Even better some times they didn’t even have any food to cook! Big energy saving, much rest.

Half convinced the mongol invasions of Japan happened because Kublai Khan took one look at his ambassador’s reports on how long it took them to just find the right guy to talk to and went “this is offensively stupid”

Every single major constitutional change in Japan until ca 1945

Yo dawg, I heard you like wars near crucial waterways…

Unternehmen Seelöwe, 1940, visualised

So the operational planning was apparently this, sans someone actually pointing it out

Twenty percent of the Swedish population are born outside Sweden you think it’s an ethnostate?

Pierre Louis Alexandre (he may have swedified is surname to Alexandersson at the end of his life) is probably one of the most portrayed non-royals in Swedish 19th century portraiture which is really cool.

the standard criticism of twitter management was “they don’t actually use the product.” it turned out that this made as much sense as criticizing walter white for not being a meth head too

Post a meme made by you

Not all heroes wear capes but some do in fact wear capes. And cone shaped hats.

This is what I’ll show my kids when they ask what the 90s were like.

Alright, here's my contribution to the Is-Bluesky-Dying discourse: Bluesky is a record store davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/bluesky-is...

The three R:s, research, reading and Romulan history

nothing has shifted, there have been Trumps for like 2000 years, this need to act like he is unique also feels like US exceptionalism, no you just did the same dumb shit that dozens of others did before you with highly similar results

In terms of the question "how normalised is antisemitism in the current environment?" an article implying that Nimoy replaced Horner with Rosenman because of a Jewish Cabal is basically a Five Alarm Fire

Game of hot potato but it’s just countries and territories surrounding the United States being the worlds most powerful dementia patient’s expansion object de jure

Rightwing Antisemitism fighters platforming fascist because they’re vaguely pro Israel vs leftist falling into blood libel claims and protocols of Zion level conspiracy thinking is the most depressing development of our times.

Another great design decision ANDOR does: a lot of the Coruscant we see feels like the brutalist parts of London and other European cities? And I think Brutalism actually works great for sci fi. Easy to make things look kinda weird, but you also see the logic of the building.

After 12 years, the EU flag is back on Hungary’s Parliament building — the new Speaker’s very first decision. A happy Schuman Day indeed.

Little known fact: Imperialist mathematics is actually what they teach at Eton. "If Bill governs 3 middle eastern provinces and Jane governs 4, which of them will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes?"

For those interested my Romulan history project has updated 💚

*Swedish and Danish governments nervously eyeing each other and the Öresund while fiddling with weapons*

Byt ut en bokstav och gör en myndighet bättre: Årlagarmyndigheten

There‘s also absolute lack of media literacy where people routinely expect plot twists from it akin to soaps like Grey‘s Anatomy which is a total failure to read genre paired with it being a show that doesn‘t spell everything out for you - that people then want to read like a puzzle box as well. /3

Good morning. I wrote at @cipolicy.bsky.social a response to that that liberal currents piece about needing China hawks. In short , China policy has been in an era of malpractice and violence and needs a house cleaning internationalpolicy.org/publications...

>feted over as genius warrior scholar >gets his team killed in a botched op >gets a movie made about it with him as the hero yeah. tracks.

Ok, am I hallucinating, or is that a bear wearing a peaked cap, pilot's goggles and leather flying gloves in the back of that Benz? (Photo shows pilots of the Russian 17th Corps Aviation Detachment, 1915)

1/6. No, this is wrong. Not about the fuck up - it was HUGE - but the nature of the Worldcon is that each one is its own organization. The Glasgow Worldcon addressed the Chengdu fuck-up head on and was a model of transparency and went a great way to restore the credibility of the award.

everyone stop arguing about Will Stancil and Israel in my mentions and instead read this thread I wrote while drunk about a dude in 17th century England who proposed a moon mission

We are truly living in stupid cyberpunk

501st (Highland) Legion

All aussies I’ve meet are really nice so it pains me to say that we need to urgently evacuate the country and nuke it from orbit.

Happy Star Wars day

Real Outer Rim Patriots know

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Slightly diminish a book The One Tower

Fem svenska soldater stupade i strid mot talibanerna, stora mängder skadade och nu ger vi dom pengar så att vi kan utvisa folk. Världens sämsta konservativa.

You, a rube: there were no confederate heroes Me, an intellectual:

In the beginning, the gaps between British food discourse were lasting 24 days, then 12, then 6, then every 2 days. The last post, on whether catfish and chips was antisemitic, was a day. In 4 days, we could be seeing a new topic every 8 hours. We should witness a double discourse within 7 days.

swear to god nothing has radicalized like me like watching rich men burn our planet, dry up our freshwater and poison our kids to invent the world’s most powerful technology — a robot chick who laughs at all their jokes

The IT Crowd remake is looking kinda shit.

A man who built a career as a public intellectual by adamantly calling people delusional for believing in God has now started believing a machine is his special friend, and doesn't see the irony at all. Heron of Alexandria, who made the idols of his day walk and open doors, would be impressed.

If you ever not sure about which social network you’re on there’s an easy way to check: If the people who are weird about Will Stancil are right wing you’re on X If the people who are weird about Will Stancil are left wing you’re on Bluesky.

This post is very funny because it beneath it there’s nothing but British people arguing where the north-east is.