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A rant on John Scalzi's Whatever, in response to this bullshit involving co-Presidents Sissy SpaceX and Dumbfuck Jackass Trump.
A post by Athena Scalzi on Whatever.
Yeah... it's pretty cool, I guess. I played through the first three levels, after the tutorial thing, and thought that would be it, but there was more after that. I stopped at that point though.
Yeah... it's pretty cool, I guess. I played through the first three levels, after the tutorial thing, and thought that would be it, but there was more after that. I stopped at that point though.
A post on John Scalzi's Whatever.
The pertinent part (which is most of the post):
Why get these vaccinations now? As I noted yesterday on Bluesky, for several reasons:
1. Got COVID in August so now is appropriate time;
2. Going on a cruise in two weeks so will be at max efficiency;
3. Then going on a book tour, will be in front of literally thousands of people;
4. Re: Shingles, because shingles sucks;
5. Fuck RFK jr, that’s why.
The first three are specific to me personally, the fourth one for people over 50, and the fifth one is for all of us. Kennedy in his new role as Secretary of Health and Human Services is a clear and present danger to the health of everyone in the United States, specifically for his well-known and ruinous anti-vaccine nonsense, but for other reasons as well. Because of that, I really do urge everyone to get any vaccines they need, as soon as they can. We can no longer rely on the US government being sensible about these things.
Anyway, yeah, to hell with RFK Jr., and to hell forever with the bozo who put him in the position he's in now.
The pertinent part (which is most of the post):
Why get these vaccinations now? As I noted yesterday on Bluesky, for several reasons:
1. Got COVID in August so now is appropriate time;
2. Going on a cruise in two weeks so will be at max efficiency;
3. Then going on a book tour, will be in front of literally thousands of people;
4. Re: Shingles, because shingles sucks;
5. Fuck RFK jr, that’s why.
The first three are specific to me personally, the fourth one for people over 50, and the fifth one is for all of us. Kennedy in his new role as Secretary of Health and Human Services is a clear and present danger to the health of everyone in the United States, specifically for his well-known and ruinous anti-vaccine nonsense, but for other reasons as well. Because of that, I really do urge everyone to get any vaccines they need, as soon as they can. We can no longer rely on the US government being sensible about these things.
Anyway, yeah, to hell with RFK Jr., and to hell forever with the bozo who put him in the position he's in now.
A post on John Scalzi's website, in which he ruminates about the foreign sales of his books and also once again rightfully castigates SCROTUS IMPOTUS Trump II and his mind-numbingly idiotic tariffs.
A post on Whatever dot Scalzi dot com.
It's about Trump and Trump's atrocious tariffs and how Trump's atrocious tariffs (and every other heinous thing the Trump """""administration""""" is doing) are going to affect the average US citizen. It's certainly not great.
At least there's a picture of a cat at the end, I guess?
It's about Trump and Trump's atrocious tariffs and how Trump's atrocious tariffs (and every other heinous thing the Trump """""administration""""" is doing) are going to affect the average US citizen. It's certainly not great.
At least there's a picture of a cat at the end, I guess?
A post on John Scalzi's website, which is mostly just an embed of a song, which I will embed below as well.
A post on John Scalzi's Whatever.
"You fucked around, US voters. Now you’re gonna find out.
"('I didn’t vote for him!' Well, thank you, neither did I. Got some bad news for you, though.)"
Pretty much, yeah. There's more to Mr. Scalzi's post than just that, but still... yeah...
"You fucked around, US voters. Now you’re gonna find out.
"('I didn’t vote for him!' Well, thank you, neither did I. Got some bad news for you, though.)"
Pretty much, yeah. There's more to Mr. Scalzi's post than just that, but still... yeah...
"David Lynch, RIP"
Jan. 16th, 2025 02:02 pmMan...
As someone who pretty much only just started getting into David Lynch stuff (I watched Twin Peaks over the course of the past couple of months, and a few days ago I started watching his movies, starting with Eraserhead [no, actually, I started with The Grandmother, and there's even earlier stuff of his that I haven't seen yet]), hearing this fucking suuuucks.
As someone who pretty much only just started getting into David Lynch stuff (I watched Twin Peaks over the course of the past couple of months, and a few days ago I started watching his movies, starting with Eraserhead [no, actually, I started with The Grandmother, and there's even earlier stuff of his that I haven't seen yet]), hearing this fucking suuuucks.
