Remember this brave Ukrainian lady? After a year apart, 77-year-old Antonina Khorunzha - evacuated by Ukrainian Defenders from a shell-shattered road in the Lyman direction using a ground robotic system - has finally reunited with her granddaughter.

A lot of the left, which bafflingly includes a lot of trans people, very clearly does not care whether trans people have rights. They care about trans rights only insofar as they can use them as a rhetorical weapon to club liberals with. It never ever guides their actions.

I agree with the dumb conservatives, I demand as accurate a portrayal of Achilles and his relationships is as possible, a thing which contains nothing which might offend conservative sensibilities. I'll just drink this preposterously full glass of water as I re-read the Iliad

It's insane. I told a story about something funny one of my friends did at her encouragement, that content-farming grifters spun into a myth about a giant spy ring, and then other content-farming grifters spun into a story about me blowing up a giant spy ring. It's total BS.

Here's an entire podcast episode about "the Minneapolis honeytrap ring" that denounces me for revealing the ring. You should take this episode down @pearlmania500.bsky.social. It's lies. There is no "honeytrap ring." It's something you and others invented from a game of telephone.

People tend to assume that annexation would be a quick, one-and-done, problem-solved kind of affair, but the occupation by a vindictive Beijing would be brutal and last decades, as would the inevitable resistance

A lot of AI criticism makes me feel like someone says “the automobile has been disastrous for society” and I’m nodding along like “yeah I actually really agree, I think that car centric urban design has-“ and then they add “also it’s a scam, cars break down after more than ten miles anyway”

It is actually REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT to know why people are perpetually incensed with the economy starting very specifically in 2021, because it has PITCHED OUR COUNTRY INTO FASCISM.

Okay, but

Only hidden object involved, emerging from the fog and the mists, is the 58 year old lady with 200 different kids of Michelin Star level ramen prep, She’ll find your company anywhere you train on the peninsula and raise morale by 95% at a cost of 1,400 won each.

loomer gives him a hickey and you all think he’s dying

I would have liked to know about this before ChatGPT told me to use an iron for those wrinkles

Deep look into the psyche of a specific clade here on BlueSky. Maybe I'm being unfair but... if you're hoping the world gets slightly worse for trans people because it'll help draw attention to your media critique project? I think that's a bad plan.

"Is Mass Effect fascist" - the greatest thread in the history of Bluesky, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,,,

I mean this is basically all people for whom the big tent is 'we can all be anti-semites together,' not who actually want to expand a working anti-trump coalition

The dumbest people alive were mad that Zohran threw this woman under the bus lol

I’m not convinced there’s a serious “platform MTG” movement outside the sewer that is the supposed “left” that’s still cooking their brains on twitter but basically the last thing she did before leaving congress was try to ban gender-affirming care for all minors so fuck them very much

Since America doesn’t have a Secretary of State or diplomatic corps anymore, just two guys—the president’s corrupt son-in-law and real estate buddy—any time spent trying to end the Ukraine war on terms favorable to Russia is time not spent on trying to end the Iran war on terms favorable to the US.

WE ARE NOT DESCENDED FROM FEARFUL MEN

Azov strikes near Mariupol put Russia's entire land corridor to Crimea within range of Ukraine's 100-200km drones. This makes the Kerch bridge strategically critical again for Russian logistics, "Taras Hryhorovych informs" reports.

the textbook definition of false anachronism is seeing a helo landing next to B-29 on Tinian in 1945

I wouldn't make too much of this. Maybe he realizes things are not going well for Ru, maybe not. But note that this diplomatic resolution talk is devoid of details. I'd bet a lot of money he still envisions an outcome that's both completely disconnected from reality and unacceptable for Ukraine.

This week on WarTalk: LTG (Ret.) Jack Shanahan joins the show! We talk air campaigns, the lasting economics of the Hormuz crisis, cyber ops, and whether there’s any strategic thought left in government. open.substack.com/pub/chinatal...

I knew I had something for this.

This is the leftist version of chuds freaking out about Anita Sarkeesian being in the Slay the Spire 2 credits

“Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf” is pretty funny.

How I feel bringing gift wrap paper up from storage to wrap Mother’s Day gifts:

"Gay liberals tend to be right wing by any sane definition of the term" fucking what

MTG is probably one of the most straightfowardly antisemitic reps in congress, she's leading criticism of Trump *from the antisemitic right* the refusal of media figures to acknowledge the reality of base jew-hatred as a force motivating politics in this country is incredibly fucking worrying!

MTG is absolutely a white nationalist you dumbfuck. Zaid Jilani is one of the dumbest assholes in media.

MTG is still a far-right racist conspiracy theorist, but Ryan Grim wants to give her endless praise.

arrived home to discover the pleasant silence in the back seat was caused primarily by my five year old writing “67” on her baby sister’s forehead with a ballpoint pen

You are like little baby watch this

the lore is even funnier than this "BasedMikeLee" was originally a sockpuppet account he used to gas himself up like every republican who has a secret sockpuppet that glazes them he fucked up and posted as if it was his main and he just rolled with it and made it his primary personal account

so I see the discourse of today is apparently becoming "player choice in gaming is actually bad because it allows the player to make morally questionable choices"

i love this poster

Péter Magyar has been sworn in as prime minister of Hungary. Hungary's Viktor Orbán era is officially over.

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

The realist shit to ever appear in a gov memo.

What about the ceasefire? Russia at night attacked Ukraine with an "Iskander-M" ballistic missile and 43 strike drones Hits from the missile and 9 strike UAVs were recorded at 6 locations, as well as the fall of debris from downed drones at 2 locations.

POV: You are the Sunrise Group

Over both UFO sightings and Havana syndrome I’ve had people insist to me that because the individuals involved are educated professionals they couldn’t possibly be subject to mistaken identifications or mass hysteria and, whoa, well, oh boy.

There are some *fascinating* trends on russian social media where women create guides on how to trick their spouses into signing a contract with the military--in the hope that they die and receive a cash payment. In case anyone has ever wondered what a society bursting at the seams is like.

The killings mark the third attack in May alone by the US military in the eastern Pacific Ocean.