Notices by F.H. (stylinstainless@mastodon.online)

What I learned from Hegseth's masturbatory TedTalk is that 1) he thinks people join the military because they want to do war crimes and 2) he thinks by allowing the military to do war crimes he can buy their loyalty to the regime.

A corollary to the above is that, because Hegseth projects his desires onto others, we know that if he were active-duty military, he would absolutely commit the worst war crimes possible as often as he could.

Health insurance is not health care.

I just couldn't help myself.

@Nonilex Thank you for this. Wow. Also: yikes.

J.D. Vance may be the first U.S. vice presidential candidate to admit in writing that he had sex with a rubber glove sandwiched between two sofa cushions.

We live in the stupidest timeline.

@rooster What about "Trans Continental Railroad"?

I think Biden should do what Lincoln and FDR did when they needed to: ignore the Supreme Court.

The NYPD patrol cars have special Pride Month livery that includes "All Colors Are Beautiful" this year, and I'd like to give the biggest high-five to whoever snuck "ACAB" into that design without the cops noticing.

@thomasfuchs OTOH, when a company requires my info simply to download the driver for an item that I purchased, which should have been included with the item anyway, I feel perfectly fine about using "root@somewhere.net."

(At least I'm not entering my last name as "'); DROP TABLE Data;--".)

The two-year-old only got half a nap today.

I now understand why vodka was invented.

@inthehands Well, now I know how to get my podcast going with no co-hosts or interviewees.

@inthehands

Them: "But it's a slippery slope to banning *ALL* motor vehicles in certain areas!"

Me: "Good."

#MariLwyd

The number of seemingly intelligent people I know bitching on social media about how "Mercury in Retrograde" is making their lives difficult makes me want to scream.

The day started as I woke sweating and cold with a massive sinus headache. I went downstairs to cook breakfast and caught my right index finger on the edge of the stove, painfully and bloodily pulling the nail from the bed -- which happened to my left thumbnail a week and a half ago.

[sips coffee]

Happy Monday.

I love seeing friends of mine succeed in their efforts, even if they're only "internet friends" and not "IRL friends." It makes me happy. 🙂

I was feeling silly so I did a thing.

You're welcome and/or I'm sorry, internet.

If you're wondering what BlueSky is like, it's like Mastodon but centralized and with a much smaller user base. It also has far fewer features, terrible moderation, and apparently the entire world's population of artists who sell furry porn.

@keyboardworrier @flexghost Well, I think this is their flag... they don't really need any others.

Attention, news media: "Elon Musk Says" is not news. You did this with Trump and look where it got us. Just because a rich white man opens his mouth, it doesn't mean he is worth listening to.