Seth takes a closer look at Republicans continuing to spread conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, intimidating people trying to vote and preemptively claiming that the results must be illegitimate if they lose the midterm elections.
It’s an old, old playbook.
As I depart from this spooky Halloween, I leave you with a suitable pumpkin autochrome! 🎃 It was taken 96 years ago, in Virginia, USA, by Charles Martin in 1926. It is original colour (not colourised). pic.twitter.com/wEufawwUAd
— BabelColour (@StuartHumphryes) October 31, 2022
A full blown arm of the party, unencumbered by campaign finance law or scruples https://t.co/qVyZAR4eXs
— Grudgie the Whale (@grudging1) November 1, 2022
My day was made. Early on, one of the ToT’ers was being wheeled up to my front door in her wheelchair. I went to give her her candy but she was already eating some from other houses (you go girl!), so her dad took the candy. As they were heading away I heard her: “Ohhh KitKats!!! My favorite!!! Thank you!”
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
When your little niece goes as Ariel for Halloween, you suck it up and put on a crab suit:
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The best part is after she goes to bed, you can throw on a lab coat over that and say you’re Zoidberg.
This year we have an upside-down vampire floating in the air (hanging from fishing line), he starts talking when he detects motion, then several large spiders get triggered by the noise and drop from the eaves. I was hoping for a bit of wind tonight to make the graveyard headstones rock back and forth, but no wind. Our yard usually scares the little kids.
— LordWhiteWalker (@LordWhiteWalker) October 31, 2022
I probably shouldn’t ask this, but why is Hannity wearing a CIA button pic.twitter.com/L9wGvPSsxb
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) November 1, 2022
Night all.
We were going to to paint the stone steps leading to our house with contact explosives (a little like having a cap go BANG under your foot when you stepped on a bit of the explosive), but went nah, It wouldn’t have hurt anybody, but it would have scared too many kids.
Night call. Sweet scaly dreams.
Tomorrow is the big holiday in Texas in any case. El Dia De La Muerta.
Well, Halloween was a washout in Northern Virginia.
It was raining off and on all day. It started raining again around 6:30 and continued until (at least) 7:30 when I gave up and shut the lights off. I passed out maybe 18 kitkats to kids and their parents. Which leaves me with about 1.5 cartons of them.
I guess that means that I will have to eat them myself as we cannot let them go stale.
And, apropos of nothing -
A guide to Russian swearing. Пиздец is among my faves.https://t.co/hLckhp6e6V
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) October 31, 2022
Stop what you’re doing and watch this complete takedown of @HerschelWalker by pastor @jamalhbryant. #WeDontNeedAWalker pic.twitter.com/TOGnFxliLe
— Quentin James (@QJames) October 30, 2022
You can always say, “Hey, what’s a functioning democracy ever done for me?”
Until you can’t anymore.— Ray Suarez (@RaySuarezNews) October 31, 2022
I love how much Republican oppo research on Biden seems to consist of video showing him acting like a normal, decent person. https://t.co/HaQVhtBjPW
— Robert Tracinski (@Tracinski) October 31, 2022
re: #17 ckkatz
Soon they’ll dig up an early clip of him in his Corvette, stopping at a stop sign.
re: #18 jaunte
Soon they’ll dig up an early clip of him in his Corvette, stopping at a stop sign.
As long as they don’t find a picture of him wearing a tan suit, the impact of these other things will be minimal.
re: #18 jaunte
Soon they’ll dig up an early clip of him in his Corvette, stopping at a stop sign.
The fiend!!
For lovers of unresolved mysteries, cross another one off the list; the Lady of the Dunes has been identified as Ruth Marie Terry, and though she’s been identified at last, that doesn’t entirely solve the mystery of how she ended up at the Race Point Dunes in Provincetown, MA.
Namely….who murdered her.
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
When your little niece goes as Ariel for Halloween, you suck it up and put on a crab suit:
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You’re both adorable, Uncle Cyborg!
I bet she loved it
Referencing The Original Star Trek (ST:TOS) episode - “The Doomsday Machine”
This one, right? 😎 pic.twitter.com/tR3JW4mugS
— Ken McCafferty (@kenm77) October 30, 2022
re: #19 sizzzzlerz
As long as they don’t find a picture of him wearing a tan suit, the impact of these other things will be minimal.
Tan suits are only bad if you’re a Democrat. If you were Ronald Reagan or Dwight Eisenhower, then tan suits are fine.
The High Plains Tropical Update (really the National Hurricane Center) shows that Tropical Storm Lisa is still intensifying as it moves west.
The Tropical Storm Watch for Jamaica has been dropped. A Hurricane Watch has been issued for Belize and the bay islands of Honduras. The extended forecast shows the storm moving across northern Guatemala and into the highlands of southern Mexico.
re: #25 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
At 11PM EDT:
A Hurricane Watch is in effect for…
* Bay Islands
* Belize coast from north of Puerto Barrios to south of Chetumal
A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for…
* Bay Islands
* Honduras from the border with Nicaragua to Punta Castilla
A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for…
* Entire north coast of Honduras
* Guatemala from border with Honduras to Puerto Barrios
* Mexico from Chetumal to Punta Herrero.
re: #25 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’d love to sail the Belize reef and Honduras Islands but it was pretty sketchy in the area at the time I had a chance.
From Wonkette about our Scottish friends in the UK:
Scotland Holds Hearing For ‘Satanic’ Child Sex Cult That ‘Metamorphosed Into Animals’
You may have heard a few times over the last several years that “Satanic Panic” is back — especially if you are a regular reader of Wonkette. But as much as people have once again started to embrace the batshit conspiracy theories, they’ve largely stayed away from actually filing charges against random daycare owners like they did in the 1980s and 1990s. Unfortunately, that’s starting to change.
On Halloween morning, 11 individuals, seven men and four women were charged with abusing multiple children (goes to the Irish Times) in a Satanic child sex ring in Glasgow, Scotland. There is not exactly a ton of information in the case, but what is available is certainly enough to make anyone with any familiarity with the old Satanic Panic a tad skeptical.
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The claims being made in this case are just as outlandish as Satanic Panic v1.0.
Soon, he’ll rename this MyTwitter pic.twitter.com/Fi1Yyhxx01
— Paul Leigh ‘Some Rascal on the Internet’ 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@Pleightx) October 31, 2022
does Oz … does he think Pennsylvania is on the coast? pic.twitter.com/ZuXCPKZdVQ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 1, 2022
Dinner before bed: When we were at the Commissary in Cheyenne the other day, I picked up a box of frozen White Castle sliders. I haven’t been to a White Castle restaurant in decades, and these are every bit as strange as I remember them.
We’re off tomorrow to Denver for phase two of our car repair: Exhaust system. The last time we went to the Mercedes dealer we were stuck in a hotel for a week because of parts shipment delays. Hopefully we won’t have that problem now: When I called, they said they had the parts in stock.
re: #24 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Tan suits are only bad if you’re a Democrat. If you were Ronald Reagan or Dwight Eisenhower, then tan suits are fine.
Just not after Labor Day.
Here’s the latest as Twitter braces for layoffs, including a director telling employees who may or may not still have jobs to build something — anything — and show it to Elon Musk to see if it impresses himhttps://t.co/BGDXsThqNQ pic.twitter.com/iJmA3kmPkZ
— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) November 1, 2022
re: #34 Belafon
There are other companies out there looking for employees.
“Code fast and break things like Twitter.”—Libertarian Elmo
🧵 How Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion popularized the haunted house and changed Halloween forever 👻🎃 pic.twitter.com/Ia6bi5ZqXN
— SFGATE (@SFGate) October 31, 2022
re: #10 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Someone told him it was an FSB pin.
Lancaster County includes Lincoln, the state capital.
Well, that’s pretty brazenly corrupt https://t.co/7SAMX9UuSg
— Sam (@samhuppert) October 31, 2022
State Senator Adam Morfeld (D) is term-limited in the Unicameral. He is running for Lancaster County Attorney.
Exhibit A on why we need new leadership who will lead our prosecutor’s office with transparency and accountability.
Several prosecutors confirmed this took place and one made a formal complaint. Public employees should never be coerced to make donations to their elected boss. https://t.co/Az2jH2LsCU— State Senator Adam Morfeld (@Adam_Morfeld) October 31, 2022
I made it onto the Nebraska Democratic Party voter guide for my county! Woohoo, I’m famous now!
Morrill County Voter Guide (opens PDF)
The “expected” donation, according to several attorneys: $1,000 each, which amounts to at least 1% of most deputies’ annual salaries.The push reaped cash and, almost immediately, controversy. Condon’s campaign has received $21,775 from his deputies in 2021 and 2022, campaign filings show. And at least one office attorney filed a complaint with the Lincoln-Lancaster County Human Resources Department.
The World-Herald discovered the spate of $1,000 donations while reviewing the past two years of campaign reports of several candidates for office, including the most recent filing in mid-October. Condon’s office had the most, and largest, donations from its own employees. In all, 21 of the 38 attorneys listed on the county’s website donated to Condon’s campaign.
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Suggested or expected? Lancaster County attorney scrutinized over staff’s $1,000 donations (Omaha World-Herald, today)
BREAKING | Alberta traffic laws to become voluntary, November 1
“We have no evidence that these laws work. People who feel the need to follow experts can continue to stop at intersections or drive 100km/h. The rest of us are free to do our own research and use our own judgment.” pic.twitter.com/zN4Q07Qllj— Western Standard Pitchbot (@WesternStd) October 30, 2022
One hour ago:
Oh, here comes the crypto scam I guess…. https://t.co/NYJ3l0aZwx
— DropKiwifarms (@DropKiwifarms) November 1, 2022
I guess I’m here by myself now.
Won’t someone think of how many suffer from PTSD caused by the war on Christmas?
— 🇨🇦Courtney Heard (she/her) 💛💙 (@godless_mom) November 1, 2022
This is how I #dresslikeawoman. https://t.co/gyo980nHOn pic.twitter.com/U6IbFANkUK
— Kate Prior (@doctorwibble) October 31, 2022
re: #45 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Did Dale Partridge there miss the part where men used to wear lace and high heels in the not-too-distant past? Perhaps some paintings of manly-men like George Washington or John Adams would jog his memory.
re: #46 Captain Ron
Speed limited to 219 MPH.
4/6 today
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re: #48 Captain Ron
Speed limited to 219 MPH.
Heaven forbid you drive it at 220; that would just be too fast.
(My car’s speedometer goes up to 100 mph, but I’ve only driven it up to 90 mph. I don’t know if I can actually top out the speedometer; I’m afraid of blowing up my little 3-cylinder engine.)
re: #47 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Did Dale Partridge there miss the part where men used to wear lace and high heels in the not-too-distant past? Perhaps some paintings of manly-men like George Washington or John Adams would jog his memory.
When this first came up on Saturday, I posted some 16th Century manly men, starting with Henry VIII, his insane embroidery and massive codpiece at Dale.
re: #50 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Heaven forbid you drive it at 220; that would just be too fast.
(My car’s speedometer goes up to 100 mph, but I’ve only driven it up to 90 mph. I don’t know if I can actually top out the speedometer; I’m afraid of blowing up my little 3-cylinder engine.)
30 years ago my car speedometer went up to 100(or maybe higher) but the car was not happy if I tried to accelerate past 83.
re: #48 Captain Ron
Speed limited to 219 MPH.
Seriously, though, do they put a restrictor plate on it? Because there are some NASCAR races run with restrictor plates to keep cars below ~200 mph. This was due to a particularly scary crash at Talladega Superspeedway in 1987. I remember hearing one driver describe driving Talladega back in the day (we’re talking 35+ years ago now) and he said it was hard to keep the car under control at those speeds. I expect that would be the same with a Lambo.
re: #52 Hecuba’s daughter
30 years ago my car speedometer went up to 100(or maybe higher) but the car was not happy if I tried to accelerate past 83.
The speedometer on 1977 Citröen GS I owned in Spain went up to 240 km/h, but I never drove it faster than 130 km/h (on autopistas).
It had this weird speedometer which was a ribbon which moved under a hairline, and viewed through a magnifying lens in the dashboard.
re: #50 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It is difficult to find tires rated over 220 MPH. A lot of high speed chases around here end after about 30 minutes because they are driving on tires that can’t handle 120 MPH for more than 20 minutes. My X-terra seems to have a lot more top end than the 124 MPH I took it up to. At high speeds the tread wants to fly off the steel belts.
Are you so indecent that you can’t simply say “I hope Mr. Pelosi recovers and I denounce violence of any motivation?” Seriously? Is that so God Damned hard for you? Or is it just own the Libs at all costs, even as the man is treated at an ICU? https://t.co/fqaGnhidHI
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) November 1, 2022
Things are going well in Elon-land.
Twitter’s ongoing verification chaos is now a cybersecurity problem. It looks like some people (including in our newsroom) are getting crude phishing emails trying to trick people into turning over their Twitter credentials. pic.twitter.com/Nig4nhoXWF
— Zack Whittaker (@zackwhittaker) October 31, 2022
More phishing
Well that’s a new phishing style I haven’t seen before… (Please don’t visit this link unless you’re a malware analyst on a VM!) I just got notification I was added to a “Removal Notice” list by “Twitter”. Sure Jan. pic.twitter.com/ueOvVvqj7j
— Katie Nickels (@likethecoins) October 29, 2022
A different mood than the former:
Some… driver… was trying to get around the stopped school bus, at speed. The driver hit my dog, instantly killing her, and kept right on going. My kids saw it all.
I’ll be filing a police report.— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) October 31, 2022
Reductress (satire women’s magazine, October 27, 2022)
Lots of people think that a trauma response is easy to spot, but I’ve found that there isn’t a lot of information out there about the kind I deal with most often, which is my absolute refusal to pay taxes.
During my childhood, I dealt with a lot of trauma that resulted in trust issues, inability to focus, and recurring nightmares. However, I never would have thought that my resistance to pay my taxes would be something that I have to struggle with every day, especially on April 18th and the end of every tax quarter.
Maybe if I didn’t go through so much, then I’d actually be able to file my taxes. But since the damage has been done, I think it would be best for all of us to let each other heal in our own ways, and by that, I mean let me not face consequences for not paying my taxes.
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Taylor Swift just made pop music history.
.@taylorswift13 is the first artist to dominate the entire Top 10…ever.https://t.co/OyIEOZdVZQ
— Elite Daily (@EliteDaily) October 31, 2022
re: #63 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
From the source:
Taylor Swift Makes History as First Artist With Entire Top 10 on Billboard Hot 100, Led by ‘Anti-Hero’ at No. 1 (goes to Billboard, October 31, 2022)
Taylor Swift scores one of the most historic weeks in the 64-year history of the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, as she becomes the first artist to claim the survey’s entire top 10 in a single frame.
Swift surpasses Drake, who logged nine of the Hot 100’s top 10 for a week in September 2021.
Leading the way for Swift on the Hot 100, “Anti-Hero” launches at No. 1, marking her ninth career leader.
All 10 songs in the Hot 100’s top tier are from Swift’s new LP Midnights, which, released Oct. 21 on Republic Records, blasts in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with the biggest week for any release in seven years.
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Over at Cashbox, which publishes monthly charts, Talyor Swift does not appear in their top 100 for October anywhere in the chart.
Just Targetpractice and me here I guess. How’s it goin’, eh?
Tropical Storm Lisa is still intensifying.
The National Hurricane Center is now putting out intermediary advisories, as the storm will go ashore.
SUMMARY OF 200 AM EDT…0600 UTC…INFORMATION
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LOCATION…15.8N 79.8W
ABOUT 260 MI…415 KM SSE OF GRAND CAYMAN
ABOUT 570 MI…915 KM E OF BELIZE CITY
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…45 MPH…75 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…W OR 270 DEGREES AT 12 MPH…19 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…1004 MB…29.65 INCHES
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SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT:
A Hurricane Watch is in effect for…
* Bay Islands
* Belize coast from north of Puerto Barrios to south of Chetumal
A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for…
* Bay Islands
* Honduras from the border with Nicaragua to Punta Castilla
A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for…
* Coast of Honduras from west of Punta Castilla westward to the
Guatemala border
* Guatemala from border with Honduras to Puerto Barrios
* Mexico from Chetumal to Punta Herrero.
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More election shenanigans.
Kansas voters should be on “high alert” about third-party text messages giving them incorrect election information, a top state official warned Monday.
The texts are not coming from election officials and often direct recipients to the wrong polling place, the Kansas secretary of state’s office said in a statement.
“Voters should be on high alert for these messages,” said Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab. “The Secretary of State’s office does not use third parties to contact voters or share election information on our behalf. State and local election officials are the trusted sources for election information, and I encourage voters to contact our office or their county election office for assistance.”
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Someone Is Blasting Out Texts With False Voting Information, Kansas Official Warns (Huffington Post)
re: #67 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The texts in Kansas come from a group called Voting Futures. The domain owner is in Canada.
Voting Futures was also involved in a similar scheme in Oregon.
A Facebook page for the organization is flooded with people complaining about the text messages, which many have posted to their own social media accounts to warn others.
Today’s recognition of random LGF karma points goes to Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus, who as of this moment has 183,368 points.
These points can be exchanged in the LGF Karma Store for on-sale Hallowe’en candy.
I don’t recommend the circus peanuts (because I hate circus peanuts). Flammable Peeps will not be available until Easter. Fun-size bars (those weighing 1 lb. or more) are out-of-stock.
You know I’m just going to keep filling up the thread if no one else comments.
Wheat prices surge after Russia pulls out of Ukraine grain deal, fueling fears of ‘catastrophic’ global consequences (Fortune Magazine, thread on Twitter Events, first two tweets)
2) The Black Sea Grain Initiative was an agreement between Russia and Ukraine with Turkey and the U.N. to ensure safe transportation of grain from Ukrainian ports.
— FORTUNE (@FortuneMagazine) October 31, 2022
In Powerball… I won!
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Again, like last draw, there were here in California two 5-white ball winners.
So they had to share the kitty and only got $790k each.
But that means in one draw said kitty picked up almost $1.6M, which is quite a bit. Usually it takes a couple of weeks for that kitty to get to that from zero.
re: #71 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
In Powerball… I won!
Congradumalashuns!
I have not yet checked my ticket. I’m afraid to.
Payouts in Nebraska for the Powerball.
5 of 5 + Powerball $1 Billion 292,201,338.00 0
5 of 5 $1 Million 11,688,053.52 0
4 of 5 + Powerball $50,000 913,129.18 1
4 of 5 $100 36,525.16 12
3 of 5 + Powerball $100 14,494.11 40
3 of 5 $7 579.76 940
2 of 5 + Powerball $7 701.32 810
1 of 5 + Powerball $4 91.97 6147
Powerball $4 38.32 14737
re: #73 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
SPOILERS!
You didn’t win the jackpot.
Wed jackpot is annuity value of $1.2B .
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re: #74 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Well, that formatting blows. The non-aligned columns are: Balls matched, prize payout, odds, number of winners.
re: #74 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Because our lottery here is parimutuel, the folks who got 4+1 only received $19k each, because there were 21 of them.
re: #75 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
If no one won the jackpot, I guess that mean I’ll have to go to the general store and buy a ticket for Wednesday.
With a prize of $1,2 billion, I could start my own social media company. I have no idea how to run one, but that much money could probably hire people who do. Maybe get some moderators.
re: #77 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Because our lottery here is parimutuel, the folks who got 4+1 only received $19k each, because there were 21 of them.
Our lottery is mixed. The state lotto (the Pick 5) is pari-mutual. The MegaMillions and Powerball are not (except for the jackpot).
I’m off to bed. Road trip in the morning (well, more likely afternoon) to Denver.
I’m watching Eating Raoul, with the actor who became Commander Chakotay form Star Trek: Voyager. One of my favorite cult movies.
re: #81 Captain Ron
I’m watching Eating Raoul, with the actor who became Commander Chakotay form Star Trek: Voyager. One of my favorite cult movies.
I remember going to see that at the Art Cinema in Tucson ca 1983. Great black comedy.
Mostly I remember Diane, a film studies coed, who invited me…must stop remembering her right now, I have work to finish.
re: #70 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Russians make grain deal, prices lower. Russian oligarchs (or others with an inside line on Putin) invest in grain futures. Russians torpedo deal. Grain futures spike.
Gotta love the global market.
Didn’t get skunked on the first guess this time but had to take a stab to salvage the par. Heading back in early today to finish off two more grant applications, then on to another one due by Nov. 10.
Enjoy the day/evening folks!
Wordle 500 4/6*
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re: #81 Captain Ron
I’m watching Eating Raoul, with the actor who became Commander Chakotay form Star Trek: Voyager. One of my favorite cult movies.
Ah, Robert Beltran, a man who doesn’t so much have memories of his Trek career as he does mental scars. He didn’t hate his character so much as he hated that his character never changed from season to season. Frequent were his arguments with the writers and producers about the complete lack of character development on the show. To this day, the rumor is he started trying to get himself fired by asking for larger salary bumps each season, only for the execs to cut the check just to spite him.
re: #64 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Taylor Swift Makes History as First Artist With Entire Top 10 on Billboard Hot 100, Led by ‘Anti-Hero’ at No. 1 (goes to Billboard, October 31, 2022)
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Something like that happened in the UK singles chart years ago, where Ed Sheeran had something like 36 singles in the top 40, including 8 in the top 10. This was due to Sheeran having released a new album, everyone streaming it, and streaming his other albums. Due to streaming counting towards single sales, this meant that the top 40 was suddenly swamped with multiple albums of his work.
Shortly after that, the singles chart changed its rules so that a maximum of three songs streamed per album could be counted towards singles sales. I don’t know if Billboard has a similar rule, but it might be a good idea if it doesn’t.
re: #47 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Did Dale Partridge there miss the part where men used to wear lace and high heels in the not-too-distant past? Perhaps some paintings of manly-men like George Washington or John Adams would jog his memory.
Forget the wigs, they used to dress their man children in…dresses.
re: #85 Targetpractice
Ah, Robert Beltran, a man who doesn’t so much have memories of his Trek career as he does mental scars. He didn’t hate his character so much as he hated that his character never changed from season to season…
Yes, Chakotay had a lot of character potential but he pretty much just remained a himbo hunk in the Riker mold.
At least he got to nail Seven of Nine…
re: #74 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Payouts in Nebraska for the Powerball.
5 of 5 + Powerball $1 Billion 292,201,338.00 0
5 of 5 $1 Million 11,688,053.52 0
4 of 5 + Powerball $50,000 913,129.18 1
4 of 5 $100 36,525.16 12
3 of 5 + Powerball $100 14,494.11 40
3 of 5 $7 579.76 940
2 of 5 + Powerball $7 701.32 810
1 of 5 + Powerball $4 91.97 6147
Powerball $4 38.32 14737
What does all that mean?
A “billionaire” begging/negotiating for money with someone who gets paid to write. Musk is clearly over his head.
We need to pay the bills somehow! Twitter cannot rely entirely on advertisers. How about $8?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 2022
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god damn @elonmusk just got bodied lmao pic.twitter.com/2fWNEe8KZx
— manny (@mannyfidel) July 12, 2022
I got the Truth Social app. It’s amazing. The ads alone are more fucked up than Peter O’Toole on his birthday. Spoiler alert: Trump can’t spell for shit.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) October 31, 2022
A THREAPER is someone who stubbornly maintains a contentious belief or opinion, even when it can be shown to be untrue or misinformed.
— Haggard Hawks 🦅 (@HaggardHawks) November 1, 2022
Look at the numbers. The way to make money and defeat bots and trolls is to charge for replies. pic.twitter.com/yd6YjCCnIL
— Blue Heron Farm (@BlueHeronFarmTX) November 1, 2022
Cannot rely on advertisers, especially when most of them might leave. pic.twitter.com/ckzPr4272t
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) November 1, 2022
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area.
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Hey Kari, first of all, your filter sucks. Secondly, you absolutely CAN talk about them, you just don’t want to because you’re afraid of being corrected, insulted, mocked, and criticized for being a complete fucking loony.
Lake: We can’t talk about all these issues because the media has told us, they’re prohibited. You know, you can’t talk about vaccines. You can’t talk about elections. You can’t talk about Paul Pelosi.. pic.twitter.com/Ed6nhFJ8cu
— Acyn (@Acyn) November 1, 2022
re: #101 Backwoods_Sleuth
That Musk is already bargaining to keep someone like Stephen King on Twitter tells you how badly this will go.
The value is engagement, and if your most entertaining engagers are leaving, then eyeballs dry up.
It also tells you that the $20 value proposition was always a moving target and they have no idea how much to charge. They did no customer survey or other engagement efforts to see what it would take to do.
re: #104 lawhawk
That Musk is already bargaining to keep someone like Stephen King on Twitter tells you how badly this will go.
The value is engagement, and if your most entertaining engagers are leaving, then eyeballs dry up.
It also tells you that the $20 value proposition was always a moving target and they have no idea how much to charge. They did no customer survey or other engagement efforts to see what it would take to do.
This IS the customer survey. It appears Mr. Musk has an interest in overseeing things personally; so he’s taken to doing it his way, throwing out an outlandish idea and then poking at people who critique it to find out if there’s a way to make it more viable.
re: #102 lawhawk
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re: #106 Dopamine Fish
This isn’t our town, but Hackensack has an entire block that goes all out for Halloween. There are homes that go macabre, spooky, or fun, but it’s a huge display that shuts down the street and thousands show up in the evenings.
re: #107 lawhawk
This isn’t our town, but Hackensack has an entire block that goes all out for Halloween. There are homes that go macabre, spooky, or fun, but it’s a huge display that shuts down the street and thousands show up in the evenings.
Oh wow, that’s phenomenal. We don’t have anything like that near here, though it wouldn’t surprise me if there was a town further out that did. Probably somewhere in the wealthier communities, if I had to guess.
re: #108 Dopamine Fish
It’s the Halloween equivalent of Dyker Heights, Brooklyn at Christmas time.
It’s hard to go big or go home, when your home is already done up to the nines for the holidays.
re: #101 Backwoods_Sleuth
…Can’t rely on advertisers because a significant number of them don’t want to be associated with Nazis or people OK with hanging out with Nazis …like Elon.
re: #110 Florida Panhandler
…Can’t rely on advertisers because a significant number of them don’t want to be associated with Nazis or people OK with hanging out with Nazis …like Elon.
And Musk bought a hole to throw money into. (Though he, if anyone, can probably afford it.)
Indications were that Twitter was not long-term financially stable anyhow. There were reports that they were about to implement a bunch of cuts themselves. Corraling Musk into paying them billions and then walking out leaving him the bag was probably a godsend for them.* And Musk gets to play the bad guy by firing people too.
And then Musk gets to deal with the train wreck that he in part started. The advertisers and users that generate Twitter’s income are jittery. Messing with the verified tag business just makes it worse - since charging for it makes it meaningless. And once there is no way to verify a user is who they say they are then essentially anything posted there needs to be viewed with even more scrutiny and inherent distrust. (Pile on Musk murdering whatever moderation and rules there are there just makes it descend into the sewer that is unmoderated commentary all the sooner.)
* - I also assume that the executives and employees fired “for cause” right before they were due bonuses and other perks will probably generate a pile of lawsuits for Musk to be paying lawyers for over the next couple of years. And odds are paying out now would have been cheaper. But Musk has cash and can throw it where ever his ego wants to throw it.
Bible thumpers are the worst, and they’ll attack LGBTQ+ as deviants, all while covering molestation of parishioners and their kids.
“I’ve never been sexually assaulted in a drag show, but I have been in church. Twice.” pic.twitter.com/crv6GdpcNT
— Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) October 29, 2022
This response is the kind needed to combat these Christian fascists who want to deny rights to others.
Kanye West (Ye) suspended from Instagram for more anti-Semitic postings. Again.
It had been closed for repairs and reopened just four days before the collapse. Those arrested include those involved in the repair work.
Meanwhile rumors are that Eminem is also going to change and shorten his name to “Meh”
re: #49 Hecuba’s daughter
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re: #116 Eventual Carrion
3/6 today, mostly just surprised because again, it was elimination of the impossible.
Wordle 500 3/6
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re: #93 Dr. Matt
A “billionaire” begging/negotiating for money with someone who gets paid to write. Musk is clearly over his head.
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His problem clearly explained in a few short paragraphs
…Twitter has lost money in 8 of the last 10 years. Last year, it had a cash flow of a little over $600 million to cover all of its expenses, including $50 million in debt service. Now, with all the debt Musk took on in order to buy the platform, debt servicing alone is going to exceed $1 billion annually. That means all of the cash that the platform is generating plus another $400 million, and that’s before a single server or bit of bandwidth or salary is paid for.
Blue check marks ain’t gonna do it
If you think this has nothing to do with COVID mass infection, I have a bridge to sell you. pic.twitter.com/Pei7jayYwR
— Megan Ben Dor Ruthven (@_mbdr_) November 1, 2022
I realized I didn’t make this clear: the Washington Post article on workers’ diminishing productivity did not mention COVID infections or long term effects from the infection once.
— Megan Ben Dor Ruthven (@_mbdr_) November 1, 2022
Trump says Gen Milley should be fired for saying he considered resigning over Trump’s walk to the church: “Walking with the president, he should have said, ‘this is a great honor - the president held up a Bible.’ And many people were very proud to have been in that group.” pic.twitter.com/fyhAksaIpn
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) November 1, 2022
re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth
I wonder if “quiet quitting” is factoring in as well.
A lot of workers have figured out their employer doesn’t really give a shit about them, so why not do the least amount of work possible to keep getting a paycheck?
Also, the Boomers are retiring, meaning a much younger, less experienced and, by extension, less productive workforce.
It will be interesting to see how the numbers look say, five years from now.
re: #118 Dangerman
Maybe That Odor Is Something other than Musky
His problem clearly explained in a few short paragraphs
Blue check marks ain’t gonna do it
Twitter has, according to Saint Google, around 450 million monthly active users. Leaving aside however many of those are bots (that’s a dispute for the erstwhile owner to busy himself with), I can guesstimate what the overall server requirements for that big of a system are - and let’s not forget, globally distributed, as well. It’s not cheap. Monthly operating costs are easily in the millions or possibly even tens of millions, which would put yearly operating costs well north of 8 figures.
Brian Kemp tells CNN he’s not focused on the accusations that Herschel Walker paid for/pressured women into abortions because inflation and gas prices pic.twitter.com/ZLsnDCAH2Z
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 1, 2022
these poor Republicans can’t think about more than one thing at a time. it’s just gas prices gas prices gas prices gas prices gas prices
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 1, 2022
re: #123 Eclectic Cyborg
I wonder if “quiet quitting” is factoring in as well.
A lot of workers have figured out their employer doesn’t really give a shit about them, so why not do the least amount of work possible to keep getting a paycheck?
Also, the Boomers are retiring, meaning a much younger, less experienced and, by extension, less productive workforce.
It will be interesting to see how the numbers look say, five years from now.
I also wouldn’t be surprised to see a big element of it being regression due to forced return-to-work policies. Companies may not have realized it, but part of the productivity boom of the 2020-2021 era was the fact that working from home is actually superior for large sectors of the workforce. Intellectual types, such as myself, not having to deal with interference from busybody bosses or constant sidetracking from coworkers - making smart use of office communication tools to ensure we have adequate time “in the zone” to get productive work done - results in a net positive INCREASE in productivity for us.
re: #125 jeffreyw
overnight cleanup crew is busy busy busy
re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth
Can’t wait for people to claim that this is why we need to return to the office.
Fact is that many of these same companies are seeing impressive profits because they’ve gone WFH and reduced their costs at the same time. They don’t need offices because they shifted that burden on to the workers.
Covid indisputably caused issues with productivity - millions getting sickened at the same time tends to do that, a million deaths tends to do that - as people who have lost loved ones grieve and lose focus on work or life or anything else.
Covid definitely played a role, and you don’t have to look any further than in food processing plants - where covid ran through the ranks and killed and sickened workers and slowed production and caused price spikes throughout the pandemic.
re: #129 lawhawk
JOE BODEN definitely played a role, and you don’t have to look any further than in food processing plants - where JOE BIDEN ran through the ranks and SOCIALIZED workers and slowed production and caused price spikes throughout the pandemic.
Once again, Donald Trump uses the legal system to run out the clock.
