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And further furthermore!

Oh, when I saw this I couldn’t not preserve it here. This comes via Bluesky from one Philip N. Cohen, all credit to whom; he did admit in another post that he thought there might actually have been about 2000 people there in total at the whole State Fair, but goddamn they clearly weren’t all there for this particular bit of it. Someone else commented on another of brother Philip’s photos from the day:

WOOF. I saw this after someone else posted… this on Threads and wondered what the eleven stars on it might mean:

How interesting. Someone else in the thread noticed a certain… similarity:

Eeeeeh.

Now, I gather the first picture is actually an AI image of the sort that cuntface posts on Truth Social all the time rather than an actual defacement of the White House, and the possibility of overreading the image is obviously real; I saw Snopes commenting on another photo of the State Fair saying it was a real picture of hardly anyone being there (similar to the one I posted yesterday) but also nothing it might not necessarily be representative of the entire event. So Krasnov and his eagle might not mean much either; sometimes an eagle with eleven stars is just, etc.

But, as yet another person in that thread noted, there are people in the administration for whom details like this do matter and are quite important. If Trump doesn’t know, they do. Consequently we can’t really rule out that it is perfectly intentional… and they could claim plausible deniably cos the Parteiadler‘s head looks to its left but Krasnovadler looks the other way. See? No similarity whatsoever…

Trump @ 80


Honestly, I wanted to say something about Mushroom Cock’s 80th birthday “celebration” but I don’t know what cos the whole thing was grotesque in so many ways. I genuinely don’t know what. I’ll let some people who say things for a living do it instead. They know how to describe the hideous spectacle and I find it hard to disagree with the things said.

Everyone’s got punk roots, apparently

Yeah, even Dieter Meier from Yello was a punk once. I only just discovered this tonight from a show I was listening to on Mixcloud; I knew he’d already had an interesting history before he joined Yello, but I never knew he did music before joining Carlos and Boris, and I obviously never knew it sounded like this, and I’m even more astonished to discover a music video of it was made at the time. Goddamn right it’ll be on the podcast soon.

WHCD? Whatever

I honestly don’t know what to say about the perplexing “events” at the White House Correspondents Dinner a couple of days ago, so I’m just going to let Mike Figueredo do it for me. Personally I don’t know what to make of all the “false flag” theorising that’s emerged from it…

…in that, frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised to discover it was a false flag, but I’d be equally unsurprised to discover it wasn’t. Not, of course, that we’ll ever find out either way, but still. It’s just, you know, America being America in the age of Mushroom Cock. You get up each day, have breakfast, check the news… “yeah, that’s the bullshit America’s on today, oh well, time I was getting on with my own”… I mean, someone actually did die in that 2024 shooting, which is the consideration that stops me writing that off as a hoax in the way that even MAGAts are (apparently) increasingly thinking it was. But there’s so much cynicism about what the administration does and how it does it that you can’t blame people’s cynicism about this sort of thing. A false flag? The real deal? I can honestly believe either. I don’t know either way, and I’m not sure I even care either way. It’s America’s bullshit as usual, whatever it is, and I’m just so fucking sick of it.

To the Moon and back

To be honest, when I first heard about the Artemis II mission, I was like: the US is going back to the Moon? Under TRUMP? Astonishingly, the whole thing actually did begin under his aegis in 2017, when the first proposals were made, but it didn’t actually really get going until 2022 when the first unmanned Artemis mission took off under Biden. Then the manned second mission also began under Biden, who was probably expecting to still be the president when it actually happened. That’s kind of why I’m surprised Trump didn’t cancel it; apart from all the other things he’s demanded an end to, this was something that Biden could claim credit for, and I couldn’t imagine him tolerating that.

But—despite all that, Artemis II went up and returned safely to Earth. I was holding off writing about it until it did that, which it did earlier today… it set a number of milestones along the way, most notably the four people on board travelled further away from the Earth than anyone has before (as well as being the first people to do so in over half a century), but I think the fact that it happened at all is the amazing thing. Artemis II went to the Moon and came back. It proved NASA could pull it off. It almost feels like a fuck you to Edolf, doesn’t it? “Look at that, we managed the job without blowing up on the launch pad”…

I saw that online, and it’s an… inelegant way of putting it, but there’s so much truth in it. Because the important thing about Artemis II is that it worked. A US government body—part of THIS particular US government, lest we forget—carried out a major operation for the benefit of science, sending four people into space as far as the Moon for the first time in over half a century, then bringing them back to Earth (good thing there was still an Earth for them to return to, eh); not only was it a useful thing, it was a successful one. A US government body got something RIGHT. And I don’t think people expect that now, especially not from the current mob. We are starved for this sort of competency in recent years, at least when it comes to things that aren’t evil.

And I don’t know what it all cost, but I have seen complaints about the no doubt vast amounts of money being spent on it rather than on things like healthcare. And I mean… Trump was never going to spend that money on healthcare or anything good for the American people in the first place, but also none of that money got spent on anything bad either. It didn’t blow up schools and so forth in Iran, for example. And yeah, obviously America should be putting itself in order and there are other, higher priorities… but that money was going to be spent on something. Better going on something that adds to science and knowledge rather than takes away from life, something actually good and useful at a time where we can no longer count on the US to do that sort of thing.

As a final thing, here’s Hank Green:

When indeed!

I was never a huge fan of They Might Be Giants, at least not enough of one to actively follow their career, hence I never heard this until now. Someone posted it on Bluesky today, and just, FUCK. It is so relevant to the current moment and a certain individual that I can’t believe this song is actually fifteen years old and not actually about That Guy. It predates the full horror of That Guy by years, so much so that he wasn’t even a threat to the world at the time. And yet the question contained in that title is one that I’m sure billions of people keep asking about That Guy every day. Prophetic stuff…

Doggo time!

Let us maintain the great tradition of this blog:

Because something good had to come out of 2025, and these chaps and chapettes were it. Particularly the Pomeranian chasing the bear out of that house. Let us at least get 2026 off to a good start.