A Musk Ox Isn't an Ox at All But More Closely Cognate with the Goat
Well, I built another grid of mostly anger though I can honestly state that I chose not to post far more links than the number of links I did post
Haiku I made in 2014 I found last night in a box while looking for something else and now taped to the back of my office door where no one will see it but me, it is more true today than ever and is now Theme Haiku for the compulsive grids. When was the last time I wrote a haiku, the fuck, any poem? Too, day after tomorrow is one of two posts a year not tagged My Complicity and I want at least one day between an angry grid and a happy post, hey, there's new Tropical Fuck Storm, banned as Swans when L is in my car!
"DOGE is not about efficiency. It is about erasure. Democracy is being deleted in slow motion, replaced by proprietary technology and AI models. It is a coup, executed not with guns, but with backend migrations and database wipes" (from 2 links below)
"Evil lunacy, the forms of comedy that become cruelty when acted out upon real people, is perfectly coherent. Trump is the most brilliant comedian on the American stage, and certainly the best comedian ever to become President. It only adds to his crimes that he brings evil to comedy, too"
"The Obama Democratic Party (ODP) was a kind of balancing mechanism between the power and money of the Silicon Valley oligarchs and their New York bankers; the interests of bureaucratic and professional elites who shuttled between the banks and tech companies and the work of bureaucratic oversight; the ODP’s own sectarian constituencies, which were divided into racial and ethnic categories like “POC,” “MENA,” and “Latinx,” whose bizarre bureaucratic nomenclature signaled their inherent existence as top-down containers for the party’s new-age spoils system; and the world of billionaire-funded NGOs that provided foot-soldiers and enforcers for the party’s efforts at social transformation"
"Always worth a reminder that Obama inherited ICE as a fledgling agency, increased its budget 300%, established a nationwide network of detention centres and expanded the 'secure communities' enforcement program from 14 counties under Bush Jr to all 3,181 jurisdictions in America"
Schumer: The Worst Possible Democratic Leader at the Worst Possible Time
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Vital reminder from the week after the election Schumer's first and only priority is protecting Wall Street and I bet Wall Street told him to pass this bill to buy them time to short everything before Trump tanks the market
As predicted above: "Four Megabanks on Wall Street Hold $3.2 Trillion in Uninsured Deposits – Which May Explain Senator Schumer’s Pivot to the GOP to Stop a Government Shutdown"
O, and Schumer is an insanely 2ealous 2ionist 6enocidaire too!
"The reality is if all registered voters had turned out, then Donald Trump would’ve won the popular vote by 5 points [instead of 1.7 points]. So, I think that a “we need to turn up the temperature and mobilize everyone” strategy would’ve made things worse"
Where is Obama and why is he silent about Trump's coup he helped make possible and helped facilitate?
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No link, just a rhetorical question no one seems to be asking but me
But why do I seem to be the only one asking and why, in the big press stories about Woe are the Democrats Where Do They Go Now is Obama mentioned in the past tense if he's mentioned at all?
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"The secret-ballot vote to pick Connolly over AOC was 131 to 84 in a closed door Democratic caucus meeting, so it's not just Schumer who's the problem. Until Americans have a party that Wall Street can't control, we'll just get a new cast of sellouts reading from the same script"
It served Trump's purpose which is alwayshis *only* goal. It wasn't sheer incompetence, it was a narcissistic sociopath who understands how info is fed into brains in 2025 and decided this stunt's upside outweighed it's bad and did it no matter the waste of water or the lie
"Liberal democracy was pretty good for a lot of people, flaws and all. It’s current competitors (U.S. neomonarchical protectionism and ethnonationalism for example )are uniformly awful and represent a new dark age of ignorance, mass suffering, and enslavement. This isn’t a hysterical prognosis. This is the cliff we find ourselves on, while the nominal opposition party shrugs its shoulders and reconfigures its investment portfolios"
"Democrats spent years babbling about a completely fictional conspiracy theory where Russians were blackmailing Trump with a pee fetish tape but haven't said a peep about the far more well-evidenced probability that Epstein recorded Trump raping kids in an Israeli blackmail op"
"The 2ionist project has gotten absolutely everything it could ever want in their unbridled massacres of starving people save for the love and approval of the rest of the human population of this planet, and it only drives them to new heights of sadism and barbarity
I bought this as an object and object lesson not as a front-to-back read, to pick it up, feel its weight, see the font the lines the columns and hold it and read random pages, ten minutes a night, to not feel a need to make sense of it, holyfuck
1/after watching the video of ferry/barratt youtube offered me an array of next videos one was Bryan Ferry Nuits de Fourviere Live in Lyon - Like a hurricane i liked it
2/speaking of animals, yesterday on tv i saw david attenborough narrating a show about komodo dragons and how it was only discovered during the 21st century that they can commit parthenogenesis - and a virgin komodo dragon has only sons - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZW_sex-determination_system
3/and also speaking of animals, and of indigenous peoples of north america, yesterday i asked grok "see https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2025/03/16/the-last-wild-bison/ - my question is to what extent hunting by indians reduced bison population, and to what extent by white people - i had naively supposed that indian hunting had been conducted in a sustainable way but this article referenced suggests that wasn't so - can you investigate this issue for me, please? i am a descendant of european settlers but i am committed to finding out what really happened" - the reply was
Historically, bison numbered in the tens of millions across North America, with estimates ranging from 30 to 60 million before European contact. These massive herds roamed the Great Plains and beyond, playing a central role in the ecosystems and the lives of Indigenous peoples. For centuries, Indigenous tribes hunted bison on foot, using methods like driving herds over cliffs (e.g., at sites like Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in Alberta) or stalking them with bows and spears. These techniques were labor-intensive and limited in scale, typically killing only what was needed for food, clothing, and tools. This has often been portrayed as sustainable, and for a long time, it likely was, given the vast bison population and the relatively small human population—estimated at a few million across the continent pre-contact. However, the introduction of horses in the 1600s and 1700s, following their spread from Spanish colonies in the Southwest, transformed Indigenous hunting practices. Tribes like the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Comanche became highly skilled mounted hunters, capable of chasing down bison with greater efficiency. The Wildlife News article suggests that this shift, starting in the 1700s, significantly increased the pressure on bison populations. With horses, hunters could kill more animals per hunt, and the bison’s primary defense—running in herds—became less effective against mounted pursuers. The article argues that this led to regional extirpation (local extinction) of bison in areas like Idaho, Utah, and parts of the Dakotas by 1870, well before the peak of white commercial hunting. It also notes that bison hides became a key trade commodity, exchanged for horses, guns, and other goods, further incentivizing overhunting. This perspective challenges the idea of universal sustainability in Indigenous hunting. While many tribes managed resources carefully, the economic and cultural shifts brought by horses and trade with Europeans likely pushed some groups beyond subsistence levels.
