After much thought and soul searching, Stephen Colbert finally banned Kanye West from The Late Show and canceled all of their planned collaborations. In other news, President Biden hit 118 mph drag racing a Corvette on “Jay Leno’s Garage.” #Colbert #Comedy #Monologue
The Elmo crowd’s definition of “free speech” is “the right to scream racial slurs in a public space without revealing my identity, like a fucking racist coward.”
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 28, 2022
Agrawal, who saw Musk turn on him months ago, is set to receive the largest payout of $38.7 million, due largely to the entirety of his shares vesting upon his firing.Ned Segal, Twitter’s chief financial officer, is set to receive a $25.4 million payout for getting fired.
Vijaya Gadde, the chief legal officer, will leave with $12.5 million.
Sarah Personette, the chief customer officer, would get $11.2 million.
This goes for the disabled community as well.
I’m on Twitter for the people. News & information is unaffordable & inaccessible to the masses. Great efforts are made to keep people in the dark. By design, folks are DRAMATICALLY uninformed, especially when it comes to public health & climate collapse.
I’m not going anywhere.— Laura Miers (@LauraMiers) October 28, 2022
Cool. Remember that time you helped incite a violent insurrection to overthrow the government because your yam-dyed daddy lost?
You have been stoking the twin fires of extralegal extremism & political violence for far too long to offer thoughts and prayers now Ted.
You did this.— Jo 🌻 (@JoJoFromJerz) October 28, 2022
re: #4 jaunte
It’s worse.
this story gets worse and worse. https://t.co/Z1U1qc8NNH
— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) October 28, 2022
re: #1 Charles Johnson
Don’t forget that they have to have a captive audience for their racist bullshit. Nobody’s allowed to leave and choose not to hear it.
Allegedly Pelosi’s attackers blog.
⚠️ CW/TW: All boxes ticked (antisemitism, Qballery, adrenochrome, 1/6 CT’s, 2020 election denial, you name it). User discretion is strongly fucking advised. ⚠️ frenlyfrens.com
Dinesh D’Souza was duped by a fake Trump press release. pic.twitter.com/c49e7pllE6
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) October 28, 2022
#BREAKING: The suspect in the home invasion hammer attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband at their San Francisco home has been identified as 42-year-old David Depape, who has a criminal history of elder abuse and other felonies, police say. Live video: https://t.co/LmffTjRddY
— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) October 28, 2022
However, the default split for donations made there is 99 percent to Trump’s political operation — and just 1 percent to Masters’ Senate campaign in one of the closest battleground races in the country. (Donors could choose to change the default split, but it requires clicking through a link written in smaller type and jammed between several more eye-grabbing colored boxes.)
The rest of the argument “could be a boon for Masters anyway” is bullshit
99%. Pigs
The top executives Musk fired? They’re all getting enormous severance payments in the tens of millions of dollars.
The data engineers? They’re going to be worried about paying their bills.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 28, 2022
The toxicity and anger of REPUBLICANS.
Why is it so hard for you to tell the plain truth about what is happening here? https://t.co/FHYSqLK9x4— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 28, 2022
re: #13 Charles Johnson
Elon (though “Elmo” is a good one) is gonna watch as his $44 billion purchase becomes worth $1.98 in about a year.
Maybe less than a year. And I’m gonna have a good chuckle as his crackpot fanbois are reduced to spluttering rage.
re: #14 Charles Johnson
A few? 99% of the Republican party is dangerously delusional, and have been talking about violence for a while now. They even attempted a fucking coup.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) October 28, 2022
Nancy needs to find somewhere else to stay for a while, I think.
The complete Republican package, a non-sentient meat-bot programmed to commit violence. https://t.co/xoXEV7QQnB
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 28, 2022
I didn’t think we’d get to the William Gibson future so fast.
This is your friendly reminder that the Secret Service sat on credible death threats to Speaker Pelosi on 1/6.
— I Smoked The Kanyecosystem (@BlackKnight10k) October 28, 2022
re: #18 Charles Johnson
Well, well, well….looks like Trump might have a serious VP contender there.
(only half-joking)
Welcome to hell, Elon https://t.co/Ud505uI4L1
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 28, 2022
The Beltway Media could both-sides a black hole.
If Trump returns and you feel compelled to engage him, make sure to include the words “one term loser.”
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) October 28, 2022
oh, he lost more than just the one
lost the popular vote, twice
and on and on
re: #19 jaunte
I didn’t think we’d get to the William Gibson future so fast.
Which one? He’s written four of them so far.
re: #26 Belafon
I thought of them as all occurring simultaneously.
america’s newsrooms looking for the assassination version of “racially charged” https://t.co/cFlD0BdAJg
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) October 28, 2022
“Crazed loner”
re: #16 Crush White Nationalism
The RWNJs will claim Paul Pelosi was “attacked by a Democrat upset about high taxes and inflation”.
re: #22 Charles Johnson
What I mean is that you are now the King of Twitter, and people think that you, personally, are responsible for everything that happens on Twitter now. It also turns out that absolute monarchs usually get murdered when shit goes sideways.
elmo is to twitter what biden is to ‘the economy’, or ‘inflation’, or ‘gas prices’
he just paid $44b for the privilege to like it or don’t
Elmo here is “digging in” to free an account called cat turd.
