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O what wild things the internet has been telling me! For instance it says that the US aircraft carrier, Gerald R. Ford.....
Hang on right there, who in their right mind would name the pride of the US Navy after Gerald Ford?
I dunno, but that's not the point.
Seems pointed enough to me. Gerald Ford was the most forgettable US President in recent history....
So maybe they felt sorry for him. Anyway, getting back to what I was saying, the Internet was telling me that the USS Gerald R. Ford has been deployed to the Middle East with its decks running with sewage.
The symbolism is deafening!
Quite so, but there's more. This may not simply be a systems malfunction but something the crew themselves have brought on themselves by stuffing things down the toilets.
Why on earth would they do that?
Because they've been at sea for nearly a year and they're sick of it and want some shore leave.
Wouldn't that be mutiny?
Shhhh. Anyway that's not the end of it because if they reach the Middle East they may find it hard to find a port that'll take them.
Because they stink?
No. Because all the nations round there have been pissed off by Ambassador Huckabee's cheerleading for a Greater Israel. Or, in other words, taking scads of their territory and handing it over to Mr Netanyahu.
Why would he do that? Isn't it undiplomatic and isn't he supposed to be a diplomat?
Ah, but above all else he's a Bible-believing Christian. And God promised all the land between somewhere and somewhere else to the children of Abraham. I'd look it up but I can't be bothered.
So maybe it wasn't so clever to appoint him to such a sensitive post.
Exactly. But you may have noticed who's in charge....
Ah....yes....Him. But at least he's not as forgettable as Gerald Ford.....
Hang on right there, who in their right mind would name the pride of the US Navy after Gerald Ford?
I dunno, but that's not the point.
Seems pointed enough to me. Gerald Ford was the most forgettable US President in recent history....
So maybe they felt sorry for him. Anyway, getting back to what I was saying, the Internet was telling me that the USS Gerald R. Ford has been deployed to the Middle East with its decks running with sewage.
The symbolism is deafening!
Quite so, but there's more. This may not simply be a systems malfunction but something the crew themselves have brought on themselves by stuffing things down the toilets.
Why on earth would they do that?
Because they've been at sea for nearly a year and they're sick of it and want some shore leave.
Wouldn't that be mutiny?
Shhhh. Anyway that's not the end of it because if they reach the Middle East they may find it hard to find a port that'll take them.
Because they stink?
No. Because all the nations round there have been pissed off by Ambassador Huckabee's cheerleading for a Greater Israel. Or, in other words, taking scads of their territory and handing it over to Mr Netanyahu.
Why would he do that? Isn't it undiplomatic and isn't he supposed to be a diplomat?
Ah, but above all else he's a Bible-believing Christian. And God promised all the land between somewhere and somewhere else to the children of Abraham. I'd look it up but I can't be bothered.
So maybe it wasn't so clever to appoint him to such a sensitive post.
Exactly. But you may have noticed who's in charge....
Ah....yes....Him. But at least he's not as forgettable as Gerald Ford.....
Suddenly (it seems, though it's not really sudden) we're no longer getting up in the dark but in daylight. And today is the last day of February.
A mosquito has been pestering us in the bedroom. Yesterday evening I decided it had enjoyed a long enough innings and tracked it down and clubbed it to death with a folded bath towel. It left a splash of blood on the wall.
A mosquito has been pestering us in the bedroom. Yesterday evening I decided it had enjoyed a long enough innings and tracked it down and clubbed it to death with a folded bath towel. It left a splash of blood on the wall.
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fandomcalendarPicture Diary 121
1. Breaking glass
2. After a couple of pints
3. Pink
4. Everything you believed in is a lie
5. Theagony
6. Witness
1. Breaking glass
2. After a couple of pints
3. Pink
4. Everything you believed in is a lie
5. Theagony
6. Witness
The Greens won in Gorton and Denton.
They won with a 34 year old woman who works as a plumber.
It was one in the eye for Farage's Reform party- who thought they had it sewn up.
And it humiliates Labour- whose ex-MP was forced out for being an entitled arse.
The values of the Green Party align fairly well with my own so I'm pleased.
The media- including the bloody BBC- insist on treating Farage like he's a Prime Minister in waiting, but I can't see it and never have done.
1. Because his lot have never performed well in elections
2. Because the only other "names" in his party are ex-Tory sleaze merchants and incompetents.
3. He is associated with the American president- whom the British people loathe and despise and find funny.
The media talk him up because they are owned by people who would find a far-right dictatorship agreeable to themselves and amenable to their aims and because he's a card.....
