You know what, as long as the servers stay up, I may like this dead service Destiny more than the alternative. Still, helluva game.

I love Star Trek Online, both because I love Star Trek, and because it's one of the few MMOs I can play where I never have to interact with any of the other players. But I am so increasingly weary of the volume of "modern Trek is woke and bad!" chud garbage flooding the social zone chats there.

You know what, Harry Dresden did pretty well for himself.

Hey folks, turns out I have a copycat - please block and report and do not send the copycat money. bsky.app/profile/vagr...

Again, horseshit. This is the leading election forensics scientist in the country, he says the 2024 election was manipulated. He's also black. websites.umich.edu/~wmebane/PA2...

data centers are little oil wells for turning local resources like water, land and electricity into money and wiring that money to the cayman islands over the internet

This is a murder committed by the United States government.

Marathon is gonna get a lot more fun for me when they introduce the PvE only mode.

I haven't done this before, but fact is: war sucks, money is tight, and journalism is not a lucrative profession. If you'd like to show your appreciation for my work and words, I'd be eternally humbled - you can do so via Paypal at [email protected].

Monitoring channels report a quick ballistic blip before the resulting air raid siren was called off. Roughly speaking, I try to form an intuitive sense of enemy missile stockpiles by usage frequency - it doesn't seem like they're capable of mass (~80 mixed launches overnight) launches more than

One of the common tropes of modern leftism that really bugs me is the idea of an airdropped carpetbagger, the wily conman from the West who tricks the poor uneducated natives into giving away their stuff. In reality, the main bad guy of anyone's story is always, always, a local oligarch.

If Bluesky is around in 10 years it's going to start minting its own homegrown neocons to replace the real-world neocon remnant that is going Trot again

Me, antifa's best propagandist and genuinely in the upper percentiles of skill at normal human interaction among my comrades: better make sure nobody associates d-day with the cause of antifa.

Shout out to all professional shitslingers, mudrakers, and dipshit talking heads today. Happy Professional Journalists Day ya filthy animals

All due respect, Rep. Omar, as one of the Ukrainians you claim to stand with, voting against a bill intended to ensure myself and my family lives another day does not make me feel supported. It makes me feel like you are lying to me about your motivations.

Oh hey folks, another Nazi to block and report. You can sling insults at 'em too, nothing's too good for a genocidaire.

It's always embarrassing to watch friends act stupid in public

It's depressing how easily Windrush was memory-holed. We had a whole scandal of the police bashing down the doors to drag out septuagenarian Black granddads who'd been here since they were 3 in the middle of the night in handcuffs. Everyone was horrified, but now they demand the same again.

reminder that "invasion" rhetoric re immigration is textbook genocidal language and appears verbatim in mass shooter manifestos before trump nobody talked like this except the most hardcore, race war obsessed neonazis its lurid siege fantasy that builds a permission structure for exterminationism

Take it from someone who gets bombed on a daily basis, war fucking sucks. For further information, I invite readers to watch any anime series made by Yoshiyuki Tomino. Turns out he does quite accurately capture how much war sucks.

Also, the BBC slipping this in here, suggesting that a racist definition of national identity is A: New and B: Suddenly mainstream because a fucking *podcaster* said it, is really fucking shameful!

The strategy has been the same since Trump got sworn in and pardoned all the insurrectionists. No on everything, object to unanimous consent, hold up all proceedings until he is out of office and held accountable for his crimes. And yet instead we get this.

NV's EIC, Vitaly Sych, on memory politics and the latest Polish-Ukrainian dustup: english.nv.ua/nation/ukrai...

I know folks don't understand this, so I'll say it plain: this ruling means that the United States no longer has democratic elections, and the results of any future elections must by definition be considered tainted and discarded.

What is the blocker to understanding here? That people don't like giant black boxes built in their communities to power shitty chatbots? Giant black boxes that cause issues ranging from annoying (noise complaints) to serious (illegal municipal water hookups). I really hope this isn't being obtuse.

I really don't believe it's controversial when I say that child abusers should probably be reported by the platform to the relevant state authorities.

1-1 Trump crime family watch Albania anticorruption agent SPAK froze the bank accounts of the company holding the land tied to Jared Kushner's proposed $4 billion Albanian resort project and opened a criminal investigation into the underlying land titles and approvals. www.occrp.org/en/news/alba...

Lol

"If we assume Democrats will win by completely unprecedented margins and totally realign the political system and then carry out a number of revolutionary reforms that they have at no point said they would do..." Ok but why are we assuming that? Why is that our baseline scenario?

It is dreadful that the entire EU is moving forward on American style Mass Deportation Camps. These concentration camps, which is what they are, will yield the same horrors, sickness and death their German and British fore-bearers did. Remember Hitler’s camps were also Deportation Camps.

Sports are dumb, talking about sports is even dumber. I don't respect people who talk about sports. I definitely don't respect a 20 something nepobaby whining about how politicians aren't part of his friend group.

the current director of national intelligence is a guy who two years ago received a trophy declaring he “Fucks Only The Young” at an (oddly dildo focused) event he organized dedicated to the conspiracy that Bed Bath and Beyond never actually went bankrupt

Could use some reporting help #NAFO #Article5

Meet Slovenia’s New Prime Minister Janez Janša the King of Corruption

007: First Light is a fun game. Good movie vibes.

The head dev for Binding of Isaac and Mewgenics has pissed off Ukrainian fans. Edmund McMillen ran a Twitter poll some time back to decide which language would get localized next. Ukrainian won the poll handily. But in the latest patch, the localization that had been added was...Russian.

the invisible hand is sort of like a magical genie that grants the wishes of JPMorgan execs, if you really think about it

The NY Times, based on Neutrality Island, uses metaphor to avoid harsh realities that might annoy the people attacking democracy. That’s why, when NYT should write a headline about the wholesale theft of Black political power in the South, it prefers to refer vaguely to “political earthquakes.” 1/4🧵

Dan Abnett's Hive is excellent so far and might be my new first recommendation to someone looking to read Warhammer 40,000 fiction. It's one of those (fairly) rare books of its type that elevates itself to being just Solid Sci-Fi on its own.

As always, I appreciated the latest episode put out by Devon Stone on his YouTube channel, but that interview with Raskin man, it's tough to watch. It's clear that the congressman is unable to think beyond the self-imposed norms he thought his society is based around. Lots of indignation, but...

If you've noticed an uptick of pro-Russia tankies hating on Ukraine, here is why: Russia hijacked hundreds of BlueSky accounts to spread propaganda and disinformation. This is why we also increased the anti-Kremlin posts by 300%. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Explaining being bombed to an american: ok so imagine no burger

I have some unsolicited advice and an unsolicited link rolled into one. AI-free Google search: udm14.com

This is not peripheral to the Russian imperial project! Aligning with reactionary traditionalists through the world is core to their strategy

Is it "escalation" when @darthputinkgb.bsky.social's drone hit an apartment building and injure civilians in a NATO member state? Or is Russia also allowed to kill NATO citizens in Eastern Europe?

🚨 BREAKING: Russian drone hits apartment building in Romania. A Russian Geran-2 drone crashed into an apartment block in Galați, Romania, early on May 29, injuring two people while Romanian F-16s were monitoring the area during an air alert.

Funny, but also infuriating, because this is what people thought and still think about the mostly imaginary Ukraine peace deals--which were demands for the complete policy subjugation and institutional dismantling of the Ukrainian state--as something fairly *reasonable*.

No one can tell me if it's Milli or Vanilli who passed ((

Wrote about contractors. www.readergrev.com/p/marathon-i...