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@cstross@wandering.shop As I always says WRT the neo-feudalists; they assume they’ll be the aristocrats, not the serfs.

@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social Stephen Miller is a Kapo.

@cstross@wandering.shop @DJGummikuh@mastodon.social @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange Meanwhile in the guitar world, Fender Guitars’ lawyers and upper management are commiting brand suicide. Is there a reason these cases are being tried in German courts? https://www.europesays.com/europe/46084/

@blogdiva The Dominionist “Christian” Zionists have trying to get us to make aliyah for decades. Particularly those like John Hagee, founder of Christian United For Israel, who has said he wants a nuclear war in the Middle East to trigger the rapture. I have no desire to go there, especially as long as Netanyahu and his corrupt, psychotic regime is in power. I can’t be a traitor to a nation I’m not a citizen of. Blind support of Israel is one reason I’m no longer a member of my synagogue.

@cstross@wandering.shop A few months too soon to declare that. We’ll have a better idea after the mid-term elections. Fingers and toes crossed. Donnie has time to piss of even more folk. Also, how’re things going over there?

@cstross@wandering.shop @_tillwe_@mastodon.social I read it as commentary on Bush Jr., and the creeping authoritarianism coming out of the “War on Terror”. President Cheney, and the ‘If this goes on’ thing.

@iFixit@mastodon.social When faced with something like this I get the dremel out and cut a notch in it, then get it out with a flat screwdriver. Worked on my former MINI (a BMW), with torx screws on the tail light cover, didn't have bit for them at the time.

@cstross Slightly reminds me of this story fron the 80s version of The Twilight Zone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Small_Talent_for_War

@cstross@wandering.shop I’m surprised this is the England fans and not the Scottish ones.

@renatoram@fosstodon.org @cstross@wandering.shop @oliversampson@sigmoid.social @DJGummikuh@mastodon.social @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange It’s as if the people running Fender now have never heard of Gibson’s attempted lawsuit against several Japanese companies in the 70s —look up ‘Lawsuit-era guitars’ And more recently Gibson threatening PRS over their single-cut guitars. Gibson got slapped down each time.

@cstross@wandering.shop H. H. Holmes style hotels, or more legit?

@glsk @cstross @blotosmetek From the translation I gather it’s from a blood pressure cuff.

@cstross @jlargentaye @tilton 250 years is older than most nations, if you go by the age of their current governments. Russia today isn’t the same country is was 40 years ago, never mind 250. Or any country on the losing side of the world wars, or those that have had revolutions in the past century. etc.

@cstross That first paragraph mirrors something I’ve been thinking for a while. Israel may be a nation of Jews, but it is not a Jewish one—in the sense of following Jewish ethics.

@Geri@mastodon.online Or maybe, “You remember why your brother was arrested? Well, we want you to attend a banquet with that man’s best friend.”

@attoparsec Since he claims to be an Iain Banks fan, though cleary missed the point, I’d say he’s an agent for Special Circumstances. The Culture has already decided we’re not ready for them.

@cstross I used to always hear it was 8th grade reading level. I suppose it’s gotten lower since smartphones became ubiquitous?

@indivisibleteam@mastodon.social Jebus Trump sucking the soul out of a sleeping man, while surrounded by people unaware that they are about to be slaughtered by ghostly paratroopers. In the background the Statue of Liberty has been miraculously transported next to the Lincoln Memorial, both of which appear to be sinking into the rising Potomac River. Above them Chinese made fireworks explode.

@cstross@wandering.shop Nothing cosy about Quantum of Nightmares, or a certain maternity ward.

@Strandjunker Guessing that Melania has never heard of the Streisand Effect.

@georgetakei@universeodon.com Trump ‘wins’ and we all lose.

@dushman Adding to the cats. Radioactive Cats, photo/sculpture by Sandy Skoglund, 1980 http://www.sandyskoglund.com/pages/imagelist/imagelist%20home.html

@RunRichRun@mastodon.social @gleick@mas.to Goes along with the hospital ships he was going to send to Greenland, the ones in dry dock in Mobile, Alabama.

