Still at it.

As Elmo Rusk continues to break Twitter, into an entirely unusable platform, he’s invited back some of the crap that was previously removed from the site. We all know about Trump, but more locally, Piers Corbyn’s cringey singing partner and all around anti-vax wanker, Nick Hudson, has also been granted leave to return.

Twitter has been going downhill for a good long while, but it was still better without the Hudson family’s biggest embarrassment, beardy-weirdy Nick.

But – probably amazed by the success of the nonsense that they have made up and have peddled thus far – those pesky anti-vaxxers are still at it, and they’re getting bolder and more brazen with every given day. We’ve now returned to stuff like depopulation programmes, 5G nanochips (see below), “spike shedding”, graphene oxide and – a particular bugbear to someone that’s been working with [checks notes] viruses for 20+ years – the fact that [checks notes again] viruses don’t actually exist.

And indeed, why would you stop if you are a narcissist with a pathological need for acknowledgement for likes and retweets and all you have to do to get satisfaction is to fabricate some nonsense* and your disciples will feed your needs, lap it up and even demand more.

It’s a sad, sad situation. And it’s getting more and more absurd.

But much as the government really doesn’t want to track you via the “5G chips in your vaccine” or the Covid app on your phone, because you’re actually rather dull and insignificant, if you’re really gullible to believe stuff like this:

… then like Dr Janaway says, you’re probably not really “dangerous” enough to have to be controlled.

More seriously though, the polarisation of society via social media is now very clearly out of control. Maybe that was already the case on January 6th 2022, but I see it each and every day (that I bother to log on). People just don’t think for themselves anymore. And the unscrupulous, batty individuals on whom they are relying for news, information, leadership and opinion are fully taking advantage of that.

It’s not a good thing.

* earlier today it was about “masks being impregnated with bacteria and fungi to cause respiratory illness”, which is a right bummer for those of us who have to wear them each and every day in the lab to protect us from [checks note yet again] er… respiratory illness.

Frauke is a nutter

On this post from the local radio station for elderly people, Cape Talk, discussing the need to get rid of invasive alien plants from the country…

… I spotted this comment, by one Frauke Wagner. Because obviously the alien invasive plants aren’t the issue here. The issue here is… er… [checks notes]… this:

Weather manipulation and gas like artificial fog is what is making people sick and this combined with 5G is killing all trees, insects and nature, contaminates all water sources.

Frauke even includes a picture of the “gas like artificial fog” with her post:

…and it actually does look quite like fog, which I suppose is one of the requisites for any good artificial fog. I didn’t really take any of her comment seriously though, until she lobbed in the word “GENOCIDE” in CAPITALS. The rest of it is clearly rubbish, but we all know that when someone writes something in CAPITALS on social media, then it must be true.

FACT.

Quite how Frauke accesses Facebook to upload her truth bombs is a little confusing, given her stance on mobile phone radiation. And she does have a mobile phone, because she’s refused to let Standard Bank access her phone camera to scan a QR code to log in to her account. That’s obviously got nothing to do with security though, says our erstwhile heroine. Because using any QR code for anything can only be linked to one thing…

…we all know what that means…..jab passport.

Yeah. Well, when Standard Bank requires your “jab passport” to allow you to log into you bank account, you can come and laugh at me for being “so gullible and mainstream”. In the meantime though (i.e. actually forever), I’m going to take the piss out of you for being a paranoid nutcase.

And a very quick dive into the Facebook profile reveals a couple of photos from George and Mossel Bay:

“They busy spraying again”, says Chemtrail authority and general loser Bahia Fredericks, “it is accuring now”, conveniently ignoring the fact that both these locations are directly on the flight path from Gqeberha to Cape Town.

And again, the usual “chemtrails” BS before the important bit in CAPITALS:

HELL NO YOU NOT GOING TO WIN DEMONIC GOVERMENT

wut?

But who is doing the spraying?

No, Sanjay. In what way does it even come close to “making sense”?
It really doesn’t.

But if it is the Air Force that’s doing this (which it isn’t and they’re not), are they doing from their local base – Ysterplaat AFB next to Century City?
Yes, says pitifully misguided looney-toon, Liyana:

But no, says local aircraft aficionado and complete fantasist, Brennan:

For the record: The minimum takeoff and landing distance at sea level (like Ysterplaat is) for a fully laden Boeing 737-800 is 1510 metres. Ysterplaat’s runway is 1585m. So actually, he’s wrong.

I was also shocked. People of this sort are usually so factually accurate.

These people walk among us. They have the same rights as you do. Their vote counts as much as your vote, but they are loonies. Once again, I am renewing my calls for a Big Wall™ to be erected between the Southern Suburbs and the Deep South of Cape Town where the majority of these people reside: a formalisation of the Lentil Curtain.
And why not take the opportunity to brick up Century City while we’re at it? You can’t be too safe.