Handsome Ralph

what the fuck is going on in Sam Altman’s head

An oil tanker approaches the strait of Hormuz, collects a gold star and passes through while safely invulnerable

I think I may have cracked it

News headlines about Howard Schultz moving to Miami next to image of him: The Seattle Times: Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz leaves Seattle for Miami KUOW/NPR: Howard Schultz moves away from Starbucks roots, trading Seattle for Miami

Millionaire Tax Already Working: tinyurl.com/4sm3azwb

Fell for it again award meme

Sean O'Brien, come on down

*TEAMSTERS CALL ON US DOJ TO BLOCK PARAMOUNT, WBD ACQUISITION

GDC's 2026 IGF winner calls out U.S. cruelty at home and abroad

It’s so funny that FIFA gave Trump a Peace Prize and a few months later he threatened to kill a national team that qualified for the World Cup.

You don't fucking say.

Dipshit Starbucks CEO: I'm leaving for Florida
State of Washington: Holy shit we had no idea the law would work THAT well

After Venezuela they really thought they had discovered the cheat code to get out from under those pesky negative consequences, whoops

this administration also fired probably the most promising and mission-minded CNO in a decade because she was too woke (a woman)

a man with a beard is smiling while sitting at a desk ALT: a man with a beard is smiling while sitting at a desk

Everything is bad, but at least I can focus on my dissertation chapter about how the British in 1915 didn’t have the navy to force a strait when it needed to because it spent the previous decades funding their army’s misadventures in unimportant areas that turned into expensive quagmires.

Shocker.

Hey CENTCOM you’ve been planning for this for decades, you wanna dust off that OPLAN for Hormuz now buddy?

CENTCOM:

Happy Mar10 Day to all who celebrate.

INDOPACOM about to get another phone call.

Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

The incredible thing is that anyone with eyes or ears can tell that mamdani clearly loves NYC so much. The idea that he "hates America" is just so on its face ridiculous that people claiming it look particularly pathetic.

Mid air fueling

Picture of planes historians will call just friends

Hasbro’s CEO on J.K. Rowling. We just published our new Decoder interview with Chris Cocks, the head of Hasbro. I asked him directly about how he thinks about author J.K. Rowling’s politics and what it’s done to the Harry Potter f...

cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch

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All the dudes out there with two $1600/month loans on their lifted pickup trucks when gas hits $6/gal

Orphaned Tactics Oops we did it again

Wrote up some thoughts on the current war with Iran. You can't have a strategy if you don't even have a policy.

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Going thru some old pix tonight, and came across this.

It's true our medical system is a mess. But the doctors, researchers and EMT themselves?

Inside that pile of machinery is a 4 lb newborn whose insides all pointed the wrong way. 50 yrs ago? Doesn't live 2 days. But now? Thriving teenager.

trump at the handover ceremony

I've done this in Civ so many times, so yeah of course this will work.

Screenshot of a November 1, 2024 tweet from Stephen Miller (https://x.com/StephenM/status/1852364946195296620) reading as follows: "To anyone still gullible enough to fall for scummy media hoaxes: Trump said warmongering neocons love sending your kids to die for wars they would never fight themselves. Liz Cheney is Kamala’s top advisor. Liz wants to invade the whole Middle East. Kamala = WWIII. Trump = Peace."

They told me if I voted for Kamala Harris, the United States would launch a war in the Middle East—and they were right!

Photoplayer Unusual Instrument Used In Silent Films YouTube video by DeanScottPresents

Working in IT when you're short-staffed, you're the lone network engineer, and one of your sites is experiencing an ISP outage
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