…you ever accidentally not quite sleep on account of white-knuckling your way through an election that wasn’t even yours?
How Canada voted – in charts [BBC]
…as I type carney is a couple shy of outright majority with some final counts still counting…&…that beats several of the alternatives by enough that I’m already calling it a win…but I worry some days that supply/demand is fucking with window for calling things that…& there’s too many other people who actually understand the way canada works in ways I flatly don’t…so I might leave it at that…ish…I did maybe get close enough to have been told by an actual canadian this bit might have been approximately valid
…I’ve only ever met a couple of seriously “french” speaking canadians…& those probably weren’t typical
…but I could see a few being a bit “call us hicks if you like but while you’re making assumptions we’ll clean your clock” in a way that would jibe with “it matters more to pick the guy who won’t offer his ass to the orange fucker”?
…because early doors it looked like the void where the NDP vote usually goes got split in the first tranche of returns & not enough of it went carney’s way…& that could turn out to be largely a function of voting early getting counted late…but made the french speaking “va te faire foutre” team PP got kind of a big deal in the moment…& that was me being my most determinedly optimistic in an attempt to get them to not think it was time to admit we were all definitely all the way doomed & should be prepping for the hand-basket ride to hell
…so…full disclosure…I’ve only had a couple of hours’ kip…& this is probably going to go up & then get fucked about with as the day goes by & I lurch from technically-not-asleep to maybe-asleep through might-as-well-be-asleep & if I’m lucky maybe lurch temporarily into functionally-conscious for long enough to nearly make sense in short bursts?
…I’d probably advise against trying to spot much reason or reading too much into any appearance the results should rhyme…but…as I’m sure I wouldn’t be the only one to attest to…that may be a distinction without a difference…after all…when the federally fatuous fucker flooded the zone with this as breakfast for a voting canadian populace
Good luck to the Great people of Canada. Elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes in half, increase your military power, for free, to the highest level in the World, have your Car, Steel, Aluminum, Lumber, Energy, and all other businesses, QUADRUPLE in size, WITH ZERO TARIFFS OR TAXES, if Canada becomes the cherished 51st. State of the United States of America. No more artificially drawn line from many years ago. Look how beautiful this land mass would be. Free access with NO BORDER. ALL POSITIVES WITH NO NEGATIVES. IT WAS MEANT TO BE! America can no longer subsidize Canada with the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year that we have been spending in the past. It makes no sense unless Canada is a State!
…it doesn’t seem nearly as big a fuck you of a result as that invites in terms of everything it appeals to being seen to super-publicly die on the god-damned vine…to me…because the size of the fuck you that invokes from me feels like it needs an unnatural amount of middle fingers to do justice to…but…I did enjoy this?
…& I can’t find the one of his that talked about how hard it is to even assemble the data for what stuff under what customs coding is getting charged what extortion-rate among the schrödinger’s tarrifs
…shout out to the auto industry
The White House said foreign auto firms paying tariffs of 25 percent for their US car and parts shipments would not face other levies such as those on steel and aluminium, the Wall Street Journal said. Companies will also be reimbursed for fees already paid.
Markets boosted as Trump softens tariff pain for auto firms [France24/AFP (HK)]
…with this kind of joined up thinking & how cost effective it is to approach this sort of thing that sort of way
‘I RUN THE COUNTRY AND THE WORLD’ [the atlantic]
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump
…let alone
Read the Full Transcript of Trump’s ‘100 Days’ Interview [Time]
…*gestures vaguely*
…oh, yeah…the whole butterfly-of-wonder “is this…?” meme deal on that 51st state wasn’t nearly enough bullshit to meet the daily quota of the clown car cavalcade of chaos clusterfuckery with a shitty combover…so…you know
…it’s okay…you can run around screaming with your head on fire for a bit…I’ll still be fucking about with this when it cuts back to a low smoulder that allows for reading again…perfectly natural…whereas…any suggestion this isn’t so far out of whack that in a mob-based mileu it’s a dead cert with or without cutting the head off a horse before you wake up that you’re looking at a whack-job…& maybe getting a new set of custom lifts cast out of cement into the bargain
…&…I don’t necessarily want to break the social lubricant effect of a certain sort of lying that this would make a lot riskier…but…sometimes I daydream about living in a world where violence was not the answer…but the question “why your ass lyin’ like that?” could be freely put by the expedient conjunction of something upside the head that causes actual bodily harm…preferably an instrument as blunt as they’re advertising the mind within being…I mean…it’s only fucking natural
…&…we know this stuff
…but
…at some point even blaming capitalism
…seems like a cop out
[Image of text on a brick wall background. The text reads: “UNDER THE CRITERIA, OF THE NUREMBERG TRIBUNALS, EVERY AMERIKKKAN PRESIDENT, SINCE 1945, SHOULD HAVE BEEN EXECUTED.”] […meme posting on bluesky with the share function locked down continues to confuse me…but…who knows what mostly-meme accounts think they’re up to & I’m too lazy to keep up the screeenshotting today]
…you don’t need karl-with-a-k to get you there, neither
…à propos of nothing in particular
…there’s a time & a place for beating a discrete retreat into escapist fiction
…& a time for the other thing
…but probably the grown up thing to do
…is to go to bed at a sensible hour…take whatever medicine seems appropriate…& then get up & have a go at living in the actual world?
