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Robert Hill

Robert Hill

@vonotar.bsky.social

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Navy & Army Veteran. Elementis Regamus Proelium. Elsecaller. Tolerated by cats. Please support mental health. Would rather be in Ankh-Morpork. Pro democracy, Pro NATO, anti Trump/Musk/Putin. Zero tolerance for MAGA. Veteran Against Trump

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Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · Sep 22

Today is going to be a series of absolute WTF moments writ large.

Keep your heads up.

Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 2h

How long before the inevitable parody with a new list of names?

Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 2h

"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately," or something.

Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 2h

I'm thinking there is intentionally no care because they want to replace the whole structure. I hope I'm wrong.

Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 2h

So what happens when they (intentionally?) fuck that up too and suddenly the White House is no longer structurally sound, so it conveniently needs to be rebuilt?

Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 2h

Sweetened man-made horrors beyond my comprehension.

Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 2h

I still think we ought to troll the shit out of him by all claiming to be the antichrist, Spartacus-style. Maybe we can antichrist in shifts?

Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 2h

I think it won't actually be a ballroom.

It will be some kind of audience chamber/dinner hall where grift can happen in plain sight. He lied about the damage to the White House, why should we believe the purpose of this new building?

Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 2h

Always a typo, dammit

Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 2h

They want a war, but they're waiting for someone to formally declare war on us first, so they can play the "outraged defender of freedom, how DARE you, and by the way elections are canceled in a war and all the people we want to deportations now have ties to your country." card. It's a big card.

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Brian O'Halloran @playingwithdust.bsky.social · 3h

Temu Versailles.

Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 6h

Fascstapo?

Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 6h

My Voodoo climbs on me when I'm asleep and perches like the most adorable sleep paralysis demon ever.

Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 9h

Today Socrates would have made a bunch of excellent TED talk videos and one unfortunate mukbang video

Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 19h

Maga is doing so much illegal shit all the time in the philosophical view that you can't jail a whole political party. It's just impeachable and removable conduct every day.

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Call of Cthu-Luke @llobrow.bsky.social · 19h

me: getting late, I'll head bedward before long

Edward Furlong: *peering out of bedroom* huh?

me: oh sorry, I'm just ready for bed

Ed Begley Jr: *peering out of other bedroom* did you say Begley for Ed

me: as a second punchline, that isn't any better

Eddie Vedder: *falling through ceiling*

Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 19h

Holy shit

Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 19h

I remember seeing Little Texas and Mindy McCready at the equivalent of the county fair where I grew up sometime in the mid-90's

Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 19h

I haven't been to many concerts, but the few I have been to are deeply meaningful for me. I consider myself deeply fortunate to see Simon & Garfunkel with the Everly Brothers live in my lifetime.

Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 19h

I discovered Puscifer because one of their songs was featured in an ad for a Transformers video game. I couldn't get it out of my head, and that was all it took.

Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 19h

I just love learning about the dense connections between artists. I have to be careful, or I'll disappear down a wikipedia hole for days at a time. Maynard James Keenan, Les Claypool and Pauly Shore were the pigs in that Three Little Pigs song by Green Jellÿ. "NOT BY THE HAIR OF MY CHINNY CHIN CHIN"

Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 20h

I'm more a Puscifer guy

Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 20h

Late to the party. I wonder if it sounds any better in the original German?

Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 20h

It would be a little badass to get a portion of the Bayeux Tapestry as a tattoo.

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Friday Afternoon Tea @fridaytea.com · 20h

The days are getting chillier, the nights are getting crisper, and we're falling even more in love with our café special Cold Care Cocktail! This non-alcoholic elixir features mushroom-infused honey, our kick-ass Lemon Ginger Echinacea tea, a dropper of craft bitters, and a rosemary garnish!⁠

Two glass mugs full of hazy golden brew on a wooden tea house bar

Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 20h

As a matter of fact, the only thing I remember seeing (and taking photos of, I think I got most of the exhibits at the time) was an article about a sergeant who tested mustard on himself to try and make a working salve.

An undated newspaper column on display against a wooden background.

N.C.O. BURNED SELF TO INVENT GAS SALVE

C.W.S. Sergeant Wins Mention and Commission by Experiments

To test the efficacy of a preventative salve for mustard gas, Louis Weisberg, while a sergeant in the Chemical Warfare Service, repeatedly seared his flesh with the yellow poison and by his self-torture completed experiments that won for himself a commission and honorable mention in orders for "meritorious conduct".

The story of the devotion to duty of Second Lieutenant Weisberg has been revealed with the publication of G.O. 4, in which several officers and enlisted men of the S.O.S. are mentioned for distinguished services, as previously announced here.

The salve with which the American doughboy fighting in the Argonne and in Flanders smeared himself before going into battle, confident that with it and his gas mask he would come safely through any enemies mustard gas attack, was the product of Louis Weisberg's brain.

For months, Lieutenant Weisberg, as a sergeant, worked many hours during each day and each night to develop his preventative for mustard gas burns. He would rub his salve preparation on his own body and then drop mustard gas on the salved portions. Time after time, the yellow poison burned deep into his flesh.

He made use of guinea pigs, rabbits and other animals at the Chemical Warfare Service laboratories outside Paris, where he worked. But always when he wished to convince himself, he tried his changing preparations on his own body. There came a day last summer when he knew he had the right formula. By July, tubes of the mustard gas salve he had developed were being distributed to the fighting units of the A.E.F. at the front.

Lieutenant Weisberg, who is 28, arrived in France in January 1918. He was commissioned last December.