A post on John Scalzi's Whatever.
Man, I hope Dreamwidth never starts doing, like, war crimes or some shit. Not sure where I'd go if I had to abandon this site, too, as I have with most of the others like LiveJournal, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Also, just to say it yet again: to hell with Donald Trump forever, and hopefully sooner than later.
Man, I hope Dreamwidth never starts doing, like, war crimes or some shit. Not sure where I'd go if I had to abandon this site, too, as I have with most of the others like LiveJournal, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Also, just to say it yet again: to hell with Donald Trump forever, and hopefully sooner than later.
"Twitter: The Final Exit"
Nov. 11th, 2024 01:30 pmYep. That was something I did almost two years ago now, after some fits and starts of doing it even earlier, then coming back, then leaving again, then coming back again. And now, I don't miss it at all and, in fact, I rarely even think about it, unless I happen to see an article someone has written about it like the above, or I see news things about some fresh hell being unleashed on the now renamed 卐 I mean X (no, I really mean 卐).
"If you’re still on it, I recommend you leave it too." Totally agree.
"If you’re still on it, I recommend you leave it too." Totally agree.
" (<--- That closing quotation mark there is because the above headline was almost too long to fit in the arbitrarily subpar length of Dreamwidth's subject field, and it was too long to fit with my usual tendency to put quotation marks around headlines I didn't create myself.)
Anyway, here's a post on John Scalzi's Whatever blog.
Anyway, here's a post on John Scalzi's Whatever blog.
"I am deeply tired of Donald Trump and everything about his shitty, selfish, criminal and hateful self, a man whose only lasting legacy to this point is encouraging the worst parts of the American public to free themselves of any social bond to their neighbors and to be just as awful as their idol. Kamala Harris fucking laughs, and seems happy, and actually appears to like people, not just tolerate people she needs something from. It would be too much to say she embodies the better idea of what the US could be — that's a lot to put on anyone — but I will say that at least when I look at her, I know that there’s a chance that the better idea of what the US could be is possible. I can't look at Trump at this point and see anything but hate and anger, and the worst of what we are as a nation.
"I deserve better than Donald Trump. We all do, even and including the people who will, to me unfathomably, give him their vote once again."
And here is the comment I just left there.
"I deserve better than Donald Trump. We all do, even and including the people who will, to me unfathomably, give him their vote once again."
And here is the comment I just left there.
A post on John Scalzi's blog thing.
Early voting isn't available for me until October 17.
The rest of the post is pretty good, though. At the very least, it's a reminder that "(to put it mildly) the Republicans have entirely lost the plot when it comes to sanity, much less participatory democracy," and that this "is, I regret to say, going to be the most consequential vote of my lifetime, the one where US Citizens decide if they want to live in a democracy or a fascist autocracy with the very thinnest of democratic veneers to it," among other things. Granted those things have been true pretty much for the last two elections as well, and so far, we've only completely fucked up once (i.e. 2016, when Trump "won," just to be crystal clear). Let's not make it twice.
Early voting isn't available for me until October 17.
The rest of the post is pretty good, though. At the very least, it's a reminder that "(to put it mildly) the Republicans have entirely lost the plot when it comes to sanity, much less participatory democracy," and that this "is, I regret to say, going to be the most consequential vote of my lifetime, the one where US Citizens decide if they want to live in a democracy or a fascist autocracy with the very thinnest of democratic veneers to it," among other things. Granted those things have been true pretty much for the last two elections as well, and so far, we've only completely fucked up once (i.e. 2016, when Trump "won," just to be crystal clear). Let's not make it twice.
Trump says no more debates with Harris.
Sep. 13th, 2024 11:34 amBecause of course he would say that. After all, he got his shit obliterated in the previous one. (And I guess Mr. Scalzi called it that Trump would just "retreat into the safe little world of right-wing media," not that that was an even slightly difficult prediction to make.)
