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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 1h

I mean, he may not be particularly pleased with the Navy right now. Combine that with his doubleplusunlove for California at this point and... you're right that 'reasoning' would be granting too much.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 2h

yeah, San Diego is a particularly interesting choice as far as California cities go even if it's not as conservative as it used to be.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 8h

Why those admins in particular? I think they're the only ones with a vision of state capacity adequate for the 20th-21st centuries without the same degree of hubris that developed in post-1950 America.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 8h

Fair. I think the last American Government I would trust with that project is probably the FDR/Truman administration, back when we were helping defeated enemies write better constitutions than we had ourselves.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 10h

For sure, though I prefer to see it as expanding to other implementations of the "people" class. When all that's needed is a Worship Word, though, one can let "We The People" semantically decay to "Ee'd Plebnista" and it's as good or better because it stops Others from the idea that they're people.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 10h

Like, to the extent that the USA has A single original founding legal principle, it's "...whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government..."

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 10h

Ironically, of course, a true Originalist would conclude based on the Declaration of Independence that their own overthrow was mandatory.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 11h

Does it matter if the private equity owned real estate is a single family, duplex, condo, or apartment building/complex? It's always midnight somewhere.

Film still from Gremlins 2: The New Batch set inside the high-tech Clamp Center control room.
In the foreground, Billy Peltzer (Zach Galligan) stands wearing a tweed blazer and an open-collar white dress shirt, looking downward with a serious expression. Beside him, Forster (Robert Picardo) sits wearing wire-frame glasses, a gray suit, a dark red tie, and a thin headset microphone, smiling upward. In the lower right, a control room technician wearing a headset gestures with a raised hand. The background is dominated by banks of control consoles featuring rows of illuminated indicator buttons, switches, and glowing CRT monitors displaying telemetry and surveillance feeds.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 11h

What if the rental houses are owned by a private equity company controlled by the vampire?

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 11h

After a fashion, yes? Old name for a web crawler though I haven't heard it since the Jurassic era in Internet Time.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 04/10/2026

(or Comtessa after remembering term is gendered)

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 04/10/2026

You could remove them completely if you're trying to prove you're the Comte de Bleuville.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 04/10/2026

Honestly I quit when San Andreas made me buy food and playing GTA started feeling like work as opposed to a fun crime spree. 😅

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 01/10/2026

In large part this is because for all the Americanness they claim, they hate and fear the things that actually make America a distinctive country as opposed to just a place they happen to be from.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 01/10/2026

Trades or entertainment guilds, another area negotiating floors and conditions for non-standardized widgets for project-based work.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 30/09/2026

Also, rather than POSWID (the Purpose Of a System is What It Does) I think it would be more accurate to say POSWII (the Purpose Of a System is What It Incentivizes) since that is generally the actual mechanism by which What It Does differs from What It Says On The Tin.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 30/09/2026

Oh, THAT kind... I lived in the engineering major dorm my freshman year and I think that someone did that and I blocked the memory as too on the nose to be real. 😅

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 30/09/2026

Making pasta in the microwave is a perfectly acceptable lazy weekday night cooking for one shortcut that beats a frozen dinner as long as you don't pretend you don't know exactly what trade-off you're making and definitely don't claim you're objectively superior.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 30/09/2026

I'm the STEM kid who always wished I had more Gen Ed and Elective slots tbh, though my executive dysfunction lived in terror of the research papers.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 30/09/2026

I know that feeling far too well... 😅

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 30/09/2026

(I'm sorry if that came across as mansplaining because I didn't mean for it to, I'm just looking into both right now for basically the same reasons as I try to expand my repair abilities and there are a *lot* of people in the retro gear hobby space with the same issues 😅)

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 30/09/2026

If you wish enough for it to be worth the space/money for you, a good precision electric screwdriver might help with the former issue, and an ESD workspace mat with organizer trays with the latter.

A dark gray silicone electronics repair and soldering mat isolated on a white background, surrounded by various workbench tools and accessories.
The top edge features built-in organizer trays, magnetic screw indexing notches, and component bins filled with small hardware, tweezers, and pry tools, alongside three upright screwdrivers with color-coded handles (red, blue, green). The wide rectangular work area holds an orange precision screwdriver and a black ESD cleaning brush on the left. Arranged beneath the mat are a black desktop solder spool holder, an adjustable blue anti-static wrist strap with a coiled cord, and an auxiliary grounding cable with alligator clips.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 30/09/2026

Simply put, when the eminently foreseeable risk of a choice is (as has turned from foreseeable to ACTUAL) at least hundreds of thousands dead who wouldn't be plus fucking over *literally the entire world economy*, I can't reason my way out of the moral liability being joint and several.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 30/09/2026

Just because one is too malinformed to be aware of the moral obligation to do due diligence as a citizen before casting a vote does not relieve one of the obligation.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 30/09/2026

I can't not judge his supporters because I can't reason myself out of considering casting a vote for him as, construed as charitably as I can while still granting moral agency, an act of depraved indifference.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 30/09/2026

You're right about that. I was thinking less about the women doing side and more about the masculine code of silence that stigmatizes the subject as too unthinkable to discuss and leaves male survivors feeling isolated, alone, and gaslighted by society.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 30/09/2026

The question Patrick McGoohan, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Hiroyuki Yamaga, and Hideaki Anno all want their audiences to ask

A still image of Harvey Korman as the character Hedley Lamarr from the film Blazing Saddles. He is sitting behind a large desk in an office lined with wooden bookshelves filled with law books. He wears a gray suit jacket over a white ruffled shirt with a black ribbon tie, looking directly into the camera with a deadpan, exasperated expression, his hands clasped together on a green desk mat. Bold white text across the bottom of the image reads: "WHY AM I ASKING YOU?".

