… because there is nowhere to go back to.
It’s been two years since my last post here, which shocks me. Time doesn’t seem to work right any more. But one of the main reasons was how bit by bit what I sort of thought of as “my beat” stopped making sense. Because it was hope. [Read more…]
I don’t mean a lack of security in tech or otherwise infosec/opsec. That’s probably well on its way, mind, but that’s Marcus’s beat more than mine.
I mean the dudebro insecurity apocalypse, which has become increasingly hard to ignore, no matter how much the particular dudebros wish it could be and tell their cult-flavored followings it isn’t happening. [Read more…]
I think it may be said that the bad guys here are winning a long game, but going to lose the longest. A glimmer of hope, though they’ve ensured needless suffering in the meantime.
I’m not referring to the oft-misued MLK quote “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Unfortunately (at least, taken like this in its stripped-down version), that’s nonsense. Rather it’s what “Beau of the Fifth Column” said: to change the law, first you change thought. [Read more…]
We know this. It’s not news. Most of us have seen at last a couple of exposés on cop training and the crazy lengths it goes to now. We know they’re afraid all the time and trying to hide behind all that armor and a nice comforting blanket of bullets.
What’s not always made clear is: it’s literally, deliberately, traumatizing. Cop behavior is weaponized PTSD. Below, a video with an ex-cop talking about what it did to him: [Read more…]
No, not fiction. Not a hallucination, either, nor a snarky description of the ‘sentence’ he ‘passed’ on his – regardless of the deeply racist judge’s preferences – victims. Rather, a prediction: barring a miracle of maturity, Kyle Rittenhouse has been sentenced to a violent death. [Read more…]
Over on our Discord server, user “Hemi” was struggling to decipher the illustrious Jordan Peterson’s book, “Beyond Order” (which, as an aside… isn’t that just a chilling title?). [Read more…]
Nazis for Trump attack the US Capitol.
Heltery Skeltery
Right-wing conspirators
Breached the perimeters
Dangerous chumps
Faking emergency
Launching insurgency
Undemocraticly
Following Trump
Commentary as follows: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!?!!?
https://theintercept.com/2020/01/03/qassim-suleimani-killing-iran-airstrike/
Murderole Furderole
Warmongers now extol
Death by remote control
Ordered by Trump
Took place illegally
Now showing them to be
Geopolitic’ly
Dumb as a stump
Reckon this one doesn’t need much introduction.
Hankery-Pankery
Donald and Mitch Mc-C
Scheming quite public’ly
Trumpet with pride
How with the GOP
Voting in league we’ll see
Undemocratic’ly
Justice denied
Last night’s UK election in which the now unabashedly cruel and inhumane Tories won a clear majority for the first time in ages was disturbing and depressing. Odgraphix described it as “Higaldy-Pigaldy”, which reminded me of the double dactyl style of poetry since those start with a nonsense line, often literally “Higgledy-Piggledy”. So I think I’ll post such things from time to time on current topics, cuttlewise, and start with this one.
Heltery-Skeltery
Now the UK has a
Definite path ahead:
Brexit comes off
All due to racists
Electing a thoroughly
Authoritarian
Cold-blooded toff.