Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis
@thrownintosol.bsky.social
Tired and barely functional.
Autistic et al.
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Looks like a guy. In early thirties, lol. South African in ZA / 🇿🇦 .
Anti-AI. I typo and repost a lot!
Autistic et al.
Profile Pic; @failnaut on Twitter/Bluesky!
Alt Text for Header and Profile Pic = https://shorturl.at/DFMN9.
Looks like a guy. In early thirties, lol. South African in ZA / 🇿🇦 .
Anti-AI. I typo and repost a lot!
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Autistics who hyper-fixate on the predominantly icy planetesimals proposed to surround the Sun at great distance should be called Oortistics.
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Maybe the navy just really wants the Davidson window
F/A-XX in shambles, Connie canceled, LSM/LAW stuck in perpetual torment, SM-6 production in shambles, F-35C buys at lowest rates, F/A-18E/F line being terminated, DDG(X) sent to the indeterminate future. The US Navy's century of Burkiliation is here. Arleigh-Burkes now and forever.
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Maybe the navy just really wants the Davidson window
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This is embarrassing. In 2008, I & my family went to a special school for refugees & migrants before being put in the English school system. These resources disappeared since 2010s. British people became more racist over smaller things. And catch-22, people can't integrate when you don't let them.
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
This is embarrassing. In 2008, I & my family went to a special school for refugees & migrants before being put in the English school system. These resources disappeared since 2010s. British people became more racist over smaller things. And catch-22, people can't integrate when you don't let them.
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Machiavelli: It is better to be feared than loved, but you must absolutely avoid being *hated.*
So many forget that last part.
So many forget that last part.
It is a bit alarming, when rereading Machiavelli's The Prince, that it lands as reportage rather than political theory. However, I find great comfort in the fact that they are really effing it up.
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Machiavelli: It is better to be feared than loved, but you must absolutely avoid being *hated.*
So many forget that last part.
So many forget that last part.
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My mom told her physical therapist she wears a mask because her husband and daughter are immunocompromised. The PT said she is too but isn't worried bc she knows if she dies she is going to heaven. Then her co-worker yelled, “Shut up Debbie you wear a seatbelt and take blood pressure meds” 👀
November 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
My mom told her physical therapist she wears a mask because her husband and daughter are immunocompromised. The PT said she is too but isn't worried bc she knows if she dies she is going to heaven. Then her co-worker yelled, “Shut up Debbie you wear a seatbelt and take blood pressure meds” 👀
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Mohammed bin Salman has now said no to Trump, Biden, and Trump again
Decent odds next Democratic president learns nothing from this and makes the same ask: give Israel everything in return for nothing
Decent odds next Democratic president learns nothing from this and makes the same ask: give Israel everything in return for nothing
Trump demands something that MBS has no reason to give, acts surprised when MBS says no.
Scoop: Trump's meeting with MBS got tense over Israel
With the war in Gaza over, Trump had hoped for a breakthrough toward Saudi-Israeli normalization.
www.axios.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Mohammed bin Salman has now said no to Trump, Biden, and Trump again
Decent odds next Democratic president learns nothing from this and makes the same ask: give Israel everything in return for nothing
Decent odds next Democratic president learns nothing from this and makes the same ask: give Israel everything in return for nothing
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i have agreed with stancil and i have disagreed with stancil. he has sharp elbows. but the accusation that he is a raging transphobe is not connected to reality. and the weaponization of "i'm listening to trans people" to smear someone because you disagree about fucking econ polling is disgusting
No, I do not “pick on” trans people, I have never done anything like this. And frankly, I think the willingness of some people to completely invent accusations of transphobia in the desperate search for a cudgel against ideological opponents suggests they don’t really care about transphobia
Listen dude, you can try and ride for this guy all you want, but the trans userbase of this platform fucking hates him because he picks on them. I'm going to listen to the trans people I know who are telling me he's bad. Plus I've been in these threads and seen it
November 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
i have agreed with stancil and i have disagreed with stancil. he has sharp elbows. but the accusation that he is a raging transphobe is not connected to reality. and the weaponization of "i'm listening to trans people" to smear someone because you disagree about fucking econ polling is disgusting
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"you'll be visited by three spirits"
The three spirits
The three spirits
December 24, 2024 at 1:36 PM
"you'll be visited by three spirits"
The three spirits
The three spirits
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The Husband — what's better than the devil you know?
