Notices by Milcom Miasma (mmiasma@mastodon.sdf.org)

Why I love Science Fiction books and movies.

The Spy: "You should believe in the minds that built Trantor, built the jump drive, that built the star-bridge."
Gaal Dornick: "Where I come from they call those scientists, not politicians."
The Spy: "I know where you come from Gaal, they were called heretics and drowned."
"The Foundation" Season 1 Episode 1"

#GreatScript
#Foundation
#ScienceFiction
#IsaacAsimov

@Kierkegaanks

Can't say I've much exposure to Gaahl (with an "h".) He seems less mathy and more face-painty than the Gaal in the Foundation series.

@Kierkegaanks

And thus a good time for Pete was ruined because of an Italian explorer dead 267 years prior who believed in dead reckoning and a world with two fewer continents.

And they say we've no connection to history... People have been failing history (and geography) for ages.

@ftranschel @jaykuo

I don't think picking a fight with a chief judge from district court and making public personal details about members of his family is a smart strategy no mater who you think has your back.

Maybe Elon doesn't realize just how much power federal judges have. Like "Put your dumb ass in a cell indefinitely on a contempt finding" power.

Maybe we'll all get to watch as he finds out. 😎 🍿

Hey Republicans, even your vengeance is tawdry and low class. If you don't like being called fascists and Nazis, stop borrowing from their playbook.

"Hitler Pardoned His Goons Too
Trump’s Actions' Parallels with Germany 1935"

https://harrylitman.substack.com/p/hitler-pardoned-his-goons-too

#RepublicanFascists
#LowIQLeadership
#Politics

Something Wicked This Way Comes.

It turns out it wasn't ICE trolling for children at a Chicago school but Secret Service agents wanting access to an eleven year-old who posted an anti-Trump video.

How exactly is that any less despicable?

https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/01/24/ice-agents-denied-entry-at-cps-school-in-back-of-the-yards/

#GovernmentalBullies
#FourLongYears
#Politics

What's in a name?

Since everybody gets to decide what they will call the local geography now.

"We're going to call it Mexican America," she said. "It sounds pretty, no?"
--President of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo

#OrangeAwful
#StupidestTimeline

My favorite quote for today:

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Note on the photo: The chair has been in my wife's family for close to eighty years and was traded to my wife and I by her grandfather for a bottle of his favorite scotch. I think we got the better of the deal.

#Quotes

Late last year I decided that I needed to read the 100 most banned and challenged books from the last decade (2010-19).

https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/decade2019

I want to understand why people want to ban them. After reading a book on the list, I write a very short review (500 characters) and post it in #BannedBooks. My friend and author @wasootch has been kind enough to post all the reviews on her blog at:

https://lkinley.com/milcom-miasmas-reviews-of-top-most-banned-books/

Please follow along or better yet, join in.

Your fanbase says everything about you.

I know MAGA people have been saying they're not racist or fascist. Some even claim they're not nationalists (Christian or White).

But I can't help noticing; You know who really LOVE MAGA policies and rhetoric?

Racists, fascists and nationalists.

So to the MAGAs out there. You may or may not be being honest when you say you don't like or support those kinds of people - but it doesn't matter because they absolutely LOVE you.

#Politics
#MAGA

Herd Immutability.

I guess some people in Louisiana are just as dumb as their legislature thought they were.

Republicans realize it's their constituency that's getting sick and/or dying when they do stuff like this, right?

"Flu surges in Louisiana as health department barred from promoting flu shots"

https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/12/flu-surges-in-louisiana-as-health-department-barred-from-promoting-flu-shots/

#VaccineStupidity
#Flu

@bmacDonald94

Honestly I don't get the sense that reading is his "best thing."

But I'm sure he's well versed since he's been coached by some of the foremost neo-experts in the field.

@bmacDonald94

I think Mr. Hitchens' observation presupposes the ability of the would-be dictator to hold his prop right-side up.

Perhaps there is some hope in that.

@bmacDonald94

Maybe not faster but with a helluva lot less friction. 😔

I'm following the NYPD manhunt for the suspect in the murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO and two thoughts just keep ringing through my mind:

1) How are media and political types shocked at the public's response to the killing?

2) If and when they do catch the killer, I feel like things are going to get MUCH worse for "the establishment" in the court of public opinion and action.

I don't condone what he did but it's not hard to read the tea leaves on where this is all heading.

#CurrentEvents

@Kierkegaanks

Utterly fascinating to me that when South Korean law enforcement realized they were being played as pawns, their leadership simply ordered them to depart the capital and they complied.

Pretty funny that South Korea can stop an attempted coup in six hours and have the perpetrator up for impeachment shortly thereafter.

It's almost like they can spot a despot's power-grab when they see it.

I wonder if they're available for a contract to consult for the rest of us?

"From decree to defeat: Inside South Korea's failed martial law attempt"

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/from-decree-to-defeat-inside-south-korea-s-failed-martial-law-attempt/ar-AA1vgmjV

#ActualGovernmentInAction
#WorldPolitics
#FAFO

Lie until even you believe it—that’s the real secret of lying.
—Holly Black

Yeah, because I mean historians surely would've preferred to call it the "Tulsa Non-Race-Based Massacre of 1921" but you know, peer pressure and too many hyphens made them call it what it was.

Jesus Christ, THESE people and the shameless lying they do. 🙄

Oklahoma Superintendent Denies Race Caused Tulsa Massacre

https://www.newsweek.com/oklahoma-superintendent-denies-race-caused-tulsa-massacre-1811608

#HistoryRevision
#RepublicansLyingAgain

Our local library uses it's second floor to display local artist's work. Right now they have quilts on display.

#Wyoming
#Library
#Quilts

@StillIRise1963

Just in case anyone is still unclear on which side has Nazis.

"Tell me your company, and I will tell you what you are."
--Miguel de Cervantes

Seen at a recent Trump boat parade in Florida:

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/ultimate-trump-boat-parade-in-florida-features-nazi-flags-21527222