It's Friday. There's a heatwave. I'm feeling lazy. I'm just going to post some tweets.

Quick thinking having a tablecloth handy. I didn’t even notice the twitching from that dead robot.[image or embed]— Rav (@rvbdrm.com) July 21, 2026 at 8:38 PM Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*— Gingerspiced (@gingerspiced.bsky.social) July 18, 2026 at 10:13 AM Both events, it must be stressed, are a direct result of exactly the kind of stupid-and-cruel warfighting that Pete Hegseth promised to bring to the US military and has delivered. Our army will become, by inches, more and more like the Russian one: cruel, incompetent, impotent, incapable, wicked.— "Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux (@bretdevereaux.bsky.social) July 18, 2026 at 11:26 AM Yeah, so also, VLCCs ('very large crude carriers') that do the lion's share of global oil shipping are substantially larger than Suezmax, so if the Bab al-Mandab (the strait as the southern end of the Red Sea) is closed, you can't get those VLCCs to Yanbu.…