Mike Vasta
@vastastic.com
Web Weaving, Unilaterally Administrating Doctor of Latinology & Romanicity and Nerd for All Seasons
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came across this tweet in the wild, everyone loves the wine-dark sea
January 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
came across this tweet in the wild, everyone loves the wine-dark sea
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one thing about writing an entire book about sandwiches is my brain is just full of random facts now. coffee plants were forcibly introduced to java by the dutch. tuna fishes have extraordinarily high lung capacity. barbecue was a status symbol denoting slave ownership in the antebellum south
July 13, 2026 at 11:30 AM
one thing about writing an entire book about sandwiches is my brain is just full of random facts now. coffee plants were forcibly introduced to java by the dutch. tuna fishes have extraordinarily high lung capacity. barbecue was a status symbol denoting slave ownership in the antebellum south
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7-Year-Old Unable To Maintain Single Cohesive Storyline While Playing With Action Figures https://theonion.com/7-year-old-unable-to-maintain-single-cohesive-storyline-1819578954/
May 26, 2026 at 8:30 PM
7-Year-Old Unable To Maintain Single Cohesive Storyline While Playing With Action Figures https://theonion.com/7-year-old-unable-to-maintain-single-cohesive-storyline-1819578954/
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TRENT REZNOR: I hurt myself today [turns to camera] but with Aspercreme brand lidocaine, I can still fuck you like an animal
June 25, 2023 at 8:25 PM
TRENT REZNOR: I hurt myself today [turns to camera] but with Aspercreme brand lidocaine, I can still fuck you like an animal
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Mandalorians: He can talk, he can talk, he can talk, he can talk.
Grogu: 🎶I can SIIIIIIIINNNNNNGGGG 🎶
Grogu: 🎶I can SIIIIIIIINNNNNNGGGG 🎶
Kathleen Kennedy confirms Grogu will not speak in ‘The Mandalorian & Grogu’
“[Not] a word”
(via Variety)
“[Not] a word”
(via Variety)
March 9, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Mandalorians: He can talk, he can talk, he can talk, he can talk.
Grogu: 🎶I can SIIIIIIIINNNNNNGGGG 🎶
Grogu: 🎶I can SIIIIIIIINNNNNNGGGG 🎶
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This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.
yeah, just out of interest, how many people choose the pen on the right for real work or art? See a lot of them in professional workplaces, do you?
January 22, 2026 at 12:21 PM
This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.
Updated Fox Patrol as of the end of @swankmotron.com's Outfoxed (in mostly the right variants). Gotta say, the IWM Ion Sparrow is a very very nice model.
Now time to run the next stage of our Fox Patrol campaign!
Now time to run the next stage of our Fox Patrol campaign!
January 21, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Updated Fox Patrol as of the end of @swankmotron.com's Outfoxed (in mostly the right variants). Gotta say, the IWM Ion Sparrow is a very very nice model.
Now time to run the next stage of our Fox Patrol campaign!
Now time to run the next stage of our Fox Patrol campaign!
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Chicago, Illinois, 2025:
"They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van."
"They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other."
"I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'"
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
"They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van."
"They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other."
"I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'"
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground
ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.
abc7chicago.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Chicago, Illinois, 2025:
"They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van."
"They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other."
"I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'"
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
"They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van."
"They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other."
"I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'"
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
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The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
September 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
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This is not a massive decision or any kind of change. Costco has never carried mifepristone in its pharmacies. An anti-abortion group is taking credit for something that didn't happen, possibly to generate disingenuous left-wing ire against one of the few corporations that hasn't gone MAGA.
August 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This is not a massive decision or any kind of change. Costco has never carried mifepristone in its pharmacies. An anti-abortion group is taking credit for something that didn't happen, possibly to generate disingenuous left-wing ire against one of the few corporations that hasn't gone MAGA.
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Feels like Daniel Warren Johnson has been building to this cover his entire career.
July 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Feels like Daniel Warren Johnson has been building to this cover his entire career.
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favorite dumb comics thing is how some american guy doing too much coke in the 80s would invent a terrible superhero like "sandwich boy" as a joke and then some british guy doing too many sedatives in the 90s would be like "sandwich boy can create a 'reality sandwich' and is thus a living god"
June 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
favorite dumb comics thing is how some american guy doing too much coke in the 80s would invent a terrible superhero like "sandwich boy" as a joke and then some british guy doing too many sedatives in the 90s would be like "sandwich boy can create a 'reality sandwich' and is thus a living god"
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Lol just heard the NPR story about the DOGE guy who lost his job when he said he was surprised at how hard it was to find inefficiencies in the federal govt because he came from Silicon Valley where companies always have lots of people sitting around doing nothing
June 2, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Lol just heard the NPR story about the DOGE guy who lost his job when he said he was surprised at how hard it was to find inefficiencies in the federal govt because he came from Silicon Valley where companies always have lots of people sitting around doing nothing
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To celebrate the fact that we got one of the best narrative Mechwarrior campaigns with the Ghost Bear Flash Storm DLC, I’m giving away 3 copies of the Ghost Bear DLC. To enter the raffle, just retweet this. Winners announced Friday.
May 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
To celebrate the fact that we got one of the best narrative Mechwarrior campaigns with the Ghost Bear Flash Storm DLC, I’m giving away 3 copies of the Ghost Bear DLC. To enter the raffle, just retweet this. Winners announced Friday.
Stayed up way too late last night working on my first Plague Marine. Painting this gross dude was really fun and I can't wait for the even weirder ones
April 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Stayed up way too late last night working on my first Plague Marine. Painting this gross dude was really fun and I can't wait for the even weirder ones
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INNER PALACE: After criticism of his policy of "opening the Empyrean and allowing Chaos daemons to slake their endless hunger upon humanity", President Horus Lupercal announced that the rift would be "adjusted" to 10% of its former diameter for 90 days. Commodities markets rallied at the news.
April 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
INNER PALACE: After criticism of his policy of "opening the Empyrean and allowing Chaos daemons to slake their endless hunger upon humanity", President Horus Lupercal announced that the rift would be "adjusted" to 10% of its former diameter for 90 days. Commodities markets rallied at the news.
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This is an amazing short story, and if you haven't read Unknown Number, you really should.
April 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
This is an amazing short story, and if you haven't read Unknown Number, you really should.
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Reading about stuff that’s happened for the first time since 1933 is a lot cooler when it’s about like baseball stats or seeing a rare bird.
April 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Reading about stuff that’s happened for the first time since 1933 is a lot cooler when it’s about like baseball stats or seeing a rare bird.
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We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again
April 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again
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'A prominent computer scientist [Xiaofeng Wang] who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer Indiana University, and had his homes raided.'
March 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
'A prominent computer scientist [Xiaofeng Wang] who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer Indiana University, and had his homes raided.'
An attempt at the First Kestrel Grenadiers, based on the awesome art from the Davion Force Manual. It's not perfect, but it's my wildest scheme yet
March 21, 2025 at 1:28 AM
An attempt at the First Kestrel Grenadiers, based on the awesome art from the Davion Force Manual. It's not perfect, but it's my wildest scheme yet
Finally made the Highlander I pilot in HBS BattleTech. With my best cockpit jeweling and even did it sparkly thanks to a metallic dry brush!
March 21, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Finally made the Highlander I pilot in HBS BattleTech. With my best cockpit jeweling and even did it sparkly thanks to a metallic dry brush!
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the senators recoil in horror as a wounded Caesar rises from the floor and a second health bar appears on the screen
March 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
the senators recoil in horror as a wounded Caesar rises from the floor and a second health bar appears on the screen