If the Venezuelan oil is too thick to be economically viable, can’t they just give it some aspirin to make it nice and thin? 🙃

why doesn’t anyone care about doing things well anymore

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Well, time for the annual Christmas tradition of watching #Chronopost and #DPD fuck up my #Amazon deliveries. Of 4 parcels ordered 12 days ago:
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1 delivered half destroyed 💥
1 stuck in Roissy since Saturday ✈️
1 stuck in Hinckley since Monday 📦

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So it’s going to be, what, the “Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts”?

Seems a bit premature, but okay.

Honestly I have thought about this quote from @mikeduncan.bsky.social for years relating to this point.

The fact that we have super wealthy and extremely stupid people trying to set themselves up as new nobles has made historical nobility, which I only know from books, far more real to me. These people were not smart, they did not rule well, and rigid hierarchies of domination are very bad.

The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:

The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.

Worth remembering that the Joe Rogans of the world don’t think they’re engaged in politics. That’s part of their success and something for political types to remember when engaging with them and their audiences.

Part of poaster’s bushido is being detached from the fruits of your poasting, both good and bad. “I was saying that I wanted to kill someone as a reference to Johnny Cash” no you poasted a little too close to the sun. We all do it (some more than others). Accept and move on, this is pathetic.

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I realise this is a minuscule thing to be annoyed about, but they didn’t just “decide to change the name” to be “politically correct”. War (ie Army), Navy and Air Force used to be separate cabinet-level departments. The Department of Defence was formed as a complete restructuring of the US military.

one serious problem i see that i am not clear how we solve is, probably 50% of the GOP voting base if not more is really not interested in being part of a democracy anymore. and the only alternative is guys who think democracy means finding common ground with those people

what star wars really need is a HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER style submarine thriller

Hello Bluesky! I am an #Indiedev making The Knight & the Maiden, a game set in a world almost, but not quite, like our own in the early 16th century. The story is about a lady who disguises herself as a knight to win a tourney, but then she falls in love with a princess and things get… complicated.

Call me a traditionalist, but letting private individuals send cheques to an authoritarian-curious president so he can fund the military outside of the legal appropriations procedure… seems less than optimal.

Also that’s like 0.8% of the monthly US military payroll.

I don’t mean to lecture ACECO – an award-winning demolition company with 3500+ successfully completed projects since 2000 and 86 years of market experience – on how to conduct their business, but I’d maybe have removed the branding from the machines for this particular project. #ReputationalDamage

Can’t believe they’re not using an AMERICAN-made excavator to demolish the People’s House 1600% TARIFFS on imported heavy machinery IMMEDIATELY please thankyou for your attention to this matter

I do think it’s very funny that barely any of the newly-arrived US Government accounts, in line with the administration’s usual level of competence, seem to have figured out how to set a custom domain handle.

Today is Quintidi the 25th of Vendémiaire in the year 234.
Vendémiaire is the month of vintage.
Today we celebrate oxen.#JacobinDay

More information on oxen

That’s Columba.

Columbus is the 6th century Irish missionary who founded Luxeuil Abbey and a number of other monasteries in Francia and Lombardy.

I imagine Pete Hegseth's inability to understand this is probably a big reason why his career stalled out when it did: he was trying to be an O-4 thinking in terms of the 'O-3 test' (or the 'E-6 test') when that wasn't his job anymore.

A colonel is not just a really, really big lieutenant.

One of the things that doesn't come out in the soundbites but does in the full speech is Hegseth's repeated, explicit emphasis on viewing problems from the perspective of an E-6 or O-3, wholly unaware (as a bad O-4) that the job of the 0-7s to O-10s in front of him is quite different.

Incredible that we’re almost nine months into this mess and people still don’t understand the difference between “can” and “may”.

The President “may” not put his stupid face on a coin because of an 1866 law.

But of course he “can” put his stupid face on a coin because who’s going to stop him?