Man we got so much spam, soap, and Pepperidge Farm.
Man we got so much spam, soap, and Pepperidge Farm.
My incredibly banal contribution to the AI Discourse is that It's embarrassing to admit how much AI assistants have improved my drafting and writing. Mainly through showing me how to do things in Word and AutoCAD that I'd given up on prior because the answer was buried in a Reddit post from 2015.
Rainbow+Ukrainian flag stickers in the window of my shop noticeably cut down on assholes.
With the absolute shitshow with Iran, it's worth the occasional reminder that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is still a thing. And that in spite of all the horrors they inflict, Russia still isn't winning in any real sense.
Wrote up some thoughts on the current war with Iran. You can't have a strategy if you don't even have a policy.
open.substack.com/pub/bafriedm...
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35, of Winter Haven, Florida; Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, Nebraska; Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, Minnesota; and Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, Iowa
Honor the dead.
taskandpurpose.com/news/militar...
Ace realizing he can sleep on the couch if he wants still makes me happy.
"Every race is national now" running into the reality that you can't actually do anything about an election in a state you don't live in, so instead all that energy gets pumped into weird online beefs.
Watching people on this site divide into armed camps over a senate primary in Maine they have literally no way of influencing is wild.
Is the chuddish ex-Marine a crypto-nazi? Is the lady too old and institutionalist? It doesn't matter, you can't do a damn thing about it unless you live in Maine.
It's Discotek Day!
We have a few new titles to announce & we're doing it right here on social media!
Sorry for the delay, Bluesky was kind of dying for a bit.
As an alternative to a senile old man droning on for hours, may I offer a short horror video series about Jacques Chirac's France discovering R'lyeh.
I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders.
I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong βΒ in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward
THREAD www.vox.com/politics/479...
Ace being adorable. I love this goober.
As a change of pace from everything currently happening, here is an excellent short horror animation from 2023.
Man I wish edits were a thing π
Kristi Noem urging self deportation. Various GOP politicians ranting about Sharia Law and "woke DEI." Also accusing each other of being anti-MAGA RINOs. The "border wall." Sometimes the Noem ad runs multiple times during a single commercial break. It's crazy.
I do not think people get how insane the media environment in Texas is right now. I go visit my aunt about once a week I visit my aunt and she's usually watching cable tv. Not Fox News or anything. Wheel of Fortune, local news, some gardening channel. And the ads are madness.
Ace hogging the reclined yesterday. He was very reluctant to scoot.
An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.
@gabrielu.bsky.social
www.stripes.com/veterans/202...
They do seem to back down when absolutely hammered on something. Though I expect they'll try again.
I can't decide if it's more depressing if he made up the school shooter thing or decided to exploit his kid's ordeal to boost his little ragebait post.
Though my assumption is he made it up.
Silly Ace photo of the day.
Paul Blume @PaulBlume_FOX9 Β· 1h BREAKING NEWS: U.S. District Court Judge Laura Provinzino has just found a government atty in CIVIL CONTEMPT of COURT for violations of her orders in a habeas case. Attorney cited is Matthew Isihara, a JAG atty from Dept. of War assisting in local US Attorney office @FOX9 (1/) Paul Blume @PaulBlume_FOX9 Β· 1h Judge Provinzino had ordered a detained immigrant held by ICE in El Paso, TX be released in Minnesota with all of his identification papers. ICE released the man in TX with none of his papers, forcing his attorney to find him a shelter for the night & flight back to MN (2/)
Paul Blume @PaulBlume_FOX9 Β· 57m Judge said she is imposing CIVIL CONTEMPT "to force the government to comply with her court order" to immediately return immigrant's papers. Gov't attorney Matthew Isihara is responsible for $500 daily fine, every day the man does not have his papers starting tomorrow. (3/3) Paul Blume @PaulBlume_FOX9 Β· 47m CONTEMPT FINDING: Matthew Isihara apologized for allowing the order in this habeas case to "fall through the cracks." Blamed situation on case overload & significant understaffing in US Attorney's office. Says he has picked up nearly 130 habeas cases in just last month. @FOX9
1. DHS surges 3,000 officers to Minneapolis without doing anywhere near enough prep first.
2. Hundreds of habeas cases overwhelm local courts.
3. Dozens of DOJ lawyers quit in disgust/anger.
4. The DOJ brings in JAGs to cover.
5. A JAG was just held in contempt and fined $500/day for ICE's failures.
This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal
πNEW KYOTO VIDEOπ
Rhea Gall Force
youtu.be/O3S3t1oqjjs
The Gall Force trilogy ended with two main casts dead and their race annihilated. But that wasn't gonna stop big producers Sony from demanding more. See how a space opera went post-apocalyptic and how it handled the change in location.
Obligatory Ace being silly photo.
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his multicultural economic zone. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his autarkic ethnostate.
The moment I knew it was serious was when the cell phone networks crashed.
www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/202...
It's extremely on brand that five years after the Texas power grid crash we eventually managed to do the cheap and easy stuff we should have been doing all along, and virtually none of the hard or expensive stuff.