Plepgeat, of the Scylding Geats
@plepgeat.bsky.social
Just a sober, cat-ranching man with a wife and a kid and a juris doctor who may or may not be six and a half feet tall and weigh an eighth of a ton.
Today's Mood, "Can We Hire The Artist To Render Trump" Edition:
December 18, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today's Mood, "Can We Hire The Artist To Render Trump" Edition:
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MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
December 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Man, the Font Wars just took a turn for the douche.
#Fonts
#Garfunkel&Oates
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#Fonts
#Garfunkel&Oates
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Font of ‘wasteful’ diversity: Trump’s state department orders return to Times New Roman
A cable from Marco Rubio reportedly said cutting Calibri from official communication would ‘abolish yet another wasteful DEIA program’
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Man, the Font Wars just took a turn for the douche.
#Fonts
#Garfunkel&Oates
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#Fonts
#Garfunkel&Oates
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Anyone got odds on whether the forces of darkness running roughshod over America manage to get Gideon v. Wainwright reversed by SCOTUS before Ragnarok?
December 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Anyone got odds on whether the forces of darkness running roughshod over America manage to get Gideon v. Wainwright reversed by SCOTUS before Ragnarok?
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Impeach and remove him. Then, as a big Fuck You to SCOTUS, we turn him over to Venezuelan authorities to be tried for murder.
November 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Impeach and remove him. Then, as a big Fuck You to SCOTUS, we turn him over to Venezuelan authorities to be tried for murder.
Talk about burying the lede...
"(Provost Markus) Grasl was recently ordered to pay back to the state about €64,000 (£56,000) in social welfare benefits he had received for the nuns’ care."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
"(Provost Markus) Grasl was recently ordered to pay back to the state about €64,000 (£56,000) in social welfare benefits he had received for the nuns’ care."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Rebel nuns who busted out of Austrian care home win reprieve – for now
Trio given leave to stay in their abandoned convent near Salzburg until further notice, church officials say
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Talk about burying the lede...
"(Provost Markus) Grasl was recently ordered to pay back to the state about €64,000 (£56,000) in social welfare benefits he had received for the nuns’ care."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
"(Provost Markus) Grasl was recently ordered to pay back to the state about €64,000 (£56,000) in social welfare benefits he had received for the nuns’ care."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
This bodes ill for what the most vindictive and least imaginative American president will want from, and can probably expect of, his stormtroopers in the aftermath of the D.C. guardsman shooting.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Video shows Israeli forces shooting Palestinians dead moments after surrender
Far-right minister defends killing of two men who appeared to have given themselves up, saying ‘terrorists must die’
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This bodes ill for what the most vindictive and least imaginative American president will want from, and can probably expect of, his stormtroopers in the aftermath of the D.C. guardsman shooting.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
(1) At bedtime tonight, my son and I were discussing tea and how we dislike it.
This led to the question of whether coffee is actually an herbal tea, as it is of course a beverage made from the infusion or decoction in water of herbs, spices, or other plant material not derived from the tea plant.
This led to the question of whether coffee is actually an herbal tea, as it is of course a beverage made from the infusion or decoction in water of herbs, spices, or other plant material not derived from the tea plant.
November 25, 2025 at 6:22 AM
(1) At bedtime tonight, my son and I were discussing tea and how we dislike it.
This led to the question of whether coffee is actually an herbal tea, as it is of course a beverage made from the infusion or decoction in water of herbs, spices, or other plant material not derived from the tea plant.
This led to the question of whether coffee is actually an herbal tea, as it is of course a beverage made from the infusion or decoction in water of herbs, spices, or other plant material not derived from the tea plant.
I see that Libertarian philosophy is still as fundamentally flawed as, say, the idea of using trained possums as bird-dogs.
reason.com/2025/11/20/t...
reason.com/2025/11/20/t...
Tradwives are feminists, too
Tradwives are fighting the cultural stigma that still remains around being a homemaker. That makes them damn good feminists.
reason.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I see that Libertarian philosophy is still as fundamentally flawed as, say, the idea of using trained possums as bird-dogs.
reason.com/2025/11/20/t...
reason.com/2025/11/20/t...
Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic are the only North American countries that haven't become less democratic in the past decade.
ourworldindata.org/grapher/demo...
ourworldindata.org/grapher/demo...
Democracy index
Data by the Economist Intelligence Unit. Expert estimates of the extent to which citizens can choose their political leaders in free and fair elections, enjoy civil liberties, prefer democracy over ot...
ourworldindata.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic are the only North American countries that haven't become less democratic in the past decade.
ourworldindata.org/grapher/demo...
ourworldindata.org/grapher/demo...
