The Lost Paladin

The Lost Paladin

@paladinlost.bsky.social

A bisexual weirdo with a love of sci-fi, flaring bouts of low self-esteem, good leftist politics, overactive empathy, and you work in IT? You might as well have just said "human fighter".

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Story Time With Uncle Paladin. So right about the time of OEF, a really good friend of mine wanted to serve. We'll call him J. I worked at Boeing at the time and we were already doing some interesting shit with the USAF, so I wasn't interested, but J decided to go be a recon sniper in Afghanistan.

Rahm's a sociopath, but we should hopefully build a big tent for both Neocons/Neolibs and leftists, but for too long, we've disregarded the latter for the former. The fact that it's shifting should be a time for the party to reconsider their positions, not just crash out.

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I swear, Meta might be one of the biggest causers of suicide I've ever seen. It is a machine that outputs sadness in waves, and now that I'm clearly not alright, it has pushed content almost solely designed to make somebody want to die. I doubt they care, but it's really evil.

One fact not discussed enough: Jared Kushner didn't have a military phone. How much confidential data have we lost due to the Trump Admin's complete lack of operational security.

George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸@gtconway.bsky.social

In 2020, Jared Kushner was senior advisor to the president of the United States, a full-time employee of the United States government, and was subject to numerous disclosure requirements and ethical restrictions under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.

The only way the Ethan Klein affair could ever be acceptable is if it's with Tricia Peytas - not because of the cheating, but because this would be closest we'll ever get to a Korean short novel in real life, unless Ethan becomes a mob boss or a wolf.

I'm bisexual and I have far fewer anecdotes about thirsting after dudes.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I'm studying his body. I've never studied the body of a man before. It's not my thing. Nothing wrong with it, of course. But it's never been my thing. But I looked at his ass. I said, 'His ass, shit, it's like a pile of muscle.' Then I looked at his legs and I said, 'Man, his feet are big.'"

Why are we supposed to accept 946 as a competent competitor to the Bloodline when they're afraid of Roman's fucking entrance music? WWE couldn't be worse booked. 946 didn't need to win or anything, but now they look like bitches. You know, after they made Sami look like a mark. Awful booking. Trash.

Also, some sites function as brokers. Every scammer will be like "they charge 20 percent, if we do it on the side, I'll give you a discount" - this is an absolute scam. Do not agree to this. Same goes for Paypal disputes. Do not drop them until you're made whole. Be smart, buy art.

The Lost Paladin@paladinlost.bsky.social

This came up on Reddit, but I'll talk about it here. For the love of fuck, if you are commissioning art, make sure you get a release BEFORE you make final payment. When you're discussing it, make sure they know you intend it as a 'work for hire' in the US. That protects your ownership of the piece.

This came up on Reddit, but I'll talk about it here. For the love of fuck, if you are commissioning art, make sure you get a release BEFORE you make final payment. When you're discussing it, make sure they know you intend it as a 'work for hire' in the US. That protects your ownership of the piece.

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Just understand that if you don't get receipts and track payments and make sure your communication shows transfer of ownership and attribution in clear language (WFH precludes both), you're responsible if you get fucked. If you don't know the artist, upfront THE MINIMUM.

Also, don't pay the balance until you have the art in the medium you expect at the quality you expect free of any watermarks. If you bought it for exclusive commercial use, make sure that's stated, so your artist doesn't resell your art. Good contracts make good neighbors. If you need help, ask.

This came up on Reddit, but I'll talk about it here. For the love of fuck, if you are commissioning art, make sure you get a release BEFORE you make final payment. When you're discussing it, make sure they know you intend it as a 'work for hire' in the US. That protects your ownership of the piece.

Fuck Whitman's, Pangburn's, and Russel Stover's. Tell your politically active grans to skip that shit.

Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH@geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app

People are discussing how Halloween candy is so terrible these days. A reminder that alot of the candy we eat is made with women’s prison labor. Russell Stover’s factory in Kansas busses in 150 women a day via a convict leasing program to staff their candy factory.

Easily one of the least enjoyable POVs in years from WWE. Watching JV Knight fake stumble the final moments of his career so he could line up for Ronan's offense, setting up a no heat Tiffy vs even less heat Liv, and Penta getting a second guaranteed loss to Roman us trash.

What people don't seem to realize is that third country deportation is not giving the deported person a happy life. Guinea doesn't want a bunch of Venezuelans to like hang out. We're just sending them to a really bad prison in another country and trying to ignore the human rights failure.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

WHOA. This is big news. Mr. Soliman is a 31-year-old gay man from Egypt who came here at 3 with a green card. He lost his green card after a conviction, but an immigration judge found that he would be persecuted in Egypt and barred sending him there. He's locked in a hotel in Equatorial Guinea now.

I'm no @dieworkwear.bsky.social here, but: -He's wearing a jacket that doesn't fit him along with slacks that aren't even close. -No belt of note. -He's wearing khakis with really dark shoes, which might work if his suit jacket wasn't powder blue. -The no collar fucks so many things up -

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--He's short, but he has a long neck. He should be drawing to it, but the collar takes it away, and the pooled pants give "little kid in borrowed Dad's clothes for funeral" vibe. --His grooming sucks, so the collar points to the neck stubble. The colors are fucking atrocious.

