Marko Kloos

Whenever someone mentions Facebook/Meta, I'll always remember the article I read where an unnamed Meta software engineer is quoted as saying, "Fuck ethics, money is everything."

REPORTED FOR VICIOUS PERSONAL ATTACK

Apoliticism doesn't work against fascism. To quote the late Howard Zinn, you can't stay neutral on a moving train.

If the government won't bail out my crypto losses, I'm going to become an even bigger libertarian.

"Frieren" is a super clunky name for a character because it's just an unconjugated verb ("to be/feel cold").

I've never considered leaving the country because of Trump 2.0, but I'll move away if the Democrats get back in charge and don't immediately come down hard on these traitors and then start reforming the system to safeguard against a repeat because then they're just asking for this to happen again.

Gonâve Island has a population of 87,000. I don't know what they were expecting to find when they got there, but I am pretty sure things would not have gone the way they planned.

It would be more entertaining if I didn't remember the video for Genesis' "Land of Confusion", where the Spitting Image muppet of Ronald Reagan has two buttons on the nightstand, one labeled "Nurse" and the other "Nuke", and he wakes up from a nightmare sweaty and confused and pushes the wrong one.

"There's no evidence that those boats were smuggling drugs."

No, there isn't. But that's not the point. They could be out there flying banners from the stern that say FENTANYL EXPRESS, and blowing them up without due process would still be a violation of U.S. and international laws.

Once this shitshow has flamed out (and it will), nobody who worked for this administration or supported it should ever be welcome in polite society again.

You can't even call for executions anymore because of woke

A screenshot of Trump's latest incoherent Truth Social rant, juxtaposed with an image of the "Hitler ranting madly" scene from the film Downfall.

“Quiet, Piggy” would be fitting for his tombstone.

I've never felt the need to mark a historic event by framing a newspaper front page, but I think I'll make an exception when That Day comes.

I feel that if someone calls you Piggy you should be allowed to yell "HAAIII-YA!" and karate chop them.

A frozen Santa is just way too much food, and the meat is so game-y. We usually do Cornish Game Elves instead.

So the President just told a reporter that it was really rude to ask his guest about the journalist the guest had murdered and chopped up, and that the journalist had it coming besides. Cool, cool.

PSA for any Apub authors whose books are in the Anthropic settlement list: Amazon is not participating in the settlement, since they have an investment in Anthropic. When you submit your claim form, you DO NOT have to list Amazon as an add'l rightsholder, & can claim 100% of settlement money.

MAGA isn't Christian by any definition of the term. It's a grifter-led cult that uses Jesus as a business mascot.

Incidentally, "Jim'll Fix It" was the name of Jimmy Savile's BBC show that ran from 1975 to 1994, where he would grant wishes to children. That was before he was unmasked as a sex predator and one of Britain's most prolific child sexual offenders.

Now, I've done a lot of stupid shit in my life, and I'm sure I'll do plenty more stupid shit in the years to come, but at least I can say with conviction that I've never been at a political rally holding up a sign that said TRUMP WILL FIX IT for all the world to see.

The man who had a Jesus fish on his business cards, fronting a book he also never read.

In the words of the great warrior poet Jules, “Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I’d never know ‘cause I ain’t gonna eat the filthy motherfucker.”

Every single last fucking thing the gun nuts predicted would happen under Clinton or Obama is now happening under Trump, and they don't give a shit because the bunting on the President's podium is red instead of blue.

Sieg Smile!

A diagram of a WWII bomber, used to illustrate survivorship bias--the red dots mark the spots where enemy fire damaged the plane, used to determine which areas need more armor.

So apparently age of consent laws are woke now?

"Son, when the water table is up to your knees already, you need to stop digging."

Another day, another entry on the Asshole Master List...

So weird how in the government/citizen relationship dynamics, the maxim "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" only ever works in one direction.