Following the 1987 Walpurgisnacht Memorandum, the Ministry of Defence informally agreed to withdraw the SAS and SBS from counter-wizard operations after the Morning Star published photographs confirming a corralling and killing of unicorns in northern England took place in 1985.

Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi. The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.

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happy 12th anniversary of me taking the photo for wikipedia's article on the toast sandwich. my true legacy

it absolutely is... something that the folks who are supporting Platner because of his antagonism to Israel should consider that he expressly endorsed war crimes against Muslim people and implied he may have participated in them

It's really funny that the New York Times has a whole separate set of verified social media accounts just to reply to people with "actually we're doing a great job"

I also take issue with saying they were "substantially correct" while waving Hamas flags. You're not "anti-genocide" at that point, you're just someone who thinks a different group should be the ones getting killed.

Putting $2 on Raimondo to win the primary and buying a lake house when she does.

yeah we've gone from 'No no, you must join this organization full of campists and authoritarianism stans to help reduce their influence!" to "No no, you must back this Nazi tattoo moron to help stop racism!"

Wow

I appreciate that Abdul-Malik al-Houthi has taken over Nasrallah's old role in the Axis of Resistance as "the guy who releases a statement every week about how he's about to release a statement that will discuss the possibility of a groundbreaking new statement in the days to come".

Classy World Series champion Jason Heyward, who clearly is useless, announces his retirement

Dork F150: "I require a tactical vest, emergency rations, and a gun to navigate the highway to Home Depot." Chinese Grandma in San Francisco: "I will cross the busiest part of town to get groceries and I will do it while pushing the world's oldest portable shopping cart onto a bus. I am 4'5''."

Since I'm on the topic, this was also the period of popular pseudo history. Graham Hancock built his career during this period. His book even appears in INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS.

Just on vibes China feels most likely if it even exists? Just by drone capabilities

This has to do with the recent court ruling approving an injunction against the DOD and WH illegal retaliation against Anthropic, in my view

More seriously, I think that Wes Moore knows and that is why he's ruled out a 2028 presidential run.

"I am here camping out obdemonstrate the importance of this issue!!" (The importance of the issue promptly evaporates upon resistance)

The argument that the small number of non-wizards who know is counteracted largely however by the fact that: There’s like 3000 wizards in the entire UK A significant portion probably are born to non-wizard parents and are looked down upon We’re all ignoring the best choice collaborators: Goblins

This is a GENOCIDE and we must stop it AT ANY COST oh haha no not that cost bsky.app/profile/kavi...

These sorts of responses come up every time we point out the shallowness of the protesters and idk what to say but if you're out there waving the Hamas flag and then are cowed into submission by the threat of expulsion, I don't think your heart was really in it bsky.app/profile/beth...

the formative experience of his life was loving the most brutal combat we have had in the past century and demanding more of it and spitting in the faces of anyone who objected to its brutality

Some people are simply not equipped to handle the raw untamed masculine energy of Brian Jacques

When I worked at Disney when I was 19, someone had left a Brian Jacques book in our breakroom, and I decided to read it out of boredom. The book's climax was a Scottish squirrel in a kilt beheading an angry wolverine with a shield in a fight over a turtle. It kicked ass

Chapter 1: Look at this delightful Abbey populated by delightful woodland creatures Chapter 2: An entire chapter describing a wondrous feast Chapter 3: BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE

This is where I would expect this sort of dissension to spill into the open

once again, the entire mediasphere lost its goddamn mind when biden -- a man with a known speech impediment -- jumbled some words

And if you’re going to waste chapters describing feasts and such what, at least do it better like Brian Jacques

the first one is where she was being edited, the later ones (and even more so her detective stories) conspicuously not

Ah but Rev, there's no way they would ever find it. It's hidden by magic, so the only way the UK gov would ever find it is if a wizard showed them how. And it's not like there's a permanent underclass of wizards with muggle parents who are constantly shit on by other wizards or anything

Subversive: Snape’s trick is a puzzle any modestly clever high school graduate could solve easily, but he knows their entire society is filled with idiots whose entire education has been magical vo-tech. It’s a devastating critique of the hogwarts curriculum and the entire genre

The proper response of the British government during the first rise of Voldemort:

I think one issue Lucas has is not that he’s ill intentioned, but I don’t think he fully realizes which of the things from the pulps and the like he grew up with are no longer appropriate

Very similar to Roddenberry, except George is just a weirdo and not a sex creep

I mean this is also a story beat early in Die Hard (1988) so…

Lucas is in the top 33% of possible George Lucases, I think.

That map implies a very interesting, and very counterfactual, alternate history!

Hmmm, no, them making no noise about Trump starving a million Africans to death because it wasn’t a fad was the sign they were insincere.

Methinks he doth protest too much

Democrats: we used leverage and held firm to get the outcome we wanted Bluesky: so you gave up the fucking leverage??!?

So what I’m reading here is SpaceX is an intelligence risk apple.news/AGVX7Ye01Sna...

Liberals won't like this....I have crippling anxiety

And if thee taketh thy red poltice, thou shall see how deep you rabbit hole truly goeth.

NOW they figure it out

If you'll pardon the thought experiment, if any other animal took the amounts of HRT involved we would immediately understand the animal was changing biology. We don't consider natally male frogs to be biologically male if they change sex. But with humans we use "biological" to smuggle "natural".

Got a live one

I can believe Hegseth and Loomer* having it in for Randy George, but I’m calling bullshit on ‘Marine for Army Chief of Staff’ There’s no shortage of Army serving or recently retired 3/4 stars who will be MAGA enough for Trump and Hegseth, and will also be up for killing Iranians indefinitely. 1/2