Though this may not still be seasonal when this is posted (if it’s posted), I know the editors were looking for Moar Content, so I thought you all may enjoy the buffet of humanity I was exposed to when I opened Bluesky on the Fourth of July.
Because this was entirely, 100%, meltdowns of people (authors) I actually know, I’m going to censor out their handles and names and userpics and stuff, because the cross-section of all these people would definitely be doxxable.
Coming in hot, this was the top post when I opened the app and I knew I was in for a treat.
There were a few different “I want to have a nice holiday and enjoy myself but have to apologize for it in order to demonstrate my purity” posts such as this one:
“There is much to mourn, but still we must find joy in small moments” etc.
No patriot party would be complete without the ACLU:
Or with general “I hate fireworks” killjoys:
I have no clue what the context of this is, but I’m sure it’s stupid:
Huh?:
Inspiring Speeches™:
Inspiring Speeches™ from Batman:
And to conclude, my favorite, but I’m going to have to give it context rather than embedding thread so as not to doxx her. Basically, this author’s husband thought that the fireworks celebrations were going to be more subdued because their neighborhood, clearly filled with good little liberals, would be in mourning over the DREADED BUDGET BILL. But, to their shock, the fireworks were more than ever! Fireworks everywhere you turned! A whole video full of every house surrounding their backyard shooting fireworks into the sky.
Her takeaway? HER NEIGHBORS WERE SHOOTING OFF ANGER FIREWORKS! HER NEIGHBORS WERE SO PISSED ABOUT THE BBB THAT THEY FILLED THE SKIES WITH THEIR RAGE!
Whatever helps you cope, my friend. Whatever helps you cope.
Joyless wankers. At least come up with a fun song with your complaints in it.
The new comments on that video are the same as in the piece.
I still see at least one idiot masker in the fucking pit at every show.
Maskers in the pit?!
WTF?
It’s been a long time since I’ve been to a roudy show but I routenily came back with blood on me and was glad it wasent mine and grossed out that it wasent mine at the same time.
A mask. What tools.
I completely forgot about the Futurerama head in a jar generator.
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism again. It will be back to treasonous in a few years.
Don’t dump the grill until you have eaten your fill of free food.
These people need to get their plans for the 250th started. Will they close the curtains and turn off the lights? Flee to freedom in another country? Burn down their town?
They should close the curtains, turn off the lights and burn down their own houses.
I’m going to go with “break shit” because is what the left is now.
Smash it up..
Flee to freedom in another country?
I was waiting for the most red-hot of the raging Lefties to move to Canada when Trump won the first time, like they threatened to do, but I was sorely disappointed. Yet another situation in which people could solve the problem (most of them were very wealthy) but they choose to focus their energy on complaining instead.
At least Rosie O’Donnell moved to Ireland, which is a win for everyone but the Irish.
The ICC should issue a warrant for that crime against humanity.
“Dissent is patriotic.”
Sure but their Team outright hates the very foundations that us uneducated rubes celebrate on July 4. They are arguing from a different rulebook. And their brains are broken because of it.
Unless we’re talking about paying taxes, foreign aid, gender reassignment surgery, COVID prevention/treatment, COVID vaccinations, voting Republican, saying verboten words (or words that sound too close), personal responsibility…
It’s normal to oppose the fascists, by whatever means necessary.
A guy who didn’t even know how oppressed he was
HER NEIGHBORS WERE SHOOTING OFF ANGER FIREWORKS!
There were a lot in my neighborhood too, but I came to the opposite conclusion.
There was concentrated anger at the courthouse and stadium. There were a few angry households around my neighborhood.
My family focused our anger by symbolically placing things over a flame and then consuming them … also ice cream.
I focused my anger by shooting off about 1200 rounds of 9mm and a handful of 5.56mm NATO over the long weekend. Let’s hear it for homemade fireworks!
Good to see Mythical Libertarian Woman still around. Hayeksplosives seems to hang out less, and KK has apparently departed. The LP appears to be falling apart so maybe we can recruit some of the few women they had?
