Wiseowl374
@wiseowl374.bsky.social
31, Here I remain. I paint Warhammer and write in my spare time. Birds are pretty great.
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Picked up this wonderfully designed character Ka’estraxx by @cardinalgray.bsky.social , an Ukrainian artist who could really use some help. Check out what they have available! Ka’estraxx has already fired my imagination, so many fun ideas.
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One of my favorite details from the vaults of terra books is the micro industry of lawyers who (for lack of a Westlaw portal) go spelunking in the caselaw mines for useable precedent, often never to return
November 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
One of my favorite details from the vaults of terra books is the micro industry of lawyers who (for lack of a Westlaw portal) go spelunking in the caselaw mines for useable precedent, often never to return
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As a middle aged 40k fan I knew exactly what you were talking about. Everytime I think that he had to go to the imperium nihilus in person to check how everyone was doing over there I feel so bad for him :/
November 30, 2025 at 10:31 AM
As a middle aged 40k fan I knew exactly what you were talking about. Everytime I think that he had to go to the imperium nihilus in person to check how everyone was doing over there I feel so bad for him :/
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The reason Roboute Guilliman is such a beloved character among the Middle Aged section of the 40k fanbase is basically that he has depression from realising this is true but not quite having enough effective power to make it happen.
November 30, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The reason Roboute Guilliman is such a beloved character among the Middle Aged section of the 40k fanbase is basically that he has depression from realising this is true but not quite having enough effective power to make it happen.
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"No ceiling" results in what we have: a couple dozen psychopaths control several trillion dollars and the power has made them go stark raving mad. They are obsessed with using their concentrated wealth to punish the population and remake the country into a failed state and international pariah.
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"No ceiling" results in what we have: a couple dozen psychopaths control several trillion dollars and the power has made them go stark raving mad. They are obsessed with using their concentrated wealth to punish the population and remake the country into a failed state and international pariah.
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What we need to strengthen is the checks and balances. But most of all, we need the political and institutional will to enforce the rules we already have
November 30, 2025 at 7:33 PM
What we need to strengthen is the checks and balances. But most of all, we need the political and institutional will to enforce the rules we already have
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My @kansasreflector.com column today.
A citizen reporter strayed onto a police gun range. Cops sought a warrant for his online newspaper. • Kansas Reflector
Jarom Smith is being investigated for criminal trespass and authorities have obtained a search warrant for his outlet's Facebook account
kansasreflector.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
My @kansasreflector.com column today.
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Hegseth’s only qualification for the job of Secretary of Defense was his TV punditry in support of war crimes. Of course he would do that. That’s why Trump hired him.
GOP Rep. Don Bacon: "I don't think Secretary Hegseth would be foolish enough to make this decision to say, 'Kill everybody. Kill the survivors,' because that's a clear violation of the law of war."
November 30, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Hegseth’s only qualification for the job of Secretary of Defense was his TV punditry in support of war crimes. Of course he would do that. That’s why Trump hired him.
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This is also why I hate hearing “it’s hard to disobey orders.” It’s hard to endure danger. It’s hard to not give up information. That’s precisely why there must be no ground given on the matter—when you bear arms, you take on that responsibility and must endure the consequences if you fail.
anyways read theory. american soldiers do not swear loyalty to the commander-in-chief. they swear loyalty to the constitution. the difference matters--not in sunny skies and good weather, but on bad days, when you are pressed to the breaking point--that is precisely when it matters most.
November 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This is also why I hate hearing “it’s hard to disobey orders.” It’s hard to endure danger. It’s hard to not give up information. That’s precisely why there must be no ground given on the matter—when you bear arms, you take on that responsibility and must endure the consequences if you fail.
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With language like this FDR would never gain the endorsement of such Democratic titans as Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries
November 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
With language like this FDR would never gain the endorsement of such Democratic titans as Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries
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what do you even do about journalists like this. biggest megaphone on the planet at the times and choosing to promote lies. it doesn't do shit if we all block her, and we can only cancel subs so many times.
i guess you hope for a sense of shame that you know isn't there
i guess you hope for a sense of shame that you know isn't there
NEW: The F.D.A. announced in an internal memo that 10 children died "because of" the Covid shot. Other experts want to see proof.
“This is a profound revelation,” Dr. Prasad's memo said. “For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children.”
“This is a profound revelation,” Dr. Prasad's memo said. “For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children.”
F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
what do you even do about journalists like this. biggest megaphone on the planet at the times and choosing to promote lies. it doesn't do shit if we all block her, and we can only cancel subs so many times.
i guess you hope for a sense of shame that you know isn't there
i guess you hope for a sense of shame that you know isn't there
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Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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It's funny just how easy it is to be cis and get the support of the trans community here. A simple, but active statement of "trans people are real and we should get off their fucking backs and let them be who they are" basically gets full credit.
It speaks to just how nasty trans people have it.
It speaks to just how nasty trans people have it.
David could be heard saying: “I think that there are now ways of expressing gender identity and sexuality that are more nuanced than they once were, and that only seems to be positive – if that helps people to know who they are and say who they are and communicate to the world who they are"
my guy.
my guy.
"In recent history, the Doctor Who actor has repeatedly made headlines thanks to his allyship towards trans and gender non-conforming people – most notably with a subtle gesture during a TV interview that wound up helping to raise £18,000 for the LGBTQ+ youth charity AKT."
November 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It's funny just how easy it is to be cis and get the support of the trans community here. A simple, but active statement of "trans people are real and we should get off their fucking backs and let them be who they are" basically gets full credit.
It speaks to just how nasty trans people have it.
It speaks to just how nasty trans people have it.
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The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
November 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
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unbelievable. the canonical example of an illegal order in the Law of War Manual is "an order to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
unbelievable. the canonical example of an illegal order in the Law of War Manual is "an order to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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Kaine: "These two Guard members should've been at home at Thanksgiving celebrating Thanksgiving with their families, not deployed in a political deployment to do law enforcement in DC that the DC police and other local law enforcement agencies can do ... I mourn for them."
November 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Kaine: "These two Guard members should've been at home at Thanksgiving celebrating Thanksgiving with their families, not deployed in a political deployment to do law enforcement in DC that the DC police and other local law enforcement agencies can do ... I mourn for them."
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hulk kitty demands treats
November 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
hulk kitty demands treats
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I remember when the JAGs were getting fired sitting on a podcast saying “Just so we’re all on the same page, the administration has fired the people whose jobs were to decide which orders were likely war crimes. So that bodes well.”
🧵1/ The Former JAGs Working Group—established in February 2025 in response to the SECDEF’s firing of the Army and Air Force Judge Advocates General and his systematic dismantling of the military’s legal guardrails—
www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...
www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...
www.justsecurity.org
November 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I remember when the JAGs were getting fired sitting on a podcast saying “Just so we’re all on the same page, the administration has fired the people whose jobs were to decide which orders were likely war crimes. So that bodes well.”
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Even baseball guy?
November 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Even baseball guy?
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A presidential memo saying officers carrying out Caribbean boat strikes can’t be prosecuted is a confession the attacks are war crimes.
Virtually every lawyer across the political spectrum identifying them as blatant, unambiguous violations of the laws of armed combat is because they’re war crimes.
Virtually every lawyer across the political spectrum identifying them as blatant, unambiguous violations of the laws of armed combat is because they’re war crimes.
On the horrific news that Pete Hegseth ordered the killing of boat bombing survivors, remember: The Trump Murder Memo "authorizing" the strikes preemptively clears those carrying them out. That's unusual. And we still haven't heard from the commander who resigned:
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
November 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
A presidential memo saying officers carrying out Caribbean boat strikes can’t be prosecuted is a confession the attacks are war crimes.
Virtually every lawyer across the political spectrum identifying them as blatant, unambiguous violations of the laws of armed combat is because they’re war crimes.
Virtually every lawyer across the political spectrum identifying them as blatant, unambiguous violations of the laws of armed combat is because they’re war crimes.
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Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
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It's a complicated dynamic that's gotten us to this terrible place, but one key part of it, IMO, is that these companies regard their users not as customers with pre-existing needs they seek to fulfill, but as a malleable product whose attention they seek to manipulate and monetize.
November 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It's a complicated dynamic that's gotten us to this terrible place, but one key part of it, IMO, is that these companies regard their users not as customers with pre-existing needs they seek to fulfill, but as a malleable product whose attention they seek to manipulate and monetize.
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The presidential memo authorizing the Caribbean and East Pacific strikes shows an understanding that the strikes are illegal and contains a clause blocking prosecutions of the offenders. bsky.app/profile/greg...
On the horrific news that Pete Hegseth ordered the killing of boat bombing survivors, remember: The Trump Murder Memo "authorizing" the strikes preemptively clears those carrying them out. That's unusual. And we still haven't heard from the commander who resigned:
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
November 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The presidential memo authorizing the Caribbean and East Pacific strikes shows an understanding that the strikes are illegal and contains a clause blocking prosecutions of the offenders. bsky.app/profile/greg...
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Lotta people need to realize that most Americans do want to do what’s right, we just let a loud minority of us dictate everything else
So grateful to everyone in NYC who mobilized to stop the ICE raid of Canal St. The violence being committed against immigrants is heart-wrenching, but the shows of solidarity we have seen around the country give me so much hope.
November 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Lotta people need to realize that most Americans do want to do what’s right, we just let a loud minority of us dictate everything else
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“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
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Saw someone rave about Martian Manhunter here. Being easily suggestible, I bought it. Oh, my. Deep brilliant weird. Some of the story is of a type, much is not. All of the art, which is also story, is startling. I’m following this artist to his other new book here.
Production for 2024 and 2025. Very proud of these two books! More exciting things to come in the future. #zatannabringdownthehouse #absolutemartianmanhunter #dccomics
November 30, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Saw someone rave about Martian Manhunter here. Being easily suggestible, I bought it. Oh, my. Deep brilliant weird. Some of the story is of a type, much is not. All of the art, which is also story, is startling. I’m following this artist to his other new book here.