I'm sure we can get a JD Vance take on whether Cathars were real if we try hard enough

Well fencing was cancelled due to the hall being triple booked but we've been to the pub and I've had a kebab so I'm still chalking it up as a good evening

I'm hardly sold on ID cards - they don't solve any big problems but they would make a lot ofnpeople's interactions with the state smoother - but I admit I am baffled by left-wingers who have suddenly decided the UK is one of the only free nations in Europe

To be quite frank, as someone from a country that has ID cards, I'm still against this nonsense from UKG because the very point of an actually useful ID card is that it is physical and you can keep it in your wallet.

Congratulations to the Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine for meeting Europe's decarbonization goals several decades early

My contribution to The Loneliness Discourse is that we see D&D, Warhammer, etc, going mainstream because they‘re Third Space Provider Games so we should all talk more about such things to save America.

I mean even if the US doesn't get involved and the other Euros and us pussyfoot about, this brings Turkey swinging in, and, uh, it is not clear to me how that is in Israel's interest

I would like the child sacrificed to stop, either by we stop doing them, or we acquire an orb with some kind of enchantment, I don't want to be too prescriptive about it, but an orb or other artifact with magical properties that causes them to stop.

Friends! It's the feast day of St. Hildegard of Bingen, an abbess, polymath, mystic, & eel truth-teller. Medieval thinkers agreed that eels reproduce asexually. But Hildegard suggested that eels mate at sea, where we can't watch. No one listened to her. But she was right! 1/2 🗃️🧪

These very true words from Steve Hely have given me tremendous comfort over the years.

ODYSSEUS: so then I had a brilliant idea, I’d tell him my name is Nobody CHOTINER: nobody? ODYSSEUS: Yes! So when he was blinded later, he’d yell “nobody has hurt me” and no neighbors would help! And it worked! We got away with it! CHOTINER: but then you did tell him your name ODYSSEUS: yeah

The idea of Early Modern pushes of pike being an unskilled mutual death drive where men just skewer each other on the charge is pretty absurd given the amount of early modern pike fencing manuals we have and the evidence that most professional/vocational soldiers had at least some fencing skill

Conservative Islamists, Anglicans, French Catholics, Hindus, and Buddhists under one coalition proof would simply undergo psychotic fusion into the most unspeakable paternalistic anti democratic globalism imaginable

This would create some of the most insane coalition politics ever if it somehow survived more than one session of UltraParliament. I struggle to imagine the horrors of a joint Australo-Scotch-Quebecois cattle ranching cartel.

Marshal Oudinot was one of the hardest motherfuckers to ever live:

What getting raptured taught me about B2B sales

Russel T Davies predicted the right wing e girl in 2007 when he invented the Master’s wife who gets really into it when he murders 1/10 of humanity

Reform's communication infrastructure is strong, facing weak opponents, and gets a boost from favourable media, and they're using it to broadcast "hello, we're mental"

Russia manifestly does not feel that cyberattacks, assassinations, and air incursions are escalators, because otherwise it wouldn't do those things to nuclear states

Lembit Öpik. What's going on there

so much as I love Lee, he was an intelligence liaison officer with the RAF and his claims to have been in special forces were almost certainly bullshit.

Wait, who said what about London

Repost for Irish Film Classifications by Damien Owens, because it's just come up in FB memories and it's still *brilliant*.

I don’t think anyone likes HR exactly but I do heavily side-eye people - and it really tends to be men - who feel this obsessive kind of hatred for it. What sort of interactions were they having with HR, and how often?

Fucksake!!!

Europe should tell Trump and RFK Jr. it exports an amazing alternative to Tylenol called paracetamol and use that as leverage in tariff negotiations.

I quite like immigration.

Obiwan: why am I old as a ghost? Yoda: I still use a cane, I’m in constant joint pain 24 year old Anakin: word? I feel great. I was just banging this chick I met at Chili’s. We’re going to go see Keith Ur- Yoda: I should have never have believed in this. I should have never stopped being Lutheran

Anti-Piracy operations, famously an easy problem,

Over on Twitter they have decided fast jets are gay.

I mean surely if you want to do CAS with a fast mover nowadays the best option is to work on drones/loyal wingmen? You get mass without sacrificing lives and you can have your F-35 run them from half the battlespace away.

Okay admittedly this is rather more involved than the ones we did

Another weekend doodle, another painted shield 🗡️🛡️

Ed Davey from space... "Kingston, we've had a problem"

Horseshoe theory but it’s clearly wishing you could replace all those shrill educated professional women with big stronk manly man white industrial workers who hit things with a hammer or turn a big wrench.

"I went to the Liberal Democrat conference and it was full of liberals? Mods?????"

Do not surrender. Do not log off. Do not permit Lord Glasman to have sex with his wife

"Eyes up, freifechter, we've got a city to burn"

We didnt know how good we had it with BBC Sport

hell yeah

who called them "the Huns" and not "H from Steppes"

Listen, you've got to be pikemaxxing. Learning from the Swiss. Advancing in a 100-rank block. Hiding halberdiers in your ranks to run out when the push happens. Letting the musket guys take shelter in the centre of the square. Big guys with big swords and bigger hats. You gotta be pikemaxxing.

Kwisatz Fasherach

This is a hilarious way to understand late antiquity, even allowing for the fact that Meyer's writing it in 1570

“I keep confusing Morgan mcsweeney for Sydney Sweeney”

🧵 FAQ: Q: What even is this? This account tracks the live level of the urine tank on the International Space Station. Q: So it's, like, real? Live? Right now? Yes.