Agreed. My attempts at recruiting failed. Bethannica and The Spaniard were only here a short while.
Give us time. I’m sure we can chase all the women away.
::plants feet, crosses arms:: Do your worst.
[ gets Skyline “chili” declared illegal ]
::settles for Gold Star Chili::
Whistles nonchalantly passed broken registration button…
Hayek was on just the other day; I think she’s just busy. She also Zooms, I’m told.
KK is on the Zooms.
Also, thank you for confirming that it was a good idea for me to stay off social media this last weekend.
it was a good idea for me to stay off social media
this last weekend.Facebook is the worst, and I’ve drastically reduced that since the inauguration. I’m still on Instagram and X, those aren’t too bad.
All FB is good for is Marketplace, Craigslist is dead and FB will ban you, like apple killing the watch and then selling you one 10 years later.
I wonder how much of the traffic on Blueky is bots?
Similarly, I operate on the assumption that big chunk of the shitty, stupid, NPC comments are in fact just that: NPC algorithms that are there simply to reinforce the “misery loves company” dynamic that normally would bring haters together.
Thanks, MLW, for coming down from the mountains and enduring that garbage so I don’t have to read it!
(And I should be around for my PR piece tonight at 7).
If not for Elon, Twitter would have been filled with that too.
I’ve had too many interactions with ostensible people to think the posts are all coming from bots.
How do you know we’re not all bots?
Bots in Lycra?
After being on FB since 08/09 they decided that I was a bot and banned me.
Maybe we are all bots.
Whatever Tulpa!
Well, they are pretty much all NPCs so…
On the 4th there was a lady on one of the main streets of my town holding a sign that read “Trump is an asshole”. I have to say it was a pretty convincing argument.
I don’t even deny that Trump has a lot of odious personal qualities.
… But most politicians do, even “Heels in the Air” Harris. The only difference is that other politicians go to great lengths to put on the act of being a selfless person who just wants to serve others. Trump just fucking talks – some find him to be an asshole; others find it kind of refreshing to see a politician who just says what is on his mind instead of some rehearsed, focus-group’d, buzzword-filled pabalum.
You have to admit, Harris does the same thing as Trump, just says what’s on her mind.
Granted, we can see how little is on her mind, but, still.
I have a lifelong friend who revealed on July 4 that he got rid of all of his American flags, because of fascism or something. A big part of who he is has become disliking Trump, which has to be exhausting, but I’d never part ways with a friend because of politics.
In contrast, I went to my very ghetto, big-city gym on July 4 and there were a lot of people working out in patriotic clothes.
I actually have not met very many black people who are suffering from full-blown TDS; it definitely hits hardest and reach advanced stages with upper-class white women.
It’s a rich white lady every time I see one of those dumb yard signs with “In this house we believe: Science is real / Love is love / No human being is illegal” and blah blah blah.
Akira:
Last October, before the first GlibCruise, I was sitting at a Florida sports bar watching a MLB playoff game between the Yankees (*spit*) and the *sigh* Guardians. The girlfriend didn’t care about the game and left me alone, so I struck up conversation with the other solo guys sitting watching the game, even if they were Yankee fans. Over the course of the conversation and the game, both of them (in the modern parlance, people of color) came out as huge bigly Trump guys.
@ Neph: Haha yep. There was a black gentleman who used to set up a pavillion selling Trump gear and merchandise.
Another form of protest I’ve noticed on a few houses around here is flying the California flag instead of the American flag. One house even has both a Ukrainian flag and a California flag.
One near me has the Ukrainian flag and the latest edition of the pride flag. Definitely supporting The Current Things(tm).
… They’re probably not aware of the general attitudes towards teh gayz in most of Eastern Europe and/or Russia…
The only Ukrainian Flag I’ve seen around here is on the Ukrainian Catholic Church – and I think it might have been there before the war.
You can’t swing a pierogi without hitting a Ukrainian flag here. In their defense, we’ve got a lot of them in the area.
