Irving Le Rosa

I watched the halftime show. I also watched the game, don't judge me, but...

As a person whose command of Spanish is limited, I could still understand the underlying message of the halftime show.

Excellent use of symbolism.

It was a love note to his culture.

#badassbunny

Banking deregulation and trading deregulation are both bad for your general economic health. They inflate gains in the short term for the people who already have money, at the cost of meaningful economic stability for literally everybody else.

I don't really care, mostly because I'm not seeking validation from my fear of missing out. All seems very unhygienic, and my point being - if getting canceled as a party planner is the worst thing that is happening, then maybe not enough bad things are happening as a result of this right now.

Well let's hope that's contagious, because right now we are on track to be that cyberpunk dystopian hellscape everybody always likes to write about and nobody actually wants to live in.

On a completely unrelated and somewhat less depressing note: bluesky is really coming along as a platform. This is a solid demonstration of what community can accomplish when the alternative is as terrible as the alternative is. Good show.

So the only consequence of all this, at least to date, is that an independently wealthy financial elite is no longer allowed to sit on the planning commission for the largest party on Earth.

Stay busy. #ohchistmasknifeohchristmasknife

So I fixed a hammer today.

It required two other hammers and a replacement hickory handle, and a blowtorch and an anvil, and a piece of steel.

But it was fucking awesome, if a little cyclical. I always like it when I can turn a broken tool back into a usable tool.

I still feel like our best contribution to the internet in the last few months has been suggesting that @kmfdm284.bsky.social join bluesky - I'm sure I'm not the only person who did, and I'm even sure that I'm not the reason why they did, but it's still nice to have them on this side of the fence.

If you're criminalizing things like homelessness instead of applying resources to solve the issue, then there's something wrong with your society.

But only if you say "mamma mia, that's a spicy meata-ball".

That's dedication.

I think boot-licking peckerwood is going to be my new highly secret, totally professional term for 55-year-old conservative white men who pretend that shared racism somehow gets them an invite to the kids table at Mar-A-Lago...

Are they at least using it correctly?

Yes I voted for him in 2019. I think he was a better idea than the Republican candidate, but he's an example of dedicated mediocrity and adherence to a rapidly failing status quo. Is it objectively better than fascism? Yes - which is why I voted for him - but it is also not objectively the "best".

What Biden defenders? I know literally no one that voted for him that defends him.

Hell - I voted for him and I am willing to say that that was not our best decision. But, shit's going to continue going to hell if rich libs keep voting for weak centrists. #progressisntspelledwithanL

... I want to see somebody try to circumcise a bull.

The operative word in that sentence is try.

It's the specificity.

I mean yeah, it's the same amount of time, but labeling it like that makes it seem like there's a very finite amount of that amount of time remaining...

Which would hypothetically only be the case if you knew something sinister.

Hypothetically.

#twentytwohoursleft

I'm guessing she doesn't look in the mirror or check her own resume very often

Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.

One man human centipede reenactment. He gets out what he puts in.

Wasn't homeboy like literally in the news yesterday for doing a Nazi salute?

This is some Kanye West grade reframing.

Like mental gymnastics to the degree where you could do live action Dragon Ball reenactments.

I also just realized that one of Master Roshi's kinks is being slapped by beautiful women - he's a top-notch martial artist who can move faster than the human eye can follow, but he still somehow always manages to get bitch-slapped when he's doing something perverted.

He's letting it happen.

They do sound like poster children for free vasectomies though.

Today I learned - one of the materials used for lining the inside of a forge prior to operation is called Satanite.

I'm never going to not capitalize that word.

We're in a weird time that persists in getting weirder every time we so much as even point out how weird it is.

I know it's not going to go away if I just ignore it, and eventually it's going to get so weird that we're going to have to do something.

I do wonder how weird it will get before then.

Spent all day doing a lot of cleaning and a lot of crafts.

Which in my personal case means emptying out boxes of old knives and putting them back together, but hey.

We all have coping mechanisms.

Illegally.

They're doing it illegally.

And the people who aren't stepping into question it, or flatly saying you can't do that, or standing by and waving while these people are being shown the door?

The word that applies to them is complicit.

So KMFDM has made it to Bluesky.

I feel like it's a sign that you're in the right neighborhood when one of the founding pillars of Industrial Rock moves to that neighborhood.

I'm glad to see they made it over here.