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Nathan Kahler
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Post your favorite LotR characters, wrong answers only.
Spider-Man challenges Sauron on his use of superscience to turn people into dinosaurs instead of curing cancer.
December 1, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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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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• If the U.S. military operation to interdict and destroy suspected narcotraFicking vessels is a “non-international armed conflict,” as the Trump Administration suggests, orders to “kill everybody,” which can reasonably be regarded as an order to give “no quarter,” and to “double-tap” a target in order to kill survivors, are clearly illegal under international law. In short, they are war crimes. • If the U.S. military operation is not an armed conflict of any kind, these orders to kill helpless civilians clinging to the wreckage of a vessel our military destroyed would subject everyone from SECDEF down to the individual who pulled the trigger to prosecution under U.S. law for murder. Highlighted sentence at the end of the document reads: Again, the bottom line is that, since orders to kill survivors of an attack at sea are “patently illegal,” anyone who issues or follows such orders can and should be prosecuted for war crimes, murder, or both.
November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Post something random or you’ll have an awful December.
A grey cat with a bucket of popcorn
November 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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"Conservative groups, funded by fossil fuel magnates, spend $1B/yr interfering with public understanding of what is happening to our world. Few investments rival the return they've gotten from evangelicals."

An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.
How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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November 27, 2025 at 4:27 AM
thenhk.bsky.social
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan’s USS Reliant The Ra Cailum battleship from Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack The Arcadia from the Captain Harlock TV anime The Rocinante from The Expanse series
November 24, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Facts
miinobobeano Follow ... It bothers me so much that the healthcare system relies so much on the patient's ability to advocate for themselves, organize their history, and be so persistent against every medical "professional" who says there's nothing wrong/they can do. But so many struggle with fatigue, brain fog, and face such ingrained systemic barriers. that the people who need and deserve help and support can't access it. I saw something recently that resonated with me: "Access shouldn't depend on who has the energy to fight for it." And I've never agreed with anything more.
November 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Central District Friendsgiving Begins with Lease Acknowledgment of Previous Tenants: tinyurl.com/bbahuzn6
Young white man wearing cardigan speaking to table of friends at Friendsgiving feast
November 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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“Instead, the Coast Guard will classify the Nazi-era insignia as “potentially divisive” under its new guidelines.”
But no, America doesn’t have a Nazi problem. Maybe I’m just too sensitive. 🤬🤬 (Gift link):
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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.”
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November 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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🎯
November 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Jamelle was cooking.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
If they win, Democrats will have to use their newfound authority to rethink, even dismantle, agencies like U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They may need to walk back the Bush-era decision to consolidate those agencies and others under a single department, given the wild abuses perpetrated under this administration and its predecessors. It will need to give serious thought to major political and social reform, including D.C. statehood, a federal ban on partisan gerrymandering, a new voting rights act and federal protections for reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, including the rights of gender and sexual minorities. Democrats will also need to embrace the legislature’s constitutional authority to structure the executive branch and the judiciary, up to and including Supreme Court reform. If they win next year, Democrats will need to treat the next Congress not as a return to the status quo ante but as the beginning of a new era in which the principal task is to roll back the president’s effort to create and consolidate a personalist dictatorship. They’ll need to fortify the American political system against future attempts to play dictator and lay out a project of genuine democratic renewal. None of this is possible without a willingness to use power rather than just hold it. What we’ve seen this week is that there are still too many Democrats whose instinct is to retreat to normalcy rather than face the conflict at hand.
November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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gipperfish.bsky.social
Panels that go hard: “Somehow, the Nazi ghost never seems to die within man. It marches with insane pride… respecting nothing… taking everything and ignoring the pain of others. Cap sighs in resignation. He will have to fight for his shield.” Jack Kirby, Captain America #196 (1976). Be like Cap.
“Somehow, the Nazi ghost never seems to die within man. It marches with insane pride… respecting nothing… taking everything and ignoring the pain of others. Cap sighs in resignation. He will have to fight for his shield.” Jack Kirby, Captain America #196 (1976). Be like Cap.
November 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Saw this just before I spotted this post from the great @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social

As the cousin of a trans person and the acquaintance and coworker of many others, I thank you.
November 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
Haha.
November 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Happy release day! "Null" has been officially released! I hope you'll give it a listen and let me know what you think! If you like it, I hope you'll also help spread the word on social media and to your friends.

Haven't got your copy yet?

assemblage23.bandcamp.com

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Assemblage 23
Assemblage 23 is the project of Boston;s Tom Shear. Founded in 1988, A23 would go on to become one of the most successful American industrial acts of the time. Known for poetic, emotional lyrics and i...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:35 AM
thenhk.bsky.social
The entire Trump strategy since 2015
An image of Joseph Goebbels, with text saying “2 of Traitor Trump’s favorite propaganda tactics from one of his biggest heroes: ‘If you tell an lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it’s true!’ ‘Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty of!’ -Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister
November 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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phineas.bsky.social
New awareness campaign
A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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danielbiss.bsky.social
Get the hell out of Evanston.
October 31, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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A pumpkin carved with a human shaped opening, and then the guy from The Enigma of Amigara Fault by Junji Ito has been cut out with a text bubble saying “it was made for me!” And attacked to the pumpkin so it recreates the scene from the manga where the guy is climbing into the human shaped hole in a cliff side except now it’s a human shaped hole in a pumpkin.
October 31, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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portlandval.bsky.social
Vance has no developed core personality. The circumstances shape him. He has changed his name three times. He has completely transformed his beliefs. Next he will jettison his “inconvenient” family. He is a person no one should trust. The epitome of someone with no character. A sell out. A ghost.
October 31, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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I have eaten
the eggs
that were
on the counter

which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast.

They weren’t moist or savory
like the seafood variety of Friskies
but I was bored.
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Eight Famous Poems Rewritten by Your Asshole Cat
“This is Just to Say” I have eaten the eggs that were on the counter which you were probably saving for breakfast. They weren’t moist or savory lik...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
Also remember that part of why many love that "AI" conforms to and reproduces their biases but does so in a format they can claim is "objective" is that it lets them offload responsibility and obfuscate their intent:
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wolvendamien.bsky.social Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You! @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Jan 6
My article "Any Sufficiently Transparent Magic…" is part of the journal American Religion's Fall 2023 roundtable "On Religion and Algorithms." I explore both religious & magical concepts w/in "AI," & the obfuscatory work done by hype-laden "AI" discourse. Hope you enjoy!
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Currently, too many comparisons between “AI” and Magic serve to either hype up what “AI” can do, or wave away the things “AI” companies and designers want hidden from the public— indicating a fundamental misunderstand of both magic and “AI.” Both kinds of systems are internally consistent, even when built on rules which may seem—or are intended to be—opaque to outsiders. “AI’s” logics are put into relation arrayed around older, hidden systems of emotional resonance and symbolic association—and in the West, “power,” “supremacy,” “perfection” “individuality,” “liberty,” and “property” are among the most potent symbols of social attainment. They’re built by people who hide their true goals and elide their responsibility by attributing both “objectivity” to the data and nearly ineffable powers to the “AI” itself. And these systems are built and deployed from logics which would see them work the wills of their creators and operators into the world. They’re built on logics of magic. But the present magic of “AI” is performed on us without our input, without our knowledge, and without our consent. There’s another word for that kind of magic; binding, subjugating magic performed on you against your will is called a curse.
April 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Thank you, @dorkland.itch.io!
A copy of Christopher Helton’s Adventures in the Unknown Heroic Pulp Role-playing game Inscribed inside cover of Adventures in the Unknown by Christopher Helton
October 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM