You know, if the Emperor of Mankind was this underwhelming nobody would have ever tried Warhammer 40k.

Americans would receive at least a 3% reduction in energy bills if airbrushing Karoline Leavitt and Bari Weiss was made illegal.

After being badgered by my peers for ages whilst never playing the game I'm finally going to watch "The Last of Us". 🤔

The oil business and the arms business are THE SAME business. Wherever you find one you find the other.

It's funny how the one argument which near universally receives disapproval from friends when talking about "Reality TV" shows is the claim that contestants are really just actors. "Real" people are far too inconsistent for shows which live or die by ratings. Actors, scripts & NDAs are the way to go

If a man can be said to be lucky it was Kriegsmarine Captain Herbert Werner who served on five U-Boats during WWII commanding two and somehow surviving to the bitter end in the most dangerous branch of the military (a 92% fatality rate). A truly harrowing account of courage & senseless slaughter

After watching the #Mamdani meeting JD Vance, Miller, Noem, Rubio et al should be TERRIFIED. Donald Trump is going to walk away from office stinking rich, fully indemnified up the wazoo after burning the GOP & MAGA to the ground & leaving them all holding the biggest bag of excrement in history. 😂

Well, I called Trump's love affair with Zohran.

Ladies and Gentlemen ... I give you AI.

Bill Maher must rank as one of the WORST interviewers I seen in my life. It doesn't matter who the guest is - he never shuts up, jumps between topics like a gnat hopped up on meth and is obsessed with proving he's the smartest guy in the room. Insufferable.

I don't believe Trump is scared about being named in connection to child sex trafficking/abuse. I think if any evidence existed Epstein likely hid it (as leverage) when tipped off about the raid. What Trump IS scared of are the financial records. In particular the pair's dealings with Deutsche Bank

Just for the record - in the realm of international politics a "pledge" is something you offer in terms of money, goods or services which you will never deliver on.

It's a measure of how crazy Trump's behavior recently has been that labeling this poor woman from Bloomberg "piggy" on camera hasn't got the play it would in any functioning system. But it's going to hurt him.

#Ghislaine #Maxwell must be SWEATING right now. For her it's a desperate race against time to get that Trump pardon and BOUNCE before the whole thing collapses and she's sent hurtling back to maximum security gen-pop. 😂

Harvard will fire your ass if you so much as use the word "Palestinian" in a game of Scrabble. But if you're Larry Summers ... 🤔

When you look at the INSANE amounts of money Trump is pushing into #ICE, #AI as well as taking the guardrails off the latter entirely it’s obvious they are two sides of the SAME POLICY. With so many people tossed on the unemployment heap, they’ll need more than the cops to deal with the fallout.

Uhhhhhhhh is the New England Patriots team plane doing an ICE flight right now? It just took off out of ICE detention hub airport. Military charter flights go out of there occasionally too, but with a different callsign. Not certain but very weird! 🤔

The dawn of coin-op video games was a great time to be alive. Space Invaders, Galaga, Pac Man, Missile Command, Asteroids, GORF - highly addictive. But if there was one game that separated the good from the Great it was Defender. If you could hi-score Defender you were some player.

A US President does NOT have the power to release records deemed to have national security implications by various ABC agencies. Much was made of Trump ordering the release of the remaining JFK records. The problem? Bill Clinton ALREADY issued this order TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO as part of the ARRB!

Occam's Razor this. Occam's Razor that. Occam's Razor is a useful tool to have in your bag when undertaking any form of critical analysis. No question. But it can also be an excuse to stop using the three pounds of grey goo sat between your ears.

If this was my pastor my mum would be DRAGGING my ass to church on Sunday. And let me open my stupid mouth just ONCE! 😬

Damn! Now I understand why Jill Ireland left David McCallum. 😂

The idea of the "Basilisk" - a piece of information which can literally crash a human mind has been a popular trope in SF for a long time (think Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash") Do I think Trump got up close and personal with Clinton? Nah. But just the THOUGHT of such is a Basilisk to the MAGA mind 😂

What if a room could grant your deepest wish? Would you have the courage to Know Thyself? I remember the first time I watched Tarkovsky's "Stalker" (1979) and thought, "Well, this is certainly different". No truly great work of art enters the mind without friction.

