Oh guys. Smoking was fun. I miss it every day. It’s fine.

concerning news guys

Good to see the mainstream media finally starting to perk it’s ears to this dynamic For the last year public discourse on Can-US relations has assumed that it all hinges on Trump’s temperament and level of interest, but this is clearly not true anymore and it’s dangerous to proceed as though it was

I demand freedom from CBRNE refresher because it’s woke to wear a mask and put on unisex clothes.

GREEK CAPTAIN OF A PANAMANIAN-FLAGGED MALAYSIAN OIL TANKER EN ROUTE TO AUSTRALIA WITH IRAQI CRUDE: "So is the Strait open or not?" IRGC COMMANDER, REFRESHING TRUTH SOCIAL: "Look here man, I know just as much as you do, ok?"

Idk about you guys, but im pretty stoked hormuz is open and i can enjoy my weekend

Whenever I’m on public transportation and glance over at what the person next to me is watching on their phone it’s always either a. The most insane political rant you’ve ever seen; or b. Some absolutely incomprehensible jackass style amateur comedy video

"I practice my jazz standards."

He sounds like @timheidecker.bsky.social doing Decker

This is distinct from the UK, where people don't want nice things and are willing to pay extra to not have them.

“Yes you’re right, 1000mg of caffeine is safe for someone of your caliber.”

The more I use these tools the less likely this outcome seems to me tbh. Not that I don’t think these tools aren’t useful, they absolutely are, I just don’t see how this doesn’t just lead to knowledge workers producing more content as opposed to less workers producing the same amount.

Good morning! I talked to the Navy photographer who caught astronaut Christina Koch backlit by the sun after flying to the moon. He grew up shooting portraits and skateboarding pics - composed studies of faces, fleeting moments in chaos. He was ready. taskandpurpose.com/news/august-...

Which is why the pearl clutching over Gen Milley's comments about Marx from the right are so wild - Marx is to liberalism what scientology is to psychology. Serious engagement is important.

i went to the unc store and everyone knew you

There’s a really great chapter in Toscano’s Late Fascism about fascists’ relationship to abstraction that really helped clarify my understanding of this issue & how it animates everything from MAHA to antisemitism. Besides racism, suspicion of abstraction is *the thing* that turns people fascist imo

Key Sticking points in US-Iranian Negotiations: -Admitting the other exists -Object permanence -Linear time

Live footage of me explaining to a girl how Blood Meridian is a book about a road trip

Let us celebrate our new arrangement with the adding of snart to helg.

Yah but I'm goin crazy out there at the lake.

Kill the King, etc.

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

So, 3 options. 1. Bad Reporting. 2. Trump has made Vietnam look like a great victory, and surrendered to the mullahs 3. The war resumes after markets close Friday

Underrated possible outcome is that Trump just walks away like he did with the Houthis last year and Israel and Iran just shoot at each other for another 6 months.

JD Vance tries to call Trump live on stage at a rally for Viktor Orban in Hungary and he gets sent to voicemail twice.

“ceausescu”. it’s an ancient word but a beautiful word.

"this must go so hard if you're stupid" has been the key to all of this

Hi, yes, I'd like to report a war. Yes it's in the Persian Gulf region. What do you mean there's no superseding authority structure in an anarchic international system?

A statement that drives a weird slice of people nuts depending on which part they get mad at is: "The US military, especially aviation, is exceptionally capable of producing tactical or even operational victories. And also that doesn't fucking matter rn."

I just remembered this tweet, and I didn't post one when everyone was posting funny tweets

The true humiliation is not that this group of terminally online Gamergaters is losing a war to Iran, but that they're losing a posting war to Iran, and by a much wider margin

This is nuking my commute with dopamine.

Oh no wait actually it’s

"I'll go a little later, I'll go a little later"

I don't know what a wicket is and the fall of the British empire means I don't ever have to learn.

“the median voter expects legislative paralysis due to fidelity to obscure procedural norms“ is a view that is seemingly endemic among elected representstives to the US government but absolute absurd to everyone else

It's insane that Angine de Poitrine is at the Sportsnet interlude music level.

It's annoying that the response of Bernie and others like him has been, more or less, "young men get snookered into joining then the military dehumanizes them and wrecks their brains, you can't blame them for anything"

One reason why lib/left spaces need veteran members. So you can get the “no, he’s just a dipshit” reality check.

An enterprising defense reporter should find Paul Van Riper and ask him what he thinks of the current state of affairs

One thing I didn't put in here but is also at play: whatever markets predict, the opposite thing becomes more likely. If markets think Trump will cave and accept humiliation, oil trends lower, making him less likely to do so. If they think he'll fight, it goes up, making him more likely to cave.

You see this most frequently with war where to quote @tonystark.bsky.social "Knowing the engagement range of a DF-17 is fascist-coded, or something" when the primary reason most people know that stuff is to try to craft policy to ensure it's never used in anger