Star Wars nails! 💅

Oh no! I hope you find it soon!

Starting to pack for SWCJ! @forcecenterpod.bsky.social

So they’re neat and all, but they totes missed an opportunity there. #thrawn

Dear Disney/Lucasfilm/Star Wars: can us Eli Vanto fans have just a tiny bit of merch with him? A figure? A t-shirt? Anything? 🙏

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

Weak men cannot compromise. Weak men cannot build consensus. Weak men think that leadership means force. Weak men build nothing that lasts.

I want to add he is providing this fun/fascinating/soothing content during a time that his life has been in total upheaval.

I would just like to shout out @lgr-yt.bsky.social for not only years of fun and fascinating content, but for making videos that, at least for me, are often deeply soothing as well. A balm during stressful times. Thank you.

Senate committee advances Robert F. Kennedy Jr. nomination to be health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has cleared his first hurdle to become the nation’s top health official as the Senate finance committee voted to advance his nomination for a floor vote.

This man is an unqualified conspiracy theorist hack who should not be allowed within the same ZIP CODE of this position.

Picked up some new Thrawn merch! I love that the shirt has the Ascendancy logo. I’d love more Ascendancy options!

l've shared this story before but l'm thinking about it a lot right now: When I was in the fourth grade, I had a very kind, gentle teacher named Mr. File. One day, after recess he stormed into the classroom, fuming, his head bright red. Never saw him angry before and now he was furious. He grabbed the chalk and drew a huge swastika on the blackboard. He pointed at it and yelled, "Do you know what this is? Do you know what this means?" He had discovered that some kids were drawing the symbol somewhere on the playground during recess. He went on to tell us the very blunt truth of the holocaust. The death, the cruelty, the human evil. "That's what this means," he said. Mr File was determined that the next generations didn't forget the horrors of the nazis. Of an authoritarian government. Of scapegoating groups of people to fuel cultish devotion to a strong man leader who can't be questioned.

Mr. File could have let this go. He could have sighed and thought "kids these days" and not made a fuss. But he would not allow a swastika to become some edgy, ironic thing a kid scrawled on the playground to test the boundaries. He demanded that the symbol be known for what it truly is, what it truly means. 1 keep imagining Mr. File rapping his knuckles on a picture of Elon Musk doing an obvious nazi salute. I hear Mr File demanding, "Do you know what this is? Do you know what it means?" Mr File made that speech about the swastika to me and my classmates in 1984 so we wouldn't forget. So we wouldn't let the Overton Window shift. So the next generations would hold the line. So in honor of Mr File: Elon Musk did a nazi salute because he is a neo nazi. He supports the ideology of nazis. He is actively advocating for a far-right party in GERMAN politics. He has multiple posts on social media advocating white supremacist ideology.

And there is no "doing it ironically to get a rise out of people" excuse in my book. The swastika means what the swastika means and so does that salute. He wants to play a childish game where he can wink at fellow nazis and say, "look at the nazi salute I did." Then turn around and claim he didn't do it while snickering behind his hand. He's an obvious, sad bully. He's the sad, angry kid who pulls on another kid's hair then when they turn around claims he didn't do it. He gets power over people both in the doing of it and the denying of it. He is pathetic and extremely dangerous because he has power. I want to do every little thing I can to take that power away. So I will add my tiny voice to the chorus and call him out. He's a nazi. I'm done posting on X. Sadly, I don't own a Tesla so I can't get rid of one.

Life was already very difficult. Balancing career, finances, personal joy, etc is incredibly challenging. I'm lucky to have many, many advantages and I know it's even more challenging for lots of other folks for lots of different reasons. Uprooting ourselves from websites, stores, vehicles, drinks that provide comfort and connection is not easy. These companies have wormed their way into our lives in a way that often leaves us little choice. But I think we have to use every lever of power to pushback that we can personally manage. That will be different for different folks, but I feel we should at least try to use our power where we can. The very least I can do is be honest. I know what that salute is. I know what it means. And I'm not going to ignore it or accept it. Mr File passed that classroom a baton. I really don't want to drop it.

A story about my fourth grade teacher and nazis

I only have so much power, but one thing I have power over is who I personally give "a bit of grace." I have absolutely no grace for Musk or his enablers. Countless people around the world are enthusiastic without accidentally doing a nazi salute multiple times in a row

The tactical genius, everyone. 🙄

I've been trying to understand why I feel the particular flavor of distressed that I do right now. I think it's because we can no longer discuss the lessons we should be learning from any kind of disaster without the worst chucklefucks coming out of the woodwork to wreck everything.

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5 dead, more than 2,000 structures burned as new fire hits Hollywood Hills More than 2,000 structures have burned and at least five people are dead in wildfires burning across L.A. County. Red flag warnings remained in effect for Los Angeles County and much of Ventura County...

Shoutout to the Los Angeles Times reporters who are doing essential journalism under very difficult circumstances.

They’ve dropped their paywall, but their ongoing coverage is a good reminder of why local newsrooms need support — and what we lose when those outlets are hollowed out.

The wind gusts are devastating. Truly a hurricane of fire.

Video: @stuartpalley.bsky.social

I’m so tired of him as well.

Whoa!!! Pretty sure this is a new one? 🤗

More digital art practice (I’m obv a beginner, lol). It’s a Thranto, because of course it is.

That’s so cool! And it’s fun to put a face to your action figure play partner you’ve told so many stories about! 😊

Was he going to be a Chiss…?

Finally watched Skeleton Crew today, and I LOVED it. Absolutely enchanting.

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At the end of the day not everything is going to resonate or connect for you in Star Wars, and that's fine. That's the beauty of the franchise. There is something for everyone, from multiple era's. We have the films, shows, games and literature where you can find comfort in something. It's magic!

Happy Thanksgiving, y’all! 🦃

Thrawn is watching you from behind my pullover.

The moral of the story, kids: It’s fine to try to stop the peaceful transfer of power and incite a mob to storm the Capitol and do all you can to overturn an election as long as you run again and win 🇺🇸