In 1885, royal Hawaiian brothers were studying at a military school in California. There, they introduced a sport known as "surfboard swimming." The Princes of Surf exhibit tells what happened next.
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. ...
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In 1885, royal Hawaiian brothers were studying at a military school in California. There, they introduced a sport known as "surfboard swimming." The Princes of Surf exhibit tells what happened next.
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I’m late to the party but here’s ours blooming like crazy this late Summer
A very bright Venus this morning (Jupiter and Mars not pictured)
Whether or not these people are actual foreign agents is almost irrelevant. Their actions are observationally equivalent to & indistinguishable from the actions actual foreign agents would be taking. The consequences of our total Article I constitutional crisis, right here:
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Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
Users are reporting problems with Verizon. Is Verizon down for you? RT if you are having issues. #verizondown
This nationwide Verizon outage is kind of crazy
Still one of the most underrated campaigns in American military history
Why yes, this app is addicting. Especially for the aviation enthusiast crowd. Although I blame @dreadships.bsky.social 😆
“We few, we happy few…”
“No!’ said Merry. ‘It’s no good “getting under cover”. That is just what people have been doing, and just what these ruffians like. They will simply come down on us in force, corner us, and then drive us out, or burn us in. No, we have got to do something at once.”
Just finished re-reading the Return of the King since a decade ago and the Scouring of the Shire chapter hits so hard to my particular outlook right now
I saw the mini and made some assumptions 😊
Great job Chris! And my apologies for the question (definitely a deep cut for the miniature painting/40K community ✌️)
Oh dear, I may have to get this
The Google AI response to asking about bug bites is hilarious. It’s like one long non sequitur
I was in the same boat but came to the same conclusion. Mongoose has really provided some great content.
Congrats guy! Now you can follow the goal of all retiree mini painters and start chugging away at the pile of shame!
Contrast or Speedpaint?
Garbage without joy
TCM is featuring Tom Courtenay movies all day so I’ll reup this Smiths London mashup featuring clips from Billy Liar
Wanna play a game of Tariffs & TTRPGs? If you’re importing books, make sure your factory uses HTS code 9903.01.31, which classifies printed RPGs as exempt from tariffs. I provide a full account of what you should do as an indie or bigger TTRPG publisher in the post below 👇🏼
Why is that first cup of coffee of the day the best tasting? Notwithstanding years of drinking Army coffee…
DAILY MEMO: ''A-Kidnapping We WILL Go:’ Agents Mock With Nearly 50 Kidnappings Since Friday" @eltragon.bsky.social
Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.
Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, France, Austria. UK is halting Tuesday, get your shipments out. "France’s national postal service, La Poste, said the U.S. did not provide full details or allow enough time for the French postal service to prepare for new customs procedures." 🤡 Ass Administration.
Let’s go Chris!!
As someone who served in the National Guard, the replies are depressing. Most service members signed up because the military can be a springboard for social mobility. And you can’t just “quit” that easy. You are required to follow all “lawful orders.” What is “lawful” is not subject to your opinion.
Monsoonal surge is now in full swing across California amid the ongoing heatwave. Widespread elevated convection across SoCal this AM, including offshore/coast. Cloud bases are high (~10k ft), so dry lightning and gusty winds are mixed in with brief downpours. [1/2] #CAwx #CAfire
The email drama is so real. 🤣
And we already did a trial run of this in Los Angeles and not a single GOFO or officer/ from the marine corps resigned so you tell me when they’ll randomly start disobeying orders?
Coming up on #KTLA: Bed Bath & Beyond, emerging from bankruptcy, says it won't reopen stores in California because the Golden State is bad for business. The company, which ran up billions of dollars in debt, may want to look in the mirror
I support our CA Gov. Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov & his plan the Election Rigging Response Act (Prop 50) to stop felon & Texas GOP’s gerrymandering scheme!!! CA’s proposed map would only go into effect if TX or another R state changes their maps to add R seats & would remain in effect until 2031!