The perfect tweet does exist.— Donnie Two Peaches (LOSER) (@Unabogie) October 28, 2022
re: #27 jaunte
I thought of them as all occurring simultaneously.
Have you read The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson? That seems like a pretty good fit.
Wonder whether this attack is even on Elmo’s radar? If he had any sense, this would terrify him about his proposals to let “free speech” reign on his platform. Of course, O’Reilly incited a murder and never suffered any penalty for his words. Elmo may feel the same way — that the violence is not his problem; it’s those who commit the crimes who need to be punished but those who indirectly (or directly) instigate them are safe.
Maybe I shouldn’t be insulting the real and one and only Elmo; after all, he’s a good guy.
New: An emboldened cast of trolls has spewed racist slurs and Nazi memes onto Twitter in the hours since @elonmusk freed the bird. Musk says no “free-for-all hellscape,” but hate is already rampant: One post screaming the n-word has more than 4,000 likes https://t.co/fgu3LJtfKR
— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell) October 28, 2022
interesting that this volume of filth happened so fast
when people show you who they are…
they were all just champing at the bit to be released, weren’t they?
vile people
I don’t know if this is Stephen Miller’s new grift, or a very old one, but I got a snail mail flyer from America First Legal with overt race bating (Only Blacks and LatinX wanted. No whites or Asians wanted, etc), and hating on Biden.
Affirmative action in education is relatively unpopular (compared to many more progressive ideas) in California. The attempt to repeal a ban on affirmative action (Prop 16), lost by a slightly greater percentage than the measure to pass it (Prop 209 from 1996) originally did, despite the significant move to the left over the decades (Someone who has been in California for more than 20 years, please correct me.).
What’s far less popular is overt race bating.
I go to the website, aflegal . org (Not linking to it), which claims to be a conservative answer to the ACLU where I found Stephen Miller’s mug* on the front as President, with discussions of CRT, Immigration, “DOJ Politicization”, and standard far-right talking points.
*I’m really waiting for his mugshot.
When worlds collide, part 67:
No thanks. https://t.co/ChLdlvbKi9
— Diablo (@Diablo) October 28, 2022
(The joke is, Diablo is a video game set in Hell. If Blizzard Entertainment wants no part of Elon Musk…)
re: #36 Dopamine Fish
When worlds collide, part 67:
(The joke is, Diablo is a video game set in Hell. If Blizzard Entertainment wants no part of Elon Musk…)
Yeah, gonna have to do an ‘actually’ here. Diablo, the original, was set somewhere hell-like, DII was both on earth and in hell. DIII was a travesty that should never have been published. Blizzard lost their shit, in general, a while ago. WarCraft, the original and II and III, along with the first 10 years of WoW were great, but the company lost their soul after that.
re: #37 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Hell still doesn’t want him.
re: #2 Crush White Nationalism
Looks like they aren’t going to have to file for unemployment compensation.
God, I wish you were home😃😃😃 pic.twitter.com/JrkNzKcibq
— Grimshaw.v.Ford (@MercuryBobcats6) October 28, 2022
Ron DeSantis invited this guy to dinner to celebrate the anniversary of January 6th. pic.twitter.com/yUomOBz3D7
— Christian Vanderbrouk 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻 (@UrbanAchievr) October 28, 2022
re: #41 jaunte
I suspect John has no trouble with Trump defrauding people in his university, or stiffing charities, or refusing to pay contractors.
Now watch as all the fanbois turn on him. They thought they were getting a free pass. https://t.co/qtTmPV0FCI
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 28, 2022
Hellmo discovers running Twitter is no fun, “actual work,” WTF.
General trends have me on edge today. Looks like I need to run down to Mass to pick up some edibles. For the children on Halloween, of course. //
re: #15 Dr Lizardo
Elon (though “Elmo” is a good one) is gonna watch as his $44 billion purchase becomes worth $1.98 in about a year.
Maybe less than a year. And I’m gonna have a good chuckle as his crackpot fanbois are reduced to spluttering rage.
We’ll see. It’s easy to say you are a free speech absolutist when you have nothing at stake. When you have put down $44 billion and owe massive loan payments, turning that investment into 4Chan that advertisers and normies flee in terror may not have the same appeal as it did before.
Right now big time editors and producers are trying to think of a way to say assassination attempt that won’t offend the people defending the assassination attempt.
— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman) October 28, 2022
re: #29 Eclectic Cyborg
The RWNJs will claim Paul Pelosi was “attacked by a Democrat upset about high taxes and inflation”.
