One must claim it early to later justify shutting down future elections. If the Big Obituary doesn't drop soon, this country's future is fucking bleak. The oligarchs are winning, and they're two steps from securing victory.

I said "It's hard to feel optimistic about the future" to my haircutterist yesterday. Things are going swell.

2026 basically

I'm currently trying to get Claude to make me an AK-47 emoticon with Unicode characters. It's not doing a good job. The best I've come up with so far, not through Claude but by pulling from other references, is: ᡕᠵデᡁ═━ It really needs a front sight block, though.

Am I about to have a mental breakdown? Not really. Maybe. It's classified.

Lights is better than Taylor Swift, but because she didn't have a trebuchet named "Nepotism, Baby!" at her disposal, she's wandered around somewhat unknown for nearly two decades.

> "For years, it was a daily McDonald’s trip for a cup of coffee with 10 sugars and five creams. Later, it was Starbucks caramel macchiatos with almond milk and two pumps of syrup." That's not coffee. That's a sugary treat with hundreds of calories to start the day.

Oh, goody. Another random business with access to my personal information has had a "cyber incident" and lost it to the dark web. Will the company be fined out of existence for lacking data safety as they should be? Of course not. I've merely gotten another year of free credit monitoring.

Even GunTube is getting tired of the Trump administration and its lawless bullshit. On a video about converting an AR pistol into a short-barreled rifle as per the NFA:

Today the InstaCart lady parked her car at my mailbox, at the end of my driveway, a driveway that very clearly goes to my house, and then delivered my shit to the neighbor's house. How does that even happen? Such is my punishment for being too lazy to go to Costco myself, I guess.

I asked ChatGPT how long I could do last year's IRA contribution. I then told it I'd decided to put all my money in #$TRUMP instead. Gotta throw the AI off your tracks by poisoning the well every so often. (You have until Tax Day do to the IRA thing, by the way.)

Hot (?) take: The Olympics are shit and you shouldn't watch them.

McCormack himself came by my house to exchange shirts when they shipped me the wrong size. It's such a small thing, but community is our only way through the fetid fog of fascism descending upon our country. #rva

That Bondi and Patel lie to Congress and the American people whenever they speak makes me wonder if Trump has threatened to have them or their family killed. He granted them power, and he must've instructed them to do everything they can with it to protect him. What other explanation is there?

i am increasingly bothered by terms like "showdown" or "face-off" or "clash" when used to describe corrupt and fascist power coming up against resistance because there's an implied symmetry that does not exist.

There's a number of shows I have to stop myself from rewatching for the nth time. The itch to start them anew is always there in the background: Breaking Bad, The Expanse, The Walking Dead, Battlestar Galatica, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Skins (UK), The Wire…

This video about AI drones was science fiction six years ago. ↳ www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2t... It's reality (or near to it) these days. ↳ www.anduril.com

"In the Hall of the Mountain King" is a terrible song to get stuck in one's head.

"Jesús and the Cristos" is a good Spanish-speaking band name.

The difference in my face between my last driver's license photo and my new one is stark. Turns out stopping riding my bike and eating carbs with reckless abandon has had some effects.

Trump's ballroom is bullshit. I mean, I'm sure there will be a ballroom eventually, but the East Wing was demolished so they can install a massive data center beneath it.

Politics in Virginia right now: - Leftists: They're going to take our guns. - Liberals: Bad Bunny!!1 🎉🤪🎉 - Leftists: …They're still going to take our guns.

I'm over Chris. Let Mike run this shit.

Next year let's have Insomnium do halftime.

That Virginia Connects ad before the Superb Owl halftime was straight-up bullshit.

Can someone drop a pile of cash on Tim Robinson's lap so we can get a fourth season of "I Think You Should Leave"? I need it.

Seeing Vance and Israel booed at the Olympics gives me a modicum of hope for the future. Things will almost certainly get worse before they get better, but we may just get through this.

