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Kat

@longwayback.bsky.social

the middle of the venn diagram that is national security issues + geek culture. hellsite veteran. chaotic disaster bisexual. she/her. (header image by a softer world)

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Guess we better hope Iran can't afford to hire someone on TaskRabbit to point a $12 Radio Shack directional mic at this tent.

28.02.2026 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 66    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I swear to Christ I think I would vote for a candidate who just used capitalization correctly

28.02.2026 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2621    πŸ” 162    πŸ’¬ 71    πŸ“Œ 17

A long time ago, I used to know a lot about foreign-imposed regime change (FIRC) and study them.

I guess that makes me qualified to write a thread about them, especially in wake of Trump bombing Iran.

So here goes nothing. 🧡

28.02.2026 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 652    πŸ” 247    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 86

This whole series has been fun as hell, excited to sit down later and watch the finale!

28.02.2026 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Boy, I Sure Do Wish The Horrors Would Stop Persisting

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Boy, I Sure Do Wish The Horrors Would Stop Persisting Art by DinoMike

28.02.2026 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

testing my new mascara by crying in public πŸ‘

28.02.2026 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm already hanging on by an emotional thread, today is the perfect day for there to be a high school band at the mall

28.02.2026 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Once again I propose that we put all the men in space, until we figure out what is going on.

28.02.2026 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 540    πŸ” 66    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 3

there's a lot of specific overwhelming and massive crises happening at once and every single one has at its root elites who did crimes and never suffered consequences for it.

28.02.2026 12:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1141    πŸ” 360    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Congress could stop all of this right now if it chose to act like a coequal branch instead of a little bitch

28.02.2026 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 144    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

gonna take a shower and buy some groceries; somebody text me if we invade anywhere else

28.02.2026 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"No new wars" really just meant "f*ck Ukraine" and everyone knew it.

28.02.2026 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3565    πŸ” 791    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 9

American Jews American Muslims

🀝

Not responsible for this war, please don’t be weird about it

28.02.2026 15:07 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

the congressional authorization thing is bad but honestly for me the whole "the crime of aggression is the supreme international crime" thing is what keeps me up at night

28.02.2026 07:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1295    πŸ” 196    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 3

but why not both, I guess? like congress either has the ability to stop the president from committing supreme international crimes in the dead of night or it does not

28.02.2026 07:54 β€” πŸ‘ 495    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

well hold on now maybe the military invasion in the middle east being run by narcissistic sociopaths with substance abuse issues will go smoothly and we’ll all end up looking stupid

28.02.2026 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 858    πŸ” 133    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 2

this timeline refuses to challenge the β€œdumbest dystopia” accusations

28.02.2026 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 160    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

Anthropic gets booted from the Pentagon for not wanting to power mass surveillance or autonomous weapons, then OpenAI gets a Pentagon contract that bans mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. Someone is obviously leaving something significant out.

28.02.2026 03:55 β€” πŸ‘ 410    πŸ” 109    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 7

the scene in lord of the rings where gandalf is like "would you deny an old man his walking stick" except it's this

27.02.2026 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 241    πŸ” 62    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Watching people just get away with it day after day has to be taking years off of my life. It feels like I just wake up and swallow fire every day.

27.02.2026 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Between Gambit and the rat, it always pings as "boy name" for me too

27.02.2026 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"I asked Chat GPT and -" ok, I asked the exhumed corpse of Pope Formosus during the Cadaver Synod and he went "... ... ..." and then his jaw fell off and it was still a better answer

27.02.2026 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 672    πŸ” 216    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

the stupidest people are out here ruining absolutely everything and they still expect me to pay my mortgage instead of riding around in a flaming chariot being called Imperator Furiosa

27.02.2026 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine my surprise that this was a *different* laser that shutdown the airspace incident than the previous one

27.02.2026 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

thrilled with the casting for this remake of THE BIRDCAGE

27.02.2026 14:39 β€” πŸ‘ 82    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

sometimes i'm a functional adult who knows how to cook and sometimes we make costco freezer fries at 10 pm

(the five pound bag is worth it)

27.02.2026 03:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

MEETING AT THE PATRIARCHY HQ A FEW YEARS AGO:

The King of Sexism: Society is getting too feminized. Any ideas how to stop this?

Wormtongue looking fantasy adviser: I suggest we make young men get eating disorders and body dysmorphia from their favorite celebrities.

The King of Sexism: Genius.

27.02.2026 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 482    πŸ” 75    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 0

read one this morning where the new baseball coach says he watched every MATCH, smh

26.02.2026 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The balancing on the email mechanic is completely fucked. You're meant to reply to emails, but when you do so, you're punished by almost immediately getting another email in response which then needs to be replied to. The player is disincentivized from engaging with the core gameplay loop.

26.02.2026 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 216    πŸ” 66    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

saving this one for later bc I know I'll need it

26.02.2026 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0