The Bob Cesca Podcast: Kevin Sorbo Not So Much

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:

Kevin Sorbo Not So Much — [Explicit Content] Mary Trump returns to the show filling in for Jody. Listen to The Mary Trump Show wherever you get your podcasts, especially her interview with Lawrence O’Donnell. Meantime, more great news for Democrats in the early vote numbers. GDP growth has exceeded expectations, but don’t expect the press to cover it that way. Another woman has accused Herschel Walker of helping her get an abortion. It’s a lie and not a lie. Mehmet Oz on abortion. Amy Schumer’s hilarious birth control sketch. John Fetterman has trouble speaking but he’ll recover. What’s Trump excuse? What’s Kevin McCarthy’s excuse? With David “TRex” Ferguson, music by Astral Summer, Anna-Marie, and more!

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396 comments

Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 27, 2022 • 4:36:45pm

#TheReidOut asked @JohnFetterman how his recovery from his stroke would impact his ability to do the job as a senator, ” I rely on the judgment, on real doctors, not a fake doctor like Dr. Oz who spent his entire campaign ridiculing and counting how many words I might miss.” pic.twitter.com/ZoSrOiecn7

— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) October 27, 2022

Charles Johnson Oct 27, 2022 • 4:36:46pm

https://t.co/CH1Vw2LQlX

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 27, 2022

PhillyPretzel Oct 27, 2022 • 4:38:26pm

re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth

A great reply.

Charles Johnson Oct 27, 2022 • 4:39:11pm

Upgrading to Ventura was totally painless.

PhillyPretzel Oct 27, 2022 • 4:40:27pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

I am happy to hear that.

Barefoot Grin Oct 27, 2022 • 4:43:23pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

Upgrading to Ventura was totally painless.

Ok, maybe I’ll do it tonight. My work computer is asking me to upgrade to Big Sur. It’s so far behind because I have to leave it with admin for day which is a complete PITA, but also I know that if it falls far enough behind they’ll just issue me a new one instead of spending time trying to upgrade.

Barefoot Grin Oct 27, 2022 • 4:48:25pm

On Preet’s podcast today:

Preet: are you thinking of another run for office?
Al Franken: I’m keeping my options open.
Preet: do you want to address your reasons for resigning?
Al Franken: well, you can read Jane Mayer’s piece. But there was no due process.
Preet: do you want to address that on my podcast?
Al: no. Someday the truth will come out. (implies “let’s move on”)

“The truth will come out” I assume will have more to do with how his D colleagues railroaded him rather than the set up by the Rs.

Crush White Nationalism Oct 27, 2022 • 4:49:10pm

One of the supposed “mules” is suing Dinesh D’Souza.

Barefoot Grin Oct 27, 2022 • 4:51:13pm

re: #8 Crush White Nationalism

One of the supposed “mules” is suing Dinesh D’Souza.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Oct 27, 2022 • 4:55:08pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

Apple’s decision to absorb NeXT and to make the Mac operating system built around Darwin continues to pay dividends.

In hindsight it should have been obvious, but at the time it was perceived as a move with some risk, possibly alienating the original Mac owners.

But time has proven that it was a good move.

Microsoft should have done something similar when it was clear that they had to culture two different Windows (the regular and the more secure). Microsoft could have, in the early 1990’s, decided to start over with their operating systems but they insisted on twiddling and twiddling. Then of course in the past few years they went and developed new operating systems but are so ladened with heritage system compatibility ideas that I still find Windows, or whatever Microsoft calls it today, awkward.

When I’m at the local library I sometimes use their computers, which are Windows version of some sort. It’s so awkward.

And it’s not just because I’m used to the OSX way of doing things.

I used Windows back in 1.0 and 2.0 days at work, then 3.0 and I also slapped together a PC system for myself.

I’m sure the slate UI (whatever MS calls it) is easier to use, but I don’t have a Slate. (Who does?)

Anyway, Apple benefits from vertical integration and that shows over and over in things like upgrades.

Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 27, 2022 • 4:58:37pm

is it jared https://t.co/x4BdXvAunC

— darth™ (@darth) October 27, 2022

i mean without free pizza

— darth™ (@darth) October 27, 2022

meeting times from best to worst:

1) morning meeting, with coffee and pastry snacks
2) noon meeting, with catered lunch

17) 4:30 meeting with the new boss

— darth™ (@darth) October 27, 2022

“hey what are all these cardboard boxes for”https://t.co/SqUNO0CPL0

— darth™ (@darth) October 27, 2022

Florida Panhandler Oct 27, 2022 • 5:01:24pm

re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth

4:30 is when the Nazi banners are unfurled in Twitter HQ in celebration of “every voice is valid and welcome now”.

gocart mozart Oct 27, 2022 • 5:08:00pm

You’re not looking at the positive side, Kevin. Incidents of stink eye and rude eyerolling are down 67%, mainly due to fear of making eye contact with strangers. It’s a tradeoff.

— gocart mozart (@EdMix13) October 28, 2022

Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 27, 2022 • 5:08:23pm

Quote from John Carpenter, who grew up there: “Everything I learned about evil, I learned in Bowling Green” https://t.co/kxqYF5x7J6

— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) October 27, 2022

William Lewis Oct 27, 2022 • 5:09:00pm

re: #10 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Had Dave Cutler’s original heavily VMS inspired version of NT been stuck with, Windows could have done that. But MS has always chosen the easy way rather than the right way.

Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 27, 2022 • 5:10:50pm

“You know what would have been fucking useful for the people covering [the debate]? To focus on what John Fetterman said, not how he said it.”

The national media coverage of the Fetterman/Oz debate was the worst of political journalism. New Pod, out now. pic.twitter.com/uFnYchLFVz

— Pod Save America (@PodSaveAmerica) October 27, 2022

Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 27, 2022 • 5:16:21pm

Judging by the footprints, this pigeon is having a very tense telephone conversation…. pic.twitter.com/BNuVKdHZ1D

— M. (@MatyldaStein) October 27, 2022

austin_blue Oct 27, 2022 • 5:21:54pm

I get two kinds of cold calls. The prerecorded ones:

“Hi! This is Stephanie from Spectrum!”

Click (that’s me).

And then are the ones that have a little, short, upward-rising fweep! tone after you say hello.

That one I always say “This is the FBI Field Office in Austin, Texas. How may I assist you?”

Oddly, they *always* hang up.

Every. Fucking. Time.

Weird, innit?

Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 27, 2022 • 5:22:20pm

DRIVERLESS TWITTER! https://t.co/jgVzfbY2fN

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) October 28, 2022

Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 27, 2022 • 5:25:50pm

Antisemitism on the ballot.

We’re so far beyond dog whistles.

These folks are proud of their bigotry. https://t.co/KnEmjAveET

— Dr. Joanne Freeman (@jbf1755) October 28, 2022

PhillyPretzel Oct 27, 2022 • 5:32:04pm

re: #20 Backwoods_Sleuth

It is in TX. I thought it might be in PA.

Charles Johnson Oct 27, 2022 • 5:36:09pm

let’s get ready to rumble

Elon Musk now in charge of Twitter, CEO and CFO have left, sources sayhttps://t.co/j5IUJ38FwF pic.twitter.com/O80dLI0H04

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 28, 2022

Charles Johnson Oct 27, 2022 • 5:37:33pm

New Twitter features coming soon: it will be self-driving, and periodically burst into flames. https://t.co/VH9cWIymSb

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 28, 2022

Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 27, 2022 • 5:37:54pm

Just two reeeeeeally masculine guys talking about America and how masculine they are… https://t.co/NY6NaFLskL

— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) October 28, 2022

austin_blue Oct 27, 2022 • 5:38:49pm

re: #21 PhillyPretzel

It is in TX. I thought it might be in PA.

The first R presidential candidate to win the popular vote after the War of Yankee Aggression in Texas was Herbert Hoover in 1928, not Reagan in 1980.

Why? It was Al Smith, a Catholic from New York. Reagan was the 2nd. Texas was a small kkk State until Trump came along, but now they drink on the Front Porch with the big dogs.

Woof!

nines09 Oct 27, 2022 • 5:39:55pm

re: #21 PhillyPretzel

Bucolic Potter County Pennsylvania. God’s Country.
Couldersport, Shinglehouse, Galeton, and…….. Ulysses among the endless mountains

The Hills Have Eyes.

Charles Johnson Oct 27, 2022 • 5:43:22pm

Fired the Trust and Safety guy right out of the gate. Wheeee!

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 28, 2022

nines09 Oct 27, 2022 • 5:45:40pm

re: #27 Charles Johnson

jfc

Jay C Oct 27, 2022 • 5:46:19pm

re: #24 Backwoods_Sleuth

Leaving aside the inane culture-war crapola, WTF is the “running out of diesel” BS?

William Lewis Oct 27, 2022 • 5:47:25pm

Nazi-boi Musk is in charge.

Time to say “BYE” to the new Völkischer Beobachter.

— Bill Barnett (@BillBar29495196) October 28, 2022

Charles Johnson Oct 27, 2022 • 5:47:28pm

Fired the Trust and Safety head right out of the gate. Wheeee!

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 28, 2022

Not that they were doing an awesome job, don’t get me wrong. But now, nothing. And it will probably remain that way.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 28, 2022

nines09 Oct 27, 2022 • 5:48:08pm

re: #30 William Lewis

The fascists drool

Dangerman Oct 27, 2022 • 5:48:46pm

re: #23 Charles Johnson

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So poaching from your other business?

Either the cars or the tweets or both are gonna suffer

nines09 Oct 27, 2022 • 5:49:56pm

re: #33 Dangerman

Elon could save the world but he has bigger fish to fry.

Charles Johnson Oct 27, 2022 • 5:50:47pm

You mean advertisers weren’t reassured by Elmo’s blatant attempt to suck up to them, after he spent months pandering to the shittiest elements of Twitter? Huh. You mean they saw that stuff he tweeted? Ain’t that a kick in the head.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 28, 2022

Florida Panhandler Oct 27, 2022 • 5:51:12pm

I for one welcome our new South African-born faux environmentalist, racism is just peachy- ok overlord.

The Pie Overlord! Oct 27, 2022 • 5:51:51pm

FUSK MUCK

Elon Musk officially owns Twitter. He fired several top executives as one of his first moves, people familiar with matter say. https://t.co/Lu39cYDnuV

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 28, 2022

jaunte Oct 27, 2022 • 5:52:52pm

Also fired: the general counsel.

wrenchwench Oct 27, 2022 • 5:54:33pm

re: #35 Charles Johnson

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Elmo he is, from here on out.

Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 27, 2022 • 5:55:29pm

“Siri, show me an unhinged, selfish drunkard from Texas…” https://t.co/p17Lz7WYro

— OTOOLEFAN (@OTOOLEFAN) October 28, 2022

Florida Panhandler Oct 27, 2022 • 5:55:55pm

Kanye West just appointed CEO of Twitter.

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You can just almost believe it at this point, can’t you?

Crush White Nationalism Oct 27, 2022 • 5:57:53pm

re: #40 Backwoods_Sleuth

To a person as corrupt as Ronny, who can’t ever do the right thing, sensible people who do the right thing are “freaks.” This person thinks of himself as an adult, but acts like a child.

— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) October 28, 2022

Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 27, 2022 • 5:58:01pm

From last month, @Reuters fact checked social media posts falsely claiming New York passed a bill allowing for ‘abortions’ 28 days after birth. That must have been shared widely. https://t.co/uC4NNFBv7c

— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) October 27, 2022

jaunte Oct 27, 2022 • 5:58:12pm

re: #40 Backwoods_Sleuth

He’s continually issuing general invitations but he keeps his gate locked.

mmmirele Oct 27, 2022 • 5:58:47pm

I just saw the blackface pics of Mary Ann Mendoza. She was on my ballot, running for state representative. Yeah, I’m feeling a bit sick inside.

Obviously I didn’t vote for her!!!

nines09 Oct 27, 2022 • 5:59:24pm

What was that sound?
The cheering?
Was that what it was?
It sounded like it.
Seemed more like a snarling rat.
Ah. Now I know.
Elon just gutted Twitter and promises a new and better world where we can all buy his stuff and worship the ground he walks on because we are not worthy.
Well I was booted off 6 or 9 times. Seems like I beat the rush to the door.
But face it. It will go on and be a clusterfuque as it always was.
Social media is reality TV on speedballs just chewing up society.
And all that have an account will stay. Because it’s your link. And it’s important. And it’s and it’s and it’s and

Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 27, 2022 • 5:59:53pm

Unhinged Kari Lake calls an “emergency” press conference with supposedly major news, then proceeds to berate the members of the press. You know what, you follow her around for the circus, you get what you get. You guys obviously enjoy it, because you keep coming back for more. pic.twitter.com/fOQIhoKQeb

— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) October 28, 2022

nines09 Oct 27, 2022 • 6:00:59pm

re: #47 Backwoods_Sleuth

4 years of Trump just conditioned them to be shit on.

mmmirele Oct 27, 2022 • 6:01:31pm

re: #8 Crush White Nationalism

One of the supposed “mules” is suing Dinesh D’Souza.

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The cash cow (deep pockets) in this list is Salem Media, Inc., which has been running undercover for decades pumping incredible Christian-tinged conspiracy bilge into various parts of the country. I want to see them destroyed as a company. No, I am not a nice person.

Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 27, 2022 • 6:01:50pm

Biden living rent-free in Trump’s head, even on the golf course. Poor guy is so angry all the time. pic.twitter.com/EH0dxX09z7

— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) October 28, 2022

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Oct 27, 2022 • 6:02:00pm

re: #33 Dangerman

So poaching from your other business?

Either the cars or the tweets or both are gonna suffer

Good.

mmmirele Oct 27, 2022 • 6:03:51pm

re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m sorry, but having Tesla engineers review Twitter code is utterly bonkers. These are two entirely different application sets, run on vastly different equipment… seriously, that’s just fucking nuts.

jaunte Oct 27, 2022 • 6:04:22pm

Tressie McMillan Cottom:

@tressiemcphd
The real lesson is one we know but never seem to apply: if it can be bought by a billionaire it’s probably not doing much societal good to begin with.

Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 27, 2022 • 6:04:23pm

Turned on the debate and the first words out of my mouth were “#Peltola is really channeling Don Young with that bolo tie.” Then I Googled ‘bolo tie’ to make sure that was the right term and threw in ‘Don Young’ for fun and voilà! pic.twitter.com/marZZotTQC

— Cynthia (@cynthianchorage) October 27, 2022

And here’s Sarah Palin, meanwhile, at the AFN conference. With an Iron Cross.

Herman Goering for scale. pic.twitter.com/IkEs062PkO

— Jamie Bollenbach (@JamieBollenbach) October 27, 2022

Charles Johnson Oct 27, 2022 • 6:04:40pm

Oh wow, Musk fired Vijaya. I don’t really care about a lot of things on here but I probably will lower my footprint here knowing she’s gone. She put a lot of legal heft into protecting user anonymity in court. https://t.co/aJBAHKNuRa pic.twitter.com/hR048cQam0

— Whey Standard (@Whey_standard) October 28, 2022

William Lewis Oct 27, 2022 • 6:05:31pm

re: #52 mmmirele

I’m sorry, but having Tesla engineers review Twitter code is utterly bonkers. These are two entirely different application sets, run on vastly different equipment… seriously, that’s just fucking nuts.

He’s nowhere near as smart as he thinks he is. This is a good thing if it means he runs both Twitter and Tesla into the ground.

mmmirele Oct 27, 2022 • 6:06:59pm

re: #56 William Lewis

He’s nowhere near as smart as he thinks he is. This is a good thing if it means he runs both Twitter and Tesla into the ground.

Yeah, I’m fully expecting that to happen. I locked down my account and am not posting anymore. As I said earlier, I’m keeping the account for now just to be able to search for outages.

