A mummy containing a rare papyrus fragment which included text from Book II of Homer’s Iliad, the famous “Catalog of Ships” which lists the Greek forces that sailed to Troy #classicalreception
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The task of de-Trumpification of science and public health will take a generation and a "Marshall Plan" to rebuild. Without a bold, expansive vision to guide us, there is no coming back. Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
An AI slop image showing the '12 steps to masterful game directing", including 'Connectiarg' and 'Porkon Cows'
People over on Facebook/YouTube/elsewhere on bluesky/reality have been mocking this, but these are all totally genuine and highly advanced GMing techniques pioneered in obscure corners of indie rpg design in the early 2000s.
Let's go through them one by one and learn together.
Indeed, public policy & civil management is a profession like architecture or medicine and also benefits from study, apprenticeship and experience for proficiency. I think we've seen lately all too well the dangers of "Amateur Hour"
"Vance’s response to Leo’s statements came during an interview at a Turning Point USA event in Georgia. It was a sour cocktail of equal parts hubris and ignorance with a spritz of Vance’s trademark smarm"
1/7. We Americans have a hard time seeing ourselves in the world, and so even when we want to criticize our fascist oligarchs we fail to see the international networks of which they are nodes.
7/7. It's worth dwelling on this point. It’s hard for Americans to process that their hard right politics is in large measure a Russian and Hungarian import — intellectually and also financially. We should take advantage of the defeat of Orbán to let this basic fact sink in.
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Son of Man-splaining.
and the US Conference of Bishops told Vance to piss off in so many words. www.usccb.org/news/2026/us...
Just like Russia funding the NRA
That sounds a lot like my old TRAVELER character's pre-game career (7-term navy ensign??)
Wondering how soon before he asks why no one will rid him of this meddlesome priest
Wondering how soon before he asks why no one will rid him of this meddlesome priest
It struck me that Killmonger is Wakanda's Trump -he wants all the benefits of its culture, exploits it to gain power, but cares nothing about it & destroys as much of it as he can.
From 1st Amendment violations to 1st Commandment ones
Indeed.
It was started by a man with no plan or clue, just "gut feelings" and an insatiable need for headlines, who got bored when Iran didn't instantly surrender. In its inception lay the seeds of defeat
I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses
Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs. Military action will not create space for freedom or times of #Peace, which comes only from the patient promotion of coexistence and dialogue among peoples.
AKA F- your "Avignon Papacy" threats
3/3. No matter what else is going on, the one predictable thing about any Trump policy is that he will find a way to prop up Putin and his fascist regime.
BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms
Kept thinking of W's people and "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.", Same GOP hubris
Donald Trump just demonstrated that the United States can have the most well-trained, well-equipped and highest-morale military in history, but still LOSE A WAR against a morally-loathsome, economic basketcase because of bad leadership and negligible strategic planning.
Yep, but this time with people The Right Color flying Deus Vult! flags.
Trump lost this war in every possible sense — morally, legally, politically, economically, reputationally, and strategically.
therickstengel 8h An American president threatening the death of an ancient civilization is in some ways the end of the 250-year moral experiment of a constitutional republic that the framers saw as a model for all mankind.
Two Weeks Taco Tuesday.
What do you mean "everyone had that on their bingo card?"
Two Weeks Taco Tuesday.
What do you mean "everyone had that on their Bingo card?"
All for a war he STILL can't provide ANY rationale for.
and the rest of the world is well aware this imbecile can turn similarly on them. Denmark has been bracing for it most of the past year.