I could’ve sworn a YouTube title said “AARP Miniatures” and I thought that was very targeted (it actually said WARP miniatures)
Breaking down Trump’s second term speed-run to dismantle the country’s founding principals with Jill Lepore and Kevin M. Kruse. (From 6/12/25)
Excellent work guy!
Went ahead and updated my map of cities with higher crime than D.C. to accommodate the two new states from the Deep South who are sending troops to the capital. In the five states there are 64 cities, home to 1.7 million people, that had more crime in 2024 than D.C. www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...
Not to add to the discourse, but… It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’ It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’ It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’ It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’ It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’
Today in 1792 Alexander Hamilton described what has happened in the last decade.
WTAF
The US nuclear triad was not an intentional creation. The term originated only in the 1970s as a post-hoc justification for an accidental artifact of the Cold War, born of interservice rivalry, uncoordinated war plans, secrecy, arbitrary decisions, contractor competition, and pork-barrel politics.
I remember that title clearly from one of my dad’s Galaxy zines (it frankly may still be in storage)
That’s a SF deep cut
Terrence Stamp Rest Queen YO!
youtu.be/E9yuGEux_OI?... Terrance Stamp has passed away… He will be remembered the most for General Zod, but I love his performance in Steven Soderbergh’s The Limey. #TerranceStampRIP
Unbelievable footage from NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters inside the eye of Hurricane Erin. Simply incredible.
Coming up on #KTLA: Elon Musk's SpaceX has billions of dollars in government contracts. That is, it relies on taxpayers for much of its revenue. Yet the company reportedly pays no federal income taxes -- and possibly never will
Right there with you Red Five! 🛋️
Up next, The Killing, 1956, Sterling Hayden. Directed by Stanley Kubrick.
Tbh my exposure to Graf was as a tourist on my way to Berlin in 89 and then again a couple of times as a gov analyst about your timeframe. But all the cav scout guys I knew from the late 80s had either been stationed there or S Korea
Mind you, I think this could be anywhere from Leonardwood to Graf in the same timeframe 😆
I’ll see if I can dig one up. I’m thinking MATES at Camp Roberts
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I have a picture somewhere from 89 or 90 that looks exactly like this 👏💯
"And you're called Twinkle." "They call me First. Void. Awakener. He Who Stalks Dragons and a hundred things your slow, squishy brain couldn't begin to comprehend." Tiffany sniggered. "And Twinkle." "That name was a gift." The cat said, with sudden steel and sadness. "I wear it proudest of all."
"So you're like... The God of Cats?" "Don't be silly." Twinkle replied, stretching lazily. He flicked our a claw and began cleaning it. "All cats are gods." Tiffany frowned. "So what makes you special then? Why do all the others listen to you?" "Because I'm the one who first pointed this out."
So in conclusion, young physicists and radiochemistry students and nuclear engineers, don't drink the move fast break things koolaid. Nuclear power (and other nuclear science) is a wonderful servant when tamed and respected. It is also an easy way to make mistakes that you might regret for years.
Troy’s fall was partly due to environmental strain – it holds lessons for today. Troy is proof that no society, however ingenious, is immune to the consequences of ecological overreach. The warning signs are never absent – they are merely easy to ignore. theconversation.com/troys-fall-w...
This is why my jaw hurts all the time and my earbuds are always in You can only respond so many times before you feel like a broken record saying, “sorry, no, that’s not a real thing”
I have the Warlord one sitting in the pile of shame but I need to add this to it! 😆
I really just need a music oriented social media platform like MySpace
Detente! 😂
Big Balls had better never be able to live this down for the rest of his life *gets up to use the restroom* "do you need a marine escort? should we call the FBI?"
Trump assembled one majority, but that does not preclude his opponents from assembling another. We often talk about elections as if we are baking a cake — with the outcome fixed and irreducible — but it is more akin to building a Lego model. The pieces can be arranged a different way.
2018 - I don't need books so much now, it's all online. 2025 - I need all the books that were printed before AI poisoned online.
Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor in a publicity still for The Maltese Falcon (1941)
(Alex will have much more to say about about all this in his forthcoming book, “The Most Awful Responsiblity: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age,“ alexwellerstein.com/writing/book...)
THE AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY (1964) — 3:00 pm ET — 1h 57m (Summer Under the Stars: James Garner) James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas; directed by Arthur Hiller A British war widow falls for an opportunistic American sailor during World War II. #TCM #TCMParty
THE INCIDENT (1967) — 12:15 am ET — 1h 47m (Summer Under the Stars: Ruby Dee) Tony Musante, Martin Sheen, Beau Bridges; directed by Larry Peerce Two hoodlums terrorize the passengers of a late-night New York City subway train. #TCM #TCMParty
Find out how reading makes you kinder, sharper, and more creative.
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CASABLANCA (1943) — 10:00 pm ET — 1h 42m (Summer Under the Stars: Claude Rains) Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid; directed by Michael Curtiz An American saloon owner in North Africa is drawn into World War II when his lost love turns up. #TCM #TCMParty
Washed Out - All I Know
#ComingUpOnTCM PASSAGE TO MARSEILLE (1944) Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Michele Morgan Dir.: Michael Curtiz 10:30 AM PT Devil's Island escapees join up with the Allies during World War II. 1h 49m | War | TV-PG #TCM #TCMParty
As I said on Twitter, back in the day, WW1 / WW2 is just an endless list of German battleships called something like the "Admiral Ripper von Murderboat" getting the shit kicked out of it by HMS Sunflower.
Physics doesn't care about your ego
This shouldn’t be surprising. The only way to fight back is to… actually fight back. If Democrats want to improve their approval rating (or far more importantly, make actual change), we need real leadership to put up real resistance to authoritarianism. apnews.com/article/ap-p...
Nation of Language - Inept Apollo
William Gibson’s “Jackpot” trilogy comes to mind…
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has announced that it is shutting down after six decades due to the loss of federal funding at the hands of the Trump Administration → cons.lv/0bFb2n
I needed this after the last couple days. Beverage of your choice…
If I ever win the lottery, I'm going to go grocery shopping and not even look at the prices.
Yeah, those German mg teams in hard cover are rough until you can get into close combat
Tsunami alert issued for Pacfiic islands after magnitude-8 earthquake
8.7 Petropavlask? Tsunami watch starts around 1am? Cool cool
I haven’t seen this particular picture before and what’s striking to me is it looks more like wreckage from a larger aircraft than a B-25
In the U.S., as nowhere else, health insurance and employment are deeply connected. And that means confusion can snare even elite athletes.
THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948) — 3:30 am ET — 2h 6m Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt; directed by John Huston Two men searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold. #TCM #TCMParty
Chef David Nayfeld has been cooking with his kid since she was 2. In a new book, Dad, What's for Dinner?, he shares easy ways to involve kids in meal prep, and a weeknight recipe for meatballs.
Yes, the T5 rules were too much for me as well lol. MgT2 ship design is a lot better for my brain 🧠
you roll a misjump or something less each jump etc.” I myself do like the design rule in MgT2 but that’s me. It’s like in racing you drop the biggest engine in the smallest car. In Traveller, want more jump? Then less crew space, weapons, etc but you can do jump 6.
Please take this with a large grain of salt as I think you can do whatever you want as the GM in your particular Traveller universe. You could introduce a variation in the quality of the Jdrive and its fuel requirements. Maybe even consider throwing in some effects eg “the drive uses less fuel, but
Ozzy going out after raising $190 million for sick kids and a Parkinson’s cure is metal AF.
A new study in JAMA shows how proximity to Coldwater Creek, where nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project was improperly stored, affected cancer rates over the decades.
TEWA was so powerful that its mushroom cloud was seen more than 2,500 miles away in Honolulu, Hawai’i. The Bassoon Prime device evolved into the B41 bomb, the highest-yield (25 Megatons) thermonuclear weapon ever deployed by the United States (500 were built and stockpiled between 1960 and 1976).
