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@illuminatithot1 @jlawhorn1975 @SonnyBunch Like Space: Above and Beyond

@jlawhorn1975 @SonnyBunch Wut? There has been a lot of hopecore scifi since TNG.

Every negative critique of PROJECT HAIL MARY I’ve seen is basically “I resent this movie’s amiable tone.” Which strikes me as yet more proof it’ll have pretty solid legs, since most people don’t want to be made miserable.

@DiariesEmpire @amazingmap Ahh, for the days when the Royal Navy could sail up the Baltic with nary a fear of molestation.

@amazingmap We've definitely sailed up the Congo to have it out with slavers and pirates. So Republic of Congo should be Imperial red. Would be surprised that we have never had a pop at Ivory coast. Sweden gave us permission to invade once.

A map showing the 22 countries that Great Britain has never invaded

@RyanSlavick123 @AmazingSights @grok To eat it.

@AmazingSights @grok why did the brown bear kill the black bear?

King of the Woods 📽 by @19dynasty82

@SandyofCthulhu That reminds me of this Car and Driver article way back when things weren’t rotten yet. caranddriver.com/features/a7072…

Bartolomeo Beretta supplied about 200 arquebus barrels to a city in 1526. That was the start. Beretta has been in business 500 years!

@schumisnoopy In James Blish's novelization of TOS Star Trek episodes, that is known as space karate.

today is national drop kick day, also known as captain kirk's birthday

@TGTM_Official His title ought to be the Great Night Soil Man. He even resembles a young Mao.

Why am Epstein style expose will not happen in China. A male researcher went deep into 8 kindergartens across four provinces, entered both girls’ and boys’ toilets, and conducted 265 hours (53 sessions, each lasting up to 5 hours) of observation on highly private scenes of 3–6-year-old children, including their defecation and urination postures, details of body exposure, etc. The paper also records in great detail every specific behavior of the children, such as: “Girl squatted and urinated on her own shoe.” “Boy had his buttocks forcibly spread open by the teacher for public inspection.” “Child was scolded while changing pants with bare bottom exposed.” A male researcher conducted four years of toilet observation on young children. Every segment reads like a horror story. How was this project approved and initiated? How did it receive funding? What role did China Women’s University play in this? Did his Peking University sociology background provide him with institutional cover? How did it pass ethical review? How did he convince the kindergartens under the guise of “academic research”? Conducting “field observation” on children who have no civil capacity and without obtaining consent from the powerless young children or their parents — was this done to “avoid influencing the experimental results,” or was it blatant criminal behavior under the circumstances of extreme power imbalance? It should be noted that the samples include not only public kindergartens in Beijing, but also those in remote rural areas. None of these questions have been answered so far. The project approval date is unknown. The observation period was 2016–2020. In 2024 he transferred from China Women’s University to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The paper was published in 2025. This is no longer merely an issue of academic ethics — it is a question of how academia can so openly serve as a fig leaf for blatant crime.

@KKriegeBlog I wonder if there are Martini Henry rifles in the mix.

You can hear the scraping of a ramrod throughout this video as the soldier reloads. "The past is never dead. It's not even past."

@ZpevakV @skscartoon With enough practice, they can be launched from an LHA.

@skscartoon Here me out: -Cheape, -Easy to build -Pilot can be easely trained :

I believe this is the answer to the Drone problem.

@HideousRob @skscartoon Big jugs always help improve morale.

@skscartoon Big Jugs could help

@lilbabygandhi I will always maintain that #AnthönyBöurdainIsStillDëad will make a great punk band name. Umlauts like Blue Öyster Cult!

And then she made Anthony Bourdain pay off the child she slept with and it made him so ashamed he hung himself

@Disasterlevel @Terenceshen

@Terenceshen Jeeze... when will people realize that ALL phones in the world ARE ESPIONAGE TOOLS? It does not matter what brand. There is no need to say Apple or Huawei is better. Both listens and harvest data from everyone. 🙄🙄

This guy is angry at people buying iPhones in Shanghai, claiming the U.S. can track them and invade China within two hours. That’s what propaganda-driven paranoia looks like.

@TGTM_Official The system of purchase of commissions is alive and well in the PLA to this day. I wonder what the PLA ensigns' mess bills are like? @mcribbHistory @EchoesofEmpire_ @DiariesEmpire

The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) often feels more capitalistic than many other militaries, where money frequently matters more than merit. To enlist, especially in desirable units or from rural areas, families have long paid bribes or “fees” for entry or favorable exam results, sometimes tens of thousands of yuan. Promotions are commonly bought: officers pay superiors large sums (occasionally millions of yuan for senior ranks) to secure advancement, good postings, or command positions. This pay-for-rank system has been exposed repeatedly in Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaigns, which have punished dozens of generals and thousands of officers since 2012. Even routine things like military driving licenses or changing commands/assignments often require under-the-table payments in a guanxi-heavy bureaucracy. This creates an internal market: pay cash to rise, then recover the investment through corruption or exploiting subordinates, turning rank into a profit source rather than pure service. It stands in stark contrast to merit- or loyalty-based systems in many professional armies. While Xi’s purges continue (including recent high-level CMC figures), the cash-for-power dynamic remains deeply rooted despite the Party’s socialist rhetoric. In short: In the PLA you often literally pay to join, pay to rise, and pay to move, more like a business deal than a traditional military hierarchy. .

