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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 15/05/2026

I contain literary multitudes. ... They *may*, admittedly, tend towards being cat shaped.

Screenshot of an Audible library on a phone, dark mode, showing six audiobook entries:
1. The Book of the Night with Moon by Diane Duane — currently playing, 4h 8m left. Cover shows a black cat under an ornate title.
2. Starter Villain by John Scalzi — Finished. Cover is a close-up of a grey tabby's face. Tagged "LESEN & HÖREN" (read & listen).
3. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip G[abriel] — Finished. Cover is a stylized illustration of a figure with an umbrella above and a cat walking below, split across pink and green panels.
4. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt, new translation by Michael Karpelson — Finished. Cover shows cartoonish figures including a large black cat holding a pistol.
5. Kitty Cat Kill Sat by Argus — Finished. Cover shows a cat in a spacesuit-style frame against a starfield.
6. The Book of the Night with Moon again, shown as the currently-active player entry at the bottom.

Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 09/05/2026

The two kinds of reaction(mass)less pseudo-drives: fans & scales Electrostatic lifter? Fan. EmDrive? Scale. Mach-effect thruster? Scale. Q-thruster? Usually scale, occasionally fan. One kind of idiot forgets what they're pushing against. The other builds a shitty thermometer.

$A tweet from Deep Tech Week (@deeptechweek) dated May 9, 2026. The text identifies Dr. Charles Buhler, Lead Scientist of the NASA Electrostatics Physics Laboratory and CEO of Exodus Propulsion, presenting a discovery of a "new force" behind the Biefeld-Brown Effect and "Non-Newtonian propulsion" at an event in NYC. The accompanying image shows Dr. Buhler on stage next to a technical slide titled "Possible Explanation of the generation of Force: Classical Theory." The slide displays a series of equations involving potential energy in electrostatic systems (U = \frac{\epsilon_0}{2} \int E^2 \, d\tau) and the chain rule for derivatives. It concludes with a formula for Force (F) that splits into two components: "Electrostatic Pressure Force" and a highlighted box labeled "DiVinE Force ('Divergence in E')." The bottom of the slide includes a "Confidential and Proprietary" watermark for Exodus Propulsion Technologies Inc.$

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 04/05/2026

I still find physical marking & reviewing has a quality all its own and helps with understanding/commenting/perhaps writing something supplemental (especially if you need/want to doodle maths or code).

The image depicts a workstation during an intensive editing or research phase. The focus is on the stack of papers, which appears heavily organized or cross-referenced with many colorful tabs—a typical sight when working on manuscripts, legal documents, or academic research.

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 22/04/2026

Part of me still feels it's depressing I have expensive equipment for astrophotography, incl. motorised telescope Another part of me is like: yeah, but with all that, you did it maybe once a year... now you've done it every night cloud cover allowed. Late life lesson I wish I'd learned earlier.

Dwarf3 photo gallery, 67 capture series sorted by date. Tuesday 21 April 2026 contains seventeen waning crescent Moon series in varying processing states (some natural grey‑brown, some pinkish, one strongly red) plus one wider series of the open star cluster M44. Wednesday 15 April 2026: a single galaxy integration series of Messier 64. Tuesday 14 April 2026: another series of M64 and two Jupiter captures.

Live view from the Dwarf3 of the open star cluster M44 (Praesepe / Beehive) — a loose scatter of bright blue‑white stars on a dark grey background. Counter at top centre: 147 of 250 frames captured, 133 stacked. Caption at bottom: "Tracking M 44".

A Dwarf3 smart telescope on a tripod at night, lens ring glowing red, with a mounted green laser pointer used for polar alignment and then to show current capture to another person. The laser beam runs from the unit up to a thin waning crescent Moon partly veiled by cloud. Bare early‑spring trees fill the middle ground; the suburban street and houses sit in the background.

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 20/04/2026

This file kept my backup jobs from working and cost me almost an hour to find because the job complained about files three folders up. ... I... I can't even be mad.

Screenshot of a file viewer displaying a file with a very long file name.
A cartoon drawing of Mudkip — a small, round, bipedal creature with pale blue skin, a large head, and a long flat tail. Two dark-blue fins stick up from the top of its head like ears, and orange gill-frills fan out from its cheeks. It is dressed formally: a black top hat tilted on one fin, a monocle on a chain over one eye, a red bow tie, and a black tailcoat with buttons down the front. The style is clean digital art on a plain white background. The overall effect is a small amphibious creature cosplaying as a Victorian gentleman.

