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atomheartbevo

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  1. Go on the BlueSky Directory, scroll down to starter parks, put in search terms, look at lists or follow all. Lot of Longhorn lists on there but Geoff Ketchum is in some of the starter packs. Easy to unfollow or block him. You can also search hashtags but your main feed will be only people you follow, not an algorithm that feeds you what it thinks you like.
  2. Nope. Camp Humphries alone has four schools for dependents. Humphries is our biggest overseas base. They do have an Arby’s though, so maybe that’s considered hardship.
  3. Georgia would give them a couple of very nice ports, including warm water ports, but they still have a lot of naval forces stuck on the other side of the Straits in the Mediterranean that can’t come through and losing Syria ends their Middle East ventures. Syria is also a major hub between Russia and North Africa, so it’s not just about Russia’s sphere of influence in the Middle East, but Russia’s sphere of influence in Africa. Georgia is not going anywhere and Russian bribes will still spend a year or two down the road, Syria is a huge loss.
  4. We have troops there. We’ve even straight-up fought Russians and Syrians there, and fucked them up. https://thewarhorse.org/special-forces-soldiers-reveal-first-details-of-battle-with-russian-mercenaries-in-syria/
  5. If he has to pick one, it’s gonna have to be Syria. Georgia and Moldova are “like to haves” but Syria is a “must have”, and it also addresses Türkiye to an extent.
  6. Find some starter packs you like https://www.blueskydirectory.com
  7. This you https://bsky.app/profile/surlyhorns.bsky.social
  8. Bespoke, organic, fairtrade vanilla almond milk. Oh, no arguments, I consume way too many dairy products, while having a lactose-intolerant family member in our household, but I think the raw milk crowd should at least acknowledge that we need every bit of help we can get with milk - obvious they are lactose-tolerant, but getting sick from tainted raw milk is no joke, even with modern medicine, Of course, that’s why it won’t be popping up in HEB in large numbers, if at all.
  9. But if I had to pick a few more...Austin's very own... (This one goes back well before UO) In case you want a piano cover If I had the money, I'd pay some dudes to follow me around at Renaissance festivals playing with a guitar, lute, and whistle. I could be standing in line for some mead or a beer and these guys would not be far away, just playing a soundtrack for me while I stare into my beer or whatever.
  10. None of you motherfuckers better ever come into the Star Trek, Star Wars, GoT, or Expanse threads and call anybody nerds.
  11. His latest special, where he talks about the cancel culture, is also where he makes a bunch of pedo jokes, daring Netflix or whoever to cancel him. A lot of other comedians whine about it, but in the same standup routines where they are whining about it, they aren't actually saying anything that could get them cancelled.
  12. Russia gonna Russia against the civilians, although in this case, they are definitely creating a lot more fighters willing to slit some Russian throats.
  13. And we got this going for us - they are still finding Anthrax at WWII sites in China formerly run by Japan's Unit 731. Thankfully most of this stuff was destroyed during or right after the war. Bacteriologic and Genomic Investigation of Bacillus anthracis Isolated from World War II Site, China - Volume 30, Number 12—December 2024 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC
  14. I'm amazed they actually got the number right. And I'm betting somebody on twitter pointed out the filing to them.
  15. Look Joe, when I designed this thing as a 10 year old back in the 80s, there wasn't much snow where I lived so why the fuck would I have been worried about it? Sorry that somebody found my sketchbook and decided to put it into production, and if I had it to do over, I would have connected some wires to the metal near the lights to make it hot so the snow would melt.
  16. Elon Musk's Neuralink expands offices in Austin area "You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to work at Neuralink." Apply | Neuralink - Animal Care Intern in California.
  17. Don't let him watch the one where Blippy shits on his friend's chest. I get that he apologized and it was years ago and we've all done things we regret, but at least we weren't filming ourselves doing the stupid shit. Check out the PBS Kids app - it's fantastic. He seems like he's a prime candidate for the Thomas the Train stuff. I had the chance to take my oldest to Toys R Us a few times, to the Thomas the Train/Tank Engine aisle, and picked him up way too many trains, but he loved the hell out of them. And you'll be watching Bluey for years to come.
  18. So yeah, the increased engagement on BlueSky is very much a real thing - I talked to somebody I know who had a few million followers on twitter (not Traces of Texas), and they've got around 150,000 on BlueSky, but they are getting more comments, likes, etc., than they were on twitter, and they are seeing a massive spike in traffic to their website from Bluesky versus Twitter. They suspected (before Musk confirmed it) that links were being heavily throttled, but even with less than 50,000 followers on Bluesky they were getting far more traffic than twitter. And looking at various starter packs, there continues to be a steady influx of people of all types (should hit 24 million tonight or tomorrow). Unfortunately, the crypto and AI bros have come over - they realize that Leon was throttling links to their crypto sites, but they are easy as hell to spot and block/mute.
  19. Not that Russia could take the rest of Georgia at this point, but with Georgia veering away from Russia, with Russia potentially losing a shitload of troops in Syria and their last safe warm-water port, with the rejection in Moldova, with rumblings in some of the 'stans and Turkey starting to exert itself, I wonder if Vladimir is getting a little nervous.
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