We’ve gotten on the wrong side of this meme

The Tower #pixelart

Oh we’re weighing options *now*

Just sitting here wondering if one-fifth of the entire world's oil supply really did just come to a screeching halt and Trump doing the whole Street Fighter Bison "For me, it was just a Tuesday..." thing

A perfect thread of this week’s developments

I have literally watched something like 5 hours of this DOGE bro testimony. I'm completely obsessed, it's weirdly captivating. The circular arguments, the disdain from everyone involved, a true pleasure to watch Follow 404 Media on Instagram (www.instagram.com/404mediaco/) for more like this

TIL Trump didn't bother to refill the strategic petroleum reserve last year when oil was dirt cheap. what can you even say www.ft.com/content/d546...

Current state of everything:

Oooh a rare reporter bullshit call-out

A small video about the kobold minis! ^___^ #ttrpg #papercraft #dndminiatures #papermini #ttrpgcommunity #dnd #tabletopminis #creativesky #Worldbuilding

you rubes. you complete and utter fools. anyone with a brain can see this is a multidimensional, metaphysical conflict. a conceptual battlefield. we've only barely begun to end the start of this thing.

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

the double standard is so blantantly ideological I'm confident this will, in the end, be viewed as a form of state-mandated persecution. No way around it. facts are on trans side, the only way to deny that is to ignore them using misinformed notions of what "data quality" even means. it's pure bias

We learned this back in twenty twenty-THREE? The new DHS chief, Trump sure can… uh… pick ‘em, if you’ll pardon the phrase.

Friend: Tell me about your Gumshoe character. Me: I’m an angry gay socialist with no idea how fight the ancient evil entities threatening my world. Friend: Sure, but what about your Gumshoe character.

remember when the IRS put out a a free online tax filing system where you could just do your taxes through the IRS and it was actually well made and was pretty well recieved and then the tax filing industry and Republicans killed it and now you have to use TurboTax again

Man every now and then I get pretty upset about leftist self-defeating doomerism but then I remember the absolute totally soul-crushing monopoly on "nothing matters, it's okay that the world is cruel, it will end at any moment, who wants to go to Applebees" that exists on the right

Gonna be even cooler to watch the EXACT same people who wouldn't stop whining about high gas prices under Biden take time to explain how gas rationing isn't an indicator of any fuckups whatsoever

No sunrise over a city of nine and a half million human beings.

this is the best story summary that has ever existed

still unclear to me how the species made it this far

I always sort of shake my head in wonder at both the cis and trans people (including Joe Rogan) who insist that the GOP would never go so far as to put trans people in wellness centers or the like. They're openly admiring Hitler, and know full well about the Holocaust. Yes, it's on the table.

Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

“Here comes another big one, Roy, and here—we—goooooowheeeeeeeooo!”

I was just venting to a friend the other day about how 10 years ago it was like… unheard of to see this volume of projects get so far into development before the company funding it decides “project cancelled, everyone go home” how much money is being thrown away on art no one gets to see?

Would it be nice if all the problems involving Iran were solved? Yes Can war accomplish that? No But war can be necessary, right? Yes Is this war? No Though war can lead to lasting improvement? Sometimes Will this war? No Is this in theory / in reality distinction difficult? If shouldn’t be

Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead

It’s so cool how we’re in a large-scale military conflict and the President is spending his time building a ballroom. This rocks. I finally know what being a Roman must have felt like.

Just like Bovino, Kristi Noem is going to be forgotten about so goddamned fast by everyone except the several dozen lawsuits working their way through the courts. The only legacy is going to be the finger gouges on the fake mahogany from having to pry her out of that luxury jet.

More songs should start like Monkey Gone to Heaven. "There was a guy." Ok I'm listening, what's this guy up to

The Citizens of Moneyland Have Always Been at War vincemancini.substack.com/p/the-citize...

Here are some words that rhyme with Corey. Gory Story Allegory Not working here no morey

this is going to be NOT GOOD MAN

There’s a movement to draft Barron Trump, but I think a campaign such as this would be more effective if it impacted someone Donald Trump knew personally.

Massive explosions in Bahrain, where I am. Media reporting that the oil refinery has been hit

Rimworld

Say what you want about seances, at least they involved artistry and a sense of awe

I do appreciate this skepticism, and generally agree that it doesn't pass the sniff test. But man I can't think of a mid-east conflict in my lifetime where End Times Religious bullshit DIDN'T show up... among the End Times Religious chunk of the US, of which there's a lot of, when you look for it.

If I was an Infinity Ward dev I would be so fucking emotionally scarred by seeing this I'd need to re-evaluate my entire career.

Yeah, the best time for Congress to act was last week, the second best time was Monday, the "well, it's now or never" time is now.

wow buddy that’s really epic! amazing work! so can you put your mommy on the phone

You ever wander out into the yard and just look at the wasted equivalent of a year’s worth of healthcare for an entire American town?

Art shows up in war in the weirdest ways sometimes

Trump admits there were no evacuation plans for Americans abroad due to his war with Iran "because it all happened very quickly."

Afghanistan started at 92 percent approval. Iraq started at 71. Iran started at 27. The "whose side are you on" rhetoric is identical. The country underneath it isn't. I wrote about how the framework works, and who's deploying it. www.readtpa.com/p/with-us-or...

The Department of War, obsessed with Warfighters and Warrior Culture, wants to assure us that Operation Epic Fury is Not A War. They seem nervous that this could spiral out of control for some reason. I hope we're all feeling reassured, right?

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