Charles Johnson Oct 27, 2022 • 6:08:10pm

Trump might be back on Twitter tonight. He’ll drop Truth Social like it never existed.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 28, 2022

PhillyPretzel Oct 27, 2022 • 6:08:12pm

re: #57 mmmirele

I will keep my account for now.

nines09 Oct 27, 2022 • 6:09:22pm

re: #54 Backwoods_Sleuth

Gee. I wonder who she is reaching out to? 60’s surfers?
Yeah. That’s it.

Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 27, 2022 • 6:09:50pm

in protest of Elon Musk now owning Twitter i am pledging to make my tweets worse

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 28, 2022

The Pie Overlord! Oct 27, 2022 • 6:10:37pm

Thursday Night Massacre

Twitter HQ right nowpic.twitter.com/407NFU8MtD

— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) October 28, 2022

William Lewis Oct 27, 2022 • 6:10:47pm

re: #57 mmmirele

Yeah, I’m fully expecting that to happen. I locked down my account and am not posting anymore. As I said earlier, I’m keeping the account for now just to be able to search for outages.

I’m going to keep posting as outrageously as possible and see how long before the “1st Amendment Absolutists” give me the boot.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Oct 27, 2022 • 6:11:21pm

re: #58 Charles Johnson

Truth Social, made for Trump
But faster than Stormy Daniels,
Truth Social he will Dump.

The Pie Overlord! Oct 27, 2022 • 6:11:42pm

I wonder if VB can get back in? I’m guessing not unless I get a burner phone.

Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 27, 2022 • 6:12:10pm

Here is a picture of Emmet, when he was one week old. May your dreams be filled with baby otters… pic.twitter.com/gPsnHqTFc1

— Newhouse Wildlife Rescue (@NewhouseRescue) October 27, 2022

niterz, lizardz!

Hecuba's daughter Oct 27, 2022 • 6:12:23pm

re: #59 PhillyPretzel

I will keep my account for now.

My account exists primarily to read other people’s tweets. I think I have no more than 2 tweets on my home page and then a few snarky comments elsewhere. We’ll have to see how the site degenerates over time. Trump will be back in full glory — wonder what happens if I post something there that insults him.

Crush White Nationalism Oct 27, 2022 • 6:14:18pm

This is from a year ago, but i just heard about it.

Apple Patent Outlines Direct Retinal Projection To Beam AR Images Onto Your Eyeballs (HotHardware)

There’s an existing product that does this.
RETISSA Display II (QDLASER)

The tech was invented in 1986, but won’t have been practical at that time.
en.wikipedia.org

nines09 Oct 27, 2022 • 6:15:20pm

re: #65 The Pie Overlord!

I used every single ID and phone number I could and I got smoked.
6? 9? Lost count.
Because of a word.
Here.
There.
If I had a blue check mark I’d still be there.
Such is life.
Eff Twitter.
You can get back in with either a burner phone or a clean phone number and I refused to go that route.

Then again maybe Mr. Libertarian Freedom To Shit Where Others Eat will let both you and I back.
Yeah good one.

Charles Johnson Oct 27, 2022 • 6:15:32pm

Every gloating Elmo fanboi I block makes me just a tiny bit happier.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 28, 2022

nines09 Oct 27, 2022 • 6:21:47pm

Light crowd tonight at the Flyers game.
My daughter is living the large life with free tix and I’m not there.

Gritty coming fo yo

Captain Ron Oct 27, 2022 • 6:25:04pm

The narcissist formerly known as Elon Musk has announced that he is now to be called “Chief Twit.”
If the twit fits, wear it. pic.twitter.com/ExjzyMXkZD

— Duty To Warn 🔉 (@duty2warn) October 27, 2022

austin_blue Oct 27, 2022 • 6:25:08pm

re: #37 The Pie Overlord!

FUSK MUCK

I like, and I mean REALLY liked, that someone referred to him as Elongated Muskrat.

Clever, that.

Dangerman Oct 27, 2022 • 6:27:02pm

re: #40 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Dude, we want you to overeat red meat!

“Siri, show me an unhinged, selfish drunkard from Texas…” https://t.co/p17Lz7WYro

— OTOOLEFAN (@OTOOLEFAN) October 28, 2022

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Oct 27, 2022 • 6:31:45pm

A bloody night at #Twitter HQ.

- with NightCafe Creator https://t.co/U5tN2wVWmd #aiart #nightcafe #digitalart #vqganclip #TwitterTakeover

via @NightcafeStudio

— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) October 28, 2022

jaunte Oct 27, 2022 • 6:33:20pm

Joshua Holland points out that if anyone on Twitter wants to mess with Elon’s ad revenues, just sharply cut your engagement.

A Cranky One Oct 27, 2022 • 6:34:04pm

Egregious Philbin Oct 27, 2022 • 6:34:33pm

Just watched the SpaceX polar launch from Phoenix, it was amazing.

nines09 Oct 27, 2022 • 6:34:51pm

re: #74 Dangerman

Doctor can prescribe all manner of pharmaceuticals. Some of the most fucked up folks are doctors.
Clean drugs.
Precise dosage.
Unending supply.
Money.
I wonder if he prefers tablet or liquid.
Hmmmmmm

Belafon Oct 27, 2022 • 6:42:07pm

re: #52 mmmirele

I’m sorry, but having Tesla engineers review Twitter code is utterly bonkers. These are two entirely different application sets, run on vastly different equipment… seriously, that’s just fucking nuts.

He’s got the same view of software engineers some at my job have, that you can just move us around and everything will just run smoothly.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Oct 27, 2022 • 6:43:01pm

re: #76 jaunte

Good luck with that. The problem as I see it is that while vehicles exist for communities (blogs like LGF, or Discord, or Reddit, etc.) the really big thing is the cross-community nature that is Twitter.

I can step into anyone’s public conversation on Twitter, and I do (especially those I want to challenge.)

If I want to respond to a Japanese tweet I can.

If I want to find out what is happening in India I can do it.

All on Twitter.

The only real competition is from Facebook/Instagram, and those are just as problematic.

TikTok is too narrow, being a video platform.

Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie Oct 27, 2022 • 6:43:31pm

re: #54 Backwoods_Sleuth

And here’s Sarah Palin, meanwhile, at the AFN conference. With an Iron Cross.

Herman Goering for scale. pic.twitter.com/IkEs062PkO

— Jamie Bollenbach (@JamieBollenbach) October 27, 2022

It’s worse than it looks. Goering’s Iron Cross, like Hitler’s, was legitimate, received for heroism in combat in the First World War.

Dipweed Palin’s is a statement of affiliation.

(Goering was a fighter ace, 22 victories, and took over command of the Richtofen Circus after von Richtofen’s untimely, though not unexpected, death.)

Egregious Philbin Oct 27, 2022 • 6:44:15pm

If you blow up the picture, you can see the first stage dropping back to land on a drone ship, it is about 5:30 on a clock face from the main rocket.

Belafon Oct 27, 2022 • 6:45:07pm

re: #68 Crush White Nationalism

This is from a year ago, but i just heard about it.

Apple Patent Outlines Direct Retinal Projection To Beam AR Images Onto Your Eyeballs (HotHardware)

There’s an existing product that does this.
RETISSA Display II (QDLASER)

The tech was invented in 1986, but won’t have been practical at that time.
en.wikipedia.org

So a working Patent office should reject it.

jaunte Oct 27, 2022 • 6:47:06pm

re: #82 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Based on the Iron Cross scale, Palin’s head is twice the size of Goering’s.

HypnoToad Oct 27, 2022 • 6:49:47pm

re: #78 Egregious Philbin

Just watched the SpaceX polar launch from Phoenix, it was amazing.

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Couldn’t get my camera in time! AAAUGH! Although, I did catch the iridescence a few minutes after…

Space X launch from Laverne, CA.

Charles Johnson Oct 27, 2022 • 6:51:16pm

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Charles Johnson Oct 27, 2022 • 6:51:28pm

Twitter lawyer long weighed safety, free speech. Then Musk called her out.

No paywall: https://t.co/TERotNgiRX

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 28, 2022

Charles Johnson Oct 27, 2022 • 6:57:50pm

Upgraded my iMac to Ventura - totally painless. I hear the new System Settings design is controversial, but I love it. I always found it annoying to navigate the rows of icons in the old design. This iOS-like design makes it much easier and more logical. pic.twitter.com/jXVq9gkkL7

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 28, 2022

Belafon Oct 27, 2022 • 7:01:08pm

re: #68 Crush White Nationalism

This is from a year ago, but i just heard about it.

Apple Patent Outlines Direct Retinal Projection To Beam AR Images Onto Your Eyeballs (HotHardware)

There’s an existing product that does this.
RETISSA Display II (QDLASER)

The tech was invented in 1986, but won’t have been practical at that time.
en.wikipedia.org

That last part was probably used as the technological basis for Ready Player One.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Oct 27, 2022 • 7:01:20pm

Evening call from the repair shop.

The shop is having trouble ordering an exhaust system for our Smart (damaged on our trip in North Carolina).

They suggest trying Midas in Cheyenne, so I’ll give them a call tomorrow. They also say they can’t do the tires for our car because their equipment won’t accept that size. I’ll drop by the tire shop in Scottsbluff where we usually buy our tires.

The car will be ready for pickup tomorrow, though the exhaust system still needs to be fixed. The panels damaged by Hurricane Fiona are on order by the shop, and they will call us back when they are done.

Sherlock Hound Oct 27, 2022 • 7:02:40pm

re: #81 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Tik-Tok quietly curates their content. Disabled people are considered to be “negative”. The service encourages a “positive lifestyle” vibe. A lot of Disabled Twitter is not like this.

Egregious Philbin Oct 27, 2022 • 7:06:15pm

I once saw a launch from White Sands in PHX, had to look low in the NE sky….

A Cranky One Oct 27, 2022 • 7:09:19pm

ckkatz Oct 27, 2022 • 7:11:54pm

re: #29 Jay C

Leaving aside the inane culture-war crapola, WTF is the “running out of diesel” BS?

From yesterday, random petroleum news:

Latest scare story about the US economy: the US inventory of diesel fuel is … moving within its usual range, actually. https://t.co/h2P3YCSF9w pic.twitter.com/CY1mDPmXoT

— David Frum (@davidfrum) October 26, 2022

Natural gas prices in Europe have fallen 70% since record highs in August, and storage is filling up for the winter heating season.

Along with mild weather, it’s helped ease an energy crisis tied to Russia’s war in Ukraine, but uncertainties lie ahead. https://t.co/Cthq3ctgjA

— The Associated Press (@AP) October 26, 2022

The US is exporting record volumes of oil and taking on a bigger role as a fuel supplier in response to the global energy crunch caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukrainehttps://t.co/d6qnJThG1Z pic.twitter.com/zRWXkzymyL

— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) October 26, 2022

Charles Johnson Oct 27, 2022 • 7:12:22pm

i really hope people aren’t treating this like just any old mid-term election that doesn’t really matter because this time it REALLY FUCKING MATTERS

vote against Republicans every chance you get. you don’t have to love democrats but the GOP is an enemy of democracy.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 28, 2022

Cheechako Oct 27, 2022 • 7:16:32pm

re: #54 Backwoods_Sleuth

That’s actually Young’s bolo tie. One of his kids gave it to her.

Belafon Oct 27, 2022 • 7:16:51pm

Netflix are releasing a documentary exploring corruption in FIFA.

It will air on November 9th. This will be explosive.pic.twitter.com/KprpFVU4vb

— SPORTbible (@sportbible) October 25, 2022

One quibble: Netflix IS a company, not people.

A Mom Anon Oct 27, 2022 • 7:19:25pm

My mail in ballot was counted and accepted on the 25th. My son voted early and in person at the local library. One household down in very red GA.

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Belafon Oct 27, 2022 • 7:20:32pm

I’ve thought a lot today about my grandfather, who worked underground in the mine. I’ve also had the privilege to go underground with miners in KY and a comment stuck out to me: “We go down together and we come up together.”

They work for each other. The ultimate teammates!!

— John Calipari (@UKCoachCalipari) October 24, 2022

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Charles Johnson Oct 27, 2022 • 7:21:34pm

the shit is extra-crazy out there tonight

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 28, 2022

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Oct 27, 2022 • 7:22:45pm

re: #88 Charles Johnson

The same Washington Post article notes that Chuck C. Johnoson has asked to be restored to Twitter, and he was told by an employee there “hopefully soon.”

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jaunte Oct 27, 2022 • 7:29:39pm

Premature expostulation very on-brand.

Stephen Miller and the GOP have already filed 73 suits to toss out votes https://t.co/KOXWH6RGkI

— Polly Kane 🇺🇳💃🏻🇺🇳 (@kanekavi) October 27, 2022

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Charles Johnson Oct 27, 2022 • 7:31:32pm

re: #102 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The same Washington Post article notes that Chuck C. Johnoson has asked to be restored to Twitter, and he was told by an employee there “hopefully soon.”

Yes, it’s from earlier this year. I’m sure Chuck is pulling every string he has to get his account restored.

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ckkatz Oct 27, 2022 • 7:31:39pm

re: #100 Belafon

Nice to hear some good news from coal country.

Reminded me of driving around the old Pennsylvania mining towns in the mountains in the fall. Old housing and buildings in dark isolated small towns among the hollows. Everything pitch black because of the early mountain sunsets.

Reminded me of this song:

Patty Loveless “You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Oct 27, 2022 • 7:32:42pm

USS Gerald R. Ford (CV-78) has started on its first deployment. Ford’s new magnetic catapults allow the ship to launch aircraft much faster than steam catapult-style aircraft carriers. The new position of the island also allows more aircraft to line up for launching. No fueling hoses snake across the deck, because shipwrights re-imagined how aircraft could be fuelled, and now fuel stations are located under the deck.

Voice of America interviews the commanding officer of the Ford, Capt. Paul Lanzilotta.

(with video and lots of aircraft launching and recovery porn, 3:07).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Oct 27, 2022 • 7:33:09pm

re: #106 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Oops, left out the link.

voanews.com

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Belafon Oct 27, 2022 • 7:35:43pm

re: #100 Belafon

Mollie must have created her twitter account in response to the coach looking for her, because it’s from this month, she’s following 3, and has over 1000 followers.

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mmmirele Oct 27, 2022 • 7:37:47pm

OK, folks, I am going to give you my standard, “I am not thrilled with Julie Roys and she holds views about LGBTQIA people I find reprehensible” preface. BUT one of her writers did an article about one woman’s abuse while her family sat under the teachings of John MacArthur. It is my belief that this sort of thing is being repeated in thousands upon thousands of homes across the USA every single day of the week.

julieroys.com

And yeah, it’s horrifying, it has spousal sexual assault, child physical assault, and a completely shittastic church that did not care that this woman’s husband was raping her mere hours after birth, or beating the hell out of their children. All they cared about was that she not get divorced. They were quite willing to pass tips along on how to fool CPS, such as covering up bruises. (Sick bunch!) But no divorce! And, unfortunately, since there’s no good proof and the statute of limitations has passed, this guy can’t be charged.

Oh yeah, I should mention that I protested MacArthur and his church in June, so I already have an opinion about this whole outfit. And it’s not good.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Oct 27, 2022 • 7:38:16pm

In today’s news at #Twitter HQ: pic.twitter.com/EF61zoNntm

— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) October 28, 2022

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Belafon Oct 27, 2022 • 7:39:27pm

re: #106 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

USS Gerald R. Ford (CV-78) has started on its first deployment. Ford’s new magnetic catapults allow the ship to launch aircraft much faster than catapult-style aircraft carriers. The new position of the island also allows more aircraft to line up for launching. No fueling hoses snake across the deck, because shipwrights re-imagined how aircraft could be fuelled, and now fuel stations are located under the deck.

Voice of America interviews the commanding officer of the Ford, Capt. Paul Lanzilotta.

(with video and lots of aircraft launching and recovery porn, 3:07).

