Yaknow, there's much comment on the devaluing and dissing of expertise and facts in the world and corporate and disinformation media, but it occurs to me that it's also pushing off all manner of mental and emotional labor off on the populace to have to account for motivation, propaganda, AI fakery,

And ...sunrise at Stonehenge this Solstice. A better time and a Mega Litha to all. 8:) www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2HZ...

Also the bright side of the Reflectey Algae Swamp debacle is... At least it apparently won't be too big a job to get Trump's tacky blue Harbor Freight bedliner off the stone. :)

Well, this is interesting. Were the atrocities and failures of Operation Epic Fubar *automated by Musk's 'AI' chatbot?* Looks like somewhat. Maybe they shouldn't have purged the 'woke' smart people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmNB...

0430 this morning. OK, time to stop philosophizing and prepare to hit the rack. *kittycat meows, Largebug crashes into screen and onto keyboard.* In a world with too many people wanting to just blow shit up and start over, but no clue how anything works, thanks Largebug, for bein yer crazy self.

They removed CD/DVD drives from PCs. -Made physical media harder to buy and use. -Removed expandable storage from phones. -Pushed us into streaming subscriptions. -Made always-online normal. -Made unlimited internet necessary. -Slowly raised the price of everything. Ownership quietly became renting.

🖖Repost cause f-yeah. You reach?

Anyway, everyone's pissed off in monotheist geopolitics world, but the Summer Solstice comes soon, and some of us remember. If we can stop blowing the shit out of each other a minute I guess. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2HZ...

(Also that last one's about being in the US like thirty years after that song trying to be a priestess about too many people not believing there's anything to fight *for* but wounded senses of masculinity and induced self-shaming and all the kinds of things that make 'incels' of younger people.)

For some across the sea, they're against all plausibility doing it again there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CcO...

As an old punker and Pagan and priestess and witness to some history of various fortunes, I would like to say that it is always possible to be more sincere and silly than we were yesterday, and, well, that's something. Mirth and reverence, kids. Like a magic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF0J...

Meanwhile, here's an article I missed but I think it's fairly important considering the kind of talk the corporate media plays into. wildhunt.org/2026/02/edit...

If I really had any, by the way, I'd give real money if l had any, and lefty commentators would cool it with the clickbait titles and padding shit out without ever getting around to whatever events constitute 'All Hell breaking loose' or 'Melts Down' Or 'Crashout.' Or Blows Up. Or whatever.

So, does Trump returning from China tripling down on his War of Windmills and oil-igarch favoring make him the LeManchan Candidate?

The would-be-leopards of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party always seem so shocked when the Stupid Prizes Patrol shows up at their door.

Sentimentality about the old town aside, and maybe I'll cry about talking to some ancestors later, but, some things get simple. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BRH...

I had a lot of cause this evening to think of my home in place and time back in Boston. There were far harsher and/or ruder words to say about so many things, but "Stupid and wrong" was about the most thorough dismissal, denial, etc of any given course of action. Why is this now governing?

In a time when I'm overloaded trying to keep up with stuff, it's probably not the best sign that Youtube is just throwing me playlists almost entirely made of my occasional personal-morale-boosting songs. I should take more time for music, especially if this shit takes more years.

Sometimes yer Youtubes is asking you twice in the same song, like it's the entire timeline. Yes, I'm still fucking watching, got a little bruised yesterday but damn right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLm3...

I'm just gonna repeat this while sighing about everything else going on.

And, ugh. I haven't weighed in on much by posting lately but I'm definitely getting disproportionate numbers of posts about bike lanes while policy continues to burn more fossil fuels than anyone was paying attention to when we didn't back Ukraine enough and now there's this whole Iran meathead,

Among the ways I am dismayed at my country is that I have spent my half-century and change of life trying to take as much of all knowledge as my province only to find absolute ignorant asshats trying to make all ignorance their fucking empires.

Preistessing can be emotional labor. "Why is this quest so hard?" "I didn't make it hard, you are. Use the shoe leather instead of wanting me to talk you around in circles."

Also I just saw a post with comments closed, which makes me want to say, "Did you know, the more they tighten the gender-conformity boxes, the fewer actual human beings fit in either?"

