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"why Bagram" explained

US is becoming #1 at staring into space rough transl: "Is the US about to lose the race to return to the Moon because of SpaceX? While China plans to land on the Moon in 2030, the American "Starship" rocket of Elon Musk doesn't seem to be living up to its promises." Le Point (France)

view from the hike tough on the feet but necessary for sanity

hope tech industry leaders are feeling real fucking good about all the support they gave Trump

Anglosphere or high number of English speakers / rule of law / corporate structure / left- or centrist-leaning government without high chance of flopping over into rightist autocrats, Russia-backed klept, or anti-immigration nationalism / physical security / willingness to brain-drain the US

woo what a time to be a Canadian tech or biotech company

www.nationalguard.mil/Resources/Im... "The Old Flag Never Touched the Ground" Rick Reeves a National Guard Heritage Painting

Best rundown of why we should allow millionaires, who grow food for export and not American tables, to enjoy the full consequences of their decisions.

As things worsen, in order to salvage the alliance, in a year it'll be necessary to turn those responsible over to the courts, in two to South Korea or the Hague, in three to the gallows.

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

You don't have to "Let the nazis talk." That's just a thing that people with more nazi friends than Black friends want you to believe. But it's a lie. The biggest free speech bros deplatform trans folk and Black folk that say things that they don't like. So they are familiar with the concept.

"We've moved, in both a concrete and epistemological sense, from a cheerful, perhaps louche American 'lol' to a darker undertone better exemplified by the French 'mort de rire,' or 'mdr.' In this article I will ..."

"couldn't possibly hit something at over a hundred yards" is musket brain

Quel est le lien entre le musée de Cluny et l’abbaye de Cluny ? 🤔 L’hôtel des abbés de Cluny est édifié en 1485 au cœur du Quartier latin. Il s'agit de la résidence parisienne des puissants abbés de Cluny (en Bourgogne). Cet hôtel accueille désormais les collections du musée national du Moyen Âge !

world getting worse on our remember-world-getting-worse day, so I'm going to also share this delightful art so that queer love may save us also do not doubt the etsy witches

He's my precious little boy (54mm)

1) I saw managers and engineers who had reading or writing difficulties either due to habit or limited English proficiency penalized by early COVID exigencies which demanded asynchronous communication and documentation. Suddenly, shouting and hoping the audience understood didn't work.

After careful consideration of the current situation and the tools at our disposal at this present time, I have made the strategic decision to Lie Down For a Bit

Lazy Saturday #warhammer40k assembly. 10 Sternguard: 5 from the Leviathan box and 5 from the unit box. #warhammercommunity

1/5) I acquired a Hordes 2-player set which was partially assembled, very cheaply. Let no one say #wargaming tech has not improved!

The only thing that would make this more Imperial Roman is if one or several of his many sons arranged a patricide so they could start their adult lives in a stagnant society with the inheritance

1 / @ryleecoyote.bsky.social and I brainstorming / attempting to manifest a good X-Men series into being As a dream, it has an endless budget

"We don't have kings in America. We don't have generalissimos in America. The military isn't his plaything to distract from his horrendous policies or his private army to crush dissent."

For #RomanSiteSaturday let's go to my favourite #Roman site: the temple complex of #Baalbek, located in the Bekaa Valley, #Lebanon. The breathtaking site contains some of the largest Roman temples ever built. The so-called....🧵1/2 📷 Rami Rizk 🏺 #archaeology

unrelated to anything important: assembly of a circa-2015 Skorne Titan Gladiator (extreme sculpt) by Privateer Press for Warmachine / Hordes #wargaming

no biggie, less than a week before the de minimus exception expires to La Poste (France) has stopped sending packages to the USA same for services in Germany, Belgium, Denmark, etc English version: www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Honestly if you want an A+ depiction of how agriculture really works, Jane Austen. "But Taber, there's not even any agriculture in Jane Austen! The landowning gentry don't farm! All they do is parties & social climbing!" Yeah did I stutter

everyone knows we need the space elevator on the tech tree before the Dyson sphere

If "masked dudes jump out of unmarked cars to arrest people while telling onlookers to shut the fuck up and claiming liberals ruined the country" doesn't convince you that DHS needs to be eliminated as an organization, idk what can convince you.

500 point "Colosseum" game of @ryleecoyote.bsky.social League of Votann vs Ben B's Iron Foxes Space Marines on a 3x3 Zone Mortalis board #warhammercommunity #warhammer40k

pretty potato-cam but here's some progress on a practice Heresy-era Night Lord chaplain

recommended: Quentin Zuttion, "Toutes les princesses meurent après minuit"

2025 breaking news: federal officials tell us why a partially eaten turkey club is as dangerous as a washing machine timer

I guess imperial wars always do come home (my photo, Baghdad, 2003)

our disgusting Kremlinology: I don't think we'll see policy changes or the usual taco tariff behavior until ground beef is above $10 / lb so yeah, those are rookie numbers. We need to pump those numbers up

Amen.

"Neither the guards on duty nor the palace officials chose to resist them." from the wikipedia article on Pertinax; sums up everything printed about our government and media for the last decade

breaking things is now evidence of moving fast instead of an unfortunate byproduct

🤔Seems like every US city with a significant Black population will get its own very expensive and completely unnecessary martial law occupation under this administration. LA was first. DC is next. I'm not even going to do another thread about how this doesn't decrease crime. You already know.

oh yeah, the Horus Heresy 3.0 stuff arrived yesterday! #warhammercommunity

the black sands of Istvaan V have arrived #warhammercommunity #horusheresy

reading about a surrendering Confederate artilleryman getting bayonetted by a dozen Union troopers after they discover the "Fort Pillow" tattoo on his arm

not 100% on this color scheme attempt, but WIP #warhammer40k hot-rod armigers; I like the one on the left better. Going with gold as the accent color on the red panels #warhammercommunity

Assembling a plastic Spartan from the previous #horusheresy starter set. Dang this thing is huge and has a _lot_ of pieces. @ryleecoyote.bsky.social 's Hekaton for scale #warhammercommunity

I imagine between cuddles and naps this cat chairs (by sitting in a chair) a faculty meeting and then hangs out in a sunbeam "reading" in a cozy library

An experiment: Salamanders Heresy-era casualties (Tortuga Bay) using oil paints #warhammercommunity

In the documentary a century or two from now, there will be a voice-over explanation akin to Peter Watkins' "Culloden" about our military staffing and expenditures: "The funds for strategic nuclear deterrence were spent on the autocrat's jet. His needs, he felt, were more pressing."

My first Stormcast attempt. Continuing the NMM train with black steel, polished steel, and gold. These models are a fairly large canvas for a single trooper. #warhammercommunity #minipainting #ageofsigmar