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This one’s for you @support.bsky.team @aaron.bsky.team @jay.bsky.team
This one’s for you @support.bsky.team @aaron.bsky.team @jay.bsky.team
🎶 Oh, the mobs outside are frightful
But the burning barricades delightful
Since my head has no place to go
Let it roll, let it roll, let it roll 🎶
But the burning barricades delightful
Since my head has no place to go
Let it roll, let it roll, let it roll 🎶
December 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
🎶 Oh, the mobs outside are frightful
But the burning barricades delightful
Since my head has no place to go
Let it roll, let it roll, let it roll 🎶
But the burning barricades delightful
Since my head has no place to go
Let it roll, let it roll, let it roll 🎶
Rebel with a prehensile tail
December 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Rebel with a prehensile tail
A Christmas fair named “Lapland”?
Is its main attraction a gantlet of seated demonic Santas whom you and your children must navigate safely before being allowed to leave?
Is its main attraction a gantlet of seated demonic Santas whom you and your children must navigate safely before being allowed to leave?
December 5, 2025 at 9:28 AM
A Christmas fair named “Lapland”?
Is its main attraction a gantlet of seated demonic Santas whom you and your children must navigate safely before being allowed to leave?
Is its main attraction a gantlet of seated demonic Santas whom you and your children must navigate safely before being allowed to leave?
Claw and Order
Tired: police procedurals
Wired: cat procedurals, a series entirely focused on the drama and politics of being a cat
Wired: cat procedurals, a series entirely focused on the drama and politics of being a cat
December 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Claw and Order
Is Putin banking Trump will withdraw from NATO or refuse to honor its obligation under Article 5 if Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania invoke it?
Wherever would he get that idea?
Wherever would he get that idea?
Lavrov’s claims that Moldova and the Baltics “discriminate” against Russians are straight from the Kremlin’s old invasion playbook.
ISW warns this could be part of a new Russian buildup targeting NATO countries.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/04/r...
ISW warns this could be part of a new Russian buildup targeting NATO countries.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/04/r...
Russia escalates pre-invasion-style messaging against Moldova and Baltic nations, ISW warns
With talk of "racist" laws and "discrimination", Lavrov again revives the same playbook once used to justify attacks on Ukraine.
euromaidanpress.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Is Putin banking Trump will withdraw from NATO or refuse to honor its obligation under Article 5 if Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania invoke it?
Wherever would he get that idea?
Wherever would he get that idea?
I just discovered Mr. Cox (or more accurately, his best cat ever Jim, but since cats really do know …)
I've removed the paywall permanently from this piece, which is a chapter from my novel Villager, told entirely in the form of an online village message board. If you like it, you'll probably like the book. If you don't, you won't...
www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...
www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...
The Village Message Board
Its authenticity was discredited because of his reputation, but also because he was quick with gin at the time and wearing an item of knitwear back to front.
www.tom-cox.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I just discovered Mr. Cox (or more accurately, his best cat ever Jim, but since cats really do know …)
From crack pipes to all night liquor store burglary binges.
The silent crisis of raccoon loneliness and how we can address it.
The silent crisis of raccoon loneliness and how we can address it.
The masked burglar broke into the closed Virginia liquor store early on Saturday and hit the bottom shelf. The bandit was something of a nocturnal menace: bottles were smashed and alcohol pooled on the floor.
The suspect acted like an animal because, in fact, he's a raccoon.
The suspect acted like an animal because, in fact, he's a raccoon.
Raccoon goes on drunken rampage in Virginia liquor store and passes out on bathroom floor
A raccoon broke into a closed Virginia liquor store and drank alcohol from the bottom shelves over the weekend.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 6:14 AM
From crack pipes to all night liquor store burglary binges.
The silent crisis of raccoon loneliness and how we can address it.
The silent crisis of raccoon loneliness and how we can address it.
Someone, somewhere, please be recording all this evidence of Trump and Hegseth’s consciousness of guilt.
Like every time they open their mouths.
They can’t help but lie, but those lies show they know what they did was … well, not wrong because that concept is beneath them. Culpable, punishable
Like every time they open their mouths.
They can’t help but lie, but those lies show they know what they did was … well, not wrong because that concept is beneath them. Culpable, punishable
December 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Someone, somewhere, please be recording all this evidence of Trump and Hegseth’s consciousness of guilt.
Like every time they open their mouths.
They can’t help but lie, but those lies show they know what they did was … well, not wrong because that concept is beneath them. Culpable, punishable
Like every time they open their mouths.
They can’t help but lie, but those lies show they know what they did was … well, not wrong because that concept is beneath them. Culpable, punishable
A tent big enough to accommodate the shit Ms. Jacobson describes here is too slime-slathered, too seeped in moral rot, too decayed to accommodate me or any decent person.
Fuck the Democratic Party.
Fuck the Democratic Party.
If you can't embrace and understand differences--inc gender differences--and you can't fully support the basic human rights of all individuals, or you are too cowardly to speak out against attacks on transgender people, Black, Brown, and immigrant or other vulnerable communities, don't run as a Dem.
December 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
A tent big enough to accommodate the shit Ms. Jacobson describes here is too slime-slathered, too seeped in moral rot, too decayed to accommodate me or any decent person.
Fuck the Democratic Party.
Fuck the Democratic Party.
The buck stops there - at the highest officer in the chain of command willing to fall on their sword or too slow to avoid being pushed onto it.
Leaving aside NYT’s questionable use of 5 anonymous sources to bolster Hegseth’s claim, appears Hegseth & Co. are doing “the old Potomac two-step” on Admiral Bradley.
