Whether deliberately orchestrated or by deliberate negligence blooger, the program and product, is sinking into suck at the same accelerating pace as every effing thing else. Besides the preview-post not updating after I edit the post before publishing (happening now) the most notable farts are the increasing number of sites on the blogrolls whose feeds won't update (though blooger insists the feed is live and active) - I know the Blog Days of Summer have started (commences every year after Spring college and university commencements) and the number of people posting and reading will slow dramatically, but there are people on the blogrolls posting (Naked Capitalism, for instance) whose new posts are not reflected in real time on the blogrolls' timelines. I cleared caches on my work and personal machines and tested other PCs in the Library, it's bloogle, not me. I mention this not as a hint of my future as a blegacider but as a simple but excellent example of abundant fine fucking metaphors' abounding. The enshittification epidemic be real. Be sure to spiral
New, that, go buy this at bandcamp. I'm gonna sue myself for ten million dollars then give myself almost two million dollars to drop the suit, I said yesterday to the unsmiling visage of my friend and former polisci professor (and Christopher Lasch apostle) who has playfully teased me for three decades for being a crazy canary, crazy weathervane, crazy Cassandra, and lunatic doomsaying fool. You win, he said, the times are as crazy as you. I did *not* recommend that split OOIOO/Lightning Bolt album to him (who shares Elric's given first name, one of three I've known, and adores Mahler), but you? YES! go buy that album at bandcamp for the new OOIOO but especially buy it for the new Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt comes highly recommended, I can't play them in the car when L is with me! a Swans-level vouch from her!
If I was a gambler I would bet that Dump will NOT drop - and if he orders the military to drop a nuke they will drop a nuke - a nuke on Iran at eight eastern daylight tonight, but I would take take a flyer on they-meant-to-but-dropped-it-on-Istanbul-by-mistake at +2500
Reminder: Dump is the idiot savant of blunt, he's a shitlord weapon, this would not be happening without their sanction, and he's not who those in Club Shitlord, omerta-sworn and blackmailed-loyal, are scared of
My dying during eye surgery this Thursday in the nuclear retaliatory attacks against shitlords' nuclear bombing of Iran would appropriately complete the Slothrop metaphor of my life's trajectory mirroring the United States of Assholes'
Speaking of which, back afterward, eye hope to, um, see you soon, but if not...
"Nothing I could say about the GOP base is as illustrative as the fact that Trump understands that posting black people in what his audience considers a “white space” will make them incandescently angry"
"One of these political leaders has been repeatedly portrayed as an untrustworthy radical hostile to others because of his religious beliefs. You’ll never guess which one!"
I swear to you, I'd never heard of this guy until a week ago, I only know what I read in this and one other article, I see who hate him so he can't be all bad
Some huge personal news - I finished the latest Boorum & Pease 300 page quadrille notebook and (have already cut the pages from the tablet and fed them to the Iron Mountain shredding bin to the left of the staff elevator on the third floor of Lauinger) am now using a 7.5"x9.5" Moleskine quadrille hardcover tablet, a major life change after ten straight Boorum & Peases. I've also reintroduced fountain pen ink and table salt into the hexjeffs
Revolution, yinz. I've dumped money into mutual funds every paycheck for 35 years via work, how and where do I move it without taxes into something other than the stock market before the new reign of kakistocratic kleptocrats engineer a bubble-burst and make gigazillions shorting the market? I have some small faith, I said to my tenured colleague, that between gross incompetence and even grosser avarice Team Trump will be busier sloppily looting the joint than executing us for this conversation; she has her doubts. I just turned 65 and signed-up for and am eligible to use the Medicare I've paid into the last 50 years, I expect that to disappear, and I'm eligible to draw on the Social Security I've paid into the last 50 years, I hope to wait until I'm 70 to draw on it, I said to her, and she said start taking it now, she's 62, says the minute she can she will. O, masking tape is back in the hexjeff rotation too
The abandonment of Boorum & Pease for the moleskine did not torment me for my disloyalty as once upon a time in the not distant past if not only would have but would have prevented the switch. Not an itch of buyer's regret, fuck me. The election had nothing to do with it, the clusterfuck had nothing to do with it, a too fat daypack did. Fine metaphors abound. Everybody chooses sides and the only side is you. Just as our shitlords desire
"There is a cult of learned helplessness at the core of most American institutions, one that Trump punctured by appearing to be a man of action. And the Democratic Party in 2024, with its associated law firms, think tanks, elected officials, donors, and media outlets, was rejected by voters precisely because the core value on the left, center, and right is about embracing powerlessness"
"Starmer excels as one thing: a grubby, cynical, craven politician – one utterly subservient to the American empire and its interests in the oil-rich Middle East"
Trying to Launch WWIII on the Way Out, Brandon Gives the Ukraine Permission to Attack Moscow with US Missiles
"It’s almost as if all these Cable News Libs and Resistance Historians™ who spent a decade cashing in on fascism panic while LARPing as the French resistance are ACTUALLY amoral grifters who believe in nothing but the wind’s direction and the health of their bank accounts!"
"Arab Americans, Ignore the Haters: Rejecting Kamala Harris was the Right Thing to Do"
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"The upshot, manifested through electoralism, is a set of impossible choices. Why should we have to choose between abortion access and imperialism? Why does inflation need to be mitigated through the blood of Arabs? Why must a decent judicial system be contingent on genocide? Anybody accepting this logic has been duped into fighting the wrong enemy"
"incredible to watch centrist after centrist do a variation of “if we just stop [thing democrats haven’t done in years] and instead do [thing democrats have been doing forever] then we would win.” I know from experience it’s tough watching your worldview get walloped, but come on"
"This Nancy Mace thing is going to be a defining moment for the Democratic Party. Mace is deliberately bullying another person, one of their colleagues. And if House Dems are too chickenshit to defend their own colleague over this open, blatant hate, what the hell is the point of them anymore"
Primary objective of the Free-Speech Twitter PSYOP was to harness, corral, & establish control over the majority of the sizeable minority of people who refused to follow orders & pledge allegiance to the New Normal Reich when it was rolled out during the “Covid pandemic.” These people needed to be herded into a manipulable mass & redirected away from the global-capitalist empire & into a harmless cul-de-sac where they could scream & shout at the empire’s designated scapegoats to their heart’s content. Musk Cult was just a means of herding & leading them into this cul-de-sac
"Unlike her fellow right-wing Democrat Joe Biden, who was compelled to make “progressive” campaign promises by the Black Lives Matter rebellions, the left populism of the Bernie Sanders Campaign, and the mass protests against both Trump’s violent separating, caging, and deporting of migrants and the debacle of his handling of the pandemic. For her part, Kamala Harris offered the working class and oppressed groups nothing
"Using technology to help us hear these creatures out and witness their plight, the thinking goes, will shake us from the murderous apathy that has plagued our relationship with the natural world. Though past attempts at appealing to the better angels of our nature haven’t exactly stopped the slaughter, these techno-solutionists assure us that AI will allow us to resolve this problem of miscommunication once and for all by letting us hear straight from the literal horse’s mouth. We won’t be able to brush off the desperate pleas of these creatures any longer because they’ll be begging for their lives in fluent English"
