Links here, folks, get your links. All new, mostly fresh. I’ve been doing a deep dive into fifties and sixties sci-fi flicks and TV, and it shows.
WHEN YOUR GOVERNMENT CAN TRANSITION, BUT YOU CAN’T: Okay, I shouldn’t be making light of this, and it must be truly wretched to be a GLB person in one of those shitstain countries. Coup, military junta, unelected “transitional” parliament. We really ought to send in Dick Slashballs to destabilize the place yet again. (Coverage in US English)
BLIND SQUIRREL FINDS ACORN: The Hill has just noticed this.
VIRGINIA SNUBS STARLINK IN FREE INTERNET GIVE-AWAY: Simply put, Virginia has put its heavy thumb on the scale in favor of expensive, slow-to-build fiber bias over speedy, low cost, and technology neutral competition. The taxpayers shouldn’t be funding this, of course, but if we have to do so let the competition be fair and open.
INSUFFERABLY ENTITLED AWFL FINDS OUT: While this might seem to be mere tabloid fodder about an aging actress trying for one last moment in the spotlight, it has the potential to blow up into the sort of wonderful trolling the Trump administration excels at. Imagine them doing a deep dive into the passport birth dates of Hollywood AWFLS, and actually revoking passports over “discrepencies.” Imagine how rampant this could be. Imagine that happening to, say, Jane Fonda.
AND THE CHILDREN SHALL LEAD: A follow-up article from the UK press on the heroic Scottish girl with axe and knife. A more sensible analysis from The European Conservative. Sometimes it takes a child hero like Mayah Sommers or Kyle Rittenhouse to lead when adults won’t. I am so glad my ancestors left that cold, damp island before it went completely to shit.
SPACE NEWS ROUNDUP: UK shutters space agency which never got off the ground (womp, womp). Meanwhile, space programmes of former colonies USA (multiple launch providers, manned space program), New Zealand (RocketLab orbital launch provider, about to fly new medium lift rocket), and Australia (trying very hard, almost there) all doing well. President Trump moves Space Force HQ from Colorado to Alabama. I’m not sure how necessary that is, but it’s a shrewd political move to punish Colorado for their woke policies. Will someone please tell the Alabama natives that those Space Force uniforms are legit service uniforms and not random people cosplaying gay steampunk airship crews?
GENDERLESS, BUT STILL SEXY: On the ground and in space, Spacedock makes mating and the transfer of fluids and data seamless, inexpensive and secure.
The Hill has just noticed this.
The left is always amazed to discover that National Socialism is socialism!
But not REAL socialism.
That’s because National Socialism actually existed.
Obviously since it didn’t work.
That wasn’t real National Socialism.
It would have worked if it weren’t for those meddling Jews.
Clearly that map is an attempt by Trump to distract from his literal genocide of LBTQ
So I understand the brown and yellow color coding of shithole countries, what is the orange for?
The orange is where the Muslims generously house homosexual people in state provided facilities. The red is where they provide end of life care for them judicially rather than via voluntarism.
If you click on the “shitstain countries” link there is a more granular explanation of the map colors.
Oh, Tonio, you missed my allusion to hanky codes?
Dammit, JI. Yes, yes I did. You got me.
Well done.
Well, if ya take LGBTQUIACP^2+ and take out the T, ya can literally decimate the Quiltbag’s carrying capacity.
No way Britain is a light green color.
cosplaying gay steampunk airship crews
If that’s what they actually look like, then let the mockery proceed.
Trust me on this, JI.
[singing mockingly] “Nothing is like the US Space Force.”
They should’ve went all in and had Star Trek Kirk era uniforms.
The camouflage, shouldn’t it be sequined? Since the stars twinkle you know.
The Space cadets aren’t as distinctive as I expected.
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to
Sparkle MotionSpace Force!Not for nothing, but Space Command should have always been in Huntsville.
Put them in Dayton.
Nope, aliens took over the place years ago,
That would be sensible. The Space Force shouldn’t exist, and Ohio doesn’t exist.
Disinformation! Fake news!
Neph, GT, Tres grab you gear, we have to go take care of Pat.
After a decade they finally have the opportunity to legitimately call Trump a fascist, and they blow it.
And bring into the fold? They would never
They would have to agree with Rand, and that ainât happening.
Lil’ Boudica rocks.
Spacedock sounds dirty. *googles it and remembers rule 34
I’m glad one of you went there; I was trolling you, OF COURSE. I was familiar with the tamest meaning, but got squicked out by the other meanings. WTF is wrong with ppl?
We’re all freaks here. Looks especially at SugarFree(currently in an It Clown suit with a backwards facing strap-on).
My mind went there as well. I will admit to being adventurous, but that sort of thing? No. Just no.
Put this on the list of unfortunate product names, with that 80’s diet chew called Ayds.
Obligatory
If they started doing that with subsidized internet, all of a sudden people might start wondering if it would work for, say, education, and we can’t have that.
