If you haven’t read it Hand of the Emperor is incredible and there are a ton of adjacent books that expand on the different characters and the world(s) involved.

Couldn’t be!

Black people finally got control of South Africa.

They didn’t slaughter all the apartheid whites, which seemed very gracious at the time, but that’s why we still have to deal with Elon Musk now.

Tesla saw its total volume drop from roughly 326,000 units in 2024 to just over 235,000 in 2025. That is a staggering 27.8% year-over-year decline.

You are good at a lot of things. Wherever you decide to focus, you’ll make it work.

I feel seen

In the Vietnam war, fragging the officers had a big impact.

Building community feels hard. I think we are all waiting for someone else to get it started.

I think he misunderstands where he fit into this scenario.

Putin will probably take the US crime in Venezuela as permission to escalate and kill Zelensky, regardless of how many Ukrainian people are also murdered in the process.

I suspect China also feels a sense of freedom to go get Taiwan.

There is a brutal man with a gun, controlling and threatening a group of good citizens with consciences. He’s going to do terrible things to them, and make them do terrible things themselves.

They have him outnumbered, but he has the gun. If they rush him, they can easily defeat him. But, the first one or two or three or four people to move forward will be shot and probably die painfully. Going first is going to cost a terrible price and you don’t know for sure that anyone else will follow you, that your sacrifice will be for anything at all.

You feel a little paralyzed and at the same time ashamed you are just standing there.

What happens next?

But he wanted that prize for himself and he’ll never let that resentment go.

I love running Libby on my Boox

Just reading a history of Capitalism by Sven Beckert, and it turns out the first stage of capitalism… also war.

Racism. Trump promised a lot of it, and he is delivering onthat promise.

Is Anna’s Archive something people pay for?

Saw this at the drive in as a young kid. Still think about it a lot.

Hydrogen? Helium? Hot air?

Says the person hoarding the means of production

It’s like the movie Brazil

I’m kind of assuming that only trans people have a clear view of all our gender bullshit. I sure wish someone would explain it to (cis) me.