AbsentWizard

Just sharing this cartoon made by Niels again.
Shieldwalls are awesome.
Regularly check in with loved ones to make sure they're perhaps in need of a shieldwall.

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Man, "it is in the public interest to be transparent about this" is a strange way to spell, "I need entirely unrealistic hype in order to pull together the next round of VC funding to keep my bloated, overvalued mess of a company running."

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

Revealed: Pentagon orders states’ national guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’ Pentagon memo details plan to train over 20,000 national guard members across the US to carry out Trump’s order on subduing civil unrest

Yikes

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Andrew Desiderio V @AndrewDesiderio X.com Funny moment just now in the Senate: Lindsey Graham whispered something into his phone and then Siri responded with full volume: "Calling Sean Hannity mobile" 8:57 AM • 10/28/25 • 276K Views

We live in an episode of Veep

Lightning flashes within the powerful eye wall of Hurricane Melissa.

Incredible imagery this morning of Melissa, a Category 5 storm, south of Jamaica.

International Cyber Digest O @IntCyberDigest X.com !! An Anduril engineer uploaded a hardcoded private key, hashed root passwords, and internal Anduril emails to a public repository. We sent a responsible disclosure to Anduril last year but received no reply. This company is currently operating autonomous killer drones above your head. horizedKeys.keys= [ 19_key"- source = pkgs.writeTe EY-—-- ABAAAAN ault" = { 2/y0XgA rations.default. config.system.build.diskc oFTiTpk LGweHV J0AQ== ce = config.environment.etc." 20:55 • 26/10/2025 • 31K Views 26 17 64 Relevant v 459 144 View

Update: andruril apparently uploaded private keys to GitHub. x.com/intcyberdige...

SNAP is probably the most effective federal dollar we spend in terms of long term domestic economic outcomes.

that isn’t why you should support it; you should support it because it is a moral imperative to feed the hungry.

but it’s why even a growth-oriented ghoul shouldn’t oppose it.

Super Hornet, Helicopter Assigned to USS Nimitz Crash in South China Sea in Separate Incidents, Crew Safe - USNI News An F/A-18F Super Hornet and an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) crashed in the South China Sea on Sunday in two separate incidents in the Pacific, USNI News ...

You lost two airframes in 30 minutes??

Turns out that ai is really bad at making maps based on data... and at history... who would have thought!
Asked Gemini & chatgpt to make a map showing the mortality rate of cities during the 14th century Black Death pandemic... can you spot the errors?

Abcnews graphic: surreal moment as coyote drinks water from skylight window on top of Los Angeles hair salon (Image of exactly that, except the framing is canted and as a result it looks like a coyote imprisoned in a glass square a la the phantom zone from Superman)

I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone

Ok, so let's talk a little bit about how the Romans understand magic and why they think putting phallus-shaped objects (fascina, sing. fascinum) are witch-craft related and how that connects to our word 'fascinate.' 1/

Stop scrolling and go to bed! But first look at the comedy wildlife photo finalists from this year www.comedywildlifephoto.com/gallery/fina...

9th Circuit reverses victory for Trump admin in National Guard case after feds get caught lying By Friday, the full 9th Circuit administratively stayed the panel's own stay – "[w]ithout objection from the panel."

Freaking huge good news

Congrats to Oregon on paying for good lawyers

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First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself | Quanta Magazine After more than three centuries, a geometry problem that originated with a royal bet has been solved.

This is a lovely article, showing that the spirit of enquiry and the thirst for new knowledge persist in a world where stupidity is so popular.

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First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself | Quanta Magazine After more than three centuries, a geometry problem that originated with a royal bet has been solved.

In important math news: new shape just dropped (the noperthedron) www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-...

WATCH: “A MASTER PLAN”

Usually stoic Kushner silently panics as Witkoff spills the beans on the Trump regime’s war profiteering in Gaza - they’ve been working on for ‘TWO YEARS’🤔

(But don’t worry, apparently $50 Billion is “not a lot of money”! 💰🙃)

PSA: This slip-up should be a big deal.

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

Oh and if anyone with a budget in Hollywood is listening, I will absolutely consult for your miniseries on the Exciting Life of P. Ventidius Bassus on the condition that it is titled, "All About That Bassus" in exchange for the low, low price of all of the money there is.

/end

No it’s not really normal for people in the military to have Totenkopf tattoos

In some ways, the regime half-assedly tearing off part of the White House without regard for construction protocols might have more of an impact on the offline folks than the past ten months.

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes. “It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.

Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

“I’ll give you something to cry about” as government policy

Now in a position of power at the network, Ms. Weiss is the one concerned about leaks. She has complained that her comments at private CBS meetings keep turning up in media reports, asking if the company can identify the leakers, according to three people familiar with her remarks.

exhibit a of “has never been a reporter” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

United MAX Hit By Falling Object At 36,000 Feet - AvBrief.com Authorities are now considering whether a falling object, possibly from space, caused damage to the windshield and frame on a United 737 MAX over Colorado on Thursday. Various reports that include watermarked photos of the damage suggest the plane was struck by a falling object not long after taking off from Denver for Los Angeles. […]

😬

United MAX Hit By Falling Object At 36,000 Feet

h/t @ikluft

https://avbrief.com/united-max-hit-by-falling-object-at-36000-feet/

#spacejunk #aviation #spacedebris #space

Parody protestors dressed in Monopoly costumes with signs that say “We paid for three terms” and “Raise the Rent.” Two men are wearing top hats and one is smoking a cigar.

Parody protestors dressed in billionaire bling holding signs that say “Weathcare not Healthcare,” “The cost of caviar is the real crime,” “Slow & Expensive Buses,” “Whose oil? Our oil!” And “We paid for three terms.”

Parody protestors dressed in faux fur and top hats holding signs that say “It’s a class war. And we’re winning” and “We paid for Three Terms.” Their group is Trillionaires for Trump.

Trillionaires for Trump & Billionaires Against Mamdani making common cause in Manhattan. #nokings #nokingsnyc @50501movement.bsky.social @50501nyc.bsky.social

White House to fire explosive artillery over major roadway in Southern California, I-5 to be temporarily shut down on Saturday due to life safety risk | Governor of California

What

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Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

GET RID OF YOUR RING CAMERAS www.yahoo.com/news/article...

America is BACK. The WHITE HOUSE Follow The White House @whitehouse-47.bsky.social America First.

Follow Homeland Security @homelandgov.bsky.social With honor and integrity, we will safeguard the American people, our homeland, and our values. #WeAreDHS

⚠️ HEADS UP

MAGA trolls will be incoming. The White House and DHS both just announced on X that they’ve joined Bluesky.

These are their accounts: