@nikephorus.bsky.social
Wanna-be academic and writer. Denizen of the howling wastes of Western Canada. Father to various children. Partner to the love of my life. Tired. No one is coming to save us. We have to save ourselves. He/him
New reports CONFIRM the US was responsible for killing an entire girls' school in Iran.
But that didn't stop Trump’s biggest donor & co-founder of ChatGPT, signing a deal giving AI to the US military for mass surveillance + killing.
Be a shame if everyone found out and deleted their account x
everyone wants to blame technology for fucking up our ability to have rich and full vocabularies, but tech's still way behind the damage wrought by US business schools
2% OF THE POPULATION ARE REPRESENTED IN 50% OF BROADCAST NETWORK DRAMAS
qz.com/1872176/half...
the guy who told everyone not to panic about bear sterns is back with another banger
Gen. Grynkewich: "What I've observed over the course of studying air power in history is that any time you attack a civilian population, you usually end up finding that it just hardens their resolve."
Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods
A really good piece from @vermontgmg.bsky.social abt the normalcy bias with which the press is covering Trump's utter failure to understand what he has done with the Iran war.
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-surp...
Again, perhaps one thing that can be salvaged from this authoritarian omnishambles is finally consigning to the dustbin of history the idea that the 🇺🇸 government faces any meaningful hard economic constraints on what it can afford.
It’s <politics> all the way down:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Exhausted Nation Lacks Strength To Form Opinion On Donald Glover Being Voice Of Yoshi https://theonion.com/exhausted-nation-lacks-strength-to-form-opinion-on-donald-glover-being-voice-of-yoshi/
Can this be a solution?
I mean, when you boil everything down to its root causes, yeah, those are the three.
1. Racism wins
2. Racism gets some pushback but is allowed to exist
3. Fire
I’m sorry, the suffering is infinite and things are genuinely fucking dire, but it is truly hilarious that the nazis ran into the middle east while screaming “logistics and diplomacy are fake and gay” and now they’re trying to ask everyone else to fix the strait of hormuz because tfw no more THAADs
How could the NSC staff miss this, the CT Directorate is led by counterterrorism expert Sebastian Gorka, PhD?
Surely he’s thought about how Iran would manage local, regional, and international force projection for most of his career.
Look, we have to arrest this guy.
"Imagine if they had an army of gundams, think about what a terror that would be."
Spotted this on a pole behind independence hall. I recently saw someone say they found collage to be the best way to work through things and I didn’t really see it at the time but
If you see this post a vampire who is not Dracula.
Funniest Grenade story:
We once threw 7 or 8 M67's at a pontoon bridge on a canal and dumped at least 100 rounds of saw ammo into it. after 20 minutes of the throwing grenades and shooting it up, we left. The bridge was unaffected.
Man the Dreadnoughts! Ramming speed!
Yeah so these things cost $2.5 million each. That's $50 million of your tax dollars just . . . flying away.
This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative.
1. Putting on the pair of socks I just finished knitting.
2. The first new leaf on a plant I propagated.
3. A warm, purring cat on my lap.
another thing Trump has done is completely fuck up counterterrorism efforts. got a piece on this @prospect.org coming tomorrow
Nah bro - we're going to make one big war. Across the whole globe, maybe! If only there was a phrase to describe such a war.
Space 1999 (1975-1977): Eagle transporter, original 44" filming miniature
It's simply one of the most iconic ship ever.
Futuristic, modular, and explosive.😏
The 3 genders
Q: Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia were not invited to the Shield of the Americas. Why was that?
TRUMP: I think they were invited. Maybe they didn't come
Sharp point about this from @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social over at The Bad Place. I'd add that MAGA "civilizational emergency" types like the unrest. It's a zone to perform what they imagine are acts of heroism, like rappelling into an apartment building with an AR and arresting a few 5 year olds.
Bellingcat has geolocated eight videos showing US Tomahawks cruise missiles in Iraq heading towards Iran. On Tuesday Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani spoke with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and stressed that Iraqi airspace and territory should not be used.
Can we get a petition to the pope to excommunicate JD on change.org or something? Who’s on that?