I had a small role in recruiting this man. He'd spent the last ten years leading engineering teams on a consumer product you've probably used, and he's just arrived in DC to work with the federal government. He started on Monday, and it's now Thursday night. I run into him at an event. He arrives late, and looks shellshocked.

How's it going? He's struggling to put words together. I'm worried. "I just left the office. I think everything's going to be okay." What is he talking about? "For the first day and a half, nothing. Then it was 'go to this agency and help them with this thing. It needs to go live on Thursday and there's a problem.' Yes, there was a problem. The data the service relied on….I've never seen a database like that. Ever." What do you mean? "1993. The guy couldn't find any other way to make it work. The vendors would have taken too long even if someone could justify the budget. So he just hacked it at nights and over weekends. Used whatever he could find and taught himself how to use it. The machine is ancient. The software has just been running since then. I'm amazed he managed to keep it running this long. It's a miracle. Either no one knew, or no one cared — my guess is that they were just happy to have something that worked at all. The guy's been keeping this going like this…I mean…I had no idea…I've never seen…." He's shaking his head and looking past me.

What happened? "First we just had to make sure we could get the data out somehow, make sure we had a copy. I mean, these records…they're the only copy. The whole system relies on this. People rely on this. To help real people. People who need help. If it had failed…" He really is in shock.

"I'd just never seen anything like this. I was afraid if I even touched it, it would all go poof. We got it out. It's okay…. It's okay now…But this guy…He's been keeping this together for 23 years…"

For a minute, I worry that he's angry. And that he might be angry at me for encouraging him to take this job. But I look in his eyes and it's not anger, it's awe. Respect. Admiration and gratitude for a public servant who has achieved the impossible. Made things work in spite of the rules, not because of them. "He made it work. He's the only guy who can run it. He knows it wouldn't work without him so he's deferred his retirement. I mean…he's extraordinary."

Extraordinary. A Silicon Valley technologist, the kind of person we champion as a savior of government, thinks that a career civil servant beyond retirement age with sorely outdated technical skills is extraordinary.

That career civil servant's name is Jed. The system he started building in the 1980s and maintained for decades before my friend came along was called VACOLS, the Veterans Appeals Control and Locator System. It started out serving just 400 users, and expanded to 17,000 across multiple parts of the VA system. Logic Magazine later interviewed him, and the backstory is well worth a read.

When you goon you're performing a political act and the way you coom says a lot about you, your values, and your place in a shared community. We need to take your views and considerations into account when designing a equitable future for our children. However, when it's time for COOM. There's no need for any of that. You don't even need clothes. Just bring your hands.

For centuries we've had debates on how to handle the powers of COOM. Some cultures let GOONERs run free, as you see with the Sentinelese. They live the perfect life for gooners. NAKED all day long. Boobas on display. No work, no insurance, no renewing medical aid schemes, no Alexander Forbes foundation, just coom. Other cultures have tried to hold back gooners, eventually these became traditions like marriage and with that, r*pe became illegal which changed the game for gooners forever. That began the evolutionary arms race between GOONERS and FEDS. And if that's not bad enough, you've got to worry about OPPs trying to take your GOONING customers from you bruh. You can't learn the coom hustle in school you've got to live this shit aint no textbooks on gooning like we goon in this b-word.

Nah but Imma keep it 100% wichu this site good ya'll lil bros doing ya'lls thang just don't get too big for your boots. And remember to pay respects to the fallen soldiers in prison, dead, we've lost a lot of good brothers to this goon shit for real. We need unity. Aight imma light this blunt and goon hard. Shit's good as frick yo. Can't stop gooning. How much do you goon?

Now lastly, you gotta remember we categorize our gooners as either: organized, disorganized and mixed. My organized gooners got COOM calenders and sheeit. they're all about that OPSEC because they're paranoid about the feds. Me? I'm a DISORGANIZED coomer. If I meet with the feds I'm gooning it out and until then, I'm gonna EJACULATE BLOOD WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT.