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 17/04/2026

I honestly feel like the Disney Cars universe has incredibly rich inspirational potential for unhinged historical tankiness. It would be an incredibly *Italian* bit to be an irredentist Bourbon legitimist while also being ride or die for Ferrari, a symbol of the unified industrial Italian machine.

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 17/04/2026

Remember to always use protection and to smash atoms responsibly.

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 24/03/2026

Perhaps minor aside, but: does this not raise, *ehem*, "questions" for Berlin under Article 25(3)(c)-(d) of the Rome Statute, the VStGB, & other treaties, vis-á-vis Ramstein Air Base being used as a C2 relay for an openly stated assassination program? www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

We're in the testing phase of really trying to figure out who can rise, who wants to rise, who tries to rise," the first official said. "And then as people rise, we'll do a quick test, and if they're radical, we'll take tuek out."

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 14/03/2026

I love Makita and this'll be replaced easily, but always annoying when you order something you really need for one specific thing and then this happens.

Makita ratchet and bit set in a blue case, with the ratchet’s internal magnet visibly installed sideways in the square drive.

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 13/03/2026

Some non-US billionaire could do the funniest thing: Black Wednesday 2: Electric (Soros v. BoE) Boogaloo via front-month crude futures Marxists, this is the time to express critical support for tovarish Bessent. Few have ever been in a better position to destroy capitalism & gone all-in with gusto

Screenshot of a Financial Times article. The FT masthead/hamburger menu is visible at top. The following passages are highlighted in yellow:
"We were being pushed by clients as to who the big seller was," Skirrow said.
"The speculation was that it could be from the US Treasury," he added, noting that the government has previously intervened in other markets, such as currencies.
Rapidan Energy Group, a consultancy founded by former White House energy adviser Bob McNally, said this week that while such a move by the government would be "unprecedented", it was clear "the idea of the US Treasury selling front-month crude futures" was getting "more attention than usual".
"Given the current panic situation," Rapidan analysts wrote in a note for clients, "we cannot completely rule it out".
All four passages above are highlighted in yellow. Additionally, the phrase "The speculation was that it could be from the US Treasury," has extra orange/hand-drawn marker emphasis over the yellow highlighting.

Day Financial (NYMEX: BZW00), dated March 13, 2026 at 9:51 AM EDT. Current price $99.54, down $0.92 (0.92%) on the day. Intraday 1D view shows the price opened at $101.66, spiked to a high of $103.21 in early pre-market trading, then sold off sharply through the morning session to a low of $97.55, currently sitting around $99.49. Previous close was $100.46. Volume 38,702; open interest 49,842.

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 11/03/2026

Nuclear weapons aren't magic. As a nation state, your capacity and know how to produce them is a direct correlate of you having advanced industry and grad students to churn through. Even if they were magic, it would be a function of your magic schools. 🤷 Alt text missing from 1st post:

Excerpt from an opinion article advocating military escalation against Iran linked in the first post.
"What, then, should the Trump administration do? My prescription: Seize Kharg Island. Mine or blockade Iran's remaining ports. Destroy as much Iranian military capability as possible over the next week or two, including a second Midnight Hammer operation to destroy what's left of Iran's nuclear capacity and know-how. And threaten the regime with further bombing if it massacres its own citizens, mounts terrorist attacks abroad or returns to nuclear work.
That constitutes the most realistic path to victory at the lowest plausible price in lives, risk and treasure. And for all its admitted dangers, it gives Iran's people their best chance of winning their freedom. Not bad for a one-month war its critics warned would be another Iraq."

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 11/03/2026

So, quick question: am I the only one vaguely uncomfortable with s/one arguing for the (targeted) killing of virtually every chemistry & physics grad student and all advanced industry? To start with? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/o...

