No propaganda campaign. No manyfacturing consent. Just fire all the generals who object, do a few weeks of szalámitaktika to make sure nobody will stand up to them, and start bombing.

The moderate position is indeed The Hague

screenshot in case the post gets taken down or deleted

... Or in my case, 28 ten-piece place settings from two different china sets. Thanks, mom. Let's not forget they came with decades of nicotine stains that needed to be scrubbed off, too.

It's January 1st! House Flambeau reminds its members to renew the vis in your favorite ashtrays and lawn chairs.

New Year’s Vibe

Whiny Child: I hate seeing the same artists being reskeeted all day long on Bsky. Me: <Unfollows> <Mutes> Me: "Problem solved."

I have been informed, and now so have you. 👀🐺

Er, supernatural bounty hunter who now shares his body with the ghost of a 19th century witch. Had it been the book before (or after) in the series, I'd have been a radio psychologist/author werewolf.

My English 3 teacher had this on her desk facing the class, except "Midvale" had been replaced by USC. She was a UCLA grad, and I always appreciated the edit. 😝🐺

Wolfenstein 3D (1992)

Guess it's my turn. The Quiche Continuum.

i love salmon. this is me with my fish

Someone said that Skeletor should have done the moral at the end of the He-Man/She-Ra Christmas Special, and that got me thinking — why didn't they ever ask him to do the moral?

I admit, I gaydar a man's sexuality based on the dog he's out and about with. Buff dude with a teacup? Trying to pick up chicks. Buff dude with a 200lb wolf? Gay af and looking for another man to share protein costs. Twink with a wolf? Bisexual disaster. Twink with a teacup? Gay as Elle Woods.

"You deal [cards] like old people fuck, slow and sloppy." (I deal incredibly fast and precise. My friend knew I would be highly offended. 😅🐺) --- "He drinks Coke on Passover? Is he even Jewish?" - A Lubabitch --- (A day after I had made him real teriyaki sauce...) "I bought teriyaki sauce."

Merry Christmas one and all, from the Vaders 🎄

These assholes are everywhere in Seattle. This is a good approach. Tell them they said the same thing about "everything" and have been consistently wrong for decades. You know what /has/ f'd with the city? Amazon, Microsoft, Google and the rest not paying their fair share of taxes. Tax the rich.

I spent yesterday playing Project Gorgon. What a Day-and-Night contrast. I'm still smiling. Initially, I wanted to level my Blacksmithing. Except I need Leatherworking for a part. Which needs Tanning. Which needs Skinning... I did none* of that. I learned Phrenology, which boosts my Necromancy. 😅🐺

THE SIGH BEFORE HE TURNS HIS HEAD, HE KNOWS THE INVESTMENT THIS MOVEMENT TAKES. yeah buddy i feel that way too when everyone thinks that having never-ending movement on 1s is the way to go. the fucking antic sends me. The fact they went this hard on an animation joke ..im EXTREMELY CHUFFED.

Hi! I'm a comics creator, cartoonist, furry artist, industrial designer and sometimes animator. I used to go by the name "Cooner," but that name's been retired. Please call me Walden! 🩵

Growls, "Come here."

That deep inhale of fresh, untainted air after you dump a toxic ex.

Explaining Mr. Rogers to kids who didn't grow up with him is a trip because he sounds like a political juggernaut. When public pools were segregated, he put his feet in a kiddy pool with Officer Clemmens, a Black man. He saved PBS by addressing senate. He made his show accessible for blind kids.

The quote-skeets are 50% uneducated people who are, like, "Yeah, when the GOP weren't evil!" And the other 50% are people who lived through it and historians saying, "No, the Southern Strategy GOP and Nixon were pretty fucking evil." The difference was, they had SHAME and the voting public cared.

Ok. I know no one else cares about Ashes of Creation on here. Which is probably a good sign, but also makes me feel like I'm Cassandra being ignored. Anyway, I've decided for my own mental health to write off the $500 loss. The game makes me feel like shit every time I play. It did not spark joy.

Nearly lost Whamageddon, but of the THREE plays of Last Christmas I heard in the past 45 MINUTES, not one of them was the original by Wham. Can't catch me, George! (But only because no one wants to pay licensing fees to the original artist.)

I've posted this before. (@taebyn.bsky.social is also a math teacher). 😝🐺

“It’s Bob, all right ... but look at those vacuous eyes, that stupid grin on his face—he’s been domesticated, I tell you.”

This is going to Fogo de Chão with @longharedbun.bsky.social. We hold the hot meat on a stick in her general direction and pray we don't lose an arm. 😝😘🐺

Bank of America first started offering credit cards to women in 1974

#AshesOfCreation remains the least fun I've had in a MMO since...the last time I played Ashes ten months ago. I spent 8+ hours being chased from grind spots by higher level parties full of PvP trolls. All I wanted to do was sit and level. But no, we spent the day trying to find a spot to xp.

Let's check back in on #AshesOfCreation after ten months... Yup, still Trolling along Trollingly, but now on Steam! Seriously, this game makes me unhappy when I play it. I paid $500 for a lifetime membership and the players are mostly trolls training on people and stealing corpse loot. 1/3

When I see a piece these days I know is AI often my first thought is, "I wonder what artist this was stolen from? I'd love to hire them." But there's no way of knowing because the signature has been wiped by default. Usually, it's lingering in the corner, like I could almost make it out if I tried.

Fuck. Off. You festering pile of worm-ridden cougar crap on a hepatitis smeared outhouse seat. You will NEVER get my vote. Not in a primary or a general. Ever. Crawl back into the latrine from whence you dragged your fetid carcass. And take Reagan, Thatcher, and your Southern Strategy with you.

It's not my place as the Storyteller to remind my players that they could just turn on the stove. (It's 𝘵𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 my job as a Storyteller to remind my idiot players there are easier ways of cooking an egg than reenacting Scanners.)

Only Mage: The Ascension players will understand. 😝🐺

If you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.

There are really just two paths remaining: Either we implement a Butlerian Jihad; put every computer into a trash shredder to protect humanity from AI taint... Or we do the same to every last MBA and C-Suite executive on Earth and use the resulting compost to fertilize an ironic field of tulips.

2026 goals

imagine if people went to retailers and just took stuff and called it "generative shopping" and then, when the retailers said that's illegal, people said "regular shopping is too expensive so we have disrupted it" and then the retailers were like "OH! Carry on, innovators!"

Have y'all noticed the viral "anti-AI but secretly ads for AI" videos that have been coming out lately for that banana AI thing? They're ads saying the name of the thing over and over again to stick it in your head. Just spotted one where a girl is talking into a mic and it's pure adspeak. Gross.

I comment my code. I 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘭𝘺 comment my code. When I mouseover a function, I get a detailed but concise popup including proper syntax, usage, and notes. A Microsoft programmer looked at this code last night and complained, "You comment too much. Your code should speak for itself." Fuck off.

Do you want cats on your desktop? Because this is how you get cats on your desktop. 😍🐺

Torlynn Adlingar lvl 6 Dwarf Cleric, another one of my new folio pieces.

The warning table is larger than the weather map. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘱. Seattle: "It fucken wimdy!"

Thor, Reiner, and Úlf commission work for @tbbw1.bsky.social and @reinertirasch.bsky.social this is one of the wholesome illustration i did this year! thank you so much for trusting me in the process! #art #illustration