Derek Balling
@derekballing.com
Not Team Red. Not Team Blue. Team Not-Orange.
RPG & computer nerd. PoliSci obsessed.
Self-identify as 🇮🇪 citizen, the place I _chose_ to become a citizen.
Born and remain a 🇺🇸 citizen, for whatever _that_ is worth these days.
"I have friends everywhere."
RPG & computer nerd. PoliSci obsessed.
Self-identify as 🇮🇪 citizen, the place I _chose_ to become a citizen.
Born and remain a 🇺🇸 citizen, for whatever _that_ is worth these days.
"I have friends everywhere."
Can we talk for a moment about how the movie poster character for "Meet The Patels" looks exactly as spaced out as Kash Patel?
October 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Can we talk for a moment about how the movie poster character for "Meet The Patels" looks exactly as spaced out as Kash Patel?
Seeing Bill and Ted’s Existential Adventure.
October 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Seeing Bill and Ted’s Existential Adventure.
What the hell am I watching and why is it ESPN worthy? “Roofball”?
October 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
What the hell am I watching and why is it ESPN worthy? “Roofball”?
Oh FFS is that the sort of shit people are buying around here?
Remains to be seen how much of a vacation this will end up being….
Remains to be seen how much of a vacation this will end up being….
September 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Oh FFS is that the sort of shit people are buying around here?
Remains to be seen how much of a vacation this will end up being….
Remains to be seen how much of a vacation this will end up being….
Don't overthink it: what comic book panels/pages live in your head rent-free? Drop four and tag #comicsdna
(I only dropped one. Sue me, it's worth four, honestly.)
(I only dropped one. Sue me, it's worth four, honestly.)
July 31, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Don't overthink it: what comic book panels/pages live in your head rent-free? Drop four and tag #comicsdna
(I only dropped one. Sue me, it's worth four, honestly.)
(I only dropped one. Sue me, it's worth four, honestly.)
Band of Brothers put it best....
June 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Band of Brothers put it best....
I am truly truly low-class LOL.
June 30, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I am truly truly low-class LOL.
True story: my UPS notifications of inbound packages are always in a broke-ass pseudo-European date format (DD/MM/YYYY), and nobody at UPS can either switch me back to US or switch it to some ISO compliant format like YYYY-MM-DD.
June 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
True story: my UPS notifications of inbound packages are always in a broke-ass pseudo-European date format (DD/MM/YYYY), and nobody at UPS can either switch me back to US or switch it to some ISO compliant format like YYYY-MM-DD.
June 8, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Unfortunately, they've thought of that....
May 26, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Unfortunately, they've thought of that....
What do you do if you’re the local power company experiencing massive outages because of a sudden windstorm that ravaged your area?
Well, if you’re Dominion Energy, you shut down the site where you might check your outage status “for maintenance”.
Fucking idiots. I feel so “valued”.
Well, if you’re Dominion Energy, you shut down the site where you might check your outage status “for maintenance”.
Fucking idiots. I feel so “valued”.
May 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
What do you do if you’re the local power company experiencing massive outages because of a sudden windstorm that ravaged your area?
Well, if you’re Dominion Energy, you shut down the site where you might check your outage status “for maintenance”.
Fucking idiots. I feel so “valued”.
Well, if you’re Dominion Energy, you shut down the site where you might check your outage status “for maintenance”.
Fucking idiots. I feel so “valued”.
I can't wait for her to realize that Congress specifically approved it - as they were required to.
From the Congressional Record of the 44th Congress:
From the Congressional Record of the 44th Congress:
May 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I can't wait for her to realize that Congress specifically approved it - as they were required to.
From the Congressional Record of the 44th Congress:
From the Congressional Record of the 44th Congress:
Also, they forget,... from the 44th Congressional record....
May 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Also, they forget,... from the 44th Congressional record....
I've never been so happy to have cancelled my NYT subscription, as when I see shit their employees say on social media...
May 12, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I've never been so happy to have cancelled my NYT subscription, as when I see shit their employees say on social media...
