Chris Thomas
@killfile.bsky.social
Father, ally, nerd, political writer, software engineer, cook, photographer, gamer, river-rat, and cancer survivor. Sometimes I even have time for sleep.
Comparison of the 2025 Virginia governor's race to the 2021 race.
December 6, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Comparison of the 2025 Virginia governor's race to the 2021 race.
After years of being irritated with election data visualizations I decided to make my own. This shows the importance of towns and cities on the Virginia 2025 governor's race.
November 13, 2025 at 5:06 AM
After years of being irritated with election data visualizations I decided to make my own. This shows the importance of towns and cities on the Virginia 2025 governor's race.
This is the kind of messaging Democrats need on this issue. Red-state America, your health insurance premiums are going to TRIPLE if Republicans get their way.
October 2, 2025 at 3:29 AM
This is the kind of messaging Democrats need on this issue. Red-state America, your health insurance premiums are going to TRIPLE if Republicans get their way.
Props to r/HighQualityGifs
October 2, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Props to r/HighQualityGifs
Same, inflatable SU-35. Same.
September 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Same, inflatable SU-35. Same.
Seems like Democrats and the left might be owed an apology.
September 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Seems like Democrats and the left might be owed an apology.
Unfortunately, "drone" really hides what these are. These are Russian knock-offs of the Iranian Shahed. We hear "drone" and we think "quad-copter" but this thing is a cruise missile.
September 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Unfortunately, "drone" really hides what these are. These are Russian knock-offs of the Iranian Shahed. We hear "drone" and we think "quad-copter" but this thing is a cruise missile.
Sure. But at the same time I do have a problem with treating the Kirk shooting like some kind of extra-special tragedy when Kirk himself argued that events like it are the perfectly acceptable price we pay for 2nd Amendment rights.
That price can't be acceptable only when it's someone else.
That price can't be acceptable only when it's someone else.
September 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Sure. But at the same time I do have a problem with treating the Kirk shooting like some kind of extra-special tragedy when Kirk himself argued that events like it are the perfectly acceptable price we pay for 2nd Amendment rights.
That price can't be acceptable only when it's someone else.
That price can't be acceptable only when it's someone else.
Now Trump is calling for Iran's "unconditional surrender?" Jesus Christ....
This is what Germany and Japan looked like before "unconditional surrender" was on the table.
This is what Germany and Japan looked like before "unconditional surrender" was on the table.
June 18, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Now Trump is calling for Iran's "unconditional surrender?" Jesus Christ....
This is what Germany and Japan looked like before "unconditional surrender" was on the table.
This is what Germany and Japan looked like before "unconditional surrender" was on the table.
At this point it might be simpler to ask who in Iran ISN'T working for Mossad?
June 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
At this point it might be simpler to ask who in Iran ISN'T working for Mossad?
April 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The fallout from this level of brute stupidity is going to be ruinous and the blow will fall hardest upon the very people who put Trump into office.
Stephen King's post from 2016 seems especially prescient today.
Stephen King's post from 2016 seems especially prescient today.
April 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The fallout from this level of brute stupidity is going to be ruinous and the blow will fall hardest upon the very people who put Trump into office.
Stephen King's post from 2016 seems especially prescient today.
Stephen King's post from 2016 seems especially prescient today.
And you can almost see the toddler-level logic here. If Narnia's $1000 in exports are tariffed at 10% that will yield $100 in revenue to the US government, "balancing the books."
But... Jesus Christ on a Jet Powered Pogo Stick, it does NOT work that way.
But... Jesus Christ on a Jet Powered Pogo Stick, it does NOT work that way.
April 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
And you can almost see the toddler-level logic here. If Narnia's $1000 in exports are tariffed at 10% that will yield $100 in revenue to the US government, "balancing the books."
But... Jesus Christ on a Jet Powered Pogo Stick, it does NOT work that way.
But... Jesus Christ on a Jet Powered Pogo Stick, it does NOT work that way.
Let's talk about how profoundly stupid these tariff rates are. Not how profoundly stupid tariffs are -- there are literally whole undergraduate majors in that -- just the rates.
April 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Let's talk about how profoundly stupid these tariff rates are. Not how profoundly stupid tariffs are -- there are literally whole undergraduate majors in that -- just the rates.
Estimates imply sky blue, water wet, sun hot
March 31, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Estimates imply sky blue, water wet, sun hot
Narrator: they were not clean on OPSEC
March 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Narrator: they were not clean on OPSEC
It's giving Navy Seal copypasta
March 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
It's giving Navy Seal copypasta
Give him a few years...
March 5, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Give him a few years...
Why stop there? Here's John Tyndall in his 1861 paper entitled "The Bakerian Lecture: On the Absorption and Radiation of Heat by Gases and Vapours, and on the Physical Connexion of Radiation, Absorption, and Conduction" published by the Royal Society of London
March 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Why stop there? Here's John Tyndall in his 1861 paper entitled "The Bakerian Lecture: On the Absorption and Radiation of Heat by Gases and Vapours, and on the Physical Connexion of Radiation, Absorption, and Conduction" published by the Royal Society of London
Even Bitcoin has already given up its gains from the "strategic reserve" announcement.
March 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Even Bitcoin has already given up its gains from the "strategic reserve" announcement.
Social Security checks are likely to stop going out within the next 90 days or so. But I'm sure "ending wokeness" or whatever was really important.
March 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Social Security checks are likely to stop going out within the next 90 days or so. But I'm sure "ending wokeness" or whatever was really important.
I am also anti-genocide. By which I mean that I try to minimize the amount of genocide that happens in the world. I don't feel like this is a complicated or controversial position but here we are.
March 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I am also anti-genocide. By which I mean that I try to minimize the amount of genocide that happens in the world. I don't feel like this is a complicated or controversial position but here we are.
34 felonies says what?
February 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
34 felonies says what?