What year is it

The world is currently unpleasant. However, they can never take away the Toot.

Looking back at the recent Murder of the Century scandal, particularly that some actors were unaware the Lin family massacre is still technically unsolved, one finds it horrifying what extent there is a lack of knowledge of the White Terror in society

"Trying to compete with Reform not only feels inauthentic... but a betrayal of what Labour is supposed to represent. We must address the concerns and fears of voters, not play on them." Damning stuff from Sadiq Khan www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The actual correct way of thinking about this is that the Yellow Economic Circle is about boycotting Chinese-capital-backed/ pro-Beijing conglomerates and supporting local small businesses. It’s less about profits. Being openly yellow carries risks!

May every dictator die at the hands of those they oppress.

Having a writers coffee sesh and our coffee artist is knocking it out of the ball park (this was a request for Cthulhu):

This, from Ada Palmer as part of The Chronicle's survey of 11 scholars on the future of higher ed, is what I needed to end the week.

25 years ago today, ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US began its worldwide invasion on @newgrounds.com.

I’m voting for the candidate who promises to imprison everyone who makes money insider trading on war.

I've had my This Is Fine mug so long that the dog has become a ghost and all that remain are flames

I'm not Taiwanese, but even *I* am tired every time a conflict happens in another part of the world and all the people who probably don't know who the last three presidents of the country go - 'ah! China will *have* to strike now! I am smart!'

WhiskeyLeaks

You're an Iranian intel officer. You've spent months perfecting a PDF that invisibly executes a keylogger on a low-level but highly cleared asset's private machine, which they're not supposed to be using for government work. Pete Hegseth adds you to a chat with the joint chiefs called BRUNCH BITCHES

in case anyone ever needed confirmation that it's not about building a democratic Iran, it's about collapsing Iran and turning it into a land of rubble that can be bombed every six months

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

Keep going Sam! One more post ought to do it, whatever it is you’re trying to do is working.

BREAKING: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead, Iranian state media reports.

Yup, exactly. See also James P. Hogan. _Inherit the Stars_ is one of the best SF mystery/thrillers ever written, but Hogan himself was a fucking monstrous douchebag who actively denied the Holocaust and entertained conspiracy theories about HIV/AIDS, and his tombstone deserves to be a public urinal

me every single day

New insights into an old vaccine: potency and breadth of neutralizing antibodies elicited by the yellow fever vaccine 17D are boosted by heterologous Orthoflavivirus infection ✅ Just Accepted 🔗 https://bit.ly/4l9Iyr1

I’ll just note once again whenever these come out that if I had posted an image like this when I was cleared, I would have gone to prison.

SCIF famously means 'Selfie Capture and Instagram Facility'

"X, the everything app (everything includes a SCIF)" WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A JOKE

If Khamenei is dead - and presumably has been dead potentially all day, the fact that the Iranian military has been continuing to launch strikes (and is reportedly launching more as I type this) should give anyone thinking otherwise pause about how likely his death is to lead to regime collapse.

Guys, China’s risk calculus on Taiwan is not determined by some global scale of the acceptability of aggression

I am proud to announce that Project: Resource Collection, Hong Kong's Salvaged Artifacts of Revolution (PRC, HKSAR) has begun, we have finally sorting and filing around 6 boxes worth of documents and artifacts into protective sleeves and plastic bags.

translation: that’s classified material on the screens and they did a horrible job blurring it

All of the doctors involved with Jeffrey Epstein should be prosecuted to the fullest and lose their medical licenses, we as a profession must insist on this

Building supportive housing for those who would otherwise be homeless is the right moral thing to do. It’s also the right financial thing to do, since it actually saves public money. It’s a no brainer, so don’t let wrong-headed ideology get in the way. Tell your leaders to build supportive housing.

"A scale model of war!" IMOSHO, one of Humanity's best pieces of Art. The Doctor's Speech | The Zygon Inversion | Doctor Who www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJP9...

Ich kann mir für diesen Monolog keinen anderen Doctor vorstellen als ihn, P.C. Wow. Schaut die Doppelfolge ”The Zygon Invasion” / “The Zygon Inversion”.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

If thousands of my neighbors just died at the hands of their own government and then my daughter was blown up by some chucklefuck on the other side of the planet claiming to help, I would walk into sea. It is hard to fathom the suffering innocent Iranians are enduring. God have mercy.

“A group at a Washington D.C. restaurant was talking openly in the bar area Friday afternoon about a national secret that was about to literally explode hours later -- the bombing of Iran.” www.tmz.com/2026/02/28/m...

It is horrifying how syncophantic mainstream media have been... WaPo, NYT, where ever you look, nobody calls this illegal war and already committed warcrimes "illegal" and "warcrimes" illegal = "war of choice" "dispute over warpowers" "saw a chance to push" warcrimes = "students under rubble"

The world was saved because a human being didn't trust a computer.

Aged adults with extraordinary memory capacity – known as SuperAgers – exhibit a unique neurogenesis profile with a surprisingly high number of young neurons, according to a study published in Nature. 🧪 #Neuroscience

lotta people don't realize it, but actually the best time to launch a regime change war is RIGHT after the regime just consolidated its rule by prosecuting a bloodbath you want the opposition nice and fragmented and totally spent of its powers for organization and collective action. few know this!

If all these high profile killings are confirmed, including SL, and if they happened in the early hours of the attack as some Israeli journalists are reporting, who has been running the retaliatory attacks across the region all day? Clearly some regime elements are surviving.

It should be much more at the forefront of our minds, the extent to which the most politically activated and politically empowered segment of the authoritarian American cult calling itself "Christian" see the apocalypse as something to hasten, not prevent.

As a professional military strategist, I just wanted to make sure everyone has a full understanding of the American strategy in Iran, thank you for your attention to this matter

Relevant once again

Please remember you are likely to see even anti-war and anti-intervention Iranians celebrate Khamenei’s death (if confirmed) as he has been a source of death, tyranny, destruction, and has held Iran back.

seems to be confirmation that we did in fact hit a school

Please don't post photos of dead children, or videos of dead children, or yell DONT LOOK AWAY. You are sick. Log off. Touch grass. You have PTSD and are inflicting it on us all. If you are not in media/ a conflict researcher/ etc you do NOT need to consume Horrors. Blocking lots right now.

Battlefield injuries are often contaminated with potentially infecting microbes. In this study, swabs obtained in the field after injury were profiled. Microbes and potential antimicrobial-resistance genes were characterized. Full study results: nej.md/4l1hpqk #MedSky #IDSky

there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

Top NYT headlines AT THIS MOMENT: - Iran - Elite doctors helped Epstein - Kash Patel’s girlfriend - OpenAI deal with pentagon - ICE arrests - Pentagon stalls investigation of boat strikes - Pentagon cuts ties with Universities - Park service revives statue of slave owner This is a time of monsters