Stay cumming for real. And PIRATE your PORN DON'T PAY NOT ONE DIME SHARE THAT SHIT NEIGHBOR

if you are a fed PLEASE DM me

76 percent of British converts to radical forms of Islam are ginger. pic.twitter.com/DVa3KGUzXy

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) February 1, 2025

Muhammad had a red beard, it's the religion where gingers can be the main character.

Hollywood jews replaced all the gingers with blacks so they had to retaliate

Second clip

!animalposters !cats

According to reddit: he doesn't deserve this neurodivergent bacterial vaginosis scented TSA queen.

https://old.reddit.com/r/WomensHealth/comments/1hsdicx/hey_all_first_time_posting_in_this_sub_hope_yall/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/1e8ehfd/i_know_this_is_a_long_shot_but_if_you_were_dinger/

- 1 votes

- 196 votes

Don't take this the wrong way— Do you actually look like your photos? Or are they a collage of you on your best day, and not rooted in reality?

I've walked out on dates. It's almost 100% of the time because the person misrepresented themself in some way. Maybe they hid something obvious. Maybe they were in denial about aging or weight fluctuation. He could have also built you up in his mind into someone you're not, and then panicked when he was met with reality (this has also happened to me) Who knows. But yea, for leaving after 5 mins, I'm guessing it had to do with an unmet expectation.

BREAKING: LOS ANGELES POLICE HAVE LOST CONTROL OF LARGE PARTS OF DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES pic.twitter.com/zFcSGDnk7j

— News Rated (@NewsRated) February 3, 2025

/r/The_Donald discusses sending in Marines to declare martial law

I think the one-party system in Chinese style is the best proven political system

With an opinion like that, why should anyone listen to you?

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueUnpopularOpinion/comments/1idqiwo/as_a_nonamerican_im_done_of_leftists_in_reddit/ma14mru/?context=8

Uh the one party system is not the best proven system. Hitler banned political parties so there was only one. China has authoritarian government. It's unamerican.

Edit: I expect to see more one party system good propaganda.

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueUnpopularOpinion/comments/1idqiwo/as_a_nonamerican_im_done_of_leftists_in_reddit/ma17qak/?context=8

Darn, who let Elon Musk have a Reddit account?

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueUnpopularOpinion/comments/1idqiwo/as_a_nonamerican_im_done_of_leftists_in_reddit/ma170he/?context=8

As a non-American,

Then I do not care of your opinion on America

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueUnpopularOpinion/comments/1idqiwo/as_a_nonamerican_im_done_of_leftists_in_reddit/ma1749p/?context=8

Hating from outside of the club is crazy.

Especially when it's the party you love so much that's not even going to let you in.

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueUnpopularOpinion/comments/1idqiwo/as_a_nonamerican_im_done_of_leftists_in_reddit/ma15hud/?context=8

Funny that's how I feel about trumpers, I have no space for them anymore.

Kick rocks.

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueUnpopularOpinion/comments/1idqiwo/as_a_nonamerican_im_done_of_leftists_in_reddit/ma14xga/?context=8

ur just a troll

Trump is pro pardoning mass murder, pro torture and pro lying...

There is nothing good about trump and ur just trolling by playing the facist here

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueUnpopularOpinion/comments/1idqiwo/as_a_nonamerican_im_done_of_leftists_in_reddit/ma15aix/?context=8

We will trans everybody you love

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueUnpopularOpinion/comments/1idqiwo/as_a_nonamerican_im_done_of_leftists_in_reddit/ma146dl/?context=8

Fascism is growing in the US and the World

MAGA is a rapidly advancing Fascist party

We all have seen the events at the inauguration and having different thoughts about what Elon did, but I want to point to what they are doing with policy rather than one moment.

Trump is an Authoritarian leader. He wants control of everything, media, education, the economy, global politics. There will never be a point where he will be satisfied.

Before you know it, project 2025 will not just be the lefts boogie man but an actual threat to our safety and civil rights.

