IFLA: The “Be Like Water” Edition of the Horoscope for the Week of May 1

by | May 1, 2022 | IFLA | 192 comments

First, flow past the leaping attack

 

This week we get a practical lesson on how to read the signs in context.

The week starts of with, well, nothing.  But on Thursday we see a double alignment, through Mercury, of Earth and the Moon on one hand, and Venus and Mars on the other.  So the prime focus is on change/chaos/luck/news with domestic change on one hand and completion/lovers/strife/balance on the other.  Strife and balance?  Don’t blame me, I didn’t make this stuff up.  Anywhoo, this arrangement could indicate all sorts of major events within a household important enough to warrant displaying the signs to the entire human population.  But, if we fallow the path for two more days, the meaning becomes clear, because on Saturday, we see one leg break off and Mercury-Venus replacing Mars with Saturn, indicating the end of a relationship.  So there you have it, something big happens on Thursday, and the unhappy couple splits up on Saturday.  Maybe with enough time and effort I could figure out which couple we’re talking about (Charles and Camilla?  Joe and Dr. Jill?  Probably not Harry and Meghan, they’re not in line for the throne, but I don’t get paid enough for that level of effort.

Taurus gets a pleasant, stable if unexciting week.  Gemini gets lucky; non-Gemini need to be on the lookout for deceit.  Particular indication of slip and fall accidents Thursday-Saturday as the moon transits Cancer.  Things are generally shitty for Aquarius until June 6th, when they become very shitty.  This is the last week for good fishing.

 

As the attacker passes by, flow behind them

 

Taurus:  The Hermit reversed – Concealment, disguise, policy, fear, unreasoned caution.

Gemini:  King of Wands reversed – Someone good, but severe; austere, yet tolerant.

Cancer:  Ace of Swords reversed – Great or excessive force leading to disaster, conception, childbirth, augmentation, multiplicity.

Leo:  Wheel of Fortune reversed – Increase, abundance, superfluity.

Virgo:  The Star – Loss, theft, privation, abandonment, hope and bright prospects.

Libra:  King of Cups – Fair man, man of business, law, or divinity; responsible, equity, art and science.

Scorpio:  5 of Coins reversed – Disorder, chaos, ruin, discord, profligacy.

Sagittarius:  3 of Wands reversed – The end of troubles, suspension or cessation of adversity, toil and disappointment.

Capricorn:  The Hierophant reversed – Society, good understanding, concord, overkindness, weakness.

Aquarius:  Queen of Wands reversed – Someone good, economical, obliging, serviceable, opposition, jealousy, deceit, infidelity.

Pisces:  10 of Swords reversed – Advantage, profit, success, favor, but none of these are permanent; also power and authority.

Aries:  8 of Cups reversed –  Great joy, happiness, feasting.

 

 

Then dash them to the ground as the wave does to the shore

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Not Adahn

Not Adahn

Despite all my rage, I am still just an impeccably dressed rat.

192 Comments

  1. Tundra

    Excellent takedown, Lily! She’s beautiful and dangerous!

    Leo: Wheel of Fortune reversed – Increase, abundance, superfluity.

    I had to look up superfluity. I think I prefer Superfly.

    • Not Adahn

      I got a pic of Lily and Dakota chillin’ on top of Cat mountain yesterday.

      There was also a beautiful lake that Lily went swimming in. There were a couple of people in our group that were really surprised when she got out of the water and they could see exactly how buff she is. They mistook fluff for flub.

  2. westernsloper

    Gemini gets lucky;

    I’ll believe it when I see it.

  3. MikeS

    Pisces: 10 of Swords reversed – Advantage, profit, success, favor, but none of these are permanent; also power and authority.

    I’ll take it for as long as it holds.

  4. Mojeaux

    Taurus gets a pleasant, stable if unexciting week.

    “Unexciting” is underrated.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      As our very own Saint Suthen of RFD has reminded us, more than once.

      • Penguin

        “May you live in interesting times” is a Chinese curse.

  5. Yusef drives a Kia

    “Virgo: The Star – Loss, theft, privation, abandonment, hope and bright prospects.”
    WTF does that mean?

    • Ozymandias

      Sounds like a riddle or koan: “What can you lose or have stolen, yet be richer for the loss?”
      I suppose you could “lose” some illness, or have a bad girlfriend “stolen” from you, and thereby have hope and “bright prospects” as a result.

      • Ted S.

        Your virginity?

    • Not Adahn

      It’s a very wishy-washy card — standing with one foot on land and one in water, pouring out water into water as a sign of wasting/pointless expenditure.

      • UnCivilServant

        “We’re washing the water”

  6. Grumbletarian

    Scorpio: 5 of Coins reversed – Disorder, chaos, ruin, discord, profligacy.

    Oh good, a quiet week for a change.

  7. Ozymandias

    Libra: King of Cups – Fair man, man of business, law, or divinity; responsible, equity, art and science.

    *Blinks.* Holy smokes.
    I should be filing our complaint in a new suit this week. Large mil class action, Constitutional and statutory claims against the clot-shots, DoD, HHS, and FDA as named defendants.
    Dr. McCullough and Dr. (LTC) Theresa Long have both supplied affidavits. I want a federal lackey to explain the “risk analysis” of 114 VAERS death reports for DoD vs. <90 died from Covid for DoD.

    • Gustave Lytton

      It’s the mirror universe where Bastiat has a goatee. That would have been 1.5M DOD deaths without the shots.

    • westernsloper

      Good for you. Go get em. The assholiness of the feds over the past couple years needs to put some assholes in jail.

    • R C Dean

      What’s the rate of deaths from COVID v. The vax?

      • westernsloper

        Lots more young people killed by vax vs the elderly multiple health issued people “killed” by the VID? Depends how you count them. The past two years have taught me I don’t trust one word the “top men” say.

  8. juris imprudent

    8 of Cups reversed – Great joy, happiness, feasting.

    Does not sound like a Glibgit week.

    • juris imprudent

      [edit button] GlibFIT

    • Not Adahn

      I bought a couple top round… steaks? Flat roasts? today. They’re in the sous vide now, on Tuesday one will go into the freezer, don’t know what I’ll do with the other one.

      • Sean

        Shish kabobs?

      • Not Adahn

        Possible. Sitr fry, sliced steak sandwiches, these are about 2.5#, so I could get multiple recipes out of each one.

    • westernsloper

      Nice. I grilled some cheap cuts for flavor and they are now in the crock for tendering. Pork tenderloin for evening meals finishing nicely.

    • Hyperion

      How to tell that Sean is a 1 percenter. Can afford meat. I only have some pork (not real meat), chicken, and giant sea bugs in my freezer, not 1 percenter.

      • MikeS

        Eating shrimp doesn’t make you a 1%er?

      • UnCivilServant

        I took that to be lobster, which prisoners protested to being fed too often.

      • Sean

        Interesting. I, too, assumed jumbo shrimp.

      • UnCivilServant

        Maybe I keyed in more on the giant part instead of the plurality.

      • Hyperion

        This. They call them Jumbo Prawn where I bought them, Fresh Market. $21 a lb.

      • Hyperion

        You’re both almost right, I guess. It’s jumbo prawns. I think they are better than lobster. I like to grill them.

      • MikeS

        OK, boomer 1%er

      • Sean

        Well, they were on sale…$12.99/lb.

        So were the filets – two for $20. The filets weren’t as photogenic.

    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      The wife went to her “meat guy” yesterday, bringing home a couple London Broils, some loose meat, patties, a few flanks, and also lamb, ground and chop.

      We will eat well.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        The wife went to her “meat guy”

        That, right there, is a 45 mph underhand pitch right down the middle.

      • R C Dean

        “some loose meat”

        So her meat guy goes commando?

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        God I hope so…

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        What do y’all do with the lamb? I’ve had it in middle eastern food, but I’ve never prepared it myself.

      • Mojeaux

        Grind it up and make gyros.

      • db

        Cut it into chunks, season it, cook on skewers, then make a sandwich with Syrian flatbread, yellow hot/sweet peppers, and toum, like this

        Or put it over seasoned rice and eat with toum.

      • db

        The sandwich works best if you melt provolone all over the chunks and peppers to kind of hold them together on the bread.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Chops are delicious pan fried with seasoning, and a side of yogurt. Or applesauce or mint jelly.

  9. Sean

    Doge combat. ?

    • Not Adahn

      The dog park is a gymnasium for dogs.

      Though I think I’ve discovered Lily’s daily limit on exercise, finally. Eight miles on the mountain + play/wrestle time = not terribly enthusiastic to go to the park. Another three miles on flat land and she was completely content to lie there and be petted by random humans. They of course, thought she was the sweetest, best behaved dog ever.

      • Ted S.

        Yeah, Sonny prefers the walks that are only slightly over an hour. There’s one trail that for us results in a 90-minute walk (and more possibility of seeing people since it comes close to the parking area and the old woods road), and he always pulls not to go on that trail. I can’t imagine doing eight miles.

      • Not Adahn

        Prospect mountain was five miles, and that just got her warmed up. Seriously, after that I took her on a walk/swim in a nature preserve, and then a couple hours later to the dog park where she wrestled everybody.

      • Not Adahn

        Of course she’s only 15 months and two days old.

      • Hyperion

        “The dog park is a gymnasium for dogs.”

        Huh, here it’s where you can find your crack dealer.

      • Not Adahn

        I’ve only seen weed deals at this one.

      • Hyperion

        This be Balmer, hon.

      • Sean

        Lol

  10. Tres Cool

    “…as the wave does to the shore” reminded me of Sherlock Holmes

  11. Don escaped Texas

    Gemini: King of Wands reversed – Someone good, but severe; austere, yet tolerant.

    Well, they’re not Scaramucci and Omarosa, but Herschel Walker and Mehmet Oz are clearly the next generation of greatness – DJT45

    • juris imprudent

      *hurk*

    • Ozymandias

      I’m torn b/w agreeing enthusiastically with you, Don, and shrugging. Part of it that it’s so easy to dunk on Trump that I just don’t get people doing it anymore.
      On the one hand, yes, it’s a funny, backhanded indictment of Trump’s… I don’t know, let’s call it “decision-making” for these purposes. (For the record, I cracked up when I read your quip).
      On the other hand, what are the other political options if you’re trying to fight the Dem Machinery, including the Media AND current bureaucracy that hates him, manufactured evidence against him, impeached him twice on some of the false evidence, and in all likelihood stole an election?
      At some point, dude’s got to choose between whatever statist liar Team Blue runs and one of Team Red’s assortment of buffoons. Of course he doesn’t know shit about that world, neither does anyone he knows, and they all have almost zero ability to operate in that quagmire.
      And maybe it’s less an indictment of Trump and more an indictment of the entire system that those are the options available.

      • juris imprudent

        an indictment of the entire system

        ding-ding-ding

        Not to mention the people in this country that accept that this is the way it should be.

      • Ted S.

        It says something terrible about our system how many times an absolute piece of shit like Martha Coakley was nominated for statewide office and how this was treated as something perfectly normal.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        40% are completely disengaged.
        Of the 60% who vote, 85% are TEAM players or worse.
        The 9% of people voting with anything approaching rational thought are hardly enough to make a blip on the radar.

        The flaw in the system is that apathy has no way to win the day. We’ve evolved into a system where abstain means yes.

        Think about what the opposite would look like… What if the house of representatives was treated as a cross section of the entire country. The representatives were there in the stead of the voting public. Automatic “no” votes were cast for the non-voting public. It would be really freaking hard to get anything done because a simple majority would require near unanimity. A supermajority would require massive turnout AND near unanimity.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        and shrugging. Part of it that it’s so easy to dunk on Trump that I just don’t get people doing it anymore.

        I don’t get the continued obsession with Trump from the Left, Right, or Libertarian. It seems like the WSJ Op Ed page still complains about Trump more than it even mentions Biden.

        Trump was nothing more than a symptom of a dissatisfied GOP base. Some of us have enjoyed the comedy show from the sidelines knowing that there is no possible candidate, including Ron Paul or Thomas Massie, who would have made one iota of difference. The Deep State system is designed to be able to absorb anything the Presidency has to throw at it and remain unchanged. Trump could have been 100/100 for every pick and the progressive system would continue its march leftwards.

        The only to way to enact meaningful change is going to be for the entire system to be taken down. That could look like a peaceful divorce, a violent overthrow of the republic, or a widespread breakdown due to sort of systemic devastation (economic/nuclear/etc).

      • UnCivilServant

        There is no such thing as a peaceful divorce from people whose sole ambition is to impose their will upon you.

      • whiz

        ^^ This!

      • juris imprudent

        Trump was nothing more than a symptom of a dissatisfied GOP base.

        His appeal extended well outside the GOP base. The base was the least convinced.

      • Don escaped Texas

        I’ve got a thousand words, but instead I’ll simply opine that holding politicians to account is what glibs dot com should do, both ways, all the time. There is already a stream here of steady conservatarian bagging on Obama, Clinton, and Carter; that, one infers over the years, is totes okay.

      • juris imprudent

        Well, I will give Trump this – he was no George W. Bush.

    • Sean

      Oz’s campaign commercials are on point. Too bad he’s a shit weasel and I don’t believe him.

      • juris imprudent

        Yeah what a choice, a phony who says the right things and a bunch of morons who genuinely believe their own bullshit.

      • Sean

        My mailbox has been flooded with political gibberish too. 🙄

        Seen the commercial with Dave shooting “his” guns?

      • Gustave Lytton

        Sounds like Ohio and Trumps pick there too.

      • Hyperion

        Vance is more fake than Pelosi’s face.

    • Hyperion

      If Trump endorses anyone, I either assume he got lucky and got it right or they are a flea infested Carpetbagger.

  12. Hyperion

    Fake news!

    #CapricornsRpeople2

  13. The Late P Brooks

    Sagittarius: 3 of Wands reversed – The end of troubles, suspension or cessation of adversity, toil and disappointment.

    Woohoo!

    *rushes off to buy lottery tickets*

  14. Hyperion

    Herpity Blurpity Derpity Durrr

    Musk doesn’t understasnd political reality. The reality is that commism is right, cool and hip, the future.

    The alphabet soup news and assorted commie rags like the Atlantic, the Guardian, the sultans of derp, are just feeding off each other in a massive panic attack because some people just might not buy their bullshit. Musk doesn’t know commies are right, Musk doesn’t understand what free speech means…

    TMITE is still TMITE with, but with a splash of more insanity.

    • rhywun

      Elected Democrats still tend to be pretty moderate on most issues

      ??

      • Hyperion

        Damn, dude, now that there is funny, I don’t care who you are.

    • juris imprudent

      If you spent the summer of 2020 being inundated by Fox News footage of Black Lives Matter protests, you might genuinely think that the left is out of control. This perception, however, simply doesn’t match reality.

      Oh, so you’re arguing that the left unleashes that kind of destructiveness and actually CONTROLS it. Okay.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Funny how they never interview the people who had their businesses looted and burnt down. I bet they might think the left was out of control too.

  15. Hyperion

    My wife has gotten on a binge of watching these old movies. This one has Doris Day. The man dude she’s hangin out talking to another man dude who says ‘What does she do?’, he answers ‘She works a computing machine’. From now on that’s my answer to anyone asks me what I do. I work a computing machine.

