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@amaninblack

nobody that you know unless you've heard of him. deeply curséd combo of IR, tabletop wargaming, far right extremism in fandom spaces, and video game/industry crit. hell is empty and all the posts are here. old writing: https://jayallen.contently.com

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Pen drawing of Butthead from Beavis and Butthead as an Elden Ring boss

Pen drawing of Butthead from Beavis and Butthead as an Elden Ring boss

this came to me in a dream

#art
#eldenring

11.03.2026 23:22 👍 3120 🔁 1006 💬 33 📌 16
Star Trek Deep Space Nine scene. A PADD is shown up close held by a pair of hands. (Kind of looks like an old palm pilot and if you're not old this will mean nothing to you) 
The beautiful LCARS user interface is displaying the text, "GO AWAY."

Star Trek Deep Space Nine scene. A PADD is shown up close held by a pair of hands. (Kind of looks like an old palm pilot and if you're not old this will mean nothing to you) The beautiful LCARS user interface is displaying the text, "GO AWAY."

11.03.2026 18:09 👍 2433 🔁 540 💬 21 📌 23

working on a theory that the pokemon company timed their release of pokopia to a moment of crisis. from which we can infer that the pokemon company is complicit in an illegal war in the middle east

05.03.2026 23:04 👍 193 🔁 38 💬 7 📌 1

it's obviously a socialized cat but i believe it's a stray

09.03.2026 05:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

if you do adopt the cat and do not keep it indoors (and ferals happily adapt to indoors living IME), tags and chip are a must.

08.03.2026 21:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

do check for a chip still but you can safely assume the cat is feral for now

08.03.2026 21:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

disregard my previous post, that's likely a fixed feral, barring a chip. adopt freely.

08.03.2026 21:44 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

You can take it in a day and take it to a vet tomorrow, that won't do any harm. This sounds like an outdoor cat to me but not chip and no tags means there's no way to know it from a stray/feral.

08.03.2026 21:43 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Video Shows US Tomahawk Missile Strike Next to Girls’ School in Iran - bellingcat New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footag...

Read our analysis of the video showing a US Tomahawk missile strike next to Girls’ School in Iran on February 28 here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

08.03.2026 19:14 👍 1138 🔁 503 💬 15 📌 59

Is this a cat you'd adopt if it was stray?

Regardless, one step is to take the cat to a vet to see if it's chipped.

Do you know where the cat sleeps? Are you feeding it?

08.03.2026 21:38 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.

08.03.2026 17:20 👍 3262 🔁 1692 💬 88 📌 190

rat king pale piper is a new and interesting aristo piece

sifter of skulls double-taps sacrifices

ashnod's altar and physician altar are classics

forever young recycles

06.03.2026 11:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

carrier thrall is two sacs in one

genesis chamber and pawn of ulamog are a lot of sac fodder

mirror universe, magus of the mirror, profane transfusion, and repay in kind would be super annoying

eternity vessel can reset your life total

maybe torgaar, famine incarnate does something here?

06.03.2026 10:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

soldevi adnate is a great sac outlet

saw in half is fun

death cultist, greedy freebooter, bitterbloom bearer, bitterblossom, and sedgemoor witch are sac fodder

sephiroth fabled soldier and bastion of remembrance are blood artists

mortuary and ashiok wicked manipulator have fun combo potential

06.03.2026 09:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

profane tutor is free with gwenom. so is living end but that's a spicy card

aristocrats makes good use of damnation and alikes (eg game over)

you can afford to leave mana open so eg force of despair and sudden spoiling are strong

basal thrill and blood pet recycle themselves for aristo value

06.03.2026 08:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

It’s not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You don’t dispute this claim because it’s true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by “Iranian state media”

06.03.2026 01:10 👍 3424 🔁 790 💬 38 📌 17
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

06.03.2026 02:50 👍 10023 🔁 5280 💬 629 📌 638
Israeli map showing all of southern Lebanon in red with yellow arrows pointing to north of the Litani river

Israeli map showing all of southern Lebanon in red with yellow arrows pointing to north of the Litani river

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced.

They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon.

The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

04.03.2026 10:19 👍 2328 🔁 1486 💬 8 📌 205

one thing I've never understood about US/Israel relationship discourse is the the fact that yes, holistically Israel is a US client state serving US interests doesn't mean that in the specific Israel can't influence the US to do things against US interests, especially when US leaders are very stupid

04.03.2026 13:58 👍 24 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0

have fun?

04.03.2026 14:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

i wonder how common this reaction is for new GAAS lately. i can't imagine getting emotionally invested in, say, a highguard even if it was exciting-looking

04.03.2026 14:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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No, an AI-focused "Windows 12" is not coming this year — here's the plan A new report has caught the internet's attention, claiming that Windows 12 is coming this year and will be a modular, AI-powered OS. Here's why that's wrong.

src: www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...

04.03.2026 14:11 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

the AI-based windows 12 article people are sharing turns out to probably be AI slop

04.03.2026 14:09 👍 30 🔁 20 💬 3 📌 0
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No, an AI-focused "Windows 12" is not coming this year — here's the plan A new report has caught the internet's attention, claiming that Windows 12 is coming this year and will be a modular, AI-powered OS. Here's why that's wrong.

the “windows 12” thing people are freaking out about seems to be false www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...

04.03.2026 12:51 👍 130 🔁 78 💬 7 📌 9

my new politics adjacent thing is getting really pissed off when people give a human name to a Rat

04.03.2026 07:04 👍 3313 🔁 344 💬 73 📌 23

Every trans person is like "I knew something was up before I had the words to describe it and had to fight for this for years" and every transphobe is like "one conversation with a doctor could have convinced me to get the walrus surgery from the movie 'The Walrus'"

03.03.2026 23:26 👍 1824 🔁 405 💬 8 📌 3

We all know this, of course, but it bears repeating that the Israeli military, and especially those elements of it necessary to carry out a war against Iran, cannot function without US support. If we wanted to, we could pull all support and prevent any further Israeli offensive actions.

02.03.2026 23:47 👍 166 🔁 43 💬 1 📌 0
Marathon

Marathon

To echo everyone else's thoughts, I too wish Marathon was a singleplayer video game
aftermath.site/bungie-maratho...

03.03.2026 21:51 👍 311 🔁 40 💬 18 📌 34

i sincerely doubt it would be interpreted as such. look at egypt.

03.03.2026 03:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

85 little girls, massacred.

28.02.2026 16:37 👍 107 🔁 65 💬 4 📌 6