As a former Nuke Electrician on a Nimitz class carrier, I think working magnetic catapults will significantly simplify at least propulsion maintenance by decoupling then from the steam system.

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ckkatz Oct 27, 2022 • 7:39:38pm

re: #95 ckkatz

More petroleum related news. In this case, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and his being an asshole.

The way the Saudi Crown Prince manipulated US officials should be no surprise.

Saudis who have dealt with MBS have repeatedly warned he’s a psychopath who can’t be trusted at all.

Saudi monarchs have always been brutal, but MBS doesn’t believe in norms.https://t.co/GEzVsD0WMd pic.twitter.com/1fXY1VQQMh

— Yashar Ali 🐘 یاشار (@yashar) October 26, 2022

Short 🧵

MBS’ threat to sell U.S. treasury bonds deserves to be the centerpiece in a museum for the dumbest ideas of all time.

It is suicidal, a desperate attempt to throw a weak punch at the U.S. by bringing Saudi Arabia to its knees.

Here is why: https://t.co/hyNogC1fRT

— Khalid Aljabri, MD د.خالد الجبري (@JabriMD) October 27, 2022

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JC1 Oct 27, 2022 • 7:40:19pm

re: #56 William Lewis

He’s nowhere near as smart as he thinks he is. This is a good thing if it means he runs both Twitter and Tesla into the ground.

He just set 40 billion dollars on fire. Tesla stock will take a beating as competition catches up. Within 2 years there’s a good chance that he won’t be in the top 10 richest Americans.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Oct 27, 2022 • 7:42:21pm

re: #109 mmmirele

Published today by Pew Research:

45% of Americans Say U.S. Should Be a ‘Christian Nation’

But they hold differing opinions about what that phrase means, and two-thirds of U.S. adults say churches should keep out of politics

Pew Research Center conducted this survey to explore Americans’ attitudes about religion’s role in public life. The survey asked respondents whether they think churches and other religious organizations should be involved in politics, whether the U.S. should be a “Christian nation,” whether they have heard of “Christian nationalism” (and if so, what they think of it), and about their perceptions of religion’s role in the Supreme Court, among other topics.

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Most U.S. adults believe America’s founders intended the country to be a Christian nation, and many say they think it should be a Christian nation today, according to a new Pew Research Center survey designed to explore Americans’ views on the topic. But the survey also finds widely differing opinions about what it means to be a “Christian nation” and to support “Christian nationalism.”

(more)

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JC1 Oct 27, 2022 • 7:42:54pm

re: #80 Belafon

He’s got the same view of software engineers some at my job have, that you can just move us around and everything will just run smoothly.

He should know better as he used to write code.

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No Malarkey! Oct 27, 2022 • 7:46:27pm

The Twitter remembrance thread is the gift that just keeps on giving. Read this coming of age, as it were, story.

You have to understand dive culture. Some people like the fish. Some people like the quiet. Some people—dudes with bad fathers—like to pretend they’re NAVY Seals. They strap knives to their legs and wear huge watches and get all big-balled about how little air they use.

— Chris Jones (@EnswellJones) July 17, 2020

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Belafon Oct 27, 2022 • 7:46:37pm

re: #115 JC1

He should know better as he used to write code.

But has he ever worked at a place with diverse projects, as in not even the same language, let alone the differing concepts being tackled?

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William Lewis Oct 27, 2022 • 7:49:31pm

re: #115 JC1

He should know better as he used to write code.

One has to wonder about the quality of that code.

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No Malarkey! Oct 27, 2022 • 7:50:08pm

I hurt myself laughing every time I remember this, which is at least once a month and usually in serious meetings. pic.twitter.com/SKdBvfiDFT

— Kory Stamper (@KoryStamper) October 27, 2022

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BeenHereAwhile Oct 27, 2022 • 7:50:40pm

re: #105 ckkatz

Nice to hear some good news from coal country.

Reminded me of driving around the old Pennsylvania mining towns in the mountains in the fall. Old housing and buildings in dark isolated small towns among the hollows. Everything pitch black because of the early mountain sunsets.

Reminded me of this song:

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Video

Merle Travis - Dark as a Dungeon (solo guitar, 1951)

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Belafon Oct 27, 2022 • 7:51:26pm

So I think I got the strangest reply I have ever gotten on Twitter.

Stories told by detransitioners seem to make this belief an observation.

— Brock Burt (@brocklyboy) October 27, 2022

Considering gender and sexual identity are matters of faith with no reference to the physical body or anything else in the material world, your non-binary ranges and spectrums are gender canon buzzwords.

I’ve rejected religion, thanks. Enjoy yours all you like though.

— Brock Burt (@brocklyboy) October 28, 2022

(I think everyone knows that I’m RockwallBlue, but I just want to make sure that I’m talking about the reply to my tweet.)

As an aside people are stupid (not Erin):

Oh my god they are literally beyond parody.

I’m tempted to see how far I can take this. pic.twitter.com/lcALPhe3Wt

— Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) October 28, 2022

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ckkatz Oct 27, 2022 • 7:54:30pm

re: #120 BeenHereAwhile

I was listening to the Johnny Cash version when I saw your post. Glad you posted it.

I worked with a guy who had been a West Virginia coal miner. After a mining accident that killed a friend of his, he decided to switch to programming.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Oct 27, 2022 • 8:01:17pm

Best one yet:

pic.twitter.com/w7oFaoNuCz

— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) October 28, 2022

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ckkatz Oct 27, 2022 • 8:01:46pm

ETA: I think that this refers to a news release allegedly by tfg that he was getting his twitter account back.

In the rush of reporting on Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter we included some bad information about Donald Trump’s reaction to the deal. We regret the error.

— Alex Wagner Tonight (@WagnerTonight) October 28, 2022

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jaunte Oct 27, 2022 • 8:04:19pm

re: #121 Belafon

Maybe I’m a little tired, but the initial exchange doesn’t make much sense.

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ckkatz Oct 27, 2022 • 8:07:27pm

re: #125 jaunte

Maybe I’m a little tired, but the initial exchange doesn’t make much sense.

I read the exchange as the other guy as just trying to score points by attacking Belafon.

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jaunte Oct 27, 2022 • 8:10:06pm

re: #121 Belafon

On the so-called de-transitioning stories:
It seems to me that it’s possible some trans people have a difficult time getting the support, courage, or resources they need to go through with a transition, and under pressure from family or others, settle for hiding who they really are.

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jaunte Oct 27, 2022 • 8:13:40pm

The “gender and sexual identity are matters of faith” comment reminds me of that other classic “I don’t see color because race is a social construct.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Oct 27, 2022 • 8:13:52pm

Always a pleasure ❤️❤️ https://t.co/ftFRmC3EBJ

— Senator Megan Hunt (@NebraskaMegan) October 27, 2022

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William Lewis Oct 27, 2022 • 8:17:50pm

re: #121 Belafon

So I think I got the strangest reply I have ever gotten on Twitter.

All he gets from me…

Are you drunk? Stupid? Or, most likely, drunk AND stupid?

— Bill Barnett (@BillBar29495196) October 28, 2022

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Crush White Nationalism Oct 27, 2022 • 8:18:13pm

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ckkatz Oct 27, 2022 • 8:19:19pm

Some thoughts on Putin is sending Russian troops back into Belarus:

(BLR - Belarus)

“What we are seeing in Belarus, is a training mission. Russia is using BLR officers to train the draftees.” Marran says Lukashenko is doing anything in his power not to contribute BLR units to the war.

— Holger Roonemaa (@holger_r) October 26, 2022

This means helping Russia with training, maybe with arms, allowing Russia to use their territories for troop movements and missile attacks. “Russia keeps pressing BLR to join the war, but right now it seems that Lukashenko can withstand the pressure.”

— Holger Roonemaa (@holger_r) October 26, 2022

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Oct 27, 2022 • 8:24:51pm

The new and improved[?] Dude-bro Twitter: pic.twitter.com/Kl9r7uq2s6

— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) October 28, 2022

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Oct 27, 2022 • 8:26:03pm

Break out the Benadryl. (0:24)

A massive amount of pollen falls off a tree.pic.twitter.com/R7FnirOrLw

— Fascinating (@fasc1nate) October 27, 2022

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jaunte Oct 27, 2022 • 8:26:07pm

“Rough Trade” https://t.co/oeoAeuWFba

— Michael W. Twitty (@KosherSoul) October 28, 2022

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Oct 27, 2022 • 8:30:36pm

(2:49)

ON INFLATION AND THE GOP’S PLAN FOR IT pic.twitter.com/m7vSiFkGsO

— Trae Crowder in Brea & Oxnard 11/9-10 (@traecrowder) October 27, 2022

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ckkatz Oct 27, 2022 • 8:32:24pm

“Chinese Police Stations” is becoming a fast growing term since the Dutch police busted two such ‘stations’ in the Netherlands.

BBC: Public security bureaus from two Chinese provinces established 54 “overseas police service centres” across 5 continents, involved in “persuasion to return operations”, aimed at coercing those speaking out against the regime to return home. https://t.co/PmFDv7Hcjf

— Laura Harth (@LauraHarth) October 26, 2022

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — China has reportedly established dozens of “overseas police stations” in nations around the world that activists fear could be used to track and harass dissidents as part of Beijing’s crackdown on corruption.

China accused of using overseas bases to target dissidents - WashPost

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Oct 27, 2022 • 8:34:15pm

State house district 1 candidate in Missouri.

I’m endorsed by teachers unions…both MNEA and StL AFT. I joined MNEA after years in MSTA when I realized they aren’t a union and don’t bargain for pay or benefits. I’m disappointed in the professional organization for Missouri teachers, but I’m not surprised. Par for the course.

— Piper for Missouri (@piper4missouri) October 27, 2022

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Captain Ron Oct 27, 2022 • 8:36:17pm

re: #135 jaunte

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The Bang Bus

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Oct 27, 2022 • 8:38:45pm

The typical Twitter user who only cares about their favorite sports ball team or sneaker brand:

Unaware: pic.twitter.com/HkeN7fNC0Y

— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) October 28, 2022

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jaunte Oct 27, 2022 • 8:41:15pm

Despite our insistence that the economy was shrinking, the economy grew, here’s why that’s bad for the economy. https://t.co/cp70wzHeHW

— A.R. Moxon (@JuliusGoat) October 28, 2022

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austin_blue Oct 27, 2022 • 8:49:25pm

re: #141 jaunte

What the fuck?

I just can’t even with the NYT, a whole lot, and I get delivery every day.

Although I can’t find this in today’s print version.

Hmmm…

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jaunte Oct 27, 2022 • 8:49:29pm

Let’s say I insist your name is “Jean,” because I believe I have the right to name you simply because of who I understand myself to be, and you do not have the right to name yourself something other than what I say, because of who I understand you to be.

— A.R. Moxon (@JuliusGoat) October 27, 2022

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Oct 27, 2022 • 8:50:47pm

We sometimes think it is the old folk who are going to vote against themselves (and SS) and vote GOP, but the demographics of voting suggests otherwise.

It’s the 40-54 year olds who are drawn to the GOP and atavism, especially males.

It’s the age where a man finds himself in one of two categories:
1) hitting the peak earning years in a successful career;
2) discovering his hopes of youth have been dashed and he’s angry about it.

Both are what the GOP atavists target.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Oct 27, 2022 • 8:51:33pm

Reveal News, today.

Search for the Crime Bills That Target Voting and Elections in Your State

Since the 2020 general election, state lawmakers across the country have introduced legislation that would dramatically criminalize voting activity. Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting has collected and analyzed those bills into this first-of-its-kind database.

Reveal used records from LegiScan, which catalogs virtually every bill introduced by state-level lawmakers in all 50 states, to identify and classify the bills, which we have divided into the following categories:

Empowering a law enforcement agency by giving it more power or resources
Creating a new enforcement agency
Creating new criminal penalties
Increasing penalties for existing offenses

For bills that would create or increase criminal penalties, Reveal further categorized them based on the type of activity they would criminalize:

Voting
Voter assistance
Ballot collection
Election administration
Election interference

It turns out that Nebraska, according to their legal search engine, is one of the states which passed the fewest laws increasing policing or penalties, or suppressing elections. Only two bills were introduced this year.

LB828 (would create a new penalty) Making it a felony to manipulate an election through bribery, theft, extortion, or fraud. Penalty would be fifty years imprisonment. Postponed indefinitely

LB843 (creates a new penalty) Makes it a misdemeanour to refuse or fail to order an election as required by law. Makes it misdemeanour to campaign within two hundred feet of a drop box. Signed into law

That said, Nebraska has a referendum on the ballot to require voter ID for future elections. That ID would be determined by the Unicameral.

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Belafon Oct 27, 2022 • 8:53:26pm

re: #125 jaunte

Maybe I’m a little tired, but the initial exchange doesn’t make much sense.

Erin posted a comment about Musk buying twitter because she and others had transitioned his child, and people jumped on it as proof that transitioning is forced. I skipped all that because I didn’t entirely think it mattered at what I wrote, but here it is inside someone’s “told you”:

The “it’s not a cult” people keep forgetting the party line. pic.twitter.com/IdowZunULu

— HeterodorxPodcast 👯‍♂️ (@heterodorx) October 27, 2022

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BeenHereAwhile Oct 27, 2022 • 8:55:39pm

re: #122 ckkatz

I was listening to the Johnny Cash version when I saw your post. Glad you posted it.

I worked with a guy who had been a West Virginia coal miner. After a mining accident that killed a friend of his, he decided to switch to programming.

I was working on a criminal trial in Benton IL.

One day during lunch break I saw a white man whose exposed skin on his arms & face was black apparently from embedded coal mine dust. I had never seen that before, but had never spent much time in coal country. Imagine what his lungs looked like.

I was told one of the area’s industries was long wall coal mining, and that was why some of the area’s roads had dips in them from mines running under the roads.

Definitely not a healthy way to make a living.

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Belafon Oct 27, 2022 • 8:55:49pm

re: #127 jaunte

On the so-called de-transitioning stories:
It seems to me that it’s possible some trans people have a difficult time getting the support, courage, or resources they need to go through with a transition, and under pressure from family or others, settle for hiding who they really are.

That could definitely be it as well. My reason for replying in this case was to point out that it’s more complicated than they know and they need to get the idea that people are being forced out of their head.

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mmmirele Oct 27, 2022 • 9:00:09pm

re: #137 ckkatz

Apparently also a thing in Canada (from the Guardian):

Canada’s federal police force is investigating reports that clandestine Chinese “police stations” are operating in Toronto amid reports of a global network used to target overseas dissidents. #China https://t.co/xA5xVXTeef

— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) October 28, 2022

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IngisKahn Oct 27, 2022 • 9:02:10pm

Got this in the mail today

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austin_blue Oct 27, 2022 • 9:05:10pm

I’m out sweet scaly dreams.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Oct 27, 2022 • 9:10:55pm

re: #146 Belafon

Erin posted a comment about Musk buying twitter because she and others had transitioned his child, and people jumped on it as proof that transitioning is forced. I skipped all that because I didn’t entirely think it mattered at what I wrote, but here it is inside someone’s “told you”:

LOL

ooooo i’m going to turn you trans OOOOoooOooO pic.twitter.com/Z0hPqigzil

— jenny_tightpants🪑 (@halomancer1) October 27, 2022

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Oct 27, 2022 • 9:12:35pm

If they actually read queer theory they’d know the real point of drag queen story hour is to distribute rainbow fentanyl https://t.co/LCZL384elo

— Natalie Wynn (@ContraPoints) October 28, 2022

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Targetpractice Oct 27, 2022 • 9:12:49pm

re: #141 jaunte

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Corporate America has been openly begging for another recession for awhile now to give them back power over the wage slaves. They went into COVID figuring that it was going to be a replay of the Great Recession, a temporary period of pain eased by fat federal bailout checks, followed by a turn-key “recovery” where they hired back the peons with slashed wages and zero benefits to loud applause because people were “going back to work.” Instead, the labor market got totally upended due to federal assistance checks allowing workers to either seek better jobs or expand their education and Wall Street cannot see any solution to their labor “shortage” other than robbing millions of Americans of financial security via another recession.

