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Ironlily @ironlilyart.com · 09/10/2026

Why boss music appears? where is Let me solo her when we need them?😭 You'll need a sister to guard your room! www.makeship.com/products/ord...

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Gafe @gafez.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is a great example of how I think most lies (and especially in the realm of politics) work, the liar doesn't care because even if they know it's false they believe it might as well be true You say something you believe is in essence true in place of the literal truth because it sounds better

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026

in an insane world only the insane are sane

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

A massive magnitude 7.1 earthquake has struck Venezuela, with strong shaking felt in Caracas, the country’s capital. Videos are emerging of buildings coming down or sustaining significant damage.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

PRODUCER: You make that adventure movie about seaplane pirates? HAYAO MIYAZAKI: Sure did boss, real fucking suffused with the melancholy, cynical guilt of having survived the Great War and watching the world slide into fascism, just like you asked. PRODUCER: what

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“Better a Pig than a Fascist”: Porco Rosso & the Biennio Rosso

Porco Rosso is a wonderful movie, but also a very strange one. It’s a comical, pulpy adventure story about a heroic Pig who fights seaplane pirates over the Adriatic Sea. But it’s also …

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Matthew "Spooky" Stienberg 🦇🎃 @matthewstien.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I'll always say that Napoleon, while he had actual practical concerns and was not just a mad warmonger, had the fatal flaw that he simply could not make a peace that left his enemies feeling they weren't being destroyed or set up. By the by, listen to the Age of Napoleon podcast!

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Gafe @gafez.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The all volunteer nature of the US military encourages dumbass wars My freshly baked hot take

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Gafe @gafez.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

This isn't a call-out or anything, but he makes the claim in part 1 of the podcast at around the 10 minute mark (if anyone wants to go check) And yes, he does literally say the three legged stool appeared to him in a dream

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Gafe @gafez.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Congratulations Mr Tolkien, your work has been officially endorsed by the church in an encyclical I'm sure he would've been incredibly honored

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Gafe @gafez.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The souls games aren't that difficult, but to make them easier requires going against the instincts of new players If an area is killing you too often you should go elsewhere, which is hard to accept if you've been slowly grinding some actual progress Balanced builds are punished, you have to pick

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Gafe @gafez.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

There's something to how ds2 and sotfs handle enemy placements that I find really interesting Feels like ds2 tells a better story with enemies while sotfs is a remix, with less coherent placements but with added challenge (I say enemies but I'm also thinking of poison jars and stuff like that)

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Gafe @gafez.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

It's really interesting to see in real time the relative receptions of the new Hoi4 and Warhammer 3 DLCs Both are new paid content models based on the idea of less content, more frequently at a lower price Yet both have had pretty different receptions

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

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Gafe @gafez.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Diego Portales and Jaime Guzmán have too many biographical similarities for my liking Like what do you mean they were 43 and 44 when assassinated by insurgents as political reprisal

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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

the big lie of reactionary ideology is that its natural order of things requires massive coercion and constant policing to create and maintain while supposedly unnatural deviant behaviors keep spontaneously cropping up wherever control isnt total without violence their reified categories dissolve

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Yeah, this is the thing fiction tends to get wrong about expansionist empires a lot: if you’re able to successfully expand for decades/centuries you usually do have *something* that makes being in the club attractive to a non-trivial amount of people:

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Gafe @gafez.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

If there's ever been a window for china to invade taiwan, it's probably now. I don't think it'll ever be easier

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Gafe @gafez.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

One of the funniest parts of watching The Apartment was watching the ending shot and thinking "oh right the hays code"

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Gafe @gafez.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This is an amazingly bleak picture of modern warfare You thought WW1 was a nightmare? That front line infantry in the trenches had it bad? Drones are a machine that turns 20 somethings into rubble, either physically or mentally and quite possibly both mwi.westpoint.edu/the-dead-zon...

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The Dead Zone and the Empty Battlefield - Modern War Institute

In a letter to his mother, British World War I poet Wilfred Owen described no man’s land, the piece of territory between belligerent trench lines, as “like the face of the moon, chaotic, crater-ridden...

