George Budd

A color photograph of the Lafayette-class, nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine USS James Madison underway at sea on the surface. The hull number 627 is painted in white on the starboard side of its sail.

A copy of a formerly Secret/Eyes Only cable dated November 3, 1974, from Deputy National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft to National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger: “Have just received word from the Pentagon that one of our Poseidon submarines has just collided with a Soviet submarine. The SSBN James Madison was departing Holy Loch to take up station when it collided with a Soviet submarine waiting outside the port to take up trail. Both submarines surfaced and the Soviet boat subsequently submerged again. There is no report yet of the extent of damage. Will keep you posted. Warm Regards.”

Today in 1974, the missile submarine USS James Madison (SSBN-627) collided with a Soviet attack submarine in shallow waters as it departed the sub base at Holy Loch, Scotland, leaving a 9-foot scratch on the Madison’s hull. The United States did not report the accident to avoid embarrassing the UK.

Over the course of researching the flow of money from the US into Northern Ireland during the 1970s-1980s for work, I’ve learned a lot about Irish Americans and why contemporary Americans are so weird about the IRA.

I’m not advocating for this, but we’re already way down this road. EMS for example is heading further and further down the private road

Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

Thank you Congressman Neguse for laying it plain.

OK. Who wants another Captain Dan history thread? (Reprised and rescued from the bad place....) I present you with Chemical Warfare and Chemical Weapons in the Second World War.

I am very sorry for your loss

A tweet from John Pavlovitz reads “chef’s kiss.” It includes a photo of a woman wearing a gray beanie and scarf, holding a cardboard protest sign that says “Not Today SprAyTAN,” with “A” and “TAN” highlighted in orange. The scene appears to be a street demonstration outside a theater with other people and cars in the background.

Best sign nominee.

The White House being torn apart by demolition machinery.

THIS IS CULTURAL APPROPRIATION!

DEMOLISHING THE WHITE HOUSE IS A PROUD PART OF CANADIAN HISTORY!

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough. VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing. https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

Architect of Peace Award - Richard Nixon Foundation | Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum The Architect of Peace Award was established in 1995 shortly after President Nixon’s death and is given to individuals who embody his lifelong goal of global peace and stability.

Some should let Trump know that McCain got the award decades ago.

That anyone could consider Donald Rumsfeld, Henry Kissinger, or W as an ”architect of peace” is further evidence that irony is long since dead

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Enjoy! I did that and it was huge fun, its great to make sparks and strangely relaxing

Ok, I figured out what happened. Will make this a thread but TL;DR is some one on the gunline put the wrong time on a time fuze which made the shell function early.

Fake News!

Marine Corps birthday is on 11/10.

Black silhouette of a cat on a yellow background with a snake in its mouth saying “I’ll tread wherever I want”

Protestor in a green frog suit at no kings protest

Sign that says “more woody Guthrie, less kid rock”

Skelly: Anyone who serves in uniform deserves so much better than what this tainted chain of command has to offer.

Mike Johnson: this is what it looks like when Americans get together and do their job of standing up to the chaos of your regime. Unpaid, unmasked, and tired of the lies. How about you do your job as speaker of the house (our house by the way) and get back to work for all Americans

Like, imagine someone is overdosing outside of a CVS but you dont know to go inside and get Narcan because you hid the fact that it was an overdose from the dispatcher.

Panel from original Batman comic book, a brooding Bruce Wayne is thinking out loud: "CRIMINALS ARE A SUPERSTITIOUS COWARDLY LOT. SO MY DISGUISE MUST BE ABLE TO STRIKE TERROR INTO THEIR HEARTS. I MUST BE A CREATURE OF THE NIGHT, BLACK, TERRIBLE.. A. A..."

The frog costume guy stands in opposition to ICE thugs in Portland

Okay the edible is kicking in and I'm still exhausted (but much better) after last night's grief storm.

So let's talk about why Heinlein is so beloved by many, while so many others walk up to that table with boxes of problematic going 'how in the fuck'

It will never not bother me to hear “unalived” or “graped”. We’ve more than proved that banning language only creates different words for the same topics that we absolutely need to be talking about. Stop making serious issues sound less serious by banning the real heavy words. They’re not the issue

Graphic that shows Republicans absent when needing to vote on the Epstein files or prevent a shutdown, but celebrating when cutting taxes for billionaires.

Hmmm... weird.

When I was 7, my teacher told us to write an article about “world cultures” for school over the weekend. I remembered it late on Sunday so in a panic I made up something called the "Icelandic Fish Festival", figuring said teacher wouldn’t know either way.

Every major police agency in the country bans this.

One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness

You don't know what you don't know. Keep being curious and learning things.

Walk a lot. Hydrate and stretch. Invest in good shoes.

Be okay with making mistakes and looking silly.

Revisit things you loved as a kid. Play more, laugh as often as you can.

Kristi Noem skips the Super Bowl to make a surprise appearance at the Puppy Bowl

Euler's identity #math