@minim-calibre this seems like something you’d be interested in.

Reddit reviews indicate it skews fruity floral, which given how things throw sweet on me...

OTOH, apparently their Narcotic V is a bomb tuberose of the practically soliflore kind, so that's tempting AF.

(via @arianwells )

Some people play video games to get the evil out of their systems. Sometimes that evil is directly violent in nature, sometimes it’s white collar crime.

I just had the actually thought of "some of you never hung out with people born in the 1900s (by which I meant between 1900 and 1909) and it shows" and then realized that I am the Spiders Georg here.

(My maternal grandparents were born in 1901 and 1902, and I spent much of my youth hanging out with a neighbor born not long after them. My youngest grandparent was born in 1916, for full context.)

Also, like, my second-youngest grandparent (born in 1909) had one grandparent of his own born in 1825. (His other grandparent was born in a more reasonable 1848. There was something of an age gap.)

I come, my paternal grandparents excepted (Gram was done having kids by 24), from a long line of people born to older people. Birth years of my great-grandparents:

Most of my great-grandparents were born at least a hundred years before me. The youngest of them was in his mid-80s (and still alive, but not in contact with much of anyone because he was a thoroughly nasty piece of work, and my grandmother married at 18 to escape him).

Meanwhile, my young adult child still has one living great-grandparent. Who, to be fair, is Hella Old (99), but still! My aunts were closer to her age than to my mother-in-law's! (Hell, my parents are actually closer in age to her than they are to my mother-in-law.)

↑ girls who don’t play about john singer sargent

It's not that you become utterly oblivious to what is cool as you age. But once you turn like 30 you discover that cringe can be weaponised. You figure out how to deliberately compose a sentence that will make every under-20-year-old's internal organs scrunge from just hearing it, like you just cast a wizard spell.

Me intentionally using the definite article, the, with TikTok while teaching.

You can get so much value out of dank and memes.

So much.

Especially if you pronounce them just slightly wrong.

Spellcasting.. summon H A S H . J I L L I A N

And what do you know, it worked. Yes, I will take that entire outfit. 

Yes, I still want this.

Have you considered: the magical attic dweller?

SECRETARY OF DEFENSE HEGSETH (It's important you remember this dude's job is to, like, know how to handle a crisis): That reporter is totally a discredited loser (paraphrase).

Me: HE'S EDITOR-IN-CHIEF AT THE ATLANTIC.

Sean: Oh, okay, so it's completely real, which I already knew but cool.

UPDATE FROM TODAY:

They are now going with the explanation of adding a journalist to their secret (and illegal) group chat: "Um, you've totally saved the wrong name to the wrong phone number, right? Who hasn't???"

Literally, no, I have not. I have never. And even if I did this every time I put a number in my phone, you cunts are supposed to be the top-tier government officials I can trust to (checks notes) CHECK YOU'RE NOT SHARING STATE SECRETS WITH SOME RANDO BEFORE HITTING SEND ON YOUR FIRST ILLEGAL MESSAGE TO AN APP YOU AREN'T SUPPOSED TO USE FOR THIS SHIT.

I double-check the names in the group chat before I make a dick joke, and these fuckos are just slinging their state secrets and war plans all over the place without anyone going, "Hey, before we violate several federal codes, maybe let's each come up with a codeword to say when we all first reply in the chat. So, like, Rubio, maybe yours could be 'orange' because you're from Florida. And Hegseth, yours could be 'nationalist' since you are one, and then JG, whoever you're supposed to be, that's gonna be 'dickcheese' because omg we would all be a bunch of dickcheeses if we assigned the WRONG JG to this super secret chat that violates the Espionage Act, so if JG doesn't say 'dickcheese' in the chat when we're all sharing codewords, we'll know it's the wrong JG and fix that before the editor-in-chief at The Atlantic can sit and watch us all eat our own asses."

Instead, we live in a world where all these supposedly very smart and very excellent people are having to come up with various levels of bullshit of how this happened while trying to focus on "How'd a reporter get in here?" while the rest of us are going, "WHY ARE YOU USING A NON-APPROVED MESSAGING APP TO DISCUSS BOMBINGS????? IF YOU'D JUST USED THE APPROVED CONVERSATION METHODS YOU WOULDN'T BE HERE YOU FAT-HEADED FUCKSTICK LOSERS WHO ARE SO GODDAMN ARROGANT YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE AN ASSISTANT DOUBLE CHECK A LIST OF PHONE NUMBERS BEFORE SENDING 'TIME TO BOMB YEMEN LOL'."

