"parapluie nucléaire" is a far more delightful phrase than the English equivalent

I would simply build heavy rail

Hell yeah atheists still more popular than Mormons, we stay winning

Instead of shivering with dread at the hellfire Kirk revival, better to know that white Evangelicals are surprisingly off-putting to a majority of Americans outside their faith. (This fact can be weirdly hard for intellectuals in US and elsewhere to accept) www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

There are too many apps. 90% of apps should instead be a better website.

A gov't of "aggrieved elites thrown onto social platforms with everyone else in the 2010s, where they could read what we all think about them. It caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it will ever happen again."

Think I'm becoming a whist guy. Deep in my whist era. Who up taking they tricks

We salute our brave boys with the red, white, and blue stripes

They should assign anyone they recruit this way to some sort of Special Army; perhaps we could even abbreviate that term

"I'm helping!"

We truly, deeply, madly love to see it

Far more dangerous than Trump, I think, is how quickly the last eight months have pulled back the curtain on America's elites and shown everyone how venal, how cowardly and how utterly mediocre the foundation of our society has been.

Degenerate really is the best word for it

It is illegal to criticize the right.

Happy Market Garden to all who celebrate! I will be driving an entire corps of armor down one elevated road the entire length of The Netherlands in celebration.

There are diminishing returns to logging on. I owe much of my professional career and political development to logging on but that world simply does not exist anymore. This is in part what the kids are recognizing when they leave the web or the socials for private discords. That too shall pass.

Any serious person knows this quite literally, isn’t doing shit, not coming any closer to solving the problem, so it just devolves into a snuff film for boomers on Facebook

Loved my time in college/my early 20s but honestly I could do without reliving the same headlines and content about the economic situation then

Oppenheimer: I am become death…. destroyer of worlds Edward teller: and I’m death destroyer of worlds junior! Oppenheimer: no relation

Some real Gilded Age stuff going on: Trump says Union Pacific's president urged him to send troops into Memphis, St. Louis, and Chicago, which are all important interchange points between UP and Norfolk Southern, the railroad UP is attempting to buy out

For everyone wondering why LA is like this, the answers lie in the fragmentation of our county into 88 cities, the local control obsession by electeds, the car-centric urban form, and the vice grip of prop 13-protected homeowners.

I decided to subscribe to The Verge because they accurately reported the news

one explanation is that chemicals in the air or water are making everyone stupider every year and we haven’t noticed because we’re all too stupid. this hypothesis would help explain why everything and everyone is really stupid now

I am genuinely confused by all this pageantry. He was not an elected official. I cannot think of another time a regular citizen being killed garnered this response. It’s perverse.

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The grief of a fandom: on Starship, Musk and losing the spark Why do people defend someone who has done things that are frankly terrible?

"1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg" is a well known "UFO space battle" looking document outside the Vatican. "described a mass sighting of celestial phenomena or unidentified flying objects (UFO) above Nuremberg (then a Free Imperial City of the Holy..." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_ce...

For *my* stupid hobby treats, Tiny Legend is back at least, but VMS no longer ships directly. Small Scale Lights is back with a surcharge, and Battle Systems has added a 30% tariff charge too

For anyone who cares to pay attention, the fact that major developers are lining up behind the NIMBY mayoral candidate tells you a lot about real-world housing politics and who the real shills tend to be in local YIMBY/NIMBY fights. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/n...

I regret to inform you that it is once again time to advocate for regime change in the middle east

Now that my hearing is back I can say it was A Good Show

This is what being governed by Newsom is like: "Without that funding, the senators say, BART will have to close stations and limit train service on many routes to once an hour. Muni could face a 50% reduction in frequency on many lines." www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

To finish this thought: much of the defense enterprise has been focused on China for a long time, even during the height of the GWOT. The current admin wants instead to focus the defense enterprise inward, shifting resources to LE and border security, a very uncomfortable role for the military

California is a place where long time residents pat themselves on the back for blocking new homes that don’t have yards ”because children need to play!” … while 28% of the children in America who are unsheltered sleep on a California street at night

Based on the clusterfuck that is currently the Rose Bowl, I don't understand how the hell this place supposed to host an Olympics with the garbage transit options to any venue

the curse of premature anti-fascism

Because housing issues in America are mainly issues of technocratic fixes, theres a tendency to extract that resolution onto most issues. The reality is people were mad about immigration because social media propaganda fed them lies blaming homelessness and high cost on asylum seekers.

Incredible crossover

It’s the cover of the current issue of The Spectator magazine, they just edited it.

Great minds, @aelkus.bsky.social @utopia-defer.red

Happy Girl-in-the-Well Day to all who celebrate

Not as easy as it sounds tbh.

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The Biden Administration’s planned rule to require airlines to compensate passengers for significant delays has been canceled by the Trump Administration.

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