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Reader of SF/F, history, politics. Intermittent writer, engineer, Quaker. GameDev-adjacent-ish.
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I have a neighbor with a big giant pickup truck he only drives on weekends with a Vortex Optics sticker that almost splits the difference. Meaningless for most people, a glowing signpost for shooters. I would never, but to be fair, anyone who notices is probably already carrying.
A Vortex Optics window sticker.
November 11, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Reminds me of a previous bubble:
Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my home is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via alexa! I love the future! Programmers / Engineers: The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise. Security technicians: *takes a deep swig of whiskey* I wish I had been born in the neolithic.
November 11, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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I grew up in a late 19 c. built farmhouse, and the kitchen had a wall of storage cabinets and a built in flour bin with an automatic flour sifter you operated with a crank, similar to that in this drawing. What's old is new again!
Turn of the century advertisement for a Hoosier cabinet with a built in flour bin and incorporated sifter.
August 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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So many 80's bumper stickers ruined by my discovery they will not, in fact, die defending my right to say it.
"I May Disagree with What You say, but I Will Defend to The Death Your Right to say it." Bumper Sticker
August 26, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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"When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."
August 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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They usually do better with fundraising after they lose ("Send $15 Now or Trump Will Kill a Puppy!"), so if you're in the business of renting the Vegas Sphere instead of the door-to-door game in Detroit, losing looks pretty good.

They're going to blame Ken Martin and focus on corp donors as always.
Kamala Harris on the Vegas Sphere for $450,000 a day.
August 23, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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It's absolutely critical to the entire US power structure that we all believe that progress comes only by peacefully inhaling the tear gas while singing "We Shall Overcome" (quietly so as not to bother the neighbors).

It's up there with believing white people didn't hate MLK too when he was alive.
Chart showing Gallop polling about MLK Jr. in May 63, August 64, May 65, August 66, with a steady decline in popularity, 63% unfavorable in August 66. Miraculously when he was well and safely dead it's only 4% unfavorable in August 2011.
August 22, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Yeah, I see a lot of hopeful optimism that I suspect wells up in people who've been more or less in favor of the cops beating protesters in the past, who "know" the police never do that to old people.
Police officers stand proudly over their prey, a 75 year old man with a cracked skull who will know not to shout "Black Lives Matter!" at an officer next time!
August 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Just in case you need this later:
Simpsons' "Stop, stop, he's already dead!" meme with the words replace with "KEEP GOING"
August 13, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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I'm finding my forced high school gulag reading especially relevant to living in America recently.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! ” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
July 31, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Chart showing that 63% of Americans opposed MLKjr when he was alive, but 94% approved of him in 2011.
June 7, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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He's hoping for partial credit. To be fair, though, as a mid-genx American, I barely recall the Nazis ever coming up in high school, but we were required to read Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago. I wonder if it's banned yet.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
June 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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May 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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It's exactly that Jean-Paul Sartre essay on anti-semites:
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre
April 30, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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This was Holy Writ to Republicans a few decades ago, but I half expect to get banned for posting this.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! ” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
March 30, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
March 30, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Mr. Cat says you are very clever and that I should follow you on all my social media.
A very handsome kitty cat under a quilt with a white stuffed mouse toy.
January 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Courtesy of @dmperkins.bsky.social but over on the bird site:
January 2, 2025 at 12:57 AM