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The Husband — what's better than the devil you know?
i remember saving up for something and now i can't remember what it was, lol
was videogame related around the 2nd or 4th ???
not the Darktide new class, I remember that one
was videogame related around the 2nd or 4th ???
not the Darktide new class, I remember that one
November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
i remember saving up for something and now i can't remember what it was, lol
was videogame related around the 2nd or 4th ???
not the Darktide new class, I remember that one
was videogame related around the 2nd or 4th ???
not the Darktide new class, I remember that one
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there is a massive gulf between "there is alien life somewhere in the universe" and "EARTH IS THE LYNCHPIN OF A GALACTIC WAR BETWEEN THE PLEIDIANS AND REPTILLIANS THAT HAS BEEN WAGED FOR BILLIONS OF YEARS AND THE ENERGY PRODUCED BY OUR SOULS IS THE FUEL THAT WILL DETERMINE THE OUTCOME OF THIS WAR"
New polling on aliens
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
November 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
there is a massive gulf between "there is alien life somewhere in the universe" and "EARTH IS THE LYNCHPIN OF A GALACTIC WAR BETWEEN THE PLEIDIANS AND REPTILLIANS THAT HAS BEEN WAGED FOR BILLIONS OF YEARS AND THE ENERGY PRODUCED BY OUR SOULS IS THE FUEL THAT WILL DETERMINE THE OUTCOME OF THIS WAR"
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I can't speak for what was said at the protests, but seeing people react to an anodyne statement like "sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law" as if it were a vicious slur is clarifying.
Zohran Mamdani chastised a Manhattan synagogue that hosted an event promoting migration to Israel and settlements in occupied territories. His stance further tested his strained relationship with pro-Israel Jews in New York.
Mamdani Response to Protest Inflames Tensions with Jewish Leaders
The mayor-elect chastised a synagogue that hosted an event promoting migration to Israel and settlements in occupied territories. His stance further tested his strained relationship with pro-Israel Jews.
nyti.ms
November 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I can't speak for what was said at the protests, but seeing people react to an anodyne statement like "sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law" as if it were a vicious slur is clarifying.
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what if groverhaus were a boat
There’s a wild story playing out on Great Lakes ship watching and coastal Facebook groups right now.
There’s a guy with a homemade house boat who’s attempting to traverse the lakes.
The boat is called Neverlanding and it set sail from Windsor, ON. It appears he has 1-2 50hp motors.
There’s a guy with a homemade house boat who’s attempting to traverse the lakes.
The boat is called Neverlanding and it set sail from Windsor, ON. It appears he has 1-2 50hp motors.
November 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
what if groverhaus were a boat
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![Comic: Typical Geologic core sample. [Cylindrical core sample with labels for difference sections from top to bottom] Topsoil, till, granite bedrock, bottomsoil, roof of subway car, floor of subway car, more granite, municipal water main [gouge in core sample], slightly different granite, piece of screaming spelunker’s forearm, cool crystals with no resale value, mangled fragments of drillbit from previous attempt, some boring intrusive rock that’s basically granite but has a name like “diorite” or “Andalite” that you always have to look up, netherrack, Balrog wing. [break between next chunk of core sample] Granite, topsoil, cement, floorboards, carpet, possessions of a confused and angry homeowner in the other hemisphere.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicffnydtpbb2x24cfbblv2qtcwbr37zyw44vtqx47ocj2a26b2j2u@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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In 1924, Calvin Coolidge's 16-yr-old son played tennis on the White House grounds w/o wearing socks. He got a blister and was dead from infection a week later.
This is unthinkable today—which is why I wrote this series. Cuz the systems that save us from this kind of fate are in urgent need of care.
This is unthinkable today—which is why I wrote this series. Cuz the systems that save us from this kind of fate are in urgent need of care.
For a yr, I've been working on a series for The New Atlantis about the vast systems that underlie our lives. Our ancestors built them up over decades to fend off hunger, thirst, darkness and disease. But too few of us know about them—and they're all at risk. The conclusion is now available online:
Why We Are Better Off Than a Century Ago
Our ancestors built grand public systems to conquer hunger, thirst, darkness, and squalor. That progress can be lost if we forget it.
www.thenewatlantis.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
In 1924, Calvin Coolidge's 16-yr-old son played tennis on the White House grounds w/o wearing socks. He got a blister and was dead from infection a week later.
This is unthinkable today—which is why I wrote this series. Cuz the systems that save us from this kind of fate are in urgent need of care.
This is unthinkable today—which is why I wrote this series. Cuz the systems that save us from this kind of fate are in urgent need of care.
