FLAMING_AUBURN_LOCKS [she/her]

hell yeah. my niches are animals, low fantasy settings, and going “um ackshualley☝️🤓” in the news mega

good morning gamers. i’ve never participated in this megathread before; is it just a general discussion thread where we talk about whatever’s on our mind?

if so, my landlord removed a spotted orbweaver’s beautiful web from in front of the house. i really like creepy crawlies so i had reached out to him beforehand and told him “hey that giant spider in front of the house is a docile native species that helps control invasive pests”, but I guess his wife/gf is afraid of spiders

i wish he’d asked me to move the spider or something first. there’s a male with a smaller web at the back of the house; perhaps in another timeline these two met, and are lovers

Israel may benefit from a lack of alignment between the President and the Ayatollah. Pezeshkian pumping the breaks when the hype is being built up for a response means Israel can delay the breakout of widespread conflict, picking off strategic officers and infrastructure like they’ve been doing. they’ve got the Resistance on the back foot for a moment; they’ll try to take advantage for a few more days before flipping the board over and welcoming the unpredictability that a ground incursion would bring

fuck it, im chargin it with the AMRIKA too

ISRAEL!

god this whole album is so fucking good, i’m glad it blew up a few years back

He’s running

a huge percentage of Israelis have dual citizenship with the Western country they were born in, usually the US or UK, and flee there when violence flares up on the frontier. Netanyahu himself is an American from Philadelphia.

small nitpick that’s not relevant to the news, but the German Empire was much more gung ho about war than the Austrians, and the German military invested a lot of time and resources towards trying to sway the Austro-Hungarian nobility to come around on war. Israel is a tail that is skilled at wagging the dog, but Austria was a more traditional attached-to-the-ass tail that doesn’t call the shots.

i don’t see it mentioned anywhere except a website called ‘iranpress’. here’s their about page:

https://iranpress.com/about_us

not conclusive enough for me to say whether it is trustworthy or not, so i’m taking this story with a hand grenade sized grain of salt. if anyone had other sources or info i’m interested in seeing them though

Remember what they have taken from you, Michigan. the tyrannical Biden regime wants your children to grow up in a world without shitty tacos, denying them one of the most precious pieces of their Midwestern heritage

it very well could be— given that the US has been urging de-escalation these past few weeks (albeit halfheartedly and ineffectively), i think any escalation is likely to be unilaterally israel

that’s not to absolve the US of guilt, of course. if they gave a shit and saw Arabs as human beings and not a political problem, they could very well put their foot down on this kind of rogue operation

Axios is reporting that the US was taken off-guard and wasn’t told about the pager plan. Israel has a long-established pattern of making bold moves that fly in the faces of their colonial overlords and make the regional situation worse

worth noting— this gives Israel a way of learning/confirming which state officials in Syria and Lebanon are in direct communication with Hezbollah, and studying how Hezbollah logistically responds to country-wide casualties. the implications here are bigger than just burnmarks on some grunts’ asses. the entity gets a ton of intelligence out of this.

you absolutely do not have to hand it to IOF or the Mossad, but whoever cooked up this scheme has been laughing all afternoon and thinks themselves a genius

this is Looney Tunes shit

that’s exactly how I would say I found out the base’s layout if I had a spy in Fort Irwin

Thank you for keeping my glorious post alive comrade

she’s been known to be trans for a long time, but before this week has always sidestepped accusations and questions about it. she had a Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy about her gender identity

i am proud to have been raised as a poster, personally