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 15/12/2025

I swear I'm a real boy. Sometimes. And it's totally not weird to be able to identify MRIs by their magnetic gradient switching noises, right @jensfoell.de? :S

Screenshot of a chat interface showing a conversation thread discussing or appreciating MRI machine mechanics.

jwiechers: I'm not sure whether my recent appreciation for electronic music is a defence mechanism because I'm beginning to like gradient coil switching noises. 🧐🤔
[Omitted message, re: technical source or noise.]
jwiechers: Heh. Yes. And I've never been in this practice, actually, so new machine to get to know. It's about 175km closer than the one I had my last several mris at, which is nice
[Omitted message.]
jwiechers (post study): Ahh, Philips...
Very distinct [Sound: A breathy, sliding mechanical hiss] circulation and very regular [Sound: Fast, rhythmic tapping] and [Sound: Hard, distinct clicking] coil noises. 😅
The newer ones get slightly warm, tho, to the point where that is almost uncomfortable, at least without good auxiliary circulation. And inner diameter is a bit tighter than I'd like in most.

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 16/11/2025

Also, the (better) love interest dropping some history on the Persian Room cocktail room in the Plaza, which was a premiere night club in New York for decades and had substantial cultural (and thus now historic) significance.

A brightly colored mid-20th-century illustration of the remodeled Persian Room at the Hotel Plaza, showing a lively supper-club scene. Couples dine, converse, smoke, and dance under a high gold proscenium framing a mural and a busy bar staffed by two bartenders. Men wear suits and tuxedos; women wear gowns in jewel tones. The image promotes Seagram’s whiskey, with product bottles and branded text filling the lower half of the advertisement.

A 1934 black-and-white fashion photograph showing a woman posing inside the original Persian Room at The Plaza. She stands beside a curved banquette and lacquered table, wearing a floor-length paisley lamé gown with a short fur-trimmed jacket and a turban-style headpiece. Behind her, etched glass panels with stylized foliage and bird motifs frame the Art Deco interior. A cocktail glass and folded napkin rest on the table, emphasizing the supper-club setting.

A crowded mid-century nightclub photograph of Hildegarde seated at a grand piano while performing in the remodeled Persian Room at The Plaza. She faces the audience, singing with expressive posture, her floral-patterned gown visible against the polished piano. The audience sits at small tables clustered close to the stage, many leaning forward, talking, or watching attentively. Waitstaff and musicians are visible in the background, framed by tall Art Deco wall panels and softly glowing sconces.

A 1934 black-and-white interior photograph of the western side of the original Persian Room at The Plaza, showing the long 27-foot bar running beneath tall, reflective columns. Round dining tables arranged with cloths and neatly set plates fill the foreground near the edge of the dance floor. Three of the Louis Catalano–executed Palmedo murals wrap the walls with stylized, flowing scenes. The room’s ceiling curves overhead, contributing to the Art Deco elegance of the newly opened space.

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 27/06/2025

This is probably what it will more usually look like.¹ *ducks and covers* 1 Okay, no, the trousers, shoes and shirt are terrible and from a time when I weighed ~40kg more (aka: 6 months ago :s)

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 27/06/2025

It's really hard to get even a well-tailored suit to look "good" on me,¹ but this (kinda²) works? 🤔

A man with shoulder-length brown hair and glasses stands in a tailor shop during the second fitting of a tan-coloured suit. He is wearing the suit jacket and trousers over a black shirt, with black socks and no shoes. He is smiling, standing on a grey carpeted floor. Behind him are bolts of fabric draped on the wall and a wooden counter partially covered with blue velvet, indicating the workspace of the tailor. The setting is lit evenly, with visible wooden ceiling beams and a minimalist interior.

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 16/06/2025

Two memes I felt compelled to make earlier today. Presented without further comment. 🤷

Four-panel coloured caricature comic featuring Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump in a bedroom. Panel 1: Netanyahu, gesturing animatedly toward a sceptical Trump in a pink sleeveless dress, says "I have advised the United States to explore a number of regime changes." Panel 2: close-up of Trump's frowning face, caption "Did it work for any of them?" Panel 3: Trump leans toward a smirking Netanyahu who answers "No. It never does. I mean I help delude you people somehow into thinking it might, but it never does." Panel 4: close-up of Netanyahu grinning and adding "But... it might work for us, this time."

Wide aerial view of an endless military convoy occupying every lane of a desert highway. Olive-drab tanks, armoured personnel carriers and Humvees line up in perfect columns that vanish into the horizon, while attack helicopters, tilt-rotor aircraft and fighter jets roar overhead in tight formation. Bold white meme text in block capitals frames the image: top line reads “JUST ONE MORE REGIME CHANGE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, BRO”, bottom line reads “PROMISE, BRO, THIS TIME IT WILL WORK”. The gargantuan force satirises repeated interventionist ambitions.