And you know what ESPECIALLY pisses me off about this besides the everything I've just listed? The fact that I would like to be able to say, "Look, bombings are an extreme answer to a problem, but the problem is Nazis, so bomb fucking away."

And I can't. Because these chucklefucks can't even bomb Nazis without being absolute chodes about it.

March 26, 2025:

Trump opened his air horn mouth and claimed there was no classified information in the chat.

Goldberg has now released the entire text of the chat.

So, basically, it's Goldberg with the steel chair

You may be wondering how this keeps getting stupider. My personal opinion is that every single person in this fuckery has built a career on being "straight talking", and none of them know how to finesse a situation like this.

I'm not saying I have any clue how I would finesse this, but I would at least go, "Yup, we fucked this one up good," because they'd get a few people off their necks if they'd just admit they fucked up.

But they can't because they see admittance of mistakes as weakness, so they're just getting steel chaired over and over again.

holy shit the new article from the Atlantic with the texts (internet archive link)

Pay attention to how almost no one responded to his email about publishing these texts. Pay attention to how the Press Secretary denied the classified information he had IN WRITING.

They are going to choke on their own arrogance, and I will not be offering the hemlich maneuver.

STILL MARCH 26, 2025:

Let's talk about #2 for a second. Let's talk about Operation Security (OPSEC) for a second.

Let's talk about how I actually have experience in OPSEC training as a technical writer because my job is to write about whatever the company I work for builds. In my time at various jobs I have worked on American military objects and military objects for US allies. Currently, I don't do either. I work on huge fucking batteries and the cabinets they come in, and all that shit is proprietary.

As a technical writer, when it comes to OPSEC training, there is no difference between military information and proprietary information. It's all the same training. It's pretty easy, honestly. You don't use unapproved communication sources (like Signal), and you don't send information without confirming where it's going (like to the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic), and you don't fucking lie if you did something that led to information possibly being stolen or seen by parties without clearance (like create a whole group chat without confirming phone numbers. Or, in the example always used in my training, by working on proprietary information on a plane without a screen cover.)

It ain't fucking hard. Just imagine everyone around you wants to gossip on your shit and cover your shit.

There is NO difference in "war plans" vs. "attack plans." This is an attempt to create a difference so that all the dudes currently in the soup pot can get away without getting cooked. Waltz has apparently taken responsibility as the one who created the group chat, but truly, every single fucker who was part of that chat should resign or be fired immediately.

But Trump doesn't want to have to reset his entire fucking foreign policy cabinet. Because who the fuck would he replace them with? The best guy he has in his corner is JD fucking Vance, who proved in those messages he'll question Trump behind his back but not to his face. His second best guy is Marco Rubio. Who you would think had the OPSEC training and common sense to know better than to participate in a clearly unsanctioned chat group about bombing Houthis. And yet.

And yet.

Trump won't admit he's staffed his cabinet with fucking arrogant cocksores because he is King Arrogant Cocksore. And MAYBE Waltz will step down to sacrifice himself on the altar of "Look, we handled it!" But none of those other cunts will.

Wars are made up of attacks. Every attack is part of a war. You cannot disconnect the two to save your favorite ass kissers.

Copy this address : https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/

Go here:

Paste in the address you just copied to read the article.

Thank you, dear!

For a March 27, 2025 update, here's an NPR article where they spoke to military members about exactly how strict the military is about information leaks and how the Trump officials seem to get a different set of rules. If you only skim, please read the last couple of paragraphs to see Tammy Duckworth's response to Hegseth's claims of nothing classified. She is a congresswoman who served in Iraq and lost both legs in combat.

They'll totally downplay it for their audience, but even a Fox News reporter (I stress again, a Fox News Reporter) in her investigation found the experts she talked to all saying pretty much, "Actually, these specific attack plans getting communicated this way is even worse than general war plans, what with being more specific and all."

Clowns, clowns, clowns all the way down.

I'M SCREAMING OMG

Can someone provide a transcript please?

Transcript:

this is the moment he's talking about

AFFIRMATIONS

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) — Points in the Curve  (oil on canvas, 1927)

Poll

#not yr

So this topic is on my mind a lot because I REALLY don't know. Which is weird. Like I don't have that parental drive in me that some people have, but I'm not sure if don't want to have children at all. And my partner is the same. So I was wondering how your situations look like. And bare with me, because this is poll #1 second part with more nuance will be in next post, I just can't post here 15 options which is rude.

If you want to share something in tags or in private I will gladly listen