If you believe Al Jazeera (and in this particular case why wouldn't you, because all they're doing is just playing clips of Trump's own words), one of Trump's stated reasons is because Harris is a liar. Seriously, just stop and think about that for a minute. Donald Trump accusing anyone else of being a liar is both typical and laughable. In any case, surely the real reason is not because Trump is a cowardly pissbaby who knows he would lose yet again, right? *eye roll*
Also, the ludicrous claim that he "clearly won" the debate. Uh huh, sure, right, Trump totally "won" that debate, just like how Trump had "the largest audience to witness an inauguration, period." *eye roll*
I will be so glad when Kamala Harris trounces this fucking fool (hopefully even more strongly than Biden did in 2020) and he finally "goes away" (because, in a perfect, ideal world, he wouldn't live long enough to be able to run for POTUS yet again in 2028, at least in part because, in a perfect, ideal world, he would have been too busy spending the prior four years up to that point rotting away in prison). And if that doesn't happen, and Trump somehow wins and become SCROTUS IMPOTUS again, well... let's just save that horrific nightmare for if/when it happens (again).
If you believe Al Jazeera (and in this particular case why wouldn't you, because all they're doing is just playing clips of Trump's own words), one of Trump's stated reasons is because Harris is a liar. Seriously, just stop and think about that for a minute. Donald Trump accusing anyone else of being a liar is both typical and laughable. In any case, surely the real reason is not because Trump is a cowardly pissbaby who knows he would lose yet again, right? *eye roll*
Also, the ludicrous claim that he "clearly won" the debate. Uh huh, sure, right, Trump totally "won" that debate, just like how Trump had "the largest audience to witness an inauguration, period." *eye roll*
I will be so glad when Kamala Harris trounces this fucking fool (hopefully even more strongly than Biden did in 2020) and he finally "goes away" (because, in a perfect, ideal world, he wouldn't live long enough to be able to run for POTUS yet again in 2028, at least in part because, in a perfect, ideal world, he would have been too busy spending the prior four years up to that point rotting away in prison). And if that doesn't happen, and Trump somehow wins and become SCROTUS IMPOTUS again, well... let's just save that horrific nightmare for if/when it happens (again).
A post on John Scalzi's Whatever.
Just to note, I did not watch this debate, any more than I watched the one with Biden, because I had zero interest in seeing Trump on a screen for 90 minutes, even if, in this instance, it was in the context of Kamala Harris apparently obliterating his shit for pretty much the entire time.
However, this sounds about like how I figured it would go, in regards to the obliteration of his shit, because Donald Trump is shit, nothing more, nothing less, always has been, and always will be.
As for the rest of it, about how "he'll retreat into the safe little world of right-wing media" and all that, well... I've already given my opinion on that shit.
And, yes, I also know about Taylor Swift. It means only ever so slightly more than nothing at all to me personally, but I figure it's a huge deal for those who do care, which is great.
Just to note, I did not watch this debate, any more than I watched the one with Biden, because I had zero interest in seeing Trump on a screen for 90 minutes, even if, in this instance, it was in the context of Kamala Harris apparently obliterating his shit for pretty much the entire time.
However, this sounds about like how I figured it would go, in regards to the obliteration of his shit, because Donald Trump is shit, nothing more, nothing less, always has been, and always will be.
As for the rest of it, about how "he'll retreat into the safe little world of right-wing media" and all that, well... I've already given my opinion on that shit.
And, yes, I also know about Taylor Swift. It means only ever so slightly more than nothing at all to me personally, but I figure it's a huge deal for those who do care, which is great.
"Political Thoughts, 8/23/24"
Aug. 23rd, 2024 01:29 pmA post over there on John Scalzi's webblog thing.
Mr. Scalzi's mention of the Supreme Court deciding the 2000 election, though... heavens forbid it reaches that point with this one, given the current broken, busted, corrupt-as-fuck, Trump-stacked Supreme Court, because that would absolutely mean only one thing: SCROTUS IMPOTUS Trump II being crowned on January 20, 2025.
Also, because of this post, I just had to look up "JD Vance ordering donuts." It's disappointing and unimpressive and awkward, just as I hoped it would be.
Mr. Scalzi's mention of the Supreme Court deciding the 2000 election, though... heavens forbid it reaches that point with this one, given the current broken, busted, corrupt-as-fuck, Trump-stacked Supreme Court, because that would absolutely mean only one thing: SCROTUS IMPOTUS Trump II being crowned on January 20, 2025.
Also, because of this post, I just had to look up "JD Vance ordering donuts." It's disappointing and unimpressive and awkward, just as I hoped it would be.