Andreas Kjeldsen

Worth remembering that the Joe Rogans of the world don’t think they’re engaged in politics. That’s part of their success and something for political types to remember when engaging with them and their audiences.

Part of poaster’s bushido is being detached from the fruits of your poasting, both good and bad. “I was saying that I wanted to kill someone as a reference to Johnny Cash” no you poasted a little too close to the sun. We all do it (some more than others). Accept and move on, this is pathetic.

[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]

Every ad now

(Obviously they couldn’t call the new super-department the “Department of War”, because that meant Army and the US Navy would probably rather have sunk their own ships than join something like that.)

I realise this is a minuscule thing to be annoyed about, but they didn’t just “decide to change the name” to be “politically correct”. War (ie Army), Navy and Air Force used to be separate cabinet-level departments. The Department of Defence was formed as a complete restructuring of the US military.

one serious problem i see that i am not clear how we solve is, probably 50% of the GOP voting base if not more is really not interested in being part of a democracy anymore. and the only alternative is guys who think democracy means finding common ground with those people

what star wars really need is a HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER style submarine thriller

YouTube video by technicalmark Henry V - Speech - Eve of Saint Crispin's Day - HD

Folks, today is October 25th, the Feast Day of Saints Crispin and Crispinian, and of course the anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt.

It is *also* one month until November 25th, the Feast Day of Saint Catherine, when AN EXCITING THING *might* happen. 👀

Anyway, here's Kenneth Branagh.
#dkgame

The title screen of The Knight & the Maiden – A Modern Medieval Folk-Tale. On the left is Charlotte, a woman with blond hair wearing a plate armour, while on the right is Princess Iris, a dark-haired woman wearing a blue dress. In the background is a scene from a tournament field, and a palace with white walls and blue roof is off in the distance.

A visual novel-style illustration of Princess Iris and Charlotte sitting together in a library with bookcases full of books. Charlotte is reading aloud from a book while Iris listens.

An in-game pixel art map scene showing Princess Iris, Charlotte, and the maid Marigold standing near a fountain in the palace gardens. Charlotte is saying: "Thy Gracious Highness, I am honoured to meet thee. If thou wouldst allow me to introduce myself? My name is Charlotte."

A zoomed-out pixel art map showing a part of a medieval city with narrow streets, many buildings, and a large cathedral-like temple.

Hello Bluesky! I am an #Indiedev making The Knight & the Maiden, a game set in a world almost, but not quite, like our own in the early 16th century. The story is about a lady who disguises herself as a knight to win a tourney, but then she falls in love with a princess and things get… complicated.

Call me a traditionalist, but letting private individuals send cheques to an authoritarian-curious president so he can fund the military outside of the legal appropriations procedure… seems less than optimal.

Also that’s like 0.8% of the monthly US military payroll.

I don’t mean to lecture ACECO – an award-winning demolition company with 3500+ successfully completed projects since 2000 and 86 years of market experience – on how to conduct their business, but I’d maybe have removed the branding from the machines for this particular project. #ReputationalDamage

Can’t believe they’re not using an AMERICAN-made excavator to demolish the People’s House 1600% TARIFFS on imported heavy machinery IMMEDIATELY please thankyou for your attention to this matter

Blocklist with US government accounts. They all use default bsky.social handles.

I do think it’s very funny that barely any of the newly-arrived US Government accounts, in line with the administration’s usual level of competence, seem to have figured out how to set a custom domain handle.

An old time-y illustration of a Oxen.

Today is Quintidi the 25th of Vendémiaire in the year 234.
Vendémiaire is the month of vintage.
Today we celebrate oxen. #JacobinDay

More information on oxen

That’s Columba.

Columbus is the 6th century Irish missionary who founded Luxeuil Abbey and a number of other monasteries in Francia and Lombardy.

I imagine Pete Hegseth's inability to understand this is probably a big reason why his career stalled out when it did: he was trying to be an O-4 thinking in terms of the 'O-3 test' (or the 'E-6 test') when that wasn't his job anymore.

A colonel is not just a really, really big lieutenant.

One of the things that doesn't come out in the soundbites but does in the full speech is Hegseth's repeated, explicit emphasis on viewing problems from the perspective of an E-6 or O-3, wholly unaware (as a bad O-4) that the job of the 0-7s to O-10s in front of him is quite different.

In the same manner that the President “may” not deploy his personal paramilitary forces to major American cities and order them to kidnap random people off the streets and disappear them into giant camps in order to support his fascist agenda.

But, well.

Incredible that we’re almost nine months into this mess and people still don’t understand the difference between “can” and “may”.

The President “may” not put his stupid face on a coin because of an 1866 law.

But of course he “can” put his stupid face on a coin because who’s going to stop him?

i actually prefer it when the mods actively hate the user base and vice versa, that’s how every great message board worked for years and i think we should give it a whirl

The “Social Media CEO Avoiding Turning Into the Main Character of Their Own Platform” Challenge

Difficulty level: Apparently impossible? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Interrogate your beliefs you fools

It’s funny to consider that Hegseth is precisely the sort of person for whom Sun-Tzu actually wrote The Art of War, and is thus the kind of person who fundamentally cannot understand it

An old time-y illustration of a Honor.

Today is La fête des récompenses the 5th of Sansculottides in the year 233.
Sansculottides is the month of complementary days.
Today we celebrate honor. #JacobinDay

More information on honor

An old time-y illustration of a Talent.

Today is La fête du génie the 2nd of Sansculottides in the year 233.
Sansculottides is the month of complementary days.
Today we celebrate talent. #JacobinDay

More information on talent

An old time-y illustration of a Virtue.

Today is La fête de la vertu the 1st of Sansculottides in the year 233.
Sansculottides is the month of complementary days.
Today we celebrate virtue. #JacobinDay

More information on virtue

His brand of it is particularly garish but all authoritarianism is basically government by spoiled child. No capacity for or interest in any principles. People who are nice to me get treats, people who are mean to me get abuse. I get what I want or I cry and thrash. Embarrassing

Or has been going on for the last decade, rather.

It’s frightening how many highly influential people seem to have literally *no idea* what’s going on at the moment.

You are under no obligation to mourn the death of people who would’ve celebrated yours.