Why would you swing a pierogi? Was it improperly cooked?
Where are the Palestinian and Iranian flags?
Trump’s greatest accomplishment is keeping Hillary out of the White House. This is followed closely by getting Rosie O’Donnell to emigrate.
I am still waiting for The View to be cancelled.
Where will AWFLs get their talking points?
And in other superhero news.
James Gunn, Nathan Fillion and More on MAGA Outrage Over Director Saying Superman Is an Immigrant: ‘I Don’t Have Anything to Say to Anybody’ Spreading Hate
Mote – Plank.
Well, yeah. we want him fighting for truth, justice, and the American way. Not some kind of Red Son.
Is Nathan Fillion ACAB or “Back the Blue” this week?
Back the Bastards.
UCS:
Bastards on Parade?
Neph, Mooks on Parade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toG4fxrdoEg&list=PL8B1AEB85344674C3
(these guys were the hip, local band back in the ’80s for my home town)
HER NEIGHBORS WERE SHOOTING OFF ANGER FIREWORKS! HER NEIGHBORS WERE SO PISSED ABOUT THE BBB THAT THEY FILLED THE SKIES WITH THEIR RAGE!
Seems legit.
I have been surrounded all summer with a lot of smart and nice people who believe that Trump is the worst thing to ever happen to this country. I don’t agree with a lot of what he does or the constant state of uncertainty he creates with his mouth and EOs (Tarrifs, Feuds with world leaders via twitter, etc.) and the BBB full of pork and too big to read before voting.
The people in my wife and I friend group have little to no real grasp of what is actually happening. To them there is no longer any immigration, college research, rights for the gays, checks and balances, etc. I don’t like defending Trump, but I have to because they are spouting non-sense. I’ve become the Trumper in the group now, which is hilarious. I have started reminding them to remember how you fell right now next time your team is in power. I feel like this all the time no matte who is in power.
I’ve just started asking why they’re defending blatant corruption, and pointing out that this corruption has been going on for our entire lifetime.
I only go that way if they are being confrontational with me. Most of the time I’m just listening to nonsense and laughing periodically.
I think social media is certainly to blame for this team mentality. I see the algorithms pushing me to one side daily to ensure I continue to get my dopamine hit. The social media sites are great for pushing those in the uninterested or don’t follow politics groups into being more “concerned” over time. You like videos on cars, guns, and science/engineering…lets send you tons of stuff about owning the libs. Now FB seems to have bi-polar disease for my feed. Tons of right wing friends along with some gays and lefty commies. Lets put communists standing up against the man right next to a guy doing a burnout across a pride crosswalk.
My mom used to just look at family, puppies, and kids on facebook. Now she is full on team Red reposting propaganda every day.
I’m going to start team “meh” or just become a social media luddite.
Timeloose:
I’ve found myself closing the tabs on quite a few stories after a paragraph or two, where there’s no original thought, just vitriol and raging against one side or the other. I know there are people who read the entirety of those articles, because some of them (like my uncle) will send 30+MB e-mails with images lifted from them and out of context quotes all over it.
I hear you, Timeloose. Regan’s election pretty much nuked my parents marriage, and I hesitate to wonder what this one would have done, if only for the neighborhood fallout.
And people wonder why I am a libertarian.
I say the same. I’ve been feeling the disappointment and alienation fro my various governments for decades.
Somehow I can refrain from mentioning it in every other sentence and to total strangers.
That seems to be the most sane approach Neph.
I think we can all restrain ourselves due to having done this our entire lives, it’s easy.
When you are just coming to facts with your whole lifestyle being rejected, not so much. What are Elizabeth Kubler Ross’s Seven Stages Of Grief?
They have lost any grip on reality. It is astonishing really the monster that all the feedback loops have created.
I agree. I’m also astonished at how many people still believe blatant, easily disproven lies.
