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🔞They/Them/It/Its. Writer. Fan. Nerd. TTRPG freak & VtM ST. Canadian. Disabled. ND. Poor. | Mid/Late 30s | Borg; Tzimisce; Warlock; the concept of ennui in human form | genderqueer, aroace, queer & cool af | God Enthusiast, theology nerd
shout out whatever brave soul keeps updating the construction info sign next to piedmont park meadow
despite extraordinarily stiff competition from the Roberts Court, Citizens United keeps its place as one of the most damaging Supreme Court decisions of all time
it really shouldn't be surprising, but it's still bizarre seeing all these incel freaks accidentally revive the worst Ancient Greek argument: "it's gay to have sex with women, because women are feminine"
Strikes on Iran Damage Cultural Heritage Sites, Infuriating Iranians www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/w...
Very sorry to hear this
"Damaged face" is bad. The face of the structure *is* the radar array.
Three faces, each a huge solid-state, flat phased radar array, packed with thousands of modules and pushing out megawatts of radar energy, with very sensitive, liquid cooled electronics inside the building.
Children killed, a school turned into a graveyard: even in wartime, we can’t accept this | Gordon Brown
I don't know how much damage the Qatari FPS-132 installation sustained, but the photos clearly show one of the three massive phased arrays destroyed. Looks like a fire and water damage too.
Cost-wise it's like losing an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. Its loss should be a major career-ending scandal
There are exactly six of these advanced radar installations in the world. Well, now five.
1 in California for the entire west coast. 1 in Cape Cod for the entire east coast. 1 in Alaska for the northern horizon. Another at Thule in Greenland. And 1 in the UK.
It changes the whole sensor picture.
The radar installation in Qatar that was destroyed by Iran was a strategic level asset.
You're probably picturing a big radar dish. The AN/FPS-132 is more of a massive, multistory concrete building that looks like a cut pyramid. A major civil engineering project. There was ONE in the Middle East.
The Pentagon last month: "We have so much money we don't know what to do with it!"
The Pentagon this month:
The president is handing out oversized clown shoes to his cabinet — and watching to see who refuses to wear them.
It's Solzhenitsyn's Stalin story come to life: the first person to stop applauding ended up in the gulag. The lesson then, as now — never be the first to stop clapping.
Some folks treated me like a naive child for believing we had the money to cancel a portion of student loan debt
His name is Garland Briggs.
yeah things are completely different today. absolutely.
Halp. 6 days in at 0/80
I was over on x dot com scoping out things to talk about on youtube dot com and across a unique and cunning plan for dealing with the strait of hormuz
not to be that guy but didn't he take a bit part in the harry potter audiobooks. like, the new ones. recently. a bit part. like he did a few lines on the "i spend my immense profits on anti-trans policy advocacy" lady's latest project for the prestige
I think people are overrating the odds the ayatollah is a purely rational utility maximizer and underrating the odds the guy is rather upset about his father, wife, and daughter being incinerated and wants his pound of flesh.
people joke about what experiencing even the banalities of modern society would do to a medieval peasant, but here's a German tourist from a small farming village who says some Times Square salsa verde physically incapacitated him gothamist.com/food/theres-...
Hi.
Professor of religion here.
How people invoke Jesus is something we can debate, but the sum of scholarly evidence so far suggests Jesus in fact existed.
wtffff
Kim Reynolds, Steve Holt, and Pat Grassley have done such specific, direct, and unforgivable evil to me and everyone i love in Iowa, and i will work every day of my life to ensure they have no joy, rest, or peace.
We are approaching that time of year when it is a good idea to remind my brother and sister Christian clergy:
If you are thinking of having a “Christian Seder” on Maundy Thursday, just don’t.
#NoChristianSeders
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I'm really proud of this one 🙂 @mikeflanaganfilm.com truly is the architect of modern horror & I jumped at the chance to write this.
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More insanity from the Ford government, now he will turn this to shit too.
Ford says Ontario government will take over Toronto's Billy Bishop airport
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Doug Ford appointee Bob Gale has resigned suddenly after it was discovered he purchased a copy of Mein Kampf signed by Hitler. Bob Gale is a former Conservative candidate and was appointed to lead the Niagara Region by Doug Ford, and was leading the charge on the amalgamation. #ontario #dougford
The Times study found that “300 billionaires and their immediate family members donated more than $3 billion — 19 percent of all contributions — in federal elections in 2024, either directly or through political action committees.”
NEWS: It was never about the children.
Transgender adults now face care restrictions after the ruling of the federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia.
www.advocate.com/news/court-b...
Americans don't want to be funding crimes against humanity. Enough. This has to end now and Congress must act aggressively to force it.
"Striking a school full of children is sure to be recorded as one of the most devastating single military errors in recent decades."
Don’t look away: this atrocity was carried out with our tax dollars. Trump's attempts to misplace fault won't wash away the blood on his hands. Or, alas, on ours.