Friday Links - 23 October

Real life™ has once again called my name, in a shrill, unyielding voice. That's why we have an abbreviated links today. I hope everyone has a good weekend.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove is up first with BTW, The French Riots Are Your Fault

Finding a way to link anything that happens to the climate cult is rather culty.

Lone Star Parson - Karma Strikes The Wood Cricket

"Karma's a bitch my little wood cricket," writes Gad Saad as a lib white woman cries out in shock and disbelief as the ferals she's supported in Paris loot her boutique. Suicidal empathy? That's part of it.

The Gun Writer - Europe on fire proves the value of our Second Amendment

As arsonists, rioters and looters swarmed the streets of Paris Sunday night, French police were completely ineffective and President Emmanuel Macron and his wife were off attending a concert, which featured Céline Dion.

LDS Gunsite - Beirut and Remembrances

Remember the Beirut bombing! On 23rd of October 1983 305 servicemen of the U.S. and France, and civilians, were killed when a vehicle with a 21,000-pound TNT bomb ran into their barracks in Beirut, Lebanon.
We need to remember these cowardly acts and the brave men and women who defend us!

Again from William Teach - Weird: LA Non-profit Took Lots Of Taxpayer Money And Failed To Spend It

It’s almost like it is a horrendous idea to give tons of taxpayer money to private entities with zero oversight, who basically just enrich themselves.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 21 October 2026: 4 Edition

A Canadian expert in ransomware negotiations who recently wrote a book recommending you should always talk to the people holding you to ransom was allegedly in cahoots with the ransomers. (Krebs on Security)

And is now in FBI custody.

The Silicon Graybeard - Europe's first reusable spacecraft has a major "oops!"

Europe has been working for some time on a spacecraft called Space Rider designed to be reused. The European Space Agency (ESA) performed a drop test back on October 6 intended to test out its parachute system, and it failed. Badly.