Eventually a combination of historians, naval architects and deep-pocketed funders decided there was only one way to settle it. Build one and do experiments. No blueprints as such, but plenty of bits of broken pot as a starting point for the design. So they built Olympias. Sexy little craft.

The complaints about taxes at the end of New Vegas make me insane! Sorry it's expensive to maintain the standing army to protect you from the raiders, super mutants, and ghouls who all live within 100 yards of your town, guess we should have built a personalist regime around me

For a while, a common dilemma in video game RPGs was "Who do you support, the problematic hypernationalists or the rootless cosmopolitan hypocrites?" and I think it aged poorly seeing how the past decade has pretty conclusively proven the correct answer is "sign up with RCH and get over yourself."

A lynching by media harassment.

Is the British press being so legally constrained and so effective at driving outcomes like this related?

To be taught to children in US base schools

Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 10h ago

"Historians and educators who reviewed excerpts of the text told The Associated Press it depicts points throughout history in misleading ways, representing Western civilization and Christianity as one and the same and casting Islam as a threat to both." apnews.com/article/defe...

Kinda relatedly, it's always been amazing to me how much Trump avoids actual handling of a firearm or showing off any time with a gun on a range or with a troop, and how that doesn't matter to his side.

Snowden St.@snowden.st · 9h ago

(it would probably be something like "what a great shot the President is!")

You never know how many Brits you're following till their government jumpscares them all at once.

I hate RDR2 with a burning passion personally.

Animorphs (1/3)

Me: Tall Pikachu isn’t real. Tall Pikachu can’t hurt you. Tall Pikachu:

Michael Zinchenko (UA, Kyiv)@akatigra.bsky.social · 13h ago

Тримайте ДОВГОГО ПІКАЧУ ❤️

These are the armbands with the stars on them in case you didn’t know.

David DeWitt@daviddewitt.bsky.social · 15h ago

Haitians living in Springfield, Ohio are being required to wear ankle monitors and turn their passports over to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/08/14/h...

Superman arc where Lex Luthor gets married and kinda chills for a bit But then he gets divorced and comes back twice as douchey but with plans that are only half as effective and really cringe

but elon musk demonstrated that you could just... run them indefinitely rather than procure clean power & as long as you paid your bribes to the government or just rapid unscheduled disassembl-ied the regulator, then nothing would happen to you. and then everyone else started doing it as a result.

"Who could have predicted that anti-wokeness was Trojan Horse for reactionary politics?" Anyone who paid attention to what the leaders of the anti-woke movement were saying and doing. As I wrote in 2023:

you have to understand, DC political reporters have evolved to eat tidbits from someone's hand and are completely unable to feed themselves any other way. so they hated biden, who withheld Delicious Tidbits, and love trump, who is a handfed tidbit smorgasboard. really quite simple

The end of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow depended upon the exact type of elite consensus that non-white folks had gone too far in calling for equality, that we are living through. It does not bode well for the future, even if the GOP is routed in the next couple of elections.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d ago

I think part of the pundit crack-up has been that they missed the big call of their lifetimes about which was the bigger threat to America: wokeness or authoritarianism. And rather than admitting that, they are doubling down on wokeness, while ignoring an authoritarianism that does not threaten them

“Try not to fuck up so badly Christopher Nolan makes his next movie a metaphor for what a degenerate you are.” -Sun Tzu

Bibi’s an unhinged nut who is also just clearly wrong. UK: Islamic ❌ Republic ❌ Has nukes ✅ Pakistan: Islamic ✅ Republic ✅ Has nukes ✅

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 16h ago

Benjamin Netanyahu describes UK as ‘first Islamic republic to get a nuclear weapon’

In 1924, the son of the president of the United States, with access to the best medical treatment, got a blister on his foot playing tennis, it got infected, there were no antibiotics, and he died of sepsis.

Patrick Chovanec@prchovanec.bsky.social · yesterday

Yeah, see, the thing is, a lot of them didn’t. Survive, that is.

Does she even go to this school?

Rolling Stone@rollingstone.com · 2d ago

GOP Candidate Slammed for Telling Voters to Deal With Gas Prices by Cutting Back on Starbucks Michele Tafoya said Americans need to be more "patriotic" in a resurfaced interview. Her Minnesota Senate opponent disagrees. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Ace Ventura: Rhino Scene

Alt: Ace Ventura: Rhino Scene

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens@peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · yesterday

Sort of an elephant. But not. From a Turkish version of the Wonders of Creation, 1717, for #WorldElephantDay

Fondly recalling all those Patriot Act/FISA debates where surveillance apologists would roll their eyes at mention of Hoover-era abuses: You clearly don’t understand all the institutional reforms that would render such a thing impossible in the modern day.

Jake Laperruque@jakelaperruque.bsky.social · yesterday

A jaw-dropping report of weaponized political surveillance. The government grabbed years of sensitive records from major progressive groups and unions, baselessly claiming they were needed to address threats of "domestic terrorism" It's a near perfect mirror of the J Edgar Hoover COINTELPRO abuse

Man, remember a decade ago when every website "pivoted to video" to chase absurdly high metrics, but then it turned out that those metrics were absurd because they were literally fake? And no one ever experienced consequences for that lie that shifted a whole industry? Anyway, let's chase Threads.

Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · 3d ago

So I guess either Bluesky becomes a nonprofit or we all start sharing our Threads handles on here…?

Tom Nichols is like that Austrofascist who doesn’t like the Nazis because they don’t subscribe to his particular form of fascism and is bitter that his form of fascism is marginal.

I've said this 100 times before and I'll say it again: the success of the Minnesota resistance, which continues to this day, comes from its relentless discipline. By refusing to do anything illegal, it has forced ICE and DHS to resort to dubious secret-police tactics and/or impotent fuming.

Go home, Paradox. You’re drunk. Actually this is really cool.

Jeremy Salkeld@enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social · 2d ago

Excuse me what en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siamese...

Zelensky Voice: "Big strong guys with couch fetishes like Vance, just coming up to me with tears in their eyes and eyeliner running down their cheeks, saying "please Mr. President, don't blow up any more Russian tankers, my V-8s can't take the price hikes and EVs are woke and gay.""

The White House normally gets $2.5 million a year for maintenance. Trump’s team has allocated $875 million.   That’s 350 years’ worth of the usual budget spent by a single administration.