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Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 56m

I do wonder if drones with drop weapons will completely replace mortars. Mortars would have a higher fire rate, but drones combine remote spotting and insane accuracy.

Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 2h

Stripes using the scare quotes for trafficking narcotics because they actually care about service members and whether or not the troops pulling the trigger based solely on the orders of a corrupt administration get charged with war crimes down the line.

Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 2h

ICYMI: President Donald Trump said Tuesday that U.S. forces had conducted another strike against an alleged drug smuggling vessel off the coast of Venezuela, killing six people in the fifth known strike the U.S. has conducted in the region.

US strikes another boat ‘trafficking narcotics’ off coast of Venezuela, Trump says; 6 killed

It’s the fifth known deadly strike in the Caribbean as Trump has asserted that the U.S. is treating alleged drug traffickers as unlawful combatants.

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Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 2h

Man, where have I heard this kinda thing about black pilots before? Must've slipped my mind.

Well, I guess I'll go see who got a Presidential Medal of Freedom recently.

Mallory 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺 @sadboots.bsky.social · 12h

Why are we importing intra-Italian racism I thought there was a tariff on this shit

"If your pilot is a she and she looks ten shades darker than someone from Sicily, just end it there. Scream the no no word,"
Giunta wrote.

Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 2h

A bit of cloud cover for the lights to reflect off and wet streets to keep them dark makes cities gorgeous.

Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 8h

Minneapolis after dark

view down Marquette avenue downtown with yellow and pink lights in the rain, west streets, someone walking

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Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 2h

At least you'll take less radiation from eating or drinking.

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Fallout 4 Perks and S.P.E.C.I.A.L. attributes.

Basic character attributes in Fallout 4 are Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility and Luck. Together they form a S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stats system. Each attribute has 10 levels, e...

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Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 3h

If you know the absolutely terrific board game, Root, and do philosophy, you will not find a better example of the Prisoner's Dilemma. (Otters are the Riverfolk faction, who made 13 units of profit in the pictured turn).

Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 5h

California needs to get an army division back at Fort Ord and we need to be able to approve thexsenior leadership positions because we cannot trust Trump or the next iteration of him not to send the army to murder Californians.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 6h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

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Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 7h

Future election after AI gets voting rights: "Where'd all these votes for Kim Jong-Un come from?"

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 22h

The people behind the inflated protests are performing a monumental service to democracy & peace in the US. The Regime wants riots, but these animal characters are not only an effective protest, grabbing attention & mocking ICE, they seem to reduce the risk of violent protests. It's perfect.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 22h

And also, we learned too late for our little horror movie that distribs want established actors as leads. No more Jamie Lee Curtis or Heather Langencamp for your young horror stars. Now you need a part for Ethan Hawke.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 22h

NATO Secretary General Rutte:
…Now there is hardly any Russian naval presence in the Mediterranean left

There is a lone&broken Russian submarine limping home from patrol.What a change from the 1984 Tom Clancy novel The Hunt for Red October.Today, it seems more like The Hunt for the Nearest Mechanic

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Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 1d

Still looking for someone, haven't found a single person so far (that I can contact). I have a 46-episode script that I need translated. This would be a paid job!

Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 11d

Completely unrelated to my 2am doomposting but does anyone know an English to Japanese translator, ideally with experience in screenplays?

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Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 22h

Agreed -- but it's all streaming only now. I don't know the way out of this.

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Gareth-Michael Skarka @gmskarka.bsky.social · 1d

We need more movies for teenagers—rather that movies resurrecting IP from when I was a teenager.

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Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 23h

This guy's a fucking moron. Anyone with a Tor browser can find out how to make a nuclear bomb if they have the right fissile material.

Ben Johnson @benjgeo.bsky.social · 1d

There was never a world in which Ukraine had the ability to use or maintain the Soviet nuclear weapons within its borders. theconversation.com/thirty-years...

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🪡 Ether GhostLace 🪡 (she/her—illiteratis did this) @laceslibgremlin.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a soul-destroying attitude that I have difficulty explaining but basically when people take the risk of people not liking their art out of art the art is worse

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d

One thing I am glad this did (might not be accessible in the UK alas unless you have Means) is just absolutely go in on that nonsense "does it really count as starving children if the children are also sick for other reasons?" thing the Free Press did.

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Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 1d

OTD in 2002 🇺🇦 began decommissioning its nuclear capable Tu-22 strategic bombers & Kh-22 cruise missiles, as per the Budapest memo.

30 bombers & 230 missiles were destroyed over 2 & half years in exchange for promise 🇷🇺 would never invade.

But you can believe our promises now

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

ICE needs a legislative death sentence. We are allowed to abolish institutions when they become unaccountable beyond the point of reform, or when they become inextricably associated with corruption or abuse. In order for ICE’s leaders and agents to be held to account ICE itself must die.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out Civil War II looks like a Fortnight skins event after all. Eschew Battlefield 6, Fortnight is where you go for conflict authenticity.

🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 1d

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Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 1d

True, but should probably be someone associated with America.

Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 1d

Trying to think of an Italian LESS worthy of an American holiday than Columbus is actually the challenge mode version.

AFAIK, Al Capone didn't give his lieutenants child sex slaves, unlike Columbus.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 1d

Original Tron's legacy saved by the arcade games that came out based on it.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 1d

150+ unvaccinated kids in two schools? What the fuck are we doing here??

Clip from the attached story that says: He points to the current outbreak in South Carolina where more than 150 unvaccinated school children at two schools are now being subject to a 21-day quarantine after being exposed

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Steven Palmer Peterson @stevenppeterson.bsky.social · 1d

I suspect one reason for the masks is so that nobody recognizes them and we find out how many have criminal records or are Jan 6ers or Boogaloo Boys.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

Again, every time this happens, we literally have no idea if the masked, plainclothes people are actual government agents, or private citizens acting in party-affiliated paramilitaries. The whole point of IDs & uniforms & no masks is that we know these things.