Blaise Hartley

Bob K Mertz Hear me out At this moment in time I am more pissed than when Trump won his second term. I'm a supporter of third parties because I have felt for decades t...

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container next to candy jar labeled "Candy Jail"

Apparently, the most effective child-behaviour modification technique is "mean", and "not very nice".
But it works!

My final disposition on corporate social media...

2-factor authentication has never *once* done me any good, but it sure has fucked up plenty of significant events in my life! Good job, Comp. Sci., you made everything suck. (2/2)

Dybt i et norsk fjeld blev en kinesisk bybus splittet ad. En status på vores frygt En kinesisk bus blev nøje analyseret for mystiske signaler.

"Such an update allows the company in China to create an update that allows the bus to not run in any way. "

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Christian youth pastor who shared anti-LGBTQ+ post arrested on child sexual abuse charges A Christian youth pastor who shared anti-LGBTQ+ posts has been arrested on child sexual abuse charges in California.

And by "funny", I mean "infuriating", because so many of them are themselves the actual threat to children...
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/04/youth-pastor-lgbtq-child-sexual-abuse-charges/ (2/2)

Seven killed when UPS cargo plane explodes upon takeoff at Louisville airport The MD-11 plane exploded around 5.15pm as it departed Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport.

"The plane was fueled with 38,000 gallons at the time, due to the lengthy trip to Hawaii - sparking a fire that spread to cover FIVE MILES."
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15259115/Plane-crash-Louisville-Kentucky.html

So I guess they don't have to say "papers, please" before violating your civil liberties any more...
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/us-gives-local-police-a-face-scanning-app-similar-to-one-used-by-ice-agents/

On the plus side, given Emperor Trumps' history of using shoddy materials and stiffing the folks who actually build his construction projects, there's a good chance that he'll be killed or incapacitated by his new ballroom!

What make me think of this...

It must be an amazingly stressless job, working for the Onion. US Politics has become so ridiculous, so reprehensible, that the jokes just write themselves!

The Death of Shame Modern Nazis, careless people, and the offensive necessity of caring in a shameful age.

“In this shameful careless age, we can and should and must choose to not be careless people.” -A.R. Moxon

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So what do we think now, 'the left'? Is it still good that we have an emperor rather than a public servant at the top? (2/2)

In case you were wondering what an actual snowflake looks like...
thedailybeast.com/donald-trump…

Do we think that since cops are experts on beating your spouse, they have the expertise to recognize it in others?
timesunion.com/capitol/article… (4/4)

A long read, but well worth reading. It's why I pay to subscribe to Radley's work.

So, I need a way to send a jiggle or something to the inactive servers so that they think they are doing something and don't time out! (2/2)

I'm less worried about an AI takeover than I am about AIs treating us all like they're our disappointed parents! (2/2)

Seriously, though, Trump literally posted a video of himself *SHITTING* on Americans. And MAGA thinks it only splashes on liberals...

UX = Unbearable experience

MTG recently started making statements that don't sound completely insane. Possible explanations:
1) A handler has recently shoved their hand up her ass.
2) A new handler has their hand up her ass.
3) She recently escaped her handler.
Thoughts?

4) For pity's fucking sake, don't mix menu options and gestures in the same workflow! (2/2)

"We didn’t love freedom enough. We submitted with pleasure!"
texemarrs.com/082017/we_didnt_…

Signal In 2023, Signal was the first mainstream messenger to enable post-quantum cryptography. We’re still ahead of the (elliptical) curve, implementing a new hyb...

Even if you are sure you don't need extra security, you need extra security. Change messengers! The people keeping you "secure" are farming you like pigs, and the slaughter is a-comin'!

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In case you were wondering if ICE had transitioned to full-on Gestapo yet, they are now literally using "Papers please!" as an excuse for fucking up your whole day and squeezing a few more dollars out of you!

In case you were wondering if ICE had transitioned to full-on Gestapo, they are now literally using "Papers please!" as an excuse for fucking up your whole day and squeezing a few more dollars out of you!

Me: Nah, you learn to just suspend it, and let the looney flow; It's actually kinda fun! I wonder if that's why managers do it in the first place.... (2/2)

So... Ummm... Has anyone called the evangelicals?

When you build a dictatorship, you get a dictatorship – Blaise's Blatherings We’ve been on a death march toward the complete disintegration of every principle that ostensibly animates our democratic republic for decades. Both sides have helped keep us on the path.

I-told-you-sos are considered to be preening, so how do you make people remember what you said and see the proof so they change their minds without doing it? This was all predictable, and predicted....
https://blaisehartley.com/2025/10/01/when-you-build-a-dictatorship-you-get-a-dictatorship/