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…NCSA mosaic won the web, absolutely; in truth i think it gave a lot of us an excuse to upgrade from terminals and shell accounts…

…i remember going to our computer lab in the early nineties and seeing a flyer about this new protocol called the world wide web, thinking to myself in what way is that better than gopher?..

…hey, willem dafoe is an accomplished thespian; show some respect…

…my experience before ‘high-efficiency incandescent’ halogens was the same: i have thirty-year-old proper halogen lamps either still going strong or which have been replaced only once over that period…these little A19 halogens, though, have an such absurdly-short duty cycle that they’re viable only by virtue of stocking up dozens of cases for pennies on the dollar when they were phased out a couple of years ago…

…i do hope that we have respectable consumer bulbs available in perhaps five years after those few hundred halogen bulbs are gone, but i’m not optimistic as poor spectra appear inherent to LED technology and the market seems to have settled on ‘good-enough’…proper incandescent bulbs are of course still available for specialty applications, but they’re not easy to get…

…the contractor-grade FEIT incandescents installed when we built our house enjoyed a MTBF of about five years; the FEIT halogens (‘high-efficiency incandescent’) i stocked up to replace them after traditional incandescents phased out are on the order of six months MTBF…

…while i question whether the manufacturing and distribution of ten fourty-watt halogen bulbs really emits less carbon than one sixty-watt incandescent running for the same duration, at least the spectra are unchanged: i’ve yet to find any LEDs which offer acceptable black-body spectra and i specify the things professionally…

Fuck you if you didn’t choose harm reduction.

…thirty years of choosing harm reduction brought us to this point…

…i held my nose and voted against fascism, but if you want to blame someone, blame the f*cking fascists and blame the thirty years of harm reduction which enabled them: pluralities win, that’s how american democracy works…

Don’t you think he looks tired?

Don’t you think he looks tired?

…hey now, herpes was his own personal vietnam…

…man, CNN jumped the f*cking shark way back during gulf war ONE; they haven’t merited the presumption of legitimate journalism for three decades…

…lest we forget: our global anthem…

…hey, that’s just like my library’s old PET 2001, my first computer!..

…taylor swift’s public statement was a well-considered cogent refutation of false endorsements posted by the trump campaign, one which pointedly resonates your position and likely merits substantially more respect than you realise…

…four police officers could handle a bernie rally; the other seventy-two were probably to manage the fascists trolling for trouble outside…

…how the unholy f*ck el paso ever hosted his rally after that racist shot up the place, i will never understand…

…i mean, to be fair he was barely coherent at seventy, too: that’s kind of his whole thing, sputtering out incoherent word salad so his fanbase can infer whatever they want to hear…

“Well, yes, he said that but what he really meant was this. I like him because he tells it like it is.”

…well, he can’t back out: his 2016 win was the unintentional outcome of a failed media campaign gone awry, and everything since then has been a mad scramble to avoid prosecution for all the laws he broke along the way and to keep uncle vlad’s kompromat at bay…

…once he loses executive immunity or outlives his usefuless, his whole world comes crashing down: you’ve seen the panic in eyes since late 2016, and most of the remaining GOP have since come along for the same ride…

…i’ve always read it as the former guy but presumed that folks embrace the ambiguity of that f*cking guy…

…it’s pretty common knowledge and readily explains his propensity for late-night toilet tweets when he’s not busy watching TV…

JHONK-JHONK!

…the f*ck is wrong with his face?..