Notices by Ben Royce V͎O͎T͎E͎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ ⁼ ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (benroyce@mastodon.social), page 2

#Mimicry is always a cool #biology topic so this bit of #science news is a treat:

Fake zombies

As if spiders aren't creepy enough, or bug victims of the famous "The Last of Us" zombie #Cordyceps #fungus aren't creepier, we have now discovered a #spider #species which has decided its strategy for survival in this world is to simply *look* like a zombie spider fungus victim. To disgust predators and put prey at ease

It's called Taczanowskia waska

It lives in #Ecuador

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260617032201.htm

I suppose I can serve you well with an extensive background on this news item but to be honest with you I'm not that interested, you're not that interested, and it's nothing but another nugget of endless dreary #Trump #MAGA bullshit

They had a fair or something for celebrations of 250 years of the #USA? No one showed up? I don't know, I don't care. Just incompetence and unpopularity

Just laugh at the endless circus of stupidity ("Freeedom?" 😆)

The #WorldCup content you're looking for:

3 players from #Japan's national team vs 100 elementary school kids

😂

The pros won

https://sports.yahoo.com/want-watch-three-japanese-national-teamers-embarrass-100-kids-soccer-course-223935176.html

#Military secrets are fiercely guarded for obvious reasons. But also obviously in a #war your enemy gets a lot of exposure to the operating parameters, capabilities, and weaknesses of your #technology. And gets plenty of physical samples

So #Ukraine just open sourced all of #Russia's military secrets 😆

Well not strictly, it's only for allies

And a knock-on effect is it devalues Russian arms sales because potential buyers know it's all exposed

It's called #TrophyLab

#UkraineWar

#Celebrity news is mostly stupid because, like us, most #celebrities are stupid. But a few, like us, are awesome

#DuaLipa you're fucking awesome

"Dua Lipa Opening Physical #Library for #Banned and #Censored #Books"

“Here you will find one hundred books that ask questions, or have been questioned. Some have been banned by #school districts for themes of #race or #sexuality. Others, written for #LGBTQIA+ readers, have been restricted from display"

https://consequence.net/2026/06/dua-lipa-manifesto-library/

#Portugal #Music

✅

#WorldCup #USA

Me a few hours ago

In the #primaries

I had a choice between the corporatist #AIPAC #Democrat and the #leftist #candidate

I chose the leftist

*That's how you fix this*

Some voices whine cynical lies and impotent perfectionism, they don't vote, and what happens?

We get what we get in the #USA

If that describes you, you are just as much at fault as #MAGA is for our problems

> #Vote <

(If you can't vote, my words don't apply to you. If you choose not to vote, fuck you you stupid asshole)

Meet #JaneeseLewisGeorge

#Frontrunner for next #mayor of #WashingtonDC

#Trump threatened to take over #DC if she wins, which gave a huge boost to her #campaign 🤭

Proudly affiliated with the #DemocraticSocialistsofAmerica #DSA

Running as a #Democrat because she has to in our #FPTP voting system

If you complain the #Democrats suck, you're right. But if that moves you to not vote, you're an idiot helping #MAGA

#Vote. In the #primaries. *Take them over*

https://www.newsweek.com/democratic-socialist-lewis-georges-chances-in-dc-race-amid-trump-threat-12062849

@randahl

russia bombs apartment buildings, ukraine bombs oil refineries

if russia wants to expand the target list to cultural sites (their aim after all is annihilation of ukrainian identity), i say ukraine gets to expand the target list as well

i don't think it should be an eye for an eye, such as bombing st. basil's cathedral, because ukraine has the moral upper hand here

but a target list expansion is warranted

how about putin's stupid palace?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin%27s_Palace

it's not far away

A week ago I posted about anti- #Trump anti- #JaredKushner anti- #IvankaTrump protests in #Albania

Well Albanians unlike Americans understand the word "sustain"

It's growing

Apparently Jared and Ivanka hiked pristine Albanian coastline once, important habitat for #flamingos, and the #nepobabies decided they wanted a new #MarALago there

Albanians are now calling this the #FlamingoRevolution, it's morphing into a general revolt against #EdiRama

https://www.ms.now/news/albanian-protests-kushner-linked-resort-project

https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/116687570382208218

#NewYork is going wild

The #SanAntonio #Spurs were ahead 29 points, biggest lead at halftime in #NBA #Finals history

It became the biggest comeback story in #NBAFinals history

#OGAnunoby dived to tip the ball in to take the #Knicks to a 1 point lead, 1 second left in the game 😲

The last game, #Trump attended (and slept through when he wasn't being booed) and the Knicks lost

The #WuTangClan halftime performance cleared out that bad juju

#HappyBirthday @blogdiva

🥳

#basketball #sports #NYC

" #Russia has effectively outlawed the public expression of #childfree views. #Women now face heavy fines for discussing a wish not to have #children, or even for candid #socialMedia accounts of difficult #birth s or #postpartum #depression...

