Been a fan of Shane Smith and The Saints for a while. Kolton Moore & The Clever Few is also good.

Star Control II, that certainly brings back some memories (probably one of the games I played most on the 'ol 3DO). Great choice.

This is particularly funny because InfoWars wrote about me this weekend

More serious thoughts on this in this thread
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Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

After the ceasefire in Lebanon took hold, Samah Hajoul headed back to her apartment in south Beirut -- but only long enough to grab fresh clothes, feeling safer in her tent as she wonders whether the truce will last. u.afp.com/SELV

New Footage Shows Wanted Kinahan Cartel Kingpins Post-Sanctions - bellingcat Daniel and Christy Kinahan have been photographed in Dubai, marking the most recent sighting of the wanted crime bosses since the US levied sanctions against the cartel.

Breaking: Kinahan cartel leader Daniel Kinahan has been arrested in Dubai. It follows a Bellingcat investigation last month that traced him to an MMA event in Dubai - providing the first proof that the cartel's leadership was still in hiding in the UAE. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

Trump tells Axios he expects Iran deal "in a day or two" Trump is very feeling bullish.

According to Axios' @barakravid.bsky.social, Trump specifically said: "Israel has to stop. They can't continue to blow buildings up. I am not gonna allow it." Link: www.axios.com/2026/04/17/t...

Whether or not the demolitions cease will be visible to anyone using Sentinel-2 data.

In Gaza, the IDF has spent the months since the ceasefire completing the demolition of all urban areas behind the Yellow Line (and some a little beyond it)

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Of course, villages in Lebanon are already being completely demolished. It's visible in free Sentinel-2 imagery, as @emansh.bsky.social has been showing: bsky.app/profile/eman...

It's also visible in high-resolution imagery obtained by BBC's @merlynthomas.bsky.social: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Twitter/X post from Sky News international reporter Alex Crawford reading: Israeli military reporters say 55 towns and villages in south Lebanon will remain occupied by Israeli troops. The Lebanon ceasefire agreement will impose a ‘yellow line’ similar to Gaza. Those civilians will not be permitted to return to their homes cut off by the ‘yellow line’ - ‘and the IDF is authorized to continue destroying terror infrastructures in them even during the ceasefire’, according to the Israeli reporters who were briefed by the military Link: https://x.com/AlexCrawfordSky/status/2045171752351715426

Post from @alexcrawfreports.bsky.social on X says a "yellow line" will be created in southern Lebanon, cutting off 55 villages. Stated goal of destroying "terror infrastructure" likely means entire villages will be razed leaving people with no homes to return to. The same thing is happening in Gaza.

Painkiller Pipeline: 300 Million Tapentadol Pills Sent from India to West Africa - bellingcat Indian companies have sent more than 320 million synthetic opioid pills to West Africa – where they have not been approved by regulators – in three years.

India has exported more than 320 million unapproved synthetic opioid pills to West Africa in just three years. Trade data shows over 1,400 shipments of tapentadol — a potent painkiller — were sent to a region already facing an opioid crisis. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/04...

"Israel will not be bombing Lebanon any longer. They are PROHIBITED from doing so by the U.S.A. Enough is enough!!!"

This is a departure from the one-sided cease fire negotiated by the Biden administration, when Israel bombed (generously-defined) "threats" as it pleased and Hezbollah held back.

booby-trapped part of a town

targeted area on Google Maps

This video posted today shows several buildings that were likely booby-trapped. It can be geolocated to around, (33.129576408424875, 35.43973181215414) in Ainata, just northeast of Bint Jbeil. x.com/idfonline/st...

Far-right troll account followed by JD Vance on X unmasked “HowlingMutant,” who jokes about rape and the Holocaust, is Alexander Norden of New York City

NEW: We’ve identified the man who runs the far-right troll account on X “HowlingMutant,” whose jokes about rape and the Holocaust have earned him nearly 200,000 followers, which include Vice President JD Vance. His name is Alexander Norden, from Rockaway Park in New York City.

Can a journalist with press credentials ask JD Vance why he follows an account like this? Is this better or worse for the safety of the Jewish community than a college student wearing a keffiyeh?

Eyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow Line Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture...

The title of this essay comes from a quotation by Avraham Zarbiv, the rabbinical judge and IDF reservist bulldozer operator who is the public face of the semi-irregular force of military and contractor earthmover operators who have both pushed for and executed mass demolition operations in Gaza

Strike number 54 in Somalia of 2026 announced via press release (year’s total here is by count of confirmed strikes not by AFRICOM confirmation of the total so could be more unannounced).

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a satellite image of a town from Feb 28 via Copernicus Browser

a satellite image of a town from Apr 14 showing more destruction via Copernicus Browser

a significant amount of destruction in Meiss el Jabal in South Lebanon between Feb 28 and Apr 14

EFF Calls on Kuwait to Release Journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin EFF calls on the Kuwaiti government to immediately release journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin. An award-winning journalist and television host who worked for Al Jazeera for many years, Shihab-Eldin—a dual

EFF calls on the government of Kuwait to immediately release Kuwaiti-American journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin. eff.org/deeplinks/2...

How governments have tried to hide information about the Iran war online Governments are blocking the internet, banning social media posts and cutting access to commercial satellite images. But experts say that efforts to censor information have had mixed results.

Last week the @npr.org team interviewed our researcher @godin.bsky.social about the obstacles faced by those looking for open source information on the Iran-Israel-US conflict and why the development of new tools is important within this space: www.npr.org/2026/04/10/n...

I've written before about how USAID was the first government agency killed by conspiracy theory. This confirms it.
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Well, let’s see what happens.

And with 46% counted, Tisza is sitting at 135 seats — enough for a supermajority — with Fidesz/KDNP trailing at a distant 57 seats

CBS reports that the number of MQ-9 Reapers the US has lost over Iran is now 24, including 8 since the beginning of April:

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Great images now up on the NASA #ArtemisII Spashdown and Return multimedia pages

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Final right hand one is Lisa Mazzuca, mission manager for the Search and Rescue Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center onboard USS John P. Murtha.

Artemis II Return NASA's Orion spacecraft carrying Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, along with Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency), splashes down in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego, California, at 5:07 p.m. PDT, (8:07 p.m. EDT) on Friday, April 10, 2026. The Artemis II test flight launched on Wednesday, April 1, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin its 10-day journey around the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and to build on our foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars. NASA’s Landing and Recovery team and the U.S. military are coordinating efforts to extract the Artemis II crew from the Orion spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel

What a great photo just added on the NASA Johnson Flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

Shadow fleet is ready to transform identity & nationality at a moment’s notice: Suezmax tanker Grus I transits Bosphorus towards the Black Sea en route to Sheskharis. The tanker hoists a Mali flag but the hull registry is for a Cameroon port!

Turkmenistan classicism

How governments have tried to hide information about the Iran war online Governments are blocking the internet, banning social media posts and cutting access to commercial satellite images. But experts say that efforts to censor information have had mixed results.

Governments are blocking the internet, banning social media posts and cutting access to commercial satellite images. But experts say that efforts to censor information have had mixed results.