Dark Laughter
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OIF/OEF vet and Duffel Blog writer. DarkLaughterTDB (at) gmail (dot) com #satire #natsec
Worth noting there's a parallel problem of kids who were told they were good at math, but were really just good at following instructions, then made it to grad school before realizing they have no talent. Lockhart mentioned this in A Mathematician's Lament. profkeithdevlin.org/wp-content/u...
February 11, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Worth noting there's a parallel problem of kids who were told they were good at math, but were really just good at following instructions, then made it to grad school before realizing they have no talent. Lockhart mentioned this in A Mathematician's Lament. profkeithdevlin.org/wp-content/u...
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If you saw today's headline that Gallup will stop measuring presidential approval, they did the same thing in 2018. They do it whenever Trump is president.
February 11, 2026 at 7:27 PM
If you saw today's headline that Gallup will stop measuring presidential approval, they did the same thing in 2018. They do it whenever Trump is president.
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One. Just one. We eat one billionaire and all the rest will fall into line.
They stop making these kinds of noises if we collectively work together to discipline them, btw.
'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
February 11, 2026 at 7:10 PM
One. Just one. We eat one billionaire and all the rest will fall into line.
Again, the homeschooled people I've met fall in four groups. First, the smartest people you've ever met, who received the great education politics makes impossible. Second, people who talk/act like alien scientists because their overeducated socially awkward parents didn't think to socialize them.
Homeschooling has burst from the ideological fringe to the center of Chicago’s education landscape.
‘Free the kids’: Why more Chicago families are turning to homeschooling
Homeschooling has burst from the ideological fringe to the center of Chicago’s education landscape.
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February 11, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Again, the homeschooled people I've met fall in four groups. First, the smartest people you've ever met, who received the great education politics makes impossible. Second, people who talk/act like alien scientists because their overeducated socially awkward parents didn't think to socialize them.
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"If you tax billionaires, they'll just leave!"
Well, if they don't pay taxes, there's no net loss, so happy trails, motherfuckers.
Well, if they don't pay taxes, there's no net loss, so happy trails, motherfuckers.
February 10, 2026 at 11:09 PM
"If you tax billionaires, they'll just leave!"
Well, if they don't pay taxes, there's no net loss, so happy trails, motherfuckers.
Well, if they don't pay taxes, there's no net loss, so happy trails, motherfuckers.
Executive summary: America's second lieutenant antagonizes America's range control.
JUST IN: A Pentagon plan to use a high-energy, counter-drone laser without having coordinated with the Federal Aviation Administration about potential risks to civilian flights prompted an unprecedented airspace shutdown over El Paso, Texas, multiple sources say. https://cnn.it/4a9x8Qg
February 11, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Executive summary: America's second lieutenant antagonizes America's range control.
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The USS Fat Leonard class Riverboat, Casino, Coal (RCC) fleet will be the largest in the world.
Trump's going to build our fleet of strategic coal-fired riverboat casinos.
February 11, 2026 at 3:35 AM
The USS Fat Leonard class Riverboat, Casino, Coal (RCC) fleet will be the largest in the world.
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“Who is buying ‘Melania’ tickets?”
February 10, 2026 at 10:47 PM
“Who is buying ‘Melania’ tickets?”
"Rehabilitation? One night? Doesn't sound so bad." youtu.be/cLts-sXlLEM
February 10, 2026 at 11:25 PM
"Rehabilitation? One night? Doesn't sound so bad." youtu.be/cLts-sXlLEM
We're one step away from federal agencies going into court and saying sovereign citizen shit like "We refuse to acknowledge rulings made under the gold-fringed flag of an admiralty court."
ICE officials under a judge’s order to clean up squalid conditions on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza detained migrants on a secret floor where they decided that ruling didn’t apply, attorneys for the Trump administration said Monday.
www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/2...
www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/2...
ICE Moved Detainees to Previously Undisclosed Floor of 26 Federal Plaza
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reduce overcrowding and squalid conditions at a Manhattan holding room. Months later, he finds ICE merely shifted floors.
www.thecity.nyc
February 10, 2026 at 3:11 AM
We're one step away from federal agencies going into court and saying sovereign citizen shit like "We refuse to acknowledge rulings made under the gold-fringed flag of an admiralty court."
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Can anyone check on 3/6 real quick?
Fuck a morning coffee, this picture is enough to jolt me awake
February 9, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Can anyone check on 3/6 real quick?
This is why you don't give the mouse the cookie.
February 9, 2026 at 11:06 PM
This is why you don't give the mouse the cookie.
As plausible a theory as I've heard, to be honest.
After two weeks deep inside the Epstein files, I've come to view his operation as something close to an elder abuse scheme. Pitching old oligarchs on the collapse of the global order as a way to fund his sex trafficking operation.
www.garbageday.email/p/a-singular...
www.garbageday.email/p/a-singular...
February 9, 2026 at 9:55 PM
As plausible a theory as I've heard, to be honest.
Nuclear launch infrastructure undergoes routine maintenance.
February 9, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Nuclear launch infrastructure undergoes routine maintenance.
