Sounds more like your problem, “Doctor”…

I thought this had to be a somewhat abstract joke when I saw it earlier today, so I did a quick search for this Ricardo Duchesne fellow. And… oh, he’s evidently not kidding. Such interesting people this character hangs out with. And he’s the migrant child of TWO mixed-race parents. Such Aryan, very master race, wow, as the kids used to say. Also… let’s face it, and I say this as a white person and regular consumer of meat-based products, we do pretty poorly compared to Asian cultures where our bovine friends are considered sacred, which is far more than can be said of the glorious West. I feel oddly sure that the “other races” he’s mostly thinking of are the JOOOOOOOOOOS! and the MUUUUUSLIIIIIMS!, for whom beef is obviously acceptable as long as you kill it after making the appropriate religious gesture, but frankly the good Christian West doesn’t even do that, the best we do is stun the animal first before slicing it up… does anyone in the abattoir make the sign of the cross before doing the deed? I suspect not many…

Dunn and dusted!

The astounding tale of Sean Dunn appears to have reached its end:

A former Department of Justice employee who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during Donald Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington DC was found not guilty of assault by a DC jury on Thursday in the latest legal rebuke of the federal intervention.
Sean Charles Dunn, a former justice department paralegal, became a symbol of the resistance to Trump’s occupation in the nation’s capital when video of him, clad in a pink polo shirt and shorts, throwing a sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent, wearing a bulletproof vest, went viral.
“Why are you here? I don’t want you in my city!” Dunn shouted at the officers on 10 August, calling them “fascists”. After throwing the sandwich, he took off running.
Dunn’s lawyers argued his sandwich throw was a “harmless gesture” meant as an act of protest. In a city under federal siege, the incident served as a rallying point, with posters showing Dunn mid-throw popping up around the district. Prosecutors said Dunn knew he didn’t have a right to throw the sandwich at the agent, and that his speech was not the issue, but that he threw a sandwich at a federal officer “at point-blank range”. […]
The jury acquittal was another example of DC residents pushing back on federal troops in their city. Grand juries have in several instances, including Dunn’s, refused to indict people with assaulting officers as the US attorney Jeanine Pirro has pushed for felonies.
The man who was hit with the sandwich was CBP agent Gregory Lairmore, who told the jury earlier this week that the sandwich “kind of exploded all over my uniform” and “smelled of onions and mustard”, according to the Washington Post. The defense pushed back, as it appeared in imagery from the scene that the sandwich did not leave its wrapper.

What a transcendently ludicrous situation this was from the start, and that’s a third failure on Jeanine Pirro’s part to get an indictment out of it. Mind you, though I said the story appears to be over, I wouldn’t be surprised if they go for a fourth, just to make sure. In conclusion, Colbert:

Catbert plays the world’s tiniest violin

Oh Scott, you really ARE declining fast if you think Mushroom Cock either knows or cares who you are or that he will do anything for you. What’s in it for him to do that? And who the fuck are YOU that you think you deserve direct help from Krasnov (assuming he could give it anyway)? I’m sure you’re hardly the only person Kaiser are screwing over at the moment, you don’t have any more right to live than those people…

Iesous Inside

An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’

In March, three months after being forced out of his position as the CEO of Intel and sued by shareholders, Patrick Gelsinger took the reins at Gloo, a technology company made for what he calls the “faith ecosystem” – think Salesforce for churches, plus chatbots and AI assistants for automating pastoral work and ministry support.
The former CEO’s career pivot is taking place as the US tech industry returns to the political realm as a major revenue stream. Some of its most prominent present-day leaders have funded Donald Trump’s re-election and renewed their pursuit of government contracts as the second Trump administration has revitalized religious conservatism in Washington DC.
Now Gloo’s executive chair and head of technology (who’s largely free of the shareholder suit), Gelsinger has made it a core mission to soft-power advance the company’s Christian principles in Silicon Valley, the halls of Congress and beyond, armed with a fundraised war chest of $110m. His call to action is also a pitch for AI aligned with Christian values: tech products like those built by Gloo, many of which are built on top of existing large language models, but adjusted to reflect users’ theological beliefs.
“My life mission has been [to] work on a piece of technology that would improve the quality of life of every human on the planet and hasten the coming of Christ’s return,” he said.

I feel like if you were wanting to make things better for everyone, you wouldn’t be doing it with AI… but you would want to hasten Christ’s comeback, cos if he waits much longer he won’t have much of a world to return to…

Gonna keep on dancing at… some other place?

Sydney nightclub named after lesbian artist’s song changes name after ‘preferred clientele’ revealed to be men

A Sydney nightclub whose name was inspired by a lesbian artist despite “predominantly” targeting gay men has been forced to change its name after attracting a swift and “passionate” backlash.
Pink Pony was set to open on Oxford Street in Sydney’s LGBTQ+ heartland in early December. Kevin Du-Val, the owner of Palms on Oxford nightclub, and its manager, Michael Lewis, announced via social media their new venture was “unashamedly inspired by its namesake song that resonates so profoundly within our community”.
Pink Pony Club is a song by lesbian singer-songwriter, Chappell Roan, who said she co-wrote the piece after visiting The Abbey gay bar in West Hollywood, which welcomes all genders and sexual orientations.
But news of the Sydney club was met with criticism when it emerged its “preferred clientele” was young gay men.
“In line with our experience and our passion PINK PONY is being created specifically for 18-35 (state of mind) Gay men who love to dance and get sweaty to high powered dance music in a safe space that is theirs to enjoy,” the club’s operators said via social media.
Lewis told Gay Sydney News on Sunday – which reported that Du-Val is aged 80 – that “girls will be welcome, but it would certainly be our desire that it is predominantly gay boys, and when I say predominantly, I’m sort of talking 90% plus”.
“Obviously we’ve got legal hurdles … in terms of how much we can vet the crowd while still complying with the law,” he said.

I can’t place why that last bit feels so much like the quiet part being said out loud and they’d really rather not comply with the law if they could get away with it. But they’re going with a different name now, as if that’ll make any difference:

Lewis confirmed the venue’s name was to be changed.
“We acknowledge and respect the very passionate feedback from the wider community and it is clear that it’s best to move forward with a different name for the new venue,” he told Guardian Australia.
That development, too, was criticised, with one Instagram user summing up the mood: “lol imagine renaming ur club instead of being more inclusive.”

Yeah. I mean, I can understand the queer community wanting queer clubs with as few as possible non-queer people in attendance; everyone wants a safe space where they can be, you know, themselves and not get harrassed, and Lewis says in that other article that he gets a lot of feedback from gay dudes about Oxford Street being less “gay” than it used to be, it’s pitched more at straight folks so the queer crowd don’t come out (as it were) so much, and I understand clubs etc having a target crowd and all that… but I think it might have been a bit foolish to have invoked “legal hurdles” like that, it’s like saying you’ll accept people other than 18-35 gay boys but only grudgingly and you won’t make them feel welcome. I have a feeling the erstwhile PPC won’t last long under its new name either…

How about that crapture, then?

Think I’m safe to say the rapture failed to happen again in the same way it did a couple of weeks ago, but don’t worry, the goalposts have already been moved again. To next week. Obviously.

There’s a Tiktok by this guy who made a bunch of videos about the rapture, but tonight I saw one by him in which he said he wasn’t fussed if it didn’t happen on the rescheduled date because this is a year of Jubilee, and apparently in a Jubilee year the final trumpet of the festival doesn’t get blown until the ninth day or something. Meaning that the rapture’s going to happen between the 15th and 17th. Obviously.

I have no idea if that latter detail is correct or not, cos I can’t find anything about it online, but that character’s right about one thing. It IS a Jubilee year.

In Catholicism.

I’m going to suggest that, since this fellow believes in the rapture, he’s not actually Catholic and probably comes from one of those American sects that considers Catholicism not just the wrong sort of Christianity but also un-Christian. And he’s probably even less enthused about THE JOOOOOOOOOOS which is where the idea of the Jubilee year originates. However, apparently it hasn’t been practised in Judaism for centuries, possibly not since 722 BC after the end of the Northern Kingdom. The Catholic church has been doing it since 1300, and I think it’s a somewhat different affair with them.

Either way… yeah, I don’t think this Jubilee year idea makes a lot of sense, but then again nothing about the rapture does, really. Mind you, I suppose that tying it to a Jewish feast makes slightly more sense than Jesus adhering to a calendar devised by pagans? I don’t know. In any case, something else to look forward to not happening next week…

Rapture rescheduled?

I remain perplexed by the whole rapture thing from last week, mostly by why there was so much hysteria about this particular instance compared with its predecessors… I mean, did Harold Camping generate this much fuss? I can’t remember but I don’t think he did… then again he didn’t have idiots on Tiktok to push his particular idiocy. Youtube has been abuzz for days with videos about the non-event, obviously, of which I particularly want to note this one:

Savannah Marie mostly does anti-MLM content, but she also comes to this as a lapsed Christian herself, so she has a certain sympathy that not many of the other creators I’ve seen discussing it have had. I’ll take the liberty of quoting myself from her comments section (the Australian guy I mentioned appears a couple of times, with the bit I was particularly referencing around the 51 minute mark; the “let’s fly 9/25” thing was, according to him, the date Jesus gave him which he interpreted as September 25th—i.e. in American style and notably after the supposed rapture date—rather than the ninth month of 2025 as we would here in Oz):

The ones that bothered me were the mothers saying their children wouldn’t be getting raptured with them. I saw one by someone claiming a neighbour of hers surrendered her own child to child protective services because she thought she would be raptured but somehow the child wouldn’t. That “prepper” woman is, I think, the same one I’ve seen in other videos; she at least seems to have some kind of self-awareness, she says her own kids laugh at her over what she believes and she acknowledges how strange if not mad it seems.
I’m very perplexed by the Australian guy. Not only because we don’t usually get caught up in this sort of bullshit like American Christians do, but “let’s fly 9/25”? MATE. We use dd/mm/yyyy in Australia. 9/25 is not an actual date here. If God is speaking to someone in this country, why would he be using the American dating convention instead of the right one? Plus it’s the 27th here now, so… how much further do you want to shift those goalposts?

Well, Joshua’s answer to that at least is, apparently, October the 7th or 8th, because he didn’t realise that Jesus works on the Julian calendar and not the Gregorian. UM… really? I don’t know enough about my Roman history to know whether or not the Romans insisted on their calendar being imposed throughout the empire, but I feel like a middle eastern Jew like Jesus (because yes, that’s what he was) would be operating more to whatever the Hebrew calendar of the period was. Whatever, though, it looks like we all have some more of this shit to look forward to next week…

Obviously

Normally I would just link to a story like this, but this time I felt the screenshot was needed:

You understand why, of course.

Arizona resident Jacob Chansley, better known to America as the QAnon shaman who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in a striking horned warrior outfit, is suing a host of entities — including the federal government and President Donald Trump — for $40 trillion. In the process, the Phoenix resident is claiming that he is the rightful leader of the United States.
In a rambling, 26-page complaint that consists of a single paragraph and reads like a manifesto, Chansley alleges that his First, Fourth and Second Amendment rights have been violated by a host of parties that are loosely related at best. Named as defendants are Trump, the Federal Reserve, the National Security Agency, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Bank of International Settlements, the state of Israel, Elon Musk’s X Corp., T-Mobile, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Warner Bros. Studios. […]
The claims in Chansley’s suit include:

