Wallet Inspector MetaBlueSky ♨️
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Cynic watching the world burn with popcorn and whisky. Living sci-fi is always going to be worse than reading it.
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To note very bluntly my view of the next span of years, I will quote Neville Chamberlain: "It is the evil things we fight against, brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression, and persecution and against them I am confident the right will prevail."
Did the ghost of Omar Bradley and George Patton write this?
February 18, 2026 at 5:40 AM
Did the ghost of Omar Bradley and George Patton write this?
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Congratulations Rush Limbaugh on five years of sobriety
February 18, 2026 at 3:27 AM
Congratulations Rush Limbaugh on five years of sobriety
I mean this also gives the lie to every single analysis about why the donors strangling the party because George Clooney had a sad and getting away with it was a great moral victory.
on the one hand it is good to know that not every single person who voted for him or stayed away is ontologically evil and some of them just were not paying attention
on the other hand COME ON
on the other hand COME ON
To witness the horrors of the past year and know that people let it happen because they weren't paying attention is infuriating
February 18, 2026 at 3:21 AM
I mean this also gives the lie to every single analysis about why the donors strangling the party because George Clooney had a sad and getting away with it was a great moral victory.
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the American people, who have the memory of a concussed goldfish: “oh yeah, we hate Donald Trump!”
February 18, 2026 at 3:02 AM
the American people, who have the memory of a concussed goldfish: “oh yeah, we hate Donald Trump!”
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Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website
Key NIH research institute told to remove references to 'pandemic preparedness'
Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website, a Nature investigation finds
www.scientificamerican.com
February 17, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website
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They don't mean have sex with men, they mean the political project. It's why so many of them don't actually want to have sex with the same sex, they want to wear overalls and be communists
February 18, 2026 at 3:13 AM
They don't mean have sex with men, they mean the political project. It's why so many of them don't actually want to have sex with the same sex, they want to wear overalls and be communists
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NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality.
Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:
Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:
For ICE to build concentration camps quickly, they're leaning on this Dept. of War program
WEXMAC TITUS helps contractors bypass the traditionally lengthy government contract bidding process
www.thehandbasket.co
February 18, 2026 at 12:05 AM
NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality.
Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:
Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:
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I sometimes wonder how many people, including extremely prominent Republicans, genuinely don't know that "globalists" is an antisemitic canard, they just say it because a lot of their peers do and it *feels* like a Republican thing to say
I hate that we have to now pretend that "Globalists" are an actual thing. Absolutely terrible article in Foreign Affairs btw.
February 18, 2026 at 2:45 AM
I sometimes wonder how many people, including extremely prominent Republicans, genuinely don't know that "globalists" is an antisemitic canard, they just say it because a lot of their peers do and it *feels* like a Republican thing to say
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Trump backed off calling Renee Good & Alex Pretti domestic terrorists because people didn't like it. But as I wrote, the admin is still doubling down on the use of domestic terrorism investigations to scare Americans away from using their First Amendment rights. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Trump’s Version of “Domestic Terrorism” vs. the First Amendment
The administration has given itself permission to prosecute people and organizations for their political views.
www.brennancenter.org
February 16, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Trump backed off calling Renee Good & Alex Pretti domestic terrorists because people didn't like it. But as I wrote, the admin is still doubling down on the use of domestic terrorism investigations to scare Americans away from using their First Amendment rights. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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shot/chaser
(it's a particularly nice touch to @ me from behind a block)
(it's a particularly nice touch to @ me from behind a block)
February 17, 2026 at 11:08 PM
shot/chaser
(it's a particularly nice touch to @ me from behind a block)
(it's a particularly nice touch to @ me from behind a block)
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No better way to celebrate his memory than to watch Jesse Jackson own this fraud
Jackson was 100% right here lol
February 18, 2026 at 1:45 AM
No better way to celebrate his memory than to watch Jesse Jackson own this fraud
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"Websites cannot reliably determine whether a VPN user is in Wisconsin. So, to avoid liability, websites are faced with an unfortunate choice: either resort to blocking IP addresses associated with VPNs, block all Wisconsin users’ access, or mandate nationwide restrictions just to avoid liability."
