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Imposter syndrome is the mistaken belief that other people know wtf they’re doing.

More ballistics - they’ve clearly been saving them up lately to throw as many as possible at us at once and overwhelm air defence. Just thinking about those 800+ Patriot system missiles the US used up in three days in the Middle East.

‪More coming in. So loud. Pure terrorism that the world has just decided to accept as the “norm”. Terrorists who are welcomed and celebrated at sports events, film festivals, game awards. No justice, just cowardice and appeasement.‬

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Y'all are allowed (allegedly) 100 free punches on folk who wear these (satire).

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

The Whole Internet Is Utterly Appalled By This Latest White House "Call Of Duty"-Style Post "US troops are dying in a war and the White House is out here treating it like it's a video game. The bar is in hell."

Sick beyond comprehension.

Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/

"The SLF has been sharply critical of Amazon, arguing that it destabilises the book trade. In a statement [...] it accused the company of seeking “to flood the market with fake AI-generated books, [which are] promoted by fake reviews, written by fake readers [and rise] to the top of fake rankings”."

"We use a problematic plagiarism machine in every aspect of our creative work, but you can totally trust that we write the words. Definitely wouldn't use AI for that one aspect. We've already shown our integrity doesn't exist, but pinkie swear that the words we feed into the AI voiceover are real."

Amazon pulls sponsorship from Paris book festival after booksellers’ association boycott Syndicat de la Librairie Française accused online retailer of trying to ‘flood the market with fake AI-generated books’

Fuck Bezos and fuck his AI slop 👍

It's Friday, time for a #RandomWhiteDwarfCover

Issue 125. May 1990

go out on a whim a chip of the iceberg a whole other bag of worms got into a scruffle calm as a cucumber got off stock-free get the jest of it happy as a lamb ship of Thesis

i've been putting on a lot of youtube as background noise because I have crippling ADHD and here are some delightful phrases i've heard people use

Always a good sign when the US military has to investigate what it has actually bombed.

I traded Spotify with an MP3 player for a week. Life outside the algorithm was rough No algorithm, no endless playlists, no podcasts on demand. Just a handful of albums, wired headphones and a lot of silence

Beyond the question of streaming vs mp3: What a horrible life style certain people apparently consider to be normal.

Billboard - NO MATTER HOW MANY COUNTRIES YOU INVADE, YOU'LL STILL BE A NONCE

London, UK

Space marine attack bike converted to a chariot instead of a sidecar. A regular rider for the bike, and a fancy lad with robes, helmet plume and holding a spear standing in the chariot (head on view). All painted in a blue Ultramarines scheme.

Space marine attack bike converted to a chariot instead of a sidecar. A regular rider for the bike, and a fancy lad with robes, helmet plume and holding a spear standing in the chariot (front view). All painted in a blue Ultramarines scheme.

Space marine attack bike converted to a chariot instead of a sidecar. A regular rider for the bike, and a fancy lad with robes, helmet plume and holding a spear standing in the chariot (side view). All painted in a blue Ultramarines scheme.

Space marine attack bike converted to a chariot instead of a sidecar. A regular rider for the bike, and a fancy lad with robes, helmet plume and holding a spear standing in the chariot (view of chariot/sidecar). All painted in a blue Ultramarines scheme.

Okay, that's my #Ultramarines chariot completed for #marchformacragge.
A relatively easy conversion from an idea I had ages ago when looking at an attack bike, and the whole 'Space Romans' thing made chosing a chapter fairly easy.

#Nerdlings #miniaturepainting #warhammercommunity #JHBackdrops

White House releases video promoting ‘justice the American way’ featuring Hollywood characters Critics have called Trump administration’s provocative video ‘slopaganda’, used to promote president’s agenda

#TheStupidestTimeline

Yeah, sure, Donnie, whatever 🤣

“Who was Jesse Jackson?”

From the new Private Eye, out now.

It is. People would however do well to remember that the Flying Mopeds as the Ukrainians aptly call them are just 1 threat in a broad arsenal that almost completely relies on overwhelming defences by sheer numbers. Which is also why the whole idea about the next gen European fighter seems so dumb.

5 shaheds in a truck, from Wikipedia

Shaheds can be dealt with, but apparently not by the US military and their broken procurement...

Shahed have been a known threat since 2019 (although that was a earlier model), and they are a remarkably low-end threat:
Performance wise they can only barely outrace a piper cub: ~120 mph.

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Todd @ Why are we bothering with the Strait of Hormuz when we could simply do this? Explain it to me like I'm 5. Canal RIOS 508 MOUNTAIN HARD AND BIG, WATER NO UP. MANY MANY DIG DIG.

Back in the polite ole' days I see 👍

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Brett Ewins

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