resistance
-
Weaponization?
The orange baby and its henchpuppets are planning to pay the January 6 traitors on the basis of having been prosecuted by a “weaponized” department of justice at the direction of Joe Biden. But hang on a second. Let’s look at an actual example, the “QAnon Shaman.” You remember, that shirtless oddball who stood out… Continue reading
-
Underground (The)
May 17 2026 A lot of systems, institutions, and norms are breaking down. Some are vast and global. Others are small and local. And maybe my impression of this is hopelessly mired in my own local context, and like a large language model, I’m inexplicably hallucinating. I read a lot, though, and I’m not the… Continue reading
-
Time to do better
The US is not going back to the way we were. And good riddance, in my view. Without meaning to, American society and business practices have become a means of enriching and aggrandizing despicable people. This is not entirely new, but it seems to me that it’s more common and systemic now. There is not… Continue reading
-
The lost gatekeepers and the watchers
This is a followup to a previous post, where I complained that the internet information environment shifts a lot of work from the creation/dissemination side to the consumer/user side. Walter Benjamin offered another much richer analysis in his 1935 essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. He lived long before the… Continue reading
-
Isn’t this nice
Now that it’s January 21, I’m certainly enjoying my newly lowered credit card rates of just 10%. Just like the orange baby promised. It’s making everything so much more affordable. I bet you’re enjoying the lower rates too. Makes us forget all about Epstein, right? Remember Epstein? You’re not supposed to. Continue reading
-
“Two Weeks” again
Now the orange baby says it will sue JP Morgan Chase for closing one of its accounts a few years ago. It’s claiming to have been “de-banked” as a result of its attempted Jan 6 coup. The whole thing is nonsense, just more deflection. They didn’t even “de-bank” Epstein. Oh, remember him? You’re not supposed… Continue reading
-
Let me get this straight…
Advocates of the second amendment have used, as one of their justifications for why there should be no restrictions on guns, that they need to be able to fight back in case the government sends armed thugs into their communities. Now that the government is sending armed thugs into communities around the country (and killing… Continue reading
-
Doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome…
Why do reporters (and editors and news organizations in general) continue to simply tell us what the orange baby regime says?? From the object in charge to every single craven toady, if the mouth is moving, the entity is lying. I do not care what they say. What they say makes no sense, is usually… Continue reading
-
Message To ICE
With a nod to Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey: Get the fuck out of my country. Continue reading
-
Oh great, another year of this
The orange baby seems to enjoy starting off its calendar years by presenting new evidence of how subhuman and despicable it is. It attempted a coup a few years back, on January 6. The US turned out to be a little bit too resilient for it, so the 2026 subhuman atrocity was aimed elsewhere. Like… Continue reading
About Me
I’m Pete Harbeson, a writer (among other things) located near Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to writing my own content, I’ve learned to translate for my loquacious and opinionated pup Chocolate Bossypaws. No surprise, she mostly speaks in doggerel. You can find her contributions tagged with Chocolatiana.
Check out my other blog, Techlimitics, where I’m grappling with the nature of simplicity. You can also find some of my minor software projects at GitHub. Nothing very impressive. I mostly write tiny utilities in Python.
I find myself suddenly de-corporatized (their choice, not mine). To help keep the lights on, buy me a coffee!