Liebe, Wissen, Arbeit

I like how babies will just smile at, like, walls and ceilings.

One of the key components of the reactionary mind today is just a desire to kill people. They want the death penalty, they want war, they want the National Guard to kill people, they want federal bureaucrats to kill people, they want police departments to kill people. They want anyone who doesn't conform to their idea of the country to be imprisoned, exiled and/or killed. Guilty, innocent, who cares? The possibility of death even of innocent bystanders through violent state crackdown should keep people in tight conformity.

You know Hegseth is running everything through a chatbot and every hare brained idea he has is getting tossed back to him as if he's a genius for suggesting it and you know he's using it a lot because his last job was TV show host and he's got no idea what the fuck he's doing besides just killing a lot of people.

I really thought that the "Memorandum of Understanding" was gonna hold up, Trump would take an L that would be forgotten by the mid-terms, and gas prices would get back to, like, $2.00 just in time for election day. Nope, lol. Gas is gonna be $3.00/gal minimum even if the war ends tomorrow, and it won't end tomorrow, because the Pentagon is run by religious freaks who think they're fighting a Holy War to immanentize the rapture, while the State Department is run by neocons who think they're going to finally succeed at dismantling the Islamic Republic and installing a pliant client state. The Pentagon is still asking for more money for this shit show. This shit is just gonna drag on forever.

Cuba can't even keep the lights on, but somehow they're behind the Amazon union and the DSA? This shit is unbelievable. Marco Rubio might as well be blaming Subcommandante Marcos (although I don't want to give him any ideas).

Advertising was already bad and dishonest but ads that are just short little sequences of extruded video bring this to another level.

A lot of people's problem is that they work in the software sector and live in California.

Every little boy's dream is to live in a hole or in a tree, and honestly? They're right.

Every time I have to glance at facebook it's gotten rounder. It got really round.

Making it against the rules to grow a beard and then mandating "high testosterone" in the military is a fucking hilarious thing to do.

The thing about "funny images on the internet" is that since about 2023 it's all smelled stinky. I think "meme culture" is more or less dead, and it was really only ever an artefact of web 2.0 and the advent of user contributed content as a money maker for social media websites that's nowadays so beset by advertising, reactionary rage, smugness and slop that it's genuinely just not funny anymore.

We give baby Huey what we call "crunchy book time", where we put one of those soft books for babies at his feet and let him kick. He loves it. Loves the crinkle.