* That the central banking system and the Federal Reserve are unconstitutional
* That the U.S. government is guilty of treason for prioritizing the interests of foreign financiers at the expense of the American people
* That the NSA surveilled Chansley daily using the Patriot Act as he was writing a “2nd Declaration of Independence”
* That “all radio stations and most of their DJ’s are a part of the intelligence community”
* That a scene in the 2008 Christopher Nolan-directed Batman film “The Dark Knight” and many plot details in 2009’s “Avatar” were cribbed from his writing and are proof that the NSA was spying on him
* That the NSA catfished him on Facebook by contacting him while pretending to be actress Michele Rodriguez, whom Chansley identifies as “my celebrity crush”
* That he was then “offered the opportunity to work with the NASA covertly and help them deal with other-worldly matters” that his “shamanic beliefs” made him “a perfect candidate to handle”
* That he was emailed by Donald Trump on Jan. 8, 2021, from an address of donaldtrump@nsa.gov
* That the government stole more than $100,000 in cryptocurrency from him […]

The shaman demanded $40 trillion in the lawsuit — $38 trillion to pay off the American government’s debt, $1 trillion to rebuild America’s infrastructure and another $1 trillion for Chansley’s “personal, emotional, mental and spiritual torture and years worth of anguish.”

It does kind of beg the question of what this freak would actually be like as president compared to Mushroom Cock. Obviously even more drug-fucked and stupid, but I find his evident determination that the national debt should be paid off weirdly heartening… so, as moronic as the incumbent but maybe less harmful all round? I don’t know. I am also not stupid enough to actually want him to be president, even if it might be more entertaining…

Rapture time again

Someone must’ve known what they were doing with this comic. Surely.

Yeah, it’s end of the fucking world again, apparently, some “prophet” from South Africa reckons Jesus told him the 23rd of September was the big day that Jesus also insisted in that book only God knew the date of, and, well, Christian people around the world have gone nuts for this guy because obviously

Anyway, as I write, it is now technically the 24th here in Australia and, once again, by the looks of it I haven’t been swept up  to Heaven, unless of course Heaven looks oddly like my house… which, if it does, is unexpected at best, thought there might be more streets of gold… but I’m fairly sure I’m actually still on Earth and destined for Hell after all. That said, it is still the 23rd elsewhere in the world—the day’s barely begun in some places like Alaska, and it’s still morning in America as someone once said—so it could still happen over the next 20-odd hours… cos Joshua never specified a time nor a time zone, maybe he’s expecting it to run to South African Standard Time… in which case he’s got about seven hours left to be proven correct. Personally I can’t wait for the results…

Steven Patrick calls it off again

Oh look, it’s Morrissey cancelling shows again! Who’d have ever thought? This time, though, he apparently has a good excuse:

Morrissey has cancelled two shows in the US over a “credible threat on his life”, according to his official Facebook page.
The former Smiths singer, 66, was due to appear at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut, on Friday night, and at MGM Music Hall at Fenway in Boston, Massachusetts, on Saturday.
But a statement posted on his Facebook account on Friday evening said: “In recent days, there has been a credible threat on Morrissey’s life. Out of an abundance of caution for the safety of both the artist and audience, tonight’s engagement at Foxwoods has been cancelled. We appreciate your understanding.”
A second post said both the shows had been cancelled due to “recent events and out of an abundance of caution for the safety of both the artist and band”. […]
Earlier this week a 26-year-old man from Ottawa, Canada, was released on bail after allegedly threatening to kill Morrissey at his performance in the city.
The man is accused of issuing a threat against Morrissey on Bluesky on 4 September, the Ottawa Citizen reported, citing court documents.
According to the news outlet, a post on the social media platform read: “Steven Patrick Morrissey when you perform at TD Place here in Ottawa next week on the evening of September 12th, 2025 at about 9pm, I will be present at the venue in the audience and I will attempt to shoot you many times and kill you with a very large gun that I own illegally.”

I’m not sure what difference the legality of the very large gun makes here, and I just find that a very odd statement. But, as the article also notes, the Ottawa show went ahead as normal, unlike these other two shows he’s pulled out of. Is Moz just full of shit, or was the American threat more credible than the Canadian one? Admittedly I feel like he’s more likely to be the quarry (sorry) in the US than in Canada, because, let’s face it, America, but still… Anyway, I think if someone really wanted to hurt SPM, they’d do it by going up to him and rubbing a steak in his face…