@marcusmauney
Scribbler. Working on Prosopography in the 3rd Century Roman Empire. Late Roman Empire/Late Antiquity/Early Middle Ages enjoyer. North Carolina expat in California. Appalachian and old man undergrad.
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
Outdoor fruit stand with huge pyramid of oranges and tall round banana display.
theyβre just begging for a car chase
kevinrkirk 2d @ Threads Why are we bothering with the Strait of Hormuz when we could simply do this? Explain it to me like l'm 5. (Drawing of chopping of part of land) suahuatica 2d MOUNTAIN HARD AND BIG, WATER NO UP. MANY MANY DIG DIG.
Happy Friday. Donβt skip school.
I am demanding that the Democrats invite Mullinβs accusers to testify about this weirdo behavior in painstaking detail.
I want charts. Expert witnesses. Reenactments.
via @samthielman.com
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"You surrender."
"No we don't."
"Yes, you do because I'm a big boy who makes the decisions and I get to create my own reality."
Fun fact: To keep production costs low, many Star Trek scenes were actually filmed on Earth rather than on location in outer space.
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and weβre doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
Donβt get me wrong, Iβm thrilled
Noem has been publicly shamed and fired, and I too canβt wait to see her at βNuremberg 2.0,β but letβs be real:.Theyβre throwing a woman under the bus. The incompetent white men are skating right now and getting away with murder (and starting wars willy nilly).
This is not good.
Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
And just like that weβre back to βDepartment of Defenseβ
A small group of Democratic lawmakers have just proposed legislation to bar members of Congress from profiting off prediction markets, citing elected officials' possession of "material nonpublic information."
So Tesla is artificially inflating production numbers to mask falling sales numbers in order to maintain their stock price and Musk's net worth.
It looks like Tesla is once again using parking garages to stash inventory. There are some 100,000 inventory cars worldwide. 99,998 after today.
We should never ever forget why they did it
"I feel liberated," said a top banker. "We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' withtout the fear of getting cancelled... its a new dawn"
We should never ever forget why they did it
can we expand this globally please
To stop this senseless war ye see, ye must answer these riddles three
The talking points were issued. This is a "kinetic conflict" not a "war" fought by our glorious kinetic conflicters.
Lazy ass Satan just sent us a TEMU demon.
Nothing will ever top that original picture but I need people to understand that this is probably one of the most unreal guys alive. A totally impossible guy. Like by all rights he should not exist but at the same time he could of course only exist in the dimension weβre all trapped in.
The New York Times Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida After the secretary of the Miami-Dade County Republican Party created the chat for college students, it devolved into slurs against Black and Jewish people.
Slurs spoke themselves unto the mouths of young GOP members again! I just hope that they're all OK!π€‘
Slurs emitted themselves fully formed, from the fingertips of innocent far-right people! That must have been terrifying for them! π€‘
Pray for those that survived spontaneous chat room devolution! π€‘
βIn fascist society, everyone is educated to be a hero.β β Umberto Eco
Kash Patel requests all terrorism target places where there's fun activities for him.
Unfortunately, βYo brother, legal team confirmed we canβt work with minors rnβ is an instant classic
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Itβs so cool how weβre in a large-scale military conflict and the President is spending his time building a ballroom.
This rocks. I finally know what being a Roman must have felt like.
A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, βKristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Trainβ
Screaming
It's not like there was an erstwhile ally fighting these drones for years that could have proven valuable collaborators on how to defend against them.