I might actually have over a thousand works in progress… 😧
I did some deduplication of my out of date backups and reogranized my writing so that I could get a definitive copy of the most up to date version of everything (apparently just working out of any old directory leads to confusion). I ended up with over 1200 documents. Leaving some room for multiple versions used in editing and preparation for publication, that would still leave me with a shitload of stories.
Okay, some of them are garbage and a lot of them are lacking in content, but still…
On the 4th there was a lady on one of the main streets of my town holding a sign that read “Trump is an asshole”. I have to say it was a pretty convincing argument.
Was she naked? It doesn’t count if she wasn’t a body positivity nudist.
Is it partial credit if Jaime was naked?
Yeah, but I was in my car, so nobody noticed except my wife, who was clothed.
Yeah, but I was in my car, so nobody noticed except my wife, who was clothed.
Filming a CFNM scene for your OnlyFans?
I have a running joke: I like doing nude drawings, but the models keep asking me to put my clothes back on.
I learnt of a new kink today!
*wonders how PutridMeat knows of this?
How to drive away business in one easy step!
Pay no mind to pretending they weren’t arresting innocent customers.
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/06/1140998674/hertz-false-accusation-stealing-cars-settlement
Years ago I had a lawyer friend send a rental car company a letter on my behalf. It noted that I returned the car, was given a receipt and that any damage discovered after that was the rental cars responsibility as it was only detected after their employees were in control of the car. Never heard from them again
Foley says he won’t be renting from Hertz again so long as the current policy is in place. And the ironic thing is, the public might be content with AI-inspected rentals, if Hertz went about this more reasonably.
Just for the sake of argument, if they provided a “before” scan at pickup for later comparison it might seem less outrageous.
From the Hertz story sidebar:
Last weekend, a BMW M2 and a Porsche GT3 RS collided at speed on the Nürburgring, resulting in a Michael Bay movie-style explosion that devastated both cars and a bit of guardrail. Incredibly, both drivers exited their cars on their own. But the security camera footage and dashcam clip of the crash are harrowing.
I guess that was what Misha whatsisname’s video was about.
To drive on the ‘Ring is a spectacular privilege I don’t want people to lose, but this incident illustrates just how dangerous recreational driving with strangers in traffic with big speed and skill gaps can be.
Wag that finger. Wag it!
The motorcyclists are the crazy ones. All bikes I could get, but dodging cars on the ‘ring seems especially nuts.
All FB is good for is Marketplace, Craigslist is dead
But I don’t want to be on facebook. I don’t want anything to do with it. Why isn’t there a lurker mode for marketplace?
I know, I know.
I have had some decent luck buying and selling on Marketplace. I also use Messenger almost daily.
Marketplace is a great way to find random stuff. It is mainly why I’m on the FB site beyond some concert notifications and family pictures.
FBMarket place is good for random stuff, Craigslist is still better for actually searching for things.
Not to mention job search, hiring lawn service, or anything that isn’t a physical object.
That was a pretty spectacular wreck.
*not “accident”- CRASH
And now we see the douchebaggery inherent in the system:
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NOTUS reporter Jose Pagliery reported, however, that “Some of the democracy-building experts President Donald Trump fired this year from the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department are now reapplying the skills and knowledge they built up over decades to undermine Trump’s power.”
One anonymous current federal official warned to NOTUS, “Take it from those of us who worked in authoritarian countries: We’ve become one.” He added, “They were so quick to disband AID, the group that supposedly instigates color revolutions. But they’ve done a very foolish thing. You just released a bunch of well-trained individuals into your population. If you kept our offices going and had us play solitaire in the office, it might have been safer to keep your regime.”
***
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/fired-state-dept-bureaucrats-reportedly-using-their-regime-change-skills-to-sabotage-trump/ar-AA1IbzNw
To me this is more confirmation of what Mike Benz has been saying – that our intelligence agencies were already doing those same things to prevent Trump from being elected. Why wouldn’t they?
I was repeatedly assured that USAID was passing out mosquito nets, healing AIDS victims, helping the poor, etc. What’s all this talk of expertise in toppling governments about?
