Busy girl. Btw she had one of those sons killed (Seleucus V Philometor-„mother loving”, hehe) and died when she tried to poison another one (Antiochus VIII Grypus-she was forced to drink the wine that she offered him).

All of the most insane people I have encountered in different context over the last 15 years of being online are slowly but surely merging into one giant blob of lunatics

You’ll never guess how the IDF decided to talk about killing these two kids, 8 and 11 years old, in its official statement

Bactria still lives!

i'm actually struck by how pete hegseth isn't just a cowardly man but a capital-c Coward. a guy who gets off on abusing and hurting people he thinks are weaker than him and then tries to run and hide when there might be consequences

ODYSSEUS: wife I am home after 20 years PENELOPE: oh shit I mean honey you are home how wonderful ODYSSEUS: who are all these strange men PENELOPE: well, I'll tell you what they're definitely not, which is a 300 person polycule ruling in your absence

TO AUSTERLITZ! (because it’s the 220th anniversary)

Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.

I can’t promise that this is the first time a Canadian publisher of a beloved children’s book series has publicly condemned the bloodthirsty US secretary of defense’s use of its imagery to smirkingly defend heinous war crimes. I mean who can say.

"Can Trump just kill the federal goverment? Do his EO violent the impoundment act?" You bolt awake in the East Portico. You are not online. It is March 4, 1869. You are Ulysses S Grant, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. The stimulus must be significant

My President told me Jim Comey keeps eating his prosecutors so I asked how many prosecutors he has and he said he just goes to Mar-A-Lago and gets a new prosecutor afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding prosecutors to Jim Comey and then his Attorney General started crying.

i drive by this monstrosity several times a week. the first time i saw it my mind broke a little bit and i just started mumbling "labubu cybertruck" to myself for the rest of the drive

When will we see rally-based diplomacy?

One thing I have to point out because a lot of people don't realize it is "the Syria test" was never a tankie/campist ID test, it was an "are you gargling Russian propaganda?" test, it just picks up tankies and campists because of course it does

It’s purely a cuckolded guy retaliating against his ex and the other guy at this point.

This is really quite wild. Somebody altered ISW’s map of the Ukraine conflict to make a buck on Polymarket.

LEAVITT: THE PRESIDENT'S FLUIDS REMAIN MOIST, VISCOUS, WITHIN NORMAL PARAMATERS, AND AT APPROPRIATE PRESURES

What a pathetic clown

How it started / where it goes / how it ends up

I remember from one of their dev diaries that they were planning Spanish Civil War at some point-since they obviously have the map, I wonder if it’s still on the table.

Looks like we have a scenario tree for the new Unity of Command 2 dlc. Quite a fantasy direction for the ahistorical path if it ends in Portugal (it’s available in „manual” folder after the latest update).

Maxfield Parrish - Winter Sunrise. Oils, 1933.

✨ A few years back I stood outside Wells Cathedral for a full day and photographed the impact of the light on the front facade. I was amazed at the outcome - at how a single entity could morph and change under the changing light. 🌅 #thread

Romania (134%), Lithuania (95%), Poland (91%), and Malta (90%) saw the largest increases in real income.

Yeah, using „lay” is really fitting for this sect of weirdos.

The X-Files is genuinely a timelessly good show, because when not focusing on overarching conspiracy plot, they would really just focus on a single concept and quite crucially, it would cast an incredible actor to center the episode around who would be utterly god damn captivating to watch.

Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade. It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...

A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:

Honestly it's funny that he is *quite literally* saying "deregulate and reduce the burden of taxation on business to create jobs" and nobody on the left will criticise him. Good.

With his new comedy show and debut novel, is it time to let Louis C.K. force women to watch him masturbate again?

LOVE IS BLIND fans know you can make quick work of Thanksgiving leftovers with a turkey smoothie

And he wrote most of the dialogue in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, according to Spielberg.

Simon Kuper on the big, beautiful flattery industry on.ft.com/4ot93aZ

They can’t even manage a proper party purge these days. Having the purged in a state where they are not capable of complaining is key.

Almost every single one of these algorithms were called AI at the time they were created. The fascinating thing about AI is that, up until LLMs, anything that was developed as AI quickly became “things computers do.” Language is different for us it seems.

Five-byline alert: 🚨 “.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦 www.wsj.com/world/russia...

A ton of bling on this Kushan princess and from every corner of the world that could have been travelled to at that point.

If you love "Throne of Blood," you might be interested in my Kurosawa Month, a month where I watched and reviewed one Kurosawa-directed movie a day for a month: bsky.app/profile/ostr...

Along with the obvious implications of what amounts to a “no quarter” order by Hegseth and compliance by the commanders of JSOC and SEAL Team 6, it’s important that @alexhorton.bsky.social and Ellen Nakashima have nailed down those organizations in particular as the ones leading the boat strikes.

Did you see that he did a similar video on plastic soda bottles as well? I legit didn't even notice the heat-resistant design elements until this. youtu.be/kU_gH36GG58

Like with a lot of stuff here, it has a grain starting in the GWOT but this is less "oh just the logical extension of the GWOT in SOUTHCOM" and more "this is what happens when an organization completely loses any semblance of morality"

So I'm pretty sure a three star knows that an order to strike alleged combatants who are hors de combat is facially illegal, in case anyone's still having any hangups on whether Bradley needs to be in the dock after this

really went dark for the sequel

Heh, just learned that the central bank of Afghanistan is called Da Afghanistan Bank (plus they have ancient Bactrian coin of king Eucradites on their seal). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Afgh...

You all know about this, right? Not one of nature's natural aviators, the beaver, and yet... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_...