Lovecraftian cultists

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Jul 082021
 

An interesting description of the various cults and cultists that pop up on the stories of H.P. Lovecraft. The idea that people would worship hideous monstrosities that want to wipe out mankind is of course nuts… and of course entirely believable. The YouTuber here points out the similarity between the fictional Cthulhu cultists and adherents to a modern day *real* cult of some notoriety.

In my “War With The Deep Ones,” cultists make a few minor appearances in the first book I wrote. But they would have put in much more of an appearance in later books… as the world goes down, the nuts come out. As we have recently seen.

 

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Sign me up!

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Jul 072021
 

I wonder how many of these peoples family members would be left alive if Chairman Mao was still around to punish them for being capitalists?

Caviar Huawei Mate 40 Mao Zedong

The 100th anniversary of the Communist Party is a great celebration for the entire Chinese nation. The power of the state is largely based on the success of its politicians. China’s ruling leaders are wise politicians, experienced military leaders, and talented diplomats.

Since 1921, the Chinese Communist Party has successfully ruled the state. Under her leadership, the country has become one of the leaders in the international arena. China is feared, respected and admired. This is a country which many are eager to surpass.

Caviar iPhone 12 Pro Centenary – smartphone design in honor of the great anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party. Restrained and laconic, at the same time bright and full of strength – the appearance of the accessory successfully conveys the character of the party. The case is made of a lightweight composite material with shockproof properties in red and decorated with relief engraving, echoing the national geometric ornaments of China. Contrasting element – decorative frame, gold-plated of the highest standard, engraved with the emblem of the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of China.

The design is presented in a limited edition of 68 pieces. The numbers 6 and 8 are sacred for China: 6 means luck and career success, and 8 means wealth and prosperity. The limited edition of the collection is engraved with a laser on the side of the smartphone: the name and serial number of the model are indicated.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Yours for only $25,370.

Where’s the Hitler Edition? The Jack The Ripper edition? The John Wayne Gacy Edition? So long as they’re celebrating history’s greatest monsters, might as well complete the set.

 

 Posted by at 9:27 pm

Ugh.

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Jul 072021
 

Her Family Owned Slaves. How Can She Make Amends?

Not “her family” as in “her parents,” but “her great-great-great grandmother.”

How many people can honestly say that nobody in their ancestry in the last five generations wasn’t a rapist or a murderer or a thief or a communist or a traitor or a prohibitionist or a tax collector? How many generations have to go by before people understand that people who aren’t them… AREN’T THEM?

 Posted by at 8:36 pm

Well, here it comes…

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Jul 072021
 

Supermarkets Are Stockpiling Inventory as Food Costs Rise

And…

Grocery stores starting to stockpile

Frozen meat and such. Even with freezers the shelf life of this stuff isn’t that great, a few months at best. One wonders if this is a self-reinforcing psychological issue among supermarkets… or maybe they see something in current trends. At best, inflation. At middling, Great Reset. At worst, Covid Two: Pandemic Boogaloo. At apocalyptic: China decides to take Taiwan and drags the world into a full nuclear exchange.

Bonus:

LA County Gas Prices Highest Since 2012

$4.33 a gallon.

 Posted by at 8:22 pm

NEEEERRRRDDDSSS!!!!

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Jul 072021
 

I get a major kick out of  the level of effort people put into digging out the smallest details in Star Wars/Star Trek/Etc. This sort of thing is possible because the original work was done in the analog age and the current investigation was done in the digital age… had this particular detail been created in the days of easy computer graphics, it likely would have gone forever unclear.

 

 Posted by at 1:46 pm

SR-71 signed copies: bonus round

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Jul 062021
 

I’ve contacted the publisher and will get a supply of bookazines to be signed. However, since they’re being shipped from Europe, the costs are a bit high so I’ll have to charge a few bucks more than the basic cover price for them. In order to make it worthwhile for those who get them, I plan on including an extra or two. Currently planning on something like an 18X24 print or two of diagrams from the book, scaled up and tinkered with, also numbered and signed. It will be a while before the books get here, so I’ve some time to get the prints just right. And given that a box of books could get wedged into the Suez Canal or redirected into the Bermuda Triangle or impaled on some rebar, I won’t take orders until they are on hand.

