I believe January 6th is the traditional date on which to send neo-Nazis to the U.S. Senate.

The current US administration will look at "Iran's working with allies better than we are with ours" and "Iran is positioning itself as a major centre of global power" and see them as two wholly unconnected statements.

RIP Ted, the beloved terrier from Gone Fishing

I have seen scared people. I have seen people literally soil themselves in fear. But I don't know that I have ever seen anyone whose life is more utterly dominated and governed by an overriding terror of mortality than Bryan Johnson.

In 90% of Bond movies the bad guy is either a sociopathic billionaire or the Russians. It's presumably why Amazon are finding it so hard to find a script for their Bond that Jeff Bezos will let them make.

"I've had a rough day; I deserve a little necrophilia. As a treat."

It is difficult to disagree with this.

As much as I didn't think he should go, this was a marvelous speech and at times unmistakably pointed.

Larry is a well-known cranky weirdo who has spouted a lot of falsehoods and nonsense in the past so I’d take him with well more than a grain of salt

How did she guess my stripper name.

Once again, "Decadence" – in this case demonstrated by Texan higher education institutions – is simply not valuing valuable things.

I have read a lot of history, but until the last few years I didn't really understand what "decadence" was. And it isn't what I thought. "Decadence" is simply not valuing valuable things.

“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political, I must listen to the birds. And in order to hear the birds, the warplanes must be silent” - Marwan Makhoul

My hot take: we still need oil, but it's obsolescent as fuel.

Just long enough for the usual suspects to make millions betting on the price of oil.

If I were the Pope, I think my response would be "Mr President, I answer to God. And so, one day, will you."

Many of us lost loved ones to Covid and many of us struggled with the virus when we caught it. People claiming it was a "staged event" are dangerous conspiracy theorists who don't care at all about the victims of that terrible event. The idea they're standing as representatives is horrific.

After getting thrown under the bus with the Pope (and by extension the Catholic church), Hungary, and the Iranian negotiations, one possible way to read this is Vance retaliating by throwing *Trump* under the bus (by specifying that it is "the president" engaging in reciprocal global terrorism).

This is an excellent thread. Among other things, it's a superb example of Brandolini's Law, which states that the effort required to refute bullshit is 10x greater than the effort required to create it in the first place.

The pragmatic value of this approach is best seen in comparison to occasions on which something else was tried. The most recent, acute example of this is probably Iraq.

13 months later, and boy did this come true in all the worst ways.

This is HMS Star , she was built in 1898 and is a destroyer. So technically the Royal Navy had an Imperial Star Destroyer @dreadships.bsky.social @axe99.bsky.social

Motoverycrossindeed.

You picked a fight with the Iranian Navy, at which point they did something that's been predicted for the last 40 years yet to which you did not, astonishingly, have a solution, but sure, it's the *sea lions* driving up the cost of food.

And far away in some recess The Lord and the Devil are now playing chess, The Devil still cheats and wins more souls, And as for the Lord, well, he's just doing his best.

I dispute this only on the basis that dril was funny.

This goes wrong on Catholic doctine as early as the second clause of the first sentence, and does not improve from there. It is, however, quite a useful exemplum of the distinction between "Christianity" and "cultural Christianity."

Again: when something does not make sense, hold that moment, and keep looking. Don’t rush to posit a theory, conspiracy or otherwise. And don’t get carried away with various ‘razors’. Just accept there are things which are not known, and keep watching.

Three rules for officers that Hegseth would do well to remember: 1. You DO NOT FUCK WITH your subordinates' pay. 2. You DO NOT FUCK WITH your subordinates' mail. 3. You DO NOT FUCK WITH your subordinates' food. The Royal Canadian Navy published an exhaustive report on this... ...in 1949.

Love how we had this series of extremely contentious and contemptuous interactions with this website's higher ups where they pretty much told us to our face "Yeah we're using Al to code, you fucking peasant. Deal with it." immediately followed by a good month of very frequent outages on the website.

Always worth keeping an eye on Jimmy Carter. Even by the standards of the submarine service, Jimmy Carter gets up to some impressively Super Secret Shit.

This is a key point. Personally, I find that the way FPV drones etc. make sense to me is to think of them as "long-ramge, steerable RPG rounds". With all the capabilities *and limitations* that implies.

1970s Northern Ireland called. They want Megan Basham back.

Remember - in 1943, these won't have been injection-moulded plastic kits!

I LOATHE endnotes. They are inimical to narrative experience. Nothing is quite so calculated to derail & destroy one's train of thought – and hence the author's delicate construction of their argument – than having to flip through pages to find the supplementary information, then find one's way back

This is literally all about Trump the eternal real estate developer being monumentally (and monomaniacally) pissed off about the fact that there's an offshore windfarm next to Trump International golf course in Aberdeenshire.

I have a Carthaginian coin that has the head of Tanit, wife of Ba'al Hammon, on it. I did not expect this to become topical.

Dan Brown can't write, and as such, he made millions of dollars from people who can't read.

What an incredible photo, even if it makes him look like a supervillain. This is from his official account.

Northern Ireland would like to remind you all that it can still do "taking religion seriously" in ways that make the USA look like a flighty debutante.

It would be instructive to know: how many times has Trump deleted a Truth Social post from his account?

I was with a group in a Glasgow Nando's recently and the lack of waiters and presence of QR codes made the whole experience of ordering food vastly more complicated and time-consuming. And, therefore, less pleasant. Guess what? We won't be eating there again.

🎶 "It's Your Party and I'll say 'bye' if I want to."

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

For Sport, Mr Musk. For Sport. For The Joy Of The Game.

This book is brilliant.

Russia has been invested in destabilising Ireland for more than 50 years, seeing it as a low-cost, low-risk way to distract NATO's Atlantic flank.

Well done, Hungary!

And they will be as nothing compared to the global street parties when It Happens.

When you have no nukes and say "death to America," everyone understands that as hyperbole. When you say "a whole civilisation will die tonight" and you have the world's largest viable nuclear arsenal, that's a threat of genocide. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.