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@Tactical_review @BigFatDave you go to the back porch, pour a bourbon, fire up a cigar and watch the sunset and get on with your life

@Geiger_Capital No, you can't. That's the scariest bit.

Holy. Shit. Unknown drones are now flying over our largest military bases on US soil. We can’t stop them. It’s not an exaggeration to say we have been completely infiltrated at this point.

🚨FLASHBACK: Barksdale AFB is where @LenczyckiPhilip found two golf courses flanking the base owned by a CCP intelligence official. All things CCP must be expelled from base proximity. And the expelled from the USA. dailycaller.com/2026/01/05/exc…

This legitimately might be the best throw in baseball history

@justice_Tyr22 I'd throw a few benjamins your way when you're ready

Fighting the urge to buy a trailered smoker and sell BBQ in front of a mosque

Well done. When a banknote says "Legal tender for all debts, public or private," that statement should be honored. This is real consumer protection. Businesses and corporations are trying to sleep-walk us into a cashless society, and this must be resisted in every way.

@chessandpoker Have you played Galactic Cruise? It basically breaks all 3 of these rules. It's beyond awful.

Here are 3 Key Elements in #boardgame design that almost always deliver "emergent gameplay" ✅ Make ANY action a player can take IMMEDIATELY: - Change the decision space for the NEXT player - Move the game towards an endpoint - Give the opportunity to achieve goals/objectives

Marco Rubio awaits a worthy challenger. #ONEPIECE〜

Happy FAFO Friday. New clips will be uploaded throughout the day. Thanks for your patience.

You're watching a $248 million film and not a single green or blue screen was used. The alien is a handmade puppet. The cockpit physically rotates to simulate gravity. I looked at the production tech behind this 95% score, and the engineering is wild. Phil Lord and Chris Miller, directing their first live-action movie in 12 years, built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a real set at Shepperton Studios in England. Not a miniature. Not a digital model. A full-size ship interior you can walk through. Production designer Charlie Wood studied the International Space Station, Russia's Mir station, and the Boeing 747 cockpit to get the look right. He deliberately made the panels mismatched, because real spacecraft are assembled from parts made by different companies. Nothing matches perfectly. That's what makes it feel real. The cockpit is only about 8 feet wide. It sits on a mechanical platform that can tilt, spin, and shake, so when the ship changes direction or enters different gravity conditions, the whole set moves. Chairs end up on walls. Ladders flip direction. Gosling was suspended inside a spinning ring so he could float and move through the ship for real, reacting to actual hardware around him. No guessing where a wall might be added later. Then there's Rocky. He's the alien co-lead, and he's not CGI. Neal Scanlan, the creature designer who built the Porgs for Star Wars, spent a full year on this character. Over 300 designs before they landed on the final look. Rocky is a thin, hollow shell, 3D-printed from a digital sculpture, then hand-painted in see-through layers so light passes through him like skin. His arms pop off and swap out depending on the scene: one set has a closed fist for walking, another has tiny motorized fingers strong enough to pick up objects. Five puppeteers (nicknamed the "Rockyteers") operated him in every scene. James Ortiz, an award-winning puppet designer from New York theater, voiced Rocky and controlled him on set. When Scanlan met him, he told Ortiz, "You're Frank Oz, and I'm making Yoda for you." Every reaction Gosling gives to the alien is to something physically in front of him. Greig Fraser, who won the Oscar for shooting Dune, filmed the space scenes in the larger IMAX format (that taller image you see in IMAX theaters) and the Earth flashbacks in regular widescreen. Then the team did something unusual: they took the digital footage and printed it onto real film strips, twice, using two different types of film stock. Then they scanned those strips back into digital. It sounds redundant, but it adds a texture and warmth that you can only get from physical film. Fraser used the same technique on Dune and The Batman. Drew Goddard spent six years writing this screenplay. His last adaptation of Andy Weir's novel, The Martian, earned him an Oscar nomination. He described the challenge this way: a screenplay gets about 5% of a novel's word count. The lead is alone for most of the runtime. When he finally gets a co-star, that co-star doesn't speak English, communicates through sounds closer to whale song, and has no face. Goddard called it a screenwriter's nightmare, then said that difficulty was the whole point. He and the directors fought studio pushback to keep Weir's original ending intact. 95% from 212 critics. 98% from over 2,500 audience ratings. And the lead isn't a superhero, a cop, or a soldier. He's just an ordinary middle school science teacher.

Dolores Huerta’s relationship with Cesar Chavez is explored in a 2017 documentary. One of Huerta’s sons recalls, “They were probably the best of friends, and they had the most passionate and heated arguments I’ve ever heard.” One of her daughters says, “They were peers, and she felt she had every right to speak up and say her piece.” Another daughter explains that while many people deferred to Cesar, her mother never did: “She was always real with him.” A former colleague laughs in remembering a moment when Huerta said, after a heated argument with Cesar, “I don’t know why he fights with me—he knows I’ll win.” A third daughter declares, “César was surrounded by a lot of yes men, and she was not a yes man.” This paints a different picture from her statement this week that accuses him of misconduct in part for a sexual encounter that she “felt pressured” to give into.

