Notices by liferstate (liferstate@mas.to)

@seanbala I regret to inform you that Protocols-style antisemitism is actually pretty common on here. Russian bots not required.

@GossiTheDog

@babe This alley cat let me get pretty close but did Not want pets.

@benroyce If you replace "Antichrist" in that sentence with "Roko's basilisk" you'll get a pretty standard TESCREAL belief. Thiel is just rephrasing his kooky techno-religion in terms that will appeal to kooky end-times Christians. There are a lot more of them than there are rationalist techbros, and he wants them as fellow-travelers of his cult.

You ever sit down next to some people at a cafe and immediately have to move because listening to them is like diving into a NextDoor comments section? Basically everything they described as "sketchy" could be summarized as "I saw a Black person doing something." My brothers in Christ, you moved to Detroit on purpose. There is not a facepalm big enough or a violin small enough.

#detroit

Hummer drivers must be so relieved now that the Cybertruck is here and they're no longer the most obnoxious car on the road.

A #Monsterdon sidebar: The list of movies produced by De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (the studio behind this week's movie) is a wild ride. Just for example, the same year as Maximum Overdrive they also released My Little Pony: The Movie and Blue Velvet.

Just on a semantic level, I have serious questions about the phrase "grain free cereal."

Mystery goo discovered on ship docked in Cleveland, samples taken to Duluth. Because I have seen a #monsterdon before I'm a little worried for the microbiology professor. I hope he knows a square-jawed cop and a girl reporter, and has a good relationship with his university's resident crackpot, otherwise he's done for.

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2025/07/mysterious-life-form-found-on-ship-that-docked-in-cleveland.html

@inthehands @jackmjenkins He's always been an antisemite. He used to have enough self-control to avoid using slurs in public, that's all.

I just now saw a post attacking PSL for being campist (fair) that ended with a call for the end of "Zio-American empire." Tbh I'd rather they just said ZOG. Get that semi-plausible deniability out of the way, tell us how you really feel.

@skinnylatte Same. I just learned that according to the Oakland County Health Department, STFU stands for "Special Transitory Food Unit."

So where did we get the tradition that Frankenstein monsters are green? The original films were black and white. Is it something to do with putrefaction? #Monsterdon

The producers took all the money they saved on dialogue and spent it on Foley artists, apparently #Monsterdon

They keep switching abruptly between the just-ok film stock and the really shitty film stock. It's like a window into the exact moment the production ran out of money. #Monsterdon

@inthehands Is aral being antisemitic again, or is it something else? (I blocked him some time ago. On account of the antisemitism.)

@skinnylatte The bizarro inverted US flag is a sovereign citizen emblem. I just don't understand why sovereign citizens would come out in favor of *any* political candidate. "The government is fake and illegitimate, license plates are how they get you to sign away your Constitutional rights, but Ellen Lee Zhou for mayor, you guys, she's the best!" Doesn't compute.

(cf. https://www.vice.com/en/article/learn-to-spot-the-secret-signals-of-far-right-sovereign-citizens/)

@blogdiva CNN's cocaine shark article also casually dropped the news that there are trout addicted to meth. I can't stop thinking about this.

@sjuvonen @inthehands I regret to inform you that the press in fact has no self-respect left.

Starting tomorrow, they're gonna run the same "shadows cast" and "people have doubts" playbook they ran on Biden and before him HRC, with bonus misogynoir. That's inevitable. The only thing we can control is how we respond.

@inthehands That is my take as well. It's unfounded speculation but it matches the available facts.

Also, waiting until *after* the Sunday NYT hit newsstands was a power move. Their headline of the day was something about "ailing, isolated, Biden dithers." His actions today and the response have been the opposite of that. Their last three weeks of reportage are now irrelevant, and it's clear they never had a window into the Biden campaign at all.

@mcnado Another thing that really bothers me is a slogan I've seen various places that's pushing the false notion US taxpayers are funding Israeli healthcare. It is ~*remarkably *~ similar to the "why are our tax dollars going to Ukraine and not Hawaiian wildfire relief" slogan that was later conclusively demonstrated to be Russian disinfo.

(Also, if Israel has better healthcare than the US, that's because it's basically impossible to have a *worse* healthcare system than we do.)