Raving Toy Maniac

Merchant vessel Seaway Hawk transporting decommissioned U.S. Navy Avenger-class Mine Countermeasures Ships USS Devastator, USS Dextrous, USS Gladiator and USS Sentry in the Delaware Bay to unload in Philadelphia tomorrow - March 9, 2026 SRC: FB- Delaware River Shipping / Andy Wyrick 📷

We live in a world beyond parody. The United States has had four minesweeper vessels in the Persian Gulf for 35 years. Just yesterday these ships arrived in Philadelphia to be decommissioned, a day before Iran announces that they are mining the Strait of Hormuz.

In this construct, “redemption” means “give a guy a break and shut up.” They don’t believe anything he’s done has actually harmed anyone or anything, so if anything, they’re upset anyone asks them to address it.

Beautiful color illustration book cover, details at this URL: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517920012/the-luminous-fairies-and-mothra/

Our local academic publishing house has a treat for everyone:
"The story that hatched Mothra—available in English for the first time, translated by Jeffrey Angles, who wrote an afterword about the novella’s cultural context, the unusual story of its composition, and the development of the 1961 film"

I genuinely can't wrap my head around this. Elon Musk *isn't good at anything.* His companies are insignificant. Tesla could vanish from the planet tomorrow and NOTHING would change. How the fuck does he have all this money?

Pleased about this and also I am a never Rahm-er

There is literally nothing he can say that will get my vote

I usually say that you shouldn’t listen to random enlisted on military tactics, but in this case I am literally begging Hegseth to find some random specialist and just ask him what to do because I’m sure he’s better than he is at this.

Boy I sure am glad we don't have a bunch of military bases in the Persian Gulf that rely on ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz for resupply.

This is how all my nightmares begin now

Epstein and Trump Portrayed as Titanic Lovers in New Anonymous Artwork The sculpture on the National Mall comes in the wake of the release of previously withheld documents detailing abuse allegations against Trump.

A new sculpture of Trump caressing a blissful Epstein, echoing one of the most famous scenes in the movie “Titanic,” cropped up in front of the United States Capitol this morning.

yo gang check this out

oh hey we have proof of the thing we all knew was happening when it was happening

I just… What are we doing? What the fuck is wrong with these people.

Sudden nostalgia for that time Iraq dumped a bunch of mines into the Persian Gulf at Umm Qasr and currents deposited them on the beaches of Kuwait. We had deployed the mine-finding dolphins to the Gulf and everything. Some weeks later, Jeffe the dolphin took off with a local girlfriend.

The two washi patterns I used.

Some color sketches of two ladies with curly hair and loud clothes.

Experimenting with using washi tape for clothes patterns.

Dunked on by Ezra Klein, holy shit. Ezra Klein is the Maury Povich of Isaac Chotiners.

This dead-eyed cretin is effectively illiterate, but if anyone ever pressed Donald Trump or Elon Musk like this in an interview, they would sound exactly the same

NASA didn't spend any money developing a space pen. The Soviets didn't use a pencil.

The space pen was made by a random inventor who spent his own money on it. Both NASA and the Soviets used it, because graphite dust from pencils is a fire hazard in the weightlessness of space.

hello, I can say the evil words over here right?

o-opening commissions, I suppose;; !! yoroshikuu 🙏✨

*Sees unhappy cat with claw stuck in arm of sofa*

"Let me help you there, my friend."

*Gently and patiently rescues cat from its uncomfortable predicament, with enormous care*

Cat (leaving): "I will never forgive you for this, for as long as I live.

Thank you for this thread! I’ve loved following it.

Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shaped a bit like an irregular diamond. It preserves nearly 20 incomplete lines of text separated by a horizontal ruling

There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends.

It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.

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Commissions open :D

marill floating in a calm lake to lower your cortisol levels

This has always been the point of ai being absolutely crammed down our throats. It allows CEOs, policy makers, military officials and people at the top to deflect blame for anything decision they make.

This is AI, sorry everyone! This guy didn't make this. The guy he credits in his pinned post ALSO didn't make it. I found the guy who "made" it on instagram and he didn't make it either: a computer did. Oh well!

you see we didnt hit iran. iran slipped and fell in the kitchen and thats why iran has a black eye. if iran would just stop being clumsy we wouldnt have to get so mad at them. if iran would just use its brain we wouldnt have to yell at iran...

“frozen in amber in the 80s”-ass president

traditional drawing made with markers, depicting bucky barnes, aka the winter soldier, with his “captain america: the winter soldier” movie outfit, black mask and all. i haven’t watched the movie in ages, but i think it’s the moment when he drops down from the bridge and smashes the car below it.

twelve years ago this was the coolest thing i ever did