For YEARS the spec-ops bunch have been making bank on YouTube glad-handing each other and regaling everyone with their tales of derring-do "fighting for America" on foreign soils. And yet why is it so few are outraged about what's going on at home right now? It's like they've checked out! 🤔🤷

Today, Michael Winner is regarded by many as a hack director responsible for churning out countless mediocre Death Wish movies. But Winner was capable of a lot more and for The Mechanic, starring the charisma volcano that was Charles #Bronson, he proved it. This is a great movie.

The ever reliable (as well as funny) Patrick Boyle on why 50 year mortgages will more than likely result in disaster. youtu.be/Q8FcRbLCwEk?...

The one thing I've learned about kidney stones is - they bring even the toughest to tears. 🥵

One month to go!!! 😍

Do you know which branch of government DOES believe in climate change? The military. Read through their literature talking about potential threats into the future and it's everywhere.

Today's classic SF art - the 1970s cover of Frank Herbert's Children of Dune painted by the English artist - Bruce Pennington. Sure, it bears very, very little resemblance to anything taking place in the book. But it doesn't matter. If I'm exploring space this is the kind of place I want to visit!

Let's just call a spade a spade. FOX News IS the government. 🤔

YouTube search filters are mysteriously greyed out and Reddit is LIGHTING UP!!! 🤣

OK, Michael #Wolff. You can SAY you were only "pretending" to be Epstein's political advisor in an effort to ingratiate yourself with him so you could "Get the story out". I just want you to know: no client will EVER TRUST YOU AGAIN. Or, at least, no client with two or more functioning brain cells 🤨

When I was a child the Catholic church literally DEMANDED THAT WE KISS THIS SEVERED HAND. Supposedly belonged to the martyred St. Edmund Arrowsmith. But it could easily be some bricklayer's from 1843. And people wondered why we had so many nightmares ... 😬

NY Jets fans when they found out Woody Johnson is mentioned in the Epstein emails ...

What ... THE HELL!!! 😬

Wouldn't surprise me if Trump pardoned Maxwell immediately. After all - nobody can get to her in jail with so much light on the case. But ... anything ... could happen once she's out. Final Destination type stuff ... 🤔🤷

If you are having a bit of a rough day ... spare a thought for poor, poor Pammie Jo, Ka$h and Bingobongo who right now must be losing their goddamned minds! Beautiful. Just BEAUTIFUL!!! 😂

"If God had wanted man to fly ..." "... he would have given him wings, Mr. Kidd" Putter Smith & Bruce Glover - two of the more memorable Bond villains.

Today's nostalgia for great science fiction cover art. Mark Salwowski's rendering of Vavatch Orbital for the Iain M. Banks novel - Consider Phlebas (the Culture novel I've always had the most emotional attachment to even if it divides others). 👏

Lending money to Argentina is like lending money to your family. Did you get it back? 🤷‍♂️

I'm growing increasingly suspicious of the manufacturers of two-in-one flavoured vapes. 🤔 Regardless of whichever you buy one tastes incredible whilst the other seems like it was drawn from the sump of a pickup truck whose last oil change was 50,000 miles ago. 🤢

Come on Karoline #Leavitt! I'm counting on you to brighten up my day with your HEINOUS & DIABOLICAL defence of #Trump forcefully delivered with that trademark sunny smile and a spring in your step. Can't have a great movie without a great villain. 🤷‍♂️😂

Isaac Asimov was a superb writer of sci-fi short stories. Nightfall & his I, Robot series left a lasting impression on me as a child. But I never much cared for his novels. Especially Foundation. Even as a kid I found "Psychohistory" fishy & the constant bait-&-switch endings increasingly wearisome

Trump Plaza in Atlantic City was DJT's first major casino. He was given $250m to build (despite no background in this field) by Holiday Inn. Actual costs were $30m lower! 🤔 In exchange HI put his name on the tower, gave him 50% of the cut & indemnified him fully against losses for 5yrs! 😲

In 1991 the now defunct satirical Spy Magazine ran an experiment to see who the cheapest millionaires were in America. It involved mailing a partial refund for services overcharged. The 1st cheque was for $1.13. The 2nd - 62c, the 3rd - 11c. Donald Trump cashed them all. He was 1 of only 2 who did

The first thing you should think when hearing the word UFO is DoD. They use UFOs for all kinds of purposes - from counter-intel to red-team testing at nuclear facilities. You have to go back to WWII when people discovered radar was very good at detecting right angles. A disc shape is very stealthy.

Lending money to #Argentina is like lending money to your family. You will never see it again. 😂