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Honestly, it is pretty funny how every news story on the matter has “Unknown US intelligence official is Russian spy” next to a picture of Tulsi Gabbard.
February 7, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Honestly, it is pretty funny how every news story on the matter has “Unknown US intelligence official is Russian spy” next to a picture of Tulsi Gabbard.
You can tell the German people you're winning bigger and bigger victories, but sooner or later they're going to notice those victories are getting closer and closer to Berlin.
February 9, 2026 at 9:17 PM
You can tell the German people you're winning bigger and bigger victories, but sooner or later they're going to notice those victories are getting closer and closer to Berlin.
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With the driver stuck, the doors locked and the vehicle quickly filling with water, the Marine began bashing the windshield open with a hammer.
Marine earns service’s highest non-combat award for vehicle rescue
With the driver stuck, the doors locked and the vehicle quickly filling with water, the Marine began bashing the windshield open with a hammer.
www.marinecorpstimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:10 PM
With the driver stuck, the doors locked and the vehicle quickly filling with water, the Marine began bashing the windshield open with a hammer.
NYT Opinion: Rats Tried to Warn You About Hubris of Claiming Ship Was Unsinkable
February 9, 2026 at 8:52 PM
NYT Opinion: Rats Tried to Warn You About Hubris of Claiming Ship Was Unsinkable
Xi honestly has a couple Putin level diplomatic achievements besides this, like enhanced military cooperation between Japan and the Philippines.
Ppl keep posting "Do Nothing: Win" memes involving Xi but he's sure as shit done something to make THIS fucking possible.
That's the far-right Japanese PM and the left-of-center Korean President doing some sort of tacky joint musical performance at a diplomatic event.
Trump-tier CCP diplo fail.
That's the far-right Japanese PM and the left-of-center Korean President doing some sort of tacky joint musical performance at a diplomatic event.
Trump-tier CCP diplo fail.
February 9, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Xi honestly has a couple Putin level diplomatic achievements besides this, like enhanced military cooperation between Japan and the Philippines.
These idiots are going to blow up the Five Eyes relationship, assuming they haven't already.
!["It would be a good deal for Trump, but completely bad for Albertans," Dion said, arguing that five million Albertans will need to share the dividends of their natural resources with about 350 million Americans.
"It's completely irresponsible to have done that from the point of view of Albertans and, of course, of all Canadians."
AnalysisThe more Trump allies covet Alberta, the less popular separatism may get
B.C. premier says Alberta separatists seeking assistance from U.S. is 'treason'
Alberta separatist Jeffrey Rath has said at least one of those meetings with U.S. officials was held in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), a room purpose-built to defeat sophisticated foreign intelligence eavesdropping.
Rath has also said that "statehood is not on the table. We’re not fighting tooth and nail to get out from the clutches of the CRA [Canada Revenue Agency] to have to pay federal income tax [to Washington].”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreiabuwynik5kpgu4ecycyzv6xbyqkkhbvcisi4b5lxqbmbhepgn2oa@jpeg)
February 9, 2026 at 6:56 PM
These idiots are going to blow up the Five Eyes relationship, assuming they haven't already.
This is waaaay better economic analysis than the major outlets are doing.
The guy who is my bellwether for where the dumb money is going—he had a cloud engineer phase, crypto phase, nft phase, AI phase—has pivoted back to DJing, which is what he was first doing when I met him 20 years ago.
February 9, 2026 at 6:49 PM
This is waaaay better economic analysis than the major outlets are doing.
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NEW: Comic Sans named official font of Department of War www.duffelblog.com/comic-sans-n...
Comic Sans named official font of Department of War
Pentagon says change will improve lethality, readability, and morale
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February 9, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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People are making light of this, but this is an incredibly dangerous situation. I hope someone has warned his captors not to sign anything Prince gives them because he's just going to get them jammed up.
Keep him!
“Information continuing to emerge from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) claims that the M23 armed group has detained Erik Prince, the American national known as the founder and former head of the private military company Blackwater.“
“Information continuing to emerge from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) claims that the M23 armed group has detained Erik Prince, the American national known as the founder and former head of the private military company Blackwater.“
Reports Emerge Claiming M23 Detained Blackwater Founder Erik Prince in Eastern DRC
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February 9, 2026 at 5:58 PM
People are making light of this, but this is an incredibly dangerous situation. I hope someone has warned his captors not to sign anything Prince gives them because he's just going to get them jammed up.
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“They don’t speak our language.” Well, nobody worried about that when Puerto Rico’s 65th Infantry deployed to Korea in 1950. By war’s end, six men had been awarded DSC’s, 130 were awarded SS’s, and 3,800 were awarded PH’s. They remain one of the most heavily decorated NG units.
February 9, 2026 at 3:19 AM
“They don’t speak our language.” Well, nobody worried about that when Puerto Rico’s 65th Infantry deployed to Korea in 1950. By war’s end, six men had been awarded DSC’s, 130 were awarded SS’s, and 3,800 were awarded PH’s. They remain one of the most heavily decorated NG units.
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No Kings includes Draft Kings
February 8, 2026 at 11:49 PM
No Kings includes Draft Kings