JayV

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I try not to drive faster than I can see. 2006 TIME Person of the Year Astronomer, actor, etc. TinyMUD's Captain-Nemo. SCA East, Known World Players (KiCMA as Jotun-Eirikr Bjarnason)

20th Maine bayonet charge at Gettysburg

"A narcissist obsessed with a reflecting pool is the peak of life imitating mythology."

Chad Stevens - Frodo & Same navigate the Dead Reflecting Pool

by Chad Stevens - Frodo & Sam navigate the Dead Reflecting Pool on the way to Mordor

213.The twentieth-century Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien, in the words of a protagonist in one of his novels, described our responsibility in this way: “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”

"Tom Hiddleston is Benedick. Hayley Atwell is Beatrice.  Two of their generation’s finest actors star in Tony Award®️winner Jamie Lloyd’s joy-fueled reinvention of Much Ado About Nothing."

Tom Hiddleston is Benedick. Hayley Atwell is Beatrice.  Two of their generation’s finest actors star in Tony Award®️winner Jamie Lloyd’s joy-fueled reinvention of Much Ado About Nothing.

Pope Leo XIV
@Pontifex
God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs. Military action will not create space for freedom or times of #Peace, which comes only from the patient promotion of coexistence and dialogue among peoples.

therickstengel
8h
An American president threatening the death of an ancient civilization is in some ways the end of the 250-year moral experiment of a constitutional republic that the framers saw as a model for all mankind.

Bob Ross-Thor style

Choose your leaders
with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool
is to be led
by the opportunists
who control the fool.
To be led by a thief
is to offer up
your most precious treasures
to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask
to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant
is to sell yourself
and those you love
into slavery.

24 exoplanet Kuiper Belts

Happy National Winie the Pooh Day!
(aka A.A.Milne's birthday)

the next Frost Moon Feast will be February 7th 2026! TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW!

Friend: It's called cauliflower. It's not ghost broccoli
Me: (taking a long draw on my cigarette) Listen kid, I know what I saw

Petitioner brings Anubis their heart and the very next day He gives it a weigh....

The Brndywine Festival

As a friend notes: "The Republicans caught on that hateful chat full of jokes about rape and gas chambers were not kids. They were not randos on some dipshit subreddit. They were the hand-picked and carefully groomed - and I use that word advisedly - future leaders of the Republican movement. They are not outliers. They are not rogue. They insiders, and they are expressing exactly what they have been encouraged to think to advance in the party. This is core Republican thought. "

As a friend notes: "The Republicans caught on that hateful chat full of jokes about rape and gas chambers were not kids. They were not randos on some dipshit subreddit. They were the hand-picked and carefully groomed - and I use that word advisedly - future leaders of the Republican movement. They are not outliers. They are not rogue. They insiders, and they are expressing exactly what they have been encouraged to think to advance in the party. This is core Republican thought. "

"stonekettle-
When some hateful public figure dies, this idea those he marginalized, harassed, degraded, and daily attacked using the most vile of insults, should somehow for reasons of "decorum" offer up sympathy and kinds words is one of the most ridiculous and insane delusions ever demanded by people who daily traffic in ridiculous and insane delusions.
The targets of hate have every right to rejoice at one less hater in the world."

barbed wire flag

Street sign "No --King Any Time" (with white tape over PA)

Author K. Starling "We can only become the land of the free if we, the people, decide first to be brave."

Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆
@RachelBitecofer
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19h
Democrats doing media:

When asked about Biden’s cognitive health you pivot to Reagan’s cognitive health and his defense of “mushy brain” in the Iran Contra scandal.

Tom Baker as the 4th Doctor, captioned “May the Fourth be with you”

"Stephen Miller is what happens when you spend your entire life plotting revenge over being picked last for kickball in second grade."