Supreme Court temporarily blocks Trump tax records from being given to Congress @CNBC https://t.co/fnDPc7sL5t— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) November 1, 2022
re: #131 lawhawk
Are you kidding me? They actually enjoined it? This corrupt, illegitimate SCOTUS is why we can’t have nice things anymore.
re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Many isn’t all
Who wasn’t?
re: #132 Dopamine Fish
Are you kidding me? They actually enjoined it? This corrupt, illegitimate SCOTUS is why we can’t have nice things anymore.
It’s easy to avoid consequences when you’ve appointed most of the Judges who will hear your case.
re: #134 Eclectic Cyborg
It’s easy to avoid consequences when you’ve appointed most of the Judges who will hear your case.
“shall” means “shall” until it doesn’t
re: #128 Backwoods_Sleuth
overnight cleanup crew is busy busy busy
They have been rehearsing a Temptations retrospective.
re: #135 Dangerman
“shall” means “shall” until it doesn’t
It depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is.
The criminal complaint against the bozo who attacked Paul Pelosi includes his confession. It debunks every conspiracy theory pushed and amplified by Republican politicians and right-wing media.
So what does old Tuck do?
He casts doubt on authorities’ version of events anyway.
He “conveniently” omits key details from the charging documents because they contradict his agenda
re: #131 lawhawk
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re: #138 Dangerman
The criminal complaint against the bozo who attacked Paul Pelosi includes his confession. It debunks every conspiracy theory pushed and amplified by Republican politicians and right-wing media.
“clearly mentally deranged”
proof?
Just look at what he posted on social media!
re: #139 Belafon
This is the same as the other two justices blocking something until the full court could see it.
I know and understand that, but it still irritates me. I hate that this orange sack of crap is going to get away with literally destroying our democracy because our overall justice system is rigged in favor of the wealthy and powerful, and against the poor and downtrodden - the exact opposite of what’s supposed to happen.
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Russian state TV is telling the viewers that it’s better to die than to lose the war to the wicked West, claiming that if they lose, Russians will be on display in Western zoos alongside the animals.
More in my latest article ⤵️https://t.co/F6YGqtvNPE pic.twitter.com/INPBiA5X10— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) November 1, 2022
Your reminder (if you are a man of a certain age) to get your prostrate checked….
High on this mountain
The clouds down below
I’m feeling so strong and alive
From this rocky perch
I’ll continue to search
For the wind
And the snow
And the sky
I want a lover
I want some friends
And I want to live in the sun
And I want to do all the things that I
Never have done
Sunny bright mornings
And pale moonlit nights
Keep me from feeling alone
Now, I’m learning to fly
And this freedom is like
Nothing that I’ve ever known
I’ve seen the bottom
And I’ve been on top
But mostly I’ve lived in between
And where do you go
When you get to the end of
Your dream?
Off in the nether lands
I heard a sound
Like the beating of heavenly wings
And deep in my brain
I can hear a refrain
Of my soul as she rises and sings
Anthems to glory and
Anthems to love and
Hymns filled with earthly delight
Like the songs that the darkness
Composes to worship the light
Once in a vision
I came on some woods
And stood at a fork in the road
My choices were clear
Yet I froze with the fear
Of not knowing which way to go
One road was simple
Acceptance of life
The other road offered sweet peace
When I made my decision
My vision became my release
What would Halloween be without obnoxious racism?
EDIT: Putting this behind a spoiler alert
Me: seems like we got through a whole Halloween without anybody doing anything stupidly racist.Georgia: DID YOU SAY STUPIDLY RACIST?!… https://t.co/C3DIJARPjv
— Jay Black (@jayblackisfunny) November 1, 2022
re: #143 Barefoot Grin
dulce et decorum, indeed…
re: #147 GlutenFreeJesus
so his biopic is gonna be a Weird Al parody of biopics?
would expect nothing else
re: #131 lawhawk
The strategy is to delay delay delay until after the 2024 Election.
Yesterday’s “suprise” decision by some Conservative SCOTUS members to join the Liberal wing is not a suprise at all if you look at the blowback their aggressive overall agenda received with Roe v Wade and how scared it made GOP leaders about losing election support.
Trump is delaying so he can fully Pardon himself or have DeSantis do it for him in early 2025. With a Republican in the White House starting in 2025 the full-blown utterly corrupt SCOTUS will be unleashed and the full MAGA agenda will be implemented including a quick revisit to reversing all prior Affirmative Action precedent. All of it.
Furthermore, this SCOTUS will uphold new state and Federal laws that specifically benefit white male Christians by name in regards to employment, private business decisions (social media especially) and college admissions. If Republicans win both houses soon we will be in deep trouble. But we will be 100% through the looking glass in 2025 if any Republican wins the White House.
re: #149 Florida Panhandler
Yesterday’s “suprise” decision by some Conservative SCOTUS members to join the Liberal wing is not a suprise at all if you look at the blowback their aggressive overall agenda received with Roe v Wade and how scared it has made GOP leaders about losing election support.
Did I miss the announcement of a SCOTUS decision or something? Or maybe I wasn’t following along as closely as I thought with the arguments before the Court?
re: #144 SerialUpDinger
Such an early loss of a talented singer/songwriter. Phoenix is in my top 25 albums. I lost my dad to prostate cancer so I heartily echo the call for regular checks.
re: #121 Dangerman
Wait, bots and trolls aren’t entitled to free speech?
Bots are people too my friend.
(or something like that. I heard someone say something close to that once)
re: #151 sizzzzlerz
Such an early loss of a talented singer/songwriter. Phoenix is in my top 25 albums. I lost my dad to prostate cancer so I heartily echo the call for regular checks.
Actually a pretty good musician and songwriter but mostly I remember him for being a total heart throb for hordes of Midwestern college girls in the late 70’s…
re: #152 Eventual Carrion
Bots are people too my friend.
(or something like that. I heard someone say something close to that once)
Bots are the electronic shadows of aborted babies!
re: #154 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Bots are the electronic shadows of aborted babies!
Aborted before or after birth?///
re: #82 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I was in the audience in Tucson too back in 1983!!
re: #150 Dopamine Fish
Did I miss the announcement of a SCOTUS decision or something? Or maybe I wasn’t following along as closely as I thought with the arguments before the Court?
I had read reports about Barrett especially looking to uphold the 25-year “limit” on Affirmative Action (as a delay tactic for now) but as of early today it seems her final decision may be still up in the air to join the Conservatives. At this point who knows? But if the final determination by SCOTUS is to overturn then this election will once again be greatly influenced by how ruling by Judicial decree is judged by the voters.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has just temporarily blocked Donald Trump’s tax returns from being released to the House.
The legal system favors the rich.— Really American 🇺🇸 (@ReallyAmerican1) November 1, 2022
The fix is in.
re: #156 So Cal Greek Hippie
I was in the audience in Tucson too back in 1983!!
Diane and I were in the back row, so you might not have noticed us…
OK, Urban legend is relatively brutal. No wonder, Eli Roth is the exec producer. Let’s see where it goes.
re: #157 Florida Panhandler
I had read reports about Barrett especially looking to uphold the 25-year “limit” on Affirmative Action (as a delay tactic for now) but as of early today it seems her final decision may be still up in the air to join the Conservatives. At this point who knows? But if the final determination by SCOTUS is to overturn then this election will once again be greatly influenced by how ruling by Judicial decree is judged by the voters.
I listened to some of the oral argument (can I say how delighted I am they’re allowing it to be recorded and released? We don’t even need video, if we can listen).
Ketanji Brown Jackson is excellent. I love her.
How dare you defend yourself! You made me hit you.. https://t.co/N0S1nmfEN1
— Adam Kinzinger #fella (@AdamKinzinger) November 1, 2022
re: #161 Nyet
OK, Urban legend is relatively brutal. No wonder, Eli Roth is the exec producer. Let’s see where it goes.
There’s only two things Eli Roth has done that I like. First, his role as Sgt. Donnie “The Bear Jew” Donowitz in Inglorious Basterds. And second, his trailer for the mock horror movie Thanksgiving, which was featured in Grindhouse (and the Thanksgiving trailer was filmed in Kladno, Czech Republic, in the pedestrian zone and other locales in the city)
Russian state media: Finns are dying of cold due to cutting ties with Russia.
Finns: pic.twitter.com/2yEZVGuPnt— Very Finnish Problems (@VFinnishProbs) November 1, 2022
Vote Fetterman. He knows where the state is located https://t.co/IhMx2eKO2I
— Claudia Hall Christian (@ClaudiaC) November 1, 2022
re: #166 Backwoods_Sleuth
Getting PA confused with NJ. I can understand why. He’s only a recent visitor to the Keystone State.
re: #168 lawhawk
Getting PA confused with NJ. I can understand why. He’s only a recent visitor to the Keystone State.
Why is there a “Jersey Shore” in the middle of Pennsylvania?
JFYI, Don’t hug me I’m scared is now a series. Though, having watched the first episode, the charm isn’t there anymore.
re: #164 Dr Lizardo
I found both Hostels a good, campy take on the “creepy Eastern Europeans” trope.
🏌♀️
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re: #172 Nyet
I found both Hostels a good, campy take on the “creepy Eastern Europeans” trope.
And this was the best reversal of the trope.
This shit sounds familiar…
On Bannon, they are saying that at Bolsonaro’s press conference today he may be announcing “invoking articles” to have the military “audit” election results and possibly also arrest some judges. pic.twitter.com/9vZehdJ59i
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) November 1, 2022
Ebru is the ancient Turkish art of marbling - creating colourful patterns by sprinkling & brushing pigments on water, which are transferred to paper. Highly regarded, it is on UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage list. Today the tradition continues
A thread on the art of Ebru… pic.twitter.com/boQc0ImKK4— Bayt Al Fann (@BaytAlFann) November 1, 2022
re: #171 Nyet
JFYI, Don’t hug me I’m scared is now a series. Though, having watched the first episode, the charm isn’t there anymore.
We can’t get it in the US at this time. My son is tracking a possible release date here.
re: #104 lawhawk
That Musk is already bargaining to keep someone like Stephen King on Twitter tells you how badly this will go.
The value is engagement, and if your most entertaining engagers are leaving, then eyeballs dry up.
It also tells you that the $20 value proposition was always a moving target and they have no idea how much to charge. They did no customer survey or other engagement efforts to see what it would take to do.
If/when there is a mass exodus from Twitter, it’s just going to yet another GQP echo chamber like Truth, Gab, etc, etc.,
#AMessageToElonMusk
Lettuce be honest.
Your sell by date is nigh. pic.twitter.com/84uOgxcSV8— 𝚕𝚕𝚘𝚢𝚍 𝚓𝚊𝚌𝚘𝚋𝚜𝚘𝚗, 𝚖𝚜𝚠 👨🏻💻 (@HOUmanReporter) November 1, 2022
re: #179 Dr. Matt
Next up: All Twitter users will be required to pay $19.99 / year to keep using the service.
DeSantis reinstated the state tax at midnight last night.
He did it on purpose so that Floridians will be outraged at the sudden rise is cost, but blame Biden, because like you they didn’t know DeSantis was behind it. https://t.co/TP4NfPFGw4— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) November 1, 2022
re: #181 The Pie Overlord!