    • rhywun

      Or “I am a computer.”

      • Hyperion

        I identify as a computing machine. I like it!

  16. Hyperion

    Yesterday was a beautiful day. We cleaned and orgainized the deck thingy. I’m going to rebuild my grill, just ordered all new sparts, new grate, new burners, new igniter, new cover. That’s pretty much all of it except the shell. About $250 for practically a new grill. The price of a new one to replace that same one is around $1000, so seems like the thing to do.

  17. MikeS

    A bit of a mea culpa regarding my comment in last night’s links repeating the 30 year old rumor that Jackson Browne beat Daryl Hannah. A doubting comment from Tarids this morning got me looking into it more. I ran across this page that does a good job of laying it all out. It would certainly seem that he was wrongly accused and it’s unfortunate that the false accusation has had such staying power. I should have looked into it more and not let my biases color my judgement of the story’s veracity. I heard it and chose to believe it. As someone who has been a victim of false accusations of abuse, I feel like a heel.

    I thought I’d do my part and try to set it right with anyone else here who may have heard the same, apparently false, story that I did 30 years ago.

    • Mojeaux

      Hey, at least he didn’t shove a gerbil up his butt or have to have a cup of semen pumped out of his stomach.

      • Tres Cool

        I heard it was more like a quart.

        As I recall, Iggy Pop moved to Berlin to live with Bowie to “get clean”. Jagger was there too.
        Just imagine that suck-fest.

    • rhywun

      I did not know he dated her and never heard of the rumor.

      I like his music, what little I’ve heard, and I guess I’ll keep doing so.

      • kinnath

        That’s my favorite Jackson Browne recording.

      • Tres Cool

        I hold JB and Steve Miller in the same regard- slightly above the Charmin butt-wipes in the bathroom.

        #ChangeMyMind

      • Mojeaux

        #ChangeMyMind

        Nah, bruh. You’re free to be wrong.

      • Tres Cool

        I’d agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong.

      • Mojeaux

        The riddle of the liar and the truth teller.

      • UnCivilServant

        Isn’t the answer to stab one of them and see what manner of protestations are made?

    • Hyperion

      “he was wrongly accused”

      #Me2 before #Me2.

    • Q Continuum

      He’s still an asshole.

      • MikeS

        Without a doubt.

  18. Fourscore

    That’s what a man would say, MikeS.

    /Serious voice. Like Charlie Brown, you’re a good man.

    • Sean

      *cue piano music*

      • Hyperion

        I heard violins.

  19. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Somebody wish me luck. I’ve got a freaking out fifteen year old who’s about to perform in the local orchestra and is terrified she’s going to pass out in front of the audience. She’s in panicked obsessive mode and trying to get out of it, but I can’t let her give in to her fears.

    Teenagers….

    • Hyperion

      Dude, give her a couple Ativans and a shot of bourbon, she’ll be fine!

      • Tres Cool

        But enough about my breakfast….

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        With her anxiousness, that would be an immediate habit. She’s going to struggle with booze later, I can feel it.

      • Sean

        Get her a wall mounted bottle opener. Less struggling.

      • Hyperion

        That’s 2 thumbs up already today for Sean.

      • Hyperion

        There is a a recent thery being discussed that anxity is the initial driver leading to addiction. Sounds plausible to me. But you just have to look on the bright side, at least it’s not heroin!

    • Ted S.

      I’d suggest imaging the audience in their underwear, but I don’t think she wants to see you in your Victoria’s Secret panties.

    • rhywun

      A kid behind me in chorus passed out during a performance. It happens 🙂

      I quit chorus after 8th grade. It’s not like I can sing or anything.

      • Gustave Lytton

        DONT LOCKOUT YOUR KNEES, PRIVATE.

      • l0b0t

        Tee hee… I was in the 7th ID (Light). Nicknamed The Bayonet Division; our dress kit involved fixed bayonets for any ceremonial formation above battalion level. Watching the ripple of soldiers trying to avoid getting stuck, while also trying to maintain ranks, when someone fainted was always fun.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Me too, sort of. When it was reactivated as a division element for three NG brigades. Did wear the hourglass on my k-pot, so good enough for me. Bayonets didn’t make a return though.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I hit the floor in elementary school chorus. Locked knees and all that.

        It happens.

    • Tres Cool

      “…as part of the Gay Sexuality Alliance Club…”

      When I was in school it was just Drama Club.

      • juris imprudent

        [golf claps]

      • rhywun

        Gay Sexuality Alliance Hookup Club

        Adjusted for accuracy.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      I’m of two minds on this stuff. On the one hand, I remember going to some field trip with my teachers and they dressed in drag as part of some skit (they were pretending to be one another) and it was hilarious. On the other hand, it was clearly just a funny skit to get some laughs from 6th graders. There was no messaging behind it like there would be today.

      I clicked into the article before hitting submit and I’m glad* I did. That’s not the kind of shit I saw in 6th grade. All they did back then was put on a wig and shove a pillow up their shirt.

      *for my argument… I could’ve gone without the image

      • l0b0t

        In high school, there were Powderpuff Football games every homecoming. The cheerleaders would play flag-football, while the football team affected garish drag and cheered from the sidelines. IDK if that would be allowed today.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        On the one hand, I remember going to some field trip with my teachers and they dressed in drag as part of some skit (they were pretending to be one another) and it was hilarious. On the other hand, it was clearly just a funny skit to get some laughs from 6th graders. There was no messaging behind it like there would be today.

        Seems like powder puff football where the players and cheerleaders would swap uniforms as a gag. I can see something like that being verboten today.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Looks like I’m too slow today.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Narcissists stroking their perverted egos

  20. kinnath

    Pisces: 10 of Swords reversed – Advantage, profit, success, favor, but none of these are permanent; also power and authority.

    nothing is permanent

  21. Hyperion

    Global warming seems to have stopped. This is the coolest spring I have seen here. I guess now the climate change hysterics are going to be happy and call off the panic, right?

    • kinnath

      You Fool!

      All extreme weather is caused by global warning. Even fucking blizzards are caused by global warming. So it is written, so it shall be.

      • juris imprudent

        Even the tiniest variation (by season or year) from what is the norm is evidence of the catastrophic effects of climate change!

      • Hyperion

        Yeah, I know it is weird. When I was a kid the temperature never changed. It was just a season, like the temperature changed to 60 F as soon as first day of Spring and stayed that way until first day of Summer, then it was 80 all of the time. So this climate change thing is true. I have climate anxiety!

    • UnCivilServant

      Nah, they’ll just dust off the ice age fears from the 1970s.

      • Hyperion

        “the ice age fears from the 1970s.”

        I remember that. You know it’s weird how I didn’t get climate anxiety. Instead I thought ‘Oh boy, sledding all year long!’.

    • Tres Cool

      Just like the race-baters that insisted companies removed the images of Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and that cat from Cream of Wheat. Oh, and the indian hoe from the butter.
      Relations should be normalized now, right?

      However, we get to keep the honky from Quaker Oats, which OWNS “Pearl Milling Co.” FKA Aunt Jemima.

  22. UnCivilServant

    I am trying to give myself permission to make the pulp setting of Slaves of Baranga a place where it is simulteneously the 1890s, the 1920s and the 1950s.

    • Hyperion

      “simulteneously the 1890s, the 1920s and the 1950s.”

      Hmm, so we cross the Victorians with some Flappers, Jazz, and Boomers. Hmm, what a fusion, no idea what that would look like.

      • UnCivilServant

        Well, I’ve got Ottoman slavers, Tommy gunning gangsters, and ex-Nazis.

      • kinnath

        Sounds like a weekend at _____________.

        Fill in the blank contest.

      • Gender Traitor

        Or elevator pitch for Casablanca II?

      • UnCivilServant

        Weekend at Casablanca, where the protagonists have to puppet the Vichy inspector’s corpse to fool the Nazis?

      • kinnath

        Now we’re talking.

      • Hyperion

        Fuck, I’m stumped. Ricky Nelson and the Jazzy Railroad Tycoons? Good band name or fail?

      • Tres Cool

        Mengele’s ?

    • Tres Cool

      Do “Barbarella” only replace Jane Fonda with Raquel Welch.

      • Hyperion

        “replace Jane Fonda with Raquel Welch”

        I’ll make that trade any day.

      • Not Adahn

        I only saw Barbarella for the first time a few years ago. I had no idea about Duran Duran.

      • Fourscore

        I read that as Barbara Eden. Trade Jane for Barbara E

      • Hyperion

        Most definitely, Jeanie for the win!

      • Tres Cool

        Topless Elizabeth Montgomery ?

      • Hyperion

        I’ll take a sammich made out of those two halves.

      • Sean

        Duck duck go image search had an interesting result.

      • Hyperion

        Did you check with the Ministry of Truth to make sure it’s right?

    • Sean

      Jet powered steampunk?

      • Hyperion

        Sean gets a thumbs up.

  23. Evan from Evansville

    “Taurus gets a pleasant, stable if unexciting week.”

    April 28th. That’s me. I am the exact opposite of that. *Squints*

    I am existing a fundamental difficulty in my life. I need to talk to someone about it. I don’t know who. Lady has been more than helpful. I’m losing my mind. I am out of control. In Purgatory i exist.

  24. kinnath

    I need to mow the fucking lawn.

    It’s 45 degrees; the wind is howling; and now mist is coming down from the sky.

    Happy May Day!

      • Not Adahn

        Yup. That’s suburban Texas alright.

      • Hyperion

        66, rain.

      • rhywun

        66, pleasant breeze for the walk to the supermarket.

      • Hyperion

        66 here in the one true time zone.

  25. dbleagle

    A word I am seeing pop up more often when discussing information operations is “mal-information” which is different than dis, or misinformation. Mal-information is truthful information that is considered harmful “to an institution or state.”

    This is concerning when you think out biden’s new propaganda agency. If this new propaganda agency was within the Dept of State you could conceivably argue that the main focus was external to the US. Both Russia and China doctrinally actively pursue information warfare internally and externally to their borders. But biden’s handlers put this new kraken within DHS, a law enforcement Department, whose primary focus is internal to US borders. And since the first mission of any bureaucracy is their continuing survival I would be surprised if mal-information isn’t already part of their mission- even if it is not spoken about in public.

    So as dangerous as the douchery is at first glance, looking into the evolving USG definitions of the “information environment” reveals even a greater danger. This new kraken will actively pursue truthful US citizen “wrong thought” that hurts the desires of the USG.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      ???

      Whether or not you perceive it as us versus them, they do. That much is evident now.

    • Sean

      Get a load of this domestic terrorist.

      • juris imprudent

        Probably an oath-keeper (in the genuine and not melodramatic sense).

    • Q Continuum

      So the opposite of “fake but accurate”.

      • Not Adahn

        “taken out of context.”

    • Hyperion

      Yeah, seems like that was so recenty, like when democrats had less power? Or was it that Republicans had more power? This is so hard to figure out, I better check with the Ministry of Truth.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Don’t worry about that! Btw, chocolate rations are increasing. And there is no rationing.

  26. kinnath

    Waiting for shellac to dissolve is worse than waiting for paint to dry.

    • Hyperion

      This is true cause it ain’t got no color.

      • kinnath

        Super Blonde and Lemon definitely have color

      • Hyperion

        Oh, I see, they now make artisanal shellac. You hipsters…

      • kinnath

        For a couple hundred years.

      • Hyperion

        You can’t fool me, everyone knows hipsters have only been aroudn since the 60s.

  27. Hyperion

    Bolsonaro’s latest snark

    BTW, Daily Caller, I’m pretty sure his first name is ‘Jair’. Just saying.

    • Hyperion

      And if the Amazon one day turns into a Savannah, which it was once already was during most of the last Ice Age, that would be a shame, but not the end of the planet or even humans, you shrieking imbeciles.

    • rhywun

      youth voting is key in driving change for a healthy planet,” DiCaprio tweeted late last week

      Fuck off, commie.

      • Hyperion

        By ‘healthy planet’, he means green cronyism. But you have to forgive him, being a good actor does not make you intelligent.

  28. dbleagle

    Since WWII the military has planned operations around three domains- land, sea, and air. In recent years the DoD has recognized that operations take place in two additional domains- space and cyber. Now the intellectual energy is whether “information” is a 6th domain or do the five domains exist and interact within an “information environment.” Combine this with how a throw away line in an interview by the SecDef on “integrated deterrence” has driven the administration’s and DoD’s drive to develop that as doctrine and place it within national security documents.

    The NDS was recently sent to Congress and this is part of the publicly released factsheet, ” Today, the Department of Defense transmitted to Congress the classified 2022 National Defense Strategy (NDS). For the first time, the Department conducted its strategic reviews in a fully integrated way – incorporating
    the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) and Missile Defense Review (MDR) in the NDS – ensuring tight linkages between our strategy and our resources. The unclassified NDS will be forthcoming.” (This is unusual since the classified and unclassified versions are usually simultaneously released.)
    “The Defense priorities are:
    1. Defending the homeland, paced to the growing multi-domain threat posed by the PRC
    2. Deterring strategic attacks against the United States, Allies, and partners
    3. Deterring aggression, while being prepared to prevail in conflict when necessary, prioritizing
    the PRC challenge in the Indo-Pacific, then the Russia challenge in Europe
    4. Building a resilient Joint Force and defense ecosystem
    ………….Changes in global climate and other dangerous transboundary threats, including pandemics, are transforming the context in which the Department operates. We will adapt to these challenges, which increasingly place pressure on the Joint Force and the systems that support it.
    Recognizing growing kinetic and non-kinetic threats to the United States’ homeland from our strategic competitors, the Department will take necessary actions to increase resilience – our ability to withstand, fight through, and recover quickly from disruption.”

    Shortly after the NDS is out the biden Admin publicly admits to forming the “Disinformation Governance Board” and the new Reichs Minister in charge of it. This has got to have been in the works for over a year. I just came back from DuckDuckGo looking for the DGB’s mission statement and couldn’t find it. So who knows what these fucksticks are actually tasked to do or will be trying to do.

    • juris imprudent

      other dangerous transboundary threats, including pandemics,

      So CDC/NIH are to be treated a threat?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Defending the homeland…

      Lately our homeland seems to include about 80% of the globe.

    • westernsloper

      including pandemics,

      Yep. They are tasked with that. Bird flue anyone? BGAAAAAKKKK!!!!!

    • juris imprudent

      As for a source for DGB, my guess would be Governing For Impact.

  29. dbleagle

    Off to a day of racing. I may continue pulling together my thoughts on how integrated deterrence and biden’s new propaganda ministry are dangerous to liberty later.

    • Hyperion

      Nonsense, Stawberry said everyone likes that, I mean who would not like a Ministry of Truth? Why do you hate the truth?

  30. Hyperion

    I’m rebuilding a hydroponic unit, new tank, well tank control unit. I don’t want to work, I just want to bang… something, however that song goes. Working on Sunday is bad anyway. A guy done got went to the moon for that and I don’t want to go to the moon today. I’m having an allergy fit. 2 benadryls and a hipster juice.