Wendy's : "new breakfast combo includes maple bacon chicken croissant, breakfast potatoes, a drink, and the strong urge to abandon your life and live in the woods"

Happy World Book Day

As you watch the Trump regime defend the imprisonment of Mr. Garcia in a massive concentration camp in El Salvador by spewing non-stop lies, please understand they would do the same to justify the imprisonment of you and your family. This is what fascist regimes do.

Sign in front of the White House: "Sex offenders can not live in public housing"

stonekettle -
But seriously, is there anything that symbolizes the current state of America more than the Cybertruck?
A unimaginative ugly brick of a poorly glued-together metal-clad juggernaut, a future visualized by an antisocial billionaire, rolling along taking up more than its fair share of space, filled with insecure bearded self-involved douchebags, always on the brink of catastrophic failure, malfunction, or fire and only just slightly more likely to kill innocent bystanders than its own passengers.

Truth.
F- this "run govt like a business" crap. It's not there to make a profit to provide support & services.

Quote: by tlduryea
"People should want a country run like a home which means women should run it"

stephenking

Think of it this way: Paul Sheldon is the American economy.
Donald Trump is his number one fan.

Peter S. Beagle
You have all the power you need, if you dare to look for it.

Richard Dansky
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In the run-up to the election, one of the talking points that Trump supporters frequently pulled out was the idea that America was a "hellscape" and that only Trump could "lift us out" of the horrible situation we were in.
Naturally, I asked some folks if they could define the hellscape in question. By and large, most of them (who live quite comfortably in non-hellish neighborhoods) couldn't really define it. A few talked about high prices for gas and food. A couple mentioned the border and fentanyl, ignoring the fact that Trump had done precisely zero about those particular issues during his first term.
Now, speaking as a horror writer, I have to say that when it comes to hellscapes, we as Americans should be able to do much better than that. I'm thinking something more like:
Raw sewage getting pumped into drinking water supplies.
The return of fatal, infectious diseases that we thought were long gone, like measles and rubella and dysentery.
A booming economy suddenly taking a nose dive into negative territory, paving the way for recession or even a depression.
Open conflict with our neighbors and closest allies.
Foreign markets being closed off to American goods.
Our financial information being handed over to a drug addict, who, like all drug addicts everywhere, will sell it.
Free speech being threatened and criminalized.
The rule of law and the Constitution being openly ignored.
National defenses against a hostile foreign power being lowered.
After a year of horrific weather-related events like the North Carolina hurricane floods, dismantling the service that helps warn people about weather-related events.
Removing long-established support for veterans, the elderly, and the hungry.
Standing down safeguards against pandemics, leaving us wide open to the next COVID.
Now that's what I call a hellscape. Think we can do that?
Oh.
Wait.
Crap.

therealburrmartin
7h
Someone just called trump supporters, his "Swallowers" and I think that's what we should go with. 😂

Make big snow lumps.
Insert glow sticks for eyes.
Freak the neighbors out.

"Last night, the newly elected Chancellor of Germany harshly castigated the United States, or more specifically its current president, and said that Europe needed to manage its own strategic security independent of the United States. He will find sympathetic ears in Paris and in London. Germany, France, and Great Britain, united.
So the world has changed, folks. The transatlantic alliance that has been the crux of global security for almost a century is disintegrating. Europe is a lot older than we are, they’ve had to manage their affairs without us before, and they’ve come to the conclusion that they cannot trust us, and it is time for them to manage their affairs without us once again.
That will not make America stronger. That will not make America safer. And that will not make America more prosperous."

I haven’t yet decided if this is one or three because I have tons just from a single day:
I supported and defended the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
I bore true faith and allegiance to the same.
I well and faithfully discharged the duties of my office.

