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Head Writer of EXTRA HISTORY. Author of THE INFINITE AND THE DIVINE, THE FALL OF CADIA, and ASSASSINORUM: KINGMAKER for Black Library. Freelance word mercenary. Born Hawaii, live HK. All views my own. He/Him

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Marco Rubio’s Florida Bestie Is an Accused ‘Foreign Agent’ Set to Go on Trial— With Rubio On the Witness List David Rivera and Rubio bought a house in Tallahassee when they were coming up together in Florida politics. But he’s been a headache for the secretary of state ever since, and now he could be one for ...

Marco Rubio's BFF is an accused foreign agent and money launderer. His trial is about to start — and Rubio is on the witness list.

My @vanityfair.com story on the legal bomb that's poised to go off in Trumpland.

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

10.03.2026 18:20 👍 3098 🔁 1319 💬 110 📌 71

Isn’t it just the best feeling?!

10.03.2026 14:36 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

He also gave a good review to Indy 4, talking about the warehouse scene where they’re chasing the buckshot pellets to the magnetic sarcophagus with the comment, “Does it make sense? No, but I love this stuff.”

10.03.2026 14:35 👍 24 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Y’all are overthinking this with the translations, he just wanted me to sit and narrate each page of the instructions as the tank goes together.

“Will you paint it so it looks like that one in the picture?”

lol no child, no I will not.

10.03.2026 14:32 👍 29 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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‘A shell of our former self’: How Trump and Musk’s spending cuts are hampering US government readiness amid the Iran war | CNN Politics Government cuts under Trump’s second term weakened U.S. emergency, security, and foreign response capabilities, now under scrutiny amid Middle East conflict.

Nooooooo shiiiit duuuuude.

edition.cnn.com/2026/03/10/p...

10.03.2026 13:45 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Green Berets are only in Vietnam as advisors to train civilian militias and assist the ARVN with intelligence gathering on the Viet Minh, this does not suggest a major troop deployment in the future.”

10.03.2026 13:38 👍 21 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

“Some of the frivolous Sept. purchases…include a $98,329 Steinway… grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, $5.3 million for Apple devices such as the new iPad, and an astronomical amount of shellfish, including $2 million for Alaskan king crab and $6.9 million worth of lobster tail.”

10.03.2026 13:25 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Rogal Dorn Battle Tank instruction manual.

Rogal Dorn Battle Tank instruction manual.

“Daddy can you read me this book from your desk?”

10.03.2026 12:21 👍 70 🔁 3 💬 6 📌 1
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This year marks the 20th anniversary of my #Warhammer40000 #SistersOfBattle novel FAITH & FIRE - celebrated with a new hardcover edition featuring an intro by the awesome @danacea.bsky.social out later this month.
Pre-orders will go live soon, details to follow... ⚜️

09.03.2026 11:50 👍 58 🔁 10 💬 4 📌 3

Millennials are simultaneously extremely profligate with their coffee spending but also so thrifty they’re killing the paper napkin and wedding china industries.

09.03.2026 12:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah that’s good. I read a BBC article this afternoon that made clear the main station building is ok.

09.03.2026 09:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

FWIW I was hearing this thing about Millennials spending too much on avocado toast for years before I encountered it on a real-life menu.

Actually it convinced me to try making it at home where it’s cheap, delicious and healthy and it’s now a breakfast staple for my kids.

So…thanks, reactionaries?

09.03.2026 06:56 👍 25 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wait, are Gen Zers now getting the thing where Boomers say they’re poor because they waste money on avocado toast?

UM EXCUSE ME. Speaking as a Millennial, being financially scapegoated with avocado toast is *our* thing.

You can’t just steal our stereotype the way you took our jeans from the 1990s.

09.03.2026 06:15 👍 76 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0
Good Time Fun Wheel
Good Time Fun Wheel YouTube video by Late Night with Seth Meyers

Distressingly, hilariously accurate.

youtu.be/iSkeBUcKP4A?...

