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Trweacle's Last Neurwon

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Secret third answer: it was a fuck-up that resulted in a leak.

Fromm the Goldberg Atlantic article:

"Waltz and the other Cabinet-level officials were already potentially violating government policy and the law simply by texting one another about the operation. But when Waltz added a journalist—*presumably by mistake*—to his principals committee, he created new security and legal issues. Now the group was transmitting information to someone not authorized to receive it. *That is the classic definition of a leak, even if it was unintentional*, and even if the recipient of the leak did not actually believe it was a leak until Yemen came under American attack.

All along, members of the Signal group were aware of the need for secrecy and operations security. In his text detailing aspects of the forthcoming attack on Houthi targets, Hegseth wrote to the group—which, at the time, included me—“We are currently clean on OPSEC.” "

March 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM

Trweacle's Last Neurwon

@trweacle.bsky.social

If that doesn't solve, I've just been using "balanced" in the Settings/Performance/Memory-saver setting to good effect.

I used to use suspender ext too, but ditched it - currently got several hundred tabs open/available/sleeping in a dozen tab groups with less fine control but absolutely no issues

Screenshot of Chrome's settings/performance/memory-saver settings page.

ststem is set to "balanced" mode

March 6, 2025 at 12:17 AM

Trweacle's Last Neurwon

@trweacle.bsky.social

Another galactically stupid take from the "Free college is racist" Gingrich lady.
We all know this bit by now, Ms. Alt-right
www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

Does "free college" specifically benefit women and minorities? Does it benefit anyone who isn't already going to college and just doesn't want to pay? Reinforcing the status quo is racist.

— Sally Albright (@SallyAlbright) January 17, 2018

March 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM

Trweacle's Last Neurwon

@trweacle.bsky.social

Surely not THIS strapping member of the TeslaJugend?

Biggus Dickus offers grweetings from Rwome

February 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM

Trweacle's Last Neurwon

@trweacle.bsky.social

Watching "Sisters with Transistors"
Enthralling doc film by Lisa Rovner - charts history of women who pioneered electronic music.
All the greats -inc: Wendy Carlos, BBC Radiophonics, Clara Rockmore slaying on Theremin, Éliane Radigue (ARP), Laurie Spiegel, more & more wonderful artists

Laurie Spiegel in an electronic music studio (possibly at Bell?)

By OblongSquare22 - [1], CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=155026643

Clara Rockmore (1911-1998) playing the shit out of her Theremin

Unknown photographer - https://www.wnyc.org/story/inventor-and-virtuoso-leon-theremin-and-clara-rockmore-listening-room/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=137708019

Suzanne Ciani in 2024
By Binksternet - Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=152013112

Maryanne Amacher (February 25, 1938[1][2] – October 22, 2009)
American composer and installation artist. She is known for working extensively with a family of psychoacoustic phenomena called auditory distortion products (also known as distortion product otoacoustic emissions and combination tones), in which the ears themselves produce audible sound.

By Sascha Pohflepp - Maryanne Amacher, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2915002

January 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM

Trweacle's Last Neurwon

@trweacle.bsky.social

Yesterday. Tomato dhal topped in garlic shrooms, bread & butter.

Bowl of homemade tomato dhal topped in garlic mushrooms, bread & butter. Coffee.

December 31, 2024 at 9:26 PM

Trweacle's Last Neurwon

@trweacle.bsky.social

Completely normal, afaic. I got a nice big stovetop pot like this one 👇
I'll routinely brew a third pint at around 8 or 9pm most evenings, to get me through til morning, just in case I wake up (I always wake up) in the night & fancy some more.

December 27, 2024 at 10:31 PM

Trweacle's Last Neurwon

@trweacle.bsky.social

All muh homies deeply misunderstood.

What is wrong with peoples brains?

I am beginning to think that the wider universe of #Stewanon / #BlueAnon types are in a weird competition to compile the stupidest lists & titles ever.

A short stupidly mis-targeted Bluesky moderation list, entitled:

"Possible MAGAfakes, controlled opposition, useful idiots, Kiwi"
List by ‪@mediengestalter.bsky.social‬

Apparently, these good citizens, mostly of the #balls-iverse persuasion, are in fact, secretly, really
. . . Possibly (!?):

"MAGAts and MAGA sympatizers posing as liberals, left-wing, progressives."
Furthermore, it seems they believe us to be:

"Controlled opposition." - "Useful idiots". - ( and I kid you not, fucking "Kiwifarm" FFS?

WTF is wrong with people?

December 27, 2024 at 3:04 PM

Trweacle's Last Neurwon

@trweacle.bsky.social

Haaretz ~
'When You Leave Israel and Enter Gaza, You Are God':
Inside the Minds of IDF Soldiers Who Commit War Crimes

"As a psychologist dealing with brutality in the military, I see how the government rhetoric of hatred is worsening the problem". ~ Yoel Elizur
archive.ph/2024.12.23-1...

