King of the Vagabonds 🇹🇼

I really hate how Western media frames Pahlavi as "the son of the last Shah" as if it was some unbroken ancient institution dating back centuries or millennia. There were two Pahlavi Shahs. The first was just some guy.

Love me a B5 reference

It kind of underscores just how much better informed literally everyone outside of America is about American foreign policy, even the high school freshmen.

Makes for good scifi plots. The Squire of Gothos from TOS comes to mind.

A lot of this is because he attends an IB school and they have Units of Inquiry to theme content and skills around. They've currently been exploring astronomy through that lens, but he's been pouring over articles on Wiki and Encyclopedia Britannica to fill in gaps.

And a lunar eclipse last night!

Oh that's so cool. I wonder what got their attention?

Just overheard a group of teenage girls mocking Trump's "I don't start wars, I stop wars" line.

The Myth of Jeb’s Protégé If you believe their stories, Bush was a mentor to Rubio. The truth is more complicated.

Here's a Politico article from 2015 about this very thing:

www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

I remember when this was something to openly mock Rubio for a fucking decade ago.

Anything is possible with the help of the ants.

Yeah a friend showed it to me recently

Greek yogurt in a taco is pretty good.

My 10yo never really went through a dinosaur phase but holy shit is he now obsessed with astronomy.

A lot of questions being asked already answered by the president reassuring Americans that they don't have a munitions shortage.

Hegseth just said that he isn't fighting a "PC war" and he's not really interested in rules of engagement, those pesky things.

So maybe we should be looking at Polymarket to see if any random bets by newly created accounts are picking a date and time for a nuclear bomb to be dropped.

roadhouseendgame i was talking to my mom about cardassians and said something along the lines of what must it be like to be a cardassian civilian. like abstractly knowing the rest of the galaxy thinks of your species as 'the evil ones' and kinda sorta knowing your government runs labor camps and torture prisons and is a military empire, and it's a huge deal for everyone else in the galaxy, but you just like run a restaurant so it's not a big part of your daily life, so you just like, go about your day and make soup and don't think about it' and then halfway through my sentence i actually heard myself and then had to go sit down for like ten minutes. like sat down in a chair and stared at the floor for ten minutes

whoops

They are both Zendand.

That's like $270+ million just gone.

The war with Iran has started. Fuck.

Good God I just heard a Leroy Jenkins shout in the year of our lord 2026.

I specifically picked this bar because it's always dead and I guess other foreigners have realized that as well.

I did put pants on.

Being on public transit is probably a little late to be checking that I put pants on before leaving home.

Truly hungover. Why can't I be in my 20s still?

The 24 tacos is more daunting than anything else on this, mostly because I think I would get bored eating them. While it's only 13 large bottles of Leo, I think the real issue is that drinking that many in 24 hours would make it impossible for me to eat the 24 tacos.

So does the defense pact between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia mean that Saudi Arabia is now at war with Afghanistan? Shit is confusing.

I have a buddy who wants people to think he looks like The Dude but really he just looks like Ted Cruz with long hair and I told him this and I think he's been holding a grudge ever since.

Recently started crawling out of a depression hole and doing things like maintaining an actual hairstyle which means I get to have the "I'm not bald, I shave my head, do you understand?" conversation on a basically daily basis.

Do people who aren't already fascists actually listen to this guy?

If anything, it's how this whole cycle started with 4chan as patient zero. I firmly hold that ironic fascism is just fascism. If we normalize right-wing talking points in replies as "jokes" or "sarcasm" we're still getting people used to seeing them in otherwise normal conversation.