Grumpy Old Manchild

I never managed to read Walt Simonson’s entire run of Thor, despite having hailed it as the greatest run the book ever had. Today, I will fix that.

@DestinyTheGame Techsec

What is your Guardian's preferred armor set bonus? Ferropotent? Swordmaster? Wild Anthem? Something else???

Twitter is censoring anyone who says or implies that Trump staged a shooting again. Whatever you do, do not post about how this was a giant sympathy farming false flag completely staged by the regime.

@cmclymer Man has a point

@SpideyInTARDIS Screaming about fictional characters is a totally healthy thing to do, so of course he’s ok.

Is this guy ok? Like, do we need to call somebody?

@MrFixItLiberty @AGramuglia She was more honest than you’re being here, at least.

@AGramuglia Eve is lady who 1) lied to her bf about the child 2) killed the child because of loneliness 3) had multiple supportive people around 4) gas lit her man who just got back from risking his life to save her people and planet Thst s the good person?

I dunno about you, but i think the rapist is a bad choice. Meanwhile, Atom Eve has a mature relationship with Mark, is deeply emotionally intimate, and has a fantastic

@mitchw7959 @Wilfreyy New York gave us Trump, kid.

@Wilfreyy "unnecessarily"🤣 Your shithole state has—for decades—been a major factor in MAGA making life as miserable as possible for the rest of us. TX is the headquarters for corporate pollution, right-wing Xianity, and barbed-wire borders. Move or die thirsty, but I'll always hate Texas.

I know non-Texans hate Texas and its people unnecessarily but it is imperative that you pay close attention to the fact that Corpus Christi will be running out of water soon. It is a city of over 300K and if it can happen there it can happen anywhere in the US

Saturn as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope

@FBIDirectorKash Fuck of with your lies, Rumdog Millionaire.

The money doesn’t lie. The evidence shows the charity who supposedly fought the Klan - FUNDED the Klan. The charity who supposedly fought Neo-nazis - FUNDED Neo-nazis. The SPLC engaged in a massive fraud operation to deceive their donors, funded the very hate groups they claim to oppose, and then hid their operations from the public through shell companies and fake entities. This @FBI and @DAGToddBlanche won’t let them get away with it any longer.

The Sydney Opera House illuminated with Gustav Klimt's The Tree of Life.

@ObviousRises That was literally you just a few days ago.

Left wing twitter is basically this.

James Webb Just Found a Giant Cosmic Highway of 20 Galaxies Stretching 13 Million Light-Years Across the Infant Universe! In one of its deepest infrared stares, the James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered something extraordinary: a massive, perfectly aligned chain of roughly 20 galaxies spanning nearly 13 million light-years — a colossal structure that existed when the universe was less than 1 billion years old.This isn’t just a random grouping. Scientists believe they’re looking at a cosmic filament — a thread-like superhighway where gravity, guided by invisible dark matter scaffolding, pulled these young galaxies into a long, connected chain. Individual galaxies in this structure are separated by hundreds of thousands of light-years, yet they all move together as part of the same enormous cosmic web.Webb’s powerful infrared vision pierced through the haze that once hid these ancient systems from Hubble, revealing how the very first large structures in the universe took shape. Instead of being scattered randomly, early galaxies preferred to form along these massive, invisible threads — dark matter acting like cosmic blueprint lines directing where stars and galaxies would be born.The light we’re seeing today left those galaxies over 13 billion years ago and has been racing toward us ever since. What you’re witnessing is a living fossil of the early cosmos, when the universe was still weaving the grand architecture we see today.A breathtaking reminder that the universe wasn’t born chaotic — it was organizing itself into vast, beautiful patterns from the very beginning. How mind-blowing is it that we can now see the cosmic “skeleton” that built everything?

@SeanRay19418 @Dearme2_ I know what you mean. When I was at my absolute lowest, I would pick a movie or show that would be dropping months later and tell myself that I would stick around to see it, and repeated the process until I no longer needed to.

This will sound dumb: X-Files. The TV show. I watched that show on the regular. Every Thursday I would post up and watch it. For a brief time nothing mattered. Real life disappeared, and then I would work my way back with anticipation for next Thursday. The Thursdays past, I kept going. The show ended with a theatrical rendition of the whole story line.I went and saw it. I never looked back, I wasn’t in the same place or the same person. X files: Fox “Spooky”Mulder and Dana Skully saw me through dark times.

MEN ONLY!!!! What saved you when you were at your lowest?

