A lie you told to the maze I'm in

[sovay]

spatch and I have performed our civic duties and received stickers in exchange for the exercise of democracy. It's been at least a year since we had to prove our residence in this ward and precinct, but the original experience was so scarifying that we still show up carrying utility bills just in case. The moon was brilliantly full and some of the leaves streetlight-orange in it. Earlier in the afternoon, I walked some distance by the side of a road where the afternoon sun had tinted the conservation meadows like ambrotypes. I have seen the news of the death of Dick Cheney. Twenty-five years sooner would have been better, but I had begun to wonder if he was even in the machine. Since Halloween, WERS has been playing a lot of the Last Dinner Party's "This Is the Killer Speaking" (2025). I am completely unsurprised that the band has covered Sparks.

P.S. w00t, Mamdani!

Comments

[yarrowkat]

if he was in the machine, lol. i saw that cartoon on IG today and that is how i found out he'd died!

[sovay]

if he was in the machine, lol. i saw that cartoon on IG today and that is how i found out he'd died!

A classic and traditional manner!

[gullyfoyle]

Hope all goes well with the local elections. What with the governorships in NJ & VA, Mamdani, and the fact that my local city council looks like it will gain one or two members who might actually listen to the planning commission and avoid things like, say, approving housing developments in flood plains, I decided to have a wee dram of the Macallan to celebrate. Oh, and also a drop not for Cheney but for the absence of Cheney. And it is a beautiful full moon, I believe the largest of the year.

[sovay]

Hope all goes well with the local elections.

Thank you! It looks like we did not get the mayor we voted for, but the other one is also progressive, so fingers crossed.

What with the governorships in NJ & VA, Mamdani, and the fact that my local city council looks like it will gain one or two members who might actually listen to the planning commission and avoid things like, say, approving housing developments in flood plains, I decided to have a wee dram of the Macallan to celebrate.

Go for it! And the absence of certain people is always worth celebrating.

[gwynnega]

YAY MAMDANI! I am so pleased.

[sovay]

YAY MAMDANI! I am so pleased.

I am really enjoying news that doesn't suck!

[gwynnega]

I'm so happy that my friend Stew's Mamdani campaign song came true.

[sovay]

I'm so happy that my friend Stew's Mamdani campaign song came true.

That's excellent.

"Ditch the fascist dork!"

[sabotabby]

fuckin YAY!

in the machine

[lauradi7dw]

I looked up "Dick Chaney in the machine" and got an instructive article from Popular Mechanics, to my surprise.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a69248937/dick-cheney-death-heart-history-no-pulse-device/

Someone on twitter pointed out that he and Liz were the only prominent Republican government officials to attend a memorial for a Capitol police officer who died due to the January 6th insurrection. I can't vouch for that, but it's interesting.

[minoanmiss]

My town's tiny election was pretty pleasant since I liked most of the candidatees and was spoiled for choice.

[sovay]

fuckin YAY!

It's such a nice change to be able to say that!

[sovay]

My town's tiny election was pretty pleasant since I liked most of the candidatees and was spoiled for choice.

Excellent! We did not get the mayor we voted for, but the mayor we did not vote for still looks pretty cool.

Re: in the machine

[sovay]

I looked up "Dick Chaney in the machine" and got an instructive article from Popular Mechanics, to my surprise.

As a sign of my disconnection from the times, it had not occurred to me that he would even have had to take his pacemaker offline because I would have thought the human heart should not be part of the Internet of Things.

Someone on twitter pointed out that he and Liz were the only prominent Republican government officials to attend a memorial for a Capitol police officer who died due to the January 6th insurrection. I can't vouch for that, but it's interesting.

Understood. I just wish him not to have been so instrumental in lighting a forever war, or paving so much of the path we're trapped on.

Re: in the machine

[lauradi7dw]

The world would probably have been better off if he never existed, but I hate thinking like that about people because (at a minimum) it would uncreate his children.

[pameladean]

I voted by absentee ballot, and only cautiously approached news of local elections. We have our same cute white incompetent unimaginative cowardly cop-fluffing mayor, blargh; but the City Council results can be cause for cautious optimism.

Late on the day it happened, I was in a really bad mood, and Cameron came to me and said, "I have news that might improve your mood!" "Really, what?" "Dick Cheney is dead!" *pause* "That does improve my mood."

I'm really happy about Mamdani and about the upending of Virginia. I mean. Wow. I only wish stupid pundits had not persistently referred to the candidate who did not win our mayoral election as "the Mamdani of Minneapolis." Thanks, weirdly provincial supposed informed people.

P.

[sovay]

We have our same cute white incompetent unimaginative cowardly cop-fluffing mayor, blargh

I am taking a moment to admire the devastation of that descriptor. I wish your city council the best of being useful!

Late on the day it happened, I was in a really bad mood, and Cameron came to me and said, "I have news that might improve your mood!" "Really, what?" "Dick Cheney is dead!" *pause* "That does improve my mood."

Yes! I was vaguely surprised it could happen at all, but not sorry.

I'm really happy about Mamdani and about the upending of Virginia. I mean. Wow. I only wish stupid pundits had not persistently referred to the candidate who did not win our mayoral election as "the Mamdani of Minneapolis." Thanks, weirdly provincial supposed informed people.

It probably sounded too good to resist, but seriously.

The rest of it I am still happy about.

[pameladean]

Thank you for admiring my descriptor! It has been honed through far too many years. I think this is his third term.

I figured Cheney would hang on into his nineties out of sheer perversity, so yeah.

Indeed, neither Mamdani nor his campaign nor his voters had anything to do with the dumbass punditry. I am delighted for all of it and they should rock on, as should all who rejoice with them.

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[asakiyume]

That song is ~ great ~ (and the video's a lot of fun too)

You look like a weeping saint with your infected eye --Awesome line.

[sovay]

That song is ~ great ~ (and the video's a lot of fun too)

I have been playing it almost literally nonstop!

--Awesome line.

It really is. I'd never heard of the band before the 31st. I love college radio.