What the school system actually teaches (not math): - suppress authentic responses - ignore your body's signals - obey arbitrary authority - adjust to constant surveillance - accept nonconsensual evaluation and judgment It's more exploitation training than education.

@kira_clarke I hide this from you I hide that from them I don't hide anything from myself

Please consider giving my prompt a try 🙂✍️ #WriteMap 457 Map a meaningful event or issue from your past, present or future. All writing forms are OK (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, prose, etc.). Prompt (optional): HIDE

So many of these, but this one is a classic Chuck Norris joke. 🐅 #RIPChuckNorris

@DissidentSoaps "I'm sorry, Lem!"

Finished watching this yesterday based on a mutual's recommendation and it's definitely in the category of "too good for them to ever make again."

🤣This is a hilarious montage of Chuck Norris jokes. If you think about it, he really was the first 80’s action hero and pretty much started the genre of 80’s and 90’s action movies.

And now, from what I believe to be one of my finest hours, ladies and gentlemen, may I present: Marco Polio.

One of the most amazing boondoggles of this century is that, with the help of the media and modern “feminists,” plaintiff lawyers have gone from having to actually prove old allegations of sexual abuse to get 💰 from a civil trial, to the accused either having to 100% prove their innocence, or be forced into a settlement. They have somehow, with little change in the law, flipped the burden of proof completely upside-down. This, of course, becomes even MORE of a scam when the accused is attached to a liberal institution (like academia) that has zero incentive to fight back, and is very willing and able to spend lots of other people’s money to virtue-signal and make a bogus claim go away. 🤮

Happy greb day eveyone! 🥳 Can't believe its been 7 years, thanks to everyone for reading my comics and supporting me over the years 💖

oog have theory. joy is shy creature. not like mammoth. mammoth you see from far. mammoth announce itself. whole ground shake. hard to miss mammoth. joy is more like small lizard on warm stone. blink and it gone. but sit still enough? it come right up to your foot. oog used to chase mammoth all day. big joy. huge joy. the arriving. the achieving. the finally. mammoth fast. mammoth rare. mammoth exhaust oog. then nana dust say something. quiet thing. almost throw away. "small hooman look for mammoth. wise hooman collect lizard." oog start collecting. koom breath on oog neck when koom fall asleep mid-sentence. small warm cloud. in. out. in. out. lizard. smell of rain before rain arrive. when air change and nose know before eye know and whole body whisper "something good coming. something good coming." lizard. fire making that one sound. the deep crackling that sound exactly like fire saying "oog. oog relax. oog safe tonight." lizard. lizard. lizard. whole life oog scanning for threat. whole tribe scanning for threat. eye up. shoulders tight. head cave loud. but glimmer also there. tiny. warm. waiting on stone in sun. and glimmer not wait for you to finish being scared. lizard just sit there with tiny eye going "well? you see oog or not? oog been here whole time." it been here whole time. same life. same cave. same loud brothers. same ordinary morning. just need eye that know how to collect lizard. start today. find one. just one. put it in pocket. carry it. let it warm you from inside. love, oog

𝗩𝗗𝗛: 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗦 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗣𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝗗𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡. Victor Davis Hanson has spent fifty years studying how wars end. When he says the tide is turning, it's worth listening to why. His argument isn't based on what the Pentagon is saying. It's based on how everyone else is behaving. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀. VDH's rule: Europeans never agree to go anywhere near a conflict unless they think the winning side has already been determined. They didn't help in the early days. Now they're starting to move. That movement is not idealism. It's a calculation. They've looked at the battlefield and decided which way this ends. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝘂𝗹𝗳 𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗼-𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀. The Saudis, the Emiratis, the Qataris — these governments have survived for generations by reading the regional climate with precision. When they expel Iranian military attachés, when they intercept Iranian missiles over their own capitals and say nothing about American strikes, when the UAE reaffirms its $1.4 trillion investment commitment to the United States mid-war — they are not making ideological statements. They are placing bets. And they are betting on the United States. 𝗔𝗹 𝗝𝗮𝘇𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗮. This is the one that should stop you cold. Al Jazeera — the Qatari state media network, historically critical of American military action, the network Tucker Carlson and the anti-war right love to cite against Israel — is now calling the U.S. bombing campaign brilliant and effective, and saying it has been underestimated. When the media outlet of a nation that hosts both the largest American air base in the Middle East and a Hamas political office starts praising American military effectiveness, the message is unmistakable: 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘸𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘯. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝗹. A-10 Warthogs and Apache helicopter gunships are now flying strike missions in Iranian airspace at will. VDH's point: you only deploy those aircraft when there is effectively no air defense left to threaten them. They are slow, low-flying, close-support platforms. Their presence confirms what the Pentagon has been claiming — Iran has no meaningful air defense remaining. Iran's strategy now is rope-a-dope. Run out the clock. Wait for American public opinion to shift. Hope the midterms create political pressure on Trump to stop. It is the only play they have left. VDH's conclusion: if Trump sees it through — and he believes he will — the regime falls. Not in years. 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘁𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝗼𝗻. 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗼, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘀𝗮𝘆. 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮.