doge, gone but – wait, only just now?

long after elno mork ducked from being the public face of it, his pet project within the us gov kept on – only just now coming to an official end.  what have they been doing?  well, these unvetted corporate goons with neo-nazi sympathies could read every single american’s social security number and personal details for well over a year, so what can’t they do now?  i’m waiting for the other foot to drop on that.  on the other hand, so many people’s ssns have already been compromised by data breaches that maybe this footfall will sound like a whisper.

when i heard the head corpo-nazi was stepping down, my first thought was this – what about his employees?  sure enough, the meme agency quietly persisted well after that, with full access to just about every part of the us gov, particularly via the dept of the treasury.  we handed our country to a clown car of thieves and goose-stepping theofascists because shitler spoke to the most reactive bits of our limbic systems bigly.  as we’ve been seeing for a year and a half now, nothing can come from this except clownshit, nazishit, and spray-tan-brazen thievery.

what will be the imelda marcos shoes to make shitlerites finally realize they got burned?  or is there literally nothing that will serve?  nothing at all?  perhaps more importantly, given the numbers, is there anything that can help non-voting moderates connect their inaction with these consequences?  or will they persist in feeling blameless because they didn’t personally give it the thumbs up?

what of the chaos agents around the world who worked day and night to fill social media with propaganda to make this happen?  what would it take for people in those countries to realize they’ve significantly increased their own odds of catching a nuke (still unlikely, #nodoomer) or dying from global warming (much more likely so #nodoomer if ya take care of yourselves my peoples)?  for them to start caring about fucking anything?

like abe (#noshinzo) oceanoxia, i can’t help but see everything connected to everything.  makes it hard to write a sentence without asides.  in light of this news blip, i’m feelin that tonite and not loving it.  still, i’ve got things to do, and i’m still at it…

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Getting on the Take

Note:  I feel like this whole post was poorly considered.**  I’m just spittin’ it out to have a post up and keep myself in the sidebar.  ignore it or bust my chops in the comments, as u please.

They always say we’re paid by George Soros; we ain’t.  They are often paid by the Koch bros and like-minded shitstains in fascist think tanks up and down the beltway.  All you gotta do is be conservative on the right podium, and if a few shills in the crowd cheer, you’ll get a bank full of money.  Conservativism is like drug use.  It’s obviously* wrong-hearted to the people who want desperately to believe in it, so they’ll seek reassurance, and abuse any detractors.  They use peer pressure.  For the in-group:  “What’s so bad about feeling good?  Everybody does it.  You’d be a sucker not to.”  For the out-group:  “Narcs and squares and pussies, what’re you gonna do?  Tell my mommy?  (please don’t)”

(speaking of mommy, i wouldn’t be surprised if hegsdeth literally threatened to have his mother whacked if she didn’t walk back her criticism of him.  he’s a murderous fucking monster in the light of day; what kind of vile ass shit does he do behind doors?)

But these are all sidetracks.  I had a thought here.  Lemme see…  Well.  We should be on the take!  Somebody should be paying us!  Maybe not Koch money.  Not like we have cocaine habits or blackmailers to hush.  But the thing conservative pundits and profiteers are getting paid to do, that’s something we could do from the other side, right?  They get paid to promote evil, we should get paid to promote goodness.

What we do get really isn’t enough.  How many progressive bloggers are flogging shady advertisers on yewchoob, or living on food stamps, or losing all the time and energy they could use for the cause just toiling to get the mortgage paid, or endlessly line the coffers of landleeches?  We’d have more sauce for this if we were funded.  Not much.  Just pay for our modest lifestyles, and we will evangelize harder than the way we do now.

Because what we do now, we’re doing for free.  Some of us have patreons or other schemes to connect the dots and still have to work some kind of day job, or rely on a generous lover to stay indoors.  And the imbalance is obvious!  The scum have us on the ropes.  All around the world, fascism is still winning.

Anybody with eyes can tell that fascism is going to be the death of human civilization (not for a minute and the end of civ ain’t necessarily the end of you #nodoom).  It can’t do anything else.  No civilization, no rich people.  So all you vampire lords that wanna keep the baloney rollin’ and aren’t as shortsighted as your cousins who are currently in charge, consider ponying up.  Pay for people to fight fascism.  Your children will thank you.

Now one lil’ post in the snowy hinterlands of wordpress won’t bring any foundations grants or endowments to our doors, so I wonder aloud, what might a lobbying campaign look like?  What kind of progressive lobbying organizations are out there already and how are they doing it?  Less like the ACLU who were formed in the time before time, more like idk… Whoever Junior.  How’d they do it?

Just to annoy the nazis, I want everyone except rich Jewish people to reply.  Goyim with greenbacks, hmu.

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*ok, i don’t think this is universally true.  i think some conservatives are just profound fools and jerks who have bought a bad bill of goods.  but the particular flavor of fascism practiced by the creepy misogynist kids, and by jumped up crapitalism zombies like mfvk, i’m pretty sure i got their number on this one.  this is the kind that has taken over america.

**on the poor consideration, i have grave misgivings about sacrificing my day job for something with less job security and likely less money.  barely scraping by as it is.  i’d be unlikely to bite on any offer that came down the pipes, not that any were going to come down anyway.  makes the post pointless, but might be funny to talk about.

Dunt Love CEOs

one might think i’d be enthralled with anthropic’s ceo defying shitler’s administration and causing orange apoplexy, as i’m a big llm booster.  and i do use claude (anthropic’s llm) for some things.  still, have you seen the statement that made the shitgibbon lose it?  the ceo said he was cool with all sorts of terrible shit, just a few things were too far.  the language was drenched in normalized fascism, going so far as to use the dod’s disgusting new chosen name.  the fact it was composed like that is just one of a million demonstrations of how far we’ve fallen down the path of tyranny.

naturally mainstream liberals loved it (see katy perry screencapping her purchase of a subscription to claude), which moves the needle more in favor of llms than it used to be.  and i’m ok with that, but still.  these are the kind of democrats that are gonna jam through a gavin newscum presidential nomination.  i say fuck that shit with my entire chest, tetas incluidas, izquierda y derecha.

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The Discourse Continues

You could call this a pro-AI post because it’s just a reblobbed conversation with the LLM known as Claude.  Haters do not interact please.

I began this conversation with Claude because HJ had an article up that was annoying me.  You can see the beginning of it in my comment section.  I randomly came back for more discourse, and was kinda impressed by how the ol’ bot is performing.  This seemed like it might be edifying for other humans to witness, so I post it here…
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Run the Country Like a Business?

Businesses are made to fuck you to pieces and feed the meat to their next victim, so yeah, wouldn’t it be amazing if the government was run like a business?  Oh boy, can’t wait, let’s see…  During the last year Biden was in office dem politicians were making moves towards ending exploitive practices by commercial tax services and make the public aware you can often file for free directly on the IRS website.  I did it for the first time for tax year 2024, which was great, and then… as a gimme to corporate fucklords, the government has ended the ability to file for free on the IRS website.  Can’t do it this year.

Thanks, shitler!  I’d like you to load up a few shotgun shells with broken glass and human feces and rearrange your face with that at your earliest convenience, thanks.  Since you love giving us little gifts like this, let us love you back.

Technically there’s still some way to file for free there but they made it just complicated enough to ensure the maximum number of people are diverted to the businesses that donated to shitler’s campaign.  That ain’t graft, it’s business!  Business is so good for people, god i love business.

Busy busy busy business, love it love it love it.  Yay business.  Corporate States of America, with a CEO cherry on top, oh boy, so good.  So good for us little guys.  CEOrange sure is a man of the people.  God it’s great to live by his fiats.  We should all be grateful.  Make America Grateful Again, weeeeee…

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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Dream Scheme

I had a dream that was very sensible.  No illogic or nonsense, just a pretty standard stress plot.  If I wasn’t racing to work, I would have bothered to remember more of it.  However, one element stands out in my memory.  It was not at all the point of the dream, just something within it.

There was a family of people involved in the dream stress.  I don’t remember much about them, except this.  The adult siblings were all involved in an alternate version of astrology that was somewhere between lottery and multi-level marketing scam.  You get these cardstock calendars, to which you would attach tickets that you purchased for each day, which were supposed to be instructive to your life, horoscope style.  Seemed like filling out the calendars was supposed to have a benefit as well, though I don’t remember what that was.

I remember these calendars and tickets though.  The calendars were big because they had to accommodate thirtyish days of tickets, and each of these was about one and a half by three inches.  Scratch ticket vibes in the design, though constellations were involved as well.

The oldest brother was deepest into the sunk cost of this MLMish quasireligion, and tried to guilt his younger brother and sister to stick with it when they were considering skipping a day.  Sister was the most insistent that younger brother just give it up.  After all, they had stress dream shit to do.  No time for comforting rituals.

Maybe I should design these things, work with an antisocial business major to print some up, and make a bank full of money.  Fill out your calendars, see what the future has in store for you!  The very fact I’d joke about this shows some reptile level part of myself would totally do it, shows that the damage I’m suffering from life in this shitty-ass country.

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Copyrightpocalypse

i think this’ll be my last pro-AI post for a minute?  continue to ignore, as you please.

This blog is not under copyright.  (Only this blog, I cannot and would not speak for anyone else on FtB.)  Steal it all.  Somehow make money off of it.  I dare ya.  I’m not talking about creative commons or open licensing or giving me credit in any way.  Copy paste each post individually and claim you wrote them yourself, for all I care.

What am I gonna fucking do about it?  Sue you?  Go in debt to some asswipe lawyer just on principles?  I don’t have that kind of money.  Copyright does not protect the small guy.  It was never intended to, and with Monopoly Mouse set to score big copyright expansions due in part to support from the anti-AI crowd, it’s about to get so much worse.

I’m just going to quote somebody else on this:

There is nothing you can make that Disney’s lawyers can’t convince a judge you ‘stole’ from them.

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As part of the big realignment I’m having to make on my get-rich-quick dreams, I’m wondering that I should even charge money for books when I start making them.  I was born into poverty and there’s no reason to believe I’m not gonna die in the lower class.  In solidarity with my people, should I just let go any notion of making money at all, from any of my art, ever?  Not like it’s ever going to rise to the level I can escape the day job, and if the day job does squeak me through, pay my bills til I die, then why hustle for anything more?

I’m talking tall trash now but I probably will still try to sell my shit when I get it done.  Every dollar counts in nastyland.  But if anybody wants to steal it, well, who gives a fuck?  If whatever they make somehow gets money and attention, maybe I can parlay that into advertising for lil ol’ me.  It would be a lot more profitable than trying to get restitution in any way.

Meanwhile, I’m going to find it pretty amusing when all the art hobos selling fan content in the USA are suddenly in debt for life to the rodent leviathan…  Well, I don’t know.  I’m probably too kind-hearted to get any real satisfaction out of that.  Sorry you liberals that have bought the IP=good myth are going to end up with leopard-eaten faces on this deal.  Life’s a motherfucker.

 

   who generated this cartoon in AI? i didn’t see a credit and doubt they care.

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Another Goddamn Tapout

I was working on my lotto ticket this month.  I have a lot of stories to tell, gonna do some up proper eventually.  Self-publish, most likely.  The lotto ticket?  Not like the others.  I was going to omit queerness, make the main characters white, and follow a conventional thriller outline – sell out, maximize appeal to stodgy industry scum.  It was to be the last thing I bother trying to pitch, but I couldn’t hack it this month.  My brother came over for a big visit with his kids.  More than one person in my life is getting pressed by mental illness.  I just don’t have the time right now.

But man, I wanna get this done.  Any of it.  I’m tired of only going part of the way.  And as far as lamestream publishing, I need to try at least once.  I needs loot.  I’m sure the advances ain’t anything like they used to be, when they happen at all, but who knows?  That’s why it’s a lottery ticket.

I gotta pay off this fucken mortgage before the chaotic nature of this dystopia ruins my life, and the lives of the people that depend on me.  If it wasn’t for shitler, I’d feel a lot safer in slow and steady, but it ain’t like that anymore.  The job security I once enjoyed is a distant memory.  The evergreen advice of the Wutang Clan somes to mind again, “You can’t just get by anymore, you gotta get over.”