Haaretz | Opinion
Dec 23, 2024 ~ By Yoel Elizur ~

'When You Leave Israel and Enter Gaza, You Are God': Inside the Minds of IDF Soldiers Who Commit War Crimes
As a psychologist dealing with brutality in the military, I see how the government rhetoric of hatred is worsening the problem

"A new commander came to us. We went out with him on the first patrol at six in the morning. He stops. There's not a soul in the streets, just a little 4-year-old boy playing in the sand in his yard. The commander suddenly starts running, grabs the boy, and breaks his arm at the elbow and his leg here. Stepped on his stomach three times and left. We all stood there with our mouths open. Looking at him in shock ... I asked the commander: "What's your story?" He told me: These kids need to be killed from the day they are born. When a commander does that, it becomes legit."

December 23, 2024 at 10:46 PM

Trweacle's Last Neurwon

@trweacle.bsky.social

👋 "Here I be ! 🫡

Compressed & rolled "meat" (SPAM) products, comprised of 3 kinds of reconstituted meat slime (pink, red, and brown) and sawdust.

The meat slurry is arranged in such a way that as you cut the dense slug of SPAM style "meat product" into slices, the face of Jim Stewanon is revealed.

The product is called " MEAT CLOWN™ " . It sells for £0.29p for 100g
(Equiv: £0.33p / ¼lb)

It is funny, cursed, and devoid of flavour or nutritional value

December 23, 2024 at 10:21 PM

Trweacle's Last Neurwon

@trweacle.bsky.social

"[California state prisons eugenic* sterilization] program compensated only a fraction of ≈800 women ID'ed by state audit who underwent [...] sterilization while imprisoned between 2005 & 2013 👀
[...] audit also found that prison doctors regularly violated the consent process for [...] procedures"

$"But that [...Ca state Prisons' eugenic forced sterilization...] program has compensated only a fraction of the around 800 women identified by a state audit who underwent procedures that could have resulted in sterilization while imprisoned... *** between 2005 and 2013 *** ...; that state audit also found that prison doctors regularly violated the consent process for such procedures during that time. As of June, the California Victim Compensation Board (CVCB), the body tasked with determining who gets reparations under the program, has approved compensation for roughly 120 of those survivors, according to documents from the board. The board has denied more than 430 of the 549 applications it reviewed, rejecting about 4 in 5 people who sought compensation, according to documents from the board. The board told Bolts in a statement that more than 200 of the applications it denied came from “currently incarcerated male inmates.”$

December 22, 2024 at 11:35 AM

Trweacle's Last Neurwon

@trweacle.bsky.social

You mean this guy?

I could see that.

#Ballsgang

A head & shoulders image of G.I. Robot.
He appears happy, and is discussing regular #Ballsgang orders of business: ...
"G.I. Robot would like to kill Nazis with you"
... says G.I. Robot, delightedly

December 21, 2024 at 8:05 PM

Trweacle's Last Neurwon

@trweacle.bsky.social

We need to shut down this whole *starter packs* thing . . . at least until we can discover what the hell is going on.

#BlueAnon #Resisters #Resist

December 21, 2024 at 7:42 AM

Trweacle's Last Neurwon

@trweacle.bsky.social

"Hiss!"

December 19, 2024 at 7:26 PM

Trweacle's Last Neurwon

@trweacle.bsky.social

"I’m kind of home tutored in a box my pop made. It sometimes gets very hot in the box... my pop made."
-- Dean Venture (Eeney, Meeney, Miney... Magic!)
venturebrothers.fandom.com/wiki/Learnin...

Dean Venture enjoys a cathartic moment, as he says a fond farewell to his Venture Industries™ pat-pending Learning Bed®
in :
--"What Color is Your Cleansuit?" [Season 5]

Trivia

The Learning Beds have a false bottom built into them that is connected to a chute, allowing the bed's occupant to be safely deposited into the Venture Compound's Panic Room when an emergency occurs.

The Learning Beds were located in Hank and Dean's bedroom at the Venture Compound in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Spare beds and extra parts were stored elsewhere in the compound.

The Learning Beds are apparently programmed by entering data via computer punch cards.

A modified Learning Bed was worshipped by the subterranean dwellers in the tunnels below the Venture Compound in season 3's What Goes Down Must Come Up.

from - https://venturebrothers.fandom.com/wiki/Learning_Beds

December 19, 2024 at 12:33 PM

Trweacle's Last Neurwon

@trweacle.bsky.social

Deleted & reposted as I neglected a redaction...
Aaand because of course:
Worms like Jackson fucking Hinckle now get to crow about the "Syria fAkE nEwS!", all because Clarissa needed her scoop - fact checks be damned.

Great job
@cnn.com

Truly exceptional work. Just irredeemably shit job.

