C. U. Douglas

Born and raised in Oregon. I now live in Utah. I like good books, good drinks, and good friends. I have a wonderful family.

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

Again, you may not like the UFC thing at the White House, but the moment you hung a giant pride flag from the columns and had half-naked “trans” activists exposing themselves on the lawn, you lost all right to complain about desecration.

[Mr. Star Spangled MAGA @4thOfJuly365]

I know how Elon Musk became a trillionaire, but I don't know how Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Nancy Pelosi became millionaires.

[GooseGotLoose$1978 @GooseGotLoose78]

@WesternLensman Hilarious any Dem/Socialist would ever call anyone a freeloader. Talk about projection……

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

Elon responded to Warren calling him a “freeloader" in 2021:

“I'm actually paying the most tax that any individual in history has ever paid this year. Ever."

"And she doesn't pay taxes basically at all. Her salary is paid for by the taxpayer, like me. If you could die by irony, she would be dead."

[C. U. Douglas @CUDouglas]

@SandyofCthulhu @cliftonaduncan @EdgarUnfriendly They did a lot to normalize LGBTetc. in the 90's they way as well.

[Larry Correia @monsterhunter45]

This stupid mother fucker wrote this is response to me saying "Crime is illegal when Republicans do it" and he's too up his own ass to realize he's proving my point.

Trump got convicted of a bunch of irrelevant nonsensical bullshit that hardly anyone can explain. (I was an accountant, and good luck!) And these dipshits are still going off about the "grab them by the pussy" line from all those years ago.

When democrats do vile shit they get active cover, media and legal. When a republican does anything, good, bad, or indifferent they get crucified like it is the worst hate crime/war crime, imaginable.

You can apply that to pretty much anything. Name a thing where democrats did something horrible, it's fine. Find a republican equivalent (real or alleged) and it's the end of the world, freak out, come apart, never fucking shut up about it.

Democrats loot, burn, and murder across the nation for a summer. No biggie. Republicans get uppity one time at the Capitol and it's an "insurrection", thousands of FBI agents investigate, a whole bunch of people go to jail for the next four years, we get Stalinist show trials, and democrats still clutch their pearls and swoon at the mention of it.

Elon waves in a spergy way. OMG nazi hatemonger. Better burn a bunch of Tesla dealerships. Platner has Heinrich Himmler's literal fucking hat decoration tattooed on his chest, it's fine. Who hasn't had the youthful mistake of getting SS ink on your chest in between sessions of sexting minors? Why do you hate veterans?

This applies to regular people too. We've all got examples from our own lives. Generally speaking the D chosen can do all sorts of crime and expect leniency from a squishy judge. When one of them does something so super obviously bad that there's no defending it, retarded dems will still throw a fit and riot on their behalf. (I write as all eyes are on Texas)

Rs do dumb shit and we're gonna get stomped, feds will shoot our dog and burn out house down, and even if we are innocent and get off after all that life destroying hassle, democrats will spend eternity acting like we were convicted anyway.

And everybody knows these unwritten rules. These vapid dishonest fucks just have to pretend otherwise and polite people play along.

So when someone says some bullshit excuse about how if democrats cheat, why don't republicans cheat too? It's because we all know we have a rigged two tier system and shit they do with impunity, we'd get the book thrown at us.

[Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy]

@TheAtlantic

[C. U. Douglas @CUDouglas]

@BostonBridget "Raging drunks"

[C. U. Douglas @CUDouglas]

@desert_starr_57 Well. Can't unsee that.

[Antidepressant Content @depressionlesss]

Lions are social animals while tigers prefer to be alone and this moment says it all

[C. U. Douglas @CUDouglas]

I read the Earthsea trilogy as a kid (it was just a trilogy then). I remember liking it and having re-read it. I had to read "The Lathe of Heaven" in High School and it's one of my all time favorite sci-fi novels. She released a translation of the Dao De Jing and I read that once a year.

Not everything she did was brilliant. And yes, she had some terrible social politics, but she was a good writer and worth reading. Currently in my eReader queue when I finish others, "The Beginning Place" by LeGuin.

[Spencer Baggins @bigaiguy]

A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name.

He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual servers underneath AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. He calculated more digits of pi than anyone in history. He has no Twitter. He has no marketing. He just keeps shipping.

His name is Fabrice Bellard.

Here is the story, because almost nobody outside the systems programming world knows what one man has built.

Fabrice was born in 1972 in Grenoble, France. He studied at École Polytechnique, the top French engineering school. He never went to Silicon Valley. He never built a startup empire. He just wrote code.

In 2000 he started a project called FFmpeg, an open-source multimedia framework for encoding, decoding, and streaming video. He was 28. The project did one thing nobody else had done well. It handled every video and audio format that existed, in one library, on every operating system. He led it himself for years.

Today FFmpeg is the invisible engine of the internet. YouTube uses it. Netflix uses it. VLC uses it. Chrome and Firefox use parts of it. Every Android phone, every iPhone, every smart TV, every video editing tool you have ever touched runs FFmpeg somewhere underneath. If you have watched a video on a screen in the last 20 years, Fabrice's code processed it.

He was not done.

In 2003 he started QEMU, a machine emulator and virtualizer. He wrote it solo until version 0.7.1 in 2005. QEMU lets you run any operating system on any other operating system. It became the foundation of modern virtualization. KVM, the Linux kernel hypervisor, runs on top of QEMU. Every major cloud provider, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, runs virtual machines on infrastructure built around it. The Quick Emulator is the most cited piece of cloud infrastructure code on Earth.

He kept going.