Not gonna lie - this whole Clinton/Epstein thing has made me wonder if I may actually have a tiny shred of respect for Donald Trump.
Be honest - do YOU have the self-confidence to throw your hat into the ring along with the thousands upon thousands of people who have sucked Bill Clinton's dick?
Be honest - do YOU have the self-confidence to throw your hat into the ring along with the thousands upon thousands of people who have sucked Bill Clinton's dick?
November 15, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Not gonna lie - this whole Clinton/Epstein thing has made me wonder if I may actually have a tiny shred of respect for Donald Trump.
Be honest - do YOU have the self-confidence to throw your hat into the ring along with the thousands upon thousands of people who have sucked Bill Clinton's dick?
Be honest - do YOU have the self-confidence to throw your hat into the ring along with the thousands upon thousands of people who have sucked Bill Clinton's dick?
Hard to believe that California park ranger Ranger James A. Just and the state medical licensing board had nothing better to do in 2021 than investigate the validity of a Prop 215 card.
scholar.google.com/scholar_case...
scholar.google.com/scholar_case...
scholar.google.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Hard to believe that California park ranger Ranger James A. Just and the state medical licensing board had nothing better to do in 2021 than investigate the validity of a Prop 215 card.
scholar.google.com/scholar_case...
scholar.google.com/scholar_case...
Today's Mood, 'I Am A Frog' edition:
November 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Today's Mood, 'I Am A Frog' edition:
Reminder: The FBI always sucks, as does the rest of law enforcement.
idahocapitalsun.com/2025/10/22/f...
idahocapitalsun.com/2025/10/22/f...
FBI backtracks on denying children were zip tied in Idaho raid, saying instead no ‘young’ kids were • Idaho Capital Sun
After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in raid in Wilder, Idaho, FBI says no "young" children were.
idahocapitalsun.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Reminder: The FBI always sucks, as does the rest of law enforcement.
idahocapitalsun.com/2025/10/22/f...
idahocapitalsun.com/2025/10/22/f...
The federal government just cancelled $27.24 billion in grants for Democrat-controlled districts and $738 million in grants in Republican-controlled districts, according to the Department of Energy.
Blue states were already transferring over $1 TRILLION A YEAR to red states in taxes. Fuck this.
Blue states were already transferring over $1 TRILLION A YEAR to red states in taxes. Fuck this.
October 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The federal government just cancelled $27.24 billion in grants for Democrat-controlled districts and $738 million in grants in Republican-controlled districts, according to the Department of Energy.
Blue states were already transferring over $1 TRILLION A YEAR to red states in taxes. Fuck this.
Blue states were already transferring over $1 TRILLION A YEAR to red states in taxes. Fuck this.
The L.A. Times thinks that there are questions about "safety issues and whether it was wise to fire live munitions over a freeway."
I think having a 155mm howitzer shell explode over the freeway, showering it and a police car with shrapnel, was dispositive.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
I think having a 155mm howitzer shell explode over the freeway, showering it and a police car with shrapnel, was dispositive.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
How military’s ‘safe’ plan to fire munitions over Interstate 5 went off the rails with CHP cruiser hit
An artillery round exploded over Interstate 5 at Camp Pendleton, cutting short the military's live-fire exercise.
www.latimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The L.A. Times thinks that there are questions about "safety issues and whether it was wise to fire live munitions over a freeway."
I think having a 155mm howitzer shell explode over the freeway, showering it and a police car with shrapnel, was dispositive.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
I think having a 155mm howitzer shell explode over the freeway, showering it and a police car with shrapnel, was dispositive.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Authorities call the Dallas ICE shooting a targeted act of violence towards federal immigration agents, but all of the victims were detainees. Are 'authorities' lying, or was the killer's shooting as sloppy as his politics and ideology seem to have been?
September 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Authorities call the Dallas ICE shooting a targeted act of violence towards federal immigration agents, but all of the victims were detainees. Are 'authorities' lying, or was the killer's shooting as sloppy as his politics and ideology seem to have been?
I believe the correct term is "P.R. flack..."
Anyone who signs this pledge is not a journalist.
September 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I believe the correct term is "P.R. flack..."
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Anyone who signs this pledge is not a journalist.
The Pentagon is implementing new guidelines that will require journalists to sign a pledge and agree to report only approved and officially released information.
Defense Secretary Hegseth requires new 'pledge' for reporters at the Pentagon
The Pentagon is implementing new guidelines that will require journalists to sign a pledge and agree to report only approved and officially released information.
www.npr.org
September 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Anyone who signs this pledge is not a journalist.
