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Arion Xeno

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Pessimistic positivist.

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Arion Xeno @arionxeno.bsky.social · 18h

What has amazed me is that no one inside the Administration has had second thoughts, or thought things have gone too far, and resigned.

Have none of Trump’s enablers, fixers and henchmen had a change of heart or twinge of conscience?

Arion Xeno @arionxeno.bsky.social · 18h

And hobbits as miserable slaves would please him far more than hobbits happy and free. There is such a thing as malice and revenge.
— Tolkien, JRR; The Lord of the Rings

Arion Xeno @arionxeno.bsky.social · 20h

The Framers of the US Constitution clearly understood this when drafting their constitution.

Whence comets this recusant rebel who besmirches the wise traditions of the Common Law tradition?

Arion Xeno @arionxeno.bsky.social · 20h

It may be of passing interest that the raising of taxes (scutage and aid) has been restricted against the general consent of the realm since 1215. (Magna Carta sections 12 and 14.)

The control later passes to parliament (1265 onwards) where it has resided ever since.

Arion Xeno @arionxeno.bsky.social · 1d

And was way more criminal …

Arion Xeno @arionxeno.bsky.social · 1d

The only words of comfort about spying cell towers is that suitably skilled protestors should be able to detect their presence and warn their fellow protesters and even gather evidence for legal purposes later.

Arion Xeno @arionxeno.bsky.social · 1d

Then you would need to decide who to tell your new secondary number to and how often you could reuse the phone. Further, every new phone must have a new SIM card.

Arion Xeno @arionxeno.bsky.social · 1d

concerned about being monitored at a protest to not take their main phone with them.

Burner phones have their own issues. Security agencies have told their employees not to use a burner phone within fifty miles of their place of employment (home).

Arion Xeno @arionxeno.bsky.social · 1d

Do not assume your phone is off when it is turned off. A phone with a non removable battery is simply saying it is turned off. The switch itself is a software function.

Faraday bags, good ones, do work. However phones are so locatable I would urge anyone

Arion Xeno @arionxeno.bsky.social · 1d

Phones are desperately non private devices. A modern iPhone for example has radio band transceivers for cell phone, WiFi, Bluetooth, Satellite (backup emergency) and NFC. All of these can be finger printed with suitable equipment and are unique to the phone.

Arion Xeno @arionxeno.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, just how many jobs let you wear your brown shirt to work?

Arion Xeno @arionxeno.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sure that ICE personnel are unaware that Gestapo is an abbreviation for Geheime Staatspolizeix German for Secret State Police.

After the war the Gestapo was declared an illegal organisation, many of its members were tried and some were executed.

Arion Xeno @arionxeno.bsky.social · 2d

Good! Someone had to make sure that psychopathic malignant narcissist didn’t win it.

Arion Xeno @arionxeno.bsky.social · 2d

The Lorentz contraction can be applied to time. It now also appears to reduce Trump’s intelligence.

Arion Xeno @arionxeno.bsky.social · 3d

My decision to stop subscribing has paid for itself in further unanticipated ways. 😂

Arion Xeno @arionxeno.bsky.social · 3d

And a good comments section community too.

Arion Xeno @arionxeno.bsky.social · 3d

Scandal! Fox reporting Obama ruined another great American institution!

Newsmax calling on DOJ to investigate and prosecute responsible members of the Obama Administration for placing MLB under Sharia regulations!

Arion Xeno @arionxeno.bsky.social · 3d

Old joke, from UK

An elderly lady goes to the post office to claim her old age pension. The man behind the counter asks how old she is. She responds somewhat snappily, “How dare you young man! I am as old as the people next door.”

To which the young man faithfully records, “As old as the hills.”

Arion Xeno @arionxeno.bsky.social · 4d

Perhaps the appointment of senior US Government officials requires precautions beyond the advice and consent of the US Senate.

Nominees should also have to demonstrate a tolerance for the midday sun, a shadow and a reflection in a mirror.

Arion Xeno @arionxeno.bsky.social · 4d

I seem to recall parts of the bible being rather strict with people committing adultery or fornication.

Arion Xeno @arionxeno.bsky.social · 4d

Verily I say unto you: Christ had a fair complexion and blue eyes. /s

Arion Xeno @arionxeno.bsky.social · 4d

And do the bergers run on burgers?

Arion Xeno @arionxeno.bsky.social · 5d

Sorry for the delay in commenting.

I had to check in the thesaurus under lying. /s

Arion Xeno @arionxeno.bsky.social · 5d

From:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Before and after images show glaciers vanishing before our eyes

They are melting like never seen before, changing landscapes around the world beyond recognition.

Arion Xeno @arionxeno.bsky.social · 5d

Some political stories may be concerning.

However, this is possibly the scariest picture of the week.

Picture of before and after rapid glacier melting in the Swiss Alps.