June 23, 2026

Victory For the Roach King May Have Come Too Late


The dialog is awkward because You-Tube will demonetize or ban anyone who uses the R-Word in association with things that actually happened. 

No not THAT r-word, I mean rape, which I can say to call attention to dreadful things only because Pixy's not evil. 

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June 22, 2026

A Bitter Pill of Indeterminant Color


This is all over the place but it's about 20 minutes and it is worth a watch.

Heiens' argument is not that novel, or at least would not have been 20 years ago, certainly not in Conservative circles, but a combination of populism, and students taught by todays teachers has blinded a whole generation to these realities. 

One of the reason's for Trump being elected twice, is the quite well founded sense of betrayal that his followers have regarding the ruling class: i.e.: the managerial credentialled cadre that has run the U.S. and much of the world since the second world war and has become rather decadent at best and case studies in oikophobia at worst (see current events in the U.K.) 

This is also the reason for the frothing levels of hysterical hatred directed at him by many on the right. Those of us who count ourselves as conservatives tend to deeply value the institutions and their trappings. and a great many in the comfortable class have no contact with or empathy for the suffering and in many cases sadistic humiliation that has been visited upon those that do not share their experiences.

Trump's own flaws have certainly not helped in this regard, but much of the complaining has as much to do with irrelevancies like fashion as any of his actual manifest shortcomings. Like it or not, Trump is a sort of Tribune of the Plebs, and the Plebians are what his loudest detractors hate more than anything. 


  


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June 20, 2026

The Banality of Girlbossing

Banality lurks below the fold.


As compensation here is a song that, while not my cup of tea, still knocks it out of the park thanks to the superb editing of Calvin C. Shinobi.. 

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June 17, 2026

Bargains No One Needed

One must take savings where one can get them.

As it happens, yesterday, the internet provided doomscrollers with double the doom at no extra charge. 

The Rape Gang Inquiry Report from the U.K. provides exoneration to those who had been screaming about this atrocity for 10 years or more. 
However, I do not feel exonerated, chuffed, smug, or vindicated. 

I feel sick and horrified.

It is far worse than I'd ever imagined. 

This is worse, far worse, frankly, than I'd imagined was even possible. 

I couldn't post on it yesterday. It made me physically nauseous. 

I still cannot process it or say anything except that people need to die. 

Everyone should read this.

But do not eat before doing so. 


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June 14, 2026

Programming Note



Above is next week's streaming schedule. 

The reason for two ZZZ streams is that Monday is the LAST day to pull S-Rank Billy, which will require a spot of grinding, and, late Wednesday night, Version 3.0 drops what promises to be a thermonuclear lore bomb. Definitely looking forward to that!  

No science, history or movie streams because the IRL RNG is being a gremlin.

(All times listed are EDT ie: UTC -3)

The chaos is all happening at  https://twitch.tv/brickmuppet

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Chaos Via the IRL RNG

Banality skulks listlessly below the fold.

As compensation here is some cheesecake featuring the Former Acting Goddess of Water and Courtroom Dramas. 


Former Acting Goddess of Water and Courtroom Dramas is by Chabi009


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Descent

Yeah. 



For folks who don't know, Ken White used to be a really reasonable guy, and an excellent lawblogger. I read Popehat Blog a lot back in the day, but his descent into...this...Has been genuinely scary. "Gradually, then suddenly..." to paraphrase Hemmingway. 

Thing is, he's a really intelligent guy (he has to be, he passed the Bar Exam). 

His writings can't be an inspiration anymore, but they can be a horrible, horrible warning that even the smartest of us can be swayed by the darker angels of our nature and will end up in the same place if we aren't alert.

Here's a hot take: as a general rule, calling for a political opponent's death, even obliquely, is not a best practice as long as elections still happen. 

Here's a hotter take. It's easy to just point and laugh at Ken White because he is on BlueSky, a leftwing platform known for celebrating and advocating for the death of people like me. His arguments in this matter are silly and his desired outcome is evil. He is marinated in one rather wacked worldview on a platform that does not abide dissenting views and this has driven him clean out the Overton Window into the online equivalent of a Jacobin lynch mob. 

BUT:

He is a guy who passed the bar exam.
Even smart folks can fall into the same murderous frenzies of chimpanzees on the warpath, because we are all fallen sinners and the great apes are not a peaceful lot. 
I say this not to excuse White's abhorrent views, but to warn people that his path to perdition is only politics indicative and not politics exclusive.

