swirlOsquirrel
@swirlosquirrel.bsky.social
Hollywoodland
Multimedia Designer • Writer • Painter
Manifesto: All that glitters, has a high refractive index. Now get thee down, and be thou funky.
In other news, the Republicans just voted against your right to obtain contraception.
Which explains why their states have the highest rates of STDs and unwanted pregnancies.
“If you know how to be gentle, you don’t need strength.” ~ Tibetan saying
GUILTY.
Next, convictions for treason.
On no, 34 felony convictions is NOT enough.
More to come.
This dude’s karma is BAD.
BADDER.
BADLY, even.
In my family (a family with 9 teachers in it) we refer to “interesting” as a “teacher word.”
Utterly non-committal when you wish to be kind about lackluster performance, and completely devastating when necessary.
Very tone dependent.
Isn’t that, like, every day in Seattle? I mean that’s how *I* remember it, at least.
Start naming and shaming the landlords who pull this crap. Give them a PR nightmare to contend with.
As with all religious cults whether they have older irrational belief systems like Islam, Judaism, Christianity, or Hinduism, as their core starting point, or some “Newish” origin like New Age, Mormonism, or Scientology, they’re easy to fall into, and hard to get out of.
The man being interviewed on that Dominionist podcast has apparently written multiple books of “Christian fiction” aka “Left Behind” stuff.
It’s one thing to say, 30% of Americans believe this. It’s another to get a sense of what the raw supply of weird that’s being fed to them really SOUNDS like.
They’re literally praying to RESIST critical thinking, & rely on a literalist reading of a book that’s been edited to within an inch of its life over thousand of years, & had translation jumps from Aramaic & Hebrew, to Latin, German, Old English, Middle English, & about 15 flavors of modern English.
The radio station they broadcast from is WORQ and “Got your sword handy?” is their marketing pitch line.
They open the show by praying, “Help us to not lean on our own understanding in these dark times, but on the promises of your word.”
Because algorithms warp perceptions, just to be clear for others what Spotify served up to me when I went to the link Mr. Carillo posted above, the next podcast link just below that, was the “Stand Up For The Truth Podcast”entitled “Pete Garcia: Watchman, What is Left of the Night?”
And it’s important to label this as Dominionist, not merely Christian or even as white, as the researchers in the link above point out.
This lunacy has very specific theological roots with R.J. Rushdooney, and cuts across political, class, and racial lines.
Ignore that at your peril.
The other thing to be mindful of, is cross-application spread of this nutterbutter Dominionist worldview. Even at the Spotify link above, right below this podcast, the app returns exactly what I spoke about earlier — a Dominionist podcast that originates on a CNP-owned radio station in Wisconsin.
Rational People: They’re both pro-terrorism. Flipside, same coin.
We really need to have a much deeper discussion about what’s being broadcast on these Betsy DeVos/CNP-owned radio stations in the Heartland and SouthEast.
Not just Christian programming, but Dominionist nutterbutter, “Obama is a demon who still runs the gov’t,” type stuff. Fully off the rails.
More fun is showing that just Tokyo fills up most of England. Which also means just 6 or 7 Tokyos are as big as Texas.
Due to how maps are drawn, people have an erroneous idea that Japan is a tiny island. Kinda not.
Also, you can fit multiple states inside L.A. County. It’s massive.
Looking forward to end-to-end encryption.
To be broken 3 minutes later by IBM’s quantum computers. 🤪
Will Bluesky have Lattice encryption? That’d be neat. Definitely a selling point.
Or we could, you know, do less fear and give everyone’s collective PTSD a rest…?
And at a really basic level, they’ve stopped asking what customers want or need, and trying to fulfill that.
Instead, they’re assuming you’ll think some stunt feature they brainstormed will make you excited about the product, and that’s an EXCELLENT way to go OUT of business.
This AI foolishness is bad enough at the app level, but at the OS level?
Fuhgetaboudit.
That means I won’t buy a computer that has it.
Besides, Meta lost cultural relevancy ages ago.
Far more serious is that bullshit Microsquish came out with yesterday that takes snapshots of your desktop every microsecond and stores it so an AI can analyze it.
That’s the worst privacy fuckup idea I’ve ever seen in 40 years of computing.
IDGAF about their identity, I want to know there’s at least one knowledgeable vociferous critic onboard.
I mean, it’s not difficult to find one.
Here, I can give him two off the top of my head — Melanie Mitchell and Justine Bateman.
One wishes he had a little less “vision” and a little more perspective.
I always worry about the ones that run around claiming to have a “vision” for how things should go. It has a nasty messianic quality to it.
Perspective is humbler. It acknowledges that others might have different perspectives.
Might be a rug made from moss, might be a Tribble habitat. You decide. Klingon lives depend upon your good judgment.
Bunny Buddha enjoys a fashionable hat.
Nora Ephron claimed hats were almost always a mistake, but Buddha Bunny is defiant in the face of this cynicism.
Who knows? It might have given us Italiano.
At least we got to try an enchilada with a fish baccala.
Oops.
The Dragon Trunk from the Crew-7 mission reentered the atmosphere over Birmingham, Alabama at May 21, 2016 UTC (3.16 pm CDT) along a northeast track with potential debris fall in Tennessee, western Virginia and West Virginia (I'm guessing not as far downrange as Harrisburg PA though).
This popped up as a tile on one of my streaming services, and my reaction was an involuntary, “Oh dear…” at the mere memory of Sandra’s SINGULAR performance, in the, “Good grief,” sort of way.
BTW, I have also experienced her live performance as a standup. I am… forever changed.
To quote Leslie Jones, “If we’re getting take-out for 50, but only 4 people do the ordering, don’t bitch about it if they order up some nasty food you hate. You LET them take control.”
The dipshits like Marge Greene only have influence because half of America sits on its ass thinking the democracy that makes their lives so free and easy compared to many places in the world, will always just… be there — so they don’t pay attention and they don’t vote.
If HRC hadn’t had the election stolen from her via fraud in 2016, we’d be living under the 1st Liberal SCOTUS in decades.
It would have killed Citizens United corruption & gerrymandering.
Instead, Trump slithered in & Roe was overturned.
Protest voting is how we got here. It won’t get us out.
But it seems like that brutal fact is getting lost, and it absolutely shouldn’t be. The stakes this year could not be higher. American democracy and our personal freedoms are DIRECTLY on the line now. We can’t fuck about. This is about HOLDING THE LINE.
If we don’t, the entire world will suffer.
I think the choice of hat is a bigger determining factor.
Could be into going on a quest if the coat is right.
Rando: “No, you’re confusing the Egyptians with the Greeks.”
Me: “Hon, look up Ptolemy. Cleopatra was Greek. Alexander the Great didn’t even have to conquer Egypt. They invited him in so he could kick out the Persians. Also, does butt stuff NEED an explanation?”
It was, and is, fun.
All jokes about the short and curlies are fun. You just ran into people with a complete lack of a sense of humor.
You’re fine.
Universities should #DivestFromQatar, whose regime is governed by the theology of the #terrorist #MuslimBrotherhood, of which #Hamas is an offshoot.
They’ve funded pro-terror “American Muslims for Palestine”, which in turn paid the on campus anti-semitic group, “Students for Justice in Palestine.”
I presume you also brought green juice? Because a bish needs that to get started in the morning. There are rules.
Excuse me, “Had to,” Dr. Bashir? That is a bit of a stretch, my good man.
Also, please enjoy this family of sometimes upside-down porcupines.