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ckkatz Oct 27, 2022 • 9:14:19pm

I seem to remember someone here posting about former military pilots moving to China to teach the Chinese their flying skills.

Here’s a bit of a followup:

CANBERRA, Australia — A former U.S. military pilot and flight instructor who ran an aviation consultancy in China is in custody in Australia awaiting an extradition request from his homeland on an undisclosed charge, officials said Wednesday.

Former US pilot who worked in China arrested in Australia - WashPost

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Oct 27, 2022 • 9:16:26pm

Earlier I commented that I concluded that DALL-E is better for getting a look that is more like the works of real artists, if one is looking for portraits of real things, etc.

When DALL-E is on target it definitely is able to recreate a specific look (here targeting a 19th century natural history book), with high marks:

Stable Diffusion is still easier for a concept art, if one is not looking for the most realistic image.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Oct 27, 2022 • 9:18:09pm

the ultimate goal of everyone still on this platform is to make twitter’s value go the ways of tumblr and myspace

we need to turn that 44 billion dollar purchase into a 500 million dollar sale https://t.co/i4KSvL87Bl

— operation baby dog (@WerewolfMoms) October 27, 2022

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ckkatz Oct 27, 2022 • 9:23:49pm

Civil disobedience (and an act of bravery) in Tehran:

Spotted in Tehran. Many Iranian women of all ages are ditching their compulsory hijabs and are fearlessly walking unveiled in the streets. Long live revolution.#IranRevolution pic.twitter.com/HqOtIfvcpR

— Vahid 🇺🇦 (@vahid_y1) October 27, 2022

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Belafon Oct 27, 2022 • 9:23:54pm

re: #157 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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The hardest thing about that is that everyone viewing Twitter is the product, not the consumer.

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Belafon Oct 27, 2022 • 9:24:56pm

re: #158 ckkatz

Civil disobedience in Tehran:

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It’s still so wild how much English is used in Iran.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Oct 27, 2022 • 9:29:38pm

Agrawal is literally the only person in those texts who doesn’t come across as a clown. I think he is also the only non-white person in them. Make of that what you will.

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) October 28, 2022

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Hecuba's daughter Oct 27, 2022 • 9:35:55pm

re: #115 JC1

He should know better as he used to write code.

re: #118 William Lewis

One has to wonder about the quality of that code.

Wasn’t it over 20 years ago? And here is a comment that was from a biography:

While Musk had exceled as a self-taught coder, his skills weren’t nearly as polished as those of the new hires. They took one look at Zip2’s code and began rewriting the vast majority of the software. Musk bristled at some of their changes, but the computer scientists needed just a fraction of the lines of code that Musk used to get their jobs done. They had a knack for dividing software projects into chunks that could be altered and refined whereas Musk fell into the classic self-taught coder trap of writing what developers call hairballs—big, monolithic hunks of code that could go berserk for mysterious reasons.

Certainly seems as though his coding was not the most efficient or well organized, though it may have gotten the job done. Maybe Musk is basically a smarter Trump (certainly his personal relationships with women are similar) and someone who thinks he is more brilliant than he really is (Dunning-Kruger?). I might be wrong but I think he may also be akin to Ye — who said publicly that Adidas couldn’t fire him… shortly before they did. Someone like Musk can do a lot of damage before his arrogance takes him down — if it ever does.

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A Three Hour Tour Oct 27, 2022 • 9:44:36pm

re: #161 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

You can take the white racist out of South Africa, but you can’t necessarily take the racism out of the white South African.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie Oct 27, 2022 • 9:53:07pm

With various dark rumblings about, and from China, it might be good to take a look at some history.
Taiwan independence is a tricky issue because the Communists who run the Peoples Republic are not the only ones who assert that Taiwan is, and should always be, part of China. The Chinese Nationalists (Kuomintang) fled to Taiwan when they lost the civil war to the Communists in 1949. They have governed it ever since and, in theory anyway, still assert that they, rather than the Communists, are the rightful government of all of China.
In recent years, home-grown pro-independence parties have appeared in Taiwan, and made some electoral gains. Again, it is important to note that they are opposed by Communists and Nationalists alike.
Taiwan remains under a separate government because the Communists won the civil war, but lost the last battle.
Battle of Guningtou
This was a spectacular but ill advised and poorly executed attempt to seize the Nationalist-held island of Kinmen as a prelude to an invasion of Taiwan itself. Kinmen, usually known as Quemoy at the time, lies just 10 km. off the coast of the mainland. The invasion was a disaster: All 9086 Communsit troops who actually landed were either killed or captured. Kinmen remains in Nationalist hands to this day.

As an aside, the corruption that had contributed so much to the Nationalist defeat in the civil war actually made a valuable contribution to victory at Kinmen. A large part of the Communist landing force, carried in confiscated wooden fishing boats, was supposed to land across a 600 meter wide mud flat at low tide. This would keep Nationalist, and possibly US, warships at arm’s length.
Unbeknownst to them though, there was already a Nationalist warship there, beached for the night on the mudflat.

The ROC Navy tank landing ship ROCS Chung Lung (中榮) [ex-US Navy LST 574] was anchored near the PLA’s landing site on October 25, and used its significant firepower (2x2 40mm guns, 6x1 40mm guns, 8x1 20mm guns) to destroy beached PLA landing craft, again made up mostly of wooden junks and fishing boats, during the battle.
Chung Lung was supposed to leave on the evening of October 24 after offloading its cargo, but remained, offering an official excuse of “bad weather”. The unmentioned real reason the ship remained in the area was that it was running a side business of smuggling brown sugar from Taiwan island in exchange for peanut oil. However, there was not enough peanut oil on the whole island for the deal, so the ship was forced to stay for another day while waiting for more peanut oil to be produced, making it the accidental hero of the battle.

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Dr Lizardo Oct 27, 2022 • 9:53:20pm

re: #149 mmmirele

Throughout the world, actually. Here’s a story from yesterday, where it look like at least Ireland is saying, “Enough”.

A Chinese “police station” in Dublin’s city centre has been ordered to close by the Irish government after pressure from a human rights group.

The Fuzhou Police Service Overseas Station opened earlier this year in an office building on the now-pedestrianised Capel Street which it shared with other Chinese organisations.

Fuzhou is a city in the province of Fujian.

The Chinese authorities said the station offered a service to Chinese citizens in Ireland including the renewal of driving licenses.

However, the human rights group Safeguard Defenders in a report in September said the stations persuade 230,000 emigrants to return to China, sometimes to face criminal charges.

bbc.com

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IngisKahn Oct 27, 2022 • 10:00:39pm

This guy showed up in our backyard last week

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retired cynic Oct 27, 2022 • 10:07:09pm

re: #166 IngisKahn

poor little muffin: he looks like he has had a time…

My adopted kitten that came running across the field and took over the house is really growing. From a handful that could stretch and stay on one bathroom tile, he is expanding and doing a bit of growing up mentally as well. He sleeps on my head, which gives him the contact he wants. Sorry I didn’t get the photo framed squarely. Everything is a bit off. But I wanted to show that magnificent tail.

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Hecuba's daughter Oct 27, 2022 • 10:09:08pm

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I Would Prefer Not To Oct 27, 2022 • 10:19:25pm

good night fine lizards

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DodgerFan1988 Oct 27, 2022 • 10:25:51pm

Pandora’s Box is opened.

— David Weissman (@davidmweissman) October 28, 2022

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ckkatz Oct 27, 2022 • 10:31:39pm

A couple for Halloween:

Steve miller Band - Abracadabra

TAKE ME TO THE RIVER by KALEIDA (Official Audio)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Oct 27, 2022 • 10:33:54pm

Adam and ~~Eve~~ Steve in the Garden of Eden:

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Oct 27, 2022 • 10:35:56pm

re: #172 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Sometimes you just hit the right combination of words for a prompt.

“Prompt Engineering” is a thing, I guess, but I’m still finding that random luck plays a big part.

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ckkatz Oct 27, 2022 • 10:37:47pm

Time for me to head to bed…

And for the curated Dad joke:

I told me wife: There’s only one thing that scares me during Halloween…
My wife: “Which is?”
Me: “Exactly”

And… as an extra bonus, here is a thought for the day/evening…

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Hecuba's daughter Oct 27, 2022 • 10:57:08pm

MAGAts are celebrating. Twitter will be the successful version of Truth Social. Let’s see what, if anything, gets people banned now.

As a test case, maybe those here who were banned should try to get their accounts restored just to see what happens.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Oct 27, 2022 • 11:06:55pm

Breaking: My wife just found out her only living sister died eleven years ago.

(My wife was cut out of her family for being an atheist decades ago, so news from her family travels slow to her.)

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Amory Blaine Oct 27, 2022 • 11:10:20pm

re: #2 Charles Johnson

I saw Jeff Beck on Sunday at The Chicago Theater and it was a great show. Jonny Depp showed for a few songs and I found him meh. But Beck was a treat.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Oct 27, 2022 • 11:10:37pm

re: #176 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Whoa.

That is some hard core “cut out”.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Oct 27, 2022 • 11:10:46pm

re: #174 ckkatz

And… as an extra bonus, here is a thought for the day/evening…

The Oxford English Dictionary defines gruntle as ”to grumble, murmur, complain,” and cites a 1589 sermon by Robert Bruce: ”It becomes us not to have our hearts here gruntling upon this earth. ”

What does the OED know though? Other dictionaries define gruntled the way your screen shot did.

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Sherlock Hound Oct 27, 2022 • 11:11:16pm

What Brexit Means, a thread:

I am sorting my dashcam footage from last couple of month and got to my car journey from Glasgow to Helsinki and I thought it can show you nicely what Brexit means

(a small 🧵)

— Tomasz Oryński (@TOrynski) October 28, 2022

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Oct 27, 2022 • 11:12:17pm

Jesus and Mary Magdalene share an intimate moment in the desert:

I bet you didn’t hear that in Sunday School.

But as you can see above, someone was around to record it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Oct 27, 2022 • 11:13:47pm

Opinion | Draconian intellectual property laws are strangling technological innovation. Here’s why Elon Musk should sue anyone who creates a rival platform.

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) October 28, 2022

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Oct 27, 2022 • 11:22:13pm

The Wall Street Journal is getting dragged in the comments.

What makes Kari Lake’s message different is its simplicity and fearlessness. It’s unapologetic and sincere, not clothed in codewords, writes Kenneth L. Khachigianhttps://t.co/EdEUwwNT0m

— Wall Street Journal Opinion (@WSJopinion) October 22, 2022

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Targetpractice Oct 27, 2022 • 11:27:46pm

re: #183 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The Wall Street Journal is getting dragged in the comments.

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“Yes, the message is batshit crazy and the speaker out of her damned gourd, but it’s simple and fearless and that’s why we’re repeating it without any filtering whatsoever.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Oct 27, 2022 • 11:44:43pm

re: #178 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Whoa.

That is some hard core “cut out”.

I have the same.

I was not informed my maternal grandmother died in 2005 until two years ago. My mother thought others informed me, but the rest of my family had cut me out for the same reason as my wife’s family.

That’s actually quite common in our country when a family member is known to be an atheist.

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Dr Lizardo Oct 27, 2022 • 11:46:19pm

Take this one with a grain of salt, as the original source seems to be The Express (a U.K. tabloid) - but that being said, it’s not outside the realm of possibility that the journalists over at The Express might well be on to something:

Iranian officials are reportedly attempting to secure British passports for their families to exit the country as many violent protests over the death of an Iranian woman in police custody for not wearing a head covering surpassed 40 days.

Top government officials in Iran have been chartering up to “five flights a day” for their families as they seek “British passports” to get them out of the country, express.co.uk reported on Thursday.

Additionally, the outlet says that sections of Tehran’s main airport have been commandeered by government forces to fast track their families escape from the protest-ridden country.

“It started around two weeks ago,” an Iranian source told the outlet. “The regime changed all security detail at the airport. They were moving civilians (friends and family) from the back entrance of the airport directly to the airplanes for international flights, at least five flights a day.”

foxnews.com

Here’s the original article from The Express, published on Thursday 27/10/2022: express.co.uk The Express is citing an anonymous Iranian source, who “cannot be named for security reasons” - which is entirely understandable given the circumstances and is, in fact, good journalism.

I won’t categorically rule out the veracity of the story simply because of the sources, but I will take it with a healthy dose of skepticism.

But would I be surprised if Iranian government types are trying to get their families the hell out of Dodge, perhaps foreseeing some kind of massive civil revolt, or even a violent overthrow of the current regime?

Not one bit.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Oct 27, 2022 • 11:49:43pm

From emptywheel

It may have been the moment I found a private drone filming me at night through an upstairs window.

Or the medical receptionist’s surprise when I wouldn’t sign in on the touch pad until she showed me a copy of what I was agreeing to, saying I was the first to ever ask for this.

Or at the end of a recent physical therapy session, after an hour divulging the most private and confidential health information, when I bent down to put on my shoes and discovered an Amazon Alexa blinking back at me.

Doorbell Surveillance Cameras and Microphones. License plate readers. Delivery robots. Security robots. Dashboard cams. Bike helmet cams. All recording our every move. Our personal privacy is being striped-mined, data-mined and packaged up for corporate profit, and we the people are assisting all the way.

I am not a technophobe. I AM someone who has the perhaps radical idea that before any device that permanently collects our biometric info is put out in the world, the company must first provide verifiable proof that their widget actually does what it claims, and fills a true societal need.

As the Amazon/Apple/Google panopticon leads the way in creating ever more horrific ways of monetizing our individual selves, we must collectively hit pause and consider the ramifications. The technology feeding our Brave New AI (Artificial Intelligence) Algorithmic World isn’t being built by benign super geniuses. Ignore the number of supposedly astute folk who wax orgasmic over the possibilities of AI as if it’s untouched by human hands. Newsflash: (Charlton Heston voice) AI - is - people! More specifically, a self-selected narrow slice of the human spectrum. Flawed humans propagating and programming their every bias and prejudice into their final products that are then put on the market to travel the world.

(more)

America, We Have a Privacy Problem

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Oct 28, 2022 • 12:29:34am

Via Radio Free Europe. Like emptywheel’s article above, don’t think for a minute that our fascists wouldn’t love to get hold of your Alexa data, Ring doorbell video, or information from a smart phone on your movements. And our happy capitalists would gladly sell it to them.

Over the 28 years of Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s repressive rule, Belarusians who oppose him, despise him, or just want to criticize any particular policy could feel relatively safe expressing their views inside the confines of their homes.

Now they may want to think again, legal and digital experts say — especially if they use things like GPS tracking apps, online dating services, or a voice-controlled virtual assistant like Alisa, a product of the Russia-based Internet company Yandex.

Lukashenka signed a decree last week requiring telecom operators and website owners to connect to a new, state-designed system that would allow the Belarusian KGB to surveil almost any online activity.

The October 18 decree crystalizes a law passed last year that on paper gave state security agencies unlimited powers to spy on citizens’ digital footprints, including at-home smart devices, but provided no mechanism for doing so.

“If surveillance through Internet resources and databases sounded like a potential threat before, it is now clear how they are going to do it in practice,” Netobservatory and Za BYnet, two groups that monitor online freedom in Belarus, said in a research note released in cooperation with the legal aid organization LegalHub.

(more)

Lukashenka Gives The KGB Greater Access To Online Data

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Oct 28, 2022 • 12:32:25am

3 for me.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Oct 28, 2022 • 12:34:45am

More on Belarus’s new security law regarding devices and Websites. The law does not just apply to Belarus. The law applies to any device which can connect to Belarus, or any Website accessible in Belarus.