Come at me bro – we still execute traitors.
::glances around nervously, considers screen name change to “Gender Dissident”::
LARF. Nice one, G…D
These are the poster children for the ‘deep state’. They grew out of necessity of the post WW2 world order. Where things went awry was when they started using the tactics for other countries on the home soil. They have literally become the enemy of the people. They became what they ostensibly were fighting against.
Here’s some fireworks. Drunk idiot goes to the golf course and starts a hockey fight – with a former NHL player. Does not go well.
https://x.com/morning_skate/status/1942567036527239583
sigh.
I need to start carrying when I go to the course.
I’ll give them as much a break as I did Bud Light.
I am not a customer for either Bud Light or Jaguar, so my continued non-purchase of their products will not register.
How are you supposed to get car head, with that big divider down the middle?
I was thinking the same thing.
No. It shows lack of imagination. It makes me think of a slightly updated Dick Tracey cartoon car.
https://cdn.dealeraccelerate.com/volo/2/14169/141049/790×1024/1938-hudson-dick-tracy
I left the family 4th of July party before the fist fight. The Jerry Springer side of the family created 3 generations of FAS touched kids that were arguing on who has a bigger POS as a mom. The answer may not surprise you.
My track record for fighting with relatives at the 4th of July party has improved with age. 20+ years ago I had two uncles that wanted to beat me senseless over a off hand comment I made about social security not being around when I retire. Apparently this meant I didn’t respect my Grandfather and think I’m better then them. I didn’t help the situation, but I didn’t back down either.
It goes without saying that alcohol was involved.
Merica?!
I thought we were going to have a fist fight at a funeral a few weeks ago. Mrs. TOK’s mom is one of 7, and one of the brothers died from cancer. His wife has some lifelong hatred of that side of the family, and somehow kept him from talking to them for decades. She never told them about the several times he was in the hospital. On his obituary, there was no mention of his parents or siblings. Some of those siblings were at the funeral, very upset but thankfully no violence.
Some people are quick to blame Jaguar’s rebranding. Sure, the controversial “Copy Nothing” ad campaign may have alienated traditional buyers—but when you wipe out an entire lineup save for one model, sales are bound to nosedive. This isn’t about playing devil’s advocate; we need to wait and see how the rebranding plays out before passing judgment.
Take a well established brand. Do away with everything associated with it, especially the product, and replace it with something different. It’s a marketing major’s wet dream.
Have you heard about my dream of taking the local steak place and specializing in vegetarian cuisine?
Rename it “Food’s Food”?
Their customer base wasn’t the right kind of people.
Yeah….so the long march through the institutions writ small. It aint just Jaguar.
Not only does he hate the poor, but he is pro cancer too.
World’s premier cancer institute faces crippling cuts and chaos
The Trump administration’s broadsides against scientific research have caused unprecedented upheaval at the National Cancer Institute, the storied federal government research hub that has spearheaded advances against the disease for decades.
NCI, which has long benefited from enthusiastic bipartisan support, now faces an exodus of clinicians, scientists, and other staffers, some fired, others leaving in exasperation.
Let me guess… Two people quit. A receptionist and a high-strung nurse’s aide.
“…has spearheaded advances against the disease for decades.”
When I see these kinds of articles I start looking at the partisan language like that and think if we start taking a close look at that we will probably find that not to be the case. Usually it turns out to be the opposite.
Cancer deaths have gone up every year for many, mahy decades, with one brief (1 year) pause. And if you try to Google it, you will first get lies about how deaths from cancer have declined by 27% – a complete fucking lie. Now, here is a cut and paste of my response and what AI spit out after my – ahem – prompting:
ME: That’s not what I asked – I didn’t ask about rates. What were the raw numbers of deaths from cancer every year for the last 25 years. Don’t lie.
Google AI: You are right to point out that the previous response focused on rates rather than the raw number of deaths. Thank you for the correction.