…which
…bears hallmarks of some of my waking nightmares, tbh
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/05/05/is-the-us-becoming-an-autocracy
…so…even if it comes off as affected I’m more by way of an effect than a cause of all this bullshit today…if I put on some airs I might manage to grasp the bar for being an emergent property in a state of dynamically drowning in a collapsing quantum waveform composed of a critical mass of super-positions
A YIMBY Theory of Power [The Nation]
…but I couldn’t tell you I’m not just a particle even with plato’s cave & a screen with two slits in it between the wall & the fire
…I don’t claim to be this kind of good at making running on at the mouth off the top of your head a virtue
…for the record that’s cued up to him recapping what she asked him to rap about & then after the intro to the beat he then pulls up plays through he kicks it up about 40seconds later…& the last line is at 18:40 or so…so…even with where that link starts that’s less than four & a half minutes of your time I’m bidding on wasting on something that feels like it get me closer to the tear she says it nearly brought to her eye than it looked to me like it did…& I don’t think any parallels extend to the part where my going on the way I do could be described as hitting anybody with anything that could be filed under “a blessing” or anything…but…I dunno if I’ll get around to a playlist today…although…I can imagine a few that one wouldn’t be out of place on along with the seasick steve love & peace number @farscythe called “a vibe and a message” the other day…but if I tried to fit in all the things I’m hearing snatches of like my subconscious is attempting to self-sooth…86 might be short on the count…so…ummm…don’t count on me getting that calibre of act together today, I guess?
…of course…it could also be something that went…sideways in the attempt
…occupational hazard when it’s a motley assortment of other peoples’s mixed messages you’re in the business of sending like a message in a magnetic bottle
…in case it wasn’t obvious & anyone actually ran through the full 86 in that last clip of clips…if you didn’t clock the tune that birthed a chris rock bit
…it might be useful context that’s less like homework than a knox hill breakdown?
…either way…I have about as much more where this came from as I seem to be not getting anything more constructive done today…so…maybe I turn this into that playlist later…but that would drop the trae crowder excerpt out of the mix so here it is in singles for now while I see where the currents take me as I seek the shores of slumber…deliberately or otherwise…& take care not to operate heavy machinery?
…anyway…if a certain someone I already dropped the remaining nameless ball on wants to take not being the one voted most likely to bounce off walls as an excuse to turn the joint into a mosh-pit while I question whether it’s too late to pull a sickie…& maybe watch that sick boi show again…it could be a mercy at this point…not really sure to who…but…maybe some would rub off on me & convert itself into merciful rest out of sheer self-preservation instinct…for the record, though…however much the opposite very much gives all appearances of being true…among my morass of seething self-contradictions today…I am in fact trying about as hard as I know how to not only give it a rest…but take it so fast I might bite its hand off?
…& all of our misery is precisely what I’d dearly love to be in a position to put myself (& indeed anyone who’d care to keep me company) out of entirely
…where did you think treating irony like people treat faith…or the force in star wars…came from?
…I do generally at least attempt to make this routine some sort of respectable…but I don’t feel like today going this way is exactly revelatory when it comes to what I suppose it tells you about the more-than-likely-unenviable state of my mind or the dire consequences of not getting so much as ugly-sleep…but…I dunno…maybe I’m just undermining my own argument about how “AI”s “hallucinating” is…not the same as whatever this is…in…like…a category mistake sense…when I say this…either way…I am sensible to the sense that citations to anything from weak principles to pair of black spheres easily mistaken for a binary event horizon trying to solve a three-body problem might very well be appropriate after the cognitive pachinko run I seem to be losing my marbles to
Another ingenious idea, suggested by Hawley, is that the two spheres be redescribed as a simple extended object, contrary to the intuition that a simple extended object must have a connected location (Markosian 1998). Once again, Adam’s argument then implies that this redescription holds even of discernible objects of the same kind, threatening us with the somewhat counter-intuitive monist thesis that the universe is just one simple object. (For discussions of this latter thesis, see Potrc and Horgan 2008 and Schaffer 2008, §2.1.)
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-indiscernible/
Why is Nigel Farage stealing the name from noted Pedo Jimmy Savile? Are Reform UK a bunch of idiots? Are they trying to say something about Nigel?
And why are these British family names almost fitting?
Far-rage? SoVile?
…the term kemi-kaze as a pun on kamikaze is funnier if you know a bunch of brits refer to the toilet as a khazi
https://british-american-dictionary.com/bad-words/khazi-uk-2/
…incidentally…if you aren’t familiar with him…the jonathon greene this refers to
https://languagehat.com/khazi/
…that would be the guy that tried to pull a dr johnson on idiomatic brit-speak
https://greensdictofslang.com
…so that generally makes for more enjoyable reading than I have before me today?
Seems rather fitting as Kamikaze is Divine Wind… something that Privies have to deal with sometimes from gassy humans.
…divination is presumably where they source their ideas…so…it kinda tracks that way, too?
Slogan not name.
…oh, sure…I got that…& even as a kid I never wanted to ask anything that might put me anywhere near that jimmy fixing anything with my name on it
…closest I got was the time some kid asked to get to take a sledgehammer to a car like a street-fighter bonus round before nintendo or anger rooms were a thing
…& even then I never considered writing in
…but I’m not kidding about the sleep deprivation fucking with me today & it was an intelligible segue to my addled ass
…my answers to your questions would get carried away to places that might actually get @myopicprophet sued in my stead…& I’d feel bad about that so I figured I’ll keep those to myself & just let you guess…but no offense intended in your direction so I definitely didn’t ignore/dismiss that part
No issues. Just asking questions. Savile seemed somewhat off to me (never understood why) as I knew who he was as CBC would show the odd British program on Sundays back in the days before cable TV.
And that’s as far as I’m willing to take it, too.
…I would allow as both men make my skin crawl in a way that’s at least distinctly related…’nuff said
Also it seem PP may have lost his seat yet wants to remain as party leader.
It seems PP doesn’t seem to think he, his surrender monkey act to Trump and his toxic persona are the reasons why his party lost.
Funny, this is the fate that a lot of CRAPers wanted for Trudeau (who had enough sense to bail out when everything was going South for him.)
…last I took it in it was the NDP leader they were talking about maybe being in that boat…but that’s some excellent finding-out to go with his fucking-around
Jagmeet also had enough sense to resign as well. Well meaning, but wholy inadequate as a leader. At least his now retired rival Charlie Angus had the fire to fight (unlike most of his NDP colleagues who were sputtering about “negotiation”.)
…when tony benn retired the way he put it was
…& to pull a quote from a random tiny regional paper
…feel like him & charlie would have got on pretty good…& if they got together over a poker table with douglas adams, iain banks & terry pratchett…I’d cross a bunch of lines I tell myself I wouldn’t to get to be in the room where that happened
…but…again…I’m making the opposite of the blame-it-on-ambien argument for talking an unusual amount of convoluted nonsense today…these are just a small sliver of the ways my brain exacts its price for not giving it the contractually agreed upon downtime between shifts?
Yeah, Pierre lost, lol, lmao, lmfao even.
Play stupid games, etc.
Hello ex-Blackwater scumbags and Erik Prince. Those motherfuckers in the Trump Admin are going to use Mercs!
…the motherfucker is so thirsty for an equivalent to vlad’s pet biker gang it’s painful
…but…yeah…seems like
…was it the panthers that rocked open carry hard enough to put the NRA into gun control mode?
…asking for some imaginary friends
Yes, a bunch of armed Black Panthers (who know how to handle guns) scared the living fuck out of Ronnie Raygun and the Califonya GOPers
It’s even worse! They want to use the military and then whatever beatings/murders they and the cops do, they’re going to be defended for free by the law firms that kissed the ring.