Re: that single from the new Bryan Ferry collab: well, urm, to me it sounds it's like one slice of faded vintage '80s avant pressed against a slightly older slice of faded '70s avant... to form a twee little low-calorie Apres Garde sandwich. John Cale's collab with a much younger, stronger woman (The Story of Blood) was more striking, thrilling, edgy and balanced. Bryan trend-hop feels like a hostage situation. Does she flick her cigarette ashes in his sorbet? The next video should feature Bryan holding a newspaper with a current headline so we know he's okay.
Re: the Murrkkan tradition of bombing Yemen: I keep getting in these thread kerfuffles with vigilant libs warning that Murrkka is teetering on the ****brink**** of the Fascism it has exhibited with sneering confidence since long before any of us were born... if massacres, invasions, occupations and resource-stripping, all over the incrementally genocided third world, spoils to be shared by the ruling honky corporations, still qualifies as bad stuff, I mean. When will the vigilant libs get precise about how many thousands of brown deaths, per single pillaging Murrkkan in action, crosses the line, in their mind, to being Not Really Good Guy Kinda Stuff?
1/after watching the video of ferry/barratt youtube offered me an array of next videos
ReplyDeleteone was Bryan Ferry Nuits de Fourviere Live in Lyon - Like a hurricane
i liked it
2/speaking of animals, yesterday on tv i saw david attenborough narrating a show about komodo dragons and how it was only discovered during the 21st century that they can commit parthenogenesis - and a virgin komodo dragon has only sons - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZW_sex-determination_system
3/and also speaking of animals, and of indigenous peoples of north america, yesterday i asked grok "see https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2025/03/16/the-last-wild-bison/ - my question is to what extent hunting by indians reduced bison population, and to what extent by white people - i had naively supposed that indian hunting had been conducted in a sustainable way but this article referenced suggests that wasn't so - can you investigate this issue for me, please? i am a descendant of european settlers but i am committed to finding out what really happened" - the reply was
Historically, bison numbered in the tens of millions across North America, with estimates ranging from 30 to 60 million before European contact. These massive herds roamed the Great Plains and beyond, playing a central role in the ecosystems and the lives of Indigenous peoples. For centuries, Indigenous tribes hunted bison on foot, using methods like driving herds over cliffs (e.g., at sites like Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in Alberta) or stalking them with bows and spears. These techniques were labor-intensive and limited in scale, typically killing only what was needed for food, clothing, and tools. This has often been portrayed as sustainable, and for a long time, it likely was, given the vast bison population and the relatively small human population—estimated at a few million across the continent pre-contact.
However, the introduction of horses in the 1600s and 1700s, following their spread from Spanish colonies in the Southwest, transformed Indigenous hunting practices. Tribes like the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Comanche became highly skilled mounted hunters, capable of chasing down bison with greater efficiency. The Wildlife News article suggests that this shift, starting in the 1700s, significantly increased the pressure on bison populations. With horses, hunters could kill more animals per hunt, and the bison’s primary defense—running in herds—became less effective against mounted pursuers. The article argues that this led to regional extirpation (local extinction) of bison in areas like Idaho, Utah, and parts of the Dakotas by 1870, well before the peak of white commercial hunting. It also notes that bison hides became a key trade commodity, exchanged for horses, guns, and other goods, further incentivizing overhunting.
This perspective challenges the idea of universal sustainability in Indigenous hunting. While many tribes managed resources carefully, the economic and cultural shifts brought by horses and trade with Europeans likely pushed some groups beyond subsistence levels.
Re: that single from the new Bryan Ferry collab: well, urm, to me it sounds it's like one slice of faded vintage '80s avant pressed against a slightly older slice of faded '70s avant... to form a twee little low-calorie Apres Garde sandwich. John Cale's collab with a much younger, stronger woman (The Story of Blood) was more striking, thrilling, edgy and balanced. Bryan trend-hop feels like a hostage situation. Does she flick her cigarette ashes in his sorbet? The next video should feature Bryan holding a newspaper with a current headline so we know he's okay.
ReplyDeleteRe: the Murrkkan tradition of bombing Yemen: I keep getting in these thread kerfuffles with vigilant libs warning that Murrkka is teetering on the ****brink**** of the Fascism it has exhibited with sneering confidence since long before any of us were born... if massacres, invasions, occupations and resource-stripping, all over the incrementally genocided third world, spoils to be shared by the ruling honky corporations, still qualifies as bad stuff, I mean. When will the vigilant libs get precise about how many thousands of brown deaths, per single pillaging Murrkkan in action, crosses the line, in their mind, to being Not Really Good Guy Kinda Stuff?