Kim Jong Un's appointed successor: www.bbc.com/news/article... A counterbalance to his sister Kim Yo Jong, maybe? She holds a lot of power within the government, and is both ambitious and ruthless. Glorious Leader may consider her a threat.

Vtra when he heard Nidhogg's call

Especially since, consider this: all the creeps have to do is _not_ give their information and they'll be restricted to the "teen-friendly" portions of Discord, exactly the portions they want to have access to.

Realtor: "What features do you want in your new house?" Me:

When talking about the Epstein files and the perverts who patronized him, don't mince words. Pervert is the correct word for them. Also child molester, creep, twisted son-of-a-bitch and the like. Remember the traction Tim Walz got calling the MAGAheads what they were: weirdos.

I find it funny that the Japanese LDP is considered a conservative party. This may be an artifact of how "conservative" is defined in the US vs. elsewhere since the majority of the LDP's platform positions mirror those of Democrats and progressives here in the US.

Timothy Watson voicing these characters in XIV (and Brute Bomber) really makes my brain explode bcs none of these characters actually sound at all the same???????

Were I the judge, my first questions to the DOJ would be "Define his exact status in relation to the military." and "What, if any, terms of his enlistment contract has he not fulfilled or otherwise entitle you to consider him to be currently in military service?". abcnews.go.com/Politics/jud...

This is the famous quote, but I prefer the one from just before: "You see, I have money and property. If I don't defend the interests of the underprivileged, somebody else will—maybe somebody without any money or any property. And that would be too bad." Somebody remembers the French Revolution!

beam me up lord

Ep 301 of Leverage Redemption S3 had a villa in France full of evil billionaires colluding to pillage trillions in public goods who were keeping a small town activist in the basement until they could execute her led by a guy who admired Putin, and we did not, in fact, go hard enough. Apologies.

WTB for FFXIV: move the Crystal Tower alliance raids to the MSQ roulette. Currently it's running about 50/50 between the CT raids and everything else, and after a while that gets really boring.

Toothless virtue signalling? Not if Seattle PD DOES THEIR FUCKING JOB and follows the instructions they've been given by their superiors. SPD works for the city and the public, not the other way around. Wanna be armed thugs? Go work for ICE. www.thecentersquare.com/washington/a...

OMG. Rehmet further increased his lead and has won!

I notice in the Epstein releases that the DOJ has spent a lot of time redacting the identities of the perpetrators (something they were expressly forbidden from doing) and little time on the identities of the victims.

I think it's simpler than leadership looking ahead. Face it, they don't look beyond the next quarter. No, the layoffs are all about stock price. They make the numbers look better, which makes the stock price go up. www.cnn.com/2026/01/31/t...

I usually go around, it's rude to just barrel through people. Exceptions for places where it's too crowded to find a path (aetherytes).

When ICE takes videos of protestors & says "We have a nice little database. Now you're considered a domestic terrorist." Minneapolis replies: "Hey asshole, you're going to need a bigger fucking database."

Bitch, do you really want people 3D printing vuvuzelas instead?

Nordic Nazi obliteration. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisu_(f...

There IS a way back for the MAGA folk: change their ways. Change and show they've changed in how they behave, what they say, over time. That's always been an option for them. They just don't want to do it. They want the easy out of the Confessional: mouth the right words, say a few Hail Marys,...

Agreed. I write complex enterprise software for a living, have for 35+ years, and no way does a system crash delete data like that. You lose data that's being processed at the moment, not data that's already been written out to storage and certainly not data that was stored 2 weeks ago.

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

The dancing frog was the tipping point. That was when the ordinary citizens saw that the ICE goon squads weren't all-powerful and invulnerable. ICE should've backed off until it'd re-established that aura of invincibility before escalating further. Unfortunately for them, their bosses have no...

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Far be it from me to support a pro se litigation using ChatGPT to draft and file things like "NOTICE OF THIS IS INSANE - TOTAL JUDICIAL COLLAPSE," but this was written about Matthew Kacsmaryk, so, you know, broken clocks.

WA state pals: there is currently a state bill (HB2641) that will ban certain federal officers (ICE) from employment at any state law enforcement. Read the bill here: lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/202... Comment here: app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill/2641 Share and comment!

Anecdote: something I've noticed increasingly during Trump II is the number of young (under 25) white men who want to file a lawsuit against their employer for things like "a woman laughed at me at my job" or "my female coworkers are always talking to each other and then go silent when I walk by."

This is... insane.

I'd note that you can get full-face respirators at most hardware and building-supply stores, or at any industrial safety supply store, or on-line. 3M makes good ones, obviously, and the filters you're looking for are N95- or P100-rated particulate filters and multi-gas/vapor filters.

This is what happens when you give rednecks too much time and money. I’m in absolute awe at the concept here, easily the most deranged vehicle ever conceived.

Lynda Carter shared the picture I shared on Facebook to her of her punching a Nazi!

Fun little #Scifi story stolen from #Tumblr about an alien captain that takes on some human crew and then gets reminded that humans are deadly and vicious predators not to be taken lightly. It makes me curious on how an intelligent herbivore species would mesh with humanity.

just remembered i can gpose whatever i want #7.4spoilers #kaleidopose

Agreed. @adamsmith.house.gov , sign it. Yes the GOP will block it. Make them block it. Even a lot of GOP voters are angry about ICE's antics. The more the GOP covers for her, the more pressure those voters put on the GOP.

Bystanders are physically attacking ICE agents when they try their shit. ICE has lost.

Epstein-Barr Virus #EBV was linked to #MultipleSclerosis - now a plausible cause has been found, misidentification by longterm memory T-cells that pick on the wrong protein, ANO2, instead of the EBV-antigen. Massive inflection towards the elimination of MS!!! 🧪🧠Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Personally I think when a bank does this they should be legally required to inform the account holder exactly _what_ activity caused the lock or closure and exactly which policy or term it violated in what way. abc7chicago.com/post/lombard...

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

This is why cryptocurrency is always a scam. Because, even on the remote chance the currency itself isn't, the people creating it are grifters who'll grab your money and run the moment it looks like the easy marks are gotten.

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Maori delegation to Parliament responding to a crap bill with a haka. dmv.community/@jcrabapple/...

What's more, some dedicated people have produced beautiful videos showing the details of this perpetual Rube Goldberg process that keeps us alive: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQmT... (electron transport chain) and www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpz... (ATP synthase rotation). I highly recommend! •18/18

*whispering* this is the performance of public virtue and should be feted

Can AI do your job? The answer turns out, as expected, to be "No.". www.msn.com/en-us/news/t...

my take is that I have never done cocaine but seeing “Vance’s twisted and wrongheaded view of Christianity has been repudiated by two popes” printed in one of the country’s largest Catholic publications hits like I imagine cocaine feels