I sort of know Gorton and Denton- or did. Whether I would recognise it now I'm not sure because it has undergone several makeovers down the years. It used to be Coronation Street, then it was gangland and now, I gather, it's becoming gentrified. Lots of students and Muslims.
Farage says there was cheating.
O fuck off, Farage.....
They won with a 34 year old woman who works as a plumber.
It was one in the eye for Farage's Reform party- who thought they had it sewn up.
And it humiliates Labour- whose ex-MP was forced out for being an entitled arse.
The values of the Green Party align fairly well with my own so I'm pleased.
The media- including the bloody BBC- insist on treating Farage like he's a Prime Minister in waiting, but I can't see it and never have done.
1. Because his lot have never performed well in elections
2. Because the only other "names" in his party are ex-Tory sleaze merchants and incompetents.
3. He is associated with the American president- whom the British people loathe and despise and find funny.
The media talk him up because they are owned by people who would find a far-right dictatorship agreeable to themselves and amenable to their aims and because he's a card.....
I sort of know Gorton and Denton- or did. Whether I would recognise it now I'm not sure because it has undergone several makeovers down the years. It used to be Coronation Street, then it was gangland and now, I gather, it's becoming gentrified. Lots of students and Muslims.
Farage says there was cheating.
O fuck off, Farage.....
You've heard About Mothman right? Back in the late 60s a whole bunch of weird things happened in short period of time in a small West Virginia town called Pleasant Point- and then the bridge that connected it to the other side of the Ohio river fell down- during the rush hour- and killed 46 people. After which the weirdness stopped. It's as though the disaster had torn a gash in the fabric of Reality- but one that only stretched backwards in time- if that makes any sense. The phenomena included UFOs, men in black, odd entities of various different kinds and- most famously, a tall winged hominid with blazing red eyes that used to shoot up into the sky vertically like a helicopter without ever stirring its leathery wings. This was Mothman. None of these things ever hurt anyone, simply scared, perplexed and befuddled them. It was all totally bonkers. Disasters were prophesied, but not the one that actually occured. It's as if some paranormally enabled trickster or bunch of tricksters had spotted the rift in the space-time continuum and had come muscling through it with the sole intention of messing with people's minds.
There's a book, there's a film. And Pleasant Point dines off Mothman these days. He's a tourist lure. There's a museum, there's a statue. Wikipedia files him under "folklore" but like many other things that get similarly dismissed he was real enough (though "real" may not be quite the right word.) If you were there at the time you didn't treat him as quaint or funny.....
I was listening to a podcast about Mothman yesterday evening but wouldn't have have bothered to write about if it hadn't then switched over to my my AI art site and there- first thing I saw- was a fellow user's picture of the chap himself in all his looming, red-eyed glory.
Coincidence? Bah, there's no such thing......
There's a book, there's a film. And Pleasant Point dines off Mothman these days. He's a tourist lure. There's a museum, there's a statue. Wikipedia files him under "folklore" but like many other things that get similarly dismissed he was real enough (though "real" may not be quite the right word.) If you were there at the time you didn't treat him as quaint or funny.....
I was listening to a podcast about Mothman yesterday evening but wouldn't have have bothered to write about if it hadn't then switched over to my my AI art site and there- first thing I saw- was a fellow user's picture of the chap himself in all his looming, red-eyed glory.
Coincidence? Bah, there's no such thing......
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Thursday, 26 February 2026 05:53 pmversegm posting in fandomcalendar Suppose the world doesn't make sense.
And that's really the point of it.
Pointlessness is the point.
Pointlessness is the point is pointless.....
And so on.....
One could develop this in two ways. Either go, "Oh, what a bloody waste of time...."
Or take a deep breath and go, "Phew, well that's a relief....."
And that's really the point of it.
Pointlessness is the point.
Pointlessness is the point is pointless.....
And so on.....
One could develop this in two ways. Either go, "Oh, what a bloody waste of time...."
Or take a deep breath and go, "Phew, well that's a relief....."
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Wednesday, 25 February 2026 10:37 pmantimony_medusa posting in fandomcalendarHikyō eki 秘境駅 | A JJK Zine | Applications Open
Wednesday, 25 February 2026 06:26 amhikyoekizine posting in fandomcalendar We were at a golf club the other day- one with Royal in its title (not the sort of joint we normally frequent) And halfway up the stairs was a copy of this portrait (though not with gettyimages printed accross it
It's Charles Mountbatten-Windsor in all his glory, but relaxed and at ease with his authority. Look how many medals he's won, and yet how approachable he is. This is exactly how the Mountbatten-Windsor dynasty wants us to see them.