Oh, that’s right, I forgot he orchestrated that whole “gas tax holiday” as a pre-election stunt, set to expire right before the election so that people would get outraged as they go to vote.
A group of fans seated courtside at the Brooklyn Nets game Monday night at Barclays Center aimed a pointed message at Kyrie Irving, wearing black T-shirts that read “Fight antisemitism” in white letters. https://t.co/GK07om9raN
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 1, 2022
re: #183 Dopamine Fish
Oh, that’s right, I forgot he orchestrated that whole “gas tax holiday” as a pre-election stunt, set to expire right before the election so that people would get outraged as they go to vote.
The GOP are a bunch of economic illiterates who prey on those who pay even less attention. They know that the gas tax is regressive, and disproportionately harms poor folks, so hiking the tax right before the election is supposed to piss them off against Democrats?
There’s a whole lot of pretzel logic here, but the reality is that Florida depends on a whole bunch of these kinds of taxes because they don’t have an income tax.
re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth
in the late 60’s/early 70’s when i was a kid, our family took a trip to Colonial Williamsburg.
the printer’s shop did paper marbling - it was how they decorated book covers.
when i got back to school I did a demonstration, I think in a public speaking class.
aced it
Ebru is the ancient Turkish art of marbling - creating colourful patterns by sprinkling & brushing pigments on water, which are transferred to paper. Highly regarded, it is on UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage list. Today the tradition continues
A thread on the art of Ebru… pic.twitter.com/boQc0ImKK4— Bayt Al Fann (@BaytAlFann) November 1, 2022
re: #176 Eclectic Cyborg
They really are desperate for someone else to commit sedition.
re: #179 Dr. Matt
If/when there is a mass exodus from Twitter, it’s just going to yet another GQP echo chamber like Truth, Gab, etc, etc.,
if i had it, i’d certainly pay $44bn for bragging rights to owning that //
re: #185 lawhawk
The GOP are a bunch of economic illiterates who prey on those who pay even less attention. They know that the gas tax is regressive, and disproportionately harms poor folks, so hiking the tax right before the election is supposed to piss them off against Democrats?
There’s a whole lot of pretzel logic here, but the reality is that Florida depends on a whole bunch of these kinds of taxes because they don’t have an income tax.
there is only one goal: winning / being in power
We’ve been waiting 1,308 days for trump’s tax returns, almost as long as the American Civil War. The Supreme Court should end this charade not prolong it with more nonsense. https://t.co/q60yUaUCtQ
— Bill Pascrell, Jr. 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@BillPascrell) November 1, 2022
Trump has confederates in the courts.
re: #186 Dangerman
in the late 60’s/early 70’s when i was a kid, our family took a trip to Colonial Williamsburg.
the printer’s shop did paper marbling - it was how they decorated book covers.when i got back to school I did a demonstration, I think in a public speaking class.
aced it
I learned how to do it during workshops at the Art Institute of Chicago, maybe 40 years ago or so. I really like it.
Ah, science…
Several species of primates were observed picking their nose and we recorded for the 1st time an aye-aye doing it. Further research needs to be done in order to understand whether eating snot is good or bad for health. pic.twitter.com/pf4VdoLZ3n
— Anne-Claire Fabre (@grumpyDrFabre) October 27, 2022
Yahoo bought Tumblr for 1.1 billion USD, sunk it, and then sold it for 3 million USD just 6 years later. Lord Elon is heading in that direction and will likely bring down his car company because he’s alienating the very and only people who buy his vehicles (i.e., the Left). GQPers absolutely loathe EVs. Buying someone’s technology and selling it doesn’t make you smart and/or Tony Stark.
re: #194 Dr. Matt
Yahoo bought Tumblr for 1.1 billion USD, sunk it, and then sold it for 3 million USD just 6 years later. Lord Elon is heading in that direction and will likely bring down his car company because he’s alienating the very and only people who buy his vehicles (i.e., the Left). GQPers absolutely loathe EVs. Buying someone’s technology and selling it doesn’t make you smart and/or Tony Stark.
Stark never bought a media company.
Elon Musk Says Twitter Will Give Blue Checks Only to Verified Conspiracy Theorists @BorowitzReport https://t.co/LZs5hqFG1f
— Larry O. Dean (@larryodean) November 1, 2022
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune’s editors, at least, are still doing some things right:
It’s not that hard, as the Star-Tribune shows. Just be blunt. Via @mcpli pic.twitter.com/17WlG98scX
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) October 31, 2022
re: #195 Belafon
Stark never bought a media company.
William Randolph Hearst bought a bunch of newspapers and magazines and assembled them into a media conglomerate. Circulation was excellent, he had a knack for printing what people wanted to read, but he was also a really big spender. He borrowed against the company for yet another expansion, couldn’t make the payments, and the banks took it over. They installed a Board of their choosing, took the company public, and for the last 80-some years the Hearst family has lived off dividends from their minority stock ownership. None of them work there, none of them have any authority over any company decisions.
ETA: this is also why Hearst Castle since the 1950’s has been a State Park.
re: #195 Belafon
Stark never bought a media company.
Stark inherited a weapons business from his very successful dad.
Art:
“From Arachnophobia to Arachnophilia” is a new artist’s book by the Berlin-based conceptual artist and theorist Tomás Saraceno, focused on the environmental impact of spiders and their webs. This atlas-sized book contains five hand-cut, hand-printed pop-up scenes. 1/ pic.twitter.com/2Bw7fZ8yOl
— Incunabula (@incunabula) July 16, 2022
Republicans and rightwing propaganda outlets spent weeks spreading lies about poisoned candy. They lied to spread fear and divide America. This is what republicans do. https://t.co/2OTq77nZbi
— Bill Pascrell, Jr. 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@BillPascrell) November 1, 2022
BEWARE ! HOLLOWEEN CANDY CONTAINS DRUGS!
Hahah, my childhood revisited.
:D
WTH happened to 2022….didn’t it just start recently? //
🍂 It’s officially November! 🍁
That means there are only…
🍽🦃 23 Days Until Thanksgiving
✝️🕯 26 Days Until Advent
🌲🌟 30 Days Until December
☃️❄️ 50 Days Until Winter
👼🏼🎄 53 Days Until Christmas Eve
🎅🏼🎁 54 Days Until Christmas
🗓🥂 61 Days Until 2023— Christmas Countdown (@ChristmasCount) November 1, 2022
re: #204 Varek Raith
BEWARE ! HOLLOWEEN CANDY CONTAINS DRUGS!
Hahah, my childhood revisited.
:D
50+ years of the same kind of urban legend.
I remember when it was about razor blades. Then it was drug laced candies.
But this year it served its purpose - to keep people scared and fearful, thinking that Democrats are making it easier to kill kids, when it’s the GOP that does it by making it easier to get guns and covid.
re: #163 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is the classic case of the bully sitting on your chest, holding your wrists and shouting “Stop hitting yourself!” as he pummels you with your own fists.
re: #204 Varek Raith
BEWARE ! HOLLOWEEN CANDY CONTAINS DRUGS!
Hahah, my childhood revisited.
:D
Halloween candy with drugs (or razor blades), Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons are gateways to Satanism, don’t be out after dark or an axe murderer will come out of the woods to slaughter you horribly - all the classics are making a comeback these days.
re: #207 lawhawk
But this year it served its purpose - to keep people scared and fearful, thinking that Democrats are making it easier to kill kids, when it’s the GOP that does it by making it easier to get guns and covid.
And harder to get health care.
Only one party says: Hold the debt limit hostage to force cuts to Social Security & Medicare #ProtectMySocialSecurity https://t.co/VKKSb7OilE
— Liddle Cherry Pie 🌻🌈🍒🥧 (@Pie_Overlord) November 1, 2022
re: #212 The Pie Overlord!
Only one party wants to end democracy in America = GOP.
Only one party covers up crimes by its own members = GOP.
Only one party refused to investigate oil price gouging = GOP.
Only one party refuses to invest in renewables and end dependency on oil = GOP.— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) November 1, 2022
re: #215 lawhawk
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There’s only one party that does not believe Paul Pelosi was nearly murdered by a self-identified MAGA/GQPer
re: #212 The Pie Overlord!
We DO make plenty of energy in America, you dumb fuck.
Jury sees texts where Oath Keepers discuss Nancy Pelosi’s ‘head rolling down the front steps’ at Capitol https://t.co/fVwPr6r7Px
— Raw Story (@RawStory) November 1, 2022
America’s Mayor, lately known as America’s favorite drunken election-denier failed lawyer, is probably searching for another bottle of Russian potato water right now.
NEWS: Judge Howell has *rejected* Rudy GIULIANI’s effort to dismiss a defamation lawsuit brought by Georgia election works Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, who Trump and Rudy falsely accused of election fraud.
Details TK— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) November 1, 2022
This tweet takes several more turns than I ever could have anticipated. https://t.co/jVoFF7T5Fa
— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) November 1, 2022
re: #216 Dr. Matt
There’s only one party that does not believe Paul Pelosi was nearly murdered by a self-identified MAGA/GQPer
And it’s not just some
It’s *all* of them
The entire party staked out this position
re: #205 Teukka
So, Nyet, what do you think of this take? [~ 60m]
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Can’t listen right now, but it’s Kraut and I see in the comments that he mentions Ilyin, so it’s probably ok.
re: #222 Nyet
Can’t listen right now, but it’s Kraut and I see in the comments that he mentions Ilyin, so it’s probably ok.
TY. I found it enlightening and highly ideologically nutritious.
1 hour well spent.
Warmly Recommended.https://t.co/LHLDA2htTk— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) November 1, 2022
I’m reading the Giuliani ruling right now. This seems like a problem:
On June 6, 2022, Giuliani filed the pending motion to dismiss the Amended Complaint for failure to state a claim against him, under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6). See Def.’s Mem. at 1. Plaintiffs opposed Giuliani’s motion, see Memorandum in Opposition to Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss (“Pls.’ Opp’n”), ECF No. 27, and Giuliani filed no reply. The requisite time for Giuliani to do so has now passed, see D.D.C. Local Civil Rule 7(d) (providing seven days for reply), and thus the motion is now ripe for resolution.
Bolduc signed a letter with dozens of other military crackpots claiming the election was stolen, then claimed he didn’t believe the election was stolen (stollen)—what will he do now?
“Former President Donald Trump waded into New Hampshire’s tight race for U.S. Senate Monday, endorsing Republican candidate Don Bolduc. In his endorsement, issued on his own social media platform TruthSocial, Trump focused on one issue in particular: Bolduc’s record of repeating false claims of widespread voter fraud.”
Of the 51 million tons of plastic waste US households produced in 2021, just 2.4 million tons (5 percent) were recycled, new research shows.
