If Hegeseth was even a little the warrior he cosplays, his loss of face at Quantico would leave seppuku his only alternative.
01.10.2025 14:47 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@stephenhk.bsky.social
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If Hegeseth was even a little the warrior he cosplays, his loss of face at Quantico would leave seppuku his only alternative.
01.10.2025 14:47 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0If Hegeseth was even a little the warrior he cosplays, this morning's loss of face would leave seppuku his only alternative.
01.10.2025 00:16 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Harsh but true
27.09.2025 12:36 โ ๐ 19 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0ICYMI a new little fiction/not-fiction; a map, not the territory. Have a read.
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I made a new piece of fiction/not-fiction. Have a look should inclination and opportunity coincide.
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Buffalo is Beef On Weck World, the ornamental headboard of the midwest's bed.
30.08.2025 14:22 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I made a play on plays about power today.
Have a look should inclination and opportunity coincide.
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On his podcast's latest, Andy Wilson and me talk about the topics you see below and some of the other things I've been working out using such notions. Have a listen should inclination and opportunity coincide.
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Neofascism USA cares about *nothing* except Neofascism USA remaining in power--the numbers show that an educated population doesn't fall for their bullshit, so education has to go. QED. Power & holding onto it in order to benefit friends & punish enemies. No governing ever.
26.06.2025 16:58 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0 and when facts are irrefutable, they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack.
---Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplishes anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict oneโs prejudgment simply need not be believed โ in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical โ
23.06.2025 14:52 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0RIP Alan Lamb. His work with long wires is a series of temporary vacations from the ambient lunacy. Headphones in my experience. Loud either way. Smoke if you do that sort of thing. Listen closely.
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Upside of having a total narcissist, say, brother is that, once the reveal happens, you don't have to deal with this kind of shit any more. Of course it's not all upside. But that doesn't mean the upside isn't one.
20.04.2025 22:53 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0In the midst of another day of neofascist stupidity in place of government I am thinking deeply about biryani.
07.04.2025 18:05 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1Like pretty much everybody I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night with thoughts of shabby, half-assed, racist neofascist lunacy.
18.03.2025 14:29 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The Kafaybe Age. We're adrift on an ocean of bullshit.
24.01.2025 01:03 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"The Return of Darvo McPuddingbrain" is the even-worse sequel to an interminable original that everyone hated,a second time as farce in 4 year-long acts.
20.01.2025 19:36 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Symmetrical with a 4-year expansion of Buffoonistan, MAGA eats itself.
29.12.2024 16:40 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Seasonally appropriate. From here to there.
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There is, apparently, a talk show that summarizes other talk shows. It also summarizes the commercials shown during those talk shows. Every so often the stream of summaries is interrupted by weather reports. Two climates. The hosts are deathly pale.
25.12.2024 15:55 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0We needed paper things so went to a Paper Store which mutated while we weren't interested into the circle of Hell where items in cursive fonts are sent for the sin of using cursive fonts ("sprinkles are for cup cakes") and everywhere was the scent of Yankee Candles and dying brain cells.
18.12.2024 15:48 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0For a dialectical evening, we had oysters to celebrate the first week of post-Assad regime, discussed Neofascism USA's orchestration of a flight from freedom (for people) & fell asleep to Visconti's The Leopard: "Everything must change for things to continue exactly as they are."
15.12.2024 16:48 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Watching reports from Hama.
30.11.2024 17:35 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Then this arrived
23.11.2024 01:27 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Marty Gaetz? Tulsi? Hegseth? 2Trump thought it meet to lead with the racists, keeping some of the real clowns in reserve.
13.11.2024 21:39 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 02Trump is working to create kafaybe momentum with a 2% and shrinking popular vote margin. A Suetonius with more patience than I would have great fun dissecting the kafaybe machine.
13.11.2024 15:59 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0We now resume our broadcast day.
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