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No empire building apart from the empire building

My university received a few years ago the promise of the largest single gift to a public university in U.S. history. It was equivalent to 12 hours of bombing Iran.

peepeepoopoo @DeepDishEnjoyer FOR THE LAST TIME HE CAN'T TACO EVEN IF HE WANTED TO THE REGION IS NOW FILLED WITH ESSENTIALLY INDEPENDENT WARLORDS WHO HAVE MISSLES AND DRONES AND THE HATE ALL THE ARAB NATIONS SURROUNDING THEM 3:41 PM · Mar 5, 2026 · 250 Views https://x.com/deepdishenjoyer/status/2029658607659192732

nobody seems to fucking get this!!!! "the enemy gets a vote" but moreover trump/israel deliberately killed all the people at the top controlling the enemy, which does not destroy the enemy but in fact turns them into a dozen new, smaller enemies!! I feel like i'm going fucking insane

"We're fighting to win the war"

We are a week in and absolutely nobody has any idea what the political aim we're attempting to achieve is. Win what? Literally what are we fighting to achieve at the moment.

I have absolutely no idea atm if we are close to winning because I have no idea what we want

Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out YouTube video by JoeJacksonVEVO

At once impeccably cool and aggressively unfashionable, Joe Jackson’s Steppin’ Out is four minutes of nightmare disco and nightclub jitters which paves the way from ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’ to the Magnetic Fields. Detours through Motown and Freud. A perfect single. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJwt...

Census Taker - Saturday Night Live YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

Everyone mentions Cowbell but to me this is the great Christopher Walken SNL sketch

A kitchen counter with a cursed square waffle and cursed waffle iron on it with that “optimally packed 17 squares” layout that is deeply unsettling to look at. The outer parts are aligned to a square but there are 7 squares in the middle at various angles and it looks like complete nonsense but it is in fact the most compact way to store 17 squares in a larger square. I have no idea where this came from and whoever made it should go to jail.

You may not like it, but this is the optimal way to construct a waffle with exactly 17 squares.

I once called house majority leader steve scalise a molerat on Twitter & he got so mad he called Microsoft to complain & an HR lady called me laughing to say please don’t call US Representatives molerats with MS in your profile but it’s fine if you just remove that part

Neal Stephenson/Wile E. Coyote -ass future.

A cacodemon from 1993's Doom

The AD&D 1e Manual of the Planes cover, featuring an Astral Dreadnought

Casual reminder that the Doom cacodemon is just the head of a D&D Astral Dreadnought

LMAO 😂🤣
They went from a woman whose actual initials are KLAN to the guy whose parents couldn’t find the spacebar when typing his name. The same guy who tried to fight a union president during a committee hearing & uses literate phrases like “when we was.”
I truly hate this timeline & want out.

Oh. Yes. That would work.
🤤

I will miss Kristi Noem's inimitable constitutional insights, as when, asked by Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H. at a Senate hearing to define "habeas corpus," she replied, "Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country."

It is always the guy who has never been there running his cake-hole.

I believe they did, yeah. One of my friends was in the 130,000's.

Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

Friends!! Early copies of GRIEF EATER can be obtained at #awp26 this weekend!! As well as lots of other sick books!!

I just learned that most Iraqis are Sunni Muslims whereas most Iranians are Shiite Muslims. Here’s why I think the war with Iran will go very differently than the war with Iraq….(1/23)

Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust So, new research shows that a) LLM-type “AI” chatbots are extremely persuasive and able to get voters to shift their positions, and that b) the more effective they are at that, the less…

This is to answer one question so I couldn't go too deep, but I'm reccing @wolvendamien.bsky.social article: afutureworththinkingabout.com?p=6422 and Justin Brown's siliconcanals.com/sc-d-i-spent...

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

Fact

The American King Goes to War This is not what the Founders intended.

The constitution's design does not grant the president a kinglike ability to take the country to war by himself, lest he do so for self-serving reasons. That is the entire purpose of dividing that authority between POTUS and Congress. Guess what just happened? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I didn’t realize that much like Patel and the other chuds in this admin, Mullin’s just a wittle guy with a complex

Kristi and Corey doing reverse cowgirl so she can shoot a dog

Opinion | Putin is failing. These charts prove it. Data from the battlefield show Ukraine is holding its own.

“U.S. pressure on Ukraine is encouraging Putin to keep fighting and refrain from making compromises necessary for an enduring peace….The way to end this war is not to rescue Putin from a failing campaign, but to help Ukraine make it fail faster.”
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Live your life so that children don’t celebrate you being fired.

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

I give him 6 months, noem was corrupt but not flat-out stupid, Markwayne is at least as corrupt while also being dumb as a sack of wrenches