many people have been saying this [to me]

Iran said the Strait of Hormuz, crucial to oil and other exports, would be “completely closed” immediately if the U.S. follows up on President Donald Trump’s threat to attack its power plants. Trump late Saturday set a 48-hour deadline to open the strait. apnews.com/article/iran...

Fortunately, wargaming has given me extensive experience of situations where wars spiral out of control to the point your war aims are just to return to the status quo ante. That's how I know what these guys need to do now is load from an old autosave.

IEA CHIEF BIROL: THIS CRISIS WORSE THAN THE TWO OIL CRISES OF THE 1970S PUT TOGETHER (

The “main goal” of the Iran War may have changed, reports Washington Post: “Israeli officials said securing the [Strait of Hormuz] for energy shipments could become the war’s main goal now that regime change and ending Iran’s ability to obtain a nuclear weapon seem out of reach.”

I don't normally subscribe to the "German has a word for it" thing because all languages can invent and borrow new words! That said, I can't stop thinking about "hobbyless" as an insult since I saw it a few days ago, so here you go It promotes a growth mindset!! www.tumblr.com/abbiistabbii...

My president told me that UAVs keep eating his MEUs so I asked him how many MEUs he has and he said he just goes to Camp Pendleton and gets another MEU afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding MEUs to UAVs and his CMC started crying

FT: The flow of liquefied natural gas from the Gulf is expected to come to an abrupt end in the next 10 days

I'm not here to argue over whether the initial comment crossed the line. I'm just here to point out that any person calling themselves Mueller, They Anything would be harassed for that shit because it is 2026. This pisses me off so much. Performative bullshit. It is insulting.

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Yep, just an objectively terrible human being

Mom whose 7-year-old has brain swelling from measles still wouldn’t vaccinate www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

somebody's taking the news real hard

Dylan M. Taylor, a Senior DevOps Engineer at Credit Genie, pushed age verification PRs to systemd, Ubuntu, & Arch. He collaborated with two Microsoft employees to merge it. Lennart Poettering then personally blocked the revert & allowed the PR through. The surveillance state runs on unpaid simps.

I'm losing it at this delivery robot getting absolutely smoked by the Brightline train in Florida 🤖🚅

rip robert mueller you taught me it was okay to do nothing when faced with the most consequential task of my life

If you are not impressed by the picture of a Black Hole, clearly you do not understand the gravity of the situation…

Seen tacked to a community board on my walk

I don’t want mass layoffs but every manager up the chain in Windows who signed off on copilot in Notepad should be terminated with cause

Update: Today, the Georgia Supreme Court issued an order directing counsel for the state to file a sworn affidavit providing a “complete explanation” for the filings that included non-existent cases and other errors.

TRUMP ON IRAN: I DON'T WANT TO DO A CEASEFIRE

Five-byline alert: 🚨 “.. the Iranians have real leverage with this, and there’s not an obvious fix for it,” an intelligence official said of efforts to reopen the strait. @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/03/20/p...

The Kremlin's key point man on U.S. diplomacy has denied this Politico report.

A THIEF OF TIME AND SPACE

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Shot, chasers

www.deepfission.com/technology @nuclearkatie.com @nuclearanthro.bsky.social BEHOLD: SOMETHING INSANE

Three-byline alert: 🚨 “.. Saudi Arabia’s oil officials are working frantically to project how high oil prices might go if the Iran war and its disruption of energy supplies doesn’t end soon—and they don’t like what they are seeing.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/finance/comm...

Wow, dozens (hundreds?) of March record high temps falling this afternoon out west. Stay cool!

I have an x-ray diffraction joke but I try not to Bragg about it

HE MADE A PEARL HARBOR JOKE IN A DIPLOMATIC MEETING WITH JAPAN????????????????????????????????

Due to high geopolitical tensions, sports fans are temporarily required to contextualize their posts, for example: ❌ OH GOD OH NO OH FUCK ✔️ OH GOD OH NO OH FUCK how did he make that basketball go in the hole

Boxer Amphibious Ready Group and the embarked 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit is deploying ahead of schedule from the West Coast and is expected to sail to the Middle East region after the Navy was ordered to surge additional fire power.

Hello ✨ @talkingpointsmemo.com is doing a membership drive right now and I'd like to pitch you for just a moment on why you should consider joining Talking Points Memo as a member.

Good afternoon! The shop will be closed starting tomorrow, and also IT IS MY BIRTHDAY! If you'd like to get me a gift, tell all your friends who like pretty desk organizers that these gorgeous diamond pen cups are 20% off and I have too many of them. LOL BUY THEM, PLEASE?? thebrokencircle.etsy...

lmao www.axios.com/2026/03/19/t...

Trump: "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"

Iran strikes the world's largest LNG complex in Qatar The Iranian military carried out a missile strike on the industrial city of Ras Laffan in Qatar, where the world's largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) production complex is located. 1/4

I assume they're realizing the troop to task calls for way more than a MEU, but the more forces they add the more complex the sustainment problem becomes and the longer they have to wait on force closure.

@funranium.bsky.social this feels like something you'd like

BREAKING Joe Kent, who just resigned as Director of the National Counterterrorism center, is under federal investigation for improperly sharing classified information. Semafor reports that the investigation predates his departure. Full Story: bit.ly/4cWcYeh

> @reuters.com