Notices by Hoarse e-Books (20002ist@thepit.social), page 3

More meta than the most meta thing that ever meta’ed.

@kims I have a Willard Espy book I received as a gift sometime around 1973 or so. Want to say it’s “Words at Play.”

@kims

“Someone left the cake out in the rain …”

“I gave my love a chicken that had no bone …”

They’re not even pretending any more. https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/u-s-coast-guard-will-no-longer-classify-swastikas-nooses-as-hate-symbols/

RE: https://social.marxist.network/@yogthos/115574456459457693

Is this bad? This seems kinda bad.

@jalefkowit The Pontiac Grand Prix models of the early 1970s had a certain je ne sais quoi. (But I don’t know what it is.)

@kims Relevant precedent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf2q0HemaFs

@xankarn @kims

We have always been a whore for Donald Trumpia.

Siri, show me the death of irony in four words.

This feels like some sort of metaphor. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/realestate/luxury-wasp-nest.html

“Nearly half of new [ICE] recruits who’ve arrived for training at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center over the past three months were later sent home because they couldn’t pass the written exam …”

It’s an open-book exam. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/new-ice-recruits-showed-training-full-vetting-rcna238739

@kims I have fucking questions about the 3% picking DJT.

This parka has appeal. https://www.dezeen.com/2025/10/21/aldi-jacket-potato-jacket/

Pretty hard to square with the claim that these men were “invading” the US & that lethal force against their vessel was justified. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/us/politics/boat-strike-survivors.html

“This nation’s Young Republicans are more than just veteran political operatives and attorneys: they’re kids. And sometimes, kids say the wrong things. They can’t be held responsible for using slurs two hundred and fifty-one times in just under eight months.”

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/young-republican-kids-say-the-darndest-things

@jalefkowit Etch-A-Sketch, except it costs $1,500 and you grant a perpetual, irrevocable license to the manufacturer in all works you produce. (All works, motherfucker, not just on the e-Etch.)

Shitposting, except it’s wasting millions of taxpayer dollars to move National Guard soldiers from one state to another to suppress non-existent rebellions and troll the libs.

Today’s Word You Didn’t Know Existed but Really, Really Need
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grawlix