Thursday, December 11, 2025

The Sedate One Is This Month's Skittish One

Comforting in a way that if I stopped blogging today, stopped twooting today, stopped skybluing today, and deleted my accounts, it's already too late. I'm siloed in Shitlord data farms with enough content to set magagestapo (trademark, though feel free to use it for a five syllable haiku line (with accreditation, yo)) on me anytime they want, I don't have to worry about incriminating myself, I already have

If I stop incriminating myself - I've slowed down incriminating myself of late - it's not because I fear reprisal but because I can't be canary or weathervane or Cassandra (though still a fool) now that much of what I screamed for decades (people can vouch) would happen has and is and will continue. Have I told you three times we are being reprogrammed? Was true, is true, will be true


Besides, I'm old and nobody. I spent an hour yesterday in a private equity-owned orthopedic superstore while you who know me in real life can guess who saw the bone doc, old people, lots of old people, limping and wincing, limp stop wince, limp stop wince, old people groaning, one old woman screaming in pain, her just as old and almost as feeble husband unable to comfort her, old people with canes and wheelchairs and electric scooters and hired brown people fearing the magagestapo helping them limp stop wince, wheelchairing them. A line of in pain old people waiting to to be told to fuck off go talk to an AI bot about a bill they didn't expect and can't pay

This getting old shit. Who gets me first, the magagestapo when it finally reaches my tier of insignificance in the coming eradications or extermination by private equity-owned doctor stores and their MRI laundromats and AI denying insurance claims and shitlords cheating me on Medicare and stealing my social security. I know which I'd prefer, I know what I predict. When my daughter is my age it will be 2056, the Earth will be here, will the world? See? Same yodel

The waiting room played the shittiest of shitty giftmas songs and of course I was reminded to remind you that there is only one not-banned giftmas song in BLCKDGRDSTN. Revolution, fellowmofos





Pam Bondi is Coming for Domestic Terrorists. You Might Be One of Them
The Bezos Post Editorial Board applauds advancements in racism but demands more far-reaching racism in the future
SCOTUS poised to expand Trump’s power over independent agencies
"Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery"
Your shitlords openly daydream of murdering you
Palantir’s military-industrial plan for America
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
"Between this and previous rulings, U.S. corporations have effectively put a bullet in the head of labor protections, consumer protection, public safety, environmental law, and corporate oversight"
The shitlord billionaire family poised to rewire U.S. media in Israel’s favor
Neoliberalism and the Grift Society
The Derangement of the Conservative Mind (Cont'd)
"The State Department is instructing its staff to reject visa applications from people who worked on fact-checking, content moderation or other activities the Trump administration considers "censorship" of Americans' speech"
Sorry If This Is Antisemitic But I Think It's Wrong To Train Dogs To Rape Prisoners
"Ever notice how you don’t hear about the Proud Boys or the Patriot Front or any of those other right wing fascist white supremacist groups anymore? Because all those Nazi fucks work for ICE now. ICE is a government-run terrorist organization"
DoJ moves to eliminate sexual abuse protections for LGBTQ+ people in prisons
"An unambiguously and unabashedly pro-rape administration"
Trump could call a female journalist on-camera a stupid skankwhore cunt and it'd blasted and tictokked (tictoked?) around the world and there would be zero repercussions
"Not one reporter in the White House press pool chose not to be a sniveling coward and stand up to psychologically damaged, 80-year-old loathsome piece of shit after he attacked ABC's Rachel Scott. NOT FUCKING ONE"
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Trump’s Enemies List Meets Media Blackout
"The system is built to prevent wages from rising too fast, to prevent workers from gaining leverage, to prevent any restoration of the purchasing power we’ve lost. When wages go up, the machine treats it like a malfunction and corrects. When corporations gouge, it’s just the market at work
"This is exactly what the bosses who put Trump into office were trying to achieve. Crushing the tight labor market from the early Biden years that gave workers - for the first time in my adult lifetime - leverage over their bosses"
"They told us there’d be breadlines and poverty under socialism yet under capitalism we have breadlines, poverty, endless war, and 3 billionaires who hoard more wealth than half of our nation. We need to shift the economy from production for profits to production for social needs"
Three Ways It's World War™ IIIMorons march
50 words for snowTwenty Japanese words for rain
MaggieStar DeathUndoing MapTightrope
The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago
{ feuilleton }Henry James, for those of you who do
Krasznahorkai's Nobel Prize lecture, it's very László
Guitarists' PaletteThe artist as Boris Badenov
Whole bunch of new music at my bandcamp, go listen, including the KABOOM! song below




LAST MONTH

John Ashbery

No changes of support—only
Patches of gray, here where sunlight fell.
The house seems heavier
Now that they have gone away.   
In fact it emptied in record time.   
When the flat table used to result
A match recedes, slowly, into the night.
The academy of the future is   
Opening its doors and willing
The fruitless sunlight streams into domes,   
The chairs piled high with books and papers.

The sedate one is this month’s skittish one   
Confirming the property that,
A timeless value, has changed hands.
And you could have a new automobile
Ping pong set and garage, but the thief   
Stole everything like a miracle.
In his book there was a picture of treason only   
And in the garden, cries and colors.

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