critical grain theorist

they had a good selection of lefty electrics too which I tried pretty much all of them, and tbh the difference in playability was not that drastic across them—except for a PRS Strat

what do you mean acoustics aren’t meant to be actually physically hard to play

never really got to play one before because you never really see them in guitar stores but I went to the CME and they had a single J-45 and holy shit

played an actually nice left handed acoustic guitar in a store today and had a bit of an existential moment

they should put aircraft carriers on the Great Lakes again, just as a bit, maybe even let the Canadians have one

SOS! The crew on 'Handala' have been kidnapped by Israeli forces.
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Read this very carefully: *One quarter* of all the people who have died of starvation in Gaza over the past 22 months have died in the past *3* days.

An unbearably sad statement from the Editorial Committee (SDJ) of the AFP news agency, please read:

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die.
AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip… /1

Political opinion

HOLY SHIT MAN WALKS ON FUCKING MOON

56 Years Ago Today:

Friend: hey how’ve you been holding up

Me:

a man with a scorpion bite. A woman with cholera. A diabetic who needed insulin. And Omran, the dimpled 3-year-old.

A man with a scorpion bite.
A woman with cholera.
A diabetic who needed insulin.
A 3-year-old boy.

They all died when the U.S. stopped sending medicine to Sudan.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

this wouldn’t happen to a medieval peasant

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

And they’ve already hinted at wanting to do this through the Obama birth conspiracies

His mom was a citizen, but overseas citizenship by parentage through the mother was not fully recognized at the time of his birth and it’s not in the Constitution; this was the whole hinge of their Kenya claims

so if birthright does get completely eliminated or watered down even further than it was today, we should expect the next targets to be citizens with one non-citizen parent, and also for things to begin to be applied retroactively

which doesn’t mean it didn’t exist prior; it was seen as pretty obvious, just as birthright was understood to be obvious prior to Dred Scott

but through these decisions, we now have no settled Constitutional definition of citizenship AT ALL

something I haven’t really seen mentioned in the coverage of the birthright decision is that it is the only way to become a natural-born citizen in the Constitution

birth by parentage is not mentioned; it is only found in Congressional law for birth outside the US and only made universal in 1994!

There are still men in a concentration camp in El Salvador. It seems quite likely Trump will send more people there. We cannot let that fact fall into the memory hole.

Federal agent “I will fucking shoot you” to a man in a car as another agent, wearing an FBI vest and mask covering his face, grabs a woman. According to eyewitness, no warrant was shown or probable cause given.

America’s Kwantung Army Iran, Civil-Military Relations, and the Strategic Vortex of CENTCOM

If you follow myself or any number of defense posters, you’d know CENTCOM is something of a meme. But there comes a point when meme becomes reality, sucking in resources in pursuit of increasingly pointless and dubious objectives all the while very real threats continue to fester. My latest⬇️

a close up of a person 's mouth with a knife in it ALT: a close up of a person 's mouth with a knife in it

“We dreamt in the night, and we are now building in the dawn”

holy shit Mamdani’s victory speech was insanely good, rhetoric might be back folks

"We have to pull back on palestine support" "we have to pull back on trans rights" "Dems should be more centrist" EAT HOT ASPHALT YOU FUCKING LOSERS!!!

we might be back folks

ok maybe New Yorkers can be allowed to vote

We're stumbling back into the worst parts of history, and we're doing it out of boredom. God damn us all

mfs really sleep on his concept of power as a “net-like organization”

This is called a concentration camp