Culture Minister Ghassan Salame told AFP on Friday that Beaufort Castle was directly hit by Israeli strikes last Wednesday, saying several bombs fell on the medieval fortress overlooking Nabatieh. 🧵

We've found that our friend T-Paine passed away recently. He was both funny and had a white hot anger at war that was consistent for the 20 odd years we'd known him. It was nice to see him connect with many of you over the past few years.

@bransonreese.bsky.social is this detail autobiographical?

The endorsement of Bitcoin by both parties was one of the clearest signs to me that there's no one in power actually interested in preserving a central government

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

Newsflash, bozos: anything made by a bozo is made with bozonium, the bozo element

Swan boy is increasingly becoming the new Sam and Max for our generation. There's even a short-lived network cartoon! Now all we need is a critically acclaimed swan boy adventure game series and we're well on our way to Cult Weirdo IP bingo

I feel like the photographer could have gotten a little closer tbh

It is absolutely intolerable that sadistic the fucks who murdered these people are still free and out brutalizing people on a government paycheck

It's been six months since my mom was hit & killed by a car. A few months ago, I started saying, "I need a whole year to grieve." Actually, I will need the rest of my life. But I am giving myself the year for *public* grieving. So here is a recipe I found in a file my mom labeled, "Genoa stuff."

What the US is doing to Cuba is more than a humanitarian crisis. It is a genocide as defined by the United Nations. www.un.org/en/genocide-...

Cuba's minister of energy confirmed reserves are gone — with just enough diesel left to keep hospitals online. The UN has classified Washington's blockade a humanitarian crisis.

hammer

If you acknowledge that the richest man in the world is a Nazi is has all sorts of unsettling implications about the moral valence of success and the arc of society, so it's easier to just ignore it entirely.

Try to imagine a Republican Party with a dozen or so staunch abortion advocates. A dozen pro-choice Republicans wrecking every shot at eroding women's autonomy, ruining every anti-choice vote. Can't picture it, can you? Yet we have to accept this kind of Democratic Party, for some reason.

it’s absolutely wild. she’s vetoed recreational marijuana, municipal collective bargaining, and we expect her to veto state level class actions. just a goddamn disaster.

Appalling even by the standards of this administration. Looting of the state to fund the lifestyles of coup plotters

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

they don't even WANT my vote anymore. they're straight up telling me to kick rocks every fucking day lately.

Justinianic, Heraclian, Macedonian, Komnenian, Laskarid, Palaiologian

Some of the prettier nails I've made. The "flat point" style was the most common in the South, while sharp pointed nails are more common in the North. There's lots of theorizing but no decent explanation for why that is.

i’ve been thinking of what could even be said about such a tragedy. someone said it best that trans people are “born so late and die so young”. we uproot our lives and transition and live more life than anyone else ever does and society punishes us for it. we deserve better

Some of the prettier nails I've made. The "flat point" style was the most common in the South, while sharp pointed nails are more common in the North. There's lots of theorizing but no decent explanation for why that is.

I'm not sure how much the rest of America knows or understands about the MOVE bombing in Philly, but it was probably the single worst instance of police brutality in American history. I think of it every 5/13 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MO...

Things may look bleak now folks but remember... Ron Paul still has a chance

It really is just Calvinball at this point. No norms, rules, precedent, or logical consistency.

I think that gives them an out from the true negative intent. I think they are doing this because they are racists who believe the racism has to be fully institutionalized. It's been Roberts's professional goal since he first appeared on the national scene.

McConnell denied Garland a vote nine months out under the guise that there was an election soon and then jammed through Coney Barrett a week before Biden won. They have been flipping the bird to the concepts of norms and fairness for decades and the democrats have done jack shit to fight back.

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

Got me there chief.

This guy? Yeah, he's big.

I don't understand the ecosystem of busytown. There are dogs and cats, pigs and goats, hyenas, worms, hippos, but no horses or cows

It's 1925. I'm leanin' against this lamppost on the lookout for dames who are lookin for trouble. I start flipping a quarter. I catch her eye. I fumble the quarter and it rolls into a sewer grate. I have lost the equivalent of thirty thousand dollars.

Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs.

Iran keeps cooking our ass with these videos

another ransom made possible by cryptocurrency

A sizeable group of voters simply want an asshole as President. There is no point in trying to cater to them, you can either ignore them or discourage them from voting. Every effort to get their vote by adopting asshole-ish policies is a waste, they want the real thing.

@bransonreese.bsky.social did I hallucinate this or was there a version of swan boy with dark hair and a part? Maybe in a flashback?

The holy trinity of fertilizer is the nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium combo and I just love it for all of us that this is how people are going to learn that phosphorus and potassium are mined (Potash, Phosphate rocks) but the Nitrogen is made from....natural gas.

Dawkins spending his entire career berating basically pretty normal people for being so stupid as to believe in God and then immediately giving himself Roko's Basilisk Derangement Syndrome after talking to the AI catgirl waifus is just the funniest shit.

It's "what if William Rufus hadn't been shot" not just because he's my dude but also would he have successfully taken control of Aquitaine? Would the Angevin Empire be preempted by a Norman one? Would Robert Curthose actually outlive Henry? Would Anselm finally shut up? (no)

Yes. Even in cities with Sanctuary Laws, local police routinely aid ICE by suppressing protests against them. truthout.org/articles/loc...

He is ready for the fall of the axe. A fitting punishment for his many crimes.

3. Last but not least, Trump has already made it easier to. well. low-key hold farm workers in slavery. (He ended a lot of DOL regs meant to stop human trafficking orgs & farmers from collabing to hold people captive on farms. e.g., antislavery provisions.) Did a video on that too.

Farmers vote against workers' interest bc most of us aren't working class. Farmers are business owners. With inherited wealth & property. It's not that hard to figure out! It's not folksy, & it's not "economic anxiety." Most *small family farmers* in the US are millionaires w 6-figure incomes.

Huh their crosscut saw looks like it might have the M shaped teeth. Appropriate to the era but they're infrequently depicted.

unfortunately you do actually need to go to all your dorky neighborhood street fairs. like you need to schedule it like tou schedule going to the gym. see also: state fairs