Fun fact - and this won't be any surprise to the roughly 1 in 12 of you who are colour blind - but tigers are green! That's why their camouflage works.

But trichromatic, primate vision perceives them as orange. This fact is several layers of delicious, if you think about it enough.

He's a ghoul.

"We don’t think Musk intends claims like these to be debated on an empirical level...Musk is communicating in subterranean tropes that his far-right global audience will instantly find intelligible: he’s advancing the generalized sentiment that due to DOGE cuts, nobody died for whom we need to feel any passing responsibility. Nobody died who’s worthy of our concern.

...Musk’s rhetoric has grown ominously more oriented around the idea of global race war."

https://newrepublic.com/article/213533/elon-musk-economist-interview-doge-cuts-killed-zero-children

Iran spent decades building its "Mosaic" defence system: a matrix of parallel, overlapping organisations rather than a single, traditional chain of command. This decentralised system was designed specifically to thwart an American "shock and awe" attack.

I'm not supporting the Iranian regime when I say that the US cannot degrade this system faster than Iran can rebuild. This is Vietnam on steroids: defeat is inevitable, and the longer the Trump regime postpones it the more humiliating it'll be.

They think it's all over...it is now.

The far right is flourishing here and across Europe.

"The UK Ijtima event at Shrubland Estate was brought to a close early by organisers on Sunday following advice from police.

Counter terrorism policing London said twelve people have been arrested as part of an investigation into an extreme right-wing terror threat against an Islamic event in Suffolk...

Eight of the 12 people have been arrested and detained under section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000...police said."

https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/26275717.12-arrests-right-wing-terror-threat-barham-event/

I'm just imagining going back in time to talk with teenage me. He'd be like, "So what kind of dystopia did we get in the end? 1984? Mad Max? Handmaid's Tale? Neuromancer?"

"Aw kid, it's gonna be way, way weirder than any of those. You should probably sit down..."