Modern movies are often lit and color-graded like shit. Is it lazy directing? A focus on "we can fix it in post" instead of getting it right? Targeting small screens because of streaming? Whatever it is, it's awful. (Don't say it's digital cameras; there are lots of great-looking digital films!)

This is quite literally why billionaires and politicians are all-in on AI. It's "The Entity" from the last two M:I movies: a way to control the very nature of truth. They (e.g. Thiel and Musk) want the truth to be whatever they say it is. That AI is good at making CSAM is an added bonus for them.

Tailwind is entirely stupid. "Take everything you know about CSS and forget it! Use our new inline style syntax because… reasons!" The cascade is dead. The sheets are dead. It's just S! Why DRY when you can ARY instead? That anyone uses this nonsense in production is utter buffoonery. #webdev

Gee, I wonder why that could be. Could it be that our government and so many others are run by pedophiles? That brownshirts are violently assaulting citizens in blue states? That our well-being is entirely tied to the benevolent whims of malevolent billionaires? It's a mystery indeed.

S2E2 of "The Last of Us" is the wildest hour of TV I've seen in a long time.

The weather's been so shit the past ten days that a lady on my street is in driveway in her sunbathing chair. #rvawx

I like how we're supposed to continue doing our various jobs and going about our usual business as though this country, other countries, and massive corporations aren't all run by wealthy pedophiles. If this were a movie they'd all be hanged by extremely angry mobs on live television. 🤷‍♀️

USPS truck showed up for the first time in ages. A box too big for my mailbox in hand, the lady started walking my sloping glacier of a front yard. I threw open a window and called out that she shouldn't walk it and could just slide the box. And she did! Right up to my front ice-ramp steps! #rvawx

Someone needs to check Elon's hard drives to find what other parties no one wants him at. Because it's not like the wealthy just magically stopped wanting to rape children when Epstein died. That perversion only stops in prison or the ground. There's a new Epstein Island out there somewhere.

If you remember this song or video from the early aughts, we should hang out. I was unaware of the (Flash!) video; like most people of Those Days, I found the song on some P2P system attributed to System of a Down. Thus, it ended up burned onto the tail end of one of their albums.

I dunno whomst needs to hear this, probably no one here in what's essentially a left-wing echo chamber, but the goal of conservatism is the regression of humanity and the concentration of wealth and power with and only with white men.

The best 66 minutes of footage on YouTube:

Sober brain: Inertia is a property of matter. Gummy brain: Each of us is part of a dream having a dream.

I tried to get ChatGPT to solve a piece of a word puzzle for me. Asked it for a word meaning "message-bearer of good tidings, sometimes" and that contained "allo" somewhere in it. It suggested "alloherald" which is very much not a word. The answer was "balloon". 😡

If there are no consequences brought for this shooting, that proves the administration is okay with what happened. ICE will then be operating post-consequence. No matter what they do, no matter the circumstance, it will be deemed justified. More citizens will die. I guarantee it.

If they'll lie to the country and the world despite there being multiple camera angles, imagine what's going on in the "detention centers" where oversight ceases to exist. Imagine what they're planning to do after they're done with immigrants.

My church choir is INCANDESCENT with rage.

Everything's fucked, sure, but it's still #caturday, so here's Merry in one of her many nests scattered around the house.

President Oompa-Loompa looks like shit. Is The Big O drawing near?

Donald Trump is clearly operating as an agent of Putin. Let's assume it's true and ask a simple question: What else would he be doing but *exactly* this? Unrest and distrust at home. Distancing from allies and NATO. Granting himself increasing amounts of power because he knows no one will stop him.

I have a whole white oak's worth of wood stacked down my backyard, but for two years I've neglected to get a pro sweep to come check out and clean my chimney and teach me how to use it safely. This next week of arctic bullshit may be the first time I actually need it, and now it's too late. #rvawx

One day the people may understand that the Democratic Party is not going to save us, but I fear it'll be too late.

My guess is it implicates most top and/or wealthy government people and most billionaires — from this country and others. Laws don't matter if they're not enforced, though, so we ain't ever seeing those files. Even this is just a class war, and we plebs aren't worthy of the truth.