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English Civil War:

This has to be the first meme in English history. It's also incredibly funny too! I'll have to incorporate this into my army somewhere. 😅👍

hello smart people / idiot savants in my phone - do any of you have recs for somewhat accessible books about the history of the chariot races/teams in Constantinople

"Do not forget it, i can remove you from this transaction" goes so hard

It's Wednesday, it's time for a Midweek #RandomWhiteDwarfCover

Issue 160. April 1993

Kim Jong Un Can’t Believe Daughter Already Executing Boys

Kim Jong Un Can’t Believe Daughter Already Executing Boys https://theonion.com/kim-jong-un-cant-believe-daughter-already-executing-boys/

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

What is it about?

Horus Heresy Qin Xa action figure from Joytoy. A space marine in white armour with ornate golden trim. Wielding two lethal blades.

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You'll be doing me a massive solid, in addition to putting something cool on your shelf/wall/self/dog

The Guardian, 04 Mars 2026: "UK supermarket chain Iceland drops trademark dispute with Iceland"

#NoContextNews

Google faces lawsuit after Gemini chatbot allegedly instructed man to kill himself Lawsuit is first wrongful death case brought against Google over flagship AI product after death of Jonathan Gavalas

What could go wrong, they said.

So as long as you label your "war videos" as AI fake slop you are fine. Gotcha.

YouTube video by Ward Carroll Kuwaiti F-18 Shot Down American Strike Eagles

New episode just posted:

Apparently, some toe-rag is impersonating me on Facebook to try to scam people.

Please do not accept any friend requests and report if you see them pop up!

Thanks!

U.S. Military Announces Plan To Consolidate All Wars Into Final, Epic Battle

U.S. Military Announces Plan To Consolidate All Wars Into Final, Epic Battle https://theonion.com/u-s-military-announces-plan-to-consolidate-all-wars-in-1824018300/

AI hands against an AI backdrop of beige books on shelves, holding a poster. The headline reads "Publish Your Book On On On Amazon with ease!" then there's an image of a man holding a book behind his back in a joint-cracking manner, and a bunch of garbage text that, in the way of AI, reads as if someone, probably you, has had a stroke. Let BookQuill on publishing Handle, Editing, standout on amazon Sect Ed editing, SEO, farmating & make you tok syour book an print design! etc

On the topic of book club slop, I just got one that came with an instagram link to the supposed sender, so I had a look just to see if there was anything there and OH MY GOD it's beyond my wildest dreams.

At least American geographical ignorance is still going strong.

US sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka leaving one dead and dozens injured US defence secretary confirms America launched attack that reportedly left at least 100 people missing

So are we still going with this "special military operation" bs or is it about time to talk about global warfare?

Partner of sitting Labour MP among three arrested on suspicion of spying for China Exclusive: Arrests under National Security Act understood to also include the partner of a former Labour MP The partner of a sitting Labour MP is among three people who have been arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of spying for China, the Guardian understands. Security services are investigating foreign interference in UK democracy, including attempts to obtain information on policymaking and interfere with sovereign affairs. Continue reading...

Partner of sitting Labour MP among three arrested on suspicion of spying for China

Anecdotal but if you use any software in a use case even slightly outside its golden path, and you find it mysteriously breaking in like "docs say it does X and it definitely does not" kinds of ways, there's like a 90% chance its traceable to an LLM-authored commit.

Over the past year, every single time one of the apps or services I use suddenly became less reliable and more buggy, I never have to look far for the "Claude is amazing and now writes most of my code" post for the devs involved.

Hey #Nerdlings heads up, #Warhammer #AgeOfSigmar #Spearhead is out now in shops!!!!

Why ‪@why.bsky.team‬ Until December of last year I was using LLMs as fancy autocomplete for coding. It was nice for scaffolding out boilerplate, or giving me a gut check on some things, or banging out some boring routine stuff. In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast

in case you ever wondered why bsky breaks all the fuckin time and is increasingly a pile of jank

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Reasons why Asocial Media should be regulated #74638. #TheStupidestTimeline

Looking for a bit of help from peeps in the UK who regularly visits a local comic shop. I'm after a copy of Marvel's 'The 'Nam #22', could you check the shops back issues for me please? If you find a copy just let me know so I can order it 🙂 Many thanks all 🙏🙂
#comics #Marvel #Marvelcomics #nedlings

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

Wow, some people really were slow on the uptake.

[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]

Until Microslop decides to put other features behind the subscription wall, too. Which is very likely to happen.

Indefinite Book Club Hiatus Today in “Things that ‘AI’ has ruined”: No, I won’t be able to show up to your book club’s online/offline gathering, and the reason for this is simple: I, and li…

I get asked to show up to book clubs, online and offline. Here is why from now on the answer is always "no." If you think this might have something to do with "AI" ruining yet another thing for everyone, you're absolutely 100% correct.

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Das Bild zeigt den Kopf von Asterix vor einem einfarbigen Hintergrund. Er lächelt und seine Helmflügel stehen steil nach oben ab.

Schon gewusst? Der berühmte Flügelhelm von Asterix hat historisch wahrscheinlich nie existiert! Trotzdem ist er ein fester Bestandteil des französischen Nationalmythos. Wie kam es dazu? Ich erkläre das in diesem Thread. #Asterix

a man in a suit and tie sits at a desk in a room . ALT: a man in a suit and tie sits at a desk in a room .

Another ruSSian shadow fleet tanker is reported to have made boom in the Mediterranean before sinking.