I had a local print shop print up nine separate sheets… 2 SR-71A, 1 YF-12A, 1 M21/D21, 1 XF-103, 2 XF-108, 1 A-12, 1 CL-400 Suntan. I also printed up a test sheet with four copies of the same bit of an SR-71, but with the line weights and colors adjusted (I should’ve done that first. Ooops.). Along with adjusting the weights/colors, there will be improvements to the diagrams themselves, additional details and information added. The blue in the windows will be dispensed with… that tiny bit of color triples the cost. Most likely the “bonus” will be one or two sheets of the SR-71A, but if there is enough interest in the others, I’ll figure it out. The prints will also be numbered and signed, and will only be available along with the signed books. They will also be shipped fabulously folded into quarters (as seen in the “lineweight test print” in the photos below) in order to ship with the books.

Please note industry standard feline scale reference.

If you want on the list of people interested in ordering a signed copy when the time comes, send me an email:

It is available directly through the publisher for £8.99 (Approx $12.41 or €10.34). It is also available through Amazon for pre-order for $12.99. Or it will be available through me for a little more, in a little while.

 Posted by at 9:49 pm

Huh.

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Jul 062021
 

Biden has famously said that he wants to strip Americans of their semi-automatic rifles. And yet… his administration just gave the Taliban a bunch of mortars, missiles and fully automatic weapons.

Huh.

‘No compromises’ Terrifying footage shows Taliban with brand new US weapons and vehicles

Alternative explanation: Biden, rather than being a senile old fool, is actually a secret strategic genius. With the US fleeing Afghanistan, it’s a safe bet that China may try to move in. Pre-arm the local nuts to make things hell for the “People’s” army that will soon arrive.

 Posted by at 3:49 am

Now this is actually clever

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Jul 042021
 

One “Meredith Bull” takes videos of unhappy cats, extracts the audio and turns them into some pretty catchy tunes.

And the masterpiece:

Then take that last one and blow it up to a full music video…

Someone else took the original “don’t touch me” cat video and did his own thing with it:

And then other people joined in, and I gotta say, it’s actually pretty damned impressive. Certainly better than the bulk of what I hear on the radio; compare the skill and talent involved here to anything spewed out by Cardi B and the like:

 

 

 Posted by at 8:24 pm

SL-1: 260-inch solid rocket motor test firing

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Jul 042021
 

Back when NASA dreamed big (the early 1960’s), there were many ideas for how to make really, REALLY big space launch systems. Solid rocket motors had a place at the time serving as either the first stage, or strap-on boosters for the first stage, for Saturn-class boosters. Most solid rocket production facilities are far from Cape Canaveral, so getting rockets from the manufacturer to the launch site could be a problem. Due to rail line restrictions, a case diameter of 156 inches was the limit: anything bigger wouldn’t fit through existing tunnels. But Aerojet and other companies had ideas for even bigger solids… I’ve seen drawings for boosters up to 396 inches in diameter, though 260 inches seems to be the largest given serious engineering.

In order to conveniently manufacture and transport these giants, Aerojet set up a manufacturing plant and static test site in Florida. Aerojet built several half-length versions of the 260-inch-diameter boosters, dug a hole in the ground, upended the rockets and fired them towards the center of the Earth, with the results being a small earthquake, a gigantic brown plume of solid rocket exhaust shooting into the sky and no production contract. The first test firing was in September, 1966, by which time NASA’s horizons had contracted substantially.

Solid rockets as an economical way to get to space, especially as a way to launch humans, is a technology whose day has passed. As military technology they remain as valid as ever; unlike liquid rockets, you can stuff a solid rocket into a silo and somewhat ignore it for years and then launch it on a moments notice. Having ICBM-sized boosters stocked up and stored away ready to launch a fleet of replacement GPS, communication and spy satellites when the Chinese swat our current fleet from the sky makes a lot of sense… but using solids to launch missions to the Moon or Mars is now a rather silly notion.

 

 

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