If you give me six thousand tweets written by the hand of the most damned and hypocritical of men, I will find something in them which will cancel him. —@RichelieuArmand, probably
Maximilien Robespierre
Furiously drafting the Tibermax specification.
If a container ship ever arrives or departs the landlocked Vatican City, that is some credible evidence of an act of God.
inb4 the Papal State peacefully annexes parts of Fiumicino and Civitavecchia
Dowhammer 40k is real!
In the land of ball-busting, the one-balled is king.
Are you telling me it's improbable that the equivalent of every single American and then some liked that video?
Fucking anti-khaganate propaganda. Real ones know this is the true version of that progress image.
Wow, that's some venomously hateful text.
new york city truly is a first and fourth word city overlayed atop each other
Jesus Christ learn what words mean. Even if you use "Third World" to mean "poor countries", fourth world is not a thing and people living in extreme poverty in developing countries are in fact not better off than non Wall Street New Yorkers.
Those comments are tight, but really the problem with trying to explain any of this to laypeople isn't exposing how wrong it is. The hard part is making any sense of it.
Like if I told you Donald Trump has connections with a cult that believes grandmothers are a species of raspberry, whose goal is turning Denmark into cheese and oh, a splinter group of theirs just murdered a police officer. That will just raise more questions than it answers. How the hell did they come to believe that? Why would anyone want that? And then I have to choose between looking like a loony conspiracy theorist, doing an impromptu lecture or just having to decide you actually probably don't want to know.
Now that AI got involved it's on topic for TechTakes I guess. Making a containment thread because there might be a lot to sneer about this.
Boring version of of the main story: https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5345802
Skynet declares trade war on penguins: https://archive.is/Nn5MC
Reactionary news outlet celebrates 77% drop in stock price by taking everyone else down with them: https://bsky.app/profile/brianmfloyd.bsky.social/post/3lluybov3i22o
Also the big fuckoff wave motion laser cannon thing is aimed through the ship itself.