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Songs: ʻōhiʻa would be a great name for a Hawaiian Jason Molina cover band

This is literally how Trump fights wars

working on some data for a campaign that I have been working on for my entire career at the union and started laughing when I realized that it's the cursed case from Disco Elysium: an "unwinnable campaign" that gets passed on from unsuspecting organizer to unsuspecting organizer for over 10 years

There isn't a win state that is achievable for the United States.

We have lost this war. We're waiting to see how, and what it means.

damn i missed out on some epic thunder and lightning because i had my noise cancelling headphones on and thought the rumble was my fat ass bunnies running around

my late night activity (sound up for da long rumble)

it's too bad you can't see the lightning flashes along with the dots popping up

I love the sheer variety of ways Evrart Claire can vibe with you

you should be able to be a Revacholian Nationalist but not the racist kind, just like all for self-determination

I need the game to know I'm a social democrat but like a cool one, maybe from Vaasa and totally cool with Mr. Claire

it's fucked up I have to pick the "boring dialogue" options to be able to take on the ultracool Coalition Warship Archer quest

actually crazy that I missed out on talking with the Sunday Friend on my first playthrough of Disco Elysium. there's really so many ways to play this game!!!

this shit pisses me off so fucking much goddamn

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A British grandmother with a valid visa detained by ICE for 6 weeks.

"So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,' Karen says."

Hormuz is closed? Nonsense, Steiner’s counterattack will open the strait of Hormuz.

Interesting news coming out of Illinois:

The Illinois State Board of Elections is pushing back voting day to June 31, on account of how it looks like everyone's having fun campaigning and arguing online.

when you’re arguing about politics here on bluesky just remember there’s a young sheldon spinoff called george and mandy’s first marriage that’s watched by millions of people

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

President Donald Trump, the Oracles tell me that "If you attack the Persians, you will destroy a great empire"

"The colossal importance of the sea for trade can be judged from the simple fact that it was cheaper in the epoch of Diocletian to ship wheat from Syria to Spain – one end of the Mediterranean to the other – than to cart it 75 miles over land."

Perry Anderson, "Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism"

For comparison's sake, the entire National Park Service costs $3 billion - a year.

That is the most common kind of war, to be honest.

19 years after a whole generation of America men got worked up by the movie 300, Persia is literally doing reverse Thermopylae to us lmao

it's kinda funny for something so evil

The Pixel autosuggestion is so psychotic, no normal human would ever write it like this with the comma

Hell yeah

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More recently, so the judges score it for a lower difficulty level, but KSR also anticipated "oh fuck, we can't do anything about cheap drones" in Ministry of the Future.

The Culture series by Iain M. Banks is one for one in predicting that "knife missile" drones would basically be the end-all be-all of warfare in the future

Every time I scroll past a recommended Threads post on Instagram I take immense psychic damage