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love living under a hays code/comics code authority except it's in some ways worse, because it's not actually codified anywhere and it's enforced opaquely on purpose to avoid accountability at every stage
Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...
November 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
love living under a hays code/comics code authority except it's in some ways worse, because it's not actually codified anywhere and it's enforced opaquely on purpose to avoid accountability at every stage
i am pro savory pies
(ii have a British emigrant parent in a once British dominion, my sins are many)
and i'm like, if the Americans want sweet pies, then cool
they sound nice and foods are for everyone
(ii have a British emigrant parent in a once British dominion, my sins are many)
and i'm like, if the Americans want sweet pies, then cool
they sound nice and foods are for everyone
November 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
i am pro savory pies
(ii have a British emigrant parent in a once British dominion, my sins are many)
and i'm like, if the Americans want sweet pies, then cool
they sound nice and foods are for everyone
(ii have a British emigrant parent in a once British dominion, my sins are many)
and i'm like, if the Americans want sweet pies, then cool
they sound nice and foods are for everyone
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My followers are mostly fellow sickos but I've had a few Follows who I'm like "Genuinely thank you but I hope it wasn't a mistake because otherwise when I shake off my momentary sense of shame in a few hours you better get cool with a lot of stuff real quick."
ME POSTING: Good pussy sound like the Silent Hill radio
ME AFTER I NOTICE A FAMOUS PERSON JUST FOLLOWED ME: More than ever it is so inportant to be apprised of all that is to be and furthermore to learn of all that could in the best manner we are able as this is the true delight of Life
ME AFTER I NOTICE A FAMOUS PERSON JUST FOLLOWED ME: More than ever it is so inportant to be apprised of all that is to be and furthermore to learn of all that could in the best manner we are able as this is the true delight of Life
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
My followers are mostly fellow sickos but I've had a few Follows who I'm like "Genuinely thank you but I hope it wasn't a mistake because otherwise when I shake off my momentary sense of shame in a few hours you better get cool with a lot of stuff real quick."
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I'M 'SCIENTISTS', YOU GUYS, AND I'M SAYING "IT'S UNDERSTANDABLE IF IT *FEELS* REAL BUT IT'S NOT. ACTUALLY. REAL."
November 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I'M 'SCIENTISTS', YOU GUYS, AND I'M SAYING "IT'S UNDERSTANDABLE IF IT *FEELS* REAL BUT IT'S NOT. ACTUALLY. REAL."
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My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?
bedtime, a hole hour earlier than the "norm" lately
east-coast americans: "a normal time to go to bed!"
"south africans and EU folks:
"south africans and EU folks:
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
bedtime, a hole hour earlier than the "norm" lately
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monsterfuckers when they learn the real monster... is man
February 1, 2025 at 10:44 PM
monsterfuckers when they learn the real monster... is man
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Regular reminder that the full set of German intelligence assessments for Operation CRUSADER is here, together with some explanations and background.
This is to my knowledge the most/only comprehensive resource in English covering German intelligence of their enemy in a specific operation in WW2.
This is to my knowledge the most/only comprehensive resource in English covering German intelligence of their enemy in a specific operation in WW2.
Panzerarmee Intelligence Reports
The table below gives easy access to the daily reports. The background to these reports is as set out below. The reports were made daily to the High Command of the Army’s Foreign Armies West …
rommelsriposte.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Regular reminder that the full set of German intelligence assessments for Operation CRUSADER is here, together with some explanations and background.
This is to my knowledge the most/only comprehensive resource in English covering German intelligence of their enemy in a specific operation in WW2.
This is to my knowledge the most/only comprehensive resource in English covering German intelligence of their enemy in a specific operation in WW2.
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"It's getting to the stage where I just can't trust video games, and it means I'm starting to approach every game I play dubiously ...
This isn't wearing down my opposition to AI-generated content, but it is wearing me down when it comes to approaching and enjoying video games."
Hard fucking same.
This isn't wearing down my opposition to AI-generated content, but it is wearing me down when it comes to approaching and enjoying video games."
Hard fucking same.
I'm getting real tired of not being able to trust that a video game doesn't have AI crap in it:
aftermath.site/the-alters-ai-...
aftermath.site/the-alters-ai-...
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
"It's getting to the stage where I just can't trust video games, and it means I'm starting to approach every game I play dubiously ...
This isn't wearing down my opposition to AI-generated content, but it is wearing me down when it comes to approaching and enjoying video games."
Hard fucking same.
This isn't wearing down my opposition to AI-generated content, but it is wearing me down when it comes to approaching and enjoying video games."
Hard fucking same.