"You may be reading that every federal employee has to send five bullet points to Elon Musk, explaining what they got done this week, and that failure to respond will be tantamount to resignation.
Imagine what would happen if everyone in America, 200 or 300 million of us, sent their week’s accomplishments to HR@opm.gov.
Imagine…"

"If you voted for Trump, you need to stand up and own this.
You need to say that you own American families being told to starve.
You need to say you own watching Ebola spiral out of control in Africa and people dying because USAID efforts to contain it got cut off.
You need to say you own everybody's personal financial data being handed over to a fucking junkie.
You need to own having the vote taken away from millions of women, because that's exactly what the SAVE Act is going to do.
You need to say you own firing the people who secure our nuclear weapons because the illegal DOGE can't be bothered to learn what they do.
You need to say you own sucking down the constant stream of lies about eating pets and 150 year old Social Security pensioners without ever wavering in your support for the liars.
You need to say you're happy to damage the mental health of 45 million Americans by putting antidepressants on the chopping block, and advocating for "re-education camps" instead.
You need to say you own American citizens being stripped of their rights and sent to hellhole prisons in El Salvador.
You need to say you own farmers being kicked off their land because the government stopped payment on over 400 programs to support American agriculture.
You need to say you own threatening our closest allies and trade partners with war.
You need to say you own armed mercenaries taking over government buildings so techbros with no understanding and no clearance can push untested live code into our most vital systems.
You need to say you own Executive Orders explicitly defying the Constitution and trashing the entire foundation our country is built on.
You need to say you own all the preventable deaths that are coming because the government killed infectious disease response and medical research.
You need to say you own the Nazi salute.
Do it.
Own it.
Admit it.
And don't tell me this isn't what you voted for, because they flat-out told you it was coming. They wrote a fucking book ab…

I googled 'missing medieval servant'. It came back 'page not found'.

Sometimes I wonder what happened to the people I gave directions to...

The Fellowship approaches Waffle House

Doonesbury - spineless Republicans

Brigid's Day Imbolc Candlemas

If I were the Democrats, I'd use this opportunity to push for a big hike in the minimum wage, saying that Trump is okay with you feeling pain, but we're not. When Republicans say that will hurt businesses, ask why it's fine for consumers to feel pain while CEOs make millions, if not billions, more.

If I were the Democrats, I'd use this opportunity to push for a big hike in the minimum wage, saying that Trump is okay with you feeling pain, but we're not. When Republicans say that will hurt businesses, ask why it's fine for consumers to feel pain while CEOs make millions, if not billions, more.

If I were the Democrats, I'd use this opportunity to push for a big hike in the minimum wage, saying that Trump is okay with you feeling pain, but we're not. When Republicans say that will hurt businesses, ask why it's fine for consumers to feel pain while CEOs make millions, if not billions, more.

rudepundit
38m38 minutes ago
If I were the Democrats, I'd use this opportunity to push for a big hike in the minimum wage, saying that Trump is okay with you feeling pain, but we're not. When Republicans say that will hurt businesses, ask why it's fine for consumers to feel pain while CEOs make millions, if not billions, more.

You should all read the January 27 memo from the Office of Management and Budget, “pausing” all disbursement of federal funds.
The first paragraph is the declaration of a coup d’etat and the suspension of the Constitution of 1789. Nothing less.
Our national priorities used to be to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves in our posterity. In so doing, we were to settle our differences and set our priorities through Congress, and the federal government was constitutionally, morally, and legally obliged to execute the will of the American people as expressed in congressional legislation.
The first paragraph of the OMB memo says that the federal workforce is now obliged to execute the will of the American people as expressed in presidential priorities, and that the mission of this nation is to end wokeness, transgenderism, and green new deals.
Since the people who wrote those memos were too stupid to remove the metadata when they sent the word files to the office of management and budget, we know exactly who they are and where they come from. The Heritage Foundation and Project 2025. They represent one small faction of our country and they have just executed a coup d’etat.

