Ron Payne

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Good thing we didn't fire the FBI agent in charge of stopping Iranian espionage while covering up the Epstein files.

Usually what turns me off is hypocritical use of religious language. This guy at least seems to understand the text.

Bari Weiss must have been asleep at the switch to let Talarico go on CBS Mornings and tell people we shouldn't be blowing up school kids with health care money.

The 1984 Del Rey mass market paperback of 2010: odyssey two by Arthur C. Clarke. The cover shows a spaceship orbiting a planet that has the image of a baby superimposed over it.

A library book sale find. Today I learned this is a Michael Whelan cover.

I'm sure there is a 0% chance any of that intelligence was fabricated.

So what you're saying is, she doesn't know Dick.

A thought I've been having: Is it a good idea to normalize kidnapping and killing world leaders you don't like when you are being protected by an agency barely competent enough to save you from a kid who stole his daddy's rifle?

Hegseth on TV telling us how we have warfighted in the most warfighty way that any warfighters have ever warfigthed int he history of warfighting. 🙄

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So I am hearing that Rubio's case for the war to Congress is that the US had to make a preemptive attack on Iran to protect ourselves from the retaliation from a preemptive attack planned by Israel.

Doesn't that make Israel the threat to US national security?

Because they need to fit pens that were designed in the 1970s

I do love a Dominique Malonga dunk.

Ozymandias despairs that he can't look upon his works because his head fell the wrong direction!

You mean WarGames (1983) was a lie?

Grilled peanut butter and banana sandwich? Why yes, I think I will.

Union: WNBA made enough money for revenue sharing The WNBA players union says that the league generated enough revenue to trigger revenue sharing.

Big news from @katiebarnes.bsky.social this morning: For the first time in league history, the WNBA generated enough revenue in 2025 to trigger revenue sharing with its players.

Teams will receive $8 million to disperse among players, the union said.

www.espn.com/wnba/story/_...

Someone tell T-Spoon she can play Saniya Rivers. #Unrivaled

I haven't tried it, but the Monterverede MP1 is a piston-filled #6 Jowo holder with a demonstrator body.

That's a sharpie

Blue Currents, by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, 2025, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), 📸 by @tiltoncreative

The 80gsm ghosts with gel pens. They also feel odd on it to me when writing with them.

I didn't see any feathering or bleed through with my fountain pen tests except with my Pilot Parallel filled with Pilot Mixable Red. But that's a notoriously ill-behaved ink. Still more ghosting than I like.

B1s? Shouldn't they be blowing up fisherman in the Gulf of Mexico?

NBC doing an exclusive interview with Trump in the middle of their Superbowl pregame programming. Get fucked!

Drew said on a podcast he was let go without explanation, and that he doesn't want to speculate on the Goulet's motivations. Internet sleuths got curious about the firing and ended up digging up the info on the church. There is no publically known connection between the church and the firing.

A we mourn the ravaging of the Washington Post, it's a great day to subscribe to your local newspaper or another regional paper. Local reporting has a huge positive impact on local rights & justice, & we are seeing local papers shut down at devastating speed

Democracy dies in darkness is still true

Happy National Girls and Women in Sports Day! 💜

Here’s to celebrating the women who lead and inspire us today -  and the next generation who will continue to push sport forward! #NGWSD2026

a woman is looking out of a window with a reflection of her face Alt: Conan O'Brien longingly looking into a window from the outside

When you can answer people's fountain pen questions, but their comments are locked.

You know what? Those elastic band holding some notebooks and journals closed? I just don't need them. Zero value added.