Strangest recent symptom of something: I more and more a little each day actively don’t want to write in tablets, as in with pencils on paper, I’m still in the It’s OK to Take a Day Off, Dude stage, and it is ok to take a day off, isn’t it? Reading’s weirder: while I’m failing a novel I’m thinking about next novels and when I find the one I’m most thinking of and start it within ten pages I’m thinking this is not working, what does it have to do with this current life, and start thinking about the next failure. Weirder still: I *can* still read non-fiction which I don’t, exactly: introductions only, thank you, please give me your thesis and outline for proof, I’ll skip the proof, except with Hobsbawm, in this case, a segment a day starting today and especially when I’m in Maine with L, two weeks from today we will be there, two weeks there, his *Age of Extremes.* Lots of people whose opinions on music I value lauded Cindy Lee’s *Diamond Jubilee,* I got what they got the first four or five listens but past weekend listening one more time I now get what they get
And have listened two times more. No more 100 link grids for now for me: if I’m hammering the same issues daily I don’t need to do dozens on that issue daily especially if it’s a daily duh, maybe? Currently attempting to not click through on every link I see verifying what I think myself, it's hard not to. I've been reminded why I don't copy/paste from ggl files to ggl blggr now that I'm typing again, you'd think they'd talk but they don't. Tomorrow I dress up in a cat suit and dance with Bjork for the 37th time, so have a more constrained grid than usual I am pleased to abandon below before the links that are stale go stale below (think about the adjective *stale,* there is nothing staler than stale)
Laugh, I am rereading, or was before I started thinking of other novels, a chapter a day, *The Mill on the Floss,* takes a while to get cooking, and I like Maggie as much if not more than Dorothea
The failure to see God is not a problem God has a problem with. Sure, he could see us if he had a hankering to do so, but that’s not the point. The point is his concern for us and for biscuits. For the loaf of bread that turns in the night sky over Stockholm.
Not there, over there. And I yelled them what I had told them before. The affair is no one’s business. The peeing man seemed not to notice either. We came up the strand with carbuncles and chessmen fetched from the wreck. Finally the surplus buzz did notice, and it was fatal to our project. We just gave up then and there, some of us dying, others walking wearily but contentedly away. God had had his little joke, but who was to say it wasn’t ours? Nobody, apparently, which could be why the subject was never raised in discussion groups in old houses along the harbour, some of them practically falling into it. Yet still they chatter a little ruefully: ‘I know your grace’s preference.’ There are times when I even think I can read his mind, coated with seed-pearls and diamonds. There they are, for the taking. Take them away. Deposit them in whatever suburban bank you choose. Hurry, before he changes his mind – again.
But all they did was lean on their shovels, dreaming of spring planting, and the marvellous harvests to come.
Done building the latest gridolinks for this barky place, though this time links added since last Saturday in (my head) the chronological order of when I discovered them rather than sorting them thematically per usual as I have every single fucking time not only since I emigrated to gridolinks but when I merely bulleted, and all the monologue in the grid after a link the immediate reaction to that link in real time
These two paragraphs partially stolen from other place. The hexjeff above painted over the days of this gridolinks. These hexjeffs repel people, I’ve been told I’d be a nobodY instead of a nobody if I didn’t post them. The gridolinks calm and corrode and coordinate me and help diffuse my anger, hexjeff’s save me. The above is today's especially fat-assed and angry gridolink’s album cover. Remember when Coil covered Soft Cell? Woke up at 530 this morning with it in my head
I will try to not start a new grid today, wish me luck, I'm curious to see if I start one despite trying not (as opposed to not wanting to, which I will and will need to consciously not) to
"With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending"
"All fascisms are interconnected as Israel's ambassador to Serbia demonstrated by saying that Srebrenica shouldn't have been adjudged as an act of genocide. Ironically, ultra-nationalists are really internationalists in this particular way"
"Fortunately the Democrats are leading the way in critical public messaging about the imputed foreign policy preferences of a single mayoral candidate"
"Yes we must absolutely be temperate and measured in our response to a literal army of occupation literally carrying out a genocide, with the support of our government, which is literally criminalising opposition to this atrocity. I mean, come on, let's be reasonable, eh kids?"
"The idea that this process might be stopped by a free and fair election in 2026 or 2028 is absurdly optimistic. Unless age catches up with him, Trump will appoint himself as President for life, just as Xi and Putin have done"
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Adding, Vance will too if Trump dies
"Why Did a 75-Year-Old Man in Poor Health Just Die in ICE Custody?"
"The manufactured outrage and obscene abuse of state powers surrounding Kneecap, Palestine Action, and Bob Vylan are all meant to scare you into silence. Because they know they've lost the argument"
"We should all be disgusted by the flood of anti-Muslim remarks spewed in the aftermath of Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the NYC mayoral primary — some blatant, others latent. Shame on the members of Congress who have engaged in such bigotry and anyone who doesn’t challenge it"
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My state's senior Senator, not as shitty as most Democrats, thankfully (though I suspect the new junior Senator is going to be a typical Democratic shitsmear if her early voting is a sign
"Democrats who stop doing stuff like this as soon as the winds change are making it *very clear* what we knew all along: that they will only do the bare minimum and only if there are zero consequences to them. the exact opposite of having principles"
"I also underline that this farcical bullshit is a direct consequence of the War On Terror, when political elites bullshat themselves into claiming support for America’s imperial devastation of huge tracts of the planet was brave and principled, and that opposing it was some frightful fanaticism"
Concentration camp porn is a terrific way to keep racist crackers distracted while they die because they lost their medicare and only hospital within a hundred miles of Bumfuck closed, and crackers will really jerk off while dying when Trump starts sending the yous and me of the world
Sheeyit, I would go to this in a nanosecond if the nearest show to DC wasn't Louisville KY
"The Big, Beautiful Bill assigns each American a billionaire who will live the American dream for you. You can check in on your billionaire at intervals and see how he is using your money. Maybe he’s building a 19th pool. Maybe he’s buying himself some formerly public land! Maybe he’s taking a Supreme Court justice on a dream vacation! Maybe he is reupholstering the Statue of Liberty to hide the poem. Maybe he’s throwing a Great Gatsby–themed cocktail hour as part of his wedding extravaganza! Maybe he’s replacing his blood with transfusions from his “blood boys.” Maybe he has bought hundreds of eggs and is pelting the house of a mere hundred-millionaire with them. Maybe he has bought some $TRUMP coin and is attending a special bash! There’s never a dull moment for the lucky beneficiaries of this wonderful bill!
There is a chance, small but bigger than ever before, this the last grid, last post
"In the past 24 hours, Trump’s threatened Elon Musk, Thomas Massie, Japan, a judge in Israel, the CEO of AT&T, Jerome Powell, Canada, Thom Tillis, a Forbes reporter, Harvard, & migrants with being eaten by Burmese pythons in the Everglades, while releasing a new line of colognes"
"It's a blood libel to hit *play* on our genocidal tiktoks"
"Bold. Now do the Israeli genocide of Gazans, asshat, that you have helped fund"
"Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job."