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She was never meant to matter. Just a pretty young translator in the room. But in 1940, after German forces took control of France, Jeannie Rousseau’s father put his 21-year-old daughter forward to work as an interpreter for Nazi officers in Brittany. She spoke flawless German. She was elegant, warm, and disarming. The officers relaxed around her. Relaxed enough to speak openly, even when they shouldn’t have. Jeannie listened. At first, she kept everything in her head. Then she began passing along what she heard to the French Resistance. In 1941, the Gestapo arrested her on suspicion of spying. Her case went before a military tribunal. But the German officers in Dinard who knew her defended her fiercely. They swore she was innocent. She was released, but ordered to leave the coastal area. So she went to Paris. And got another job as a translator. This time, she worked for a French industrial organization that regularly interacted with German military leadership. Then, during a chance encounter on a night train, she ran into an old university classmate named Georges Lamarque. That meeting changed everything. Through him, she joined a spy network known as The Druids. Her codename: Amniarix. Lamarque remembered her from the University of Paris, where she had graduated top of her class and shown an extraordinary gift for languages. He asked her to work for the network. She agreed without hesitation. Her technique was brilliant because it seemed so harmless. She listened carefully. She asked innocent-sounding questions. And when German officers described things that sounded unbelievable, she acted doubtful. In 1943, some of the same officers she had known in Dinard began discussing a terrifying new weapon. Rockets that could travel enormous distances. Faster than any aircraft. A weapon of terror that could reshape the war. Jeannie widened her eyes and played the skeptic. “That can’t be real,” she told them. “You must be exaggerating.” They pushed back. Said it was true. She kept doubting them. Again and again. “What you’re saying is impossible,” she insisted. Over and over, maybe a hundred times. And that worked. They became so determined to convince her that one officer actually showed her technical sketches of the rockets. Full details. Plans. Information about the testing site — Peenemünde, on the Baltic coast. Jeannie wasn’t an engineer. She didn’t fully understand the science. But she had one gift the officers never suspected: an almost photographic memory. She memorized it all. The figures. The dimensions. The descriptions. Every important detail. Then she repeated everything, word for word, to her Resistance contacts. Those reports were passed to British intelligence in London. What she uncovered was staggering. Germany was developing the V-1 and V-2 rockets — weapons capable of striking British cities from hundreds of miles away. Weapons that could slaughter thousands of civilians. British intelligence officer R. V. Jones received her reports. When he asked who the source was, he was told only that it came from “a young woman, the most remarkable of her generation.” And her information changed the course of the war. In August 1943, Britain sent 560 bombers to attack Peenemünde. The strike disrupted the Nazi rocket program. It slowed production. It interrupted testing. And it saved thousands of lives. Jeannie kept working through 1944. She traveled deep into Germany with French industrialists, watching, listening, and reporting everything back. British intelligence was so impressed by her accuracy that they arranged to bring her to London for an in-person debrief. They called her a “human tape recorder.” The extraction was set for spring 1944, from the town of Tréguier in Brittany. But the French agent assigned to guide the team through the minefields was captured at the rendezvous point. The mission collapsed. Her cover was blown. The Gestapo arrested her and sent her to Ravensbrück concentration camp. Then to Torgau. Then to yet another camp, each worse than the one before. She spent the final year of the war being moved through three concentration camps. And still, she said nothing. She never revealed what she had done. Never gave up the intelligence she had gathered. Not as her body weakened. Not as tuberculosis consumed her. Not as starvation brought her close to death. When the Swedish Red Cross liberated her in 1945, she was barely alive. She slowly recovered in a sanatorium in Sweden. There she met Henri de Clarens, a survivor of both Buchenwald and Auschwitz. They later married and had two children. After the war, Jeannie worked as a freelance interpreter for the United Nations and other organizations. She stayed away from attention. She avoided journalists. She avoided historians. For decades, most people barely knew her story. In 1993, she accepted the CIA’s Agency Seal Medal. In 1998, she finally agreed to speak with Washington Post journalist David Ignatius. It was the first time she had truly opened up to a reporter. He asked her why she had done it. Why she had risked everything when so many others kept their heads down. She seemed almost puzzled by the question. “It wasn’t a choice,” she said. “It was what you did. At the time, we all thought we would die. I don’t understand the question. How could I not do it?” France had already made her a member of the Legion of Honor in 1955. In 2009, she was elevated to grand officer. She also received the Resistance Medal and the Croix de Guerre. Jeannie Rousseau de Clarens died in August 2017 at 98 years old. For most of her life, she insisted her role had been small. “I was one small stone,” she said. But that small stone helped stop rockets from raining down on London. That small stone helped save thousands of lives. That small stone was a 21-year-old woman who pretended not to believe what she was hearing — and then remembered every word. So if you’ve ever wondered what a person does when courage is the only path left, Jeannie gave the answer long ago: You do what must be done. You don’t stop to ask why. You just do it.

@YoDanno "Don't it make you sad to know that life is more than who we are?"

"The sky is filled with good and bad that mortals never know".

@Ryanbottomson @punishedmother Charlie Kirk celebrated the murder of George Floyd and the attempted murder of Paul Pelosi, Ryan, so spare us your hypocrisy.

@punishedmother Murdering Charlie Kirk good Disagreeing with us “they are literally trying to kill us”

The elimination of the Republican Party is both necessary and the morally correct path. This isn’t even an extreme position anymore. They are an existential threat to humanity and world stability.

Amazon MGM Studios which is valued at almost $10 billion is releasing a movie about He-Man this year which will easily make millions of dollars. Meanwhile, the literal creator of the character, who without him that movie wouldn’t even exist, has to rely on a GoFundMe for his medical care. Fucking insane.

Remember, friend: a $6 iced coffee a day is $30 a week, about $120 a month, and $1,440 a year. After 10 years, that’s $14,400. Which is still not enough for a down payment on a house, so enjoy your coffee in peace.

@MandyFrizzle Yes.

Do you think I look like art, or did all of those old artists just have a thing for redheads?