@eilasimalsi @Ihunanya_chi Some people wrote something. @IlhanMN

@Ihunanya_chi Quran was written by some people almost 300 years after the prophet's death. Those writers were also living so far away from the prophet used to live. Conclusion: Quran was written by some people who didn't even know who the fcuk he's writing about. 🤣

Muslim: Why do you trust the Bible? Men wrote it, Jesus didn’t, so it’s unreliable. Me: Okay… then who wrote the Quran? Muslim: God. It’s the word of God. Me: Who physically wrote it? Muslim: Didn’t I say it’s the word of God? Are you blind? Me: So God literally wrote it? Muslim: You’re using a Bible Jesus didn’t write! Me: Or did God just drop the Quran from heaven? Muslim: No, it was revealed to Muhammad, he wrote it down. Unlike your Bible, humans didn’t write it… Me: Wait, Muhammad was human, right? Muslim: Yes… are you serious? Me: So a human wrote the Quran? Muslim: No! Not like your Bible… Me: Did Muhammad write the Quran or not? Muslim: He received direct revelation from Allah and wrote down what he heard. Me: Uh… so a human wrote it… oh right, he couldn’t even read or write, so someone must have helped him, and humans make mistakes… Muslim: You’re hopeless… I’m done wasting my time. Me: So… the Quran was written by humans? He blocked me. 😭😭

@HeavyMetalInk That scale mail bikini seems briefer than normal. At the very least she should get herself a buckler. @Blackmoor_Film

The Spanish artist Enric Torres-Prat (born 1938) took Red Sonja beyond the traditional comic book language, reinterpreting her through a more painterly and European aesthetic. Unlike classic pulp illustration, his approach is based on a soft, atmospheric realism, with diffused backgrounds, enveloping lighting, and a strong sensual charge. 🗡️

@SketchesbyBoze Who knew that Richard Sheridan's The Rivals would continue to enliven the 21st century.

You can be pretty confident that someone doesn’t read when they say “raped over at Kohl’s” rather than “raked over the coals.” As literacy declines, we are seeing new & unparalleled malapropisms.

@BrutusSpangler @Axaxia88

@Axaxia88 Imagine having to leave gorgeous Alaska to end up in Detroit.

An orphaned grizzly cub and an older polar bear have just become best friends at the Detroit Zoo 🐻✨ Grizzly cub Jebbie was found wandering alone in Alaska, unable to survive on his own. He was transported to the Detroit Zoo in July, where he met Laerke, a lonely polar bear cub who was also growing up without a mother bear. The two quickly became close companions, and the zoo says they do everything together, including 'running, chasing each other, wrestling, rolling around, and lots of typical bear play. 💖💥

@somer_aer @50YearsAgoLive As well as Hamburger Hill.

@50YearsAgoLive This and Platoon (1986) both Vietnam War movies filmed in the Philippines

In the Philippines, filming commences for Francis Ford Coppola’s new epic film, “Apocalypse Now.” The film is scheduled to release on April 7, 1977.

@lauferdaniel @lorddrey @lorddrey relies overmuch on spellcheck.

@lorddrey The Strait of Hormuz is an international waterway – like the Atlantic Ocean – not a canal or river in the territory of one country. There is no reality in which a country could charge money to use it. These people think YOU are really stupid. x.com/lorddrey/statu…

Iran has kept the Straight of Hormuz toll-free for decades despite being vilified, sanctioned, and Isolated. Egypt charges $300,000 – $700,000+ per transit through the Suez Canal. Ultra-large container ships or tankers can exceed $1 million. Panama charges $150,000 – $450,000 per transit. Large Neopanamax ships cost up to $500,000+ to pass the Panama Canal. Turkey charges fees for the Bosporus Strait. Canada charges fees for the St Lawrence Seaway. The United States charges for the St Lawrence Seaway. But Iran is a bad country.

@Megalithic12000 Daniel Jackson was right.

🚨 A paper from a researcher at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona is going viral across Spain right now. His claim: the Giza pyramids are 12,000 years old, built by a civilisation that predates ancient Egypt 🔹Water erosion on the Sphinx 🔹Later pyramids get worse, not better 🔹No royal mummies ever found inside 🔹Precision impossible with copper tools 🔹Astronomical alignments too advanced The mainstream is pushing back. But this story has been covered by 20 Minutos, La Razón, AS, Mundo Deportivo, El Tiempo, and more in just 3 days. The fact that this keeps resurfacing, in papers, in headlines, in public conversation, tells you something. The current answers aren't satisfying people anymore. When the whole world keeps asking the same question, maybe it's time to stop condemning us for asking it?

@RichPianian @VDAREJamesK Probably programmed to work in a Greek taverna.

The Chinese really are decades behind the United States. We've had these things since the Civil Rights Act.