The Monarch Diaries

Sinking a ship because he knew it was not just away from home waters but unarmed (as an invitee to unarmed international naval exercises the US was scheduled to attend but withdrew) shows a Pentagon following its leader into functionally a school shooter doctrine: kill who you can because you can.

Psyop life.

Bannon’s pushing this because he sees it as potentially effective psyop. No other interpretation is possible or, more importantly, useful.

Everything Bannon does is psyop.

I’m not saying it’s particularly effective, and it’s his own right wing psyop vision, but that’s the lens through which to view his actions. Bannon wakes in the morning, eats psyop breakfast lunch and dinner, then goes to psyop bed and dreams psyop dreams.

By contrast, U2 put out Achtung Baby and toured on it just 11 years after the band’s first album (1980 - 1991).

Steve Bannon is a weathervane that tells you exactly what the far right is planning to co-opt next.

The wind is blowing in the anti-AI direction so that’s where they’re going.

Well the US is a nursing home with an army, so

Proper treatment of Republicans: verbal bullseyes

Multiple reporters are saying that Montana Sen. Steve Daines will NOT seek reelection.

The state's candidate filing deadline was *tonight*, and it's already passed. Not clear whether the GOP has a serious alternative in the race. x.com/JSAmbarian/s...

Sadism

Sheehy dashes over to get his licks in on an immobilized protestor.

This is just performative sadism. MAGA is thirsty for it.

Motherfucker runs over to get his licks in on an immobilized person. This is sadism, not badassery

Boots on the kitchen table

That’s a yes

My photo shows part of a limestone wall panel carved in bas relief from the Fifth Dynasty mortuary temple of king Userkaf at Saqqara, Old Kingdom, 2465-2458 BC. It shows a Hoopoe, a crested bird with black and white wing pattern, and an ibis, with long curved beak, amongst papyrus plants in the marshes of the river Nile. My photo was taken in 2022 at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

Lovely naturalistic relief of a Hoopoe and Ibis, carved by an Egyptian artisan some 4,500 years ago!

Limestone wall relief from the 5th Dynasty mortuary temple of Userkaf at Saqqara. Egyptian Museum, Cairo 📷 by me

#ReliefWednesday
#Archaeology

Well here’s hoping they at least got a sick snuff flick

Coors field goads them into constantly swinging for the fences

Did they render aid to Iranian sailors?

Yeah like to put things in perspective, the damage done by Sergey Brin’s ex-wife single handedly funding large segments of the anti-vax movement probably undid shitloads of positive public health work done through philanthropy. The ability to use that money for evil shit is just far greater.

yeah when Andreesen followed me on Twitter some years ago it really caused me to question some choices but ultimately wtf.

a lot of critiques in aughts alleged that pentagon was influencing video games and in truth the relationship seems to be the other way around

I just have to repeat that it was incredibly fucking annoying seeing the Crockett people go out and fucking lie about how often the Democratic party runs minorities and women statewide. Just get up there and lie their asses off with this smug 'why don't we think about someone other than a white!?'

Did we offer their sailors aid

What a douchecannon

It is wild to me that DOGE/Musk could dismantle so much of the government in just a few months from a combination of anti-regulatory personal greed and fascism-tinged stupidity and no one will ever face any consequence for it.

Autism researchers rebuke Kennedy, form independent advisory group A group of autism researchers and advocates are forming an independent advisory body to develop a scientific agenda for the autism community.

nice move to counter pseudoscience
www.statnews.com/2026/03/03/a...

New preprint out!
In this study, we introduce NanoFLex, a strategy that combines #HaloTag variants with #nanobodies -based immunolabeling to enable rapid, OneStep-IF #lifetime #multiplexing. Possible due to SmartSecondaries fused to #HaloTag from @nanotag.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

BREAKING: The Texas Secretary of State DID NOT UPDATE the precinct maps on their website last December. MY GOD @msnowreports.bsky.social

2026 has a very 2006 "everybody fucking hates republicans but national media/pundits will be reeaaaaaaaaaaallllllly slow to properly understand that because of their priors about the two parties" feel to it

23-25% is the historical minimum approval rating for a president. It’s the floor, functionally the absolute zero approval line.