The note by Netobservatory, Za BYnet, and LegalHub suggested that the KGB could target the largest online players first, including Google, Yandex, Facebook, VK, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, and Telegram.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Oct 28, 2022 • 12:41:14am

re: #189 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

3 for me.

You forced me to do it.

Geography pron.

#Worldle #280 2/6 (100%)
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I call this one “I know too many five-letter words.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Oct 28, 2022 • 12:43:04am

re: #190 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Programming note to our esteemed host Mr. Johnson:

Consider the far-reaching nature of the new Belarusian law, you might consider banning Belarus IPs from the site.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Oct 28, 2022 • 12:47:53am

I’m off to bed. We’ll liberate the Smart car later today and return the rental behemoth.

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Nyet Oct 28, 2022 • 1:04:37am

Enter the n-word into the twitter search.

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Nyet Oct 28, 2022 • 1:08:40am

re: #192 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Programming note to our esteemed host Mr. Johnson:

Consider the far-reaching nature of the new Belarusian law, you might consider banning Belarus IPs from the site.

Why? Makes zero sense.

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Nyet Oct 28, 2022 • 1:13:08am

re: #175 Hecuba’s daughter

MAGAts are celebrating. Twitter will be the successful version of Truth Social. Let’s see what, if anything, gets people banned now.

As a test case, maybe those here who were banned should try to get their accounts restored just to see what happens.

I’ll certainly try.

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Targetpractice Oct 28, 2022 • 2:06:08am

Heh.

My fellow Russians

My 3 day war into Ukraine has run 8 months. We lost the battles of Kyiv, Kharkiv & Izyum & are retreating in Kherson. The Moskva was sunk & Kerch bridge damaged. 69,000 Russian soldiers died

The next stage of my war will be even more glorious #RussiaIsLosing pic.twitter.com/12XUC9WzWf

— Tomi T Ahonen Standing With Ukraine (@tomiahonen) October 26, 2022

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Nyet Oct 28, 2022 • 2:23:29am

re: #197 Targetpractice

> 69,000 Russian soldiers died

Lol, why not 6900000, while we are at throwing exaggerated numbers anyway?

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Targetpractice Oct 28, 2022 • 2:28:06am

re: #198 Nyet

> 69,000 Russian soldiers died

Lol, why not 6900000, while we are at throwing exaggerated numbers anyway?

“Exaggerated numbers”? Where would you peg the total at?

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Nyet Oct 28, 2022 • 2:48:17am

re: #199 Targetpractice

“Exaggerated numbers”? Where would you peg the total at?

I have no tools to provide a current estimate, but the Ukrainian one has been consistently exaggerated (and they have an understandable motive for this), and since it’s accumulative, it has a snowball’s chance in hell of being accurate today when it was so off in the summer, when the CIA and MI6 estimates were as follows:

During testimony last week, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had estimated that there had been around 60,000 Russian casualties, of which, 15,000 were killed and 45,000 wounded.

Last week, the leader of Britain’s foreign intelligence service, MI6, estimated that around 15,000 Russians had been killed in the war.

Ukrainian military estimates have approximated that slightly over 40,000 Russian soldiers were “eliminated.” However, it is unclear if this was a total of all casualties, or specifically of those killed in action.

kyivpost.com

(And yes, they were referring to the KIAs, just as they are how )

And of course the KIAs are usually about 1/3 to 1/4 of all the casualties, which alone shows how unrealistic this is, since it would logically entail that up to the start of the mobilization the ZSU wiped out one way or another more soldiers than were in the original invasion force. So it’s just a pipe dream. A critically minded person shouldn’t simply repeat an estimate by a party directly interested in its exaggeration.

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Dr Lizardo Oct 28, 2022 • 2:55:28am

👋 @elonmusk

In Europe, the bird will fly by our 🇪🇺 rules.#DSA https://t.co/95W3qzYsal

— Thierry Breton (@ThierryBreton) October 28, 2022

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Nyet Oct 28, 2022 • 3:01:37am

re: #201 Dr Lizardo

That’s what he said👇#ICYMI https://t.co/V2kdvJLTBy

— Thierry Breton (@ThierryBreton) October 28, 2022

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Nyet Oct 28, 2022 • 3:16:33am

A Russian propaganda channel’s footage apparently helped the ZSU to destroy a Russian oil base:

meduza.io

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TarHellion Oct 28, 2022 • 3:21:33am

Ending the work week with a birbie. The second guess helped make the 3 a pretty sure bet.

Got three grants out yesterday and hoping to get 2 more out the door today or Monday. If there can be a positive to Covid, it caused the state to adapt and allow for emailed or uploaded applications - as opposed to wastefully having to make 3, 4 or even 5 tabbed notebooks - some containing as many has 500 pages. Let alone have to burn a flash drive for just 5 or 6 pictures.

Be cool Lizardz!

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Dangerman Oct 28, 2022 • 3:23:10am

You can’t be pro-insurrection and pro-cop.
You can’t be pro-insurrection and pro-democracy.
You can’t be pro-insurrection and pro-American.

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 28, 2022

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Targetpractice Oct 28, 2022 • 3:23:37am

re: #200 Nyet

I have no tools to provide a current estimate, but the Ukrainian one has been consistently exaggerated (and they have an understandable motive for this), and since it’s accumulative, it has a snowball’s chance in hell of being accurate today when it was so off in the summer, when the CIA and MI6 estimates were as follows:

kyivpost.com

(And yes, they were referring to the KIAs, just as they are how )

And of course the KIAs are usually about 1/3 to 1/4 of all the casualties, which alone shows how unrealistic this is, since it would logically entail that up to the start of the mobilization the ZSU wiped out one way or another more soldiers than were in the original invasion force. So it’s just a pipe dream. A critically minded person shouldn’t simply repeat an estimate by a party directly interested in its exaggeration.

The Ukrainian estimate is actually tamer than others:

Over 90K ‘Irrecoverable Losses’ Suffered by Russian Soldiers in Ukraine: iStories

Over 90,000 Russian soldiers have died, cannot be accounted for, or have suffered such serious injuries that they are unable to return to service, independent Russian media project iStories reported on Wednesday, citing sources close to the Kremlin.

The figure falls roughly in line with estimates made by the Pentagon and other Western governments in late August, which stated that around 70,000-80,000 Russian soldiers had been killed or had been seriously injured since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on Feb. 24.

British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace stated in September that of the over 80,000 losses the Russian army has suffered, some 25,000 soldiers were thought to have been killed.

So I’ll concede that it’s wrong to say 69,000 deaths when it would be more accurate to say 69,000 losses, but the only folks who’d have anything close to an accurate count (Russia) still insist almost 9 months later that they’ve suffered less than 6,000 fatalities.

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Dr Lizardo Oct 28, 2022 • 3:33:35am

This is a grade-A vintage mall in Reno, NV.

Reno Town Mall: A Western Dead Mall Diamond

Looks like there’s never been any kind of interior renovations since that place was built in the mid-1970s. All that brick, wood, tile and brass - brings back some memories for me of malls in the Pacific Northwest in the early-to-mid 1980s.

I can practically smell the cigarette smoke 😄

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Nyet Oct 28, 2022 • 3:38:36am

re: #206 Targetpractice

> The Ukrainian estimate is actually tamer than others:

90k losses = 22 to 30k deaths.

70k deaths = 210 to 280k losses.

Not sure how this is tamer.

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Nyet Oct 28, 2022 • 3:50:57am

re: #208 Nyet

Oh, and about this:

> when it would be more accurate to say 69,000 losses

As I pointed out, the Ukrainians refer to deaths, not losses.

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Barefoot Grin Oct 28, 2022 • 3:58:04am

re: #172 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Adam and ~~Eve~~ ~~Steve~~ Stephen in the Garden of Eden:

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Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 28, 2022 • 4:02:58am

Gary Glitter is trending and I can’t believe Rishi used his music for the PM video pic.twitter.com/12pbfJ75sS

— Janey Godley (@JaneyGodley) October 28, 2022

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Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 28, 2022 • 4:03:35am

And I thought Austria-Hungary created Ukraine to weaken Russia…

Living multiple delusions must be tough. #StandWithUkraine https://t.co/Wgy2zNyFvW

— olexander scherba🇺🇦 (@olex_scherba) October 28, 2022

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Barefoot Grin Oct 28, 2022 • 4:08:04am

getting Chuck Johnson back on here is really going to juice the price on the next public offering https://t.co/euq7hohH9Q

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) October 28, 2022

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Nyet Oct 28, 2022 • 4:08:43am

re: #212 Backwoods_Sleuth

He means Ukraine as a legal entity (he blames Lenin for this). So there’s no internal contradiction at least here in the psycho world in his small, Botox-filled head.

There’s a possible sinister aspect to this formulation, since (at least to me) it sort of hints at Taras Bulba’s words to his son: “I bore you, so I will kill you”.

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Dopamine Fish Oct 28, 2022 • 4:13:32am

Could’ve been an easy 2.

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Dr Lizardo Oct 28, 2022 • 4:14:32am

re: #213 Barefoot Grin

Twitter will be bankrupt and gone in two years. Three years, tops.

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Nyet Oct 28, 2022 • 4:17:21am

re: #216 Dr Lizardo

Twitter will be bankrupt and gone in two years. Three years, tops.

Hopefully before it does too much damage. (Of course, there’s a possibility that the capitalistic (advertiser) pressure will suddenly make the manchild more sober in his approach. Nah.)

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Nyet Oct 28, 2022 • 4:18:11am

re: #213 Barefoot Grin

I suppose the reversal will apply first of all to the bad guys like Trump, but not to the “little” people like me, banned for nothing.

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Dopamine Fish Oct 28, 2022 • 4:20:07am

So Musk closed the deal, and now he’s bringing back all the unsavory trash that made Twitter an unlivable hellscape and firing all the top executives (to start; I know he plans to get rid of 75% of the company and replace it with… wait for it… bots). Great. Since I have a pretty low profile, I’ll probably stick around, and just mute/block any appearance of the human garbage that are so thrilled to be unbanned now that their Libertarian Lord and Savior has given them their soapbox back.

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Nyet Oct 28, 2022 • 4:21:37am

re: #219 Dopamine Fish

The neo-Nazis are already out in force, posting the n-word.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Oct 28, 2022 • 4:21:38am

Youtube Video

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Dopamine Fish Oct 28, 2022 • 4:22:22am

re: #219 Dopamine Fish

Though there is now a part of me that wonders if one of Musk’s intended changes is to remove the mute and/or block functions to ensure that everyone on “his” platform has an unfettered right to be heard, which would be right in line with his dystopian vision. And, of course, would only hasten the end of Twitter as we know it, since people who find themselves unable to curate their own Twitter feed would quickly abandon it, even casual users like me. Hell, I have Elon himself on my block list right now because I was sick of his shit. Is that going to get reversed?

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Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 28, 2022 • 4:22:53am

re: #116 No Malarkey!

The Twitter remembrance thread is the gift that just keeps on giving. Read this coming of age, as it were, story.

after the story:

Simon, this is what they mean by “mansplaining,” except I’m also a man who happens to have been diving since you were born.

— Chris Jones (@EnswellJones) July 18, 2020

it’s like, what part of this story was the fact that it was when Chris was 16 years old, did Simon not see?

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Dopamine Fish Oct 28, 2022 • 4:29:41am

I just can’t wait for the first staff meeting after Musk brings back all the dumpster fires and fires all the staff:

“Alright, let’s get to the business. Where are our DAUs at?”
“Well, sir, we’re down 75% over the previous month.”
“What?! What happened? What is the timeline?”
“It appears that there was a steep decline beginning the day you closed the deal and started making all these changes. Perhaps if —”
“NO. I won’t hear it. Twitter WILL BE a beacon of pure free speech, without restriction; anyone can say anything on my platform, and all other users must be free to receive it. There must be some other explanation. Your new task is to go out there and find the real reason our users are disappearing, and get them back. Perhaps we can change the terms of service to force people to stay…”
*Legal-looking guy in the corner, with a growing look of concern on his face through the entire meeting, abruptly exits.*

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Dr Lizardo Oct 28, 2022 • 4:30:09am

re: #217 Nyet

Hopefully before it does too much damage. (Of course, there’s a possibility that the capitalistic (advertiser) pressure will suddenly make the manchild more sober in his approach. Nah.)

I would hope that advertiser pressure might make Elon think twice, but somehow, I doubt it.

I won’t be surprised if/when major advertisers start pulling out of Twitter once the place becomes an absolutely toxic sewer….which probably won’t take all that long.

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Dopamine Fish Oct 28, 2022 • 4:49:28am

Oh, good, now they’ll come up with a way for my *computer* to autonomously launch itself into a pedestrian on a sidewalk. https://t.co/CIWw8ks1aN

— Actually malicious, no actual malice (@apark2453) October 28, 2022

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Nyet Oct 28, 2022 • 4:51:26am

re: #225 Dr Lizardo

“They can’t drop me.” (Famous last words)

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lawhawk Oct 28, 2022 • 4:52:16am

re: #8 Crush White Nationalism

One of the supposed “mules” is suing Dinesh D’Souza.

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Finish him, just as Sandy Hook families are going to bankrupt the morally bankrupt Jones.

Dinesh de Felon is another one of those morally bankrupt propagandists who must get comeuppance for his malfeasance.

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lawhawk Oct 28, 2022 • 4:52:36am

re: #227 Nyet

“They can’t drop me.” (Famous last words)

Wanna bet?

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Nyet Oct 28, 2022 • 4:53:49am

re: #229 lawhawk

Wanna bet?

Nazye has…

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lawhawk Oct 28, 2022 • 4:57:13am

re: #230 Nyet

We’ll see how long that lasts…

As we have seen with other businesses that loudly shied away from GOPers after the 1/6 insurrection, they’re starting to come back and support those same GOPers.

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Belafon Oct 28, 2022 • 5:08:57am

It’s a comin’ (im where it says 58 to the right of Dallas):

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Eventual Carrion Oct 28, 2022 • 5:16:01am

re: #166 IngisKahn

This guy showed up in our backyard last week

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One of our cats delivered a dead mole to our front porch this morning.

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Eventual Carrion Oct 28, 2022 • 5:17:00am

re: #168 Hecuba’s daughter

3!

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Nice, took me 5 this morning

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Colère Tueur de Lapin Oct 28, 2022 • 5:21:15am

re: #189 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

3 for me.

Me, too.
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Barefoot Grin Oct 28, 2022 • 5:22:40am

re: #233 Eventual Carrion

One of our cats delivered a dead mole to our front porch this morning.

Like Door Dash.

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Shropshire Slasher Oct 28, 2022 • 5:27:59am

The ball hammock is a gimmick, too small for me. Great marketing campaign though.

Tommy Brown didn’t choose to be an underwear model; his destiny chose him.

Brown is a 6-foot-7, 330-pound, mulleted offensive tackle at Colorado, and the unlikely first underwear model in college football. When the Denver-based underwear company Shinesty came calling with an NIL deal, Brown seized the opportunity.

“I knew it was my destiny when I saw that Shinesty DM’ed me and I was like ‘uh I don’t know about this company,’” Brown told The Post. “And then I clicked on their Instagram and saw how many followers they had and was like ‘oh this is a real company. I have to do it.’”

Ben Lauderdale, the creative director at Shinesty, explained that the company actually reached out to several of Brown’s linemates.

Shinesty produces a line of irreverently named “Ball Hammock Pouch” underwear that is designed to protect the nether regions, and sought someone who protects the quarterback as a thematically appropriate marketer.

Long live the mullet!
nypost.com

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Dr Lizardo Oct 28, 2022 • 5:30:30am

The Chemical Safety Board dropped a new video, this time on the 2019 incident in Philadelphia at the PES refinery.

Wake Up Call: Refinery Disaster in Philadelphia

Their computer animation is top-notch and they give a great breakdown on what lead to the disaster.

