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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 13h

Rare truth telling here from an American winger. Sadly it doesn't actually comport with reality as many Americans are finally beginning to learn. This is the fundamental epistemological horizon all these people operate within.

Pic of a "quotable quote" by Karl "Goebbels" Rove: “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That said a wee bit of googling shows this, which supports what you're saying, though I dunno that a mere 42 is cause to celebrate, and of course I can't help but notice that other sources basically triple that number.

Bar graph showing school shootings in the US by year, starting in 1966. clearly shows that the number went bananas at the beginning of the Trump era, though the number has declined in the last couple of years, with only one a week this year compared to three a week a few years ago. Also has been noted that some of this may be thanks to trigger happy sociopaths holding off on laying waste to their school's normie population so they can join ICE and lay waste the the entire society's normie population.

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's not just that the visitors encountered things, it's also that there's just a lot fewer visitors:

Chart showing tourist visits to the US between 2000-2026 from Mexico, Canada, UK, Japan, and France. Of particular note is the massive canyon of visitors during the covid pandemic era (2020-2021) and the absolute cliff since Trump started presidentiblathering at the beginning of 2025. Canada's tourists in particular dropped from 20 million in 2024 to less than 8 million so far in 2026. Mexico went from 18 million to just below ten, but all the countries in this chart have seen significant declines during Trump's second interregnum. Source cited as "International Trade Administration, US Department of Commerce".

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The face of a climate courtesan.

Faeceplant post by the Heartland Institute trying to argue that somehow magically the warming effects of CO2 in the atmosphere are going to tail off now, so burning their client's products is hunky-dory.

The main takeaway from this is that elite US research universities are for-hire institutions.

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The 21st Century's Gilt-Edged Blonde.

Pic of Natalie Harp in front of a gilt-framed picture in the Oval Office. Text reads "I sewed your godhead on your shirts in case you forget you're president."

The 21st Century Gilt-Edged Blonde

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

A gilt-edged blonde for the 21st century. It's getting weirder and weirder out there.

Meme showing pic of Drumpfengroupie Natalie Harp surrounded by the gaudy gilt in the Oval Office, with text reading "I sewed your godhead on your shirts in case you forget you're president".

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Including screenie to ensure that everyone understands the context.

Tweet and reply from Tenn Holler and Sandman.

Tennessee Holler: "Yikes... in case anyone is still unclear on =how out of touch bill maher is... humiliating..." over a video of Maher talking about the price of burritos, with a caption saying "Bill Maher has no idea how expensive everything is: You can "feed a family of 8 for $20"

Sandman replies: "He's the Chuck Schumer of comedy."A

Gonna leave a mark, that one.

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Just about the least surprising thing on earth. The only thing the Republican leadership feels about Epstein Island is regret at missing out.

Screenshot of a HuffPost article about how the Republican National Committee has decided to support child beater Max Miller despite him breaking his toddler's bones, downplaying the seriousness of Max Miller breaking his toddler's bones, and indicating that they would help him fund this fall's election campaign in Ohio.

Also, too, everyone's going to get a load of just what the quality of the people of Ohio is after that first Tuesday this November.

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Good lord, it’s not just JK Rowling that’s boxed in the onion; the entire fandom is brainrotted.

Headline from The Guardian about how Harry Potter fandom forced the relocation of an undersea power cable costing nearly half a billion pounds so as to avoid a fictional grave of a fictional character.

Text from Guardian article about the Harry Potter fandom forcing the move of an undersea power cable to right next to a Bronze Age cemetery to avoid the fictional grave of the fictional character “Dobby” because its burial was filmed there.

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I feel like I'm gonna get in trouble for posting this one.

Appears to be a mockup for a fictional product called a "Musklight". The business end of the musklight has a latex face with a weirdly flattened mien and an open mouth. A connector runs from next to the face to text that reads "Realistic sweaty texture and lukewarm sensation".

The bottom slogan sums up the product by exhorting the reader to "Transport yourself to the worst sexual experience of your life."

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

larf rules for the little people, eh Clara James?

Post on Faeceplant by Tod Maffin. Says: "Not to commenters — my team sees all your comments. Even the ones you post, then delete ;)"

Shows a screenshot of a deleted comment on one of his posts by Clara James - Sarnia City Council Candidate, along with a few notifications about it, including "This message is hidden on Facebook", "This message has been deleted from Facebook", and "Replies to your Page are not permitted for this message". The comment itself says "You're literally lying . You liberal idiot ."

