I’d rather stare at the catus than care about status.

O Sybile si ergo
Fortibus es in ero
O Nobile emis trux
Vatis enim causan dux.

FRED: Hello, what’s this?
BOB: Oh, that? That’s the butt baker button.
FRED: The … butt baker button?
BOB: The butt baker button!
FRED: What’s the butt baker button?
BOB: Oh, the butt baker button bakes your butt!

TOGETHER:
Oh, the butt baker button bakes your butt,
Yes, the butt baker button bakes your butt!
If your butt’s cold and unbakéd
You don’t have to get it naked
The butt baker button bakes your butt!

and there’s no Stalin in the “Marxist-Leninist”.

“Marxism-Leninism” is Stalinists’ preferred term for their political ideology. They endorse the genocidal tyranny of Stalin, while claiming that Stalin’s tyranny is justified by Lenin’s and Marx’s theory.

If someone calls themselves a “Marxist-Leninist”, just ask what they think of Stalin’s genocides (plural). Then stand back.

Fax may outlast landline telephony.

I’d rather have aphids than have no pollinators!

Ladybug larva — and if you see a lot of these, that’s a really good sign. It means that there’s an actively reproducing ladybug population, which in turn means that the area isn’t heavily poisoned with insecticides. Let’s keep it that way!

September kids eventually figure out we were probably New Year conceptions.

He also looks a bit like Alex Pretti.

Usually, “shit” is worse than “ass” as a swear word. And yet, in “this shit is ass”, the negative sentiment is carried by “ass”, not “shit”.

“I’ve looked at love from both sides now…”

Dude. Trees. Dude.

Trees, dude. Trees.

Antichristian, that is; in service to Mammon and to the Beast 666, Nero redivivus.

Ender’s Game came out before the Web. But like many science fiction authors of the time, Card was a very early Internet user and would have been familiar with Usenet newsgroups.

With a little bit of Hellboy.

A lot of folks in Ireland have an Aunt Aoife.

That new mix tape was the bomb. Or did it bomb? I’m confused.

You just started reading this sentence and it’s already over.

1. Backdoors in consumer software cannot in fact be restricted to “legitimate” use. All it takes is one “bad apple” to leak the keys – say, a radicalized police officer leaking them to a fascist group for use in harassing political opponents – and those keys show up on the darknet and are directly available to abusers. This is a much larger threat than (e.g.) traditional landline telephone wiretapping.
2. If secure communication systems are made illegal, the organizations that build those systems (e.g. Signal) will shut down so as not to be prosecuted for “enabling child abuse”. This deprives their current users, including children, of the secure communication systems they are already using today.
3. Sadly, law enforcement officers abuse their power quite often. They also have a higher rate of domestic abuse than the general population. Giving them power to spy on children’s communication is directly enabling abusers.