Imagining an insanely annoying guy in the distant future who’s into 21st century America the way chuds are into the Roman Empire. Getting worked up imagining this guy

Mark Rutte's time as head of NATO is not dissimilar to his time as PM in that he seems to think it is extremely sensible to keep playing footsy with far right leaders and that this will lead to no negative consequences whatsoever.

We’re going to enter a really cool phase on the internet where the only entities that will exhibit basic politeness and reading comprehension to you will be LLM-driven. A kind of reverse Turing test where the markers of humanity are idiocy and malice

Multiple attempts at newspapers scattered on jungle floor, offered to passing primatologists

Discovered a YouTube channel where a guy makes bigger versions of foods, and every comment on every video is telling him to make a big grape, and at 1m followers he released his only long form video where he makes the big grape

Imagine a quote-tweet that makes one side with *Lee Anderson*

I wrote an essay at Uni on how the Church has played this role in DR Congo for generations, I should find it

This is the most Tim Farron way to encounter Tim Farron

My buddy Ian did this once and it changed my life.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

So Pilate said to Him, “Do You refuse to speak to me? Do You not know that I have authority to release You and authority to crucify You?”

Can’t wait for Property Rights Sunday

Just read Consider Phlebas, the first Culture book. Nobody told me how close to Hitchhiker these books get

Viganò presumably waiting in the wings to be the Avignon DC Pope

Now some folks may say that it all seems a little unfair now But we’re still getting rich so the truth is we really don’t care now For our buddies and us the Gulf War was a total success now Though Saddam’s still in power and Kuwait - has ended up in a mess now

Oh *wow*! Look at the pictures of the eclipse with Orion in frame! Sources: images.nasa.gov/details/art0... images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

And just think, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage wanted us to join this madness.

Historians point to regional precedents for this deal in the Battle of Kadesh, which both the Egyptians and Hittites recorded as a victory

Gf showing my cute animal videos to try to calm me down and I keep saying that’s a bad guy in Redwall that’s a bad guy in Redwall

Hate the Emirs and monarchs all you want but the actual casualties in a large scale IRGC strike on the Gulf are mostly gonna be Filipinos, Bangladeshis, Palestinians, etc

This is *literally* how King Croesus bought it after misinterpreting the Oracle at Delphi

people split hairs about the genocide classification all the time, but Trump unambiguously wrote down his intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national group, and then he broadcast it out

And here’s the eclipse photo from Artemis II. I am in tears.

Earthset from Artemis II. I am overcome.

We should’ve known the Admin’s ties to Oracle were concerning

If you send an army against Persia, you will surely destroy a great empire

In the age of the McDonald’s Theory of War, you win by aiming straight at the Golden Arches

It's also insane to go "nothing comes from space travel" in a world completely transformed by satelitte telecommunications

mods are asleep post camera falling out of plane and landing in a pig pen to be licked by a pig

The Canadians have one additional seat after this (so far). ESA has three seats (German-French-Italian). JAXA has two seats.

The Académie Française gritting its teeth as it congratulates Jenni from Calgary for absolutely butchering the first French spoken on the Moon

If they keep the Canadians through Artemis, real possibility the second language spoken on the moon is français québécois

Christ Leading the Thief into Paradise by Joakim Skovgaard, 1890.

Aw man they’re definitely gonna make a movie about the rescue aren’t they

Timeline where Jesus Christ Superstar came out in 2015 and people talk about Jesus the way they do about Alexander Hamilton

It’s a great time to visit Duffel Blog, the Onion of the US military

My return broke BlueSky

www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio... This was the full text of it:

dropping a falklands-shaped nuke on the discourse with "americans are the indigenous people of the moon"

Time picked Einstein as the defining figure of the 20th century, but if you wanted a more honest picture, including both the century’s breathtaking science and appalling cruelty

The more we learn of the infinite size and scale of the universe the more Jonah is owned for thinking he could outrun God by boat

Just watched Master and Commander for the first time, if the entire movie was only the weevil joke it would be worth it

At this time every year I must draw your attention to the demon who appeared to have the misfortune to be standing by the door and was squished looney-tunes style when the harrowing commenced

Christus surréxit simple as cheers 👍

Iran has agreed to open the strait in exchange for the President’s personal conversion to Islam, we must conclude

From the ISS the night half glows with city lights, but it’s clear that beyond orbit no human light is visible. I didn’t know that