The biggest thing is that he's gone beyond "casual" into IDGAF territory. The jacket looks like a choice made after everything else. He could have maybe gotten away with the shirt, fit tan trousers and dark shoes without it. There's a clearly a "I hate going outside" vibe to all of this. Grade: F-

Am I the one who finds Kazuma x Megamin porn to be pretty gross considering Megumin is no older than 15 in the serie? She's 14 when it starts! They kiss in the light novels and Kazuma, who is pretty amoral as characters goes doesn't sexualize her beyond cuddles and kisses. Am I being prudish?

HGraphite@hornygraphite.bsky.social

Final commission of the batch! 🤪🤤

Dear Leftists, Don't be this. The person he's talking about is a truck driver who was the other half of a suicide-by-car. I understand the Leopards ate my face thing, but this guy didn't lose a job or something. He has legit PTSD from taking a life.

Thom@nmfr.bsky.social

“He was a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024, reasoning that things weren’t getting better, so why not try something different.” This may sound harsh, but this truck driver SHOULD be haunted for the rest of his life. He deliberately chose his fate.

I'm sorry, but this is fucking dumb, @aewontv.bsky.social. This feels like old bad TNA when Vince Russo did shit like "reverse cage matches" and "Judy Bagwell on a Pole" bullshit. This is confusing and stupid and badly timed. The first part should be faster. The last part should be slower.

The Ironman Match should be like 30 minutes. The first two wrestlers get three minutes, then each wrestler after that is two minutes. This part is an over-the-top BR. Then it's a 30 minute Ironman BR with No DQ. Or you could just NOT do this, because it's dumb and confusing.

Every time I see a clip from current ICW, JCW, or GCW, I find myself channeling my innter Jim Cornette - talking about "bullshit outlaw mudshows". Wrestling organization ethos shouldn't be "what if we did ECW and Japanese Deathmatches, but without the skill or ethics of either". They can fuck off.

Honestly, I think he should take a victory lap. One because he could the running and two because in six years of being President, this is clearly his greatest accomplishment.

QuoProQuid@quoproquid.bsky.social

man what do you even say anymore

I love the Irish. Not an ounce of chill. They immediately came out and were like "fuck this guy" - he's been leeching off of Ireland for years, even though he's about as Irish as Queen Victoria's dick.

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It's delightful that Spanberger turned out to be a woman of convictions. A lot of people were really worried about her ex-FBI creds, but she's been everything she said she was. They're going to have a hard time getting her out of that seat if she doesn't leave for higher office.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

It's important to remind readers that while there are a few anti-trans dems, many are doing great work. Spanberger in VA did not flinch at anti-trans attacks. Now, she just ended Governor Youngkin's infamous rule that would ban trans students from bathrooms. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I appreciate how Ben does such a good job of exposing just how douchey people are by being a genuinely decent person. Obviously, Kraft isn't going to donate to Palestine. He literally pays the IDF to bomb them, but this will raise questions that Robert Kraft does not want to answer.

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We bitched and moaned and bitched when the Republicans moved former executives into regulatory positions. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @housedemocrats.bsky.social are doing the same thing - creating an industry regulatory group who have no interest in regulating the industry. Fuck them.

The Lever@levernews.com

🚨 NEW: Hakeem Jeffries created a five-member commission to help write House Democrats’ AI policy agenda. Among its members: lawmakers backed by major AI political groups and Silicon Valley donors seeking to shape those very rules.

I miss having the NFL locally, but one of the delightful benefits is that I don't have to deal with an owner that almost certainly would have been complicit with Kraft's censorship of Macklemore. But since I've always felt the Patriots cheated in the 03 Superbowl, I've hated Kraft for years.

Could you imagine if the thing that really moves the needle, forces the US to pressure Bibi to step down (and go to jail) and brings the UN into Palestine to forge a solution is a washed white rapper from the early 2000s getting kicked off one of the most boring tours of the summer?

Ed Sheeran isn't apolitical, he's aconsequences. He stopped supporting Macklemore the instant it cost him something to do so. In its head he's saying look at all the staff that would have lost their jobs, but he easily could have paid them himself. He's as inauthentic as his music is.

I was just thinking that Selesnya Lifegain really had issues with mana generation. I swear, I'm going to sit down at a table, pull out Trelaserra and wake up face down in the LGS parking lot.

Didn't somebody glaze him like yesterday or maybe the day before about how energetic he is as a president?

Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

LEFT: Donald Trump today, dozing off as the names of those who died on 9/11 are read. RIGHT: Joe Biden today, paying respects to those lost on 9/11. Who's "sleepy" now, loser?

Q1: How do I get on the list? Q2: How do I get the list and the people coming up with it eliminated?

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social

Anthropic Is building a surveillance system to monitor activists using a “pre-crime” approach that tries to predict incidents before they happen. The extensive monitoring system that the AI company is building is aimed primarily at keeping tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of AI.

I liked Hunter for like 15 seconds. That expired quickly though.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

“.. Biden’s token will trade under the ticker, $LAPTOP, and launch Sept. 9 on Base, a digital ledger built by Coinbase Global, the largest U.S. crypto exchange ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/finance/curr...