What exactly does this company do again?
Has someone been reading my Literotica page?
*tentacles appear over the starboard side
Monocles, waistcoats, and assless chaps is a hell of an outfit.
You can just say “chaps”. Assless-ness is an essential property.
Allows the imagery to be seared into the brain
It highlights the lack of jeans, good or otherwise beneath the chaps.
“assless chaps,” although redundant phrasing, has long been a trope here, and previously at TOS.
Someday someone will invent assed chaps.
You know, we could probably make a killing of we started manufacturing chaps under the brand name “Assless.” The advertising is built in.
ROAT:
Like Negative Wonder Woman?
And that will chap all our asses.
Does her lasso make you lie?
ROAT:
She does have a visible jet, but they do not show the powers of her lasso.
“Someday someone will invent assed chaps.”
Levi Strauss has entered the chat.
Negar, Please!
The taxpayers shouldnât be funding this…
AFAIK, these people built out an entire rural county with fiber.
Unfortunately for me and my property down there, it’s the next county over.Looking up that website, they are expanding into my county – woot, woot!Just build your own.
https://www.wired.com/story/this-man-built-his-own-isp-26-million-dollar-funds/
Fiber? Next thing you know, people will start getting landlines again!
Spacedock
I’m pretty sure I’ve heard that term used before…
Just another example of (((exclusion))), anti-circumcisionism is anti-semitism!
All acts are legal in the pink.
“Spacedock makes mating and the transfer of fluids and data seamless, inexpensive and secure,â
Great. Now we have to refer to Spacedock engineers as berthing persons.
“Put the male plug into the female.” How. Dare. You! – Non-Binary Queer Applesauce kink Commander.
[thunderous applause]
Mad Scientist with the slip!
*groan*
Take a bow, you earned that one.
Did Tonio let you out of your room?
True words once spoken about English government, and as true now as they were 372 years ago:
Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess?
Ye have no more religion than my horse. Gold is your God. Which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?
Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defiled this sacred place, and turned the Lord’s temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices?
Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation. You were deputed here by the people to get grievances redressed, are yourselves become the greatest grievance.
Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this House; and which by God’s help, and the strength he has given me, I am now come to do.
I command ye therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place.
Go, get you out! Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors.
In the name of God, go!
The English today are as deserving of a tyrant as they were then.
Cromwell?
Richard Harris?
Yep, and then quoted again at Chamberlain in 1940 (prior to the vote of confidence he lost which led to Churchill becoming PM).
Cromwell authored one of my favorite quotations, which I consider something of a touchstone for my life: âIs it therefore infallibly agreeable to the Word of God, all that you say? I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.â
Of course Cromwell never had any such doubts about himself or his own actions.
Dude that lied, got caught, and now says it was an ‘honest mistake’ about receiving a bronze star is absolutely getting destroyed.
You might not know about getting a device for meritorious service but you damn sure know when you get a bronze star.
You mean the one that was âfixedâ at the end of auto pen Joeâs tenure?
https://archive.fo/MnGK9
Christ, what an asshole.
A friend of mine, who actually does have two bronze stars*, often says “Yeah, the Corps gave me these for not fucking my job up too badly…”
* – one of which absolutely should have been a DSM…
In VN Bronze Stars were issued for exemplary service (whatever that means), captains and above. Lower ranks (such as me) got Army Commendation Medals.
When my section disbanded in Spain I was tasked to writing the recommendations for Joint Commendations, including one for my boss, a Navy 0-4, plus an Army SGM, an Army SFC, and a Navy First Class. Then, if I thought I deserved one, write my own recommendation. I chose not to, since in reality none of us had done more than our jobs
Those I had written the recommendations for all got theirs, I was a good stringer of superlatives.
It annoyed me that awards were often tiered for rank instead of exceptional service. I’m a bit biased having had an award downgraded because I was only a sergeant even though I well exceeded what was expected of one.
“He explained that, in the military, trust in a commanding officer typically suffices, which is why he included the Bronze Star on his application.”
Da fuq?
It doesn’t matter if you trust your command. You aren’t awarded a medal until you receive the orders. I don’t claim an award that was submitted by my command but downgraded.
I’ve been out for over 20 years and can tell you every medal I have and probably all the devices. It isn’t difficult. You definitely should remember major merit awards.
Be an E7 or O3
Have a pulse.
Deploy.
Get bronze star with M device.
M? Do you mean V?
A V for Valor had to have some merit, usually.
So not a “M”. I only recall an “M” device for the AFRM for involuntary mobilizations.
There is no “M” for a Bronze Star – only a “V” which means it was really real.
I’ve seen an ARCOM with V device. Junior enlisted have to do more to get higher medals.
OFFS đ
/taps the fuck out
*puts nuts out for Peanut*
Well we cant equate her to actual heroic figures
I lack the patience for AI art, and Grok is stupid. I was trying to get a picture with Peanut as Gandalf blocking balrog Kamala on the bridge, but the results were so far away from that I don’t even know how to fix them lol.
