Jed Leonard

It's like he thinks he's auditioning for a role in Jarhead 4

It's all movie lines. I've said this elsewhere: Hegseth has a classic case of cinematic epistemology; his understanding of the world is grounded in the way it works in movies. He thinks exclusively in terms of decisive hand gestures & movie tough talk.

schools are never valid military targets, on or off base

if someone bombed a DoD school in Okinawa and killed a bunch of American 4th graders, that would be a war crime.

The murder of Iranian schoolchildren is a war crime.

For example...

A screenshot from the anime Berserk (1997) in which Guts sits shirtless and battered beneath a tree, overlooking a night sky full of stars. Casca leans against the tree, silently watching him.

shit sucks. persist nonetheless.

Wild to think about how many of our problems stem from small men with big guns.

Every major disaster in this country over my lifetime has been self inflicted by right wing ideologues with just enough complicit or inert Democrats to enable or ratify them. That's why we've been on this doom trajectory for the last ~50 years and it'll keep getting worse if that doesn't change

Israel goes immediately into its military comfort zone of slaughtering children.

How hard is it to say "we condemn this administration's wanton disregard for human rights and we're introducing articles of impeachment immediately?" Just have a fucking spine, Hakeem! These people are not your friends!

If a president decides to conduct missile strikes on an elementary school without asking Congress, and your MAIN ISSUE with that is the "without asking Congress" part...

I mean, fuck me, what are we even doing here?

The automation of war was a mistake. If you want to take a person's life, you ought to at least look them in the eye when you do it.

Wrote like 600 words this afternoon despite still feeling like total dog water. Someone praise me please.

#writingcommunity #amwriting

WEED DUCK 👏 WEED DUCK 👏

The Pokemon Pombon, from Pokemon Wind and Waves

Well, they did it. They made me actually want to buy a Switch 2, and all for this little bastard right here

I've always wanted to do an anthology called BIG DAMN EXPLOSIONS where the only requirement for the stories is that they must have a big damn explosion in them. I think we could get an interesting range of stories with that.

Covid log, day 5: Sitting in bed dictating a new draft of my novel like I'm a tragic Victorian genius on the brink of either death or transcendence, possibly both

And then leaning over to the side to take a lil sip of my appy juice

Truly embodying the duality of man today

...I really ought to subscribe to the Onion

My heights remain blissfully unwuthered

Friend of mine had this same strain of COVID recently and told me "it's no big deal, you'll feel pretty much normal after a day or two"

Here I am on day 4, barely able to walk to the kitchen.

Y'all, I think something's wrong with my immune system after all

Big ol' swimming pool 👍

This is kinda fascinating from an urbanist perspective. Gonna have to do a deep dive on this paper when I've got the spoons for it.

Thank goo

as far as i can tell “bio hacking” is just a goofy term for giving yourself some combination of an eating disorder and a drug addiction

This is the energy I'm trying to carry into 2026.

And yes, I know we're already there. Gimme a minute to catch up.

What if all those years of life were not just an investment in capital growth but were actually the entire point of all of it, what then.

Welp. Caught Covid again. I think this makes 7 go-rounds.

Might be nice to have some low-key games to play while I sit and convalesce. Anybody got any recs?

What does it profit a man to have billions of dollars if he has no one to, lovingly, tell him to shut the fuck up

Ember the tuxedo kitten strutting around on a tabletop, one paw outstretched. Super photogenic, incredibly talented, unbelievably groundbreaking stuff.

Check out Miss Big Pants over here, jumping up on the table like she owns the place

#caturday

Hot take? Lukewarm take? Ice cold take? But by any objective measure, Christian conservatives are *wildly* heretical. Acting against everything their Messiah told them to do, and then pretending it's all good if they just say "uh oh, whoopsie" to their pastor a couple of times before they die.

It is crucial that Democrats read such things as they consider DHS funding. It is an affront to the entire idea of America. Operating like the secret police of the worst totalitarian societies. Unless it completely changes, funding it is an abdication of their Constitutional duty.