Well there’s a shock

Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk

If Donald Trump’s administration really wants to find evidence of foreign interference in Georgia’s elections, then they need look no further than the president’s old friend Elon Musk and his shady super PAC.
Members of the Georgia State Elections Board voted Wednesday to issue a formal letter of reprimand to Musk’s America PAC over the billionaire technocrat’s illegal scheme to get Trump elected. Georgia, a key battleground state in 2024, was the target of aggressive campaigning by Trump’s team.
In October 2024, the Georgia secretary of state’s office launched an investigation after receiving numerous reports from residents across several counties saying they’d received partially prefilled absentee ballot applications from Musk’s America PAC, according to John Fervier, the State Elections Board’s chairman.
There was evidence to suggest America PAC had violated a state law that prohibits any person or entity, other than an authorized relative, to send an elector an absentee ballot application prefilled with the elector’s required information, according to Janice Johnston, the SEB’s vice chairman.
America PAC had also failed to display in a conspicuous location that this was not an official government publication, was not provided by the government, and was not a ballot, Johnston added.
The board swiftly voted to issue a letter of reprimand to America PAC.

Wow, I’m sure THAT’s got him shaking in his jackboots and he won’t dare try that again in 2028…

Grey Room #3

An evening of fun in the metropolis of your dreams…

    1. Boards of Canada – Naraka (2026)
    2. Stetsasonic – Talkin’ All That Jazz (1988)
    3. Single Gun Theory – Words Written Backwards (1991)
    4. Flesh Eating Foundation – Seed the Hate (2011)
    5. Buzzcocks – You Say You Don’t Love Me (1979)
    6. The Jesus & Mary Chain – Down on Me (1987)
    7. The Cure – This is a Lie (Ambient mix) (1996)
    8. Ned’s Atomic Dustbin – Intact (1992)
    9. Wire – On Returning (1979)
    10. The Damned – Plan 9 Channel 7 (1979)
    11. Chaz Jankel – 3,000,000 Synths (1982)
    12. The Kinks – Lola (instrumental version, 1971)
    13. Curve – Want More Need Less (2001)

Sun, I am disappoint

The Sun may not engulf Earth after all, scientists say

I think I actually have seen the theory before that the Earth actually won’t get swallowed up by the Sun, but it seems to be gaining traction:

Scientists say the Earth may not be engulfed by the expanding fireball of the dying Sun, which has long been assumed to be our planet’s ultimate fate.
This is not expected to happen for another five billion years, long after all life on Earth has been wiped out.
When the Sun burns through all of the hydrogen in its core, it will go through two immense expansion phases: first becoming a red giant, then, when its helium is spent, an “AGB” star. […]
As the Sun expands and its blistering surface approaches our planet, intense tidal waves will stir within the star.
When they dissipate, it will pull the Earth into its doomed embrace.
However, the growing Sun will also lose a lot of its mass due to stellar wind, which pushes our planet further away. […]
Advances made in modelling these tides over the last 15 years have enabled the study’s authors to show that “the dissipation is lower than previously expected”, an astrophysicist at the CEA Paris-Saclay centre in France .
To estimate how much mass the Sun could lose, the team focused, in particular, on a nearby star – called L2 Puppis – that is like the Sun’s “old cousin”, the study’s co-author Stephane Mathis said.
“A better understanding of tidal physics and the most advanced constraints we have on mass loss allow us to say that – in the current state of knowledge – Earth could move away from the Sun, contrary to what was predicted before,” Mr Mathis said.
According to the new modelling, Mars also escapes a death spiral into the Sun.
But the two planets closest to the Sun – Mercury and Venus – are not so lucky.
They will be inexorably swallowed by the expanding fireball.

Well, at least THEY’RE still fucked, but I’m sure a lot of people will be disappointed that the Earth might actually escape after all…

Trump @ 80


Honestly, I wanted to say something about Mushroom Cock’s 80th birthday “celebration” but I don’t know what cos the whole thing was grotesque in so many ways. I genuinely don’t know what. I’ll let some people who say things for a living do it instead. They know how to describe the hideous spectacle and I find it hard to disagree with the things said.

