beach with people and skyline, ocean city, maryland, 1985

big pokemon

i dunno, i still think it's pretty dope that we have arguably the best surface to air laser weapon in the world (america, yours failed to shoot down a party balloon a month ago), and yeah, if we've gotta sit in this weird maybe-iran-will-target-an-raf-base zone we might as well get live fire tests

No decency; no sense of decency. How hard is it to show basic humanity and apologize?

Truly the Fyre Festival of strategic campaigns.

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for: - Who takes over; - Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation; - How to defend US bases in the region; - Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and - How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

oh man, they didnt have a plan for this at all

I just learned that Ayatollah Khamenei and Ayatollah Khomenei are not the same person. Here's my plan for regime change in Iran....(1/23)

"I had no warning that I was gonna declare war"

XAVIER: Stand down, Erik! We must avoid violence! MAGNETO: The violence began long before us, friend. Now choose which of your new recruits will feel the deadly power of MAGNETISM. NOTEPAD: Professor, I will save his remarks as an unformatted .txt file! XAVIER: (in Magneto's head) I choose Notepad.

yeah, not sure "This war may well be totally pointless, maybe we'll spend all this money and all those Americans and Iranians will die for absolutely nothing" is a particularly good way to sell it to the public Donny, but excited to see how your novel approach plays out

every fox news host just put their heads in their hands in despair that they're now going to have to try to argue for non-linear time to make this make sense

If they want me back they have to go fully Woke 2, sorry. Whole hog. I gotta be able to get an abortion there

Analyses for how much it would cost to house every unhoused person in America vary, but as far as I can see, $30 billion is on the high-end of estimates www.sciotoanalysis.com/news/2024/1/... But hey, lighting that money on fire in a war most of America already doesn't want is also a choice I guess

HURRY, the Dow just dropped below 50,000. Maybe Pam Bondi will let the DOJ arrest the pedos now.

the entire republican party are all the most desperate & enthusiastic cucks i have ever seen, embarrassing to even consider voting for them

sorry i've had meetings for a couple of hours, how's world war 3 going? president grandpa & whiskey pete accidentally bombed the wrong country yet?

Capybara searching for a cell phone signal in a zombie apocalypse.

Disgusting Still, this presumably is ground for people to refuse to fight on religious grounds, right?

The Superbowl itself got about 125 million viewers (almost all in the US) So Bad Bunny pulled in over 30 times as many viewers Which was the entire point of getting an artist who would appeal specifically to viewers outside of the US

Got through to the second round of interviews for the Ayatollah but they’re making candidates do a written task of matching a pitch deck and honestly they shouldn’t be asking us to do unpaid labour for a job interview

I think they’re just setting up, but they’ve accidentally created the best shop display I’ve seen in ages

Really fun to watch him grapple with cognitive dissonence in real time. The US has unlimited weapons except its out of weapons because Biden gave all the weapons to Ukraine except luckily it has unlimited weapons because Trump rebuilt the military before Biden gave all the...

Keir Starmer is once more locked in a death battle with his mortal enemy, Keir Starmer.

I purposely bought a radio without a volume knob at a car boot sale so I could tell the wife 'they offered it to me for only a fiver, I couldn't turn it down'. She didn't get it. It's in the bin.

IAN MILES CHOENG: Oh yeah, all the cunts live in Dubai, the place is just awash with cunts. So, y'know, don't worry about them being exploded. Wait, why are you praying? For their safety, right? You're praying because you want the cunts to stay safe, right?

As if describing any of the other ways we get rid of bodies wouldn't sound weird as hell if we weren't already used to them "When I die, I want my corpse to be pumped full of carcinogenic preservatives, given a full face of makeup, dressed up all smart, & placed on view in an extremely fancy box"

Labour's Ben Goldsborough MP on who's shaping UK politics - he "suspect[s] Russian money is being used to fund think-tank activity in the UK." LD Lisa Smart adds: "It is entirely possible that very wealthy individuals or state actors abroad put money into think-tanks." (In the Commons last night)

Year four of the three day special military operation and everything is going fine. Imagine the US started to deploy the Blue Angels in combat roles? united24media.com/latest-news/...

a contender for my favorite behind-the-scenes photo: The Hunt for Red October crew built their submarine set(s) on top of a hydraulic gimbal, 45 ft above the stage floor, capable of tilting 45 degrees to mimic a sub's movements - Sean Connery said it made him seasick. even the gauges inside worked.

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

A third American enacted Gulf War in my lifetime feels like at the bare minimum two too many especially when I'm only halfway through my average allotted time.

heh, nice try tabloids again, it takes time & effort to manufacture consent, and doubly so if you're looking for consent to do a repeat of a war which is still fresh in people's memories & which, after 20 years, achieved fuck all at great cost Trump's fucked it by rushing it

A computer can never be held accountable, therefore we gave it a gun.

Fuck cancer.

Calvin and Hobbes, Bloom County, Tintin and The Far Side were a major part of my reading journey, so I’ve introduced my daughter to comics like Calvin and Hobbes to give her the same. Except I forgot that she’d start to behave like Calvin. She woke me up Sunday by popping a paper bag above my head.

"The Greens are just offering people things they want" is not the damning put-down you think it is Darren

I accidentally trained my dog to growl at people I don't like. I just need to look at him, look at the victim, then wrinkle my nose. "I'm so sorry he doesn't seem to like you, he gets this way sometimes, perhaps best if you go I'm afraid". He gets a treat when they leave.

Just ran across this on reddit and laughed so hard

Don't do it Kier, don't fall for it, you'll lose even more votes if you do it and it's not like he's even offering a single damn thing in return (such as, for a start, immediately deleting those tariffs)

man its so weird how appeasement doesn't work. fortunately there have been no historical examples of this that could have served as a guiding light to avoid it in the present

I had to

President Trump is pushing back on criticism that he hasn't explained why he wants to do this war by continuing to insist that he totally has a good reason actually but you wouldn't understand and also look over there is that a distraction?

omg it's like a perfect comedy storytelling arc, where in season 1 they elect Road Rules guy as Transport Sec, then shut down the government for so long that a bunch of air traffic controllers have to quit, & then there's some crashes, & Boeings fall apart now and now in S2E1 they're doing this:

“Constitution destroyed in plane crash” feels like a VEEP joke that they scrapped for going too far.

India is a big country with many Indians. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/b...

Ideal British interaction

oh good, we've reached this stage already