I've seen, in the last few days, smart folks I admire, having been blackpilled by some recent events start to mutter things that  are nearly as bad and taken to their logical conclusion would be far worse. 


There is much stupid right now. 
Don't yield to it.
Don't be online at all times. 
Touch grass and talk to people.

And remember:

If one finds would-be despot from Eternia can have a humane and nuanced take on what's black-pilling one, then there is no need for one to embrace the darkness. 

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OH RIGHT!

I've got a blog.

I should maybe post there.

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June 06, 2026

82 Years Ago


USS Nevada (BB36) fires the first shots of Operation Neptune, the Naval component of Operation Overlord (D-Day) 82 years ago today.

Photo from a  German gun battery in Normandy making life stressful for a U.S. Coast Guard 83 foot patrol boat from Rescue Flotilla One 82 years ago today.

An 83 foot patrol boat from the U.S. Coast Guard's Rescue Flotilla One tows the wreckage of a landing barge lorded with survivors out of the range of German guns, 82 years ago.

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June 05, 2026

37 Years Ago Today




37 years ago today, the student know to history as Tank Man stood up to murderous oppression and for a brief moment gave the whole world hope, before Tiananmen Square became an abattoir. 

An ironic footnote: Tiananmen Square is the park outside the Tiananmen Gate into the old Forbidden City. Tiananmen means 'Gate of Heavenly Peace'

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Special Event

Tonight at 9pm EDT 1am UTCs (9pm, EDT 1am UTC) Join Myself and  Hyasynth Live over at https://twitch.tv/brickmuppet for a break from the usual as we screen aa absolutely superb documentary film from 1925. GRASS: A NATIONS BATTLE FOR LIFE follows a tribe of nomadic Iranian herders as they do their annual trek as they chase the seasons that provide them with the key to their survival: Grass. 


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June 01, 2026

This Weeks Schedule



Here is the schedule for next week (ending June 6). While the early part of the week is my usual muddling through video games with delusions of adequacy, Friday will see a special treat! We're doing a collaboration with Hyasynth Live and screening a 101 year old film that is genuinely historic. 



Grass:  a Nation's Battle for Life is a fascinating documentary and is generally considered to be only the second ethnographic documentary ever made. Telling an epic story about the migration of a nomadic tribe in Iran, the film itself also has a wild story, which we will be delving into on stream. Don't miss this. It's neat! As usual, streams start at 6pm EDT / 9pm UTC except Friday's stream which will be at 9pm EDT / 1am UTC at https://www.twitch.tv/brickmuppet 

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Tonight though, at 6pm EDT / 9pm UTC, in the aftermath of last Thursday's unfortunate turn of events, we will be spending the evening in a desperate search for polychromes, as we continue to explore New Eridu in the bombastic, high-energy, fighting gacha, Zenless Zone Zero.



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Project Hail Mary


I had not been to a theater in about 2 years. 

However, I had heard good things about this film and against my better judgement I spent WAY more than movies used to cost to go see it.

I'm really glad I did. 

This film is excellent, being a very enjoyable thriller that keep providing twists and surprises. 

Thing is: This review has been sitting in draft for 2 weeks because the film is SO full of twists that's it's hard to review without spoilers.  (The audience is not told what is going on at the beginning of the film and figuring it out is a major part of the movie).

The film is a surprisingly hard sci-fi flick, and features some aliens that are genuinely alien...and yet relatable...frequently....mostly. Except when they aren't. 

The film is a thriller and after a bit of tension build-up it delivers the thrills in rapid succession and in great quantity. However, the movie is also literate, thoughtful, and poignant.  

This film is Absolute Cinema.

 It's one of the best films I've seen ever, and despite my aforementioned hiatus, I used to go to the movies quite often. 

If you can find it in theaters I HIGHLY recommend it. It really is best viewed on a big screen. If you can only find it streaming, well I STILL recommend it. And you won't pay as much. 

Just go watch it. 

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May 30, 2026

Theories & Questions

...about Genshin lore, magic mechanics (ect. ect.)









UPDATE:
Sorry...paragraph breaks nullify the spoiler tag. 

Perhaps I should hire some specialists in arcane magic, OH. LOOK!