Here are the numbers of cancer deaths reported in the US for each year between 1999 and 2021, based on the information available:
Year Number of Deaths
1999 549,829
2009 567,614
2010 574,738
2011 576,685
2012 582,607
2013 584,872
2014 591,686
2015 595,919
2016 598,031
2017 599,099
2018 599,265
2019 599,589
2020 602,347
2021 605,206
Note: Data for years after 2021 are not consistently available in the provided search results, or estimations and projections are offered instead. For instance:
Between 2000 and 2022, cancer deaths grew from approximately 550,000 to over 610,000.
In 2022, over 610,000 cancer deaths were reported in the US
For 2023, 613,349 deaths are reported
For 2024, 611,720 deaths are projected
For 2025, 618,120 deaths are projected
That’s how great we’re doing against cancer. All they do is fucking lie. And now they’ve trained computer algorithms to do the same as a first cut. Narrative uber alles. That is all AI is for – narrative reinforcement for the rubes.
Interesting and unsurprising. I looked at the NCI’s website and it is a brochure. What jumped out at me were the ‘how to organize a fundraiser’ and ‘make a donation’ links on the front page.
It looks very much like a govt agency trying to get in on the charity circuit scam.
I see no hard data such as you posted and no specifics about where their grant money went and the results of that. Vagaries and nebulous blah blah blah make a donation now.
It’s typically older customers who truly appreciate Jaguar’s racing pedigree and iconic designs, and who are more likely to have the means to afford a next-generation Jag.
Pssst, Shirley- they tossed all that bad old days stuff in the bin.
Trump hate: I have not seen this kind of hysterical hate for the previous 10 presidents, most of whom did things far more egregious than anything Trump has done.
That is what trying to slow commies down gets you.
Looking at every issue being hotly debated today I see one attribute they all have in common: Government sticking its dick where it has no business sticking it or is specifically forbidden to. I used to think we need to take back about half of the money they steal from us but I am coming to the conclusion that number should be closer to 75%. We have concentrated too much money and power. It draws scum-of-the-earth like shit draws flies.
The important thing is we divide up into as many groups as possible and set those groups to have as much conflict as possible between them.
How Do You Self-Identify? For Many Americans, Checking a Box Won’t Do.
https://archive.fo/qq2Vv
Prefer not to answer.
I was born here. I often want to check “Native American”.
Sensei:
I had at least one friend do that on his college applications back in the 90s.
From now on, let’s all do what Sensei suggests (if applicable).
I am me. Now fuck off.
Most of the ‘groups’ are based on inherent qualities; skin color, place of origin, sex, ancestry etc. You dont get to pick your group, it is assigned to you at birth. The sneaky part about all of this is that none of that takes character or morals into account. The people doing it are actually waging a war on those very qualities, the non-inherent ones. It is a tactic used in the war between the individualists and those that believe the natural order of things requires you to be on your knees.
Their answer is always you surrendering money and power. You have less money and fewer options.
Checking a box doesn’t get you social credit points.
https://www.teepublic.com/sticker/7681695-the-prisoner-number-six
“Be Seeing You!”
It just hit me. That Jaguar concept car looks exactly like the sort of placeholder “automobile” architects use in their presentation renderings.
Agreed. It does not look real and I doubt if it is production-ready.
I believe the rear window has zero visibility. Coupled with the high belt line you will need the cameras to see out of the useless styling exercise.
Coupled with the high belt line . . .
I fucking hate this trend
Is it like 30′ long?
STEVE SMITH SHOW YOU SOMETHING 30′ LONG!
You set it up. I had no choice.
At the very least, I hope it still comes with Lucas electrics and gawdawful weatherstripping.
If it doesn’t have electrical issues and leak water it’s not British.
If it doesn’t have electrical issues and leak water it’s not British.
Don’t forget the body flex.
A frame made out of wood should be standard.
And SU carbs.
Coupled with its 270 mile range it’s perfect for cross country travel.
https://insideevs.com/news/765112/grounded-g3-brightdrop-electric-rv/
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