A note from the classics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfNe...

I did not listen to the pretense of a State Of The Union. None found, especially not there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksZT...

Maybe everyone isn't old enough to remember the Siege of AR-558, but were there not a few among us that thought surely the Jem Hadar would hear this and be all 'What is this Protoculture!?' www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXWn...

How much more of this theft will the MSM cover while Trump and minions are doing their best to sell us and Ukraine and the rest of Europe out to Putin?

Also here's the American version of the below in case any vatniks is confused where Americans are coming from or where I'm at. We. Don't. Like. Fascists. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BRH...

Someone made the mistake of mistaking my lack of a cartoon doggie avvie for being a sucker about this kind of thing, but in deference to our friend Ink, here's a song that *is* trying to prove something. Slava Ukraine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXT8...

In the spirit world, it is a far better thing to be Andy Griffith than Rambo. Just in case someone should hear that.

The Christian Right and Republicans are screaming about more 'culture war' offense they're pushing through because their anointed rulership is once again a humiliating failure and no one gives a shit if they don't like a gay Puerto Rican pop star.

So, the plot has definitely thinned about why Lutnick was among the toadies Trump sent to kowtow to Putin in the guise of 'peace deals.'

Also I see a lot of people constructing a lot of theories and abstractions and general narratives about why it's been a lot of white people taking point on protesting this regime, and yes, eventually taking losses, but it's simple enough to me. Our turn. If anyone was unclear, it's everyone now.

This article is pretty damn important to the psychology of so much that is going on these days in countries where the Christian Right has or hopes to gain control: www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/the-...

None of this is a 'distraction' from anything else, It's all actually part of the same stuff, these are not 'distractions,' it is 'flooding the zone' with all their fascism in a hurry hoping we break. The sex abuse is the theocracy is the money is the fascism is the lies is the atrocities.

So... I guess the midterms are Doomsday Clock Savings Time.

A lot of people seem to miss out on the fact that the USA's National Anthem is phrased in the form of a question.

So, catastrophic ice storms are threatening like a third of the country and where's the supposed FEMA heads? Running concentration camps and attacking Blue Cities and the Constitution.

Been saying similar, but this is pretty important to remember.

This, btw.

Just on all the ICE and DHS terrorizing 'liberal' neighborhoods and Fox News cheering them murdering mothers for being 'smug lesbians,' ...Just kind of wondering, we see them terrorizing taco trucks, schools, churches, whatnot. Why don't we see them taking all this tac gear to face any *gangs?*

This one's going out to Greg Bovino, the Flatulent One's "Border Patrol Chief" braving the wilds of random Upper Midwest Target stores while upholding the long tradition of Nazi Dipshits Looking Like Eedjits In Sam Browne Belts, cause ...I guess that's tradition. www.youtube.com/shorts/ukM3V...

It shows the state of our supposed free press that so many people out there look at all the mass protests and whine 'There is no resistance' ..that's as the networks and corporate media ignore things, of course. Part of why no skipping steps. The people who are disengaged are getting fed Leavitt.

The problem with humans is not knowing what they are or what they got. Mostly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF5m...

In the interest of remembering a world of non-constant fascist crises, I was really rankled a bit earlier by someone doing a Neelix-From-Voyager hate post. When the show was on the air I was actually pretty annoyed about all the 'Neelix-or-Seven' episodes, but if I were on that ship, I'd like him.

Meanwhile, after a lot of ostensibly-Left or otherwise wedge-bottage out there, here's something from a lady that's more pacifist than I but the premise holds: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CM9...

Just cause there's been tons of 'news' and bad takes flying around about the latest outrages, and it's been a lot to process, so I just thought I'd take a moment to answer a frequent question about what sci-fi item you'd take if you could. Tricorder, definitely tricorder. :)

Remember when a sincere and respected network journalist lost his shit like once and was done thereafter, but after that the money just made everything actually crazier? www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWkM...

Relating to another conversation, I always wanted to do or at least arrange a kickarse punk rock version of this, but I'd need to recruit, particularly some burly-voiced guy for vocals I think: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyTi...