THURSDAY PM LINKSTER WANTED, APPLY WITHIN: I need someone to take over this timeslot for a while (farewell message at end of post). When I announced this to the Glibs editorial board, WebDom indicated that it might be fun to give the commenters a chance to experience the indignities of deadline journalism the joy, pride, and recognition that comes with being a Glibs linkster and columnist. You can take the timeslot in any direction you like. I’m meticulous and like to curate my links, but there is nothing wrong with just slapping up some links and calling it a day. You heathen savages beloved commentators never read the links, anyway. Any questions, ask in the comments or email me privately (my name at this domain).
BREAKING — STABBING RAMPAGE IN AMSTERDAM: Five injured, no details on assailant, motives yet.
FANCY CHOO-CHOO NEED MOAR MONIEZ: In no surprise to anyone here, the California high-speed rail boondoggle is behind schedule and overbudget. On one hand your federal tax dollars were subsidizing this, OTOH your federal tax dollars were funding ecojustice NGOs to delay and impede this.
AND SPEAKING OF WASTEFUL GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS: “It has now been 977 days since the Biden-Harris Administration passed its $42 billion plan for expanding Internet. 0 Americans have been connected. 0 Shovels worth of dirt turned.” Of course, there were onerous environmental regulations, woke DEI grifting, etc. The best way to provide internet service to remote, low density areas is via wireless (including satellite). You know where this is going. Ppl are going to complain that this is just shovelling money to Elon Musk since his StarLink service is particularly effective for this application. We shouldn’t be subsidizing peoples internet using tax dollars in the first place, but if we must do so let us do so in the most efficient, cheapest way possible.
ANOTHER ASSAULT ON THE FREE PRESS BY MAGA LEFTWING NUTJOB: That zany Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, fresh off slamming wheelchair-bound Texas Gov Abbott with the nickname “hotwheels,” stays in the news cycle by assaulting a reporter. In the US Capitol. With witnesses, including another congresscritter. Charges were filed. A report was filed with the Capitol Police. [Thanks to RC Dean for catching this.] Of course, Crockett tried to paint herself as the victim.
PRESIDENT TRUMP MAKES REMARKS IN HONOR OF WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH: Honors actual women by saying that trans-identifying males are not women, claims more women in his cabinet than in any other Republican administration.
WHY I’M QUITTING YOU: No, it’s not you; it’s me. This column eats up one afternoon of every week for me. I need some time away from editorial duties, at least through September. Everything is going swimmingly for me (and the wonderful boyfriend!), and I decided to be selfish and use this summer to focus on cycling, hot bear sex, and other fun and wholesome activities. But I’ll still be around in the comments, in the editorial suite wrangling “my” writers (FourScore, Not Adahn) and the first-timer writers, and pinch-hitting when regulars need a day off (or forget).
A little parting gift for you — the cheesiest, most blatantly commercial, seventies pop dreck ever. Also, how I’ll be spending my Thursday afternoons.
“On one hand your federal tax dollars were subsidizing this, OTOH your federal tax dollars were funding ecojustice NGOs to delay and impede this.’
Which immediately brought this to mind, from the Israeli/Hamas unpleasantness:
https://imageproxy.ifunny.co/crop:x-20,resize:640x,quality:90×75/images/76d546cdbdb39980097941407529c54ae1a9985fdbd026d4553461cd57e75fbc_1.jpg
Yes – I now assume I’m paying for every terrorist shithead and color revolution protestor in the world with my taxes.
Oh, heck, what weren’t we paying for with our taxes?
But you’re paying even more to fight them, so…. good job?
On one hand your federal tax dollars… OTOH your federal tax dollars…
Perpetual motion achieved!
It’s like letting my humidifier and dehumidifier fight.
The past 2 months has been a demonstration that just about everything the government does is grift, fraud, and waste.
Seems to be full of people getting rich off of fraud and others who are seriously trying to destroy the country – or both.
The program sought to dramatically expand Americans’ access to broadband internet; however, as congressional Republicans and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr have pointed out, the program has largely failed to connect Americans with internet.
Sheesh. The program was really lining contractors’ pockets. It was a fine success, as all these programs really are.
Enjoy your time off Tonio.
“the program has largely failed to connect Americans with internet”
Now that’s how you write a laff line.
“Enjoy your time off Tonio.”
Thanks.
Sorry, honey. I largely failed to pick up milk at that store.
What happens in September?
The Eternal September.
No one should have ever woken up Green Day.
Love will be changin’ the minds of pretenders
I’m envisioning returning when the weather starts to turn cool and the days become short again.
So, a foul weather linxter?
If we can have you all the time we don’t want you! *slams door and sobs
Enjoy your time away from the Glibnutterverse sir.
What happens in September?
Well, the third Sunday will find a ‘liber’ of libertarians ewwing and ahing over the great mistory of how the bees know to store honey in little hexagon cups.
mystery
So on that $42B – was it actually spent, or is it in purgatory? Federal appropriations have expiration dates, mostly within a year, when the money must be obligated (a contract in place) and expended (actually moved out of the government to the contractor). If that doesn’t happen, the money isn’t legally usable for something else, it mostly ceases to exist.
Continuing resolutions, bro.
If I’m not mistaken, those take the 5 year budget plans and that is what is continued. So FY25 isn’t what was spent in FY24, it was what was “planned” for FY25 but never actually appropriated (which still has to happen before the Executive branch can spend it).
I seem to recall that the Stacey Abrams slush money had left the Treasury and was being held by a third party (bank?). Not sure if that was her entire take, or just part of what she was promised.
“Charges were filed.”
I see a police report was filed. I did not see that she had been charged in the linked article.
Dammit. Good catch. I should know better. Sloppy writing on my part.
Serious reply: Yeah — they’ve blown through all the money on
handing it out to their enviro-croniesimpact studies and built almost nothing. Everyone knew this was coming.Less serious reply: No.
I’d think about it (the linking) except for two issues:
1) Getting WordPress pretty isn’t in my skill set. Y’all have seen my article… if it looks like it was practically typed in gVim… well, there’s a reason for that.
2) If being busy this summer is the reason — I’m planning/hoping/trying to move back across the country over the summer. That’s going to involve at least two CA->GA driving trips of multiple days, presumably a GA->CA one way flight back (to get the other car and the other family member), various running around like a chicken with my head cut off as we try to figure out what we really need to take (because the GA house has enough crap already…), how to button up this house to survive our absence, work HR paperwork, etc…. So odds are good I’ll be unavailable for a good stretch of it.
I’m just far too lazy for that level of effort.
Well, links slots do come open as people experience life changes. There may be an oppo in the future.
As to making it pretty — doesn’t have to be. Content is king, after all. Happy to work with whoever takes over this timeslot to help the linkster achieve his/her vision.
Wait… I was supposed to make links pretty and hold to some editorial standards? Here I thought I just provided links that entertained me or struck my fancy, some music, and a drink recipe.
Screw that pretty bullshit. The people need content!
$7B to connect Merced to Bakersfield. It would be cheaper to just move one city next to the other.
Europe (or most of the West these days), assailant arrested… refusal to give any description… random attacks… “no motive yet”… my money would certainly be on a Hawaiian purveyor of between meal consumables.
Hawaiian meat? Hawaiian Bros FTW!!!
“a Hawaiian purveyor of between meal consumables”
What you did there, I sees it I does!
Aloha Snack Bar?
Cunty Aunt Susie has capitulated. My initial intended “give” (sale sign up 4/1) was delayed by 2 weeks/1 month (coming soon sign 4/16, sale sign 5/1), so Mom has to sign the intra-sister contract, Susie has to sign the realtor contract, then once the sign goes up, we will withdraw the suit.
Mom is currently doing well under the care of her hairdresser surrounded by the whirling stench of perm chemicals. Considering where she was 3 months ago, it’s a fucking miracle.
YAY!
Huzzah!
Excellent.
Hooray for capitulation.
Yay(!) all around, indeed, save Cunty Suzie. Fabulous.
Good to eventually come to a positive resolution. Fuck Suzie.
Nice.
Enjoy your time off, good sir.
Now I wonder, who is MY editor?
Just shoot me an email if you want me to look at your stuff. And not just you, any of you.
Tonio is a man of his word. Work is good, price is right.
Shoot you an email of my stuff? So, junk mail?
42 billion for internet? I could have done it for far cheaper. For only a hundred million I’d have been only too happy to have not done a damn thing.
Pie would have happily not given us a trans-atlantic cable for a fraction of that cost too!
$42 billion? Amateur numbers. That’s not even a full Ukraine.
I would volunteer for Thurs links duty, but all you’d get from me is software utilities, nostalgia, jewelry, fashion, wimmen things, and general bitching. But I repeat myself.
Go the modern journalizing route and just post links to social media comments from random people.
We might get twitchy if someone were to do that.
That could actually work for us. Much of the news stuff happens in the AM links.
I’ll email when I get home, and see what I can do.
You could highlight the weeks best you find on X!
Also congrats with your mother.
How would that be different than other daily links?
I don’t see other people as obsessed with utilities, jewelry, and nostalgia as I am.
Mojeaux:
I’ve been pleasantly surprised to see which links I select get the most comments on them. It’s nearly never the ones I think they’ll be.
Yah, one of the posts with the highest comment count recently was on how to make a PBJ.
And I repeat for nth time: An Elvis has peanut butter, banana, AND BACON!
Mo, I even read Nephs links.
So you got the $1,200 letter and still did nothing. Makes sense. I bet you got the other ones as well.
‘I Thought It Was a Joke’: North Carolina Woman Loses $850,000 Home After Missed $400 Payment to Homeowners Association Leads to Foreclosure
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/03/26/north-carolina-woman-loses-home-after-missing-one-payment-to-homeowners-association/
Our HOA can put a lien on the property but not do squat until you sell and they take their cut from the proceeds. Hard to believe they can just evict someone.
Do not get into an HOA. Dont do it. There is no upside.
On the PA special election, the Republican candidate has conceded.
“Having reviewed the numbers from last night, including the fact that there are not enough provisional or other outstanding ballots to change the overall result, I have called Mayor Malone to congratulate him and wish him the best,” Parsons said in a text to a LNP | LancasterOnline reporter.
From what I can find, the law on automatic recounts in PA is only for statewide offices and ballot measures, so that law does not apply here. Parsons would have to ask for a recount, and if he is conceding, I doubt he will do that.
I’ve also been looking into some voter registration numbers, ballot returns, and other stuff. When you combine Parson’s concession, the numbers I looked up (not many people claiming cheating looked at the number of unaffiliated voters in the district), Lancaster County’s row offices being Republican except for one county commissioner, and I think the claims of cheating are wrong.
I did find one person that looked at the unaffiliated voter numbers for this election. She thinks it’s crazy that this many people that aren’t a Democrat voted for a Democrat via mail-in ballot. I think depending on the candidates it might not be crazy. It’s not that many people when you look at the raw numbers.
I didn’t go far enough down the rabbit hole to see what types of campaigns the Democrat and Republican ran, or what type of candidates the Democrat and Republican are, but at this point, I say there was no cheating. Also not knowing about the candidates or their campaigns, I doubt this has any greater meaning for the mood of the country at large. But, twitter hot takes don’t write themselves.
I am firmly of the conviction that, even more than cheating to win an election, the real damage that has been done is the complete loss of faith in elections.
Fuck mail in ballots. Fuck rank choice.
Nailed it.
That is the plan.
I think Tonio would rather nail a ‘he.’
Big ManBear Love.
Zero Hedge is hosting a socialism v. capitalism debate
Visit the ZeroHedge homepage tonight at 7pm ET for our live Capitalism vs Socialism Debate, with socialist Rutgers Professor Ben Burgis facing off against capitalist Editor of the Libertarian Institute Keith Knight. The debate will be moderated by Erik Townsend, host of the MacroVoices podcast.
On one hand your federal tax dollars were subsidizing this, OTOH your federal tax dollars were funding ecojustice NGOs to delay and impede this.
Win/win!
claims more women in his cabinet than in any other Republican administration.
Better looking, too.
You mean Rachel Levine wasn’t a looker?
As well as being neither a woman nor a Cabinet member.
For certain values of looker.
Excuse me, that’s Admiral Levine to you.
Spectacular. Gotta Catch ‘Em All
https://nypost.com/2025/03/27/world-news/pikachu-joins-turkey-street-protests-against-opposition-leaders-arrest/
“It has now been 977 days since the Biden-Harris Administration passed its $42 billion plan for expanding Internet. 0 Americans have been connected. 0 Shovels worth of dirt turned.”
Just as long as the checks cleared. That is the only meaningful measure of success.
I’m sure we have some top notch environmental impact reports, studies on equity, and meeting minutes in the works to show for it though.
How much was actually spent
? Probably a shit ton still unspent but a judge will require Trump to spend it because Congress appropriated it.
I just got back from my cousin’s funeral and didn’t get to add any comments to the previous article. Probably just as well for you anyway.
My well driller neighbor told me “If you can’t find water in Minnesoda (as a well driller) you need to change occupations”
I’m sorry I forgot to tell you it was scheduled for today.
There has been a lot of churning with the calendar. I was originally going to start a fiction series at Noon today but I pulled that since it’s not coming along as fast as expected. Your article got bumped up. My bad.
Thanks anyway, it worked out well.
Cousin had the big A for the last couple years, was in a care center. Not many tears were shed for Grandma.
Chauncey Gardner reflected on that. The time for harvesting …
Sorry about your cousin.
Just shoot me an email if you want me to look at your stuff. And not just you, any of you.
Phrasing !
but all you’d get from me is software utilities, nostalgia, jewelry, fashion, wimmen things, and general bitching. But I repeat myself.
Don’t forget the cool houses and furniture.
Ooooh, yes!
Houthis remain undeterred as missile attacks continue to bedevil Israel, US
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/houthis-remain-undeterred-as-missile-attacks-continue-to-bedevil-israel-us/ar-AA1BLXbW?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=a0977256302f48808f7344480df380c1&ei=12
tl;dr = their missiles are all hidden underground
https://www.bairdmaritime.com/security/incidents/piracy/factbox-summary-of-houthi-terror-attacks-on-merchant-ships-in-the-red-sea#:~:text=1%20Houthi%20commandos%20seized%20the%20crew%20and%20Bahamas-flagged,attack%20caused%20a%20large%20hole%20below%20the%20waterline.
***
The Houthis have carried out more than 100 attacks on ships since November 2023 and have sunk two vessels, seized another and killed at least four seafarers.
***
They don’t seem like much of threat. Perhaps it is time to return to armed merchantmen.
***
An armed merchantman is a merchant ship equipped with guns, usually for defensive purposes, either by design or after the fact. In the days of sail, piracy and privateers, many merchantmen would be routinely armed, especially those engaging in long distance and high value trade. In more modern times, auxiliary cruisers were used offensively as merchant raiders to disrupt trade chiefly during both World War I and World War II, particularly by Germany.
***
I strongly approve of this course of action.
Today, in melodramatic outrage
In the background are a few dozen men, crammed into a cell. Their bunks are stacked four-high. Their heads are freshly shaved. They wear identical white shorts. They are all shirtless.
Their poses are similar. Three rows of prisoners stand still in the front as Noem speaks, their hands either at their sides or clasped in front of them. The rest of them are arrayed on the bunks so as to create a visual for Noem’s use. None of these men is speaking. Or moving. Or making any facial expressions. They have clearly been posed by the jailers, forced to hold position so that they can be useful props for the American woman so that she can manufacture propaganda for her regime.
We have seen this kind of thing before. Just not from America.
I want to be deadly serious about this: We are now the bad guys.
Let’s discuss.
Look at those innocent lambs.
This whole situation is fucked up. Things did not get this way overnight, and it won’t be fixed in a hurry.
Rome wasn’t burned in a day.
As far as I know, Venezuela is welcome to take them back, at least the ones that are from their, and the reason they are in El Salvador is because Venezuela refused.
By “we”, of course, he means, “You, and certainly not me.” It’s a cute little linguistic trick that really, truly, makes me want to punt Mr. Last right in the balls.
We won’t be the good guys again until we’re in multiple elective, long-lasting wars at once and toppling governments in places no one has ever heard of, just the way the neocons at The Bulwark like it. Fucks like Bill Kristol had their time, and they championed every disastrous foreign intervention available. They may want to sit quietly for a couple of decades.
I do admit to a little heartburn that some innocent people may have been swept up in this. I hope ICE’s intel is good and the deportation orders secure, as I’m not sure what due process was involved.
He used to be readable.
Good catch, Sheldon.
They’re goddamn prisoners. How the fuck should the look?!
Shaving, etc. Dad had to do a (slightly more polite) version for the army in the early 70s. Get deloused and hosed off.
It *does* suck they weren’t housed in a swanky NYC hotel, “re-purposed” for official use. Damn shame.
I started reading that. I really did try to engage it. But when I got to “bodies” I stopped.
Also, LMAO at “Honest news. Smart analysis. Good faith.”
I don’t like it either but I’m not gonna be a preening asshole about it.
The illegals should be dumped at the most convenient airport available in their native lands.
Any natives (?) should get the usual due process.
I continue to be confused about what “refused to accept” really means. Just land the damn plane somewhere in-country (what are they going to do, shoot it down? Can they even shoot down a plane in Venezuela?), shove them out the door, and take off.
There. Deported.
Exactly. Land the plane. If they refuse, the next plane will have a bomber escort.
A high-ranking American official visits a prison on foreign soil which we are using to warehouse enemies of her regime. She appears in a fitted long-sleeve tee and active-wear slacks. There is a ballcap on her head and a pound of makeup smeared across her plasticized face. A gold Rolex Daytona—worth more than some of these men will make in their entire lives—sits proudly on her dainty wrist. Every piece of this visual is carefully engineered.
Demonization goes both ways, I guess.
“A gold Rolex Daytona—worth more than some of these men will make in their entire lives…”
Yeah, I want to see the economic breakdown on that. “Some” is doing heroic work, here. Some of those men make that much in a night or a week, unless everything I’ve heard about organized crime is a lie. Hell, some of these guys have probably lifted Rolex watches off of still-warm corpses for whose deaths they are responsible.
And notice the shifting tone and gaslighting in “a prison on foreign soil which WE are using to warehouse enemies of HER regime.”
Looks like those watches run about $30K. The average annual income in Venezuela is about $2500/year. So I doubt the lifetime income of these people is less than $30K. At $750/year, you will make $30K over a 40 year span of working.
How much do they make moving drugs and committing crimes and extortion?
I mean, I would think human trafficking would be pretty lucrative.
The message is this:
America is no longer a shining city on a hill. It is no longer the leader of the free world. It no longer stands on the side of liberty as a beacon for those who yearn to breathe free.
This is the land of wolves now.
Sure. Whatever, Shirley.
That must be why nobody wants to immigrate here and thousands are emigrating every week.
Fucking way cooler. Land of the Wolves. I dig it.
Liberty Wolves
Ahem, it’s “Brutal American”.
Who signed up?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/dna-testing-company-23andme-wins-court-approval-to-sell-data-after-it-filed-for-bankruptcy-what-does-that-mean-for-your-privacy-200551978.html
A gold Rolex Daytona—worth more than some of these men will make in their entire lives—sits proudly on her dainty wrist. Every piece of this visual is carefully engineered.
What is it with these watch fetishists?
Carefully engineered? She wasn’t even wearing her Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS ensemble.
Who the fuck cares?
Google says new list (good luck) is $50k. Used market $35 to $50k.
Watches. Key cog in the anti-lefty establishment. Damn dial on the wrong side. See also: The stylus on the Righty side when ya sign docs at the bank/etc.
Fuck watches. Fuck banks, too. Pup, 14, has suddenly taken to shitting deeper in the gravel alley into the trail’s gully. My hips don’t lie, pup, and we no likey. We also don’t rummage! (Well, I can, cuz I’m an adult.)
I made a wondrous discovery while trying to decipher the runes from the illustrations of Kipling’s Just So Stories:
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2015/05/23/byplay-2/
Oh, damn. That’s kinda awesome.
artist’s depiction of my discovery:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSxjvF_eTpU
Google says new list (good luck) is $50k. Used market $35 to $50k.
Zuckerberg’s kids probably have more expensive watches.
Hedge fund legend George Soros was seen wearing this Patek Aquanaut back in 2010.
https://watchcharts.com/watches/brand/patek+philippe/aquanaut
Starts at $50k
I suppose this would finally be the time for me to write up a series of posts on the Catskills Fire Tower Challenge. I wouldn’t have anything written up and ready to go for a few weeks, and wouldn’t have six months worth of Thursday afternoon posts, either. I have, however, done some other mountains in the Catskills but don’t know if I have good enough pictures to do posts on all of them.
It would be that time, Ted! It would indeed.
And you don’t have to use your own pix, there is this marvelous internet thing where you can gank the pictures of other ppl. I feel appropriately guilty (but only so) when I do it, and experience appropriate content-creator outrage when my photos get ganked.
Late, but +1 for the use of “gank”. It’s been a minute.
“Speaking on the prior Biden administration that came before him, Trump said, “For four long years, we had an administration that tried to abolish the very concept of womanhood and replace it with radical gender ideology. Maybe you heard something about that. They destroyed women’s spaces and even tried to replace the word mother with the term birther person, the mother became a birther person. What’s that all about?
Trump noted that he had seen on television a Democrat fighting to keep trans-identified males in women’s sports. “I said, this guy is going to lose. He’s going to lose badly. The whole party is still into that. They haven’t learned, we don’t want him to learn, frankly, we want him to keep fighting. Let’s not tell him under the Trump administration, we’re ending the Marxist war on women, and you had a war on women, and we’re protecting women’s rights, defending women’s dignity, and standing up for the American moms and daughters, so many are represented here. Great people in this room. American women have never had bigger champions than all of us in the White House.”‘
Gotta say, I’m loving the constant barrage against the Left’s assault on cultural norms.
I love hearing from non telecom people that BEAD failed to deliver without looking at the actual timeframes. This is really just another round and the timelines are normal.
Wireless is not the answer for rural broadband. It’s an idiotic stopgap being pushed by retards. Just like staying regular, the answer is always fiber. Buy once cry once.
Fair point, Gustave. How long should it take to get a good start on something like this? It’s been nearly 4 years.
And is fiber a good solution, on a cost basis, for (very) low density/rural populations?
I know tone doesn’t across in text, but those are serious, good faith questions.
It’s slow slow slow until deadlines start approaching and then it’s cram time.
https://www.fierce-network.com/broadband/heres-lowdown-whats-going-bead
Other factors are this is moving from the FCC and their USF slush fund to the Commerce Dept and funneling through the states instead of providers bidding with the FCC directly.
Meanwhile over the past 4 years, you still had CAF II running and RDOF start (and is still going on).
The whole thing is a frustrating piece to watch year after year while some providers use it to do wonders while other use to do a bare minimum of (usually outdated requirements). It’s all going to be multi year because there’s not enough contractors or material to have a one time spike.
My view is that if there’s electricity or phones now, fiber can be ran in. Once it’s in, the electronics on either side can be upgraded over time but the fiber is already there. Wireless is always going to be limited in bandwidth or issues with obstructions.
But it appeals to the same sort who spend millions to figure out short term ROIs and wonder why after ten years they haven’t done anything other than choose bandaid solution after bandaid solution that never work out, are late, have cost overruns etc.
“Wireless is not the answer for rural broadband. It’s an idiotic stopgap being pushed by retards.”
LOL
I am an actual telco/lan/wan, last-mile person. And former phone phreak. I once was the proud owner of an ISDN butt set, and knew how to use it because, reasons.
I know how to terminate everything from wirewrap (before you were born, asshole), to fiber.
LOL.
LOL.
Ell-0h-effing-ell.
I’ve only been in the industry for mere 31 years this summer. Lots of dumb ideas, and occasionally some good ones, come from the inside.
Um, I retired from “the industry” in 2018 after more than thirty years of service. Check your email. Respond appropriately.
“Retards,” Gussy. “Retards.”
How is that working out for you?
Srlsly?
Until some bubba with a backhoe cuts your precious fiber, dickwad. I remember the east coast backbone outage of circa 2001 when some idjit cut the east coast fiber backbone in Spotsylvania or Orange county Virginia because he didn’t call “Miss Utility.”
Happens. Happens to the wireless back haul. Or on the long haul side. Meth heads think cable is cable. Slides. Road construction. Animals.
Try addressing the main question, Gussy. Particularly “retards.” This is an FAFO sitch.
Also, why are you using a dead/invalid registration email?
I love how you pretend to have more professional experience than me, yet I retired years before you reached the 30-year point you seem so proud of.
Reporting-MTA: dns; relay.mailchannels.net
X-Postfix-Queue-ID: 2733C8A3D15
X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; tonio@glibertarians.com
Arrival-Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:07:48 +0000 (UTC)
Final-Recipient: rfc822; cdrlytton@gmail.com
Original-Recipient: rfc822;cdrlytton@gmail.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Remote-MTA: dns; gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does
not exist. Please try 550-5.1.1 double-checking the recipient’s email
address for typos or 550-5.1.1 unnecessary spaces. For more information, go
to 550 5.1.1 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=NoSuchUser
41be03b00d2f7-af93b88332csi1309138a12.508 – gsmtp
Oh, look. Gussy is using a fake or dead email account. LOL.
Still awaiting an appropriate response, gussy.
Since you are registered here with a fake/stale email addy, I’ll do you a solid and show you the message I tried to send you via email.
Why It is NOT a GOOD IDEA to Call Ppl “Retards” in Their Own House
Contact photo
To cdrlytton@gmail.com on 2025-03-27 20:07
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Strongly suggest you rethink that “retard” thing, asshole.
Srsly.
Glib telco nerd fight!
Fight! Fight! Fight!
More seriously, “retards” is a trifle spicy, Gustave.
I’d *love* a civil debate here on the subject – old-school, article and rebutting article style, like back when public intellectuals had it out via magazines.
Seriously, I’m telco-nerd adjacent and would truly love a point, counterpoint debate.
Dead one. Haven’t used it except for reason and you guys for the original registration.
Fair enough. I apologize for that. You’re absolutely right and I am wrong. Feel free to edit or delete any of the above.
Please please please give
meus a point, counterpoint series on this, gents…“Dead one. Haven’t used it except for reason and you guys for the original registration.”
Whine louder, Gussy.
Not. My. Problem.
I made a good faith effort to communicate with you via a back channel, to save you humiliation, and all. Because I’m classy like that.
In the interest of peacemaking, Tonio, his next comment is a legit apology.
Baseball season has begun. Let’s go Homeless A’s!
The Cubs begin Opening Day 0-2. *frump* That, plus starting the season against a slew of really good teams, is unfair. (I thought about it. In this sense, it really is. An odd curveball-beginning to your season, with exhibition games + two *real* ones against the defending World Series Champs? Damn.
However. our biggest rivals both lost today. That’s good. All is not well, but I’ll pretend it is.
Just saw a trailer for Sinners, and it looked good. I rarely say that. Michael B Jordan in an undead/ supernatural uprising in 1930s Jim Crow South. (Filmed in Louisiana.) At least nothing in the trailer tied it to anything political, but it’d be impossible to fully ignore.
Curious. Also. Michael B. Jordan. Great in The Wire, and good at his job. But who the fuck names you Michael if your surname is Jordan? Post 1985 or so. Uh. I have to spell my easily-spelled last name and explain I’m not the mayor of Evansville. Let alone being a) black, and b) obviously not Michael Jordan. Huh. Strange creatures, humans.
Hey now….that ’70s pop dreck brings back some very good memories.