September 2021: only the dead
We haven't seen the end of war but after twenty years, our defeat looks ineluctable.
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The segregation of Citizen COVID
France brings out a SARS-CoV variant of leprostigma by fiat. Now where did I put my clapper and bell?
A snide proposal to rank the decline
The required first step before we can make any serious, authoritative-looking chart.
The Great Woketardian Cultural Devolution: a tool by any other name
Git for gits, the Nerd Guards never sleep.
The Fright of the Generals
We've had it up to le képi.
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2021.05.19T18.54.56-flashpost
Just fixed an embarrassing bug that could prevent members from changing their passwords.
If you ran into it, you’re probably uttering Damn yer eyes Frogman!
under your breath at the moment. Or out loud, even. I can’t blame you.
2021.05.17T16.59.15-flashpost
COVID-19(10)
Of old when folk lay sick and sorely tried
The doctors gave them physic, and they died.
But here’s a happier age, for now we know
Both how to make men sick and keep them so.Hillaire Belloc, Verses, “On Hygiene”, London 1910
2021.05.13T10.29.28-flashpost
Famed Iranian schrolar the Mahmoud returns. This time, he can hold up two fingers! On both hands! With a mask on!
2021.05.12T16.21.33-flashpost
I was just informed by my Hyperlocal Affairs correspondent (Hi Mom!), that to pass the gate into the small branch (two clerks, one office) of a big inter/national bank in the nearby small town, one now has to briefly remove their mask in order to pass the facial recognition system (before promptly putting it back on, of course).
Let me out. This is not the future I signed up for.
2021.05.05T16.32.13-flashpost
I’ll have a Coke then:
Raise the blockade, the problem will solve itself.
