I have a new sword and sorcery short story out today in the Wishes and Wizards anthology from Indie Bites. "The Ysidra" is about a pair of lowly soldiers stumbling around in the chaotic aftermath of a battle. Free epub and pdf at the link:
Okay I was pretty disillusioned about 9/11 stuff to begin with but never in a million years would I have guessed that they found in the rubble a firetruck full of looted jeans, stolen from shops while the towers were still on fire.
I don’t really “see” race. To me if you’re from the steppe and live on a horse you’re a scythian. Not about to start making divisive distinctions between huns, avars, mongols, turks, etc. –– the woke lombard
This is now a Buttigeg-Mckinsey-Loblaws Truth account. From this day forward until we know the truth.
Put 🍞📈in your handle if you want Pete to disclose his connection to the Canadian bread price-fixing cartel.
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NDP strategy of going after gigantic ridings like Nunavut, Kenora, Churchill-Keewatinook-Aski, and Skeena-Bulkley Valley paying off to make it look like they control a significant portion of the map.
A new Popeyes fast food restaurant opened today near
#Halifax
#Bedford
. This is at highway 102 and Larry Uteck. People in their vehicles lined up for hours.
@CBCNS
Mark Ames, John Dolan, and Yasha Levine going all in on Matt Taibbi is like the ideal of War Nerd podcasting. Crazy that it took them so long to do an episode. Must be insanely cathartic for them too.
sumerian bf panicking and throwing his clay tablet into the fireplace because he doesn't want sumerian gf to see his texts. dudes rock? think again. tablet hardens and remains intact for millennia. major L
Apparently after the Civil War, newly freed Blacks started holding medieval-themed tournaments, just as the planter class had done before. Black tournaments were 'more likely to concede the absurdity of the spectacle' but also took cooler and more radical names...
In western cultures ships are coded as women and cannons are said to "roar" from their "mouths" which is how Master and Commander passes the Bechdel test
Seeing posts from people back home holding backyard fires specifically because the government told them not to until the wildfire situation is under control. It rules that we gave oppositional defiance disorder to about a third of the population.
Apparently they spend hours attacking every panel until it's too dented to their reflection. And the residents can't do anything because the gov't protects them as endangered or w/e. That's the future I want!
Story about peacocks attacking luxury cars in Surrey, BC because they see rival males reflected back at them in the shiny black panels. Now that's praxis.
Thousands of Russians have joined something called the “Union SSR” trade union, calling themselves Soviet citizens and refusing to pay their bills. A tenuous grasp of the law + Soviet legacy = ...
Maybe the most pathetic thought I've ever had was as a teen when I truly believed that I had such a rich inner life that solitary confinement simply wouldn't break me
Help I've accidentally enlisted in the New Model Army. I thought they were just a bunch of hobbyists. Oh dear god they're sending me to Ireland I just wanted to paint some miniatures
"It was on the news this morning, Doug Ford is not vaccinated." Doing Braveheart freedom chants. Best ones though are the guys shovelling snow to create a barricade. Might work if they didn't get tired and quit before the piles are knee high. Hope they have some defibrillators
Can't say too much about this but I'm also in some high level talks with Banque Canadian Tire to have Russia cut off from the Canadian Tire Money payment processing system and associated Triangle Rewards loyalty programs.
Didn't watch the speech but followed it on here. My take: they gave him the double dose of 5G adrenochrome so now they gotta pull back, so don't expect any new Joe appearances until well into September, aside from a few 'hey look he's alive' clips.
@hobocoltrane
yeah every reply is shitting on me for choosing pisces lol. i'm still pretty sure it's the good one, it's the one that clearly most animates astrology girls.
@NeeedlesEye
I too thought this wass a joke at first. It's not. He died a couple of years ago now, but he was working for on this from at least 2015 from what i can tell.
@lizardmancer
Did you hear the guy on War Nerd who said his village didnt get paved roads or a sewer until after the war. Then clarified that he meant the 2003 Iraq war.
Oh damn this is genius, I hadn't considered that. If you're being harassed by fascist creeps, play copyrighted music and their video will get flagged on youtube. Leedham and that whole crew are amazingly good at this stuff.
Frank Magazine got hold of the 911 calls from Portapique. They're harrowing to listen/read through but they they demonstrate clearly that the RCMP lied about not knowing the killer was posing as a cop. This was established very early on by the callers.
Highways are natural formations in the geological landscape that predate human existence in North America. We need to conserve them the way pinko lefties want to preserve the forests, which we actually need to cut down to punish the bears.
The idea that neighborhoods should be walkable is lovely. The idea that idiot tyrannical bureaucrats can decide by fiat where you're "allowed" to drive is perhaps the worst imaginable perversion of that idea--and, make no mistake, it's part of a well-documented plan.
Fellas, if she invites you over but insists to hoist you up to her bedroom window in a basket to avoid scandal, take it from me, chances are she plans on leaving you dangling there for the world to laugh at.
Based on the allegations in this story alone there's got to be a public inquiry. The allegation that a mass shooter who killed 22 people may have been an RCMP agent, and then the police lied about it, needs to be explained or repudiated with evidence.
Harari wrote a book called Special Operations in the Age of Chivalry. Sounds ridiculous but it's got great case studies on medieval kidnapping, assassination, sabotage, and his account of the Mill at Auriol is a delight. Shame he got hooked on Gladwell/Ted Talk money
History professor Yuval Noah Harari says AI could one day write a new Bible leading to religions that are “correct”.
“In a few years, there might be religions that are actually correct. Just think about a religion whose holy book is written by an A.I…”
This is not of God!!!
Portapique update. Wild that no one made this connection before now. The day he had the argument with police in his parking lot was the same day he got the impossible speeding ticket on a backroad. WTF was going on?
Cracking open the 1200 page book that documents the origin of every single proper noun in The Song of Roland and discovering that yes, this guy is a very thorough scholar. He's been at this since 1966, and the original German version of this book was only published in 2017.