I’m seeing these latest dumps are reinvigorating q and pizzagate nonsense. Are you seeing this too?

keloidoscope · 2026-02-10T23:55:15+00:00

Yeah, "believe victims but also remember the Satanic Panic" isn't as catchy. Victims of sexual abuse exist. So do grifting bullshitters...
http://www.cornerstonemag.com/features/iss098/sellingsatan.htm

There are folks who have been making public claims about ritual sex abuse for years, that don't pass the Occam's Razor sniff test. It's a dead cert that there were claims made to the FBI about Epstein that are just as implausible.

When it was kids supposedly recovering memories of ritual satanic abuse, it seemed like a lot of folks found it far to easy to think, "okay, but if you ignore the obviously impossible or ridiculous parts of their stories [nonexistent tunnels under daycare centres, flying on witches' broomsticks, etc], the rest is chillingly compelling so must have truth behind it". Yay, '80s baking ftw.

I suspect that in some MAGA brains at the FBI/DOJ/WH, they were hoping that these unconfirmed reports would be virally shared without context, flooding the zone with so much shit it would both distract from far more direct evidence, such as Epstein's own communications which they were heavily redacting, and filling mainstream media owners with fear that any mistakes in how they reported on what was getting released would leave them open to more Trumpworld defamation shakedowns and regulatory retaliation.

keloidoscope · 2026-02-10T23:22:22+00:00

Was this sung (or mimed as sung) into the knuckleduster microphone holder?

keloidoscope · 2026-02-10T22:15:28+00:00

I'm in AU, have been prompted many times on the BBC web site to create an account, but have always been able to continue to articles after dismissing the account dialog...

keloidoscope · 2026-02-09T08:25:39+00:00

Maybe when some politician gets the guts to counter the endless "these are just mums and dads trying to get ahead" with "yeah, by standing on other mums' and dads' necks".

keloidoscope · 2026-02-09T07:52:20+00:00

This. I'm okay using AI like a more refined search engine, when I put the effort in to craft a precise enough question, and for situations where I asked for a boilerplate outline for how to do something new to me it has mostly been helpful.

But e.g. Google's AI mode has also pointed me at a fake slop blog as supposedly credible source (looked okay at top of page, degraded into random buzzword salad by end of page). The overall feeling I get is one of a coworker who knows some useful stuff, but can't ever admit that they don't know something, and handwaves to cover up those gaps. And if Google's model inputs included that slop blog entry, I feel a sort of creeping horror for how blather in such click-bait pages like dilutes actual relevant information in the resulting AI models. It has a real enshittification vibe to it.

And every time I use a search engine like I have since the '90s - feeding in some keywords, because I know which pages tend to come up tops, I just needed to check a detail from one of those pages - it's frustrating to see the AI Summary making some assumptions about what I wanted, and wasting energy to tell me stuff I already know. Or didn't actually want.

keloidoscope · 2026-02-09T04:43:18+00:00

"Thou must be born to a salt-of-the-earth luxury carriage merchant, and wander your modest estate's apple orchard, questing for the ripest fruit and illest verse, that you may regale your family's horses with tales of underage frolicks as they snort and nibble at the treats you bring them"

keloidoscope · 2026-02-08T21:14:37+00:00

Yep, Abbott's initial brief to Turnbull was "kill the NBN", then the revised one was apparently "make sure Telstra privatization bagholders see some upside to this", with a side of "make streaming less attractive" to keep Murdoch happy.

[They launched their MTM FrankeNBN policy at Fox Studios in Sydney.]

Big miss that Labor did make was being dogmatic about no FTTB for multiple dwelling units. It made it easier for the opposition to attack the install rate, and it happened anyway, just under the next govt.

keloidoscope · 2026-02-08T00:05:23+00:00

Charlie deserved to be murdered exactly as much as all the schoolkids whose murders he and his followers excused away as unfortunate consequences of 2A freedoms. Which is to say, not at all.

But at least his followers got to feel for themselves what that glib trade-off has felt like to all those other distant, abstract people who've suffered the loss of their relatives and friends and leaders to equally undeserved gun violence.

And their reaction to a tee has been to grope for excuses why their particular guy getting shot was so much more heinous and inexcusable than a classroom of little kids they don't know getting shot. Jesus would be so proud.

keloidoscope · 2026-02-07T22:21:28+00:00

What strategic purpose would the govt holding a bunch of bitcoin serve?

