Fast considering having a tablecloth helpful. I didn’t even discover the twitching from that lifeless robotic.
— Rav (@rvbdrm.com) July 21, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Pete Hegseth: “We’d like our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset”
U.S. Navy: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
— Gingerspiced (@gingerspiced.bsky.social) July 18, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Each occasions, it have to be confused, are a direct results of precisely the sort of stupid-and-cruel warfighting that Pete Hegseth promised to convey to the US army and has delivered.
Our military will turn out to be, by inches, increasingly more just like the Russian one: merciless, incompetent, impotent, incapable, depraved.
— “On-line Lease-a-Sage” Bret Devereaux (@bretdevereaux.bsky.social) July 18, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Yeah, so additionally, VLCCs (‘very massive crude carriers’) that do the lion’s share of world oil transport are considerably bigger than Suezmax, so if the Bab al-Mandab (the strait because the southern finish of the Pink Sea) is closed, you possibly can’t get these VLCCs to Yanbu. 😬
— “On-line Lease-a-Sage” Bret Devereaux (@bretdevereaux.bsky.social) July 20, 2026 at 7:09 AM
4 months in the past:
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) July 22, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Is it me or does this description of “the established order for many years” bear zero resemblance with actuality? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u…
— Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner.bsky.social) July 20, 2026 at 12:39 PM
“..
Firstly of July, prediction markets thought that visitors would
most likely return to regular by the tip of the month. Now that probability is
seen — absolutely appropriately — as near zero. Not solely is the scenario
unhealthy, nevertheless it’s deteriorating.”@opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/information…
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) July 22, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Small World. Numerous unhealthy folks.
👀 El Salvador’s AI Company has named Ginger Luckey Gaetz (Matt Gaetz’s spouse, Palmer Luckey’s sister) as Strategic Advisor. Palmer’s agency Anduril is backed by Peter Thiel & companions w/ Palantir.
El Salvador not too long ago joined the Thiel-ally-led “Pax Silica” world initiative. They’re transferring quick…1/
— Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) July 21, 2026 at 11:30 AM
I checked. Not a parody account.
The Odyssey is pulling $260 million this weekend, nicely on its strategy to turning into the most important film of the yr. It has a 95%/97% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Everybody loves it.
Please take pleasure in this change.
— Brandon Friedman (@brandonfriedman.bsky.social) July 19, 2026 at 8:53 AM
Presumably together with a traditionally correct cyclops
— Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) July 21, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Matt Walsh complains that Nolan introduced his obsession with nonlinear story telling to the Odyssey, undercutting the unique’s narrative. The defenders of western civilisation, people.
— lastpositivist.bsky.social (@lastpositivist.bsky.social) July 21, 2026 at 10:09 PM
the odyssey discourse is a wonderful good window into proper wing tradition warfare psychosis. they went from hysterial racist mania over a personality that’s on display for five minutes to claiming there’s an enormous conspiracy to pretend ticket gross sales. that is simply what they do for every thing now. they’re insane
— Sal Gentile (@salgentile.bsky.social) July 21, 2026 at 7:19 AM
ah sure, air taxis and supersonic jets, two very important and primed-for-success concepts which might be simply being held again by reckless bureaucrats
— e.w. niedermeyer (@niedermeyer.on-line) July 21, 2026 at 6:42 AM
this comparability leaves out a key level: the Edsel offered roughly twice the Cybertruck’s quantity at a time when the general automobile market was simply 6m items/yr as an alternative of the present 16m items/yr
that makes the Cybertruck the a lot, a lot larger flop, palms down
— e.w. niedermeyer (@niedermeyer.on-line) July 22, 2026 at 6:28 AM
one other key distinction: by the point the Edsel got here out Ford was not value greater than the remainder of the auto business mixed, so when it comes to market mispricing relative to efficiency Tesla and the Cybertruck are additionally in a wholly completely different league
— e.w. niedermeyer (@niedermeyer.on-line) July 22, 2026 at 6:35 AM
Completely satisfied fraudiversary!
— Montana Skeptic (@montanaskeptic.bsky.social) July 21, 2026 at 6:23 AM
