Generations to come will be as sceptical of our histories as we are of Procopius

getting my citizenship paperwork together, trying to learn the french quebecois pronunciation of "i wish to provide intelligence of yankee troop positions and movements."

MYTH Data centers are destroying the planet with their aggressive water demands. FACT Nudifying one 12-year-old requires less than 0.1 mL of water, and the water is merely heated and remains clean and safe for other uses.

it’s the Irish left vs the “Israeli left”

went to the little anti-war protest downtown — it was the seamless mix of Indivisible and DSA types that’s becoming the norm at these things.

they probably think they can follow the Israelis’ method in Lebanon and Syria — periodic airstrikes on the capital until the local government does what it’s told to. but I think they overrate both the success of this approach in the Levant and its applicability to Latin America.

Trump just posted this photo of the sharpest minds in our intelligence community hard at work during the Venezuelan operation.

I swear to god, a kid I went to high school with who was posting the “Harris will send me to war” memes reposted this with “we’re so back”

pissing everyone off with a “No War For Decarbonization” banner

aka a silicon valley poster group chat

“what’s left of Maduro’s regime in Venezuela” appears to be essentially “all of it”

“Ngo Dinh Diem, but make her evangelical”

This war will destabilize the entire region and set off a global shockwave of anti-Americanism vs. no it won’t

¡abundancia!

Insane flex apnews.com/article/zohr...

M. Président Macron, ma patrie a très envie pour la liberté. Peut-il envoyer le GIGN pour faire le fast-rope sur la Maison Blanche?

You don't have to listen to these professional liars who are barely trying. 9 months ago they were saying they were powerless to return a man they illegally sent to an El Salvador gulag because it would violate that country's national sovereignty

“I will ask tough questions about President Trump’s very successful operation for Democracy and Freedom” is absolutely going to be the main Dem line

"No war for oil"? No, war for oil!

Sicario Brain striking in new and extraordinary ways

the president of taiwan right now

It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

I hope some Democrats say things like "Let me be clear"

Call me crazy, but I'm going to listen to the Vicar of Christ and not the part-time bishop of a suffragan diocese on the Minnesota-Iowa border

zero notes whatsoever

"Let us imagine things as happening in this way: All give all that they have into a common fund. No one would have to concern himself about it, neither the rich nor the poor...Will we not make a heaven on earth? Would not the grace of God be indeed richly poured out?" - St. John Chrysostom

sed contra, here’s what Pope Francis had to say:

better than any parody

it’s stupid to not use ai just because it can induce psychosis and generate child porn. it’s like saying you’re hungry when there’s a hot dog on the ground outside that induces psychosis and generates child porn

Not really discussed that often but one of the secondary & tertiary reasons Israel's public image has so rapidly declined among the youth in countries like the US, UK and Germany is because of behavior like this. Petulant, circular, nonsensical, extremely whiny. It doesn't make *Mamdani* look bad.

The Negroni figures the Lord's Circumcision, for the red vermouth signifies the first shedding of his Precious Blood; the Campari, the bitterness of our mortal human nature and the yoke of the law; the gin, the tears of Our Lady. And the peel— *a shot rings out at last and I fall from the pulpit*

it’s such a powerful line, but I don’t think it targets anyone these days — the centrists are running away as fast as they can from any “politics of universalism”

it’s a good speech

The hater becomes a waiter at the table of success

happy new year

Bye mom!

longing for the more innocent days of 2024, when this miscreant wasn’t around to steal my glasses….

in most ways 2025 was a wretched year publicly and personally but I can’t really be down when we got a beautiful new baby out of it

people are getting mad at this for Abundance reasons but I’m surprised nobody got mad that I called La Guardia a socialist (which is only sort of equivocally true)

i am losing my mind over this listing that staged a condemned philly trap house with AI

The nuance here is that the IRT Company went bankrupt, and its subway lines survived because the city took them over under the leadership of the socialist Fiorello LaGuardia.

Men doing this whole “I will vanquish continents for my children” LARP is so goofy in the context of household surveys. It’s nice you’ll kill millions for your daughter, maybe we can start at doing a load of laundry for your wife who does the vast majority of household labor?