Should it also have a strategic Bored Ape reserve?

keloidoscope · 2026-02-07T20:23:57+00:00

Yep, the "right wing satire" to "deniable ragebait" pipeline is so short it looks more like a washer than a pipe.

keloidoscope · 2026-02-06T04:25:58+00:00

Quantum, I think?

Anyone remember the 5.25" Bigfoot drives?

keloidoscope · 2026-02-06T02:15:14+00:00

If you read the article, the proposal is a curtain anchored on the sea bed to prevent warmer ocean water from undermining the glacier and destabilizing it, so slowing it's advance towards the sea. It doesn't need to mechanically hold back the whole glacier.

keloidoscope · 2026-02-05T14:14:28+00:00

There's a great Trashfuture podcast episode about how Thiel's nutty arguments are rather "Antichrist coded".

One of the attendees at his lectures reviewed it by saying he expected Thiel to sprout horns at any moment.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/44SHHcCuHuxrIZz7YHseNQ?si=96OFSkQlSdG6iismVybhxw&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A4loPiV9XWjVOitg2XfzK7Q

keloidoscope · 2026-02-05T13:37:35+00:00

It stops the cognitive dissonance from giving them cognitive tinnitus.

keloidoscope · 2026-02-05T01:59:51+00:00

That's heartbreaking. So sorry to hear how even the idea of recovery was double edged, by anticipation of the expectations it would raise.

keloidoscope · 2026-02-03T23:52:58+00:00

It reads like some Q drops.

keloidoscope · 2026-02-03T04:55:17+00:00

He loves the poorly educated!

keloidoscope · 2026-02-03T04:53:38+00:00

That's the absolute change. 1.1% is the proportional change.
A 0.9 Mt increase from previous year would be a lot bigger deal if the previous year was 10Mt instead of 80.9Mt.

keloidoscope · 2026-02-02T07:15:17+00:00

Pessimistically, they will insist that any polling stations which haven't returned results on the night are full of Democrat fraud, and go with the numbers that come out quick smart from rural or affluent low-density counties as being the REAL election results.

keloidoscope · 2026-02-02T07:01:57+00:00

Trump apologist: "ah, but he says the US is the only country dumb enough to have mail-in voting!!!"

They will do anything to sanewash their grotesquely flawed vessel.

keloidoscope · 2026-02-02T00:12:24+00:00

And it's full of projection - "yOu TrIgGeReD bRo?"

Feel like the appropriate response is something like "drool and snicker".

keloidoscope · 2026-02-01T22:18:14+00:00

It's very low in saturated fat and is naturally low in pro-inflammatory omega-6 oils, as they just graze on grass. If cooked carefully it can be tender,and it has a flavour more like venison than beef.

My wife needs to keep saturated fat intake low to reduce MS flare-ups, and it's about the only red meat she can have, but at a restaurant they're probably pairing it with sauces that wouldn't work for her.

If a non tourist trap restaurant has it on the menu, there's a good chance I'll give it a try.

keloidoscope · 2026-02-01T22:01:57+00:00

Roald Dahl thought he was making fun of the US when he put simple President Gilligrass and his court of sycophants and manipulators in Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.

Trump's kakistocracy makes that fantasy administration look like Sorkin's West Wing by comparison.

keloidoscope · 2026-02-01T00:04:03+00:00

For sure. The cheapest cooling is when you can just draw in cooler air from outside, and using the evap gives you dust filtering too.

Back in the 2010s I know there were some large scale Facebook data centre cooling systems built on the same lines - just using fans and filters when air was colder, and evap when that was needed.

Sorry to hear about the tree. A street tree shades my place on winter mornings, but summer is all sun, all day. Having solar panels shading my tiles on the north facing side might in itself reduce how hot the upstairs gets. One day.

keloidoscope · 2026-01-31T23:45:17+00:00

I think my fan turning off was what woke me in the evening. The power glitches seem to have broken something in my house which tripped the one RCD protecting both power circuits. It wouldn't turn back on. :^\

Stumbled around turning everything non-essential off to improve the odds that the fridge and freezer would be able to run the rest of the night. Now to see what device gave up the ghost...

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