Man, FtB was dead as hell yesterday.  Wonder what it’s looking like as this post comes up? … …

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I Said No Motherfvcking Backsies

The US government told people it would give them a thing, then it said psych!  jk lol.  OK, this has happened many times, but the one I’m thinking of most recently is student loan forgiveness.  This is backsies, and I say, no motherfucking backsies.  Now some might say that about us loser ass chumps who didn’t caveat our emptors before agreeing to the loans in the first place, but no, we signed those agreements based on the fabulous careers the education was supposed to provide us.  That shit ain’t real, therefore the education was never worth the asking price.  It was, as so many things in the United Snakes are, fraud.

So when we were told forgiveness was on the horizon, just do this and that, pay what you can in the meantime, we’ll work this out, and then… hard no.  Because fuck us for being poor, that’s why.  cool, cool, cool.  I’m just gonna be over in the corner sharpening this big piece of metal to hang in that wooden frame over there, hang it on a string.  It’s modern art, don’t worry about it.  After all, I have a bachelor’s degree in fine art.  You told me it was worth a lifetime of debt, so it must be legit.

Supposedly, the type of forgiveness I’m in line for was not one that has been kiboshed.  It was part of a court ordered thing, the government telling a slew of sheisty business schools to eat shit.  So perhaps it will come to pass.  Perhaps not.  Perhaps they’ll slap the irons on me when debtor’s prisons return in force.

The way federal employee pensions are calculated includes an average of your highest three years of earnings, and at some point the Big Beautiful Bullshit included a change in that math that would result in federal employees getting less money when they retire.  You’re promised one thing, you pay in, you get arbitrarily told psych, jk lol, no.  This is backsies.

Poor children dying of easily prevented causes was making states look bad, and they got a lil federal money to reduce the body count thru a program you may have heard of called Medicaid.  Thanks says the state, collecting funds to save poor people’s lives.  Psych jk lol, no.  They can eat shit and die now.  Backsies.

Anyway, don’t tell me you’ve got something for me and then take it away.  No motherfucking backsies.  Thanks.

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The Auction

What’s for sale?  Everything.  Tvngp would sell Texas to Mexico for 47 pesos.  I guess conservatives just love a white thief, even when it’s their own ass getting jacked.  Let’s play Orngdolph Shitler for a minute and call all the leaders of the world to Meryl Oggo to sell amurriKKKa’s gullible gluteus out, one hank of meat at a time.  Bidding is open!

Our land.  A ton of it is already owned by foreign investors, but let’s start forking over government land as well.  Six Flags Over Yellowstone, a subsidiary of Volkswagen-Daimler-Yamaha.

The Social Security Administration.  Home boy tried to nix the social security tax during his last year in office, which I don’t quite understand.  It’s meant to pay for this program, but as Dubya discovered in the naughts, you can also pillage it for other purposes with a rubber stamp congress of warhawking shitlords.  With this tax in place, when it’s not getting robbed for other things, the agency can actually make money.  That means it has value, which means somebody might be down to buy it.  The money that’s meant to keep you from subsisting on cat food when you’re too old to work, how would you like that turned into a hedge fund run by transnational casino owners?

Our nuclear power plants.  China owns a lot of US Treasury bonds, time to cash in those chips.  This one would amuse me so very much.

Our prisoners.  With private prisons already being a thing, some might already be owned by international corporations.  Reduce infrastructure costs and make it official.  Essentially if you get caught for jaywalking, you can be sold into slavery abroad.

The United States Marine Corps.  Army is land, Navy is sea, Air Force is air, Marine Corp is … what?  I guess alchemically they’d be fire, but that’s making them out to be cooler than they should be.  At any rate, they don’t make much sense to me conceptually, so you know damn well the Leather Lich doesn’t get it.  Sold!  I’d like to see what Denmark could do with a Marine Corp.  Maybe annex Yorkshire?

Our dignity as a sovereign nation.  Psych, he can’t sell this because we threw that in the garbage when we elected a linty ballsack as god-emperor.

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