What a year for video game music! Starting on December 1st until the 25th, check back each day for new music randomly selected from my collection of video game vinyls! Happy Holidays! #vgm #vinylrecords youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…

New OOTS! #1345, Aim High: giantitp.com/comics/oots1345…

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It’s been a moment, but today’s #musicfriday includes the moody, atmospheric tunes of #BluePrince by @dogubomb. I haven’t reached the end of this puzzle but at least I can enjoy the music by Trigg & Gusset! @iam8bit #vinylrecords

I stood at this pool, at both monuments and saw both reflections… He’s a God damn idiot, as are the fools that support him. The “Reflection Pool” wasn’t designed by American architect Henry Bacon a hundred years ago to look like a swimming pool. It’s designed to have a darkened characteristics that has reflective qualities to reflect the monuments. That way, the Washington Monument is reflective to you when at the Lincoln Memorial, and when at the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial is reflective to you. It’s designed to enhance the grandeur of monuments, create an illusion of reflection, and inclusion of expansive space of unity. He’s a tacky vulgar person that vulgarizes everything he touches. America isn’t becoming great, it’s becoming vulgar. Credit - Mathew Reed

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Edited a few. The @WhiteHouse can get fucked. #sleepydon #piperperri #orangeyisthenewblack

At last it is here—day 365 of #TheDiegeticShuffle, the daily dose of diegetic Star Wars music I hit play on on May the Fourth last year. Our final piece comes from Knights of the Old Republic—a subtly unsettling electronic loop from Jeremy Soule called "Jayvar's Cantina".

New music today, @masseffect #Andromeda by @JohnPaesano! Returning to a galaxy of music and adventure! Wonderful soundtrack and great work to the teams that put this together! @SPACELAB9 @LakeshoreRecs @EA (ugh.) #MusicMonday #vinylrecords

Phobium was a metal alloy used in power cells. "Cut the phobium" was an expression meaning "cut the crap". And "Cut the Phobium" was a slinkily comic jizz piece by @stevekirkpop for the Old Republic. It's our selection for day 351 of #TheDiegeticShuffle. youtu.be/aQoEQm0mn7c?si=vGee…

Any day the Jindas come to visit is a good day—and day 350 of #TheDiegeticShuffle is no exception! The Traveling Jindas (stranded offworlders) were introduced in episode 5 of Ewoks, and this tune by Patricia Cullen, David Greene, and David Shaw was the soundtrack for their show.

New OOTS! #1342, Told Point Blank: giantitp.com/comics/oots1342…

Way to send him off. #TheBoys

Sigh. Test.

President Trump has now ended 17 wars, including the war between Iran and the United States a record 14 times.

8:06 AM. The man whose name is on a book I wrote posted: "A whole civilization will die tonight." I am a ghostwriter. In 1987, I wrote the most famous business book in American history. Half the advance. Half the royalties. Eighteen months in his office, listening to his phone calls. He would flatter, threaten, hang up, and call the next person the greatest. I wrote it all down. I made it sound like strategy. Chapter 1 was about thinking big. I wrote that about condominiums. This morning, at 8:06 AM, the man whose name is on the cover posted seven sentences to a social media platform. The first: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again." That is Chapter 1. I wrote that about condominiums. Chapter 3 was about leverage. "The best thing you can do is deal from strength." The example was a zoning board. The technique was implying you had options you didn't have. He is using Chapter 3 on a strait that carries 20% of the world's oil. The zoning board is a shipping lane. The leverage is a navy. I invented a phrase for him. "Truthful hyperbole." An innocent form of exaggeration, I wrote. A very effective form of promotion. I was describing how he inflated square footage. Thirteen thousand targets struck. Two thousand and fifty-six dead. Twenty-four thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven wounded. I wrote "truthful hyperbole" about square footage. Chapter 4 was about timing. When to make the call. When to let them wait. When to close. I was describing a contractor negotiation. He paused the bombing for Easter. Resumed it Monday. His Defense Secretary compared the rescue of a downed pilot to the resurrection of Christ. Shot down on Good Friday. Hidden in a cave on Saturday. Rescued as the sun rose on Easter Sunday. I wrote about timing. I was describing when to return a phone call. At the Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn, while children hunted eggs, he told the cameras: "We are obliterating their country. And I hate to do it, but we are obliterating." Chapter 2 was about promotion. I wrote that about how to sell a building. A reporter asked if destroying every bridge in a nation of 88 million constituted war crimes. Three words: "Not worried about it." A journalist reported a downed pilot missing behind enemy lines. He threatened to jail the reporter. I looked through the manuscript. There is no chapter on press freedom. There is no chapter on international law. There is no chapter on what happens when the contractor you're threatening is a civilization. I didn't write those chapters. I was writing about real estate. He didn't notice they were missing. He doesn't read. Someone asked if God supported the war. "God is good." There is no chapter on theology either. Chapter 7 was about knowing when to walk away. I described a stalled deal. The lesson was patience. He walked away from every alliance his country had built in eighty years. Forty countries formed a coalition to guard the strait because nobody answered the phone. In my journal, in 1986, I wrote: "All he is is 'stomp, stomp, stomp' — recognition from outside, bigger, more, a whole series of things that go nowhere in particular." Forty years. Nothing has changed except the size of the things being stomped. I know he never read the book. Eighteen months together, I never saw one on his desk. Not mine. Not anyone's. The man whose name is on the most famous business book in American history has never read a book. He didn't need to. It was never a manual. It was a mirror. He looked at the cover — his name, in gold, larger than the title, as he'd requested — and saw everything he needed. "A whole civilization will die tonight." Seven sentences. 8:06 AM. A Tuesday. I called it truthful hyperbole. He is calling it foreign policy. I built the mythology. He added a military.

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” These are the words of the president of the United States, today. The president speaks genocide. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment. snyder.substack.com/p/the-pr…

It’s that time again unfortunately like clockwork

Even wars have rules. The Geneva Conventions protect civilians in conflict and help ensure assistance reaches those in need, without discrimination. ohchr.org/en/instruments-mec…

War crimes are morally and legally wrong. But they also don’t win wars or get us beyond politics. Insofar as there is a logic to this it is to provoke the Iranians and then act shocked and go for a coup domestically. See my essay "The Next Coup Attempt" snyder.substack.com/p/the-ne…