In 2001 he won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest with a small C compiler that grew into TCC, the Tiny C Compiler. TCC can compile and boot a Linux kernel from source in under 15 seconds. In 2004 he calculated the most digits of pi ever computed at the time, using a personal desktop computer and an algorithm he derived himself called Bellard's formula. In 2011 he wrote a complete PC emulator in pure JavaScript that runs Linux in your browser, a project called JSLinux that engineers still cannot believe is real.

In 2019 he released QuickJS, a small but complete JavaScript engine that fits where V8 cannot. In 2021 he released NNCP, a neural network based lossless data compressor that immediately took the lead on the Large Text Compression Benchmark.

Then he turned his attention to large language models. He built TextSynth Server, a web server with a REST API for running LLMs locally. He released ts_zip and ts_sms, compression utilities that use language models to compress text and short messages at ratios traditional algorithms cannot reach. He released TSAC, a very low bitrate audio compression system. In December 2025 he released Micro QuickJS, a new JavaScript engine for microcontrollers, separate from QuickJS, designed for environments with almost no memory.

Fabrice co-founded a telecom company called Amarisoft in 2012, where he serves as CTO. Amarisoft builds 4G and 5G base station software used by carriers and labs around the world. He has been running it for over a decade while continuing to ship personal projects from his own home page at bellard dot org

He has no Twitter. He has no Instagram. He gives almost no interviews. His personal website is a flat list of projects with no styling, no fonts, no marketing copy. Just titles and links.

A quiet French engineer who never moved to Silicon Valley wrote the code that quietly runs the internet.

He is still shipping.

[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

You thought you hated liberal boomers? You don’t hate them nearly enough.

A 69-year-old retired bureaucrat from Alexandria, Virginia, Susan F. Douglas, is suing to stop the planned UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House as part of America’s 250th birthday celebration.

Her argument? The event would cause her “aesthetic injury,” meaning she doesn’t like looking at it. She also claims watching it would worsen the physical pain from her osteoarthritis.

A patriotic celebration featuring Americans enjoying themselves would allegedly cause Susan both emotional distress and physical pain. Think about that.

After spending more than 50 years working in DC, Susan shares that she now devotes her retirement to protesting the White House ballroom and construction of the triumphant arch, opposing renovations like those of reflection pool, and serving as a “safety marshal” at No Kings protests.

Susan is also a prolific donor to the James Talarico for Senate campaign, according to FEC records. Make of that what you will.

Liberal boomers spent decades running the country into the ground, shipping jobs overseas, and opening the floodgates to third worlders. Now that they’re retired, they dedicate themselves to draining the joy out of life for all other Americans.

[C. U. Douglas @CUDouglas]

@desert_starr_57 I'll give this one a slide if only because we never worry about how Superman or Supergirl get haircuts.

[C. U. Douglas @CUDouglas]

@MichaelBBORU @YoDanno

[Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy]

@philosophymeme0

[TheDungeonDelver @A_DungeonDelver]

IA! COKETHULU FTANGH!

[LifeNews.com @LifeNewsHQ]

he was supposed to be killed in an abortion.

But he SURVIVED!

And now he's a pastor.

Josiah Presley, originally from South Korea but now living in Oklahoma, said that when he first found out that his mother had wanted to abort him he was devastated and felt deep hurt and anger towards his birth parents.

However, he said, the power of God’s love meant he realised that he was “important to God and that every child was important to God” and this led him to forgive his parents whom he said he would like to meet some day.

“I wonder if they ever think about me,” he said. “I would like to tell them why I have forgiven them”.

He explained that he may have been one of twins and that the abortionist most likely did not realise one baby had survived the curettage abortion, which has left Josiah with a disabled arm.

Josiah said that he had survived the abortion by the grace of God and said that adoption was a real solution to the issue of crisis pregnancy. He had been adopted by a loving family in Oklahoma who have now adopted 10 children with a disability.

Josiah was adopted by his parents—Randy and Kathy Presley, who are members of Norman, Trinity, where Randy serves on staff. Josiah grew up with 11 siblings—many of whom also were adopted—in a solid Christian home.

Yet when his adoptive parents sat him down as he turned 13, Josiah learned the shocking news that he was an abortion survivor.

He learned that his birth mother in South Korea was scheduled to have a surgical abortion at two months gestation, yet he miraculously survived a gruesome procedure. The curettage abortion, which was designed to take the life of the child by cutting him and removing the baby parts from the woman’s uterus, thankfully did not take his life.

“This information was difficult for me to take in,” he said. “But I was glad they told me. If I’m honest with you, I was not personally in a good place in my life.”

Becoming a Christian in high school, Josiah is now a minister of the Gospel.

“I had made a (spiritual decision) at a young age, but I did not really understand what it meant to follow Jesus,” he said. “I did not have the power of God in my life, and I was also arrogant. That Thursday night at (Falls Creek), I surrendered my life to Jesus and so much in my life changed.”

After finding Jesus, Josiah had a newfound purpose, and he let go of any anger he held toward his birth parents. Today, Josiah now serves as student minister at Edmond, Northpointe, and he has served as a minister at other churches in Texas. He has a compassionate heart for the unborn and vulnerable people.

“My family was always pro-life and cared for the unborn and adoption,” he added. “But it wasn’t until I became a Christian and found out my story that I had a passion for myself, as well.”

While abortion nearly snuffed out his life, God had other plans. Josiah is now happily married to his wife Bethany. The couple recently gave birth to a beautiful baby girl as a testament to how God is bringing forth life from the life that was spared.

“Abortion is the destruction of beautiful innocent human beings who are important, who do have value, and who are loved,” he says.

And he urges people to consider the blessing of adoption “to let you know that there are families out there willing and wanting to adopt the least of these.

"I was saved from an untimely death and I was placed in a home where I was loved and cared for and learned about the love of Christ, my admiration and my love for my parents has grown over the years as I’ve seen their day in and day out sacrifice for me and my siblings.”