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Reading this thread you're kind of nutpicking. I don't see anyone in a position even remotely analogous to US Senator trying this shit. In the meantime there are lots and lots of sitting and campaigning US politicians who are interested in putting even more trade barriers up between our countries.

Xit from Bernie Moreno, one of Ohio's senators, over a tweet by a crony about wildfire smoke in Cleveland about how he's going to introduce legislation to sanction Canada because our boreal forest is burning.

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Finally, someone aiming to be a cop (AG is the top cop in many ways) willing to say it like it is: cops are allowed to target people because they feel like it and nobody can gainsay them. Circling. America is circling.

Bluesky post from The Bulwark. Post shows video from confirmation hearing for Todd Blanche as AG. It quotes:

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Hirono: Do you believe it is the president's right and duty to order the investigation or prosecution of his perceived enemies, yes or no?

Blanche: I can't answer that yes or no.
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Narrator: that means yes.

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

There is coming to be a strong prima facie case that policing in Canada has become corrupted at its high levels. The TPS officers recently busted, plus this:

Screenshot of a tweet by Tina Yazdani, links to an article on https://thetrillium.ca. Pic from article shows an "Entering the Greenbelt" highway sign. The tweet itself reads:

"No charges. No public updates. No end in sight.

The RCMP's Greenbelt investigation has reached the 1,000-day mark, and remains "ongoing."

Opposition is accusing the Ford government of "learning nothing" & continuing "backroom deals" as probe drags on."

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

For my American friends here. You think the trump clown show is what's doing the damage, but it's not *just* that. For example, the US ambassador to Canada is Hoekstra, and he invited a woman named Tamara Lich to the embassy for 4 July this year. It's not going to go back to how it was before.

Picture of Greg MacEachern, founder of KAN Strategies and a well-known political and business consultant in Canada. The text quotes him, saying "One of the key organizers of the illegal occupation of downtown Ottawa gets an invitation to the US ambassador's 4th of July event. So that's a pretty clear message."

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Oh look, the Ontario Conservatives are bringing HOAs to Ontario. This fits right in with the ongoing project to only permit owners of capital assets to have any actual say in what happens to the society. Yay. 😐

Post by Laura Smith in "Your PEC Community Page":

"Well here’s a thing that happened today…The association will have the power to set membership fees, establish localized by-laws, and even place financial liens on properties if those fees go unpaid.
-A major residential and commercial development in Prince Edward County is getting its own governing rules.
A Private Members Bill by Bay of Quinte MPP Tyler Allsopp, received Royal Assent in June.
The Base31 Community Association Act requires anyone who buys or owns property within Base31, to join the local association.
The association will have the power to set membership fees, establish localized by-laws, and even place financial liens on properties if those fees go unpaid.
Proponents say the structure will help fund and maintain a mix of arts, culture, and community facilities across the former military base.
It also explains that once a piece of land is sold to a private homebuyer or a business owner, that new owner joins the Base31 Community Association.
There is also a provision in the Act noting that property owners outside the 750-acre Base31 lands may request to join the association though this is not something the developers will actively seek out.
If an outside property owner does wish to join and the organization approves it, a notice is added to their land title stating that the property becomes legally bound by the rules from that point forward.
Construction of what is called Village A/Hilltop begins this summer and will include 458 residential units once complete.
The developer says those units will be north of Kingsley Roadand not within the historic Base31 district itself.
The Base31 project envisions as many as 7,500 units over the next two to three decades, along with numerous businesses. To put it into perspective, the adjacent Town of Picton is only around 4,500.
Base31 is located at the former CFB Picton military airfield, municipally known as 343 County Road 22 and 204 Kingsley Road."

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This guy's kinda got a point here.

Facebook post by nixCraft showing a pic of a headline from Bloomberg with a pic of Anthropic CEO Amodei under a headline reading "Anthropic accuses Chinese rival Alibaba of illicitly extracting AI capabilities."

nixCraft's comment on this headline is "Oh, so now scraping data without permission is bad for AI training? :D how ironic ;)"

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Here is the absolute vibe that I get from these people in general and RFK Jr. in particular.