09.03.2026 05:40 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Strongly suspect that as this war and its negative effects escalate, we're gonna see a massive increase in disinfo and unsourced "news" - starting right the hell now.

PLEASE don't share "breaking" news from rando or disreputable accounts who provide no links.

09.03.2026 01:26 👍 2448 🔁 687 💬 13 📌 41
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me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

08.03.2026 23:55 👍 38967 🔁 6873 💬 444 📌 163

Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.

08.03.2026 16:56 👍 4517 🔁 998 💬 17 📌 55

These days I just tell the visiting family that I got beer already then before they arrive I pull out the bottles they left last time and put them in the fridge.

Saves money and time since I don’t have to make a beer run for a bunch of IPAs that taste like sock water.

09.03.2026 01:43 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

It’s cool that this generation gets to find out the answer to “what would you have done when we started interning the Japanese?” and “what would you have done when we invaded Vietnam?” and “what would you have done in Watergate?” all at the same time.

08.03.2026 18:43 👍 2449 🔁 591 💬 32 📌 14

Not public yet. These are generally a bit more than a regular hardback but not as much as an SE.

08.03.2026 23:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah man, that was a huge loss when they cancelled it.

There were people in their area who really did think it was the apocalypse.

08.03.2026 23:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah I had a teacher in high school who asked me this about the Middle Ages and it’s like, “No because I have asthma and needed postnatal care and really enjoy being alive, thanks.”

08.03.2026 22:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Two Working LEGO Printing Presses | LEGO® Ideas The development of mechanical printing changed how ideas move through the world. Once text and images could be printed rather than copied by hand, knowledge was…

Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?

They look so cool!

beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

08.03.2026 17:02 👍 747 🔁 346 💬 17 📌 42

The farm is still in the family and has some working elements to it, but every man of my grandfather’s generation moved to the Amarillo area after serving the War and opted to take industrial or service jobs instead of continuing to farm. And there’s a reason they made that choice.

08.03.2026 18:49 👍 27 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

My family farmed in the Texas Panhandle during the Dust Bowl.

They used to have to run inside and seal their windows when they saw the dust storms coming and breathe through wet rags inside. You could get lost from barn to house in a bad one and had to strain sand out of the milk you’d fetched.

08.03.2026 18:45 👍 65 🔁 12 💬 5 📌 0
I&D Illustrated and Annotated

I&D Illustrated and Annotated

Book details.

Book details.

Black Library Celebration is incoming, including pre-orders for INFINITE AND THE DIVINE ILLUSTRATED & ANNOTATED edition!

This puppy goes on sale Saturday, March 14th. Available while stocks last (but may be reprinted at a future date)!

www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...

08.03.2026 18:41 👍 56 🔁 12 💬 4 📌 0
King of the Fairies: Goodwin Wharton | European History | Extra History
King of the Fairies: Goodwin Wharton | European History | Extra History YouTube video by Extra History

#ThisDayInHistory The King of Fairies, Goodwin Wharton was Born in 1653! 🧚‍♀️ And you can dive into his strange story here: https://youtu.be/bN0363lM3OM 🧚‍♀️

08.03.2026 18:30 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

It is absolutely insane that the US appears to have targeted desalination plants first – putting them onto the board. Iran seems to have already retaliated against one in Bahrain. This is one of the most obvious ways this could spiral.

08.03.2026 08:52 👍 3153 🔁 1008 💬 96 📌 43
Victorian Horrors 1: The Birth of True Crime | European History
Victorian Horrors 1: The Birth of True Crime | European History YouTube video by Extra History

Welcome to our new series VICTORIAN HORRORS on the birth of the pulp and tabloid presses that shaped our pop culture.

This week we look at execution broadsides and early journalism about lawbreakers—which created the true crime genre we know today.

youtu.be/BVRulJZmT18?...

08.03.2026 08:17 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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CoffeeBot.

08.03.2026 07:47 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0