Cut 60 Yrs. Ago Today

"send us a dollar."

Still Life W/ Flies

As you start your wknd., a reminder of your fate, mortals. Memento mori.

Almost appears posed. Not by this reporter.

Friday Afternoon Dance Party

Lively up your pathetically & perpetually lame asses, wretched of the earth!!Or "meditate" on just how horrid & hateful you all are. That should take y'all months, & once you reach self-awareness, I sincerely hope you'll all do the right thing, if you know what I mean, but I doubt you cretins do.

Friday Finger

Obligatory Daily Item

I have less than no inerest in you people & the awful world of agony & bullshit you've made for yourselves. No do you simulated humanoids have any interest in me. I may be back tomorrow w/ a finger for y'all.

Wasting Away In E. Massachusetts

Chasing The Train

Your tax dollars at work. Highly enriched uranium from decommissioned attack submarines, if the comments are correct. Seems perfectly safe to me.

Tee Vee Was Much Better 52 Yrs. Ago

What do the children have on Saturday mornings now? Not a damn thing, that's what.

Sez on Facebook: Another Cris Shapen masterpiece, whatever that means. Illiterate, non-proofing moron, it's Shapan.

And Trump Shouldn't Be In Charge Of Anything

So what do we do now, New York Times?

New York Times:
This Man Should Not Be in Charge of National Intelligence
New Republic:   Trump Push to Jail Foes Takes Darker Turn—and GOP Senators Are Rattled

Trudy Rubin / The Philadelphia Inquirer:   The biggest threat to U.S. security isn't Iran, it's President Trump

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:   GOP senators balk at Trump's pick of Pulte to head national intelligence

Maha / The Mahablog:   Today's Diabolical Machinations

Nick Mordowanec / Military.com:   Who is Bill Pulte? New National Intelligence Director Has Finance Background

Garbage Species

Spent just over a hr. in the outside world, 'though not voluntarily & for no good reason. (I will slit the throats of everyone who "works" at the new bullshit property management company, when I am finished w/ the slumlord & the fuckwads at the previous bullshit management company.) & saw nothing but ugliness & trash.

Your entire species does nothing but generate garbage & shit. Get off the planet!!

The Grim Truth

No, it's just ANGRY AS HELL! P.S.: It won't be "4000 A.D.", the robopocalypse is here now, chumps.

The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

The bugs, broken apps, and nightmare customer-service bots we can’t escape, presented as a blessed and sacred addendum to Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on AI

Anyway, the pope’s encyclical is an impressive document, and I strongly suggest you read it, or at least read more about it. But it isn’t perfect. I say this with all due respect to the leader of the world’s largest religious organization: He missed some stuff. To truly teach big tech to put humanity first, it is necessary to catalog all the ways that big tech is currently putting humanity last. And because we are living in a time of historically unprecedented exasperation—a time in which many of us go through the day filled with a sort of half-repressed and unacknowledged fury that threatens to burst out every time the app we’re trying to use sends us to a website to log in, but the website won’t allow us to paste the password from our password manager, and clicking “forgot password” sends us back to the app, which immediately crashes—any account of tech’s antihuman tendencies must necessarily include a detailed breakdown of how its products are truly just a colossal goddamn pain in the ass.

The question I ask every damn day: Did you use your own platform before you launched it?

Testify, brother!! My righteous & entirely justified rage is not, however, "half-repressed and unacknowledged", but full-blown & ready to kill, or at the very least to destroy every circuit board on the planet.

How about the time a moronic robot at my credit union decided that my making a w/drawal at the same ATM I've been using for 16 fucking yrs. was "suspicious" & restricted my card? Dunno if I mentioned it here, but I'm still angry as hell.

Cell 'phones are bullshit too. First, make them ergonomic, not some flat slab that doesn't fit the human hand very well.

All that typed, remember it's pathetic excuses for human beings who design, manufacture & implement this bullshit & they must be held responsible. Preferably a facility where the only way to get food, toilet paper or anything else is to use Doordash or whatever but it never works.

Circling The Drain

Where's the outrage?

Washington Post:
Pentagon hires convicted Jan. 6 rioter for sensitive counterterrorism job  —  The Trump administration's appointment of Elias Irizarry, who was 19 at the time of the Capitol attack, has alarmed some in the Defense Department. — A convicted Jan. 6 rioter who later …
Claire Carter / Washington Examiner:   Pentagon hires ‘qualified, patriotic’ Jan. 6 rioter for counterterrorism role

Robert Tait / The Guardian:   Pentagon appoints convicted January 6 rioter to sensitive counterterrorism role

Aaron Parnas / The Parnas Perspective:   Important Update: Weaponization Fund is Dead, Insurrectionist Hired to Lead Counterterrorism Effort, Trump Health Questions Swirl, and More

Robert Davis / Raw Story:   Trump admin stuns by appointing convicted Jan. 6 rioter to major counterterrorism role

Zachary Leeman / Mediaite:   Trump Administration Hires Convicted Jan. 6 Rioter for Key Pentagon Job Involving ‘Highly Classified’ Military Ops: Report

more at Mediagazer »

Filip Timotija / The Hill:   Pentagon hires convicted Jan. 6 rioter for counterterrorism post

"Politicized" courts. Beyond pathetic.

Jennifer Scholtes / Politico:
Mullin refuses to commit to following court orders for DHS  —  Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin repeatedly refused Tuesday to commit to following court orders from judges who rule that the Department of Homeland Security is acting illegally.  In his first appearance …

Manuela Silva / NOTUS:   Markwayne Mullin Won't Say if DHS Will Follow Court Orders

David Zimmermann / Washington Examiner:   Mullin cites ‘politicized’ courts in refusal to commit to DHS obeying rulings

David Edwards / Raw Story:   ‘You should be really freaked out’: DHS chief refuses to commit to court orders

Nick Arama / RedState:   DHS Sec. Mullin Delivers Epic Takedown of Chris Murphy and His Attack on the DHS

Andrea Castillo / Los Angeles Times:   Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin refuses to commit to following court orders

Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite:   DHS Sec Mullin Floors Senate Democrat With Jaw-Dropping Answer On Whether He'll Comply With Court Orders

Mary McCue Bell / Washington Times:   Mullin vs. Murphy: Homeland Security chief takes on anti-ICE senator

Steve Benen / MS NOW:   Trump has had many recent setbacks in court, but the IRS case poses the biggest threat

Cristina Laila / The Gateway Pundit:   DHS Chief Markwayne Mullin Crushes Democrat Senator Chris Murphy's Lies (VIDEO)

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:   Markwayne Mullin Caught in Blatant Lie About Homeland Security Budget

The Hill:   Watch live: Mullin testifies before Senate on DHS budget amid GOP reconciliation battle

Rule of law? The Constitution? What are you talking about, asks nepo-baby plumber Mullin. (Mullin assumed control of his family's plumbing business in 1998.) Ol' Markwayne's a real piece of work.

Primary Day 2026

Exclusive: House Ethics Committee investigating Rep. Jimmy Gomez over sexual misconduct allegations, sources say

Interesting these accusations are a bit late to affect this election. Gomez is this reporter's Representative, & because he's no radical, I'd already voted for the DSA-endorsed candidate, Angela Gonzales-Torres, 'though I suspect that incumbent Gomez will win.

Never been less interested in an election. All scum, all the time. Almost didn't arse myself.

Yesteryear In L.A.

Claimed to be downtown, but it's Western Ave., from north of Melrose Ave. to just north of Wilshire Blvd. I know it well.The area w/ the furniture stores still has many furniture stores, 80-ish yrs. later, & the St. Charles Ap'ts. are still there.

[Los Angeles History on Facebook.]

Awfulness In Albania

Death To Parasite Slumlords!

What we need: A super-slumbuster. And a functioning gov't.

A corrupt ecological mess. Exactly what one would expect from junior parasites like those two sacks of human garbage & their scum parental units.

Jakob Weizman / Politico:

Albanian authorities probe seaside resort project linked to Jared Kushner  —  Albanian anti-corruption prosecutors are investigating a luxury resort project linked to U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as protests from citizens and environmental organizations over the development persist.
Nicole Charky-Chami / Raw Story:   Jared Kushner's luxury resort hit with anti-corruption probe as protests explode: report

Gresa Kraja / Bloomberg:   Kushner Resort Draws Albanian Leader's Support After Backlash

As noted yesterday. Why aren't these blood-sucking leeches building in the United States? They've managed to suck hundreds of millions of dollars out of us. Why do they hate America so much? Where's the outrage?

The Naked Lunch

Uncropped & uncorrected because I don't care anymore.

These Are Your Rights

Your mind is totally controlled
It has been stuffed into my mold
And you will do as you are told
Until the rights to you are sold

Purchased anything from your corporate masters lately, you consuming sheep?

Trump's immigration enforcers look into buying ad data. Industry insiders fear what comes next.

Businesses that collect and sell information on Americans face an ethical debate about its potential use in federal immigration probes.

"Ethical debate" my ass. Chickenshit corporate entities will knuckle under to the grift & gladly take blood money.

[POLITICO]

Sage Burning

Ritual cleansing of tunes from the'60s & '70s being used to advertise fucking air-polluting shitmobiles. An admission there's been little good music made in the last forty-odd yrs.?

Enjoyably stupid fun, & it does rock. Produced by Todd Rundgren, which helps.Proto-punk from the Great Northwest. Tacoma, to be speccfic. The ad agency cut the opening "Hey little girl" line.And this rousing "Fuck You" to all the sheep in their boxes, also used to pimp wheels, which just just appeared on Sunday Nihght Baseball on the Nasty Broadcasting Company."For families that don't fit in a box." A selective edit of a cover. Can't handle the truth. I hope the royalties are going to a decent cause, or at least a descendant, as Reynolds was the socialist type.

Albanians Protest Future Slumlords

Fuck you in the mouth, Jared & Ivanka.

Traditional

You're The Worst!

Betcha Instagram & TikTok wouldn't allow me to express myself like this, because everythig is shit & you have no rights.

Again, thanks for nothing, Earthlings. Now get off my planet!