So, paper straw-trauma came up earlier, and I was like, 'They were always paper, these days they just don't wax em enough.' Made me think how sometimes eco-solutions get pushed that bit too far and lose utility. Like 'Did you really have to shave that last eight inches off the back of microcar?'
On the Dead McConnell thing, ...even if he's only mostly-dead, I think he's too dead to Senator anymore. Probably just dead.
Also, just for all the Pagan folks, I know it was starting to look like things would go smooth, relatively-speaking, but we're still here. Play it smart but forget nothing. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1x_...
Avalon Is Risen (By Isaac Bonewits)
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Also the Trump administration is a case study in why Bostonians have been working tirelessly to condense "Dafuquiswrongwichu' into one syllable. Prototypes of Dafuq have been in beta test a while, but we'll puh through the barrier soon, we hope.
One of my little ambitions in life is to name some supernova remnant so future space travellers can have a map that says somewhere "Here There Be Space Monsters."
Public service announcement: As dumb as it is that the lettuce is bad, if you wash it a lot, the contagion will actually no longer be on it. Just support yer locals if you can and wash carefully.
Also, people I know sometimes wonder if humans are worth saving. This is, however a planet full of street musicians covering Deep Purple in a traffic slowdown in Chile. Look on our works, Trumpism 250, and realize how uncool you have to be fail so expensively. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ree-...
Street artists: Highway star (Deep Purple cover)
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You know, I was holding this observation back about July 4th and all the usual screaming about 'our poor animal babies can't take the feeers and noise! I and Miss Kitty and her esteemed predecessor here to that say, "NUTS!" If they're overly afraid of thunder or fireworks, they probably...
Yaknow, there's much comment on the devaluing and dissing of expertise and facts in the world and corporate and disinformation media, but it occurs to me that it's also pushing off all manner of mental and emotional labor off on the populace to have to account for motivation, propaganda, AI fakery,
And ...sunrise at Stonehenge this Solstice. A better time and a Mega Litha to all. 8:) www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2HZ...
Solstice Call
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Also the bright side of the Reflectey Algae Swamp debacle is... At least it apparently won't be too big a job to get Trump's tacky blue Harbor Freight bedliner off the stone. :)
Well, this is interesting. Were the atrocities and failures of Operation Epic Fubar *automated by Musk's 'AI' chatbot?* Looks like somewhat. Maybe they shouldn't have purged the 'woke' smart people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmNB...
Did AI Make Us Lose The Iran War
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0430 this morning. OK, time to stop philosophizing and prepare to hit the rack. *kittycat meows, Largebug crashes into screen and onto keyboard.* In a world with too many people wanting to just blow shit up and start over, but no clue how anything works, thanks Largebug, for bein yer crazy self.
They removed CD/DVD drives from PCs. -Made physical media harder to buy and use. -Removed expandable storage from phones. -Pushed us into streaming subscriptions. -Made always-online normal. -Made unlimited internet necessary. -Slowly raised the price of everything. Ownership quietly became renting.
Anyway, everyone's pissed off in monotheist geopolitics world, but the Summer Solstice comes soon, and some of us remember. If we can stop blowing the shit out of each other a minute I guess. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2HZ...
Solstice Call
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(Also that last one's about being in the US like thirty years after that song trying to be a priestess about too many people not believing there's anything to fight *for* but wounded senses of masculinity and induced self-shaming and all the kinds of things that make 'incels' of younger people.)
For some across the sea, they're against all plausibility doing it again there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CcO...
OI POLLOI - Bash the Fash (Lyrics on screen) Ⓐ
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As an old punker and Pagan and priestess and witness to some history of various fortunes, I would like to say that it is always possible to be more sincere and silly than we were yesterday, and, well, that's something. Mirth and reverence, kids. Like a magic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF0J...
Life Is Balloons 🎈 (Official Music Video)
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Meanwhile, here's an article I missed but I think it's fairly important considering the kind of talk the corporate media plays into. wildhunt.org/2026/02/edit...
Editorial: Pagan Is Not a Synonym for Barbarism - Editorial, News, Opinion, Paganism, Perspectives, Religion, The Wild Hunt, U.S., Witchcraft
Witchcraft & Pagan News - "When contemporary commentators describe authoritarian politics as 'pagan,'" writes Manny Moreno, "they risk reinforcing an exclusionary narrative: that Christianity civilize...
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If I really had any, by the way, I'd give real money if l had any, and lefty commentators would cool it with the clickbait titles and padding shit out without ever getting around to whatever events constitute 'All Hell breaking loose' or 'Melts Down' Or 'Crashout.' Or Blows Up. Or whatever.
So, does Trump returning from China tripling down on his War of Windmills and oil-igarch favoring make him the LeManchan Candidate?
The would-be-leopards of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party always seem so shocked when the Stupid Prizes Patrol shows up at their door.
JoeMyGod@joemygod.bsky.social · 3mo agoSentimentality about the old town aside, and maybe I'll cry about talking to some ancestors later, but, some things get simple. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BRH...
Dropkick Murphys "Who'll Stand With Us?" Music Video
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I had a lot of cause this evening to think of my home in place and time back in Boston. There were far harsher and/or ruder words to say about so many things, but "Stupid and wrong" was about the most thorough dismissal, denial, etc of any given course of action. Why is this now governing?
In a time when I'm overloaded trying to keep up with stuff, it's probably not the best sign that Youtube is just throwing me playlists almost entirely made of my occasional personal-morale-boosting songs. I should take more time for music, especially if this shit takes more years.
Sometimes yer Youtubes is asking you twice in the same song, like it's the entire timeline. Yes, I'm still fucking watching, got a little bruised yesterday but damn right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLm3...
INXS - Don't Change (Official Music Video)
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I'm just gonna repeat this while sighing about everything else going on.
Joni Askola@joniaskola.bsky.social · 5mo agoOver the last few years, American tech oligarchs have become the greatest argument against their own existence. The sheer scale of their erratic behavior and political interference proves that extreme wealth concentration is a structural threat to society
And, ugh. I haven't weighed in on much by posting lately but I'm definitely getting disproportionate numbers of posts about bike lanes while policy continues to burn more fossil fuels than anyone was paying attention to when we didn't back Ukraine enough and now there's this whole Iran meathead,
Among the ways I am dismayed at my country is that I have spent my half-century and change of life trying to take as much of all knowledge as my province only to find absolute ignorant asshats trying to make all ignorance their fucking empires.
