futtlescish.bsky.social

Reminder to British people that outside the UK - absolutely including the US - trans rights remain a left-liberal vs rightist split, the mainstream centre-left parties haven't ditched trans people in the way that Labour has, and even some of the mainstream centre-rightists remain ok on the topic

"We have the right-" "To wage war, Captain? To kill millions of innocent people? To destroy life on a planetary scale? Is that what you're defending?" The General War reaches a crescendo, and nothing will ever be the same again.

Make your favourite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: An old guy has a stroke, seems like he’s getting better for a bit, then dies

"Maybe people don't want to know what I think about contemporary trends" is an insight that should occur to WAY more writers, fantasy or otherwise.

A lot of bad discourse about cyberpunk (the genre and artistic movement) would be resolved if people realized the name precedes the reclamation of the term "Punk" and does actually just refer to criminal and ambiguously-criminal protagonists

I now want to see this followed to its logical conclusion with the steam trains abducting an English diesel engine from the Continent and putting him on trial on Sodor; meanwhile they are oppressing Sodor’s horse-drawn carts

*Trojan historian watching as the Achaeans break down the gates* Wow, my civilization is undergoing a complex transformation from a heavily centralized and stratified administrative society to a more socially-fragmented modality of living in which material culture is dispersed amidst smaller sites.

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

when you become president they tell you about the Secret Nations

one of the oldest running dialogues in history is "war is a massively complicated political, bureaucratic, and logistical endeavor" vs. "fuck you pussy, war is when you're a fucking badass, oh shit I lost"