Peter Ravn Rasmussen

Image of a shop selling anime-themed merch for three vintage giant-robot anime. The merch in question: walking canes.

And now I had to dig up this, which really made me feel old (That's Mazinger Z in the middle).

My first anime was "Mazinger Z".

Backpfeifengesicht.

This made me legit laugh out loud. I am looking forward to what comes next.

From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.” It sounds fierce. It feels righteous. But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless. The Gestapo was a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything. The knock on the door was the sentence. ICE isn’t that. Not even close. ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials. Its agents file reports. They seek warrants. They lose cases. Judges stop them. Lawyers challenge them. Some detainees go home. That’s not tyranny. That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse. You can hate immigration policy. You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad. You can work to have the law changed if you wish. That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do. But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil. You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor. And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize. In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight. This one hasn't yet. It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses. That difference matters. Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history. We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with. And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

"Show me your paso doble!"

Also, check out 戦国小町苦労譚, another "modern person time travels back to Nobunaga's time" manga. I'm quite fond of this one.

The arc of history is long, but it bends towards "loose!"

You will be visited by three spirits

Movie poster, "The Duellists"

The duel that starts it all, with d'Hubert (Carradine) on the left and Feraud (Keitel) on the right.

"The Duellists" (Ridley Scott, 1977) with Harvey Keitel and Keith Carradine. A story of one man caught up in another man's obsession, as they fight a series of duels through the years of the Napoleonic Wars and after. Keitel is an absolutely brilliant villain as the psychopathic Feraud.

Now here’s the kind of news you drop going into a long holiday weekend. Maybe no one will notice. 🤡

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

"Are these 'great legal scholars' in the room with us now, Mr. Trump?"

I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.

Good gods, this boils my blood.

Ross Asshat is nothing if not predictable.

Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that.

But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.

You can’t negotiate with people like that.

They really have studied the Big Lie.

I still haven't found mine. I suspect it may be somewhere under the couch cushions.

The USA is no longer a republic, at all. It is a principate, with all elements of government persisting as mere pro forma imitations of their former functions. Congress and the SCOTUS only serve as rubber stamps.

It would be a state of affairs instantly recognisable to a Roman of 2000 years ago.

They did the Fash! They did the Monster Fash!

And Star Trek might have gone into obscurity again were it not for the efforts of Bjo Trimble.

This is the Way. Don't give them an inch.

Definitely something to look forward to!

By now, foreign governments must have put their least effective and competent spies on the job of spying on us. It's just too easy.

How Genocide Happened

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

For any Catholic, the sight of a Eucharistic Procession being turned away at the gates of the destination is the embodiment of Jesus being denied entrance. You don't have to be Catholic to get the symbolism in that!

100% true, and a lesson that is lost on a lot of people.