Here's a more informal picture, but one that still conveys the desired message.
Oh, but who's that chap in the identical get-up with whom the monarch is on such good terms?
Could it be this fella?
Power curates its image very carefully and pictures like the above
Or like this....
Undo all the good work.....
It's Charles Mountbatten-Windsor in all his glory, but relaxed and at ease with his authority. Look how many medals he's won, and yet how approachable he is. This is exactly how the Mountbatten-Windsor dynasty wants us to see them.
Here's a more informal picture, but one that still conveys the desired message.
Oh, but who's that chap in the identical get-up with whom the monarch is on such good terms?
Could it be this fella?
Power curates its image very carefully and pictures like the above
Or like this....
Undo all the good work.....
MDZS/CQL Read/Watchalong
Tuesday, 24 February 2026 08:10 pmspookykingdomstarlight posting in fandomcalendarPokémon: 24 Hours Left to Sign-up for Perished Pidove!
Wednesday, 25 February 2026 12:57 amsockshuppet posting in fandomcalendar Our daffodils are coming into their strength. I planted a load in '24 and a load more in '25. They're my favourite flower- at least in part because they start appearing in the wintriest time of the year. I see the first daffodil and think, "And now it's Spring!"
We've had no snow in Eastbourne- we rarely do, but we have had lots of rain. We were driving up Seaside on Sunday and there was water mushrooming out from an overtaxed drain and flooding the road.....
We've floated the idea that Wendy should take over our garden and grow vegetables. It would be a win-win arrangement. We need someone to take the garden in hand and she needs somewhere to grow things. I'm not a gardener. I plant shrubs and bulbs and then more or less let them get on with it. Also I cut the grass- but I'd be happy for there to be less grass to be bothered with. So long as she leaves the daffodils in place she can have a free hand.
There seem to be fewer pigeons about. Maybe they're off sourcing nesting sites. There are however rather more gulls because Roselands with all its chimney stacks is a nesting site. I love pigeons, I love gulls, I only wish we attracted more of the smaller birds than we do.....
We've had no snow in Eastbourne- we rarely do, but we have had lots of rain. We were driving up Seaside on Sunday and there was water mushrooming out from an overtaxed drain and flooding the road.....
We've floated the idea that Wendy should take over our garden and grow vegetables. It would be a win-win arrangement. We need someone to take the garden in hand and she needs somewhere to grow things. I'm not a gardener. I plant shrubs and bulbs and then more or less let them get on with it. Also I cut the grass- but I'd be happy for there to be less grass to be bothered with. So long as she leaves the daffodils in place she can have a free hand.
There seem to be fewer pigeons about. Maybe they're off sourcing nesting sites. There are however rather more gulls because Roselands with all its chimney stacks is a nesting site. I love pigeons, I love gulls, I only wish we attracted more of the smaller birds than we do.....
I dreamed our garden was full of junk- and we were clearing it away and burning it so the children from the school next door could come in and work and play.
Now there's symbolism you don't have to work too hard to understand.
I gather the police are treating Prince Andrew's former home- Royal Lodge- as a crime scene, taking up floorboards and thrusting remote control cameras into areas that are hard of access.
And attention is shifting from Little St James to the Zorro ranch. There are reports of bodies being buried there.
Early trawls through the files concentrated on mentions of the current president. He had had his people redact and redact again but even so he was all over them- and the evidence was damning. Now attention is focused on other names and other oddities. What exactly is this obsession the Epstein class had with food- and cheap food at that? Do "pizza", "grape soda" and "jerky" mean what we are coming to think they mean?
How do you talk about any of this? Words like "horror" are shopworn. I find myself veering aside into euphemism and even humour. Perhaps the best mode is the straightforward reporting of fact.
Now there's symbolism you don't have to work too hard to understand.
I gather the police are treating Prince Andrew's former home- Royal Lodge- as a crime scene, taking up floorboards and thrusting remote control cameras into areas that are hard of access.
And attention is shifting from Little St James to the Zorro ranch. There are reports of bodies being buried there.
Early trawls through the files concentrated on mentions of the current president. He had had his people redact and redact again but even so he was all over them- and the evidence was damning. Now attention is focused on other names and other oddities. What exactly is this obsession the Epstein class had with food- and cheap food at that? Do "pizza", "grape soda" and "jerky" mean what we are coming to think they mean?
How do you talk about any of this? Words like "horror" are shopworn. I find myself veering aside into euphemism and even humour. Perhaps the best mode is the straightforward reporting of fact.
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