Adam

Pretty clear that the Trump admin is keeping the full extent of losses in the Gulf from the American public. I'm curious to what extent NYT/WaPo/CNN have this information and are just sitting on it.

Standing on top of US embassy in Saigon, shouting over the sound of a helicopter: the number of bullets fired by the Vietcong has dropped off precipitously overnight

GWYNNE DYER: Why Trump's war with Iran won't be over in four weeks Trump is calling for not only 'unconditional surrender' and wants to choose next Iranian leader, but his goals differ from Israel's

Gwynne Dyer: "Indeed, I suspect that there is already a clandestine race going on in which Israel is trying to identify and kill potential collaborators inside the regime before Trump’s people can make deals with them." www.saltwire.com/newfoundland...

Lady on CBC Radio One just now, on Iran: "For the Conservatives, it's a moral issue, whereas for the NDP and the Bloc, it's more about following international law."

just brutal how so much of sf/f got boiled down to military

Lmao

we gotta ban comics

"Remember, this is the regime that appointed the Joker as their UN ambassador, just so that he could have diplomatic immunity while he further terrorized Gotham City."

A sanderling with something in their mouth, running on the surf with both feet in the air

Can't believe those little legs work like that. 🪶

Embarrassing, but probably reading Matt Taibbi's article "God Can Suck My Dick" in the eXile, but then followed up by the arrest of our catholic bishop who was arrested on his return from Thailand with a laptop full of illegal images

loser idiot fat slob (NOT ME) gets drawn into a car theft ring and draws the ire of a Don Cherryesque car dealership owner

Remember when Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser rolled in to DC Comics for a hot minute?

Hang on a minute

eminently reasonable!

synthesising good humoured common sense, reasonable offer edged with imperialists fuck off at Castro levels

I think the important question is when does Iran feel ready to agree to a ceasefire, and what do they ask for

On the other hand, his voters and the Democratic Party leadership will forgive him anything. If anyone can take all those military assets/troops home from the Gulf (which if they stay put remain legitimate targets for Iran) & just shrug off the national humiliation, it might be Trump.

can demand Israel accept a ceasefire, but Iran would be foolish to allow it because when that happened in June Israel just rearmed and attacked again. I don't know where that leaves Trump, but I don't think one of his famously idiotic face-saving moves is on the table this time.

Just thinking things through: for Trump to declare a face-saving victory and walk away he has to either talk Israel down or abandon them. Iran is obliged, I think, to continue attacking Israel until they are removed as a regional threat. If Trump breaks with Israel he's in trouble at home. He

Brace: Do you ever get annoyed that people only know you for your movie work?

Wallace Shawn: Individual identity is merely constructed

holy shit

Real Pepys Hours

I want to smell the peat from that mushroom factory

This is what Syrias looked like in Tehran today. It is raining oil. The street cats are covered in it. This is a colossal crime against humanity.

YouTube video by Oscilloscope Laboratories Universal Language - Official U.S. Trailer - Oscilloscope Laboratories HD

Lindsey Graham on tv telling people they've gotta start WW3 because he's afraid of living like this www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-37...

Imagine being so depraved as to hate the country that inspired Universal Language (2024)

‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

"Smoke has covered the entire city. I have severe shortness of breath and burning in my eyes and throat."

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...