Joshua Aslan 👁️🌐

in which two nerds who each have more than a thousand hours in hearts of iron iv bitch about hearts of iron iv. but also it's important to understand why we are all still talking about world war two, and also how so much media essentially imagines "what if the fascist worldview was correct"

First 5 rpgs I played 1. D&D 4th edition (RIP YOU BEAUTIFUL BASTARD) 2. WoD VTM (revised I think) 3. FATE 4. Dungeonworld 5. Infinity TTRPG

The Somali guy hopping on the school bus to save the children even as Stephen Miller wants to denaturalize and deport him is a metaphor for our time.

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

the story goes like this

the Jalen Hurts subplot:

This Day in Labor History: October 16, 1859. John Brown and a group of followers invade the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (today WV) to start a war and end slavery. Let's talk about this key moment in American labor history!

"A fear of a “race to the bottom” is understandable, but when it is clear that your opponent seeks to drag you to your death, it is better to vigorously resist before you are face down in the silt."

This is a Douglas Adams bit if ever there was one.

Thymos and American Foreign Policy open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...

Wait, what do you mean protesters are trying to topple a right wing government in the developing world? I thought we got rid of USAID

I genuinely do not understand people who want to drive everywhere and park for free at their destination but insist on living in San Francisco, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington DC. The other 99.5% of the country has what you want with much lower housing prices. Move there!

I'm not sure if she's aware of it but this 2022 @rebeccajtiffany.bsky.social tweet is basically an article of faith at @liberalcurrents.com ( @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com quoted it in www.liberalcurrents.com/feminism-wit... and I've referenced it countless times ever since)

1. Civ 6 2. Civ 5 3. Stellaris 4. Rimworld 5. Civ:BE 6. Old World 7. Company of Heroes Tales of Valor 8. Red Orchestra 2 9. X-com 2 10. PUBG Battlegrounds Only one I was surprised by was PUBG but I think there was a year where my friend group played it nightly.

Day early for the Sunday Scaries posting, but I feel like i might get some mileage out of this one

October issue

Let's fucking go!

A hero's final rest. #lego #bionicle

Me too, my personal release time is 10pm Eastern tonight after my workday is done and I've gotten my son to sleep.

i gotchu

The oracle told Trump that if he attacked Iran, republicans would be contesting elections in places they never had before

Millennials on 9/11 every year for the past 25 years

Thanks, Rita's

he’s right and he should say it

september issue is out

When I put lao gan ma and toasted sesame oil on my haiga rice.

Great article on The Odyssey.

mechwarriors are bullies. "mechwarrior" is an oppressive class, like Gen-X people or WASP people.

Everyone involved in this needs to be dealt with.

Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops

we've got a reporter on the ground in Gary, Indiana where an impoverished minority community went without power for 2+ weeks. the climate future is here, it's just unevenly distributed prospect.org/2026/08/28/g...

Poland the moment the first Russian tanks cross the border into Latvia

my very normal opinion on clanker discourse: 1) it's a slur 2) not all slurs are equally bad 3) they're all at least a little bit bad 4) this is one of the least-bad ones 5) unless you point it at a double amputee in which case what the everloving fuck is wrong with you 6) 😡

Dolly Parton's book thing is maybe the most successful and effective celeb philanthropic venture in the history of this country. Rip to a real one but 80 is probably a good age to go

We can fit so many fucking justices on that bench you won’t believe it

Someone once described LLMs as "turning language into a shape rotator task" which explains a lot of why this might be so instinctively offensive to a lot of us wordcels

Today we begin publishing the chapters of The Reconstruction Papers on our site as individual articles. (The entire book is already available in print and as a PDF.) Here is Chapter 1. "There is no going back. Nor should we seek to." www.liberalcurrents.com/introduction...

At the end of the 60 day deadline, Iran is in a stronger position because the credibility of Trump's threats are so low: youtu.be/BEtlo6FmIqQ