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Marko Kloos

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I tell lies for fun and profit. Author of the Frontlines and Palladium Wars SF series, Wild Cards writer, contributor to Love Death + Robots.

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Starting a war with Iran without any strategic objectives is stupidity. Starting a war with Iran without any contingency plans whatsoever to secure the Strait of Hormuz is insanity.

11.03.2026 17:26 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

There is that, of course. The man has a humiliation fetish, after all. Could be that he just wants to see Little Marco walk around in too-big shoes without complaint, and Rubio knows it.

11.03.2026 13:59 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

They know he watches them on the news and that he has a ten-second attention span, so every interview with a Trump official has the same pattern. They always start by saying his name, then heap praise on him for those ten seconds they know he's paying attention. Once you see it, you can't un-see it.

11.03.2026 13:32 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And they're not even smart enough to just buy a pair in their own size and wear those instead, then praise the boss for his uncanny ability to guess the right size.

11.03.2026 13:30 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I put up a new towel hook the other day and man, what a rush.

10.03.2026 21:38 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
An airsoft M-41A pulse rifle from "Aliens", with an olive green plastic shell. The digital ammo counter on the side of the magazine well is lit up with the number 95.

An airsoft M-41A pulse rifle from "Aliens", with an olive green plastic shell. The digital ammo counter on the side of the magazine well is lit up with the number 95.

10.03.2026 21:32 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It's....fine? I hardly ever use it as an airsoft, just as a prop for the office wall, but it works well. Even the ammo counter works properly. Heavier than you'd expect, too.

10.03.2026 20:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That very Snow Wolf model, in fact.

10.03.2026 19:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Look, I am a peaceful guy who is very conflict-avoidant. But if you walk up to me with those dorky-ass pervert glasses on your face and I see the camera indicator light glowing, you'll be able to give the ensuing footage to your doctor to help with your next colon cancer screening.

09.03.2026 23:14 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Right! And having to pay the self-employment tax.

09.03.2026 21:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The novelist business has a handful of well-to-do rock stars, a thin tier of mid-listers who make between "schoolteacher" and "regional airline pilot" money, and a whole lot of writers who make about minimum wage if they're lucky.

09.03.2026 20:52 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

"Spineless courtiers are too afraid to take off the ill-fitting shoes they've been gifted lest they make the President upset" is absolutely hilarious Mad King shit.

09.03.2026 20:42 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

LOL. The same people who are too chickenshit to ride the subway in New York City are telling tanker captains to "show some guts" and ride hulls loaded with 50 million gallons of flammable liquid through a hot warzone. What a bunch of dim-witted assholes.

09.03.2026 16:15 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Also, LOL at the idea that writers are an untapped gold mine of disposable income.

09.03.2026 14:54 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Starting a regional war and triggering the biggest oil crisis in history to own the libs.

09.03.2026 14:10 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Big customs bust at the Baltimore seaport this morning! 56 barrels of gasoline were discovered, with a total street value of $12.5 million. The crafty smugglers had hidden the fuel drums in a shipment of cocaine from Venezuela.

09.03.2026 14:06 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

In the end, this atrocity will only guarantee that ninety million people and their descendants will rightfully hate us for the next hundred years.

08.03.2026 03:30 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Simply put, if you can't put yourself in someone else's shoes and understand what they're feeling, you won't be able to put yourself in their head and understand what they're thinking and why.

07.03.2026 00:22 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The administration is packed with people who completely lack empathy, and without the capacity for emotional perspective-taking, you're going to have a really hard time with cognitive perspective-taking.

07.03.2026 00:19 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"I have usernames older than you" is a beastly flex.

07.03.2026 00:12 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If you're a full-stack developer comfy in AWS, and you want a job, hit me up and let's talk. I am building a green-field team and project in an established organization with a cool mission.

This is partially desperation: I have 400 candidates in the last 48 hours. 90% of them are fraudulent/bots.

06.03.2026 15:27 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œBoth sides are the same!”

Even if that were true, which it absolutely and demonstrably is not, then you should probably favor the side that doesn’t have all the end times nihilists and swastika flags on it.

06.03.2026 13:26 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wow, that's high praise! Thank you!

06.03.2026 00:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's what the boss finds hawt, simple as.

05.03.2026 23:31 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Tell Kristi it was me." --Cricket

05.03.2026 21:18 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I hope it’s slowly dawning on Noem that she’ll never have a respectable job again or be welcome among polite society.

05.03.2026 20:07 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Aww, man. She won’t even get to use the flying fuck palace she ordered on our dime.

05.03.2026 20:00 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This country can not be trusted to honor its treaties, contracts, and alliances, and that'll be the case until foreign policy can't be flipped on a dime every four years by a few thousand peckerwoods in swing states who believe that the Earth is 6,000 years old and the Bible was written in English.

05.03.2026 15:20 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

When the quick sugar high of seeing big explosions starts to fade and the unintended consequences don't go away, the hangover will be rough. First he'll blame his generals, then the button-pushers will walk the plank, and in the end it will be the fault of the Dems somehow anyway.

04.03.2026 18:53 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So Windows 12 is going to be "AI-focused" and "subscription-based", huh?

You know what else it's going to be? Not for me.

04.03.2026 18:34 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0