EFF to Wisconsin Legislature: VPN Bans Are Still a Terrible Idea
Wisconsin’s S.B. 130 / A.B. 105 is a spectacularly bad idea. It’s an age-verification bill that effectively bans VPN access to certain websites for Wisconsinites and censors lawful speech. We wrote ab...
www.eff.org
February 18, 2026 at 1:17 AM
"Websites cannot reliably determine whether a VPN user is in Wisconsin. So, to avoid liability, websites are faced with an unfortunate choice: either resort to blocking IP addresses associated with VPNs, block all Wisconsin users’ access, or mandate nationwide restrictions just to avoid liability."
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the way I'm reading SAVE stuff right now is that Senate Rs are trying to soft bluff that they might nuke to fund DHS+do SAVE so that Dems fund DHS
February 17, 2026 at 9:57 PM
the way I'm reading SAVE stuff right now is that Senate Rs are trying to soft bluff that they might nuke to fund DHS+do SAVE so that Dems fund DHS
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Get out the word to Wisconsin! Tomorrow the Senate attempts to ram through one of the most restrictive internet bills in the country.
AB 105 / SB 130 bans adults from using VPNs to access material "harmful to minors"
A massive attack on online privacy.
www.defendonlineprivacy.com/wi/action.php
AB 105 / SB 130 bans adults from using VPNs to access material "harmful to minors"
A massive attack on online privacy.
www.defendonlineprivacy.com/wi/action.php
Wisconsin is about to ban VPN use for "material harmful to minors," part of a larger bill age-verification bill.
The final vote is tomorrow.
If you're based in WI, or have fans or friends who are, have them contact their legislator NOW.
www.defendonlineprivacy.com/wi/action.php
The final vote is tomorrow.
If you're based in WI, or have fans or friends who are, have them contact their legislator NOW.
www.defendonlineprivacy.com/wi/action.php
February 17, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Get out the word to Wisconsin! Tomorrow the Senate attempts to ram through one of the most restrictive internet bills in the country.
AB 105 / SB 130 bans adults from using VPNs to access material "harmful to minors"
A massive attack on online privacy.
www.defendonlineprivacy.com/wi/action.php
AB 105 / SB 130 bans adults from using VPNs to access material "harmful to minors"
A massive attack on online privacy.
www.defendonlineprivacy.com/wi/action.php
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1. The President of the Heritage Foundation took to the influential PBD podcast today to announce his intent when it comes to transgender ADULT care: "You outlaw it."
He stated that the foundation is working precisely on a plan to ban all trans adult care.
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He stated that the foundation is working precisely on a plan to ban all trans adult care.
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"You Outlaw It": Heritage Foundation President Announces Intent To Outlaw All Trans Adult Care
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts indicated his organization's position on the PBD podcast.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 17, 2026 at 10:22 PM
1. The President of the Heritage Foundation took to the influential PBD podcast today to announce his intent when it comes to transgender ADULT care: "You outlaw it."
He stated that the foundation is working precisely on a plan to ban all trans adult care.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
He stated that the foundation is working precisely on a plan to ban all trans adult care.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Julian was forevermore *certain* that this proved he had the blessing of the gods and, I mean:
you would, wouldn't you?
you would, wouldn't you?
February 18, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Julian was forevermore *certain* that this proved he had the blessing of the gods and, I mean:
you would, wouldn't you?
you would, wouldn't you?
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Julian the Apostate had his entire family murdered by his cousin, the Christian emperor Constantius, secretly converted to paganism, rose up in rebellion, and was marching towards 100% certain defeat when the 44 year old Constantius suddenly keeled over, leaving Julian as unchallenged Roman Emperor
Chinggis Khan dies from complications from falling off a horse! This is the problem with going 'arf arf, what is Aragorn's tax policy'....real life is often either a) dramatically unsatisfying or b) so dramatically neat as to feel contrived.
that's what makes medieval history so wild that so many stories of powerful rulers end with "and then on campaign he got the chills and died"
or in the case of vlad vi of wallachia "after a couple of large ones got on his horse and rode into the dâmbovița river"
or in the case of vlad vi of wallachia "after a couple of large ones got on his horse and rode into the dâmbovița river"
February 18, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Julian the Apostate had his entire family murdered by his cousin, the Christian emperor Constantius, secretly converted to paganism, rose up in rebellion, and was marching towards 100% certain defeat when the 44 year old Constantius suddenly keeled over, leaving Julian as unchallenged Roman Emperor
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On the other end of the spectrum, Marshal Oudinot was shot 12 times, took 5 sabre wounds in one night, seems to have been hit multiple times by cannon-fire, broke a leg falling from his horse...