“YOU…. SHALL.. NOT… PARSE!!!”
Wish I could help, my expertise is in sexy AI girlfriends.
mistook balrog for ball gag and blocking for …
Not even that logical, it is honestly hard to see a connection between what I ask for and what it draws.
Be honest, you were just trying to impress Ani with your Grok Art.
Socialism, fascism, what’s the diff?
Uniforms.
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels advocated for social control of resources in their 1848 Manifesto of Communist Party as the means of achieving true freedom and prosperity. But they viewed socialism as a mere step toward communism, which rejects social classes, money and the state entirely in favor of common ownership.
Who wouldn’t want that? It sounds totally awesome.
Destroy everything that exists now and watch the magic happen!
Topical. I suppose so much for the whole “The video doesn’t show anything and that nice Bulgarian couple must be pure as the Scottish snow since there are no charges!” (As if the police declining to charge means anything for the politically savory.
And yes — Mad Scientist won the post by a landslide above.
Although most of the Republican Party has cheered on Trumpâs plans to acquire stakes in other companies, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) wrote on X, âIf socialism is government owning the means of production, wouldnât the government owning part of Intel be a step toward socialism?â
You’re not supposed to be right when Donald Trump is wrong. That’s a cardinal sin.
Maybe Trumpâs dumbass will try to primary him.
Trump’s government capitalism industrial policy is just more out in the open, compared to Biden and Obama.
12 brave people!
In rare interviews, federal judges criticize Supreme Court’s handling of Trump cases
Those few souls brave enough to say something against Trump.
So how do we know these were actually federal judges?
NBC says so!
12 anonymous persons!
We’re biased but we want to keep that a secret so we can continue to be biased.
12 Angry Men, Women and Whatevers
The DOJ is going to let judges be assassinated!
These people sound like clowns and one wanted Roberts to basically say that the lower courts decisions were made in good faith and not crazy even though many of them have been.
Needs more see through yogawears
Lululemon shares plunged in extended trading Thursday after the company gave a much worse than expected full-year outlook.
The company topped second-quarter earnings estimates but slightly missed revenue expectations. But it said it expected tariffs to hit its full-year profits by $240 million.
I’m surprised they have lasted this long. Fads fade.
If LuLaRoe can hang on …
McDonald said on the Thursday call that he believes the company has let its product lifecycles ârun too long,â particularly in its lounge and social categories.
âWe have become too predictable within our casual offerings and missed opportunities to create new trends,â he said.
âOur lounge and social product offerings have become stale and have not been resonating with guests,â McDonald added.
Get Sydney Sweeney’s agent on the phone!
I could, err, get behind Sydney in yoga pants.
Isn’t that like driving a convertible with the top up? I mean, it could be a nice ride but the thing that makes the convertible extra fun is, well…
They should call it the Gimcrack
Adaptive dampers control the Prelude’s ride, and there are four different drive modes. The powertrain simulates a manual transmission with something called S+ Shift, which “delivers quick simulated gearshift responses through seamless coordination between the engine and high-power motor, including downshift blips, rev matching, and gear holding.”
Throw in four wheel steer to mask the ponderous mass. It’s a sure winner.
Sorry if already covered:
â Justice Department Considering Ban on Transgendered People Owning Firearmsâ
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/04/justice-department-considering-pushing-ban-transgendered-people-owning-firearms/
Terrible, bad, shitty idea and the idiot commenters are eating it up. Theyâre just too goddamn stupid to realize that this would be turned on them when the Dems managed to get power again I guess. Good thing the Supremes would strike it down 9-0 in about five minutes.
Nah, I am sure Afrimative Action Jackson would go with it, as it is gun control. And, in her eyes, that is always good.
I think it would make steam pour from the ears of all of the lefty faction as their brains try to process the contradictions.
https://babylonbee.com/news/calvinist-nfl-preview-each-team-shall-win-the-games-they-were-predestined-to-win
Good thing the Supremes would strike it down 9-0 in about five minutes.
*-1 at best. Affirmative Action Jackson would be all in favor. Literalism be damned.
Have they struck down a single red flag law?
There is the answer.
Oops. Should be 8-1</strong.
tuping is hsrd.
I didn’t think space docking was genderless, I thought you need one circumcised and one uncircumcised penis.
Gah!
But do they crash into Uranus?
â⌠makes mating and the transfer of fluids and data seamless, inexpensive and secure.â
Oh my! Space condoms!
CAKE!
Early American baking.
No! Not another rabbit hole!
/interesting
Last night at the rodeo the girl brought her fairy barbie doll.
She told me she was âmaking the fairy flyâ
My brain immediately went to âhow do you say that in haji?â
“gay steampunk airship crews”
You can just say “USAF” Tonio.
*runs from room*
Your DD214 says you have to make fun of the chair force?
Mine says itâs the jarheads.
Must be an officer thing