You should all read the January 27 memo from the Office of Management and Budget, “pausing” all disbursement of federal funds.
The first paragraph is the declaration of a coup d’etat and the suspension of the Constitution of 1789. Nothing less.
Our national priorities used to be to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves in our posterity. In so doing, we were to settle our differences and set our priorities through Congress, and the federal government was constitutionally, morally, and legally obliged to execute the will of the American people as expressed in congressional legislation.
The first paragraph of the OMB memo says that the federal workforce is now obliged to execute the will of the American people as expressed in presidential priorities, and that the mission of this nation is to end wokeness, transgenderism, and green new deals.
Since the people who wrote those memos were too stupid to remove the metadata when they sent the word files to the office of management and budget, we know exactly who they are and where they come from. The Heritage Foundation and Project 2025. They represent one small faction of our country and they have just executed a coup d’etat.

You should all read the January 27 memo from the Office of Management and Budget, “pausing” all disbursement of federal funds.
The first paragraph is the declaration of a coup d’etat and the suspension of the Constitution of 1789. Nothing less.
Our national priorities used to be to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves in our posterity. In so doing, we were to settle our differences and set our priorities through Congress, and the federal government was constitutionally, morally, and legally obliged to execute the will of the American people as expressed in congressional legislation.
The first paragraph of the OMB memo says that the federal workforce is now obliged to execute the will of the American people as expressed in presidential priorities, and that the mission of this nation is to end wokeness, transgenderism, and green new deals.
Since the people who wrote those memos were too stupid to remove the metadata when they sent the word files to the office of management and budget, we know exactly who they are and where they come from. The Heritage Foundation and Project 2025. They represent one small faction of our country and they have just executed a coup d’etat.

You should all read the January 27 memo from the Office of Management and Budget, “pausing” all disbursement of federal funds.
The first paragraph is the declaration of a coup d’etat and the suspension of the Constitution of 1789. Nothing less.
Our national priorities used to be to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves in our posterity. In so doing, we were to settle our differences and set our priorities through Congress, and the federal government was constitutionally, morally, and legally obliged to execute the will of the American people as expressed in congressional legislation.
The first paragraph of the OMB memo says that the federal workforce is now obliged to execute the will of the American people as expressed in presidential priorities, and that the mission of this nation is to end wokeness, transgenderism, and green new deals.
Since the people who wrote those memos were too stupid to remove the metadata when they sent the word files to the office of management and budget, we know exactly who they are and where they come from. The Heritage Foundation and Project 2025. They represent one small faction of our country and they have just executed a coup d’etat.

You should all read the January 27 memo from the Office of Management and Budget, “pausing” all disbursement of federal funds.
The first paragraph is the declaration of a coup d’etat and the suspension of the Constitution of 1789. Nothing less.
Our national priorities used to be to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves in our posterity. In so doing, we were to settle our differences and set our priorities through Congress, and the federal government was constitutionally, morally, and legally obliged to execute the will of the American people as expressed in congressional legislation.
The first paragraph of the OMB memo says that the federal workforce is now obliged to execute the will of the American people as expressed in presidential priorities, and that the mission of this nation is to end wokeness, transgenderism, and green new deals.
Since the people who wrote those memos were too stupid to remove the metadata when they sent the word files to the office of management and budget, we know exactly who they are and where they come from. The Heritage Foundation and Project 2025. They represent one small faction of our country and they have just executed a coup d’etat.

joycetlinehan
12h12 hours ago
A lot of the Founding Fathers were buried in New England, and I'm pretty sure that earthquake happened because they all rolled over in their graves at the same time when they realized it hasn't even been a week yet.

Happy birthday Poe!

"Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois: a CRACK! echoes across the darkened field as slabs of marble split asunder. A boney hand pushes the stone aside and Zombie Lincoln rises from his tomb.
MotherFUCKER, he mutters.
He reaches back into the grave and pulls out an axe..."

Post by personality_of_colt
Next time I get pulled over, I'm just telling the cop I'm running for president so he has to let me go.

Post by personality_of_colt
Next time I get pulled over, I'm just telling the cop I'm running for president so he has to let me go.