So remember how he keeps saying that the ballroom is costing no taxpayer money? Turns out he's giving the contractor tons of taxpayer money, more than twice what the projects cost, via no-bid contracts.

Here's the surprising thing. If you absolutely have to execute someone, if life imprisonment is not on the table, death by firing squad is actually one of the more humane ways. Possibly the most humane way. Lethal injection? Electric chairs? Unbelievably cruel and painful. Takes awhile to die.

So the current Bloodletters are good. They're particularly better than the metal ones that immediately preceded them, and they're more like the originals which were SUPER FREAKY. But lesser daemons are about due for a refresh. We can RETVRN to super freaky.

Seeing that the MrBeast brand is built on maintaining a cadre of dudes who are professionally Jimmy's best friends and who are force-fed a diet of the stupidest media possible to make sure they're kept perpetually in a state of forced adolescence, and that this is enshrined in the employee handbook.

Oh, he reversed course. I wonder why.

So if you blocked one particular predatory listmaker who is an incurable AI head, you will wind up blocked by one of the Bluesky devs, who is also an incurable AI head. This also managed to break one of the better lists to subscribe to. Real cool relationship you guys have with your userbase.

InfoWars has always been a joke. The difference is now it's going to be a FUNNY one, not a cruel one.

Trump is in the wind-up to claiming he's ended not just eight but ten wars, claiming Iran and Lebanon as the latest two. It feels a little unfair to count them if you started them?

we can at least take some solace that Twitter fired everyone who knew anything about their codebase and replaced them with vibe-coding dorks too so it goes down a lot too and it's much more embarrassing for a site of that magnitude

We need to understand power as a pathology. What insulates you from consequences tends to unleash the impulses you would ordinarily curb out of fear of those consequences. As you find you can get away with more and more, load-bearing parts of you erode.

Critics of UBI say that it will lead to a "crisis of meaning" in people's lives if they don't have to work to live. Folks, you are not your job. You are not your career. Those don't give you meaning or purpose. People who don't have to focus on that figure out what they're about real quick.

Okay, I've got beef here. Both the old Forge World version and the new plastic halftrack Centaur have tow hitches. In the case of the new one, it is VERY OBVIOUSLY intended to be compatible with the recent Field Artillery kits, which can be assembled folded up to have a spot this hitch would fit.

TL;DR: Bluesky has been DDOSing ITSELF due to faulty code. It took forever to spot because they do not understand their own codebase. Because, frankly, they're not the ones writing it. pckt.blog/b/jcalabro/a...

All the things that Trump is saying we are without due to the ballroom being delayed are features the original East Wing had. We are doing without because he knocked it down.

Democrats do not "have a Hasan Piker problem." It is also not a problem if Ezra Klein vocally defends Hasan Piker. None of these people matter. They're just talking heads.

Wild that the argument is presently the pope saying war is bad, and Republicans arguing that theologically, war is good.

Comics journalists, I promise you nothing bad will happen if you don't put the word "Absolute" in front of every character name in an article you're writing about the DC Absolute Universe.

I feel like Jesus knew not to talk to cops

Recently started reading the Covenant books, and as much as I dig Eisenhorn (and Ravenor) I really appreciate that there's a VERY different way Covenant goes about his business. So while they both scratch the inquisitor itch for me, @johnfrench.bsky.social has done something pretty special here.

Would love to see GW put out a plastic kit that can make a Knight Magaera or Styrix. Admittedly, I have some pretty specific other things I'd want it to have. Like give it some Dark/New Mechanicum aesthetic options, give it digitigrade legs like the 40k Chaos Knights, and give it some...

Eric Blair, who we know by his pen name of George Orwell, was not anti-communist. By the end of his life he identified as a Democratic Socialist, and he had some serious life experience with full-on communist organizations and parties, most notably in the Spanish Civil War.

Congrats to the decent number of Democrats who are going "You know what? We don't need Eric Swalwell." It's led to the surreal tableau of Republicans who hoped they could trap Democrats into wasting political capital defending a sex creep, who are now defending him THEMSELVES to make "Fetch" happen

I did not have "Of course the Strait of Hormuz is not open. We're the ones blocking it" on my bingo card.

At some point Ronan Farrow is going to run another Epstein piece, and Donald is going to find out Ivanka went on-record for it.

Baseball is the only sport where they give you a free pope hat with the team logo on it as part of your ticket.

I would be there in a heartbeat if Games Workshop put out a heraldry book for the Horus Heresy. Like, collect all those images from the various editions, organize them up nicely, and provide annotations. Astartes, Solar Auxilia, Mechanicum, the works. Half that stuff is from out of print books, now.

Making climbable things in games yellow is unreali-

Hey, you know how you "modernize" Selective Service? It's not by auto-registration. It's by axing it entirely. It's really not needed anymore. But I guess it is if you have a big meathead chasing out everyone but white guys and you're having trouble meeting recruitment numbers.

It's so intensely silly to me that Hegseth and Trump are so caught up in their GI Joe fantasy that they have to say "General Dan 'Raising' Caine" every time. And Trump is slurring so badly that it sounds like the dude just likes raisins.

Today I learned that the context in which to call the region "Iran" or "Persia" is pretty complex and means different things to different people.

It's weird that prediction markets keep having life or death things "slip through" their screening process and allow gambling addicts to bet on war, right?

Okay, I do not need this vibe coded piece of shit site to limit my ability to vent on a day we're on the brink of (more) war crimes. This is some real "I have no mouth and I must scream" business.

There is a certain class of Republican who today is trying to say "He's just talking in terms the Iranian regime will understand. Negotiating with them doesn't work." The reason good-faith negotiations between the US and Iran don't work is because most of the time we don't honor what we negotiated.

a perverse part of me reflexively went "he should need congressional approval to erase a civilization"

Hey Jay, I know the investor money is flowing, but maybe spend it on coders who actually code and axe the Claude bill.

hey remember when they tried to claim that any politician who drops an f-bomb is not fit for office

He fired her with a damn tweet. Of course he did.

Well, that presidential address coulda been an e-mail.

Hey, it's weird that the guy who claims to be Mr. Spacey Spacerson, who says we've gotta go back to the moon as a stepping stone to Mars, and who got his hand-picked best buddy to run NASA is spending today talking about anything and everything EXCEPT Artemis II, right?

-Bring back Warcry -Recenter it back on the Chaos warbands -Revamp the rules so it's more Age of Sigmar Mordheim, to be a counterpoint to Necromunda -Expand those warbands like they did the gangs, with weapon packs, extra characters, maybe mounts eventually

So Stephen Miller hasn't yelled at the head of ICE so many times that he sent him to the hospital, he just asks “very pointed questions in a very assertive tone.” That's the official line.

Where'd it go?

I swear, they're going to make an artisanal pissoir in Elon Musk's honor in Alexandria.

There is a disease of thought, not a mental illness per se but a way in which having vast riches distorts your priorities. A point where you have achieved all the comfort you could reasonably want, "won" by any rational metric, and to keep going is not going to enhance your life.

Phrasing matters. Bog Witchcraft: -Arduous -Involves coursework -Puts you under the thumb of Big Coven Bog Witchery: -Folksy -Lifestyle brand -Be your own boss

Hey @rincewind.run, I have QUESTIONS.