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Barefoot Grin Oct 28, 2022 • 5:41:36am

With this Twitter thing maybe changing considerably.
a question I am asking:
Should I stay or should I go now?
If I go, there will be trouble
And if I stay it will be double
So come on and let me know
Should I stay or should I go?

— Dan Rather (@DanRather) October 27, 2022

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Teukka Oct 28, 2022 • 5:46:58am

And there you go..

“Russian Duma allowed the unblocking of Twitter in the Russian Federation after the acquisition of the social network by Elon Musk

This was stated by Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy Andrey Svintsov.”

— Jay in Kyiv (@JayinKyiv) October 28, 2022

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Nyet Oct 28, 2022 • 5:47:30am

re: #239 Barefoot Grin

Why is everyone atwitter? //

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Dr. Matt Oct 28, 2022 • 5:51:20am

Is TFG back on ~~hellscape~~ Twitter yet?

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lawhawk Oct 28, 2022 • 5:52:33am

re: #240 Teukka

So, good news?

We can flood the zone with news about how badly Putin is wrecking the Russian military in his imperialist genocidal campaign against sovereign Ukraine?

We can tell Russians all about Ukraine beating back Russian forces- and that Russian conscripts don’t want to die fighting a war they didn’t want because they had no choice.

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Dangerman Oct 28, 2022 • 5:55:05am

Gallup: “Americans are more likely now than at any time over the past five decades to say there is more crime in their local area than there was a year ago. The 56% of U.S. adults who report an increase in crime where they live marks a five-percentage-point uptick since last year and is the highest by two points in Gallup’s trend dating back to 1972.”
Semafor: “Not coincidentally, Gallup found the increase in perceived crime was driven by a major shift among Republicans —73% said local crime was up last year, versus 51% of independents and 42% of Democrats, whose views have barely moved over the last two years

Perceived, not experienced.
So not a fact at all.

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Dr. Matt Oct 28, 2022 • 5:55:40am

In about 3 minutes Fox and the MAGA Nazis will claim it was an antifa hoax:

BREAKING: Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was attacked at the couple’s home in San Francisco early Friday morning, her office said https://t.co/wQPUdquYPX

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) October 28, 2022

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lawhawk Oct 28, 2022 • 5:57:40am

re: #244 Dangerman

Fox NY ran a propaganda piece trying to link crime 30 years ago to what we’re seeing today.

For one thing, crime rates in the 1980s and 1990s were 5 times higher than they are now.

That’s right, NYC has become the safest large city in the US. Riding the subway would be even safer if we had invested in platform barriers that prevent people and objects from falling on the tracks. But that’s a cost that the MTA would not address, instead focusing on more staff to catch farebeaters (which is an awful use of staffing since it costs more to enforce than what’s recovered).

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Dangerman Oct 28, 2022 • 6:00:32am

re: #246 lawhawk

Fox NY ran a propaganda piece trying to link crime 30 years ago to what we’re seeing today.

For one thing, crime rates in the 1980s and 1990s were 5 times higher than they are now.

That’s right, NYC has become the safest large city in the US. Riding the subway would be even safer if we had invested in platform barriers that prevent people and objects from falling on the tracks. But that’s a cost that the MTA would not address, instead focusing on more staff to catch farebeaters (which is an awful use of staffing since it costs more to enforce than what’s recovered).

I do not miss NY

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lawhawk Oct 28, 2022 • 6:11:03am

Another reason the NYC metro music scene is depressing - legendary rock station 92.3 FM has become all-news simulcast of 1010WINS.

You can still hear 92.3 alt rock on FM2 or streamed online.

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Eclectic Cyborg Oct 28, 2022 • 6:12:14am

Advertisers plan to boycott Twitter if Musk reinstates Trump

Advertisers plan to boycott Twitter if Elon Musk allows Donald Trump back on the platform after he took control on Thursday night, The Wall Street Journal reported.

After paying $44 billion to close the deal he tried to walk away from, Musk swiftly fired four top executives including CEO Parag Agrawal and finance chief Ned Segal.

Advertisers are now weighing in as concerns over former President Donald Trump being reinstated grow.

Kieley Taylor, the global head of partnerships at advertising agency GroupM, told The Journal that letting Trump tweet again would be a red line for some major brands.

About a dozen of the agency’s clients had asked to pause their ads on Twitter if the former president did make a return, and Taylor expected more to be in contact if his permanent ban was lifted, the newspaper reported.

“That doesn’t mean that we won’t be entertaining lots of emails and phone calls as soon as a transaction goes through,” Taylor told the Journal. “I anticipate we’ll be busy.”

Musk has called Twitter’s Trump ban a “morally bad decision” and “foolish in the extreme.” He said in May the ban was “a mistake because it alienated a large part of the country and did not ultimately result in Donald Trump not having a voice.”

Trump used the platform to help fuel the January 6 Capitol riots last year after he lost the 2020 presidential election.

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lawhawk Oct 28, 2022 • 6:13:17am

Paul Pelosi “Violently Assaulted” In SF Home Break-In - https://t.co/QvSXSyzxaw pic.twitter.com/a89v4lF7VX

— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) October 28, 2022

And the underlying news story used his mug shot, and not one of any showing him smiling or laughing. That was a conscious decision by the news outlet.

Update: Joe indicated that it was public domain photo and he didn’t have access to others.

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lawhawk Oct 28, 2022 • 6:17:28am

Conspiracy nuts are now going to engage in voter intimidation and suppression efforts by targeting ballot “mules”.

This is part and parcel of the Dinesh D’Felon bulkshit propaganda piece that claimed mules engaged in misconduct. None was ever found regarding any of those featured in his movie - and as noted above, one of the people Dinesh highlighted has sued him for damages (which I would hope will bankrupt his corrupt and criminal ass).

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jeffreyw Oct 28, 2022 • 6:17:33am

Good morning!

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Belafon Oct 28, 2022 • 6:17:53am

re: #232 Belafon

Taken about 30 minutes ago near my house, I’m now 20 or so miles east, so it will have to catch up:

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HRH Stanley Sea Oct 28, 2022 • 6:27:48am

In the 2nd word I repeated one wrong placement. But it paid off. 🌳

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Barefoot Grin Oct 28, 2022 • 6:32:35am

re: #241 Nyet

Why is everyone atwitter? //

Birds of a feather….

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Barefoot Grin Oct 28, 2022 • 6:36:43am

re: #245 Dr. Matt

In about 3 minutes Fox and the MAGA Nazis will claim it was an antifa hoax:

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What a flaming bag of shit the responses to that tweet are. The nutjobs really, really hate Pelosi and cheer on her husband getting banged up.

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Dopamine Fish Oct 28, 2022 • 6:36:55am

It’s important to note that Musk didn’t really have a choice in this deal. Twitter sued Musk in the Delaware Chancery Court to force him to buy them out. The hope is that his financers managed to set some guardrails in place that would prevent him from trashing the place completely.

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rhuarc Oct 28, 2022 • 6:43:11am

Just submitted my appeal to Twitter to have my account reinstated since they are allowing traitors, white supremacists, and Nazis back on the platform. I said that since those degenerates are going to be allowed back it’s only fair that I be allowed back so I can get back to making fun of them. We’ll see if that works or not.

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Eclectic Cyborg Oct 28, 2022 • 6:46:42am

Boom!

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Nyet Oct 28, 2022 • 6:48:54am

re: #258 rhuarc

Just submitted my appeal to Twitter to have my account reinstated since they are allowing traitors, white supremacists, and Nazis back on the platform. I said that since those degenerates are going to be allowed back it’s only fair that I be allowed back so I can get back to making fun of them. We’ll see if that works or not.

I’ll wait till the official announcement comes. I assume some inertia in the transition phase, during which old rules apply since there are no new ones yet.

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Belafon Oct 28, 2022 • 6:48:54am

re: #248 lawhawk

Another reason the NYC metro music scene is depressing - legendary rock station 92.3 FM has become all-news simulcast of 1010WINS.

You can still hear 92.3 alt rock on FM2 or streamed online.

The last official rock station in DFW, 97.1 the Eagle, turned into a sports talk station, as if we need more of those. We had lost the Edge a few years ago to pop music. There are plenty of other stations that play something other than Christian or Country, but we don’t have a steady mandatory Metallica station anymore.

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Teukka Oct 28, 2022 • 6:49:32am

Am I delusional for wishing the classic British Army officer telling that the humor is to substandard to be broadcast at any moment?

Next level here..

Russia’s representative at the UN says “Ukrainian biolabs” are developing “combat mosquitoes”, to carry deadly diseases. pic.twitter.com/EW8V3U5eRW

— Jay in Kyiv (@JayinKyiv) October 28, 2022

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Belafon Oct 28, 2022 • 6:51:59am

Congrats! If you bought $10,000 in Trump’s Truth Social stock (DWAC) in February, you now have $1,660.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene lost $41,000. pic.twitter.com/Rdvl4OaxRh

— Molly Ploofkins™ (Digital Town Square Crier) (@Mollyploofkins) October 27, 2022

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Belafon Oct 28, 2022 • 6:54:32am

hate it when people forget how our government works:

Image: covid-19-coronavirus-updates-thursday-friday-oct-27-28-2.png

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The Pie Overlord! Oct 28, 2022 • 6:54:51am

Speech that is illegal:
Libel
Slander
Inciting violence with hate speech

Trump did all that - so did Alex Jones, Bannon, Kanye etc.

Fascists don’t want #FreeSpeech they want illegal behaviour to be consequence-free.

— Meanwhile in Canada (@MeanwhileinCana) October 28, 2022

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Belafon Oct 28, 2022 • 6:55:40am

Cases are both too high and low by pandemic standards; cases are falling but accelerating; we’re well above some peers and well below others

— ProofOfBurden (@ProofofBurden) October 27, 2022

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Barefoot Grin Oct 28, 2022 • 6:56:33am

There are no good alt-rock stations where I live. The UNH and UMASS-Lowell college stations are pretty good, but don’t reach me. There’s a Foreigner-Journey-Def Leppard station, but, well…how many times can you listen to “Jukebox Hero”?

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Eclectic Cyborg Oct 28, 2022 • 6:56:54am

Just spoke to folks at #Infowars. #AlexJones will formally request reinstatement on Twitter on Monday. Acid test for #ElonMusk.

— norm_pattis (@PattisNorm) October 28, 2022

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The Pie Overlord! Oct 28, 2022 • 7:00:45am

Wordle sucks again. Big middle finger to NY Times.

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Dopamine Fish Oct 28, 2022 • 7:03:30am

re: #264 Belafon

hate it when people forget how our government works:

Image: covid-19-coronavirus-updates-thursday-friday-oct-27-28-2.png

People forget that Trump got to do whatever he wanted, not because the President is a King, but because he had a willingly complicit Senate who went along with every one of his insane demands in exchange for him getting them the Supreme Court pick they so desperately desired.

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Eclectic Cyborg Oct 28, 2022 • 7:06:39am

re: #270 Dopamine Fish

I think you mean Supreme Court picks.

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The Pie Overlord! Oct 28, 2022 • 7:07:52am

re: #271 Eclectic Cyborg

I think you mean Supreme Court picks.

I think you mean Supreme Court pRicks.

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Teukka Oct 28, 2022 • 7:08:37am

re: #272 The Pie Overlord!

I think you mean Supreme Court pRicks.

P(R)icks? *runs for cover*

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sizzzzlerz Oct 28, 2022 • 7:08:52am

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Dopamine Fish Oct 28, 2022 • 7:09:16am

re: #271 Eclectic Cyborg

I think you mean Supreme Court picks.

I was specifically referring to Amy Coney Barrett, but I suppose ol’ Dickhead Beerbro is really the one they were most excited for, after illegally blocking Merrick Garland for more than a year.

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Belafon Oct 28, 2022 • 7:09:27am

Chinese censors remove reports of teen’s death in Covid-19 quarantine facility - Hong Kong Free Press HKFP https://t.co/ioLeaM44Cw

— Paul Mooney 慕亦仁 (@pjmooney) October 26, 2022

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Belafon Oct 28, 2022 • 7:10:13am

Rats can get infected w/#SARSCoV2 & develop severe #COVID19 . In this French report, 2 pet rats caught the virus, one from their owner, the other rat-2-rat:
“supports the hypothesis that wild rodents may become secondary reservoirs of” the virus.https://t.co/sNJ1UHGpW6 pic.twitter.com/yxFQo9rAbT

— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) October 18, 2022

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Crush White Nationalism Oct 28, 2022 • 7:11:29am

Spider-Man has just made its debut on PC gaming, with the much-loved PlayStation 4 title now available to even more gamers, but unfortunately the dark side of the internet has cast shadow on its release.
One of the many celebrated things about Spider-Man was its open world, packed with neat Easter eggs and touching details. Among those is several rainbow pride flags smattered throughout the game, which adorn town hall buildings. Spider-Man: Miles Morales also features many more, plus a few more pride flags.

But because of the way the internet is, a mod has been uploaded overnight that replaces all rainbow flags with that of the American flag. Titled “Non-Newtonian New York”, the mod has instantly caused outbreak on Nexus Mods. The cover picture for the mod essentially implies that there’s too many rainbows and pride in the game.
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UPDATE: Nexus Mods has confirmed to We Got This Covered that the mod has been taken down, and the user (as well as an alt account) have been banned, with a spokesperson saying that the uploader of the content “is no longer welcome on Nexus. “

A controversial ‘Spider-Man Remastered’ mod removes all pride flags (We Got This Covered)

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Crush White Nationalism Oct 28, 2022 • 7:15:06am

Everyone depends on OpenSSL. You may not know it, but OpenSSL is what makes it possible to use secure Transport Layer Security (TLS) on Linux, Unix, Windows, and many other operating systems. It’s also what is used to lock down pretty much every secure communications and networking application and device out there.
So we should all be concerned that Mark Cox, a Red Hat Distinguished Software Engineer and the Apache Software Foundation (ASF)’s VP of Security, this week tweeted, “OpenSSL 3.0.7 update to fix Critical CVE out next Tuesday 1300-1700UTC.”

How bad is “Critical”? According to OpenSSL, an issue of critical severity affects common configurations and is also likely exploitable.

It’s likely to be abused to disclose server memory contents, and potentially reveal user details, and could be easily exploited remotely to compromise server private keys or execute code execute remotely. In other words, pretty much everything you don’t want happening on your production systems.

OpenSSL warns of critical security vulnerability with upcoming patch (ZDNet)

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Nyet Oct 28, 2022 • 7:19:47am

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Dopamine Fish Oct 28, 2022 • 7:20:09am

re: #279 Crush White Nationalism

OpenSSL warns of critical security vulnerability with upcoming patch (ZDNet)

Oh God, another one?

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darthstar Oct 28, 2022 • 7:23:26am

Twitter is a shit show of people searching out racist and anti semitic tweets so they can share how outraged they are that they could so easily find such content from newly created accounts with no followers…hence giving the tweets thousands of views the otherwise wouldn’t have.

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Crush White Nationalism Oct 28, 2022 • 7:25:16am

re: #233 Eventual Carrion

One of our cats delivered a dead mole to our front porch this morning.

Mine left a couple of mice in my bed last night. Fortunately, there aren’t any real mice here, so they were cloth toy mice.

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Hecuba's daughter Oct 28, 2022 • 7:26:01am

re: #220 Nyet

The neo-Nazis are already out in force, posting the n-word.

I got into a dispute with someone who claimed that he was banned merely for posting pictures of the Trump boat parade he was in. Do you know why pictures would be causing this problem?

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Dopamine Fish Oct 28, 2022 • 7:27:16am

re: #284 Hecuba’s daughter

I got into a dispute with someone who claimed that he was banned merely for posting pictures of the Trump boat parade he was in. Do you know why pictures would be causing this problem?

He’s full of shit. These people lie all the time.