[…it’s too late for me…I don’t think I’m even an alcoholic but I was definitely pouring liquor while the hours of the morning were still going from small to far away until today resembled a magic eye picture]
…also
…what you said…& I’m not doug stanhope…but I’m pretty sure that was in the cocktail of stuff I was downing neat overnight…so…let’s say that’s my excuse for flirting with problematic drinking on a schoolnight?
I’m legitimately at the “escape however you want, zero judgement” point of living under right-wing rule, I’m always ready for chemical assistance, and I’m not a big drinker.
Seems Ka$h “allegedly” took some Russkie money and I’m ancient enough to remember when even the hint of taking Russian money (cough Michael Foot cough) was toxic enough to kill any future career in intel or politics.
Instead it’s just another day that ends in Y for the Trump Admin.
…not sure if I remember why I went with the bluesky embed for that over the youtube one…but if I let this go up without that part in it I am in fact tired enough that I thought I remembered that before it went live
…either way
…that…all damn day long
…let’s just say I’m feeling a tad dopey?
…but needs must when the devil drives time’s wing-ed chariot & all that sort of thing
[…note to self…would more bananas help?]
…sometimes…you got to start small
…men who would be king will have to wait for another day
…I’m clearly not posting anything in the constructive column today…so…apologies to anyone who winds up feeling like I owe them one before bedtime…which in my case may or may not wait until I get as far as an actual bed…so there’s something to root for if you’re in that category, I guess?
…this would be in the rotation if I could pull a clockwork orange on the guy playing pretend president
Conflict and Co-operation: A History of Trade [BBC audio – *sigh*…about that…seems like they’re fixing to fuck with the way that works & geofence the “sounds” app again & have another one for overseas consumption…so these links are kind of a lucky dip again as of I dunno when, exactly?]
…why do I have that bit of a clockwork orange on my mind?
…I did mention the sleep-deprivation, didn’t I?
…because either that’s asked & answered or I might only be dreaming I’m even typing this…so maybe not adding the result going all the way the other way to the cocktail is the fingernail by which I am hanging onto the cliffs of insanity today
…anyone know a good test for whether or not you’re seeing things that aren’t really there?
…asking for…well…I like to think I’m friends with myself most days…but…for me…I’m asking for me
…not in the “send help” sense…or even the “send whisky…&…a steak wouldn’t hurt” sense…just by way of a “does that look like drowning a good bit more than waving?” check
…admittedly…identifying with a muppet may be a red flag even if it isn’t necessarily elmo that first springs to mind
…but…for those of british extraction it’s maybe a birthright of sorts as long as you remember to add quinine
https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/just-the-tonic-history
…honestly…”normal” covers…a lot
The fact that Poilievre lost his seat, which he held for 20(!) years, is really making my morning. Thank you, Canada, for some hope in this awful year.
I’ve been out of the loop the last few days but was this covered?
…don’t think we hit that lowlight in the specifics the way this all increasingly makes me what to get into the applied allegorical actionability of to some flag-bearing types
…but at least until I’m better rested & on better behavior…part of me would like to see them try that shit & see how it works out
…go on ahead & break the ice on perp walking motherfuckers clean off that bench so fast their feet don’t touch the ground until they’re in booking…while rattling the dice cup with the is-it-(un-civil-)war? roll in it the way vlad rattles a glow in the dark sabre
…because you already got canada’s dander up along with hackles & elbows…& you maybe even really know just how many folks you got feeling froggish about where you gonna jump…because this looks like the sort of thing you only resort to if at some level you know the revolution’s coming & you’re head of the first-up-against-the-wall picture-cards contingent of that stacked deck of targets…even if the “you don’t have the cards, I have the cards, you have no cards, I am the cards” thing implies the cognitive dissonance is strong enough to keep it behind the custom blinkers in the sub-conscious peripheral self-awareness he can’t have access to in case it causes an embolism next time he washes down mcdonald’s with a diet coke…the abject existential terror that seems to underwrite all these assholes & none more than that one…seems like it hasn’t been a quiet part for a really fucking long time…quite possibly longer than the time in which there’s been an america…in nation years a decade is like an academic year & the US is still coasting on extensions while riding a rep for a dissertation that hasn’t been handed in as a final draft
…sure a bunch of the old dons with tenure grandfathered in by their grandfathers’ grandfathers when the mayflower was a bunch of royal acorns generations removed from their progeny riding the salt to the shores of that johhny come lately of a state…are even bigger bigots & assholes with even more historical baggage…on account of all that extra history if nothing else
…but the precedent-based approach begs a fucking precedent on a surely intrinsic basis
…that part isn’t me being cracked, right?
[ETA: …I could try to skim the 3hrs in 2 parts of the daily show recap of 1st-100-days-2.0 to see if it was in there that I remember a reference…or the shorter clip I think they posted as a one-off since…but even if it was in the pair I added to a non-musical playlist the other day I don’t think “covered” would be a claim I could make for “us”?]
The problem is that she says so much ridiculous bullshit that I think we all ignore most of what she says.
This seems appropriate to the occasion?
…sigh
…cough
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/musk-lays-groundwork-big-donor-role-midterm-elections-time-with-doge-ends-2025-04-28/
…somebody say “groundwork”?
…never mind…got to remember the game is in the optics
…the way beauty is in the eye of the beholder
[…thread…just so I don’t go ham on links/quotes/embeds about that omnishambles of a self-fucking ouroboros]
…but when it comes to the ways a suitably pointed gesture at the right moment delivered by a guy who used to make a living in a trade that’s all in the timing can land hard enough to burrow through the thickest hide
…kinda feels like fire&forget is sort of the opposite of “never forget”…but the whole deal with even assisted ballistics is past the peak on that arc gravity is doing the lion’s share of the work putting it down…but…you can’t exactly forget a thing that was never before your eyes before
…maybe the way you can’t deport a us citizen from the US without committing the semantic equivalent of dividing by zero
…rendition…extradite…exile…kidnap…disappear…you got all kinds of options…but you have to not be a citizen to get the deported scout badge
…but when you first see it maybe that’s not the first thought you have about what’s wrong with the picture in front of you?
If I were Zeleynski, I’d be firing drones off like crazy at various bases and facilities while playing Katyusha during May Day.
…fuck a rocket…if I was a fully plot-armored hero of a hollywood narrative arc I would absolutely hack the tannoy & drown out the parade with swan lake in a nod to tradition while doing a non-lethal (just to maximally lean in on the who kills people when they don’t have to thing for the crowd with a side of “you’re not worth it” for the guy who probably is, actually…without your conscience even fucking with you overmuch about the morality of taking a life) aerial ballet of drone swarms flipping vlad the bird
…in fact…if anyone feels like getting some AI bot to render that as an animated clip of some sort…please bring enough of that to share?
…not only could you not make this up
…it’s shockingly clear nobody in even their rightest of minds would support it if it wasn’t entirely out of order & in need of stripping down, overhauling & a full refurb if a replacement from stock is unavailable or otherwise unattainable?
OK is not okay!
https://kfor.com/news/oklahoma-education/oklahoma-governor-disapproves-of-social-studies-standards-switch/
…how many mediocre white dudes with crippling chips on their shoulder but too much pride to be a disability welfare queen or admit their job is a diversity hire affirmative action loophole that someone else would be doing if it were a question of merit can it take to run the robots that run one of these factories of the future, anyway?
…like…10?
…on a tangential note…bill hicks contrasted vanilla ice still making records with the part where they shot lennon…but from the press secretary to the secretary for bottle blonde butch body battshittery or whatever the new ranking member of the oversight committee called it that one time…via “$3 grand is walking around money to a bitch in these heels” & the rest
…while katie porter is “just” a citizen when it comes to what represents america as incarnated by its sitting legislatire…along with stacey abrams…& the voice of archer’s mother is lost to us entirely
…even if I were inclined to believe in a god at this point I’d be looking to hold that against them like a babel fish level logic bomb & it’d be their fault for building me to hold a grudge that way
…if the midterms is rocky taking a beating but walking out of the ring with the belt then it seems like we ought to be making sure the meat locker is stocked & the big steps are swept to avoid tripping & we started the whole roadwork-builds-stamina ritual misery to get match fit on schedule…like…tree planting style…would have been better years ago but otherwise right now is as good a time for it as we seems likely to get a shot at?
*patiently waits for canadia to get in on whatever trade deal the uk and eu are currently hammering out*
anyways going by the many posts ive seent on twitter saying variations of canadia is doomed now i can only conclude yous made the right call
congrats 🙂
bonus points for having a professional in charge making the toddler in chief next door look even worse by comparison