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Gafe @gafez.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

One of the neat things of reading clausewitz's "on war" is that it's written by and for people who have already mastered the basics He argues you can live off the land without supply lines or tents with the proper scavenging system and the strategic flexibility that gives is worth the attrition

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

ESCAPING ASTRONAUTS RECAPTURED DARING GETAWAY CUT SHORT JUST PAST LUNAR ORBIT SPACE CRIMINALS BROUGHT BACK TO EARTH TO STAND TRIAL "We're all in this big blue boat together." SAYS NASA SPOX IN NEW STATEMENT. "No exceptions allowed---not on our watch!" MOST SUCCESSFUL BREAKOUT ATTEMPT SINCE 1972

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M☿th @monroetempleton.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I do find myself stopping to remind myself that they're going to the Moon! The Moon in the sky! (Albiet just for a fly by but still!)

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Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The Romans told me the Carthaginians keep eating their armies so I asked how many armies they have and they said they just hold a levy and get a new army afterwards so I said it sounds like they're just feeding armies to the Carthaginians and then Fabius Maximus started crying.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/04/2026

“you know how you always wanted to be the guy who saves the day when the astronauts call houston with a problem?” “yeah?” “and you know how you hate being the guy everyone comes to when outlook is malfunctioning?” “… yeah?” “I got some good news and some bad news”

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

We choose to go to the moon, not because it is easy but because you've seen the other shit this country spends tax money on. At least going to the moon is cool.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Insurgency is when you fire off sophisticated ballistic missiles but Islamically

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Gafe @gafez.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Amazing www.reddit.com/r/Bannerlord...

Post on the bannerlord subreddit with the following title

"Live action Mount and Blade II: Bannerlord fancast using sex offenders from the state of Florida."

Followed by like 15 characters and eerily similar looking pictures of sex offenders and their full names

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Gafe @gafez.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?s... Interesting article about spanish elite thoughts on the early spanish philippines (mostly manila) The conclusion is very interesting, it argues that the archipelago's unique mix of pagans and muslims broke spanish models of otherness

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EL ENEMIGO DE TODAS PARTES. DISCURSOS DE ALTERIDAD Y ESTRATEGIAS DE DOMINACIÓN EN LA MONARQUÍA HISPÁNICA (ENTRE ACAPULCO Y MANILA, 1584-1614)

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Gafe @gafez.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Real rules based international world order has never been tried

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

1/ Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland in January, with military support from France, Germany, and Nordic nations. Elite troops and F-35 jets with live ammunition were sent, and runways were to be blown up to prevent an invasion. ⬇️

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elisa🌻 @elisa.dftba.social · 14/03/2026

Hanks shelves

A one panel comic. It’s a bookshelf with shelves askew made to look like a geological layers of rock with a fault line. It is labeled geology. And a goateed person with a messenger bag is looking at it.

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Gafe @gafez.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

You only need to see freeside to know what life under house would be for most people

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Gafe @gafez.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

This is straight up war crime advocacy, a declaration like this from someone so far up the chain would've been beyond the pale even during the world wars The only conclusion I can give is that he has no idea how war is fought and has been fought for centuries

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Gafe @gafez.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

A bit late but man was kast's speech bad, he just couldn't hold the crowd's excitement or keep a thread going, it just meandered and every time the crowd started catching on a theme to cheer he'd change the subject

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Elizabeth Biggs @elizabethbiggs.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit? They look so cool! beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

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Two Working LEGO Printing Presses | LEGO® Ideas

The development of mechanical printing changed how ideas move through the world. Once text and images could be printed rather than copied by hand, knowledge was…

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

it's also, as @diplomatofnight.com has pointed out, pretty rare for a foreign power's goals to be to completely eliminate any and all officials that might theoretically be able to govern. less regime change than an aim for total collapse and anarchy.

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

i cannot characterize the strikes as anything but revealing an exterminationist mindset. the goal is not an iran that can "exist as a reasonable partner within the international system". the goal is to make iran cease to exist and to condemn the region permanently to poverty, violence, and ruin.

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 25/02/2026

Ahahaha what do they think happened to all those horses that used to pull carriages? Did they all go to live on a farm upstate? 😂

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Gafe @gafez.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Wait, what do you mean the imperial german general staff believed a war against the franco-russian alliance was inevitable but only had a *single* plan for it? Were they insane?

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Matt Orion @orionmatt.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Georgia was skating to MORTAL KOMBAT at the Olympics exhibition gala

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