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Nyet Oct 28, 2022 • 7:27:48am

re: #284 Hecuba’s daughter

Do you have any reason to believe them?

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Teukka Oct 28, 2022 • 7:30:16am

Let’s talk about Spy Games, China, and the US….

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Hecuba's daughter Oct 28, 2022 • 7:31:09am

re: #231 lawhawk

We’ll see how long that lasts…

As we have seen with other businesses that loudly shied away from GOPers after the 1/6 insurrection, they’re starting to come back and support those same GOPers.

They only shied away because they didn’t realize that almost half the voting public are fascists who are fine with the end of democracy.

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No Malarkey! Oct 28, 2022 • 7:34:52am

Putin is just trying to erode Western support for Ukraine by urging the US to coerce Ukraine into negotiating. He is a liar and cannot be trusted.

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Eclectic Cyborg Oct 28, 2022 • 7:36:13am

Twitter - Musk
Gab - Torba
Truth Soc - Trump
Gettr - Jason Miller
Parler - Kanye
Meta - Zuckerberg

— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) October 28, 2022

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Belafon Oct 28, 2022 • 7:40:12am

re: #290 Eclectic Cyborg

The middle four will disappear pretty quickly if Musk opens everything up.

At the same time, we on the left need to get a lot better at creating products that other people can use. We all enjoy using this site, but can it scale to millions of users? Can you scale a system where there are real boundaries up and have it usable?

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DodgerFan1988 Oct 28, 2022 • 7:42:36am

has the person who attacked Paul Pelosi been invited to speak at CPAC yet

— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) October 28, 2022

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Teukka Oct 28, 2022 • 7:47:51am

1/13 Here’s a Russian propaganda story for @christogrozev un @bellingcat right out of the movies. We’re in Venice, unintentionally eavesdropping on a conversation between 2 Russian guys (a bartender and his friend) and one of the regulars… So 🧵

— Gints Knoks (@Knoks) October 27, 2022

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wrenchwench Oct 28, 2022 • 7:47:55am

In 1936 Colorado’s governor banned poor New Mexican Hispanics from entering the state.

It was a ploy. He was running for Senate.

History repeats itself as politicians use immigration to pander.

I put this story together a few years ago.

Still feels quite relevant today. pic.twitter.com/jkUYNXJQNy

— Jeremy Jojola (@jeremyjojola) October 28, 2022

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The Pie Overlord! Oct 28, 2022 • 7:48:31am

New in Public Notice: Right-wingers think they get to decide who is Jewish and they’re becoming increasingly open about it this election cycle (by @nberlat) https://t.co/9GXb4BbFMv

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 28, 2022

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The Pie Overlord! Oct 28, 2022 • 7:49:19am

RATIO OF THE DAY

If you do the crime, you do the time.

This use to NOT be controversial.

But it is now for today’s Left.

And your communities are less safe because of it.

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) October 27, 2022

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Dr. Matt Oct 28, 2022 • 7:51:04am

re: #8 Crush White Nationalism

One of the supposed “mules” is suing Dinesh D’Souza.

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Hopefully more people do the same and dinesh ends up in Alex Jones territory.

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Eclectic Cyborg Oct 28, 2022 • 7:51:10am

re: #296 The Pie Overlord!

He tweeted that fully expecting a pile on. It’s what these assholes do.

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Dopamine Fish Oct 28, 2022 • 7:56:36am

re: #298 Eclectic Cyborg

He tweeted that fully expecting a pile on. It’s what these assholes do.

It’s a badge of honor. “Look how triggered these libruls got when I tweeted something that should be common sense to everybody! LOL!”

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Hecuba's daughter Oct 28, 2022 • 7:58:27am

re: #286 Nyet

Do you have any reason to believe them?

re: #285 Dopamine Fish

He’s full of shit. These people lie all the time.

Actually my post said that I didn’t believe that someone would be banned just for these type of pictures. It’s amazing how many Trumpsters were claiming that Twitter was left-wing.

I was wondering if Twitter had some size limit so that if you posted more than (e.g.) 8 pictures in a tweet, they were unhappy about violation of this limitation. And then when you continued to ignore their warning about that, they would ban you.

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Dangerman Oct 28, 2022 • 7:58:42am

re: #283 Crush White Nationalism

Mine left a couple of mice in my bed last night. Fortunately, there aren’t any real mice here, so they were cloth toy mice.

“I got a rock”

302

DodgerFan1988 Oct 28, 2022 • 7:59:35am

Attention Paul Pelosi and Nancy Pelosi: Crime does not discriminate!

— TheLeoTerrell (@TheLeoTerrell) October 28, 2022

Mug Shot of Paul Pelosi’s Assailant pic.twitter.com/IzxqvIKCEL

— The Nasty Italian🍷🇺🇸 🇮🇹 (@sayitnspinit) October 28, 2022

Breaking: First photo of the Paul Pelosi assailants. pic.twitter.com/TVwxxmywBh

— LivePDDave 🇺🇸🥊🚨 (@LivePDDave1) October 28, 2022

The Right Wing gloating over Paul Pelosi’s attack.

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Nyet Oct 28, 2022 • 8:01:35am

re: #289 No Malarkey!

Putin is just trying to erode Western support for Ukraine by urging the US to coerce Ukraine into negotiating. He is a liar and cannot be trusted.

Putin cut off any possibility of negotiations through the annexation.

304

The Pie Overlord! Oct 28, 2022 • 8:02:58am

Quite the lede, via @reckless https://t.co/2HpBFnuTcY pic.twitter.com/dWlDAgMqwn

— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) October 28, 2022

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Dopamine Fish Oct 28, 2022 • 8:03:08am

re: #300 Hecuba’s daughter

I don’t know how it is for Twitter, so I don’t want to speak too confidently, but most size limitations on posts are hard limits, like what Charles has in place here for image uploads. Those hard limits are configured with an expectation of average uploads per day. An anomalous account posting way too many pictures in way too many posts would probably trigger a temporary global reduction in the size of permitted images, at worst - and Twitter would notify everybody of that, not just ban one specific user for posting too many pictures.

306

Eventual Carrion Oct 28, 2022 • 8:04:33am

re: #262 Teukka

Am I delusional for wishing the classic British Army officer telling that the humor is to substandard to be broadcast at any moment?

Mother Nature already took care of that project long ago.

307

Nyet Oct 28, 2022 • 8:05:42am

re: #293 Teukka

Will check it out next time.

308

gocart mozart Oct 28, 2022 • 8:07:01am

I am amazed at the nerve that some people have to not be upset with the country literally waging war, but at the country defending itself and those helping them do that.

I was even told by one of these people tonight, “it’s America that started the Russia war”, seriously wtf.

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) October 28, 2022

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Crush White Nationalism Oct 28, 2022 • 8:09:52am

Qassem Soleimani’s daughter says that if the regime is overthrown, there will be “nudity, drinking, and dancing”.

Is that a warning or an advertisement? pic.twitter.com/Nc9nfK1Hie

— Kaveh Shahrooz کاوه شهروز (@kshahrooz) October 27, 2022

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wrenchwench Oct 28, 2022 • 8:11:05am

Homeland Security agents “scrambled” to Best Buy in 2020 to get laptops for new recruits with “barely any form of training,” meeting up in a “parking lot” to begin work creating spy files on Americans protesting George Floyd’s murder. pic.twitter.com/7RNICPHJBM

— dell cameron (@dellcam) October 27, 2022

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Dr Lizardo Oct 28, 2022 • 8:12:04am

re: #309 Crush White Nationalism

Literally, “Don’t threaten me with a good time!!”

312

GlutenFreeJesus Oct 28, 2022 • 8:12:24am

So much for free speech!

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Belafon Oct 28, 2022 • 8:14:58am

re: #312 GlutenFreeJesus

What did you do?

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Dopamine Fish Oct 28, 2022 • 8:15:41am

Imagine being thrilled you can say the n-word without being banned again but then heartbroken that the software doesn’t magically force people to like, respect, or interact with you.

— LocalPoliticalHat (@Popehat) October 28, 2022

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I Would Prefer Not To Oct 28, 2022 • 8:16:48am

this is a few feet from where I perform in the Village.

Chris Redd Hospitalized After Being Attacked in New York City

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Eclectic Cyborg Oct 28, 2022 • 8:20:33am

re: #312 GlutenFreeJesus

Damn, you pissed Elon off that quick, huh?

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Oct 28, 2022 • 8:27:41am

re: #168 Hecuba’s daughter

3!

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My second birdie in a row, but that’s not why I’m posting…

Amazon has the kindle version of Elena Ferrante’s four Neapolitan novels on sale for $4.99 the set. I don’t know her work, but that name has been popping up all over as brilliant, wonderful and all that.

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William Lewis Oct 28, 2022 • 8:29:13am

re: #296 The Pie Overlord!

RATIO OF THE DAY

Let’s start with you doing time for all your crimes against students.

Then we can have Trump do time for all the crimes he’s committed for decades.

Then we can talk about how crime in our cites is DOWN from when the criminal regime was in power.

— Bill Barnett (@BillBar29495196) October 28, 2022

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Jay C Oct 28, 2022 • 8:29:46am

re: #304 The Pie Overlord!

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“…the problems with Twitter are not engineering problems. They are political problems.”

Precisely. And AFAICT, what Elon Musk has done* by buying it on the grounds he has stated, is to ensure that he will probably alienate/lose a large percentage of Twitter’s user base and the revenue stream from that base. Which is unlikely to be made up by the influx of trolls, bots, haters, Nazis, etc. who will be flocking back to take advantage of Elon’s “free speech” regime. Not to mention the effect on current/prospective advertisers. I’m wondering if, say, a year from now, Twitter will even be generating enough revenue to meet its “nut” - still less profits to help pay off Musk’s enormous debt.**

* Outside of wasting $44B, that is.
** Even Elon Musk had to get some sort of “outside” financing to swing this deal - one has to wonder exactly who he is going to be owing, and how much.

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Dopamine Fish Oct 28, 2022 • 8:31:53am

re: #319 Jay C

See, e.g., the Tumblr effect, where Yahoo bought the thing and then promptly lost a billion (with a B) dollars on it due to the turnover wrought by their attempted changes.

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Dangerman Oct 28, 2022 • 8:32:29am

re: #304 The Pie Overlord!

You! You, Elon Musk, are addicted to Twitter. You’re the asset. You just bought yourself for $44 billion dollars.

I’ve been preaching something like this for 30 years.

if your purpose in owning a business, any business, is not to identify and then increase its inherent value in order to sell it, then all you’ve done is given yourself a job; a place to go every day.

absolutely nothing wrong in that. it’s how most of the small business world operates (including mine), alas usually without any eye toward succession or cashing out.

this was clearly lost on an apparently ‘smart’ rich guy who just spent $44b for a corner office he’ll have to visit every day.

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Hecuba's daughter Oct 28, 2022 • 8:34:30am

re: #319 Jay C

Precisely. And AFAICT, what Elon Musk has done* by buying it on the grounds he has stated, is to ensure that he will probably alienate/lose a large percentage of Twitter’s user base and the revenue stream from that base. Which is unlikely to be made up by the influx of trolls, bots, haters, Nazis, etc. who will be flocking back to take advantage of Elon’s “free speech” regime. Not to mention the effect on current/prospective advertisers. I’m wondering if, say, a year from now, Twitter will even be generating enough revenue to meet its “nut” - still less profits to help pay off Musk’s enormous debt.**

* Outside of wasting $44B, that is.
** Even Elon Musk had to get some sort of “outside” financing to swing this deal - one has to wonder exactly who he is going to be owing, and how much.

The problem is that there isn’t an alternative site that all the news media and experts can flock to and continue posting to a large audience. Also, those who leave will lose all the content they posted over the years.

323

Amory Blaine Oct 28, 2022 • 8:37:41am

That dummy way overpaid. Lol

324

wrenchwench Oct 28, 2022 • 8:37:48am

Ridiculously photogenic Fox pic.twitter.com/qPWja47yCG

— Madeyousmile (@Thund3rB0lt) October 27, 2022

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Hecuba's daughter Oct 28, 2022 • 8:38:30am

re: #321 Dangerman

I’ve been preaching something like this for 30 years.

if your purpose in owning a business, any business, is not to identify and then increase its inherent value in order to sell it, then all you’ve done is given yourself a job; a place to go every day.

absolutely nothing wrong in that. it’s how most of the small business world operates (including mine), alas usually without any eye toward succession or cashing out.

this was clearly lost on an apparently ‘smart’ rich guy who just spent $44b for a corner office he’ll have to visit every day.

There are people who create or inherit a large business and have no interest in cashing out, because their work is their life. Think of Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos or (maybe) Mark Zuckerberg.

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GlutenFreeJesus Oct 28, 2022 • 8:39:16am

re: #313 Belafon

Called Kari Lake a tw@t.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Oct 28, 2022 • 8:39:18am

re: #322 Hecuba’s daughter

The problem is that there isn’t an alternative site that all the news media and experts can flock to and continue posting to a large audience. Also, those who leave will lose all the content they posted over the years.

I’m not on Twitter but I found this regarding your content.

How to Download Your Twitter Archive (Twitter Help)

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Jay C Oct 28, 2022 • 8:41:43am

re: #322 Hecuba’s daughter

The problem is that there isn’t an alternative site that all the news media and experts can flock to and continue posting to a large audience.

Yet.

Birdled the Wordle today again:

Wordle 496 3/6

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Oct 28, 2022 • 8:42:33am

re: #326 GlutenFreeJesus

Called Kari Lake a tw@t.

That’s because Elon Musk’s bio calls himself “Chief Twit” now. Kari Lake can’t be a twit, so you’re spreading disinformation. /s

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Romantic Heretic Oct 28, 2022 • 8:46:02am

re: #262 Teukka

Up next from the Russians.

Tasmanian Devil tornado

331

William Lewis Oct 28, 2022 • 8:47:54am

One of the very few posters I’d miss on Twitter…

“I’m sorry,” said the dragon. “Can you repeat that?”
“You were seen approaching the town. I was sent as a sacrifice,” said the maiden.
“No.”
“If I am not to your liking, they can send my twin brother.”
“No!”
“Then what can they offer?”
“An apology. To you, your brother, and me.”

— Micro SF/F stories (@MicroSFF) October 5, 2022

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Eclectic Cyborg Oct 28, 2022 • 8:52:05am

re: #320 Dopamine Fish

See, e.g., the Tumblr effect, where Yahoo bought the thing and then promptly lost a billion (with a B) dollars on it due to the turnover wrought by their attempted changes.

There’s also the infamous AOL / Time Warner merger.

333

Dopamine Fish Oct 28, 2022 • 8:52:26am

re: #332 Eclectic Cyborg

There’s also the infamous AOL / Time Warner merger.

Oh dear God, I forgot about that monstrosity.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Oct 28, 2022 • 8:53:25am

re: #252 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

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Teukka Oct 28, 2022 • 8:53:52am

re: #330 Romantic Heretic

Up next from the Russians.

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Video

Breaking news: mosquitoes from Ukrainian-American biolabs are really working. At least one case reported already.

(Just in case - it’s a joke!) pic.twitter.com/oPIRSAbw65

— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) October 28, 2022

336

Teukka Oct 28, 2022 • 8:59:33am

Elon Musk jettisons Twitter leadership, says takeover was ‘to try to help humanity’ https://t.co/t9cyQ7fDp5

— The Register (@TheRegister) October 28, 2022

337

No Malarkey! Oct 28, 2022 • 9:01:19am

Looks like it was an attempted political assassination by a MAGA terrorist.

Paul Pelosi’s injuries are “significant” but according to two sources familiar with the matter but he is expected to recover.

— Terry Moran 🇺🇸 (@TerryMoran) October 28, 2022

338

jaunte Oct 28, 2022 • 9:04:51am

Our new mental discipline will be not to engage with or share tweets from right wing trolls, especially the elected ones.

