GOD TIER

poems with titles longer than the poem vs poems with a title so tucked and short it feels hardly there at all

I wish the Chinese balloon thing that happened last year was a mascot parade balloon instead of a weather balloon Imagine an F-35 just absolutely obliterating Doraemon or Pikachu from BVR

I read this thinking he must be talking about his 4 year old, but Saxon is 20 years old.

WHAT

Self inflicted wounds

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I’ve been playing some Rule The Waves 3. Apparently watching the odd Drachinifel or Alex Clarke YT video does not magically make me a naval architect, nor demonstrate strategic leadership from the era of coal-fired Dreadnoughts to nuclear aircraft super-carriers. #SexyNavalSpreadsheets

My photograph of the ISS tonight looks like Paddington coming for me after I flatline on the operating table

Our Lady of Perpetually Online

Mulling over the "marriage should/should not be work or difficult" discourse that pops up from time to time and I think I'm sort of at "marriage is work, but it's good work. it's work that you're happy you did."

my father has dementia and he now says wildly inappropriate, upsetting things too but at least he’s not running the country

Which idiots is this idiot talking about?

A truly enraging article:

That’s fucking excellent news!

do we have any functional diplomatic channels left to Iran or is it just Twitter

Pendant, in the form of a salamander, enamelled gold set with pearls & an emerald, Western European make, late 16th century. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

Looks like they presented him with the casualty estimates for an amphibious landing in the Persian Gulf.

beating myself up over being too hard on myself

When a post goes beyond the same 5 people who like everything

the government is saying “underage girls are testing positive for pregnancy at ICE detention centers” instead of saying “ICE agents are raping & impregnating underage girls.”

formal proposal of a replacement for the vince mcmahon meme format

God will never give you more than you can handle, unless you were born in the wrong place or don't have money. That makes god super mad.

Alternately, you could do an dialogue-heavy mystery game, in a Pentiment/Disco Elysium sort of style. The obvious already-done-a-hundred-times setup would be to make the main character detective a monk, but I'd think a lapsed Christian detective rediscovering their faith might have more impact.

If you tasked me to think up concepts for an explicitly Christian video-game, my thought isn't 'Jesus simulator.' My first thought was actually an RPG/management hybrid (kinda like Dispatch (2025)), but have the player run, like, a charity food bank or a clinic in a developing country.

So, of course, 1) lol, this looks awful but 2) This is hardly the first 'Jesus game' attempt and it is so depressing because why would you make a game about being Jesus (a thing none of your players do) instead of a game about being a Christian (a thing rather more people do).

The Republican Party is responsible for the erosion of so many very basic norms in American public life. Many of those who have let it happen would never have thought they would a decade ago

This mattered

Shaun bonus again - now playing

Who needs the door opened? I'm gonna burst through the wall like the kool-aid man.

Pushed across the border into a foreign country in a WHEELCHAIR. This government, this country, is irredeemably evil. Full of disgusting racists who revel in horrendous cruelty. How do we even come back from this

Perry Bible Fellowship @pbfcomics.bsky.social

Happy Sci-Fi Cutaway Saturday: Here's Klaus Bürgle's vision for the double-decker trains of the future. 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/trains-of-th...

this book apparently presents douglass as passively waiting for providence to end slavery, which is so fucking backwards and obviously wrong that it feels straight up racist

To be clear, the Republicans who policed all of our speech when Charlie Kirk was killed, & who jump on anyone who doesn’t mourn their heroes correctly, have just opened the door for every liberal & leftist in America to post ‘Good, I’m glad he’s dead” when Trump eventually dies.

RIP to the guy who bet the republic on Americans being able to understand subtext in the written word.

Donald Trump responds to Robert Mueller’s death:

Oh NOW there's a handy mnemonic for this.

Lasted 99 years. Killed by Bari Weiss in less than 1. www.cnn.com/2026/03/20/m...

If you somehow needed any more evidence that there’s zero strategic thinking happening at the highest levels of our government, well…

Good piece (as usual by @gregsargent.bsky.social ) Two things simultaneously true: 1) Trump is becoming weaker, in *every* way, by the hour. 2) Precisely for that reason, he is becoming more dangerous. "Raccoon with rabies" is the metaphor I keep in mind.

Fumbleclit. Losthope. Enoch-upon-Powell. Slavering.

TSA currently employs about 50,000 screening agents. ICE currently employs about 22,000 agents. This threat won’t solve the TSA funding issue, and it would also come at the expense of further degrading his already unpopular & incompetent immigration program

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In particular it seems like a really excellent place for a rare but valuable overlap between "has deep domain knowledge on the logistical and strategic implications of modern military hardware" and "still doesn't think they should be used arbitrarily as a solution to every problem"

so what has the pentagon failed at? DRONES. we're cracking off patriots at fucking shaheds? after FOUR YEARS of the war in ukraine? profound institutional sclerosis. "how do we not get our bases blown up by drones" is the kind of tactical problem military professionals ought to have been solving

your locus of thought and personnel, when it comes to *strategy*, has got to be people who don't spend most of their youth getting expert on "how do i occupy that building/ridgeline/woodlot over there" traditionally, this is what the *state department,* as in *matters of state* was for

"the pentagon didn't even have a plan to deal with iran closing the strait!" okay but the thing is: that's not the pentagon's job. that's never going to be the pentagon's job. the pentagon's shown serious incompetence here but this isn't it let me explain