You expected anything else?

A Muslim Texan sought to find his place in the party at the state GOP convention. He left in tears.

To some extent, Mohamed Hussein knew he was preparing to enter the lion’s den.
But he made the decision to attend the Republican Party of Texas Convention to confirm for himself that he had a place in the GOP, even as members of the party have railed for months about the urgency of ending Sharia Law and the so-called “Islamification” of Texas.
What he found was a party that didn’t want him. He arrived with hope but left in tears after being told explicitly that he should leave the country.
Hussein was among four Muslims who arrived at the convention in earnest — not as protesters, but as delegates or attendees — to participate in the annual meeting of the state’s most hardlined Republicans as they vote on the party’s priorities and hear from GOP leaders. Two prevailing themes from the Houston gathering were party unity and combatting Sharia Law, a movement that veered into outright Islamophobia by members of the convention.
“When they say Sharia-free, that means Muslim-free, no practices of Islam,” Hussein said in an interview with The Texas Tribune. “No one is calling for the state to implement Sharia laws.”
Hussein said he was in disbelief that he was told to convert or leave — for the first time in his life — at a Republican convention with the tagline, “Unity drives victory.”

WHY? I’m sorry, my brothers in Muhammad, but… what else did you THINK would happen? You expected a political party that is openly hostile to Muslims to just… accept you or something? To treat you like a human being, never mind an American? The article only gets worse after that, and I have no sympathy for ANY of these people. I mean, the Republican party is in many respects a hate group, and you folks are one of its primary targets:

In an interview Sunday, Scarborough said he had some regrets about his interaction with Mohamed Hussein, even though he thought he only attended his panel because he viewed the pastor as an enemy of CAIR.
“I’m not an enemy that fights like they fight,” Scarborough said. “I’m gonna fight on my knees, and I will fight in an effort to win Mohamed to Christ.”
When Hussein broke down crying, Scarborough said he realized he had pushed Hussein too hard. After insisting that Hussein should give up Sharia or leave the country, “the pastoral side of me reached out to him in genuine care,” he said, and he offered to pray with Hussein.
Scarborough said he has asked God and Hussein for forgiveness for not setting a good example of Judeo-Christian morality. He prayed that Mohamed would convert to Christianity.

And even if he does, they will still hate Mohamed for not being enough like them. I’m pleased that, per the article, Mohamed is having second thoughts about the Republicans, but I’m kind of appalled this needed to happen for him to realise what cunts they are, and that their visible public actions and statements weren’t enough. I mean, if I can see it from the other side of the world, why couldn’t he see it close up?

Can we have our record back, mister?


Sixty years since the Fabs’ “butcher” album cover debacle. I wonder just how many of those reviewers did actually obey the request to return their misbegotten original copies, or did they all just think to themselves “fuck that, I’ve got a collector’s item here”… original first state butcher covers will set you back thousands now, with a still-shrinkwrapped original stereo copy having gone for $125,000 ten years ago. Just a few weeks later they’d be pissing off Imelda Marcos and Christians in the southern US, and then releasing their best album to date. What a period mid-1966 was.

Grey Room #2

Episode 2 is up now! I can barely believe it myself!

    1. Dieter Meier – Cry for Fame (1978)
    2. Public Enemy – Who Stole the Soul? (1990)
    3. TSOL – Word Is (1982)
    4. You Am I – Adam’s Ribs (1993)
    5. Gene Clark – From a Silver Phial (1974)
    6. Simple Minds – Premonition (1979)
    7. Yat-Kha – Coming Buddha (2003)
    8. Thompson Twins – Could Be Her Could Be You (1980)
    9. Gang of Four – Guns and Butter (1979)
    10. Tim Buckley – Once I Was (1967)
    11. John Grant – You Don’t Have To (2013)
    12. Husker Du – Terms of Psychic Warfare (1985)
    13. Karma County – Her Mind Went Into the Fire (1998)
    14. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Y Control (2003)
    15. David Bowie – Holy Holy (1972 version)
    16. Artesians – Trick Bag (1964)