Trump will continue to push the most radical right wing beliefs onto our country until he has full control. One thing at a time, MAGA as a party will tear down each law in favor of the rich and powerful.

MAGA thrives on misinfor.ation and the suppression of education, and it will only get worse. The more you people chose to ignore the more MAGA will take from us. First is was Row V Wade, then it will be birthright citizenship. What about marriage equality? Nothing is off the table for Trump anymore. He's made it clear, but for someone reason, his followers don't speak the same language and misconstrue the truth.

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueUnpopularOpinion/comments/1idqiwo/as_a_nonamerican_im_done_of_leftists_in_reddit/ma153gh/?context=8

Look, I wanted trump to win the election, but it wasn't because I think he's any kind of good guy. I know he's a whiny, loser pig, though I'm appreciating this more serious Trump over his last iteration..

I wanted Trump to win because I knew we needed some conservative counterbalance back. I'm not a leftist anymore, and it's because I don't agree with all of their positions. They are not my party when they refuse to capitulate to any sort of middle ground, so they have to be forced. I hope conservatives keep it cool, too, or else I'll have to stand against them all over again.

Our politics are not half as simple as they were 20 years ago. It was easy to be a leftist when conservative Christianity was forcing people to deny their own humanity. What I didn't know is that the left is just as capable of acting the same way.

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueUnpopularOpinion/comments/1idqiwo/as_a_nonamerican_im_done_of_leftists_in_reddit/ma1e7eh/?context=8

Happy Lunar New Year to the dramanauts who celebrate it. 2025 is the Year of the Snake.

I made this for @NotX (definitely not @X, formerly chiobu) even though he never actually asked for it.

The following have sparks. Which one do you like best?

Update: Slightly more than a day later, 1 has 36 votes, 2 has 15 votes, and 3 has 21 votes. I will submit 1.

Yes, I realize that you wouldn't actually hold firecrackers like that. I copied the design from something on Google because I waited too long to start drawing this and couldn't come up with a better design that wasn't too similar to the previous ones. I started it around January 24.

^{The tiger is by @Dramarama. The others are by me.}

Without Firecrackers

The title is a reference to @TwoLargeSnakesMating, former rDrama codecel who left rDrama in early 2023

(Drawn with Inkscape, referenced )

He’s completely missing the point. But people who lack empathy usually do miss the point so this isn’t shocking https://t.co/BRRGwD6qLk

— △⃒⃘Youtube: Nu Mindframe△⃒⃘♒️ (@nu_mindframe) February 1, 2025

The @DOGE team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups.

They literally never denied a payment in their entire career.

Not even once. https://t.co/kInoGWdw4C

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 1, 2025

!chuds

Since this is being discussed more lately thanks to a thread was started on the less fun site that is worth a read to avid trainspotters.

Here is some info i could scrape together on this story to rival alpacashwitz :

The leader

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/ziz-jack-amadeus-lasota-zizians-sinceriously-fyi-wip.210782/

The Cult

https://zizians.info/

https://medium.com/@sefashapiro/a-community-warning-about-ziz-76c100180509

Their Victims

https://openvallejo.org/2025/01/27/suspects-in-killings-of-vallejo-witness-vermont-border-patrol-agent-connected-by-marriage-license-extreme-ideology/

https://openvallejo.org/2025/01/27/man-killed-in-vallejo-was-main-witness-in-upcoming-murder-trial/

The Site's Archive

https://sinceriously.blog-mirror.com/

https://sinceriously.blog-mirror.com/glossary/

These have in no particular order:

Impaled a landlord with a katana

Got shot for impaling said landlord

Got arested for threatning a rationalist meetup in guy fawks masks

Started and abandoned a houseboat fleet to avoid paying rent

Induced schizophrenia transness and other trough sleep hemispheric deprivation and mind hacks

Plotted to kill some random spegs for reasons i can't be botherd to look into

Organised murder of a members parents for being abusive (telling them to get a job)

