhand jewelry business.

"no commercials" an underrated aspect of the prestige TV on DVD década de oro

introducing hobbits to the concept of Italy and fucking up middle earth forever

"naw friends, we just fed you 15 minutes ago" "no you didn't that's AI" is both a plausible interaction if dogs and cats could talk, but also a plausible experience for someone getting pushed into zuckgoggles AI psychosis

‘imagine a guy who…’ is a core tenet of posting! we are losing recipes!!

I just saw an AI video of ICE agents chasing a viking in a bathtub on wheels rolling down a street. People are sharing it thinking it's real. People are sharing it saying they don't care it's AI. It would be far funnier to just...post the prompt. We have imaginations.

the local subcommittee agrees "slippery when wet" is the album title which best serves as the reference standard for defining the lower "raunchy: funny" | upper "gross" horizon

the question is not 'will it waffle?' but rather 'will it schnitzel?'

between innovations like these and classics like Pig-N-Ford racing and getting a sweet ass katana i'm skeptical about the whole 'male loneliness crisis'

Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking? Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me. 1/

BW 100 Film 🖼1: Zig-Zag concrete steps at Montrose Harbor 🖼2: A man walks in front of the Chicago skyline 🖼3: Paddleboarders in front of the skyline in December 🖼4: Paddleboarders in front of the skyline in December

filed under "this has got to be an omen of some kind. but maybe a good one?"

These programs help to offset what I’ve previously described as a vampiric relationship between AI companies and the commons: www.citationneeded.news/free-and-ope...

can't wake up. BEAR league from lake tahoe. there's a BEAR league. they come with paintball guns. they have an electrified doormat. bear just moves next door. more paintball guns, more electrified mat. bear moves down one more door. paintballs, shock mat. can't move, can't wake up

“What one does with nazis is kill them”

no-one should have to be an auxiliary or irregular combatant in a foreign power's war to earn for themselves or family the right to be a migrant. i think that'd get an eyebrow raise from big JC, carpenters' 316. the imperative is the reverse, for those who can to work the miracle of making welcome

did you know: john and john wrote "fingertips" as a musical mnemonic guide to the DSM-3R as a quick reference for med students (hence, at their fingertips); "spiraling shape" is widely acknowledged as a prophetic scifi commentary about AI psychosis

president macron please send mirage 2000Ns to conduct permanent joint exercises in quebec etc.

This should be a five-alarm fire in Ottawa. Like, Jesus Christ, the Danes decided he might really do it and Merz and Starmer actually agreed to contribute to a tripwire force. What kind of things were they hearing that never reached the papers?

Also everyone owes that apology meme form to the French, who (for the many faults of the Gaullists) have warned from the very beginning of NATO about the possibility of this kind of scenario and have time and again tried to wean the European rulers off of their learned helplessness

Official confirmation of German participation in European troop deployment to Greenland. First Bundeswehr soldiers to arrive tomorrow. 🇪🇺 / NATO solidarity in action.

Incredible article which points out that it often collectively costs more to apply for scarce research funding than the funds awarded to the successful proposals. What an absurd system we've built in the service of efficiency and competition. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

if you forget your pickup wheelbarrow when you're out walking your bison, and no-one has a spare wheelbarrow, leave it. if a neighbor confronts you, look them in the eye and say "my bison didn't drop that." they'll stunlock themselves trying not to blurt out "that's bullshit!" and you can walk away

i don't have original thoughts on the brick-ignorant NPR article except to say it's a primo example of turning out your empty pockets, shrugging the ol shoulders and confidently stating: well i glanced at this mature cross disciplinary field of inquiry, i guess there's no more perspectives or ideas

i remember when i read The Trial in AP english, how moved i was by the priest's comforting advice: "one need not believe that everything is true, only that it is necessary. hang in there, buddy!"

i'll wager the majority of the people involved are very earnest but everytime i come across press hyping microreactors and SMRs i'm thinking oh for sure. let's have nuclear theranos scatter the atomic juicero all over the countryside like a bunch of Spirit Halloween storefronts

i misplaced the lens cap to my old fi s1 and fujifilm does not ... seem to give the specs that would make for an aftermarket replacement and i am losing my mental

A major difference between the original TV version of The Night Manager and the sequel is that the first was based on a book informed by years of research into, and experience of, how the world really works, while the second was made by people who neither understand nor care.

❄️ USS Snowysides ❄️

not like any one person can do this but all up engineering and general contracting gotta go harder on designing, staffing, and scheduling to plan for and accommodate remediation, rework, and delay

I'm more pessimistic than @jbkrell.bsky.social in general for megaprojects, specifically for nuclear because (pt1) i think JK is right that the qualified success of Vogtle / cratering of VCS are invaluable, they deserve focus, we need the industrial policy adderall to take those experiences on board

100%, these are fantastic talks and thanks to @jbkrell.bsky.social and Chris Keefer for doing them. It has been making me crazy for years that there's not been (per discussants, part 2) a publicly available, technically detailed industry-led deep-dive lessons-learned document on these builds.

me, lighting 3001st dollarworth of candles: wow this smells great, like an old library or with fresh pipe smoke off a jacket and brewing coffee maybe a cafe. thanks bees. sorry i burned your home. bees: "how to" sting like sphex pensylvanicus | "great black wasp" tips tricks | harvester ant strats