The Health Ministry, it added, has introduced mandatory questionnaires for #teenagers; a #girl who indicates she does not currently want children is referred to a psychologist for 'corrective' #counseling"

https://united24media.com/world/russia-revives-soviet-era-controls-to-police-womens-bodies-and-futures-19654

#womensRights

@anildash

it's rigged

#capitalists have been screaming " #COMMUNISM! #SOCIALISM! WHARGARBBBL..." as a fearmongered threat since forever. communism died in 1989

the truth is #capitalism *is* being killed

by #plutocracy

and because they don't care, don't notice, or are paid enough to not care, "capitalist" idiots have turned into plutocrat and #oligarch bootlickers without awareness or concern

it's a complete farce

and it's going to meet a reckoning

truth vs delusion is playing out

We are making amazing #tech advances!

Do not question questionable tech projects as creepy personality extensions of sleazy #techbros and transgressive shit hyped by douchebags!

' #women in #Brussels said they were secretly filmed by men wearing #Meta's "smart" #RayBan s, often during unsolicited interactions in the streets. Some of the footage was allegedly intended for #socialMedia content linked to so-called #dating or "seduction" coaching businesses'

Ok never mind

https://www.brusselstimes.com/2166072/women-unknowingly-filmed-in-brussels-with-meta-smart-glasses-raise-concerns

@aubreyclark @zackwhittaker

it's really, really stupid

it's based on "AI is magic, yay! just turn it on, no problems, yay!":

"hackers abused a flaw in Meta's chatbot that allowed anyone to reset the password of any account that did not have two-factor authentication switched on. The bug tricked the chatbot into sending a verification code to an email address controlled by the hacker, rather than the account holder's email address on file, simply by asking it. The chatbot complied anyway"

@vfrmedia

allow me to introduce you to #MelSickScreamoAnnie

An #Indonesian woman who is a fucking awesome #heavyMetal #guitarist

here in a staged shit talking contest and #guitar skill battle with #RayBrikden, another Indonesian #rocker

https://youtu.be/vP7KolUMoNg

#Indonesia #music #metal

@katrinakatrinka @mastodonmigration

#Platner has consistently campaigned on a platform of halting #US military funding to #Israel

now you understand the real purpose behind goosing #perfectionism on the #left to suppress #leftist turnout in the #vote

it is artificially manufactured noise for a #psyop

show me someone upset at Platner's sins, moved to not vote, resulting in a GOP win and all the green lights for Israel to #genocide more, and i'll show you a patsy manipulated by #Likud #trolls

@katrinakatrinka @mastodonmigration

i don't follow

"i see your accusation but allow me to change the topic to deflect criticism"

Biden and Harris sucked, in many ways

do you know what also sucks?

#Likud #trollfarm working over #toxicIdealism and mindless #cynicism to suppress #left #vote turnout, for a #GOP win, so #Israel's #genocide can proceed full steam ahead

i. see. you.

@katrinakatrinka @mastodonmigration

you know what also causes low turn #vote out?

"everything sucks and then you die, waah" #psyop from fake #leftists

serving #Israel's #genocide by helping the #GOP win

it may seem unfair of me to accuse you of this

but imagine if you did this hard working effort to justify helplessness and pessimism, and you didn't even realize the only effect of your mindless #cynicism bullshit

that would be the more insulting accusation

@katrinakatrinka @mastodonmigration

i blame nonvoters

the #DNC comes out against #Mamdani in the #primaries, people #vote anyways

the #DNC comes out against Mamdani in the general, people vote anyways

that's how you do it

we can do that all across the #USA

who fucking cares about milquetoast dems

ah, but you do

because with that red herring, you can successfully suppress the vote and help the #GOP win by making it seem like nonvoters are virtuous

they are manipulated pieces of shit