A tweet from the account of Assad apologist worm and relentless disinformation spigot, Jackson Hinckle.

He will gleefully glom onto the story of how Clarissa Ward of CNN got taken in by, & helped facilitate the escape of, an Assad military intelligence officer and local extortion gangster.
He will spread it far & wide to generate distortions & plausible cover for RW authoritarian thug apologists he bootlicks.
Jackhole Winkle is able to do this propagandising freely, simply because Clarissa Ward NEEDED HER TV SCOOP and she couldn't - more likely wouldn't - wait for an identity confirmation.
CNN - fact checks be damned.

December 17, 2024 at 2:28 PM

Trweacle's Last Neurwon

@trweacle.bsky.social

Strong piece - thanks for sharing it.

"Amnesty Israel finds itself in the awkward position of being neither a source of legal expertise, nor providing a diverse human rights perspective of Israelis and Palestians....just another place for Israeli Jews to express themselves."

Amnesty Israel’s position on the report was prepared by two Israeli Jewish staff members who are not legal scholars, with external assistance from Israeli legal experts. What Amnesty Israel was lacking in legal expertise it could have perhaps offered with an analysis that is instead rich in its diversity of perspective, having had Palestinian staff and board members working together with the Israeli Jewish ones to write something truly unique on this issue and contribute a perspective that would be difficult for outside experts to replicate. But instead, no Palestinians had any input on Amnesty Israel’s analysis of the genocide report.

This isn’t because there were no Palestinians present. Amnesty Israel had skilled Palestinian staff and board members ready to contribute. It wasn’t because the Palestinians in Amnesty Israel have no legal expertise — after all, the Israeli staff doesn’t either. It’s because, as Palestinian activists and scholars Haneen Maikey and Lana Tatour have pointed out, a common pattern in progressive Israeli spaces is that Palestinians can provide labor, translation, lived experience and trauma to feed the analysis of Israeli Jews, but cannot be equal partners who get to do the analysis side by side and set the agenda together.

Amnesty Israel finds itself in the awkward position of being neither a source of legal expertise, nor providing a diverse human rights perspective of Israelis and Palestians. It is just another place for Israeli Jews to express themselves.

December 16, 2024 at 4:59 AM

Trweacle's Last Neurwon

@trweacle.bsky.social

An apt time to drag out this succinct little explainer once again

(original work by David Malki ! - bsky.app/profile/wond... did this)

David Malki ! Of WONDERMARK.COM explains and describes in artistic fashion one of the main irritating & tiresome ploy of wankers like Jesse Singal:

sea lioning.

December 12, 2024 at 10:29 PM

Trweacle's Last Neurwon

@trweacle.bsky.social

After the way RW media & wider maga hordes frothed & swooned over Trump's careful "mugshot"?🙄

Certain there'll be none of the usual Conservative talkers, flooding media with appeals for 'decency', or enacting theatrical 'revulsion' over the completely understandable thirst.😍

A woman's nicely manicured left hand holds a Trump mugshot™ sticker between finger & thumb.
He is an ugly fellow.

Thirsty side-by-side images of Luigi Mangione. In the left one, his jacket is worn with it's hood up, he has lowered the gaiter he has been wearing to obscure his features in order to flash a winning smile at the young desk clerk trying to jump his tasty bones.

The other picture is a police photo, (though not a formal mugshot - just a self-congratulatory "we got 'im" trophy pic).

Head high, shoulders back, looking every bit like fave problematic crush, the young Joe Stalin
(or maybe a sneering Noel Gallagher at the height of Oasis' powers?)

Ngl, even Cis-het me thinks I might've entertained a little hanky-panky in the right circumstances. 8¬)

December 10, 2024 at 12:23 PM

Trweacle's Last Neurwon

@trweacle.bsky.social

lol
Juror #1312 concurs

Jenn from Here
‪@jennfromhere.bsky.social‬

"They say they know he left NY yet still combing the city for him? They ain’t gonna catch him are they ? 😂!

Trweacle's Last Neurwon
‪@trweacle.bsky.social‬

"If they ever do, there's the whole 'seating a jury" thing for any potential prosecutor to face. "
"Imagine:

[Q. to Juror #1312] - Do you harbour any feelings of animus or ill will toward Health Insurance officials generally?

[Ans. from Juror #1312] - Juror made dismissive 'wanking' gesture (noted)"

9 December 2024 at 17:55

December 9, 2024 at 10:51 PM

Trweacle's Last Neurwon

@trweacle.bsky.social

NY's finest beating the bushes in Central Park, diligently searching for their quarry. Brrr! they look chilly! Bet they would all enjoy a well deserved hot cup of coac...🚨🚨🚨

[👀 at 0.43sec]

👋 "Hey! Officers ...OFFIC - ERS !!"
"LOOK OUT, HE’S BEHIND YOU ! 👉 turn ...no TURN AROUND ...no, BEHIND you"