The findings show that plastic recycling is a “myth,” says the analysis by environmental nonprofit @greenpeaceusa. https://t.co/sWiJjsJzCh— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) October 31, 2022
Get this: in Pennsylvania, 69.2% of young voters are returning their ballots for Democrats. Exactly two years ago, that number was 51.9%. This is what happens when you have a party that delivers for young people and a party that seeks to destroy our lives. cc: @tbonier
— Victor Shi (@Victorshi2020) November 1, 2022
re: #209 Dopamine Fish
Halloween candy with drugs (or razor blades), Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons are gateways to Satanism, don’t be out after dark or an axe murderer will come out of the woods to slaughter you horribly - all the classics are making a comeback these days.
I had a MtG deck. :D
re: #83 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Russians make grain deal, prices lower. Russian oligarchs (or others with an inside line on Putin) invest in grain futures. Russians torpedo deal. Grain futures spike.
Gotta love the global market.
Russia now essentially controls 30% of the world’s grain market.
LOL! He actually seems to think the issue is that Stephen King can’t afford $20 a month. https://t.co/Zd8Hua6NTd
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 1, 2022
re: #229 Varek Raith
I had a MtG deck. :D
My high school was split into two groups. The kids with non-religious or less-religious parents played Magic, the kids with hyper-religious parents played the Star Wars collectible card game. I think my parents still have my collection of 1000+ Star Wars cards somewhere in the attic.
re: #226 lawhawk
My county ELIMINATED their recycling program a couple of years ago. Can’t remember why, but all we get around here for now is trash pickup.
re: #233 Dopamine Fish
My high school was split into two groups. The kids with non-religious or less-religious parents played Magic, the kids with hyper-religious parents played the Star Wars collectible card game. I think my parents still have my collection of 1000+ Star Wars cards somewhere in the attic.
If your mother hasn’t thrown them out, they might be valuable collectibles now! My mother gave away my comic books, but I read them a lot, so they weren’t in great shape even then.
I was just thinking about how over a third of Americans live in a parallel universe where truth has been banished and they not only don’t care about losing democracy but would welcome tyranny and then thinking about how it isn’t at all new and that the same was true for the late 1930s and then Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five character Paul Lazzaro popped up in my thoughts. Lazarro was the value-free sociopath who vowed to kill a list of personal enemies and supposedly ends up killing Billy Pilgrim years later. Somehow all of these Paul Lazarros are coming out of the woodwork now that Trump made the world safe for them.
re: #235 No Malarkey!
If your mother hasn’t thrown them out, they might be valuable collectibles now! My mother gave away my comic books, but I read them a lot, so they weren’t in great shape even then.
Some of them were rather rare and valuable even at the time, so who knows? I might ask about them when I’m home at Thanksgiving, and see if I can find out how much they might fetch.
Twitter bird crashing like Hindenburg.
Twitter’s Ad Sales Executive has resigned. pic.twitter.com/Tmu0htX7IL
— Andrew Wortman 🏳️🌈🇺🇸 (@AmoneyResists) November 1, 2022
re: #53 mmmirele
Seriously, though, do they put a restrictor plate on it?
On a Smart? Yes.
There is electronic limitation to below ~95 mph on most models.
The car and engine could go faster, but it probably wouldn’t be stable.
(Yes, I a deliberately misunderstanding your question).
re: #234 Eclectic Cyborg
My county ELIMINATED their recycling program a couple of years ago. Can’t remember why, but all we get around here for now is trash pickup.
Ditto our town. Along with an increase in cost.
We take it over to mom’s once a week and dump into her cart
We assume its handled properly
re: #111 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
And Musk bought a hole to throw money into. (Though he, if anyone, can probably afford it.)
Indications were that Twitter was not long-term financially stable anyhow. There were reports that they were about to implement a bunch of cuts themselves. Corraling Musk into paying them billions and then walking out leaving him the bag was probably a godsend for them.* And Musk gets to play the bad guy by firing people too.
And then Musk gets to deal with the train wreck that he in part started. The advertisers and users that generate Twitter’s income are jittery. Messing with the verified tag business just makes it worse - since charging for it makes it meaningless. And once there is no way to verify a user is who they say they are then essentially anything posted there needs to be viewed with even more scrutiny and inherent distrust. (Pile on Musk murdering whatever moderation and rules there are there just makes it descend into the sewer that is unmoderated commentary all the sooner.)
* - I also assume that the executives and employees fired “for cause” right before they were due bonuses and other perks will probably generate a pile of lawsuits for Musk to be paying lawyers for over the next couple of years. And odds are paying out now would have been cheaper. But Musk has cash and can throw it where ever his ego wants to throw it.
The thing I don’t get is that he has a fiduciary responsibility to stockholders. While he and Jack may or may not have some long game planned out for whatever bonkers reason, musk still has a legal fiduciary responsibility.
How do you get around that without going broke or to jail?
re: #236 Barefoot Grin
I was just thinking about how over a third of Americans live in a parallel universe where truth has been banished and they not only don’t care about losing democracy but would welcome tyranny and then thinking about how it isn’t at all new and that the same was true for the late 1930s and then Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five character Paul Lazzaro popped up in my thoughts. Lazarro was the value-free sociopath who vowed to kill a list of personal enemies and supposedly ends up killing Billy Pilgrim years later. Somehow all of these Paul Lazarros are coming out of the woodwork now that Trump made the world safe for them.
They want to be told what to think.
How else does *everyone* glom onto the exact same Paul Pelosi story?
re: #240 Dangerman
Ditto our town. Along with an increase in cost.
We take it over to mom’s once a week and dump into her cart
We assume its handled properly
I’m starting to think the whole recycling ‘movement’ is a diversion of attention from the kind of trash plastic is. And lots of other waste. Prevention would hurt profits.
re: #241 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
The thing I don’t get is that he has a fiduciary responsibility to stockholders. While he and Jack may or may not have some long game planned out for whatever bonkers reason, musk still has a legal fiduciary responsibility.
How do you get around that without going broke or to jail?
Musk bought the Twitter stock and took the company private, so he doesn’t owe any fiduciary duties to the former Twitter stockholders, who are probably elated at Musk overpaying them for their shares.
Thereby confirming the meetings are a disaster. https://t.co/Ip8tL9vOwG
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 1, 2022
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re: #220 Belafon
I once saw a version of Romeo and Juliet like that, but the Montagues were the Jews and the Capulets were Nazis (Tybalt, unaltered, makes a great Nazi). The reconciliation scene at the end was omitted.
re: #243 wrenchwench
I’m starting to think the whole recycling ‘movement’ is a diversion of attention from the kind of trash plastic is. And lots of other waste. Prevention would hurt profits.
Our town used to take #4 and #5 plastics, along with the standard #1 and #2. They stopped taking 4s and 5s because China was no longer taking those; Christ knows what they were actually doing with them. I doubt they were actually being recycled.
One of the hosts of the science podcast I listen to had a really good point about all of this: corporate America basically dumped the responsibility of dealing with plastic on the consumer, when they themselves should be looking for some way to phase this shit out.
re: #245 Charles Johnson
Musk adviser says meetings today with advert firms in New York are going unbelievably well.
I don’t doubt they’re going well, because Musk is lying his ass off to the people who pay the bills. He’s probably swearing up and down the street that he’ll moderate the Nazis, white supremacists, and his other fanboys. Once he gets out of that meeting, he’ll go back to promising Trump and the Proud Boys that can foment as many overthrows as they want on Twitter.
re: #247 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
I once saw a version of Romeo and Juliet like that, but the Montagues were the Jews and the Capulets were Nazis (Tybalt, unaltered, makes a great Nazi). The reconciliation scene at the end was omitted.
I once saw a production of West Side Story in which the Sharks were still Puerto Ricans, but the Jets were African-American.
re: #245 Charles Johnson
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FWIW folks at Dentsu, Omnicom, IPG, and GroupM have all told me they haven’t met with or heard of any meetings with Twitter.
Those are the biggest advertising agencies in the world https://t.co/wQTSYkS1Up— Ryan Barwick☕️ (@Ryanbarwick) October 31, 2022
re: #234 Eclectic Cyborg
My county ELIMINATED their recycling program a couple of years ago. Can’t remember why, but all we get around here for now is trash pickup.
Our town reduced their plastic recycling because the recycler was rejecting tons of materials for contamination - wrong stuff getting recycled, not cleaned, etc.
So we’re primarily glass, aluminum, and paper recycling on alternating weeks.
re: #90 Shropshire Slasher
Several times in the video, Graham Parker (TheHoofGP) mentions a problem with bulls and holding them in the “crushes”. Here is video on the problem he refers to:
re: #248 Mattand
One of the laws that needs to be passed is to require all plastics produced to be type 1 or 2, and require a surcharge the same way aluminum is supported, but that money is used to find other uses for those plastics.
Charging users to be verified is a hare-brained idea that reeks of desperation, and will destroy whatever remaining trust people have in Twitter’s verification system.
There is no fucking way I will ever pay for this.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 1, 2022
Take my verified badge away, and good riddance.
And don’t give me a bunch of bullshit about fixing the bot/troll problem this way. Please.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 1, 2022
re: #248 Mattand
Plastic packaging is the short-term cheapest way to protect products in shipping, display product on shelf, and prevent shoplifting (without hiring more people at retail), so we’re probably stuck with it until we run out of oil or the government intervenes, because corporations will not take on the cost of changing their systems.
re: #251 Dr. Matt
Saw several tweets earlier indicating that IPG, one of the firms listed there, has told clients to put a pause on advertising on Twitter due to the chaos and uncertainty surrounding the Musk takeover.
re: #255 Charles Johnson
If anything, it will make the troll problem WORSE.
re: #248 Mattand
Our town used to take #4 and #5 plastics, along with the standard #1 and #2. They stopped taking 4s and 5s because China was no longer taking those; Christ knows what they were actually doing with them. I doubt they were actually being recycled.
One of the hosts of the science podcast I listen to had a really good point about all of this: corporate America basically dumped the responsibility of dealing with plastic on the consumer, when they themselves should be looking for some way to phase this shit out.
I had a question about the recyclability of a package, I took a lot of trouble to get someone on the phone at Republic (a huge US trash firm and holder of the local contract) and all she could tell me was ‘when in doubt, throw it out’. I found the info I sought at the manufacturer’s website. Not recyclable except in a few locations. If the stuff that goes into the recycling bins was being recycled, businesses at least would be hearing about what goes in there.
A giant thirsty loser dork.
Also a dweeb. https://t.co/t3vwtwv5KR— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 1, 2022
He’d worked there for several years before self destructing.
The New York Post employee who was fired after publishing a slew of phony, sexist and racist headlines on the newspaper’s website and Twitter account has apologized for what he described as a tantrum and the “utmost betrayal”.
“I let my own stupidity get the best of me,” Miguel Gonzalez told the Daily Beast’s Confider newsletter in a piece published late on Monday. “I deserved to get fired for a very volatile, irresponsible and disgusting action and an utmost betrayal of the New York Post.
Never work for exploitative Republicans.
Gonzalez had arrived at the New York Post in 2019 for what had been his first job in journalism after finishing college. He told the Daily Beast newsletter that he built stories and inserted photos into them for the tabloid’s website during shifts so grueling he would have to answer his bosses’ Slack messages in the bathroom.
Rogue employee who hacked New York Post apologizes for ‘utmost betrayal’ (The Guardian)
This professor is at Tennessee State University and apparently talks to students like this all the time. Something needs to be done. #Repost #tsu #racism #heneedstobefired pic.twitter.com/o7L27EMIdp
— KMD (@theylovekennedi) October 31, 2022
The Psycho has resigned.
re: #234 Eclectic Cyborg
My county ELIMINATED their recycling program a couple of years ago. Can’t remember why, but all we get around here for now is trash pickup.
My apartment complex did the same. I don’t know if it’s town or county-wide.
I fill a lot more garbage bags since that happened, but have read that recyclers don’t want recyclables from sloppy Americans because we can’t manage to put clean plastic and paper into the bins.
re: #261 Charles Johnson
So lots of rightwingers will pay Musk for a check mark then.
“Down with the lords and peasants system!” - the richest man in the world asking you to pay him $96/year in the name of “free speech.” pic.twitter.com/wtoxMfOKOQ
— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) November 1, 2022
re: #262 Crush White Nationalism
Gonzalez had arrived at the New York Post in 2019 for what had been his first job in journalism after finishing college.
First and last job in journalism.
First tweet on Thursday. Resignation Friday. pic.twitter.com/HH6rQ5mmEg
— Alex Kantrowitz (@Kantrowitz) November 1, 2022
re: #70 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Surprisingly, the grain shipments seem to be still happening:
Ukraine war: Grain deal continues despite Russia pull-out
Three more vessels left Ukrainian ports on Tuesday, the UN-led centre co-ordinating the Black Sea grain export deal said, despite a Russian decision to suspend its backing of the scheme.
The centre said the ships’ movement had been agreed by Ukraine, Turkey and the UN, while Russia “has been informed”.
On Monday, 12 ships carrying 354,500 tonnes of food sailed from Ukraine.
Russia halted its backing for the deal on Saturday, accusing Ukraine of using a safety corridor to attack its fleet.
re: #270 Charles Johnson
A whole lot of golden parachutes just got opened.
re: #267 Charles Johnson
I don’t disagree with the declaration of the blue checkmark system as bullshit, but giving anyone with some form of electronic payment the ability to mark themselves as “verified” is not the answer. It’s creating a whole different class of problem, and I don’t think he’s thought the ramifications of this particular approach through.
re: #263 Dangerman
Verification, like respect is earned.
You can’t buy it
but you can write it off on your income taxes.
re: #255 Charles Johnson
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It never meant anything but that your name is correct anyway. The worst disinformation accounts have checkmarks.
300k people are dead because Republicans decided to make vaccines a tribal marker.
Say what you want about Democrats, at least their policies don’t kill anybody. https://t.co/KyF99Hp7xs— Nunca Trumpismo (@NeverTrumpTexan) November 1, 2022
Disproportionately GOPers died vs Democrats.
GOP policies have decimated America.
re: #273 Dopamine Fish
I don’t disagree with the declaration of the blue checkmark system as bullshit, but giving anyone with some form of electronic payment the ability to mark themselves as “verified” is not the answer. It’s creating a whole different class of problem, andI don’t think he’s thoughtthe ramifications of this particular approach through.
re: #268 Dr. Matt
First and last job in journalism.
I hope so.
Conservative “journalism” is full of hacks, but they do not want rogue hacks on their payroll, so this idiot may be out of luck.
re: #275 Crush White Nationalism
It never meant anything but that your name is correct anyway. The worst disinformation accounts have checkmarks.
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Yep. The only people who will pay for verification are right wing assholes and those who can write it off as a business expense.
After Helllno generates huge profits from blue checks, he plans to buy Uber and have everyone buy their cars from him.
/3 They’re not speaking in the language of literal truth. They’re conveying a message about whom they hate and whom they hold in contempt. They’re conveying “those are the bad people, we’re the good people.”
— RiggedAndStollenHat (@Popehat) November 1, 2022
The Republican Right’s new crusade: … wait, no, that can’t be right… CATS?!
From the people who brought you “M&M’s should be sexy” comes a brand-new totally weird thing to be angry about: https://t.co/t18qoQsXcc
— Max Kennerly (@MaxKennerly) November 1, 2022
re: #93 Dr. Matt
A “billionaire” begging/negotiating for money with someone who gets paid to write. Musk is clearly over his head.
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It seems to me that the major talent successful billionaires have in managing business risk is to risk other peoples’ money. If they don’t do that, they are quickly no longer billionaires.
re: #284 Dopamine Fish
The waves of unfounded resentment pulsing out of the screen. How does anyone sit and watch this crap?
re: #284 Dopamine Fish
This segment got even weirder
Tammy Bruce: “It’s also part of the indoctrination, they’re being trained … they’re told effectively by the University, no you need a puppy”
Webb: “These kids are the problem … This is that idea of building a society of betas”
h/t @noah_dowe pic.twitter.com/I9XsDw80sR— Lis Power (@LisPower1) November 1, 2022
re: #277 lawhawk
You’ve become one of the people who rejected just one part of their extremism, and you found out how that goes. They’re fascists now.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) November 1, 2022
re: #286 jaunte
The waves of unfounded resentment pulsing out of the screen. How does anyone sit and watch this crap?
The people who watch this are people who, covertly or overtly, are hateful at their core. They watch it because it feeds the shriveled, blackened part of their soul that is always angry and always craves another outrage to feed that anger.
re: #276 Belafon
There was a report that Russia had killed some people on board one of the ships. I don’t know if the article mentions it.
It happened at an alternative route iiuc.
Graham has to testify.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court DENIES Lindsey Graham’s bid to avoid testifying before a Georgia grand jury as part of the grand jury’s investigation into election interference in that state. There are no recorded dissents. https://t.co/zIVhFaD6PT pic.twitter.com/RWaQNyQRoH
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) November 1, 2022
re: #276 Belafon
There was a report that Russia had killed some people on board one of the ships. I don’t know if the article mentions it.
My understanding is that yesterday/Monday, the Russians shot up two civilian tugboats moving a grain-laden barge, killing at least two of the crew. I have not heard of any attacks on the grain ships.
I suspect that Turks reminded the Russians that the Turkish fleet in the Black Sea is several times larger than the Russian fleet there. And is far more capable.
re: #215 lawhawk
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That trans women playing sports is apparently their number 1 policy concern is striking.
Talk to me about the GOP’s respect for the Capitol police and then get back to me.
We are already produce a lot of energy. Pretty sure refinery capacity is an issue (which can’t be fixed short term). There are also tons of drilling permits going unused. So what’s the actual plan to produce more?
re: #287 Eclectic Cyborg
Seriously?
What the fuck is wrong with cats?
‘They don’t come when they’re called.’
That’s the most Fox I’ve watched within memory, and I couldn’t hang long enough to see somebody say they want to slap the college-attending young adults. Of course, ‘kids’ is who they were talking about.
re: #295 ckkatz
My understanding is that yesterday/Monday, the Russians shot up two civilian tugboats moving a grain-laden barge killing at least two of the crew. I have not heard of any attacks on the grain ships.
I suspect that Turks reminded the Russians that the Turkish fleet in the Black Sea is several times larger than the Russian fleet there. And is far more capable.
Not to mention that attacking the Navy of a NATO member could be the Article 5 casus foederis that Russia really doesn’t want to trigger.
re: #284 Dopamine Fish
The Republican Right’s new crusade: … wait, no, that can’t be right… CATS?!
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Jebus. I lived in undergrad dorms in the early 90s and many of my classmates had (snuck) animals into their dorm rooms. BFD. My hospital is near a college campus that allows animals into one of the dorms. Talk about fake outrage.
re: #297 wrenchwench
Actually, my cat IS pretty good about coming when I call him. MOST of the time…
Jackass whiner.
It’s possible Elon is growing bored of this public relations nightmare pic.twitter.com/SX3KeQ3Laq
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) November 1, 2022
“What’s that”, you wonder? “Another Arch post about voting in Israel”, you say?
“But we just had one last year! And the year before that! And several months before that! And fewer months before THAT!”
And here we are, yet again, because however f*cked up we might think our political system is, the UK will scoff and say “Hold my Guinness” - to which Israel will laugh, then cry, then laugh again, this time maniacally, and say “Hold my Hummus.”
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So how many parties are on the ballot notes this time, you wonder?
Well, last time we went from 38 to 39. The numbers were lower before that. Might they have gone down again?
That’s right, ladies and gents. Your eyes do not deceive you - tonight’s (un)lucky number is a whopping FORTY (!!!!!!1eleventyWTF) parties for parliament. At this time, at least 26 of them are projected to fail to meet the minimum voter threshold, meaning their votes will be about as useful as a pogo stick in outer space.
How does that happen, you wonder? Well, it’s basically simple - the state infrastructure allows it for many decades, the political climate is accustomed to the lunacy and has mostly given up on changing it, and there’s absolutely nothing in the country’s British-based election system to stop it. Then we have the faction-based voting, heritage-affiliated parties, left/right divides based on national security (peaceful/hawkish), left/right divides based on economy (Socialist/Capitalist; the communists are long gone), political divides based on history and legacy, religious voting groups, and more. And more. And MORE.
Yeah, US politics doesn’t seem so bad now, does it?
As of 18:00 local time, 58% of the populace has voted - the highest recorded since 1999, when 78.5% voted altogether, though it remains to be seen if the trend continues.
What does this mean, you might wonder? Well, based on the history - not a damn thing. High voting numbers and low numbers can produce the same results, and with the large number of parties to choose from, the overall percentage doesn’t really mean anything, other than the fact that they vote in greater percentages than we do back home.
As it stands, polls indicate that barring some unforeseen development (like an established party on either side not getting enough votes to meet the minimum parliament threshold - which is a possibility), we’re gonna be looking at more of the same, with neither the left bloc nor the right bloc having enough to assemble a coalition government moving forward.
The difference is that this time, Binyamin Netanyahu is NOT the interim PM, and in the event that follow-up elections happen, he likely won’t see it as a candidate - nor any other election for that matter. The knives are already out and the consensus is that this will be his absolute last chance to get elected (and pause the corruption trials against him, since a sitting PM can’t be tried).
Come midnight Eastern time, we’ll know what happens, one way or another.
re: #288 Belafon
Actually, it would probably help with my daughter’s homesickness if she could keep her cat in the dorm. These are just a bunch of assholes.
re: #302 (((Archangel1)))
Nice ballot box. That’s really tight registration for flexo printing on corrugated.
re: #298 William Lewis
Not to mention that attacking the Navy of a NATO member could be the Article 5 casus foederis that Russia really doesn’t want to trigger.
Well yes, there does happen to be that detail :)
re: #302 (((Archangel1)))
One of the main reasons I cringe when I hear many on the left want more political parties besides what we have. Would it be nice? May be. Or would it be something like 2 big conservative parties forming a coalition while 20+ liberal ones fight each other? Haha, sad face.
re: #296 Mike Lamb
That trans women playing sports is apparently their number 1 policy concern is striking.