339

jaunte Oct 28, 2022 • 9:06:17am

Also, the final goat Halloween costume is BEYOND AMAZING.

— Blue Heron Farm (@BlueHeronFarmTX) October 28, 2022

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Eclectic Cyborg Oct 28, 2022 • 9:10:02am

All the finest people getting reinstated. pic.twitter.com/GR2qXDepfy

— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) October 28, 2022

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Belafon Oct 28, 2022 • 9:12:03am

re: #336 Teukka

Has anyone read Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams? Musk is approaching the creepy old guy they visit in space, with his children that he’s “taking care of.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 28, 2022 • 9:13:07am

re: #337 No Malarkey!

Looks like it was an attempted political assassination by a MAGA terrorist.

reminiscent of Jan 6th https://t.co/GRysf9DyqZ

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 28, 2022

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wrenchwench Oct 28, 2022 • 9:13:36am

I was bluffing, then I was dealt the cards.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 496 3/6*

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 28, 2022 • 9:13:42am

If Trump returns and you feel compelled to engage him, make sure to include the words “one term loser.”

— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) October 28, 2022

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Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 28, 2022 • 9:14:29am

New: An emboldened cast of trolls has spewed racist slurs and Nazi memes onto Twitter in the hours since @elonmusk freed the bird. Musk says no “free-for-all hellscape,” but hate is already rampant: One post screaming the n-word has more than 4,000 likes https://t.co/fgu3LJtfKR

— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell) October 28, 2022

346

Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 28, 2022 • 9:16:30am

re: #345 Backwoods_Sleuth

“Let the good times roll” https://t.co/eJEgNQELKj

— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell) October 28, 2022

347

Crush White Nationalism Oct 28, 2022 • 9:17:02am

Voyager initially miscast Janeway, choosing a talented, but entirely wrong for the role actor.

First Captain Janeway Complete

348

jaunte Oct 28, 2022 • 9:18:44am

re: #346 Backwoods_Sleuth

You have to be a fucking moron to think Twitter ever discriminated against conservatives and yet Elon paid $44 billion for a company that was worth $32 billion 2 weeks ago because he is exactly that kind of moron.

— Joshua Holland (@JoshuaHol) October 28, 2022

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William Lewis Oct 28, 2022 • 9:20:04am

re: #341 Belafon

Has anyone read Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams? Musk is approaching the creepy old guy they visit in space, with his children that he’s “taking care of.”

I was thinking worse, like the Tessier-Ashpools of Neuromancer.

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calochortus Oct 28, 2022 • 9:21:01am

re: #342 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Republicans will never believe it.

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Hecuba's daughter Oct 28, 2022 • 9:21:03am

re: #348 jaunte

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Wasn’t he legally forced to pay the 44 million, which was his original offer?

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Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 28, 2022 • 9:21:07am

that Rand can’t bring himself to either just say nothing or condemn the assault without resorting to whataboutism speaks volumes about him https://t.co/wS9uBlqiuQ

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 28, 2022

353

Eventual Carrion Oct 28, 2022 • 9:21:54am

re: #346 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yep, the dung beetle shitballs are rolling now.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 28, 2022 • 9:22:03am

From the man who ran onto Tucker and apologized after getting backlash from MAGA after he condemned violence on J6 one time, and hasn’t done it since. pic.twitter.com/fQ0cSCJX52

— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) October 28, 2022

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wrenchwench Oct 28, 2022 • 9:23:16am

I’m sorry but I cannot be a part of anything owned by #ELONMUSK and his cabal of deplorable‘s. I’ll stay on for a couple of days so that we can say goodbye but after that I’m gone.

— Marina Sirtis (@Marina_Sirtis) October 28, 2022

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Hecuba's daughter Oct 28, 2022 • 9:24:08am

re: #354 Backwoods_Sleuth

Well, that was a caring response to the attack. Waiting to see when he withdraws it.

357

Barefoot Grin Oct 28, 2022 • 9:24:37am

re: #309 Crush White Nationalism

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Qassem Soleimani’s daughter says that if the regime is overthrown, there will be “nudity, drinking, and dancing”.

When my eldest brother was just about to go to college an elderly man from our church took him aside to chat with him about all the temptations he would face. My brother’s reaction, he told me, was “yes, yes, yes, yes, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy………”

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Belafon Oct 28, 2022 • 9:26:01am

re: #349 William Lewis

I was thinking worse, like the Tessier-Ashpools of Neuromancer.

The only reason I didn’t think of them is they were pretty withdrawn from public life for the most part.

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Dopamine Fish Oct 28, 2022 • 9:26:21am

re: #357 Barefoot Grin

Qassem Soleimani’s daughter says that if the regime is overthrown, there will be “nudity, drinking, and dancing”.

When my eldest brother was just about to go to college an elderly man from our church took him aside to chat with him about all the temptations he would face. My brother’s reaction, he told me, was “yes, yes, yes, yes, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy………”

“Please let me face just a little peril.”

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A Cranky One Oct 28, 2022 • 9:29:08am

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wrenchwench Oct 28, 2022 • 9:33:15am

re: #357 Barefoot Grin

Qassem Soleimani’s daughter says that if the regime is overthrown, there will be “nudity, drinking, and dancing”.

When my eldest brother was just about to go to college an elderly man from our church took him aside to chat with him about all the temptations he would face. My brother’s reaction, he told me, was “yes, yes, yes, yes, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy………”

When my mom was in school, the nuns told the children that French kissing was wrong. Then they had to explain what French kissing was. Then the children asked what else they should not do.

362

lawhawk Oct 28, 2022 • 9:38:40am

re: #361 wrenchwench

If you masturbate, you’ll go blind… which helps explain all the folks who wear glasses… they did it in moderation… /

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Barefoot Grin Oct 28, 2022 • 9:39:12am

re: #361 wrenchwench

When my mom was in school, the nuns told the children that French kissing was wrong. Then they had to explain what French kissing was. Then the children asked what else they should not do.

Ha!

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A Cranky One Oct 28, 2022 • 9:42:19am

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Dangerman Oct 28, 2022 • 9:49:12am

re: #325 Hecuba’s daughter

There are people who create or inherit a large business and have no interest in cashing out, because their work is their life. Think of Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos or (maybe) Mark Zuckerberg.

Then its still a job imo.
a big expensive job

366

lawhawk Oct 28, 2022 • 9:53:54am

Unfu… nope… Totally fucking believable.

Same nonsense about origin of covid and Paul is still at it, claiming new report proves it.

It does nothing of the sort.

It’s rehashing the same nonsense right wingers have been peddling for 2 year now.

And if they believe that was the case, then Trump’s response is even worse.

So, a partisan hack report by Sen. Burr pushes the same nonsense you’ve been spewing about China. There’s still precisely zero evidence it was leaked. If it was Trump’s disastrous response was even worse than first identified. 1 million dead Americans.https://t.co/l15dmmmzqI

— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) October 28, 2022

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Barefoot Grin Oct 28, 2022 • 9:58:35am

I don’t think presidents have much effect on crime. But if we’re going to play that game:

1. Obama left Trump with the lowest murder rate of any president since LBJ.

2. Trump was the first president in 28 years to leave office with a higher murder rate than when he started. https://t.co/WXgaufdbcD

— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) October 28, 2022

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jaunte Oct 28, 2022 • 10:01:35am

re: #364 A Cranky One

Texas has been run by Republicans since 1990, and leads the nation in executions.
Texas ranks as the 11th most crime-ridden state in the nation.
spectrumlocalnews.com
For some reason our Republicans still run on being “tough on crime.”

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Dr Lizardo Oct 28, 2022 • 10:01:57am

More from @WhitneyWReports: The US Capitol Police have obtained video of the attack. https://t.co/GlVTNzsqIT

— Kristin Wilson (@kristin__wilson) October 28, 2022

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Dopamine Fish Oct 28, 2022 • 10:02:41am

re: #368 jaunte

Texas has been run by Republicans since 1990, and leads the nation in executions.
Texas ranks as the 11th most crime-ridden state in the nation.
spectrumlocalnews.com
For some reason our Republicans still run on being “tough on crime.”

“Tough on crime” = “I support turning our police departments into paramilitary organizations and executing people for as many crimes as it is feasible to set a death penalty for, as quickly as possible, with no recourse for those falsely accused.”

371

Eclectic Cyborg Oct 28, 2022 • 10:03:06am

re: #368 jaunte

“Tough on crime” is code for “I support inhumane treatment of colored folks in police custody and 20-year prison sentences for black guys that get caught with a bag of weed in their pocket.”

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Eclectic Cyborg Oct 28, 2022 • 10:03:38am

re: #370 Dopamine Fish

25 seconds. Damn you. :P

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Dopamine Fish Oct 28, 2022 • 10:03:53am

re: #372 Eclectic Cyborg

25 seconds. Damn you. :P

Yeah, but I kinda like yours better. They’re complementary.

374

Dopamine Fish Oct 28, 2022 • 10:07:11am

AH, COME ON!

Jerry Lee Lewis, a Rock ’n’ Roll Original, Dies at 87 https://t.co/gDxvVi4TLh

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 28, 2022

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Teukka Oct 28, 2022 • 10:08:16am

re: #369 Dr Lizardo

Hmmm…. Someone that they were already keeping an eye on livestreamed the attack?

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Barefoot Grin Oct 28, 2022 • 10:08:34am

re: #374 Dopamine Fish

AH, COME ON!

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No longer a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on.

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Dopamine Fish Oct 28, 2022 • 10:09:13am

re: #375 Teukka

Hmmm…. Someone that they were already keeping an eye on livestreamed the attack?

Either that, or it is unfathomable to me that Pelosi’s personal residence doesn’t have security cameras in it. No doubt she, or whoever takes care of that system for them, set right about getting that footage pulled up and released.

378

jaunte Oct 28, 2022 • 10:09:49am

That’s b/c the fed’l system is situated to move quickly to indict & to try the defendant, who is now in custody & Pelosi is 3rd in line to the presidency. Prompt prosecution, along with condemnation from leaders on both sides of the aisle, is essential to tamp down on violence.

— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) October 28, 2022

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Dopamine Fish Oct 28, 2022 • 10:13:06am

What the ever-loving bejesusing FUCK

Nothing to see here, just Fox News appearing to justify a possible assassination attempt on the Speaker of the House and violent assault with a hammer on her husband. pic.twitter.com/ladfjuCNaU

— David Badash (@davidbadash) October 28, 2022

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jaunte Oct 28, 2022 • 10:13:27am

It’s pretty hard to sell that you don’t want Nancy Pelosi killed when you demand clemency for those who hunted her on 1/6.

— Grudgie the Whale (@grudging1) October 28, 2022

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lawhawk Oct 28, 2022 • 10:14:17am

re: #367 Barefoot Grin

Trump wrecked the economy.
Trump wrecked law enforcement and criminal justice.
Trump killed a million Americans and counting with his know nothing approach to the pandemic that continues to add dead to the butcher’s bill - disproportionately GOPers who listen to Trump and not public health experts who say vaccinating saves lives.

GOP is wrong on every count. Trump was wrong on everything he did.

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Barefoot Grin Oct 28, 2022 • 10:16:45am

re: #381 lawhawk

Trump wrecked the economy.
Trump wrecked law enforcement and criminal justice.
Trump killed a million Americans and counting with his know nothing approach to the pandemic that continues to add dead to the butcher’s bill - disproportionately GOPers who listen to Trump and not public health experts who say vaccinating saves lives.

GOP is wrong on every count. Trump was wrong on everything he did.

It’s true sometimes that the Dems could improve on messaging, but does it really matter when their messages can’t penetrate the iron bubble of conservative media?

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Belafon Oct 28, 2022 • 10:18:22am

re: #379 Dopamine Fish

What the ever-loving bejesusing FUCK

I don’t think it’s quite that, but it is stupid. It has nothing to do with any perceived increase in crime. It has everything to do with increased called by Right wing leaders that it’s ok to assault Democrats.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 28, 2022 • 10:19:29am

just a good boy dancing in the rain pic.twitter.com/q8kq40hxN0

— theworldofdog (@theworldofdog) October 27, 2022

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Barefoot Grin Oct 28, 2022 • 10:21:23am

There are two homes in our town that have specifically anti-Pelosi signs in their yards—for years. Neither actually call for her death, but the fact that they take the trouble to single out Pelosi (ok, one guy also has several other targets such as Nadler and Biden) is why—beyond 1/6—I’m not surprised at all.

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jaunte Oct 28, 2022 • 10:27:47am

A reminder that the leader of the Republican Party, who is actively campaigning for its candidates, has been aggressively promoting Q of late, a belief system which calls for Democratic leaders to be assassinated.

— Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) October 28, 2022

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Dopamine Fish Oct 28, 2022 • 10:27:52am

Jesus H. Christ, this story just keeps getting worse and worse by the second. It’s clear this deranged individual was specifically targeting the Speaker of the House, and I figure it’s only a matter of time before he says something about what he planned to do to her.

Sources tell @CNN’s @jamiegangel Pelosi assailant tried to tie up Paul Pelosi “until Nancy got home,” according to two sources familiar with the situation. When SFPD arrived, the assailant said he was “waiting for Nancy” according to the sources.

— Whitney Wild (@WhitneyWReports) October 28, 2022

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Hecuba's daughter Oct 28, 2022 • 10:30:28am

Example #70 billion that the RW are imbeciles: I posted on FB the story in #277 above about the French citizen who transmitted covid to his pet rat. My braindead Trumpster FB friend responded by saying first “Bad science” and then “You can infect any animal with a virus if you tweak it enough.” Her ignorance and stupidity “passeth” understanding! But then she is an avid Trump supporter.

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Crush White Nationalism Oct 28, 2022 • 10:36:36am

re: #388 Hecuba’s daughter

Example #70 billion that the RW are imbeciles: I posted on FB the story in #277 above about the French citizen who transmitted covid to his pet rat. My braindead Trumpster FB friend responded by saying first “Bad science” and then “You can infect any animal with a virus if you tweak it enough.” Her ignorance and stupidity “passeth” understanding! But then she is an avid Trump supporter.

Why do you have braindead fascist Facebook friends?

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danarchy Oct 28, 2022 • 10:36:46am

re: #374 Dopamine Fish

AH, COME ON!

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Didn’t TMZ report this a couple days ago and then retract it saying he was alive in memphis. Was he just mostly dead at the time?

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Barefoot Grin Oct 28, 2022 • 10:37:55am

re: #390 danarchy

Didn’t TMZ report this a couple days ago and then retract it saying he was alive in memphis. Was he just mostly dead at the time?

A little bit of shakin’ goin’ on?

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Crush White Nationalism Oct 28, 2022 • 10:39:31am

re: #390 danarchy

Didn’t TMZ report this a couple days ago and then retract it saying he was alive in memphis. Was he just mostly dead at the time?

Yes, and yes. It was another slightly premature announcement from idiots trying to be the first with the news.

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Eclectic Cyborg Oct 28, 2022 • 10:39:34am

re: #390 danarchy

Didn’t TMZ report this a couple days ago and then retract it saying he was alive in memphis. Was he just mostly dead at the time?

My guess he was ill and somebody jumped the gun and said he died when he wasn’t quite gone yet. A similar thing happened with Tom Petty.

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jaunte Oct 28, 2022 • 10:42:17am

So is Congress going to rush to pass funding for Pelosi’s bumped-up protection like they did when Brett Kavanaugh had his dinner interrupted?

— flexghost. (@flexghost1) October 28, 2022

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BeenHereAwhile Oct 28, 2022 • 10:48:33am

re: #374 Dopamine Fish

AH, COME ON!

Jerry Lee Lewis, a Rock ‘n’ Roll Original, Dies at 87

Jerry Lee Lewis You Win Again

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John Hughes Oct 28, 2022 • 10:54:02am

re: #242 Dr. Matt

Is TFG back on ~~hellscape~~ Twitter yet?

No, but Putin is.

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