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Reminder: these links in the chronological order I found them, I wrote about you and me in the concentration camps before I saw the above link
Some of us have been screaming about motherfucking shitlords and their crackerchrister motherfuckers and their motherfucking professional Democratic accomplices for motherfucking decades, and snide motherfuckers called us crazy
"They're not just killing, they're taking joy in killing. Butchering journalists, aid workers, doctors, artists, poets. Sniping children in the head. Burning hospital patients alive. Shelling families begging for scraps of food. And still, they have the audacity to play victim"
"very striking how every right-wing conspiracy freakout was just a prophecy of what they planned on eventually doing - whether it was Jade Helm or FEMA camps, the moment they had the opportunity to make these imaginary monstrosities they came up with come to life, they did"
"Read whatever you want to… and read it proudly! In the idiocracy that is America (or Albion for that matter), to read is to belong to an increasingly endangered species, one I have great affection for. (PS I love INFINITE JEST)"
"Living under a regime of pure evil, whose main goal every hour of every day is to ensure as many human beings as possible suffer horribly, really really sucks
"So Trump gets $16 mil while Paramount admits mo wrongdoing and they release interview transcripts which they already did anyway. So it’s a bribe. It’s literally just a bribe"
Bought this yesterday at Bandcamp, holyfuck, my drone/ambient genes are more rampant the clusterfuckier everything gets
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POPULATION CONTROL IN GILLETTE
Tom Clark
The coal trains go through all night long with a racket like all of hell being unleashed as noise. At first, as you lie in bed in your motel room or mobile home it merely disrupts your sleep, your nervous system. Later you kill your dog and wife
Posting 50+ links, all but a few clusterfuckful, on the last Saturday of June in the middle of the Blog Days of Summer a massive Fuck Me in futility, earnestly desired and justly deserved. This is how I process, and to process more I need dump what I've processed. It's not the pings: 999 of 1000 pings I currently get are bots, dozens of bots, thousands of pings a day - I hope you're still here but I'm not scrolling the logs to see if yes and if yes who - it's readying myself for in increasingly inevitable and rapidly approaching moment when I may need to protest with more of my body than my typing fingers (though a few continually warn me my typing fingers are sufficient to get the rest of my body punished). Here, this is for the surveillance bots: yes, Kate Bush has one of two permanent seats in My Sillyass Deserted Island Five Game and the single *Babooshka* of her brilliant third album *Never for Ever* was released 45 years ago yesterday
The Israeli genocide of Palestinians continues, yo
"Thus, the bankruptcy of the European ‘West’ was compounded, and the industrial mass murder of the Jews ‘repaired’, through an impossible political arrangement: Israel. Shlomo Sand offers the brutal summary: ‘Europe vomited us, the Jews, onto the Arabs of Palestine.’"
What Zohran Mamdani Means for the Anti-Monopoly Movement
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"Most elections are conflicts over who will run an existing system, with the candidates offering tweaks to what is essentially a stable political order. But a few elections are what I will call “system defining,” where a rising coalition, reflecting a new set of political demands, contests with an old order, seeking to re-gear the basics of how our institutions operate"
The shittiest people in the world hate and fear Zohran Mamdani (Motherfucking New York Democratic Senator edition)
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"Mamdani won a higher % of votes from Jewish NYers than from many other ethnic or religious demographics, won the endorsement of Lander & Nadler. It seems the bourgeois press will not stop until Jews conform to their Zionist, Islamophobic narrative. This shit is tired"
That Democrats en masse aren't screaming about masked goons refusing to show badge or give name and disappearing people to South Sudan is all you need know about Democrats, including Zohran Mamdani, who is not going to save you
"When he decided to inflict his presence on New York City again, centrist Democrats lined up to support him. Democrats who’d called for his resignation a few years earlier told voters he would be a great mayor. The logic was transparent: Give the bastard a second chance so the left doesn’t get one at all"
"Between the expulsion of Hogg and the freakout over Mamdani, it seems Dems are responding to their problem with young men by saying "fuck you, we don't need your votes." Which is really an interesting strategy. We'll see how it works out"
"one of the projects of the court is to expand the ability of states to pursue reactionary ends and constrain the ability of the federal government to set minimum standards *or* of democratic-led states to expand upon existing rights"
"Clinton made Summers his Russia viceroy overseeing Yeltsin's catastrophic neoliberal reforms—resulting in rise of Putinism. Then Obama put Summers in charge of the US economy—giving us Trumpism. Nothing is more destructive than Larry Summers' advice"
Inside The Secretive Network that Shaped the Right-Wing Media Machine
"The guy who authored the majority opinion in Citizens United v. FEC and opened the floodgates for infinite dark money in politics wants us all to know that "freedom is at risk." No shit Sherlock. You're the one to blame."