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 30/04/2025

"Issues of neutrality persist" Yeah, they aren't facilitation of terrorism, tho. They're "we don't like your text books" and "individual staff may say shitty things"

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 30/04/2025

My father just passed away.

An older man sits at a cluttered office desk, using a vintage desktop computer with the case open. The room is packed with office supplies, stacks of papers, and shelves. The image is black and white.

An elderly man stands on a balcony overlooking the Eiffel Tower in Paris. He is dressed warmly in a beanie, gloves, and a padded vest, smiling gently at the camera. The photo is black and white and has a relaxed, contemplative tone.

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 29/04/2025

I feel like the very clear two word answer to this should be "posse comitatus"? www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Section 4 of Trump's EO STRENGTHENING AND UNLEASHING AMERICA’S LAW ENFORCEMENT TO PURSUE CRIMINALS AND PROTECT INNOCENT Citizens from April 28th 2025.

Sec. 4. Using National Security Assets for Law and Order. (a) Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the heads of agencies as appropriate, shall increase the provision of excess military and national security assets in local jurisdictions to assist State and local law enforcement.
(b) Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Attorney General, shall determine how military and national security assets, training, non-lethal capabilities, and personnel can most effectively be utilized to prevent crime.

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 28/04/2025

I mean, yeah, sure, Noah. You also shared totally made up numbers from an activist and told trans people many of them were "fake", but sure, whatever let's you sleep at night.

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 28/04/2025

Also, Noah "I quote-tweeted them with 'maybe' — implying he hadn't shared anything on the topic previously" Smith, quoting ludicrous made up numbers and insulting people without any evidence. I mean, tbf, he's done the same with the Pro-Palestine movement, of course, but 🤬🤷😮‍💨

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 28/04/2025

A match made in idiot pundit hell.

An interaction on X, formerly Twitter, between Noah Smith and Brianna Wu. Brianna reassures Noah that he is in no way transphobic after repeatedly making ambiguous statements and now reporting that, because of one such statement, he was kicked out of a group for San Francisco Rabbit Fanciers.

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 24/04/2025

The video. You'll see what I mean, both in talent selection, production value, scripting and especially cadence, etc. I highly doubt it will work for the Hindutva, of course, for both structural as well as racist reasons, but it's striking in how it highlights both spread of propaganda methods...

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 24/04/2025

It's rather interesting to see the Israeli nationalist PR playbook copied this closely by the Hindutva movement. The Hindutva have done this before, but this is a particularly striking example based on "lessons learned" and the recent post October 2023 Israeli Hasbara playbook.

Post on X (formerly Twitter) by @HinduOnCampus:

22nd April 2025 marked the deadly day for Hindus around the world in over a decade. Today, American and British Hindu youth are calling on the world leaders to stand with Hindus, condemn anti-Hindu violence and stand with India — the world largest democracy, in the face against Islamist terrorism.

TAG those in this video whom have NOT spoken up for Hindus yet.

🕉️🇮🇳

#hinduphobia #pahalgam❤️ #KashmirIsIndia

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 15/04/2025

Ah yes. There it is. No, you couldn't. And even if you could, in good faith, do so, explaining operational constraints and structural reasons doesn't relativise. It explains. *smh* German radicalisation/extremism and MENA studies is so f'ed.

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 13/04/2025

What I wrote: x.com/jwiechers/st... I admit, his original post does kinda suspect bad faith to me, but still... trying to think of a way to answer usefully for other people. I just find it kinda ludicrous to say "only way"

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 13/04/2025

I genuinely hate how easy it is to troll me. I've been sort of mentally gridlocked on this tweet for more than 24 hours now. The person is in ME/extremism research at University of Heidelberg, so I'm genuinely trying to see their point. However, this is either trivially true or dangerous nonsense.

Hamas can only be understood through a transnational framing.

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 07/04/2025

It says a lot about society that the New York Times just casually finishes a paragraph like that and doesn't even deign to elaborate. They're like "yeah, that's just a thing that happens to normal people there, like cardiovascular disease or neoplasms". www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/w...

Excerpt from linked article.
"Red Crescent jobs have been something of a family tradition: his father is a Red Crescent manager; his brother Mohammed, 25, also worked for the humanitarian agency until he was killed in a drone strike in May 2024."