... and died of natural causes at the age of 80
... and died of natural causes at the age of 80
February 18, 2026 at 12:46 AM
On the other end of the spectrum, Marshal Oudinot was shot 12 times, took 5 sabre wounds in one night, seems to have been hit multiple times by cannon-fire, broke a leg falling from his horse...
... and died of natural causes at the age of 80
... and died of natural causes at the age of 80
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One reason Napoleon's Hundred Days went quite so badly is that the lynchpin of his staff system, Marshal Berthier, fell out of a window of his castle and died just after Napoleon siezed power again
February 18, 2026 at 12:42 AM
One reason Napoleon's Hundred Days went quite so badly is that the lynchpin of his staff system, Marshal Berthier, fell out of a window of his castle and died just after Napoleon siezed power again
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Frederick Barbarossa, stupor mundi, polymath, warlord, multilingual scholar, went swimming in his armour
February 17, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Frederick Barbarossa, stupor mundi, polymath, warlord, multilingual scholar, went swimming in his armour
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You don't even need to go that far back; Alexander of Greece died of a monkey bite in the 20th Century.
February 17, 2026 at 11:55 PM
You don't even need to go that far back; Alexander of Greece died of a monkey bite in the 20th Century.
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The solution to GRR Martin’s too many characters problem is the White Ship.
Chinggis Khan dies from complications from falling off a horse! This is the problem with going 'arf arf, what is Aragorn's tax policy'....real life is often either a) dramatically unsatisfying or b) so dramatically neat as to feel contrived.
that's what makes medieval history so wild that so many stories of powerful rulers end with "and then on campaign he got the chills and died"
or in the case of vlad vi of wallachia "after a couple of large ones got on his horse and rode into the dâmbovița river"
or in the case of vlad vi of wallachia "after a couple of large ones got on his horse and rode into the dâmbovița river"
February 18, 2026 at 12:49 AM
The solution to GRR Martin’s too many characters problem is the White Ship.
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Uesugi Kenshin - a Japanese daimyo revered as a military genius just died mid-campaign after never losing a war - possibly from oesophageal cancer - and that was pretty much that.
February 18, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Uesugi Kenshin - a Japanese daimyo revered as a military genius just died mid-campaign after never losing a war - possibly from oesophageal cancer - and that was pretty much that.
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and that's just the ones we know about
particularly in earlier medieval times the end is often just "and after this they were never mentioned again in the sources we have"
some, like pepin the hunchback may have been written out so to speak, others we just genuinely lack useful sources
particularly in earlier medieval times the end is often just "and after this they were never mentioned again in the sources we have"
some, like pepin the hunchback may have been written out so to speak, others we just genuinely lack useful sources
February 18, 2026 at 12:00 AM
and that's just the ones we know about
particularly in earlier medieval times the end is often just "and after this they were never mentioned again in the sources we have"
some, like pepin the hunchback may have been written out so to speak, others we just genuinely lack useful sources
particularly in earlier medieval times the end is often just "and after this they were never mentioned again in the sources we have"
some, like pepin the hunchback may have been written out so to speak, others we just genuinely lack useful sources
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This, in my view, is one of the reasons why A Song of Ice and Fire hit the buffers. Martin wanted to do a 'realistic' medieval fantasy but he didn't want the bathos of 'and then one of the factions was defeated by what is now a curable illness'.
Yup! Numerous medieval kings died of ear infections
before antibiotics did people just die all the time from everything?
February 17, 2026 at 11:33 PM
This, in my view, is one of the reasons why A Song of Ice and Fire hit the buffers. Martin wanted to do a 'realistic' medieval fantasy but he didn't want the bathos of 'and then one of the factions was defeated by what is now a curable illness'.