Faked their death certificate to evade enemies

Extra:

Google doc IP GRABBER!!! containing detailed info (probably, )

https://xcancel.com/kenthecowboy_/status/1884393311827550716#m

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RpAvd5TO5eMhJrdr2kz43dxT3nNm0XtuPcaW9kBIZL8/edit?tab=t.0

Interview with someone who is part of the cult (but totally not they pinky promise )

Screenshot of the thread for the accountles

!foidmoment

!gay !bottoms !tops

shamelessly stolen from here

Previous post this is a follow-up to

https://rdrama.net/post/338283/man-gets-executed-for-flirting-with

Today had a bit of an interesting development.

Quick reminder for those who forgot because a flew a helicopter into your cerebral cortex

Hermitcraft, upon receiving the proof that Iskall dared to flirt with adult women in private, gave the man 90 mins to respond before axing him and scorching his career

Several Hermitcraft members have come out to post on Twitter, and Twitter in response to Iskall's video talking about his "cancellation"

All of these are vague and nebulous, but very obvious what they are referencing.

Welsknight Gaming

That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, that's not a big deal.
And if it is, that's not my fault.
And if it was, I didn't mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.

-Dayna Craig, "The Narcissist's Prayer"

— Welsknight Gaming (@WelsknightPlays) January 31, 2025

What an interesting thing to say...

He's essentially saying that Iskall deserves to have his income and reputation uprooted without even caring to hear what his side of the story.

Also interesting to note that Welsknight is barely even part of Hermitcraft as it is, his last upload being over 6 months ago. Only uploading dogshit 2012 lets plays nobody gives a shit about.

ZombieCleo

Never argue with someone who believes their own lies.

— ZombieCleo (@zombiecleo.bsky.social) 2025-01-30T19:15:40.548Z

>Replies disabled

I guess even blue sky wasn't safe enough.

Interesting that she calls him a liar, but I have no idea what he even arguably lied about in his video when he straight up confirms that he did flirt with women, and he just says it's my private life.

ImpulseSV

Great quote from a great movie:

“It's funny how all living organisms are alike...when the chips are down, when the pressure is on, every creature on the face of the Earth is interested in one thing and one thing only. it’s own survival.”

(In the voice of Skizz) Name it!

— impulseSV (@impulseSV) January 31, 2025

>Quote is from film "Liar Liar"

Once again calling him a liar, but not sure what the frick he lied about....

Also very interesting to pick a quote which frames you as the one trying to destroy the "organisms life". Thats a bad look sweaty

GoodTimesWithScar

Old movie posters hit hard. pic.twitter.com/qxoUDY3wpx

— GoodTimesWithScar (@GTWScar) January 31, 2025

Film poster of the film Gaslamp

Yeah that awful thing Iskall did by flirting with women.... He's gaslamping you into thinking it's normal....

Additional reply from GeminiTay to above tweet

hehe were so quirky!!! Lucky movie references cant be used in a deformation lawsuit against a public figure teehee

And as all these tweets came out at the same time, it's very obvious this is coordinated and not just me being a schizo

In fact people mention this in the comments to Scar's tweet as well.

... I thought scar already had a steel chair

All of this vague posting is like a Teenage girl posting "deep" lyrics on her Facebook after a break-up

Genuinely pathetic. I'd respect them a lot more if they just straight up tweeted "Iskall keep yourself safe"

But yes this continues to be crazy how big of a response and attempt to erase the mans reputation of seemingly nothing.

I kind of want to believe there's some truly horrid stuff we don't know about that is the cause behind this awful behavior.

But the Minecraft space is filled with the worse people possible that it's entirely likely they are all just backstabbing snakes all the way through.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1ihl7fe/destiny_2_star_wars_collaboration_trailer/

!g*mers

This is why I’m transphobic: pic.twitter.com/FPan8zKWO3

— MaryCate Delvey (@marycatedelvey) February 6, 2025

!cuteandinvalid