@chrisamaphone @bruceshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variophone

@cstross @glsk @blotosmetek Well, if I’d noticed the alt text…

@kingsleybugarin @attoparsec I’d say it’s debatable that SC are the good guys, good intentions perhaps. You’re too polite about Musk, who may be the sort of (semi)Useful Idiot SC might use to keep a civilization getting ahead of itself and causing trouble. Maybe arrange for someone with big ideas to come along and screw things up enough to keep us planet bound for a few generations, and triggering a revolution among the masses who sweep away the oligarchs. Wishful thinking.

@cstross@wandering.shop Caravans/wagon trains are how you get the Donner Party. How they start, at least.

@rbreich@masto.ai Well… Partly from the Heritage Foundation helping get Reagan elected, using a precursor to Project 2025. Then John McCain picking idiot Sarah Palin as his running mate, making it okay for other idiots to run for office. And all the dark money that helped them. And so on…

@jdnicoll Musk is an empty suit. Back when he launched his car into space I was half hoping he was in the spacesuit behind the wheel.

@rudytheelder@mastodon.social Pictures of Anna May Wong across the top.

@bruces I’m 3D printing whistles to give out at protests, and my mother is knitting red caps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melt_the_ICE_Hat

@cstross @JdeBP @WellsiteGeo @HollieK72 @BadExampleMan I stopped watching sitcoms years ago after realizing that they only have a handful of plots, with slight variations. Most of which center on one character misunderstanding another, usually when overhearing a conversation with a third.

@SFFMagazineCovers@zirk.us Hey Jarhead! That WAC can take care of herself. Pan’s just like; Hey buddy, I just wanna fight Nazis! Sign me up. He looks like Jeffrey Tambor.

@cstross @marjolica Or it’s a family heirloom that would crumble if opened.

@ScottEdelman@wandering.shop I think I actually remember reading this at the time. The last panel in particular. I’ve despised Donnie since around then, when he used to often be on Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous, he was always such an obvious phony. Bill the Trump was smarter than the real thing.

@rbreich Because she’s never heard of the Streisand Effect. Trying to deflect attention from something, but instead drawing more to it.

@badastro@mastodon.social Someone needs to do a filk for Musk, “I am changing my name to Kessler”, based on Tom Paxton’s I am changing my name to Chrysler. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9qYGARxGu4

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Socialism vs. Capitalism. The Prison Industrial Complex isn’t able to profit off of public housing.

@rbreich@masto.ai Rubio’s sitting there thinking “Grandpa’s sundowning again”. Bobby Jr. is like “Whut?” And little Petey’s laughing his ass off because he knows that he’s the only one in Grampie’s will.

@rbreich@masto.ai 6) Divorce a billionaire. Even if you try giving it away, the interest increases faster than you can get rid of it. At least that seems to be the case for the former Mrs. Bezos.

@cstross@wandering.shop Assuming their TV is like most, they must be half deaf to keep the volume that high. I have mine around 10. Reading is certainly the better choice.

@cstross@wandering.shop @bsdphk@fosstodon.org Pretty sure I once said on your blog, during the 1st term, that Donnie’s a wannabe mob boss. You couldn’t be in the NY building business without dealing with the mafia. I think it’s part of why he prefers being called Don, or as he used to go by The Donald.

@georgetakei@universeodon.com Nah Cucker Tarlson’s just doing a bit of CYA.

@georgetakei@universeodon.com And Easter eggs come in every color of the rainbow.

@gleick@mas.to Had this thought a few weeks ago— New motto for the US Navy: We used to fight pirates, now we are the Pirates!

@rbreich I don’t want to be accused of shaming, but Sanchez almost makes Noem look natural. I’m assuming most of us know the appropriate William Gibson quote.

@georgetakei@universeodon.com His plan for the ballroom was: Tear down the East Wing, and….

@georgetakei@universeodon.com You left out high school dropout.

@openculture@toot.community Been climbing Mount Tsundoku for years!

@cstross@wandering.shop I thought that was a Klan hood over ICE at first.