RalfMaximus

@ralfmaximus
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49% Evil Is Not Half Bad

Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Multi-fandom nerd but lots of Star Trek.
Multiple careers, but centered around software & technology & public healthcare especially EH.

I write sometimes, mostly science fictiony things.

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Video Shows US Tomahawk Missile Strike Next to Girls’ School in Iran - bellingcat

New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage, released by Mehr News and geolocated by Bellingcat, also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school […]

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And when I say Iran has thousands of mountains, I mean it. There are over 20,000, and that's just the ones that have been given names.

But yeah, good luck with that ground invasion...

"Even as this new unasked for, unneeded, illegal war unfolded, Trump has asserted that next he will seek to topple the government of Cuba. As if the job of presidents of the United States was to pick and choose who ruled the world and how."

#Iran #MakAmericaGrateAgain

https://davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/living-in-a-time-of-lunatics-and

Living in a Time of Lunatics and Monsters

Let's be honest about the roots, costs and consequences of the Iran War

Need to Know by David Rothkopf
2/ * Why is HE still murdering people. Not “we,” HE. And Hegseth, & MAGA-GOP Congress.

RE: https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/116185183632935876

If this is still going on approaching the midterms, expect him to implement a "terrorist attack" on American soil.

Bonus picture for today. This is the cable car barn/powerhouse... where just four 510 horsepower motors and gears pull miles of heavy cables underneath city streets, yanking 40 cable cars up and down the hills of San Francisco.

I love this place. The machinery is fascinating, the cables sing, and the smell of machine oil is intoxicating.

#photography

I'm pleased with how massive and cool I made this basic Yamaha synth from the 80s sound. This is a variation on a "jazz organ" sound run through guitar pedals, and then in parallel ring modulated, grain-shifted, and run through a rackmount guitar effect chain, and ended up sounding awesome enough to record a quick example because I just wanted to capture the tone.
When Trump calls Zelenskyy to beg for Ukrainian intercepter drones to shoot down Iranian Shahed 136 drones, I hope Zelenskyy replies "You are gambling with World War 3!!!", and hangs up.