Recommendations of books for fans of H.P. Lovecraft, and for those looking to get into Lovecraft. One glorious little visual joke as well.
May 052022
May 042022
As always, interesting and entertaining and jam-packed with some of the best Anglo-Saxon words.
May 042022
Well, this should prove an interesting tale, especially when they figure out the motive:
Attacker had an ill-defined weapon… apparently it looked like a gun, but was a knife… and apparently it could hurl the blade. “Ballistic knives” are fundamentally kinda useless weapons, only cool to those in middle school, but they’re also often illegal which seems to be the case in California. Since they are illegal in California, and since a criminal certainly would not break the law in California, it’s a mystery what the attacker actually had.
I’m 50/50 on whether the attacker was politically motivated or just bog standard bugnuts. In either case, it’s reasonable to assume that public displays of humor are likely going to decline a bit.
May 042022
After the unprecedented (and I’m led to understand illegal) leak of the Supreme Court preliminary opinion on overturning Roe vs Wade, the violent insurrectionists, yearning for the glory days of 2020, are back to doing what they do: violence.
Pro-abortion protestors smash windows tonight in Los Angeles: pic.twitter.com/HwGyOqGd0Z
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 4, 2022
Pro abortion activists are now openly calling for and threatening violence and unrest. pic.twitter.com/LeE2QaGzEW
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 3, 2022
With a healthy (?) dollop of Current Year Progressive Discourse:
Happening now in Foley Square, NYC. People are REALLY angry that it will be more difficult to kill babies. pic.twitter.com/Cco6sLxfKn
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 3, 2022
May 032022
A Polish tear-gas “grenade” launcher that uses an AK action and AK blanks to propel the canisters. This seems like a horrible design… overly complex and *far* too heavy. Still, *kinda* cool.
May 022022
Ah, the good old days…
And this one from just about two months before he died… you can tell that he was at about the end of his game:
May 022022
Previous footage showed a little drone dropping something akin to a grenade, doing damage to soft targets. Here’s one apparently kerploding a *tank.* WTF??? It drops *two* bombs, so it’s clearly not one of those dinky camera drones, but something bigger, but it still seems like a whole lot of bang for the buck.
May 012022
Russians plunder $5M farm vehicles from Ukraine – to find they’ve been remotely disabled
Nothing locks up like a stolen $300,000 John Deere combine shipped by Russian invaders to Chechnya.
What would be best would be if these stolen vehicles could go on some sort of Killdozer rampage. Or just burn themselves up. But turning themselves into bricks is a nice start. Sure, the thieves will simply take them to a chop shop and make some money on the spare parts (something Russian farmers are going to need since doubtless John Deere customer support is likely thin on the ground in Russia these days), but they won’t do near as well as if they’d had functional equipment.
Maybe don’t steal things.
May 012022
Here’s an impressive shot:
May 012022
Very rare experimental 1913 Patton Saber for the US Cavalry
This saber was made by the Rock Island Arsenal with an additional feature not normally found on swords: a 1911 pistol. I can see this going kinda wrong, but I still kinda want to give it a shot. Clearly it was not adopted for use; it’s practicality is to be seriously doubted. I wonder if the people behind it made it hoping it would be a practical weapon, or if they did it purely as a conversation piece… or as a joke.