If we had a functioning Article 1 branch of government, investigation hearings by oversight committees would have already started.
If we had a functioning Article 1 branch of government, investigation hearings by oversight committees would have already started.
Hegseth Ordered a Lethal Attack but Not the Killing of Survivors, Officials Say
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The buck stops there - at the highest officer in the chain of command willing to fall on their sword or too slow to avoid being pushed onto it.
Did Senate Gabe just smile and give us a Vegemite sandwich?
I think I finally get Vegemite. It’s not amazing or anything but it’s nutritious and got some interesting flavor profiles.
December 2, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Did Senate Gabe just smile and give us a Vegemite sandwich?
An unexpected benefit to living in France:
When you’re sick, your neighbors bring you homemade beignets.
When you’re sick, your neighbors bring you homemade beignets.
November 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
An unexpected benefit to living in France:
When you’re sick, your neighbors bring you homemade beignets.
When you’re sick, your neighbors bring you homemade beignets.
Right, because America famously didn’t commit war crimes in Iraq …
Mark Kelly says Pete Hegseth's reported double tap strike on a boat "seems to" be a war crime, and adds, "if what has been reported is accurate, I've got serious concerns about anybody in that chain of command stepping over a line that they should never step over. We are not Russia. We are not Iraq"
November 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Right, because America famously didn’t commit war crimes in Iraq …
I wonder if the rescue of two survivors of a Navy missile attack in November had anything to do with this murder of two survivors in September.
Did some courageous person say no? Someone with enough juice to take Hegseth on? Did someone send Hegseth a copy of the decision in the Calley appeal?
Did some courageous person say no? Someone with enough juice to take Hegseth on? Did someone send Hegseth a copy of the decision in the Calley appeal?
Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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November 30, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I wonder if the rescue of two survivors of a Navy missile attack in November had anything to do with this murder of two survivors in September.
Did some courageous person say no? Someone with enough juice to take Hegseth on? Did someone send Hegseth a copy of the decision in the Calley appeal?
Did some courageous person say no? Someone with enough juice to take Hegseth on? Did someone send Hegseth a copy of the decision in the Calley appeal?
While the US won’t receive messages from other country’s security services because it’s entire national security infrastructure is run by Russian assets.
Ireland can’t receive messages from other country’s security services because it doesn’t have secure communications.
Must read FT piece today on neutral Ireland, the soft underbelly of European defence
By @judewebber.bsky.social and @helenwarrell.bsky.social
By @judewebber.bsky.social and @helenwarrell.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
While the US won’t receive messages from other country’s security services because it’s entire national security infrastructure is run by Russian assets.
The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
1/4 I don’t see how this context explains anything about this moment.
Possibly, it’s meant as a pre-defense for enlisted people in the chain that has already led to at least 83 murders? Enlisted, BTW, are no more an “undifferentiated mass” than Hertling says of the military as a whole. There’s a …
Possibly, it’s meant as a pre-defense for enlisted people in the chain that has already led to at least 83 murders? Enlisted, BTW, are no more an “undifferentiated mass” than Hertling says of the military as a whole. There’s a …
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
1/4 I don’t see how this context explains anything about this moment.
Possibly, it’s meant as a pre-defense for enlisted people in the chain that has already led to at least 83 murders? Enlisted, BTW, are no more an “undifferentiated mass” than Hertling says of the military as a whole. There’s a …
Possibly, it’s meant as a pre-defense for enlisted people in the chain that has already led to at least 83 murders? Enlisted, BTW, are no more an “undifferentiated mass” than Hertling says of the military as a whole. There’s a …
Darmok and Jalad’s breakfast.
November 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Darmok and Jalad’s breakfast.
Semper complicis is our guide
Our shame, our story too …
Our shame, our story too …
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Semper complicis is our guide
Our shame, our story too …
Our shame, our story too …
Bootlicking in, bootlicking out.
November 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Bootlicking in, bootlicking out.
Grok’s Holocaust denial is not a bug, it’s a feature.
French authorities are taking X to court because Grok is now doing straight up holocaust denial. Gas chambers intended for disinfection, cyanide residue tiny, ‘story’ persists because of taboo against critical examination. (Full translation in alt text)
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Grok’s Holocaust denial is not a bug, it’s a feature.
I see your possum and raise you three possums.
November 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
I see your possum and raise you three possums.
File this under “Things I Regret Teaching My Animals” along with teaching my horse how to open gates and my dog how to ring bells when he wants to go out, a desire so strong it can never be satisfied.
Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
November 18, 2025 at 11:04 AM
File this under “Things I Regret Teaching My Animals” along with teaching my horse how to open gates and my dog how to ring bells when he wants to go out, a desire so strong it can never be satisfied.
Wall Street needs granny’s pension - it literally pays the insurance premium covering its moral hazard.
Who benefited from the mortgage crisis bailouts? Who’s going to benefit this time around?
Not granny, not her grandchildren, not you, not me.
Who benefited from the mortgage crisis bailouts? Who’s going to benefit this time around?
Not granny, not her grandchildren, not you, not me.
WSJ: “.. If the AI market blows up, the blast radius would be wide, hitting not only Wall Street firms, but also pensions, mutual and exchange-traded funds and individual investors, because of how debt is often sliced and resold across the financial landscape.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
November 18, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Wall Street needs granny’s pension - it literally pays the insurance premium covering its moral hazard.
Who benefited from the mortgage crisis bailouts? Who’s going to benefit this time around?
Not granny, not her grandchildren, not you, not me.
Who benefited from the mortgage crisis bailouts? Who’s going to benefit this time around?
Not granny, not her grandchildren, not you, not me.