Talk to me about the GOP’s respect for the Capitol police and then get back to me.
We are already produce a lot of energy. Pretty sure refinery capacity is an issue (which can’t be fixed short term). There are also tons of drilling permits going unused. So what’s the actual plan to produce more?
Republicans don’t make plans; they only stoke resentments.
re: #296 Mike Lamb
That trans women playing sports is apparently their number 1 policy concern is striking.
Talk to me about the GOP’s respect for the Capitol police and then get back to me.
We are already produce a lot of energy. Pretty sure refinery capacity is an issue (which can’t be fixed short term). There are also tons of drilling permits going unused. So what’s the actual plan to produce more?
From stuff I’ve read, the “refinery capacity” issue is basically caused by domestic producers: petro refineries are hugely expensive, so Big Oil has made little expansion of refining capabilities in recent years: they can always export crude: and if domestic supplies of refined products gets tight over capacity issues, they don’t care, since they can just raise prices.
If you assume that Elon Musk is actually consciously trying to drive Twitter into the ground and turn it into a right wing sewer, all this stuff that seems so weird and puzzling makes perfect sense.
re: #307 Varek Raith
One of the main reasons I cringe when I hear many on the left want more political parties besides what we have. Would it be nice? May be. Or ould it be something like 2 big conservative parties forming a coalition while 20+ liberal ones fight each other? Haha, sad face.
This is why, when he formed the Democratic Socialists of America, Mike Harrington worked within the Democratic Party to move it and its ideals leftward. A third party is a non-starter in America unless one of the two implodes as the Whigs did allowing the rise of the Republicans.
re: #300 Eclectic Cyborg
Actually, my cat IS pretty good about coming when I call him. MOST of the time…
My cats will studiously ignore me, until I call the OTHER cat. Head snaps around. They are so jealous of each other.
re: #299 Dr. Matt
My brother went to West Point. Even there, under fairly rigorous military discipline, there were ‘covert’ pets.
re: #307 Varek Raith
One of the main reasons I cringe when I hear many on the left want more political parties besides what we have. Would it be nice? May be. Or ould it be something like 2 big conservative parties forming a coalition while 20+ liberal ones fight each other? Haha, sad face.
Agree wholeheartedly.
My point about how the state infrastructure allows it for many decades might just be the most crucial bit to why it’d never work in the US in our lifetimes - you would need to change things drastically across all 50 states, then the electoral college to make it remotely feasible, and have the nation used to it without creating any political inequality.
Not. Gonna. Happen.
re: #310 Charles Johnson
If you assume that Elon Musk is actually consciously trying to drive Twitter into the ground and turn it into a right wing sewer, all this stuff that seems so weird and puzzling makes perfect sense.
It’s hard to believe, because that is a remarkably stupid way to set fire to $44 billion.
re: #182 Eventual Carrion
Why did they permanently suspend you? It’s odd that some of us have experienced suspensions while blatant bigots who make threats of violence are deemed okay. None of the tweets I’ve reported for hate speech or violence have been removed.
re: #316 No Malarkey!
It’s hard to believe, because that is a remarkably stupid way to set fire to $44 billion.
Not if you transport your brain into a head like Elon’s that prioritizes a sense of entitlement, trolling and massive pure ego over financial management.
re: #299 Dr. Matt
Jebus. I lived in undergrad dorms in the early 90s and many of my classmates had (snuck) animals into their dorm rooms. BFD. My hospital is near a college campus that allows animals into one of the dorms. Talk about fake outrage.
They legitimately appear to be opposed to anything, anything at all, that helps people or improves people’s lives in any meaningful way.
re: #310 Charles Johnson
The grift will be good for him since he now wants to charge for the blue check. Seems as if Rightwingers have an infinite amount of $$ to share amongst Trump and other Conservative grifters.
re: #284 Dopamine Fish
That almost sounds like an attempt to create another “Them vs Us” divide.
Kind of reminds me that a seriously divided GOP back in 2015 was how we got tfg in the first place.
re: #317 Patricia Kayden
Why did they permanently suspend you? It’s odd that some of us have experienced suspensions while blatant bigots who make threats of violence are deemed okay. None of the tweets I’ve reported for hate speech or violence have been removed.
Because Twitter sucked even before Elmo.
re: #322 Nyet
Because Twitter sucked even before Elmo.
Saw a Twitter thread pointing out that Twitter’s content policies haven’t actually been changed yet. What we’re seeing right now is the same old, same old, just put under a new microscope because of the change in ownership.
Not holding my breath -
New: Jan. 6 committee vice chair Liz Cheney says they are in discussion with lawyers about Trump’s potential testimony: “We have not made determinations about format, but it will be done under oath. It will be done over multiple days.”
— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) November 1, 2022
eta:
Cheney appears to be talking about Trump’s testimony in terms of what the Jan. 6 committee is laying out as expectations, not what Trump has agreed to.
— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) November 1, 2022
re: #324 ckkatz
Not holding my breath -
I have memories of Trump saying he would love to have a chat with Mueller.
I just screenshot my blue check and made it my banner. That was easy. And free 😂
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) November 1, 2022
I wrote about how authoritarian states encourage people to spy on each other and how that could be coming here for @WIRED https://t.co/pwYwiLRPfy
— Thor Benson (@thor_benson) November 1, 2022
From article:
In an authoritarian state, neighborhood trust is a thing of the past. Citizens are often encouraged to report any perceived wrongdoing in their communities to the government. There are countless examples of this in history—and around the world today. It happens in Russia, and there’s even an app for it in Saudi Arabia.
In the United States, we appear to be creeping toward this culture of community surveillance. Texas’ SB 8 deputized everyday Americans to sue anyone who has had an abortion or assisted with one. Texans are reporting the parents of transgender children to authorities. Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin set up a tip line and encouraged parents to report teachers who are teaching “divisive” subjects. Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law encourages parents to monitor teachers. With the Republican Party increasingly embracing authoritarianism, this is likely just the start.
re: #236 Barefoot Grin
I was just thinking about how over a third of Americans live in a parallel universe where truth has been banished and they not only don’t care about losing democracy but would welcome tyranny and then thinking about how it isn’t at all new and that the same was true for the late 1930s and then Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five character Paul Lazzaro popped up in my thoughts. Lazarro was the value-free sociopath who vowed to kill a list of personal enemies and supposedly ends up killing Billy Pilgrim years later. Somehow all of these Paul Lazarros are coming out of the woodwork now that Trump made the world safe for them.
along with all of the Shad Ledues from It Can’t Happen Here
(they would include all of the January 6 domestic terrorists)
re: #234 Eclectic Cyborg
My county ELIMINATED their recycling program a couple of years ago. Can’t remember why, but all we get around here for now is trash pickup.
as did ours. We take our recyclables to the landfill in the next county when we do our regular dump run (no garbage pickup here).
Funny thing: for plastics it’s limited to #1 and #2. Weirdly, glass is no longer accepted because there’s no recycle market for it.
re: #328 ckkatz
A bit of an amusing kerfuffle this morning -
Apparently Molly Jong-Fast disappeared from twitter for several hours this morning.
A bunch of her followers started a “FreeMollyJongFast” hashtag. Some offered to retweet anything she needed. Her Mastodon Social Media account was publicized around. There were a bunch of emails to Twitter to free her account.
What actually happened to her account:
Nothing nefarious happened and this was in no way due to criticizing @elonmusk. I used tweet erase to erase some old tweets and it nuked my account but now I’m back and I appreciate all the thoughts and prayers. pic.twitter.com/lGLzG83N84
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) November 1, 2022
re: #330 Backwoods_Sleuth
as did ours. We take our recyclables to the landfill in the next county when we do our regular dump run (no garbage pickup here).
Funny thing: for plastics it’s limited to #1 and #2. Weirdly, glass is no longer accepted because there’s no recycle market for it.
Corrugated cardboard is the only thing that still has a good market. It gets its own bin.
Every single year, news outlets run these wild “OMG, drug dealers are going to give your kids drugs!!!” stories… and every. single. year. it just doesn’t end up happening.
Yet they’ll come back and do it all again next year. Zero lessons learned, zero accountability.— Parker Molloy - Subscribe at readtpa.com (@ParkerMolloy) November 1, 2022
Also, jfc, the fentanyl wasn’t “rainbow-colored” to look like candy, it was made to look like other pills.
— Parker Molloy - Subscribe at readtpa.com (@ParkerMolloy) November 1, 2022
re: #335 jaunte
The real reason for these stories is because scaring people sells. There is one underreported Halloween danger though; kids getting run over by cars while they are out trick or treating at night. Not in huge numbers, but a lot higher than normal.
USA will transfer 8 NASAMS Air Defence Systems to Ukraine
— WarMonitor🇺🇦 (@WarMonitor3) November 1, 2022
“…The system defends against unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), helicopters, cruise missiles, unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs), and crewed fixed wing aircraft, firing any of a wide range of existing missiles.”
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re: #336 No Malarkey!
The real reason for these stories is because scaring people sells. There is one underreported Halloween danger though; kids getting run over by cars while they are out trick or treating at night. Not in huge numbers, but a lot higher than normal.
A LOT.
I know it’s not feasible everywhere, but banning or curbing car usage every Halloween would mean that dozens more kids live to next Halloween. https://t.co/HS7CqIS6Pl pic.twitter.com/Nb6TOTllRE
— Bradford Pearson (@BradfordPearson) October 31, 2022
A ‘recent comments’ search is like a bolt of lightning compared to the old days.
re: #338 wrenchwench
Most deadly day for pedestrians. Twice as many deaths as any other day.
Our town has been asked to shut down certain streets to make it safer for kids and families celebrating the holiday. I think it makes a lot of sense, but there’ll always be people who insist that cars must have right of way regardless.
re: #340 lawhawk
Most deadly day for pedestrians. Twice as many deaths as any other day.
Our town has been asked to shut down certain streets to make it safer for kids and families celebrating the holiday. I think it makes a lot of sense, but there’ll always be people who insist that cars must have right of way regardless.
The acceptable pedestrian kill rate is outrageous. Cars are my enemy and I live in car culture.
re: #319 Dopamine Fish
They legitimately appear to be opposed to anything, anything at all, that helps people or improves people’s lives in any meaningful way.
Higher education makes the work force uppity. Prone to organize. Want more.
Makes bosses cry.
re: #281 Eclectic Cyborg
Yep. The only people who will pay for verification are right wing assholes and those who can write it off as a business expense.
or people who are just waiting to get a blue checkmark to impersonate someone or some business entity
rush re: #284 Dopamine Fish
The Republican Right’s new crusade: … wait, no, that can’t be right… CATS?!
Republicans keep telling us that they’re a pack of toxic assholes who just want to make people’s lives worse. I think we should believe them.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) November 1, 2022
re: #345 Crush White Nationalism
They probably still think that witches are using cats to spread the plague.
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