Noah Brand

My favorite Biggles novels were BIGGLES FLIES FOR BRITAIN, BIGGLES FLIES AGAIN, and BIGGLES FLIES OPEN

ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

...if this is satire, it's brilliant.

If you're serious, you should stop being serious because you are really bad at it.

Now THAT'S a flashback. The original Nicieza/Bagley NEW WARRIORS run, emphasis on the "...for the 90s!" angle that was hot at the time.

I was mostly in it for Rich "Nova" Rider, because I'd gotten weirdly addicted to his 70s series, and to this day I unironically love his helmet.

A college friend of mine, poli-sci major, wrote his thesis on school vouchers.

His conclusion was that there's no intrinsic, structural reason that voucher programs should be racist and otherwise heinous... but hoo boy they always fuckin' are.

Let's review.

You made a claim that was refuted by the evidence in front of your own eyes.

I pointed out that you had done so.

You responded with a random, irrelevant change of subject that had nothing to do with what I said.

I ask again: does this not BOTHER you?

The comments of the post you're quoting have multiple people saying THE EXACT THING you're claiming nobody says.

The evidence is literally in front of you.

Does that bother you at all? Do you think it should?

Watching that movie, it's clear that Gene Kelly trained hard for many years to become a great dancer, and Donald O'Connor just sold his soul to the devil and screamed SATAN TAKE MY BONES AWAY

Al Capone doing the Charleston on top of a flagpole, labeled "Dramatization"

In fairness, 90% of what archaeologists find is beer cans and broken bottles, which are fascinating if you know what to look for.

Ah, le vice anglais.

"If I say the right words, the god must obey my will, but the only boon he offers is that when he returns to torture all humanity to death, I will be taken first and painlessly."

Rapture Christianity or the Cthulhu cult? Surprise, it's both!

This is not especially long, and is worth a read. Jude's a better writer than I am.

There's no such thing as monsters. The most evil person you can think of is exactly as human as you are. If you resist that fact, congratulations, you've found the problem you need to work on.

That's true, but it doesn't make being at the bottom of the dogpile any better.

"If they were laughing, you don't need 'em 'cause they're not good friends" was the PUNCHLINE.

THANK you. We changed the name specifically to avoid this exact issue, and it didn't work.

If the Gulf War didn't happen, explain this!

bsky.app/profile/noah...

Seriously. You fuckers think I haven't tried not being like this?

Dear god, I used to own that book.

It ain't great.

Do... do they know they're in black and white?

That puts a worrisome spin on the fact that EVERY rifle on that page is listed as "Out of stock".

My wife and I ran into some other Americans overseas, and they were delighted to discover we're also from Oregon. One of them immediately asked "Are you a Beaver or a Duck?"

Apparently, a long moment of confusion followed by "I don't care about college football" was the wrong answer.

Dude got a Behind The Bastards episode about him. Real piece of work.

How in the actual; FUCK; does this dude think; semicolons work?

Motherfucker types; like William Shatner; talks.

It's remarkable how they seem to be going to some lengths to establish "This is NOT a racial thing. Whites, Blacks, Asians, and Latinos all get the living shit kicked out of them by Jim Kelly!"

I'm a Gen X atheist who likes porn and used to be cool, and I sometimes worry that the only thing that's saved my soul is not having any money.

One joke at the time had Hitler asking his astrologers to predict the date of his death, only to be told that he would die on a Jewish holiday.

"That's no help, WHICH holiday?" he demands.

Shrugs all around. "How should we know what they're going to call it?"

I saw a few guys saying "Charlie Kirk needs to be our Horst Wessel." As a positive thing.

The problem with call-in tip lines is that there are a lot of mentally unstable people out there.

There just are. That's a fact about the world.

The better-publicized a tip line is, the more flatly crazy folks will call in to it, muddying up the data with delusions.

Yet another DoA character who's been bisected. Do you have to make ALL your characters bisectual?

I would assume that's a RealDoll, but no way would a cheapjack half-assed production like this splash out that kind of money.