They create the black markets and citizen distrust that will destroy their attempts to control. Fight the laws if you can, profit from the black markets if you fail. The eternal war never ends.

It finds security flaws, it does not write solutions to those flaws.

Tom Waits/Cookie Monster mashup - God's Away On Business YouTube video by cookiewaits

This must have taken an insane amount of time to create. And it was worth it.

Chat that lives in the North Bay, what kind of Fascist bullshit is this?

It works just sporadically enough for an idiot to see a pattern that isn't there.

Tethytheria - Wikipedia

Dugongs and elephants along with other proboscidia share a tethytherian as an ancestor. Water beast yes, but filled a niche more like an alligator.

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No, Roman society was overall bisexual with the axis not being gay-straight but more like 'Who penetrates?'. It was considered unseemly for an older adult male to be bottom basically. So not shameful as such, but for an Emperor to bottom? Gasp! Of course there is no such indication of that.

More like dubious oats, it's a grain heavy meat slurry.

Helping another ~ 14th Dalai Lama
https://justdharma.org/helping-another/

#14thDalaiLama #peace #sadness #understanding

There was a desperate need for room to expand driven by the myth of Freedom. Most had not learned the deeper lesson of the Tyrant, that violence builds its own limits.

US captures Iranian ship Touska amid mediation efforts: All we know The US claims the ship was trying to evade its naval blockade. Iran calls it 'piracy'.

We have ascended from warmongering to outright piracy!

www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

Weird they want a vandalism magnet indeed.

Ahahaha, redemption.

This country was always slavers and the dumb dumbs who thought slavers really did found a nation of "freedoms", and their descendants.

They seem unnecessary because they are not for you, they are at you, but not for you.

In real life Tony stark would have just launched himself into a building and died and then people would scold you for thinking it’s funny

Alt text: Sepia-toned early modern engraving of Discordia personified as a barefoot woman in a long flowing gown, striding through an open landscape. She holds a large flaming brazier aloft in one hand while the other stretches out with a long torch or staff, giving the whole pose a dramatic “walking into the scene already causing problems” energy. Smoke or flame curls upward in thick vertical ribbons from the brazier. Low hills, sparse grasses, and a tiny distant village sit behind her. At the top, a Latin inscription reads, “DISCORDIA VNDIQ: FLAMANTES DISCORDIA SVSCITAT IGNES,” identifying her as Discord and framing her as the force kindling fires on every side. The etched linework and antique print style make the image feel like a classical allegory of chaos, strife, and conflict made flesh. Generated with Bluesky AltText, a CustomGPT.

Worth posting again:
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“Discordia undique flammantes discordia suscitat ignes.”

Translation:
“Discord stirs up blazing fires everywhere.”

or more literally:
“Discord kindles flaming fires on all sides.”
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Roses, or maybe more properly Rosaceae, since my loquat is pretty neat.

Sam and Criminy Kraffft present Drugachusettes YouTube video by georama

youtu.be/FHqcNj0Pv6c?...

Getting your first students raised on learning from screens huh?

There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.

Texture matters. And like preference for certain flavors changes over time. I used to hate olives. A savory fruit was too much for me. Now I love them. We are so many people strung together on a spectrum of time.

To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.

Idk who did this comic but it's hilarious

Achilles, water color and pen

Trump tattles on himself so often, the US has debased itself so much taking this clown seriously.

Yeah, like the heat wave we got, we too were just like, "This early?". Yeah, this early.

I've had rust and scale where I'm at. Not great but we managed to save the roses.

Thou shalt not disfigure the soul.