Ian Boudreau

Gandalf: I am a servant of the secret panties

But we're stealing oil from Venezuela! Doesn't that take care of this?

well not really sir. you see we're mainly stealing money. Also that is, uh, going to a Qatari bank account

love this for him

Genius president kicks gas prices directly in the dick on the way into midterms

Incredibly angry about this every day.

The people who pick on trans kids are not only disgusting freaks who want to inspect children's genitals, they're also miserable bullies who break the rules of decency laid down by every measurement of morality.

A fun thing to think about right now is "Who has better lawyers, the US or Nintendo"

Juvenile king penguin, covered in dense brown fuzz

It was fuzzy brown stuff, mostly natural fibers, you can imagine what it looks like. So when ships first began making the trip around Patagonia, the sailors began seeing juvenile penguins, probably King penguins. They called them the "oakum boys"

Probably my favorite sailor lore that I've learned since joining a crew is this: On wooden ships, sailors used the frayed fibers from lines mixed with tar or oil to make a sealing material called oakum, which could be used to caulk up gaps in the hull or seal pipe joints.

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

chat I am so freaking stoked about sailing season

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Perfect Tides: Station to Station is one of the best and best written games I've ever played, please check it out!

Tomorrow we start rigging up! It'll be a big day - so expect the boatpics to resume shortly :D

Would definitely like to be sailing to Boston this summer

This season's voyage calendar just dropped 👀

they knew they could get away with it because they practiced all those times on the “narco-terrorist” boats, where they also killed the survivors, and nobody sent them to The Hague about it so they are running completely unchecked right now with full use of the arsenal. I do not know how this ends

None of these podcasts are about ghosts or Napoleon or short speculative fiction, it's like looking at cuneiform to me

Whenever I see a list of the biggest podcasts I wonder how people have decided to listen to podcasts but only to terrible ones. It’s like if you got into movies and started telling everybody that Zach Braff is probably the greatest living actor.

I think if I was ever in the newspaper with the headline "fingered the nostrils of his colleagues" I would find a way to erase any indication that I had ever existed from the face of the earth

Hey Ryan, glad you're all okay. That shit will rattle you

I need a new chair so bad man

A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

Made it to Friday but at what cost

An important academic update

Halal Truck Mr. Beast

Eldest boy has taken to sending me messages and emails sporadically that look normal but when opened are just Halal Truck Mr. Beast

"This war will be fun, and easy" - every idiot who starts a war

Yeah, I mean they are abstractions to that character, they don't mean anything beyond their talismanic status in his little kingdom. It's not like he's actually embodying anything about them, his day to day is spent behind a desk in the A/C

Yeah, may be pretty iffy given his other output. But there were other places he could have set it! The fact he picked a post nobody wanted for any reason seems deliberate.

But these dudes can't read and don't know anything so Jack Nicholson in class-As is effectively a gundam

Remember this is Cuba in the '90s. There wasn't a lot going on. All that bluster on the stand about standing a post and protecting freedom was self-evidently ridiculous horseshit. The man had been put out to pasture and was only defending his cruel little power fiefdom.