PointyShinyBurning
@pointyshinyburning.bsky.social
Code. Combat sports. Leftism.
All views secretly yours.
All views secretly yours.
Many's the day I've wiled away by the banks of the Fleet.
January 12, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Many's the day I've wiled away by the banks of the Fleet.
Accidentally adding some spare gun parts I was carrying to create a larger, more dangerous, gun
January 11, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Accidentally adding some spare gun parts I was carrying to create a larger, more dangerous, gun
Not a big endings guy, but in his defence that's the general curse of the genre.
January 11, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Not a big endings guy, but in his defence that's the general curse of the genre.
Not even "basically", apparently, but just "actually a container ship" www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
Container Ship Turned Missile Battery Spotted in China - Naval News
Images of a Chinese shipping vessel carrying several containerized vertical launch cells systems appeared online.
www.navalnews.com
January 2, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Not even "basically", apparently, but just "actually a container ship" www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
Where in the piece is she doing this?
December 19, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Where in the piece is she doing this?
The omission of "more and better roids" is surely falsifying even to the maximally tinfoil-hatted.
December 9, 2025 at 8:56 AM
The omission of "more and better roids" is surely falsifying even to the maximally tinfoil-hatted.
2/3 from good/pleasant/punctual will keep you employed at most things IME.
December 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
2/3 from good/pleasant/punctual will keep you employed at most things IME.
Many such cases en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se%C3%A...
Seán Mac Stíofáin - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Many such cases en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se%C3%A...
Microcosm of the general process where boys aim at becoming not what their father was actually like but who he pretended to be to the children at home.
December 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Microcosm of the general process where boys aim at becoming not what their father was actually like but who he pretended to be to the children at home.
Often attributed to Samuel Johnson, however quoteinvestigator.com/2013/06/17/g...
Quote Origin: Your Manuscript Is Good and Original, But What is Original Is Not Good; What Is Good Is Not Original – Quote Investigator®
quoteinvestigator.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Often attributed to Samuel Johnson, however quoteinvestigator.com/2013/06/17/g...
Can't find it now, but IIRC there's a Roman(?) poet who, asked about his waning libido in old age, said that he felt as if he'd been riding a wild horse his whole life and had finally been allowed to dismount.
November 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Can't find it now, but IIRC there's a Roman(?) poet who, asked about his waning libido in old age, said that he felt as if he'd been riding a wild horse his whole life and had finally been allowed to dismount.
TBF Jensen does look pretty great for 62.
November 18, 2025 at 11:25 AM
TBF Jensen does look pretty great for 62.
There's _a lot_ of dudes in a ska band, just saying.
November 18, 2025 at 10:40 AM
There's _a lot_ of dudes in a ska band, just saying.
What led to these appointments or did these particular people fall into and keep these roles totally at random?
November 14, 2025 at 9:04 AM
What led to these appointments or did these particular people fall into and keep these roles totally at random?
You do, in fact, gotta hand it to old Karl for this one www.marxists.org/archive/marx...
November 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
You do, in fact, gotta hand it to old Karl for this one www.marxists.org/archive/marx...
Yeah, exactly! Plus fun Ballardian failure modes for any of it they do manage to build.
November 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Yeah, exactly! Plus fun Ballardian failure modes for any of it they do manage to build.