From XenophonsXiphos on Reddit, few years back. They've only gotten worse.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/117038708561273760 Nobody in the fascist movement gives a damn about what happens to children. This is about controlling adults.

You could reasonably say my political education over the last 35 years has been principally the increasing awareness of exactly how racist white Republicans are. In 1993 I'd have said about a third of white Republicans were also hardcore racists. Fifteen years later, with Obama, I upped that […]

"But think how good I had it, and how long I had it good." Circa 2003, when my oldest daughter would have been about 13, and my youngest child still a baby.

I'm glad I'm not a journalist, or maybe "journalist." Breathlessly re-discovering, year by year, that Donald Trump is a child rapist, a rapist, a murderer, and a child murderer, a money launderer, a criminal in every single part of his life? Looks exhausting even from here.

American cons used to be mostly that, Americans, with a small Confederate wing, and an even smaller Nazi wing. Today they're roughly a third Nazi, a third Confederate, and a third sociopath business criminals -- with considerable overlap. None of them are American.

"As Mr. Trump and his allies try to whitewash the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, we should return to an older and far more accurate name for the Civil War. We should once again call it the Slaveholders’ Rebellion." https://archive.is/G4v7d#selection-8265.0-8265.209

I hated Alien 3. Actively despised it, the way I despise No Country for Old Men. Nihilism from the incompetent might be vaguely forgivable: you're stupid and incompetent, life looks horrible to you. I get it. Nihilism from successful talented people is a moral failing.

It's been 29 years since a movie broke the top 10 all time inflation adjusted list. Since that time, the population of the United States has increased by 60 million people, meaning that not only are fewer people going to the movies overall, even fewer are doing […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

"You was a boozer," Z said. "And Susan said to you that she'd leave if you didn't give it up. . . . What would you do." "Give it up," I said. "I was you, I would, too," Z said. We both drank some beer. "But I got no Susan," Z said. "So I got to be able to stop on my own." "Everybody does," I […]

"Don't write sad songs. You'll have to sing them later." - Diamond David Lee Roth.

Mostly I just feel sorry for the guy. Imagine being this afraid of death. https://slate.com/technology/2026/07/bryan-johnson-immortality-regret.html

"China is going to kick our asses." https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/more-1-200-ai-workers-205234821.html

More than 1,200 AI workers across Anthropic, DeepMind, OpenAI, and Meta are asking for Washington’s help building an AI slowdown plan

The statement, signed by senior executives at competing companies, calls on the government to help build the tools needed to pace frontier AI development.

finance.yahoo.com

Americans deserve their cholesterol levels. https://youtu.be/V-FrIfJsjYY?si=G8gq_74jI8oahGim

You've seen this before, but good God, wouldn't you prefer we were watering crops with Brawndo?

Trump will cause chaos at every turn, not even because it suits his interest necessarily, but because he is flatly unable to perform productive work. Chaos is his only tool, even when using it harms him. It's not a "distraction" -- it's just all he knows how to do, and possibly all he ever knew […]

When Breaking Bad was on the air, FatSam was told he looked like Heisenberg often enough his children stopped thinking it was funny. It hadn't happened in a decade. The weekend of July 4, FatSam and his youngest son went up to the Bay area to visit family […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

I never played games that didn't involve a ball and some amount of running. When Harry Potter got called a jock, I was genuinely baffled. He was playing some game like soccer but without the running? How is that a jock? During a conversation about it with my kids and several of their friends […]

The elusive butterfly has just tip-toed past my door. My buddy likes the Yankees; she says "Hey, T-Bone, what's the score?" And I say, "Well, Reggie got 1 in 1 in 3, and 25 is 6 to 4." Is the left-wing really pinko? Colonel Sanders, what a bore! You ask so many questions, what answers should I […]

I've had a few women mad at me in my life. Feminists, most of them. And yet somehow I can listen to the feminist critique of male toxicity without taking it personally. Most of what they're describing in those pieces is not something I recognize in myself. Where I do recognize it, I either try […]

Finally watched The Mandarin and Grogu. (First Star Wars movie, in 50 years, I didn't see in a theater.) It's fine. It's a kid's show, and Grogu is by far the best part of it. The rest, well, Dave Filoni is a showrunner in his DNA, and his approach here was to make another episode of his show […]

How is that racist? - old white proverb

All the important information about the socialist asteroid 23238 Ocasio-Cortez. https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=23238

Modern conservatives are rapists and murderers; and child rapists and child murderers. They used to lie about why they'd do such things: "Freeeeeedom." They're out of the closet. "Look at what we can do! AND YOU CAN'T STOP US!" To paraphrase William Buckley, "conservatives stand athwart […]

The first rule of cartoons: don't fuck with the rabbit.

There isn't one white guy on our fascist FBI's 10 most wanted list.

RE: https://xoxo.zone/@davidcelis/116970780459348740 I hired probably 200 people in my career. The sort of people who charge candidates are the worst of the worst, and they've been scammers every time I encountered them.