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#1 Eito Stan @ksmiles.bsky.social · 6h

As a history nerd my mind immediately goes to forced marches. Armies on foot can move very fast if they need to, as long as “being able to fight when they arrive” isn’t an issue, but if it’s done for too long, people start dying.

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#1 Eito Stan @ksmiles.bsky.social · 6h

There is no better summary of this administration than him demolishing the White House

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#1 Eito Stan @ksmiles.bsky.social · 8h

Oh no I crowed about how much smaller my painting backlog was compared to everyone else in my Warhammer club and then some wargames Atlantic imperial guard proxies I kickstarted two years ago showed up to punish me for my hubris

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#1 Eito Stan @ksmiles.bsky.social · 10h

The French were right about a great many things and no-one ever recognizes it because they were wrong about exactly enough that they lost the war in a month.

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#1 Eito Stan @ksmiles.bsky.social · 10h

not sure if it counts as a horror movie but Bodies Bodies Bodies is a really fun slasher movie.
Anyway I guess what I’m saying is slashers still know how to have fun

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 10h

There is no system where keeping bad people out of power is not important. You can create systems with rules against abusing power. But we already have one of those. The problem is that the people in charge selectively enforce them if at all, which is why you don't want bad people in charge.

Kali, the Psycho Analyst & Part-time Alchemist @magickali.bsky.social · 12h

I will repost this forever.

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#1 Eito Stan @ksmiles.bsky.social · 10h

Sometimes I think about the fact that the lore of the bionicle franchise turned out to be that all the cool toy hero guys were maggots writhing in the corpse of god

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

also, what an image. the president demolishing a portion of a humble people’s house to make room for his royalist monstrosity

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#1 Eito Stan @ksmiles.bsky.social · 12h

The biggest evidence of the hobbit movie’s failure: when I read Lotor, I have a hard time imagining characters looking different than they do in the movies, even with ones like Saruman or Denathor who should be very different from their movie portrayals

With the hobbit, I don’t have that problem.

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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 1d

Under Over Over - West Hampstead

So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.

The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 15h

Incidentally exactly what about the post 2009 period makes people think that AKSHALLY we could have gotten more left wing healthcare at some later date

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 17h

and you're surprised | patreon.com/lubchansky

PANEL 1: A GREEN GUY is trapped under a big rock. A BLUE GUY is walking by.
GREEN: Hey, a little help?
BLUE: Crushed under the big rock, are we?

PANEL 2: The BLUE GUY, bending down.
BLUE GUY: And you're SURPRISED?
GREEN: Not particularly, no! I'm just kind of in horrible pain–

PANEL 3: The BLUE GUY, standing up and gesticulating.
BLUE: I KNEW that people can be crushed by rocks. For YEARS actually.
GREEN: What do you want, a medal?

PANEL 4: The BLUE GUY is nailed by a big rock.
BLUE: Yeah, that'd be a good start–hrk!

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#1 Eito Stan @ksmiles.bsky.social · 16h

To be fair these ones are cooler than the AoS ones
But yes it’s so fucking stupid I hate it
Let me use my skaven in old world! Free the rats!

#1 Eito Stan @ksmiles.bsky.social · 17h

New Warhammer Vikings look cool

#1 Eito Stan @ksmiles.bsky.social · 20h

You deserve kindness!

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#1 Eito Stan @ksmiles.bsky.social · 20h

Cryptid

#1 Eito Stan @ksmiles.bsky.social · 20h

That doesn’t mean you don’t deserve hugs

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#1 Eito Stan @ksmiles.bsky.social · 21h

*hugs*

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#1 Eito Stan @ksmiles.bsky.social · 1d

That museum exhibit is an important part of keeping the pharaoh in the afterlife tho. As long as they are still known, they will live on.
(On a more serious note, I very much get what you mean. It feels quite disrespectful. At least let king tut keep his mask as opposed to stripping him naked.)

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

we are going to need somewhere to export the Trump administration to, because we cannot be trusted to permanently incapacitate the Republican Party ourselves. the Hague is a good enough place.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

there are some defensible reasons the US is not a member of the ICC (there are far more indefensible reasons), but i think the trump administration probably vaporizes the defensible reasons

Andrew Nelson @i.amnot.social · 1d

I am aware of the hurdles here but I think at least some portion of them are gonna have to get sent to the ICC. The response has to be unlike anything we have ever done

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

i am a maximalist el salvador hawk. i don't actually give a shit about what happens afterwards but we have to straight-up kill bukele.

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#1 Eito Stan @ksmiles.bsky.social · 1d

met a pair of trans lesbians on the way home who were carting around several oscilloscopes. They ended up monologuing to me about gundam lol

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

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#1 Eito Stan @ksmiles.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently there‘s extra trains to Salem during october lol

#1 Eito Stan @ksmiles.bsky.social · 2d

5th edition. Which I think D&D is still on.

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