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 03/04/2025

we've heard your bluster all the way to Big Ben we have no lobby no trade reps no factories only krill and guano so much krill and guano we did not mean to win so bigly at trade by merely existing forgive us for being too cool for your economy

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 28/03/2025

And to prove that it doesn't have to be: I felt quite okay (not to say rather flattered) with its comparison in my case (Alan Turing). 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 26/03/2025

This is incredible. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

An infographic showing various prosocial 'first aid' methods mice explore or engage in when finding an unconscious mouse. These include grooming, tongue biting, and tongue pulling.

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 25/03/2025

Inspired by: As posted here: x.com/UK_Daniel_Ca...

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 25/03/2025

Renaming all my Signal Chats Involving Friends.

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 23/03/2025

POV: You lose the guy who wrote the 2002 memos justifying extraordinary rendition and torture on the treatment of aliens.

A screenshot of the linked article with an arrow and highlighter marking of the first author's name: John Yoo.

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 21/03/2025

FINALLY! REVENGE! breakingdefense.com/2025/03/boei...

A Boeing X-32, a competitor to the plane that would become the F35.

Pareidolia makes it seem as if the large chin-mounted air intake of the plane was a mouth and the airplane was laughing.

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 18/03/2025

I mean, sure, you could put it that way. I actually respect Shor, but quality of political analyses in this year & age is just fascinating. As someone who has pointed to this development since the late 2000s, & more so after 2013-6, I just feel tired by this point www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/o...

Excerpt from linked article. "So I think there's some kind of globalized right-wing phenomena happening." highlighted.

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 27/02/2025

Hello oxycodone my... not actually all that old friend. 😮‍💨 Appointment with neurosurgeon tomorrow, let's hope that gets us somewhere.

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 23/02/2025

German election results in one picture.

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 21/02/2025

Not the last day, but the last time things seemed like they might change.

Cropped view of Google Photos Memory View, showing part of a bed and a red shawl on top of a grey blanket.

The label 9 years since is superimposed on the cropped photo.

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 20/02/2025

We live on the dumbest timeline. Probably one of the most depressing, too.

The domino effect meme. A man demonstrates how a tiny domino can bring exponentially larger dominoes down.

Here, the smallest domino is "lowtax (an admin of said forum) banning lolicon (a specific type of Japanese hentai) on the early web forum SomethingAwful.com.

The largest Domino is "The Fall of Ukraine"

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 18/02/2025

Something I love to hate about my ADHD meds: I sleep a lot better after taking them. Like, I took them a little earlier and immediately fell asleep within 30 minutes and slept really well for five hours, which I normally never do — and it's far from the first time I notice this. 😅

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 13/02/2025

Part of me is like: oh come on. But another part of me thinks: fuck it, my yacht in GTA Online was called DOGECOIN for the longest time, I should just get with the program and hope to establish a Lineage of Rogue Traders that survives the next 39,000 years. 🧐

Screenshot of a tweet by Congressman Tim Burchett (R-TN): I'll be introducing the "Cartel Marque and Reprisal Authorization Act of 2025" which would authorize Donald Trump to commission privately armed and equipped individuals or groups to seize persons and property of any cartel, cartel member, or cartel-linked organization.

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 03/02/2025

Hah! Spotted the French bit.¹ I just love those random French overseas collectivities. — 1. Saint Pierre and Miquelon, a self-governing overseas collectivity of France and the only remaining bit of Nouvelle-France, if you disregard Québec. Always disregard Québec.

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 31/01/2025

POV: You have extensive experience travelling with controlled substances internationally. 😮‍💨

Various drugs, packaged separately in clear plastic zip-lock bags, with labels indicating active ingredient and color-coded based on controlled/scheduled status in relevant majorVarious drugs, packaged separately in clear plastic zip-lock bags, with labels indicating active ingredient and color-coded based on controlled/scheduled status in relevant major jurisdictions.

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Jens Wiechers @j.wieche.rs · 30/01/2025

The heck is an "Elon Musk salute"?! WTF are we doing here, people?

Post on X, formerly Twitter, by Right Wing Watch: Father Calvin Robinson finished his remarks at the National Pro-Life Summit by throwing an Elon Musk salute, much to the delight of the crowd.

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