An interesting common feature of late stage Advanced Socialism - the ideology was highly negotiable, albeit framed in extremely rigid Marxist terminology and ritually linked to Marxist-Leninist axioms Completely non-negotiable - centers of power or influence independent of existing party and

San Francisco Bay and Alcatraz Island, 2020. All the pixels, no need for a daring escape, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/49460593833 #photography

actually, Mbappé is a huge Xenoblade Chronicles fan

Spain works very hard and would like to try Cake Verde

Hitler im Giftblumentopf, Lenins Nase zum Anfassen. In der Ausstellung "Enthüllt" in der Zitadelle Spandau landen problematische Denkmäler.

Weird this dude hasn't changed his handle to Sal Abraham to reduce the Diversity Stress he's constantly radiating at everyone

about effectively using wireshart, p good

just realized Wettenschapper is 'scientist' in Dutch register a new schap @ed3d.net

Great point, Shakira (4) now officially has more World Cup appearances than her ex (3)

what if the Laocoon scene is just misunderstood and it's really a man and his sons ecstatically celebrating Athena's boon of sausage Like she sent them a divine gift basket of sausage. And they're all yay, sausage

this of course implies tottenham hot hers

😞 disappointed + 💩 poo =

Really neat visualization/simulation. If you, like me, have some vague recollection of wave propagation problems in calc or physics, it also works in reverse - 'and this is one way we know the earth has this structure'

did i microstutter

Fermi paradox resolved

#Forsytesaga26 Absolutely fascinating bit of correspondence. Galsworthy writing to Tolstoy's translator Constance Garnett, following a conversation, during which -- it looks like Garnett criticized Anna for having an inconsistent personality. She also seems to have criticized T's "style" -- 1/2

someone ordered the wrong size meteor bsky.app/profile/radi...

Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.

cloaca was right there

Pope up the jam, pope it up While your feet are stompin' And the jam is popin' Look ahead, the crowd is jumpin' Pope it up a little more

Also worth keeping in mind that no critics or proponents have have ever caught an actual Thucydides

you gotta keep em separated

pogue squadron

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"I think a good gift for the president would be a chocolate revolver. And since he's so busy, you'd probably have to run up to him and hand it to him."

alternative timeline where it's St. Augustine The Hippo

"the pope is weak on crime" is not the worst Orthodox Easter greeting one can think of

is the Ulam-Teller configuration a sandwich? also shouldn’t it be called lament configuration

"Mr. Gorbachev, open this fuckin' gate, you crazy bastard" would have probably worked too, I guess.

leopards eating people party is the oldest political party

More likely outcome is it will go negative in which case we will have to build an actual quantum computer and then destroy it in order to get a regular factoring algo

"You pull any of your crazy shit with us, you flash a piece out on the shipping lanes..."

The 12th All-Soviet Factorio Olympiad in Minsk

did we just lose a war to protein

there are way, way too many Viennese waltzes

The incurious (and pretty clueless) harumphery of this is starting to make me @ed3d.net-style grumpy for which I blame @ed3d.net. At least the historians have the excuse of not being computer nerds.

OG Skyrim intro concept art

'Pop Tart' is in fact Latin, an abbreviation of 'Populus Tartari', based on a story from Ovid in which those confined to the depths of Hades were turned into sickly sweet pastries, each with a distinct yet unpleasant flavour that corresponded to their particular crimes

Maybe they'll stop by the memorial right there.

📷 Studio Photograph of Two Young Men in Traditional Clothing in Anatolia, c. 1900

transmom.love/@elilla/1140... bee @substitute.bsky.social

good news

😟 worried + 😤 steam-from-nose =

"ladies and gentlemen, elves have left the building" bsky.app/profile/beij...

"To hell with the handkerchief" said Hello Kitty scornfully.She took one last drag on her cigarette and snapped it away.Then, with that faint,fleeting smile playing about her lips,she faced the firing squad;erect and motionless,proud and disdainful,Hello Kitty the Undefeated, inscrutable to the last

Misrepresenting the actual conditions of wars hasn't exactly been a winner for liberalism or the wars bsky.app/profile/dead...

@normal.bsky.social new spies dropped. cake not a lie but sat dish was https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/15/satellite-bulgarians-spying-russia-stoke-harrow-police-met/ (bulgaria represeeeeeeent)