I've banned IP address 62.213.67.122 from posting to discourse.net after deleting a handful of Dadaist-seeming comments (e.g. “'Of course' is the cyanide of the mind”) none of which were objectionable in themselves, but all of which linked the plausible author names to sex sites. If this banning action causes any legit users pain, I hope they send me email so I can reconsider. I don't think the ban applies to email, just posting.
Recent Bluessky Posts- I like the hat, but I'm sticking with my "Make America Sane Again" cap and don't need another. August 29, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- A rare and atypical example of a surveillance camera doing good. PS *dog treat dispensers* are now spying on us??? www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2... August 29, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- That all authority in the last analysis rests on opinion is never more forcefully demonstrated than when, suddenly and unexpectedly, a universal refusal to obey initiates what then turns into a revolution. -- Hannah Arendt August 29, 2026 Alani Golanski
- The kindest take I can conjure on this is to speculate that art historians like McInnis have a very skewed view of history. But I don't actually believe it. August 29, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Navy faces "shortfalls in payroll" as it pulls money to pay for cost of Iran war. I'm not old enough to have witnessed this, but I've read that great empires like Rome fall if they can't pay the troops. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... August 29, 2026 Michael Froomkin
That guy is spamming my blog from exactly the same IP address. I was too lazy to ban that address until now, since I assumed that he would change his IP address frequently and banning one IP number would not achieve anything. Maybe I’ll reconsider when I find his next series of spam comments with still the same address.
You can get rid of comment spam forever by installing MT-Blacklist. Here’s a link:
http://rhetorica.net/blogspam.htm
Been there, done that. Installed it a long time ago. These either pre-dated it, or got through it…