Every USN vs PLAN encounter after 2032 is like the USS Masculine Warfighter, Glorious Defender of the Cracker Barrel versus six identical copies of the CNS 我们昨天建了这个 supplied by a ship that does nothing but make birthday cakes for the other ships

Meanwhile at the Riyadh comedy festival

Like yeah man let me go engage a bunch of conservatives with my progressive framing, got any platforms someone wants to let me use? Oh! They don’t want to let me use them? But they want to hear from the liberal guy who thinks Dems are too far left? Huh wonder why.

The more these broken little men shout their psyches at us from their position of strength, the more convinced I am that we're headed straight for this sort of reckoning again. The clerks and grocers don't want their world to change, but focus their eyes on the horror and they'll stamp it out.

I love these. Death at the door, the uninvited guest... so sharply dressed, so ominous, who is he here to see, who will he drag to the afterl... NOT TODAY DEATH. With a barrage of bottles he's kicked out and quickly escapes out the window. Not today. Adolph Menzel, 1844.

the South lost because it had an agrarian slave economy that could not compete with a modern industrial war machine and the North had a modern industrial war machine

CHOTINER: And you didn’t know this person - what did you call him again? CELEBRIMBOR GREATEST OF THE ELVEN SMITHS: Right, his name was Annatar but CHOTINER: And you taught him to create a ring harnessing all his malice and cruelty? CELEBRIMBOR: Well I mean I was deceived CHOTINER: So you’ve said

Playing FF Tactics for the first time? Here’s a tip. Go to Mandalia Plain. You’re gonna spend 5 miserable hours having all your characters power up like goku next to a terrified bird or have them throw rocks at each other until they’re max level. This is the best game ever made btw.

a nonzero amount of Trump voters cancelled plans with their wife’s bull because of the rapture

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

It's sobering, in its way, to realize that there was truly nobody (save, perhaps, his children) who knew him that loved him as a man. He made himself into content, and he died as content, and his funeral is the most content of all. Soundbites to soundbites, bits to bits

Hello darkness you dumb bitch

I also feel stressed and one of the things I’d recommend is intentionally building trusting supportive relationships with another human being where both parties can support each other through the highs and lows of life. And if not that I’d recommend getting into the saxophone

Look, if you don't craft a hagiography suitably glowing for this icon of free expression and open debate, you will be measured for shackles and sent to a re-education camp.

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?" BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao" 1. "It, um, doesn't say anything." 2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe." 3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

Amazing thread.

If you think about it, his murder being completely forgotten about in less than a week because the shooter didn’t fit the political agenda that would allow Republicans to attack marginalized groups is the most fitting tribute imaginable for Charlie Kirk.

"If a right wing website screenshots your post and directs a mob of frothing fascists at you, you can expect to be banned from the social media site" is not a great advertisement for your fair moderation, @safety.bsky.app

Something visceral about the fourth reich is how much more performatively empty it is. I guarantee you a significant chunk of that arena has no idea, in practice, who kirk is.

Do you have to hand it to him: he lived his values today.

In the 3D remake of Sid Meier's Pirates!, the NPCs in ports usually say some nonsense phrase to you in their accent (English, Spanish, Dutch). The English governors all let out a jowly "Imbriglicated!" whenever you start a dialogue with them. My wife and I still use it on the regular.

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

J.D. Vance is about to get very into technical Greek etymology.

#1 destination trip on my list now.

Nothing sums up America under Republican rule like turning a place of history and strength into a strip mall food court.

The founding fathers ranged from "weirdest religious beliefs you could imagine" to "agnostic" to the 18th century equivalent of "I'll go to Church on Sunday, but only if it means I don't miss the kickoff." It was, as best, a tertiary influence.

I, as an occasional listener of the Know Your Enemy podcast, know more about conservative thinkers than the average theorist of the modern conservative movement. the principal effect this seems to have is making me feel worse about their victories

Eventually you have to accept that no matter how many different notebooks you buy, they won’t make you a better writer. For that, you need to spend a lot of money on the right pen.

A platform where Jamelle Bouie is one of the most influential and respected people is one that is going to cause discomfort for a certain kind of liberal (or person who thinks they are liberal). Yes, Bouie is black, but what these people really reject is strong criticism of America's status quo.

*wincing, writhing in pain, scales falling from my eyes* James O'Keefe, welcome ... to the ... NO. NO, I CAN'T.

This is a damning anecdote from Rep Jim McGovern. He tells me that during debate over Trump's big budget bill, House Rs privately admitted to him that it would screw over their own constituents, yet they had to vote for it anyway. Read all of it. He wrecks them: newrepublic.com/article/1999...

Sharing from Atlanta. There's no bit of progress the city can make that's too small for the state legislature to challenge and squash.

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.

Donald Trump has been replaced with a teenaged Trump, an energy Trump, a cyborg Trump, and HUD secretary Scott Turner in power armour.

Damn. If only a U.S. Senator had the power to remove people from office.

It is ridiculous to carry a massive lens on a mountain hike. But that's what humans are for! We're here to do the ridiculous shit because sometimes it's cool as hell. These photos (and that line!) are extremely cool.

dc hero beats deli crime wrap

maybe our food gives you bubble guts and the hot snakes

You may not like that it takes 100 years to pass some watered down social welfare program because of the constitution but that's also what protects us from dictatorship [some dumb slob does dictatorship in 6 months]

Too bad that our legal and institutional safeguards only work to prevent good policies. It would be cool if they also stopped the evil stuff

Big(foot) if true!

This is the test galadriel passes is a willingness to accept change. Lothlorien was an artificially preserved land

[whispering] theres a reason why resistance to change was an evil belief in tolkien

That rising feeling of dread when you shrug and wave your hand and say, "...you know, because of everything..." and you realize the other person does not, actually, know.

I want a big-tent Democratic Party, by which i mean the tent should be big enough to include the Democratic nominee for Mayor of New York

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.