Oh my sweet and fuzzy hamster …

Imagine being so -not- terminally online you see these phrases and think, “haunting anti fascist” and then you go write that in an actual news publication in 2025. Aren’t journalists supposed to like gather basic context? It would be funny if this shit wasn’t going to get a lot of people killed or imprisoned.

Also, the trans community is owed a public retraction and apology on several fronts over this.

But look out for your trans friends this week like never before because somehow trans people are going to get blamed.

Even though I can guarantee no public speakers in Australia will be shot today

He would have called me a nasty name for saying that.

I HAVE A VERY STRONG ALIBI

@brektyme Watch out for your vulnerable friends.

What a story to wake up to… right into my veins, please. 🫢

Oh not me realizing I’m now in a -50hz country- and trying to squint and see the lights flickering

Man, I got in this huge, flashy debate with people on the left and the right on Bluesky last night...

Look, here's the deal.

I wish they had voted.

Nothing in life is simple. We want there to be easy, straightforward, singular reasons for the awful mess the planet and America are in. Unfortunately, the reasons are complex, based in psychology, sociology, technology, education, money, and the list goes on and on. And there's a hell of a lot of blame to go around. The entire ludicrous, racist MAGA movement, the greedy GOP and their gerrymandering and voter suppression, narcissist billionaires, weak and out of touch Democratic leadership, a culture of corruption and money-making in our senior levels of politics.

Then there's the voters. The ones who would sell their mom or kid before giving up being racist or homophobic. The ones who meant well but were so stuck on one issue that they they were willing to burn society down in multiple countries instead of compromising for a lesser evil. The massive, massive percentage who just couldn't be bothered to care enough to vote at all.

Yeah, it's the last two groups that hurt me the most as I watch America crumbling. I can understand -evil-. I can understand bigots who are so brainwashed in a bigoted, angry cult that it will take formal religious deprogramming to reach them. I grew up surrounded by them. I understand monsters. Okay, that's a problem to add to the pile.

But the people who still, even today haughtily defend not voting at all, or voting for a third party -for a general election president-, in what was visibly quite possibly the last free and fair election in American history... but have emotions, independent thought, care about issues. Those ones broke my heart more than anybody else.

Don't you dare accuse me of not caring about what's happening to Palestine or Ukraine. Don't you dare accuse me of not caring about trans rights. I'm marching and donating and phone banking shoulder to shoulder with everyone else. I've certainly been outspoken about Democratic party leadership's (especially the old guard's) weakness on geopolitical and social issues.

But this was it. 2024 was kind of the last chance. Gerrymandering and voter suppression is at unprecedented levels with few remaining checks and balances. A lot of government infrastructure and knowledge has been dismantled chaotically or even pushed out of the US. The supreme court is partisan now for a whole generation. Corporations and billionaires have gained money and influence.

The idealists who think we'll just spring back into a socialist paradise if we buck the man enough... IDK, guys. I spent a long military career across two miserable wars and a lot of natural disasters seeing just how quickly and horribly a healthy modern society can crumble. And the -cost-. The horrific human cost. The cost to infrastructure, health, education, science, art...

Revolutions are ugly and messy - and most in history haven't involved nuclear superpowers which over-equipped militaries and militarized police. They're not a cute teen dystopian novel. They're not Le Mis with nice costumes and a cocktail. We rely on incredibly complex critical infrastructure. Transportation. Just in time logistics. Do your plans include how to live without sewage in a city for a month? Where you'll get medication? The boring stuff.

I really hope I'm wrong and America has a fair election in 2028 and it's like Newsom Buttigieg or whatever you guys want, and we're able to force the democratic party to take on AOC and Sanders' excellent talking points and replace the old guard. That would be super duper. I just can't see this ending with the utopia you want. Ukraine and Gaza are still starving and burning. Our neighbors are being taken to camps. Trans rights are being stripped apace. And now we have no influence at all to help them via a government. And rich politicians are still safe as houses.

I wish they had voted.

lol, what did I just -read-? We literally campaign for foreign companies to open factories in US states and then ICE locks up all their immigrant skilled workers https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-07/what-to-know-about-a-large-scale-immigration-raid-at-a/105744870

What a sales pitch for bringing manufacturing here, lol

The coat survived the move.

Yea, there’s nothing left for me in America. I’m really sorry. This is what a distinguished military career even at senior-most levels gets you now. Fired by internet trolls.

I will never be rich now, but at least I have my soul.

Um, so have any leftist gun people but me thought about the erm, additional unpleasant logistics of trying to legally ban only trans gun ownership? Because half of states require no or even discourage bg checks for buying a gun through private sales. So they would either be requiring trans status to be on ID or something (oh good, labeled minorities...) or we have bathroom bill 2.0 to buy a gun, if you look slightly too femme or masc.

And even if they only do it via the federal NICS checks at shop dealers, it means that there's a comprehensive federal database of trans people.

It is real real bad on a wholllle lot of levels. Even if you don't want to ever touch a gun, this is like either mass data collection on vulnerable people or visible marking on IDs, etc.

@0xBennyV yes yes I said yes lol i have to know now

Guys, I think I fucked up in a hilarious and potentially internet forever way,

A podcast contacted me from the States last night telling me they want TO HAVE ME ON THEIR SHOW to explain something the people who bought my house found and don't understand.

Not my realtor. Not their realtor. Not just a ping over Insta. A PODCAST

What the fuck did I leave in my house? What did my hacker friends leave in my house? I'm a big weirdo hacker, but I had professional move out cleaners!