If you gave me a list of all the people Orange Julius Caesar nominated to be in the next administration, I would have guessed that he was giving us a bait and switch. It goes something like this: If I give you the most outlandish option I can think of and you say no to that, then you might say yes to my second (real) choice because it seems more reasonable than my first option. That was my opinion until the Butthead from Florida resigned from Congress. That gives a little weight to these being real picks. That said, it’s Butthead. He may just be stupid. As I said on Threads last night, the Senate can do something hilarious, reject him and send him back to Tallahassee jobless.
Back to my favorite dark blue/gray/white palette, you’ll notice a new design here. WordPress has released v 6.7 and with it the Twenty Twenty-Five theme. It allows me to have a clean and simple blog, and it just serves as a reminder of the evolution of my online footprint over 25 years. Here’s one link for the current domain, and another that goes back to 2001. There’s another shared domain (locnetwork.digitalchainsaw.com) from 1999 to 2001, but the Wayback Machine doesn’t appear to have it. You can see the start of it in HTML, to WP to Squarespace, and back. All sorts of bells and whistles as we went on over the years, and now back to a plain old blog, which is what it should have always been. Also how the owner of the blog should have been. I, like the blog, have gotten unnecessarily fancy and dropped it all in the past few years. The heart attack has accelerated it if I’m being honest. I don’t have any more time to be fancy or waste energy on things or people I don’t need, what you think of me, or me being nice just to keep the peace. That, along with other shit, is what got me here in the first place.
Consider me not on Xitter (pronounced Shitter) anymore. I’m not deleting my account, but I’m not going to post there actively unless I have to post something every thirty days or so to keep my handle. I don’t want to free my handle up for anyone else, like spammers or fraudsters. I am on Threads and Bluesky. Bluesky has blown up since the election as a Xitter replacement. Threads has more users (Meta, duh) but Bluesky appears to have the old pre-Phony Stark DNA imprinted in the source code. Same handle everywhere, so jump on if you like.