Nazi propaganda poster from the 1930s showing a doctor standing next to a profoundly disabled person. Poster points out that supporting this disabled person costs 60,000 deutschmarks with the tagline saying "that's your money". Was used to prime the general society to be able to send their disabled people to the ovens.

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Fedora has apparently decided the right move is to emulate the Windows patching experience.

Picture of a monitor on a computer running Fedora, showing the title “Installing Updates…” and a progress bar with a subheading saying “Do not turn off your computer.”

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I'm in ... Canada, and Facebook is showing me this post by an obvs AI generated profile. The amount of money being slopped around by winger billionaires must be inspiring. Not that I have any doubt that good ol' Zuck's in there doing his part by helping to spread this manure as widely as possible.

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Hey @raphlife.bsky.social, something seems to have gone badly awry at the Hinterland Forums site.

Image of the Hinterland Forums home page that appears to be having trouble getting to its CSS info.

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Is it just me or is nslookup.io kind of broken?

Screenshot showing nslookup.io reporting no CAA entries on a particular domain, while dig shows that there are entries.

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I hear someone leaked an early conception of a design that der Drumpfenführer found fantastic:

Berlin flak tower from the early forties.

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Pretty close to perfect juxtaposition.

Screenshot of post by adelpreore.bsky.social showing a cloned Aaron Rupar account (atrupterrr) directly above a repost of said account about how much better Ukraine's doing now that they've stopped information sharing with the US.

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Trashmerica. This person needs to listen to some John Prine: youtu.be/sRCLHBhZPQ4

Thirst trap influencer Piper Presley goes full wingnut, and complains about people getting things she thinks they don't deserve. Complete with tactical american flag patch on her hat. She needs to listen to some John Prine: https://youtu.be/sRCLHBhZPQ4

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Good of you to tell everyone what you are.

Famous Bors cartoon with the “hip white guy” in cargo shorts doing the well actually dance.

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Yeah, the American's aren't trying to destablize Canada, no sir. Note well the underlying "we need to make sure we can fuck the indigenous people under our new state or we will not be able to steal their shit" that is the true basis of his complaint about how the effort is being run.

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

A relevant post from the before time on That Other Platform, you know, the Nazi one.

Two posts, from Aug 2020. The first is a question from Atlantic writer Noah Smith (@noahpinion@xitter) asking "what's one thing that's very harrd for most people to believe, but which is actually true?"

Jack Troughton (@partialtomusic@xitter) reples: "I'd say "The US is not a functioning democracy" but that's only hard for most Americans to believe, not most people."

Sadly, the situation has not improved in the US. Somebody needs to jiggle the handle so it'll stop running the "personalist cult autocracy" course.

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

That this person cannot determine an obvious grifter like Marco Rubio tells everyone a lot about the credulity of the average American and how the US has gotten itself into the low state it finds itself in. Doesn’t say too much about the US educational system either.

Series of Bluesky posts discussing the US gov decision to revoke and deport researchers investigating social media algorithmic censorship by the platforms. Reply saying “I never knew Marco Rubio was such a bigot, xenophobe and spineless roadie!” is highlighted.

The highlighted post goes a long way to explaining why the US is in the place it’s in. A goldfish could tell you that about Rubio but apparently that’s beyond the capacity of the average white American.

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

All of a sudden, just out of nowhere, I thought of this old movie:

Poster for the 1983 film "The Star Chamber", starring Michael Douglas. The image uses a motif of a group of faceless men and women in suits sitting along a long board table, with a star superimposed by lighting effects that throw their faces into deep shadow. Not a photograph.

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I'll do you some better: Tricky Dick pics!

Tricky Dick Nixon demonstrating proper sausage pull technique at a press conference.

Tricky Dick Nixon showing the right mouth shape to make to slobber the helmet of a substantial sausage held in the hand.

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

American Justice is an oxymoron.

Screenshot of a NBC article about how the Colorado Appeals Court has thrown out the sentence for the Magaat who tampered with ballot machines in 2020. Apparently saying "I really believed that I should have that" is a valid defence in the US... so long as you're a white conservative bimbo.

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

It seems that they’re blowing holes into oil refineries now. This means we can expect years of energy price inflation, rather than months. From France 24:

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