…something something “watered with the blood of tyrants”…

BWAHAHAHHAHAHAHHHAHAHAHHHHAAHAHAHHAH! heh.

…the baby boomer generation were raised on television and consider it an authoritative source of information; fox news made them a captive asset…as for younger folks on the fascist train, it’s likely sensationalist social media echo chambers, and unfortunately more and more countries are fostering the same pathology…

…funny thing is aperture science isn’t even included in that graphic but it fits right in…

…i was scrolling usenet around 17.30 CDT on april 29th, 1992 when a friend posted that a riot was gathering outside his window; the news broke about an hour later…

…presuming that quasi-representative elections happen in 2026 and 2028, which are by no means assured…

…as someone who opposed the fascist-in-chief by civil means and will be wholly caught up in the economic maelstrom, i’m looking forward to watching this unfold, too: it’s the only thing which might save us from full-blown armed conflict and martial law…

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(yep, but i just woke up as i was typing, so i’ll leave it as a mark of shame)

…get that f*ucking plural-comma apostrophe out of my face…

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…weesa no like da naboo: da naboo tink day so smartie, day tink day brain so big!..

…well they are backwards, they’re only about one-third of the electorate, and they will never ever vote fascist-light; meanwhile there’s another unrepresented third of the electorate just waiting for anyone to offer them something worth voting FOR…

“Turbo-revvin’ punk! I’ll straighten you out yet!”

…park a maverick next to a nineties ranger; the difference is ridiculous…

…i dumped them like a rock shortly after the pacific bell acquisition a quarter-century ago; sadly, our current ISP was my wife’s unilateral choice…

We’d love to, but manufacturers keep trying to force them down our throats.

…that’s not where they’re supposed to go…

…half that time before i realised it was only half the devices on our network, too: spent a long while chasing DNS poisoning, then the other half patching devices from a mobile hotspot…

…in the end, i never actually figured out why only half my devices couldn’t resolve half of the internet, but a hard-power-cycle of our fiber modem resolved the issue…

…i use base 12 every day; it’s fantastically useful and foundational to civilisation for good reason…