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 29/09/2026

It's pretty much the ultimate example of how Patriarchy Hurts Men Too. 🙃

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 29/09/2026

It probably unlocks *some* cool power EEAaO-style.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 29/09/2026

I keep semi-seriously referring to this film as "Evangelion Pre-Build 0.0/0"

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 29/09/2026

(More specifically on Apr 3 at Academy Cinemas in Auckland, which is a fantastic indie theater buried four flights down from the main central library that still has and uses their waterfall proscenium curtain, and then this past Sunday at The Palm Theatre/SLO Film Center here on the Central Coast)

Promotional artwork for a screening of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s film The Holy Mountain, marked with the number "27" in the upper-left corner. The composition features the Alchemist in silhouette wearing his iconic broad, flat-brimmed black hat, framed against a glowing golden pyramid and stylized white clouds. His hands rest atop the bowed, bald heads of two nude figures facing inward. Between them, a radiant red heart containing an all-seeing eye esoteric emblem rises from stylized orange flames set above small plinths. The film title, "The Holy Mountain," is printed across the bottom in stylized, ornate white lettering

Wide interior view from the rear rows of a classic independent cinema auditorium before showtime. The house is fitted with curved rows of high-backed, dark blue upholstered theater seats. At the front, the movie screen is concealed behind a tall, pleated gold-tan stage curtain. The auditorium walls are lined with floor-to-ceiling pleated gold drapes topped with layered decorative valances in teal and burgundy, illuminated by warm recessed downlights along the dark ceiling. A few patrons are scattered across the center seats waiting for the film to start.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 29/09/2026

I am quite probably the only human being on the planet who can say they have seen Jadorowski's The Holy Mountain in a theater twice in the past six months, on opposite sides of the equator and international date line but in the same season (early fall).

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 28/09/2026

I have been informed by the historical document "Cowboy Bebop" that the fridge is an excellent place to store a gun and a terrible place to store lobster.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 28/09/2026

And of course it's unfortunately perfectly historical behavior for *invading armies*. Doing it to your Own People, though...

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 26/09/2026

"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department!" says Wernher von Braun -- Tom Lehrer, "Wernher von Braun" (1965), partially quoting W.H. Auden’s 1939 poem “September 1, 1939.”

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 26/09/2026

South Korea has more recent memory of how bad things can get if they don't.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 26/09/2026

Fair. Unfortunately illegally renaming the DoD back to DoW in order to use it to commit treasonous acts probably isn't sufficient.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 21/09/2026

Also, after once again having my order called as "Michelle" it's not just white people who get other people's names wrong. Many Latino/a/x people seem unable to pronounce "Michael" to save their lives, while white folks just usually can't spell it. ("Micheal" is common) 😅

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 21/09/2026

As usual in late September of an even year I find myself appreciating California's extensive efforts to make sure its citizens have some idea of what they're voting on, even if the size of our ballots and the number of races and measures we have to vote on can be a bit much.

Front cover of the California Official Voter Information Guide for the November 3, 2026 General Election, featuring voting timelines, an official state seal, a Certificate of Correctness signed by Secretary of State Shirley N. Weber, and an isometric illustration of a ballot box styled with red-and-white stripes and four white stars on a blue field.

Close-up edge view of the bottom spine corner of the California voter information guide resting on a black textured surface, showcasing its substantial thickness with hundreds of tightly packed, folded newsprint pages bound into a dense booklet roughly half an inch thick.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 21/09/2026

(At least I think that was the movie with the polish that changed color at the touch of a stylus)

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 21/09/2026

We're still not to Total Recall level yet though.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 19/09/2026

I had a Jewish Latina classmate (hyphenated spanish-german surname) in college in the mid-2000s whose father was a Holocaust survivor, so you might be surprised.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 19/09/2026

Replace early 90s SNL with "A group of largely boomer comedians who peaked appealing to the youth of the generation that's become the most MAGA" and it makes more sense.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 18/09/2026

Probably...? but only because his last name happens to start with A.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 16/09/2026

Seriously, I was working hotel front desk as a summer job in *2003* and could already sense trouble from how many of my non-college coworkers' plans were to strike it rich becoming a real estate agent and house flipper.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 09/09/2026

🤔 I suppose my friends' AMO (Anime, Manga, other Otaku related merch and topics) that we lifted from an early 2000s Japanese export webstore we patronized named AMOTokyo is similar in concept.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 25/08/2026

Y'know, that may be the problem. She took a whole community college course on WP in the DOS era and so may have internalized that every program works differently when WP was unusual and GUI cut and paste have been mostly standard since PARC.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 25/08/2026

My mom is 80 and I have literally been trying to teach her the Windows shortcuts that have been standard since at least Windows 3.1 since... well... Windows 3.1 was standard.

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Mike @kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com · 16/08/2026

And the buy it for life subreddit didn't exist, so you had you and the people you know to go by vs the larger picture of a knowledgeable salesperson. Though if you were the kind to check bifl you probably also had either a subscription to Consumer Reports or looked through it at your local library.

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