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...

(Quoting myself, but I think I might have a good idea to help defend Kherson and some other places the orcs hunt people with drones. We might need to find them a whole lot of balloons and like helium or something. :) )

Meanwhile, a great neologism out of Ireland I heard today: "Effluencers." Beats my 'Incelfluencers' any day, I think.

Can't help but notice Trumpco is buddying up to Belarus and its Putin puppet dictator, who's been poking the free world with..... balloons. And you can sit down and shut up too, Orban. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIO5...

Seems everyone wants to start the holiday season early this year, but after we've been clearing the decks for solstice and since I've been away from home, I never seem to be in the right mood, so OK, I'll try to start early. But speaking of home: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTx-...

OK, what gives, here. I'm pretty sure at least a third of my follows are NAFO and everyone seems to have dropped off the scopes today. Did Bluesky get hacked or extorted or something about our loyal Cartoonerist Bonkerism Organizations? Or am I missing some popcorn here?

So, while Trump's lying about whose administration didn't kick that DC shooter out of the country (his, while he betrays actual allies) ...we forget that those National Guard he's occupying DC with were just standing around being targets in the first place. They are not law enforcement. Just Guys.

Simple one, but all Americans should be saying this right now after the betrayals Trump and co are pulling again in favor of the fascist dictator Putin, with an unacceptable captitulation proposal that now further gives his techbro donors big chunks of what would be left of someone else's country.

If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey. This isn’t controversial. A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.

Speaking of amplifying things, this is pretty important.

This, btw:

The orgy of blaming Dems for what Republicans force has obviously been in progress, but seriously, several Senators, what part of 'Stand pat when we're winning' did you not fucking learn about? Kaine. Masto, Forget you, Fetterman.

Tonight is an example of overthinking things the old way resulting in abject stupidity. Some of the names on that list had to go anyway.

Since this apparently is gonna be a worn-out talking point while the Republicans scramble in panic about the election sweep, the facts.

Let us not forget in this night of triumph, that hero still on trial for his right to stand up to tyranny by keeping and bearing a Five Dollar Footlong in defense of Liberty and apparently extra onions. All gave some, some gave all, and one gave lunch! www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcND...

...From California to the New York Islands, whose land? Our land. Your land. Touchdown. Special teams ready for the onside kick?

Tonight. We win. 🧹

Just for emphasis how much the Republican administration has put lying incompetents where our security and laws and law enforcement are supposed to be.

Meanwhile, this administration only proves why AI is more corrosive and stupid and toxifying to the infosphere and even our governance than all the wasted power, increased costs, and water waste could ever be worth while the techbros have another subsidized 'bubble' about it. Not. Worth it.