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Nearly got drawn into the kid's media Discourse. But no, I'm not doing it. I refuse. I am instead going to enjoy thinking of Trump's most likely medical ailments. Those ankles just do not look healthy.
I mean Jacobin is definitely lost to us on Ukraine. Completely unhinged coverage since 2014.
Ok but supporting Ukraine is still a moral act.
Guy in the second photo has a well displayed kitchen clock and schoolhouse regulator though.
They are bouncing a few units in and out of various cities they hate. It's a pain in the ass for everyone involved, very much including the troops. But it's also absolutely not a strong show of force.
The 2023 "Lupin III v. Cat's Eye" was a joyless slog but this looks more fun.
Cat's Eye was never particularly good. I still loved it for the art style. I suspect the reboot will be hot trash but I'm still excited.
"We have to show the tumblr users who's boss" is how you get Brianna Wu.
Previous attempts to crush tumblr users have led to various randos getting national platforms. It's just not a good idea.
Delightful thing to receive in the VA newsletter. These guys really are turning over ever rock looking for goons.
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"Loudmouthed bully actually a coward that needs 24/7 security" would be too on the nose for most schlock action films. Hegseth keeps finding new and bizarre ways to be terrible at everything.
2022: it's a wake-up call for Europe 2023: it's a wake-up call for Europe 2024: it's a wake-up call for Europe 2025: it's a wake-up call for Europe
Did not expect this to get me drive by hate. Who the hell still has strong feelings about Rooster Teeth's body of work in 2025? ๐
Damn good spectacle fights the first three seasons though.
The great universal GWOT experience.
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Always RT when Dirty Pair said TRANS RIGHTS.
This is the most relevant Texas Democrats have been in my whole lifetime. Incredible stuff.
"Things don't feel as exciting as they did when I visited 17 years ago!" Dude is projecting his midlife crisis onto a whole damn country.
Allston was one of the best of the EU writers.
#GVerse Dear #MAGA: ๐
Hot take: "irregardless" sounds better spoken that "regardless."
Gotta respect the Casio though. Not even a G-Shock.
Random encouraging observation time. If you haven't read a book in awhile, it's still totally possible! And after the first book it gets steadily easier. Your brain gets used to absorbing longform writing again, and it becomes enjoyable. Anyway please read more books.
Minor achievements of the day: -make breakfast of bacon and eggs -cut back some brush -bought birdseed and refilled the feeders -finished a book
Minor achievements of the day: 1. Made breakfast of scrambled eggs, coffee, and hash browns. 2. Engaged in lengthy zoom call with friends. 3. Reset and tightened chain on chainsaw, which I've been procrastinating about for weeks. 4. Actually did the dishes.
Looking back a lot of the she goes over a lot of similar terrain in "Sassinak." I may need to read that again now that I'm not 14. I suspect some of the stuff I thought was boring in the 1990s would hit differently for me now.
I read a some her collaborations with Anne McCaffrey in junior high, so I picked up the series when it went on sale on Amazon. It's not... good exactly, but there's a lot of the author's experiences very thinly repackaged as fantasy adventure on the page.
Posts that are basically only for me: Elizabeth Moon's "Deed of Paksenarrion" is the most Marine coded high fantasy I've ever encountered. Got halfway through the first book and realized the author had to have been in the Corps. And sure enough, 8 years.
Very good podcast if you want to nerd out on post-Napoleonic French history.
Old article, but: 1) Any study that claims *this* level of precision in terms of health outcomes is horseshit, flat out. 2) Coverage like this is the mental-health equivalent of rolling coal. You may as well be deliberately trying to endorse orthorexia in people.
@aelkus.bsky.social I had to check that you weren't where I first saw this from. automaton-media.com/en/news/japa...
It took me way too long to start watching this.
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I can't imagine boasting about being a coward like this dude.
Dang, reported account and a bunch of their worthless spam.
Looks like they suspended the account.
Anyway, you're doing great, everyone. Keep up the good work, we're all counting on you.
Shigeru Mizuki's "Onwards Towards Our Noble Deaths" by an actual Imperial Army vet is much better on this. He's very openly contemptuous of the officers that wasted so many lives for nothing.
Also Polish McDonald's is just regular McDonald's with little seasoning packets for the fries. Totally banal experience. They couldn't even rhapsodize over kielbasa?
I legit can't tell anymore with the bluecheck freak accounts when it's actual esoteric racism and when it's just ragefarming.
Slightly guilty admission, but I really like this stupid capeshit soap opera. Does is actually do some Important Deconstruction of comics? No. But it does have that early Chris Claremont "ridiculous premise plus lots of drama" energy.
When I was 16 a guy walked up and knocked on the window of my little Nissan Senta. Asked if I could give him a light. I used the little car lighter and felt cool as hell the rest of the day.
Yeah but also whatever bugs were left in were usually never getting fixed.
The amount of time we used to spend just getting lost driving around. Like "oops, we closed the exit you needed. There aren't going to be any signs telling you where to go now. Good luck!" Also we didn't have any way to call our friends and let them know we were running late.
I'm just glad Tomino maintained his tradition of always trolling his fanbase during interviews.
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Ah, nvm. The Ninja Gaiden OVA. I definitely watched some third gen VHS of this with yellow fansubs in the late 90s.
I swear I watched this way back in the VHS era. What is this?
This is the hardest I've laughed in a long time. Glorious thread from beginning to end.
You are a shit tier human being.
Lot of you ghoulish bastards coming out of the woodwork right now.
I mean you specifically are an idiot.
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The Trump admin is using official comms channels to tell lies to seniors. Incredible stuff.
Full agreement. Also, do you have a link for that article?
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Dominionism is a hell of a drug.
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Easily a top 10 Marines joke.
I can't wait to pay my taxes is silver bullion.
@vulcanmoon.bsky.social I couldn't escape the thought until I purged it.
Twitter is definitely having a normal reaction to learning Japanese animation companies exist in the modern world and not in some weird unchanging "based" bubble.
Okay GQuuuuuuX was a huge disappointment, but the world is of anime is vast. Time to try out a lesser known Tomino show. "Combat Mecha Xabungle" it is!
I would love to see a series that actually deals with "Zeon wins and then the Zabi eat themselves alive." But the show didn't do much with the concept.
Maybe let the Precure crew over at Toei have the next shot at the Gundam franchise. I feel like they'd at least do something interesting.
I started off thinking they had some good ideas crammed into too few episodes, which wrecked the pacing and character development. Plus terrible mobile suit designs, but... eh. But nah, the ideas weren't very good after all. Go home Studio Khara, you're drunk.
Watching the ending of GQuuuuuuX and.... wow. This is wretched stuff. Exposition dumps, characters I couldn't care less about, mediocre-to-bad fight choreography. Some very pretty digital effects though, full credit for that.
Looks like the Lone Star State can continue to get high for now. #Texas
It's wild. So many replies acting as if The Draft were a real thing that still happened in the United States. It's not! No service branch has anything in place to deal with draftees! There's no one left in the whole DoD that has ever dealt with the process at any level.
It's baffling. Nobody wants to draft anyone. The US just spent a couple of decades fighting bush wars with no draft. Nobody even seriously suggested drafting anyone during the whole GWOT.
BREAKING: A federal court has ordered the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia student detained as punishment for his advocacy for Palestinian human rights. Mahmoud spent over 3 months in ICE detention, during which time he missed the birth of his first child and his own graduation.
Okay I will ask one time. If the Confederacy seceded, how the hell was the Union supposed to "sanction" them? They could refuse to trade with the South, but they couldn't have stopped exports.
Trivial quibble and not at all to support this weirdo, but the French didn't do a particularly good job of abolishing slavery. They sort of did, then walked it back. Then lost a war with Haiti.
I mean... it is? That and public health initiatives are the vast majority of USAID spending.
Over the past month Senator Mike Lee posted or retweeted on Twitter nearly 1,400 times, or about 46 posts a day. Of the nearly 700 posts Lee authored, 47 of them came between the hours of 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. Someone help Mike Lee!
It's bizarre. The death toll will likely reach the millions, but that can't be allowed to outweigh being in the Cool Leftist Posters club.
Ok. And? 6 figures dead in Africa right now. Add or subtract the total I/P casualties since the 10/7 attacks and nobody would notice.
Israel/Palestine is not the whole world. Hundreds of thousands are dead because of shit no Democratic president would have ever done.
Even assuming identical Gaza policy, things are still massively worse under Trump.
Stolen from the Other Site. Like yeah, regional stability yadda yadda... but c'mon. This is incredibly satisfying. Iran has been overdue for a beatdown for decades.
"If youโre among the vast sea of Americans who remain enthusiastically grateful for vaccines, the time for pushing back against Kennedy isnโt later, when heโll likely be ratcheting up his program to 'reevaluate' longstanding pediatric vaccines."
The FB account of the same name posts random number strings as if it's some kind of code. Larpers all the way down.
See also the people pretending Dallas is a GOP stronghold.
Houston pride!
Okay we're like 3 layers deep into misunderstanding basic history here, with some troll logic on top. Which is pretty standard for a tankie. Good luck with that.
In what way? You claimed the Jews on the Soviet side of the Soviet-Nazi partition of Poland survived. They mostly did not, and the USSR made no effort to protect or evacuate them.
The USSR lost control of all Polish territory in 1941, well before the Holocaust began. When Nazi German invaded the USSR there was no effort to evacuate Jews from Poland. The only Polish Jews the USSR might have "saved" from the Holocaust were those they shipped off to the gulags in 1940.
Even actual Stalinists never claimed this. This is a whole new level of historical fanfic.
The modern tankie makes claims even the actual Stalinists never did. Incredible stuff.
Also the GQuuuuuuX mecha designs are atrocious.
I was going to say it was better than "Requiem for Vengeance" but it that might not be true. RfV is a plodding mess and that CGI animation was janky but at the end I was rooting for the Zeon squad to survive. I don't care about any of the characters in GQuuuuuuX.
Random anime take. I am watching the new Gundam: GQuuuuuuX series. And I am... engaged with it. It's an interesting take on the Universal Century storylines. But I do not like it very much. Like most post-Tomino UC shows, it misses the vibes of the old shows entirely.
