This is a decorating style called Treillage (French for "trellises") that emerged in the 17th century. It involves trellises and faux-trellises indoors, patio furniture, lots of plants and natural light. It's typical of rooms that open to gardens. These days, it's pretty popular in Palm Beach.

He did the thing.

At this point given how painfully bush league Kash Patel is, we've got a pretty good chance he posted an AI image or had an intern write "ANTI-ICE" in sharpie on a bullet. Neither of which are illegal, by the way. Cops are allowed to straight up lie to the press. None of it has to get near a court.

Once again, Trump being unpredictable and persuadable made for good reality TV. Trump constantly flip-flopping between supporting Ukraine and Russia, which seems part shakedown and part senility, is terrifying.

The idea that you can "simulate" a major software company using AI agents interacting with other AI and just iterating until you get something is equivalent to saying you just secured venture funding to purchase a whole lot of monkeys, and you expect your Shakespeare anthology will be out by Q4.

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Tagging @greenstuffnglue.bsky.social and @nataliereed84.bsky.social who almost definitely want a new Trish Carden forest dragon.

You should keep in mind that acetaminophen, IE Tylenol, is currently the ONLY over-the-counter pain medicine considered to be safe during a pregnancy. This is not only a bugaboo, it's subjecting women to needless pain.

if we had actually figured out autism do you think we'd need a multi-day tease of it and a big press conference

I have never, ever in my life trusted a laugh from Tucker Carlson, because every time you hear him laugh it's obvious the guy's hiding something deeply uncomfortable.

I will point out that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral procession and service were significantly smaller than this and did not have the American President eulogizing him. And it boils my blood that this distinction would've pleased that fucker.

Since it's going around: Saying that Somalia is a shithole and thus Somalis aren't fit to tell the US how to conduct its affairs is not the straightforward dunk some people think it is. Most Somalis in the US are refugees or children of refugees. They do not want to be in Somalia.

So I'm gonna say some words here about hobby, real life, and being kind to yourself. It'll be a few posts, so bear with me.

I think there's just the one pair, and it keeps finding new hosts with similar results.

If you think you need a trillion dollars or humanity will go extinct, just go to fucking therapy. You are not the main character.

Unions are a release valve. Collective bargaining exists because mob violence was deemed unacceptable and unsustainable. Court jesters and thespians have had license to lampoon those in power for similar reasons. One only undermines these things at their own peril.

The idea that the left has to quietly bear every insult and indignity while the right gets to be thin-skinned weirdos who hate most popular culture ain't gonna play in Poughkeepsie, folks.

Republicans gunning to cancel every late night host is gonna bring the pendulum right back around to right-wingers being the people who hate fun and can't take a joke.

The Geomancer in the new Kill Team box has been awakened early because the tomb world is in too great a state of disrepair for the Canoptek constructs to fix. She's also got techno-ADHD and is basically a hobby butterfly. She's plowing through the complex's pile of shame and getting distracted.

Now that they've both left the company due to Unilever's increasing fuckery, it feels unfair to keep calling it "Ben & Jerry's."

They're the same picture.

Hey @goodmangames.bsky.social, with as many times as Liam has come through for me with good customer support, give that person a raise.

Marc Andreesen is buying TikTok.

Waiting for the Warhammer themed donut shop to open. Crullers for the Cruller God.

So Trump's new idea to end Russia's occupation of Ukraine is... 50-100% tariffs on China. The man's only got a hammer, folks.

Hot tip, anytime someone drops the term "transgender ideology" or "gender ideology," the next thing outta their mouth is gonna be REAL WILD.

When Donald Trump says Charlie Kirk was like a son to him, I think we all realize that's not the compliment he hopes it will read as.

Charlie Kirk's shooter is still at large, and a big part of the reason is that Kash Patel at Trump's direction has taken most of the FBI off of actual criminal investigations to either fire those agents or, if they're amenable to the president's agenda, turn them into a personal goon squad.

So congratulations on creating a post-truth society so divorced from actual events that someone can get shot on camera, a United States president says he's dead, and people still have doubts it happened. Real nice thing we built, here.

As hesitant as I am to harp on looks, Kash Patel gives off this constant air that he's just shit his pants, and I'm uncomfortable having that sitting at the top of the FBI.

Your reminder, since it's coming up rather palpably with the Charlotte train stabbing: Due process has to exist even in the most seemingly obvious, open-and-shut cases. Especially if it puts someone on Death Row. Because if it doesn't exist for those people, it doesn't exist for you either.

Apparently the US saying they needed Hamas to come to the negotiating table meant "This table specifically, the one that Israel has helpfully painted a target on."

I'm somewhat heartened that Republicans may have to performatively Do A Fascism on their own states and cities to create the illusion that this isn't a partisan gesture. Not to say anyone deserves to Have a Fascism Done To Them.

@jetblackraider.itch.io - AYYYY

Subassemblies are ABSOLUTELY your friend when doing Heresy Mechanicum stuff, particularly the tanks. There's a lot of detail you will not be able to reach effectively once it's fully glued together but is still pretty dang visible in the finished product.

Now, I personally have no idea if you can open the windows in the White House. It probably is true that they're bulletproof, but they also let the dude walk around on the roof so obviously there's other layers of security that opening a window wouldn't defeat.

Ralph Bakshi's Citizen Kane.

Gotta question anybody who sees "Apocalypse Now" and has the takeaway of "War is awesome, actually."

If it's alarmist to say "Our children are dying because the president put a man who doesn't believe in medicine in charge of the nation's public health" then maybe it's because that rightly SHOULD alarm people. We are sounding an alarm. Our country is already poorer and less safe for this.

I wasn't ready for Hiveworks to get Keenspotted this soon.

My relationship with Wikipedia.

This is the current state of things in the West Bank.

I will remind the Democratic Party that there is no compromise with the people who are calling for institutionalizing or interning trans people right now. There is no convincing them of anything. They are beyond any reasonable negotiation or placation.

@flanneldude.bsky.social - YOOOOOOOOO!

Saw a discussion on how you'd put Smaug, or something similarly momentous to Smaug, in a fantasy RPG campaign. And a common gripe in that was that he's "just" a dragon. I feel like if you're playing a game where Smaug caliber dragons are common, you're in a very different setting from Middle Earth

The De Minimis Exception was to everyone's advantage, the US especially, and both enforcement and compliance are going to cost way more than the pennies removing it will bring in. The vast majority are going to just not ship to the US.

The same folks that hyperventilated about Hillary Clinton operating a private e-mail server are telling you that the DOGE boys putting a dump of the entire Social Security database on a cloud server is probably fine.

I feel like @thecharmoffensive.bsky.social needs to know about this.

Y'all, Washington DC has had cashless bail since the 90s without any problems.

It is now demonstrably true that if you show up for an immigration or asylum hearing, which is a requirement for being compliant with the process for legal residency in the United States, you will be detained and deportation proceedings will begin.