SMOTI may have already posted that the attacker is a registered Democrat.
re: #47 Dopamine Fish
Though I expect the line to be, YOU CAN’T SAY ‘ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT’ BECAUSE WE DON’T KNOW HE PLANNED TO ASSASSINATE HER, MAYBE HE JUST WANTED TO HAVE A PEACEFUL CHAT AND FELT THREATENED BY THE MAN WHOSE HOME HE BROKE INTO
re: #49 Dopamine Fish
Though I expect the line to be, YOU CAN’T SAY ‘ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT’ BECAUSE WE DON’T KNOW HE PLANNED TO ASSASSINATE HER, MAYBE HE JUST WANTED TO HAVE A PEACEFUL CHAT AND FELT THREATENED BY THE MAN WHOSE HOME HE BROKE INTO
The alleged break-in during which an injury happened.
re: #52 Dopamine Fish
Allegedly.
An editor should probably tone down my harsh language: “The alleged unauthorized entry during which an injury allegedly happened” should do it.
re: #19 jaunte
I didn’t think we’d get to the William Gibson future so fast.
You want a real depression? Read “The Peripheral” and then look out your window, Without the McGuffin, that’s what it is.
re: #53 No Malarkey!
An editor should probably tone down my harsh language: “The alleged unauthorized entry during which an injury allegedly happened” should do it.
There we go. Now you’re thinking like mainstream media. How many brain cells did that cost you?
re: #54 William Lewis
You want a real depression? Read “The Peripheral” and then look out your window, Without the McGuffin, that’s what it is.
Which is why Amazon doing a series for that first is an interesting choice.
re: #43 Charles Johnson
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Maybe the Pelosi attack really was a wake-up call to Elon. An unmoderated site can lead to violence.
re: #55 Dopamine Fish
There we go. Now you’re thinking like mainstream media. How many brain cells did that cost you?
Had to delete everything I ever learned from Strunk and White’s “The Elements of Style”
re: #58 No Malarkey!
Had to delete everything I ever learned from Strunk and White’s “The Elements of Style”
So nothing of value was lost. /half
re: #44 jaunte
Hellmo discovers running Twitter is no fun, “actual work,” WTF.
like i said last thread, he bought himself a job
$44b is probably the most anyone ever paid for a job
most people get paid when they’re hired. not the other way around.
…smart
re: #57 Hecuba’s daughter
Maybe the Pelosi attack really was a wake-up call to Elon. An unmoderated site can lead to violence.
Doubtful. Ye is back on after literally spreading anti-Semetic Nazi shit. I wouldn’t hold my breath expecting Elon to develop empathy any time soon.
re: #58 No Malarkey!
Had to delete everything I ever learned from Strunk and White’s “The Elements of Style”
“Omit needless words”?
The Fark politics tab is usually full of Twitter links. Today there’s only one story from Twitter. I think people are responding to the changes there.
re: #43 Charles Johnson
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Widely-diverse probably means including fascists who are there to abuse other users. That committee will be a shitshow. I wish their meetings would be streamed online for my entertainment.
Interesting; It looks like someone has been arrested in connection with the 2017 Delphi Murders, the double homicide of Abigail Williams and Liberty German.
re: #64 Crush White Nationalism
Widely-diverse probably means including fascists who are there to abuse other users. That committee will be a shitshow. I wish their meetings would be streamed online for my entertainment.
Viewpoints ranging all the way from Nazis to Klansmen to Skinheads to white supremacists to race realists to Ultra MAGAs to Deplorable MAGAs to MAGAs?
— Slava Ukrayini! (@aagcobb1) October 28, 2022
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus is free in the Epic game store through Nov 3rd.
The other free game is Saturnalia which has a warning about sexual themes and strong language, so I’ll have to check it out.
RWNJs are going to say that Pelosi brought it on herself with her comment that she would’ve punched TFG if he had come to the Capitol.
Has smoti found evidence that the maga terrorist who attacked Mr. Pelosi is a member of the Soros Army?
re: #71 Dr. Matt
By the way, Iron Maiden continues to find new ways to put on an innovative show. What an experience last night. And they still shred.
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I’ve seen Iron Maiden five times now. And if they do another tour of Europe and come to Prague, I’ll see ‘em again. They always put on a great show.
I really want to see Ghost. I hope they do a European tour next year.
“Depape will be booked at the San Francisco county jail on the following charges: attempted homicide, assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse, burglary and several, several other additional felonies” SFPD chief Bill Scott says
— Alayna Treene (@alaynatreene) October 28, 2022
SFPD chief said “At approximately 2:27 this morning, San Francisco police officers were dispatched to the residence of Speaker Nancy Pelosi regarding an ‘A’ priority well-being check.” When the officers arrived on scene, they encountered Depape & Paul Pelosi both holding a hammer
— Alayna Treene (@alaynatreene) October 28, 2022
attack witnessed by responding police
re: #71 Dr. Matt
I’ve seen Maiden a number of times, going all the way back to the Killers tour. I’ve never seen them inside. I must remedy that. Up the Irons!
Abstract
Conducting organic materials, such as doped organic polymers1, molecular conductors2,3 and emerging coordination polymers4, underpin technologies ranging from displays to flexible electronics5. Realizing high electrical conductivity in traditionally insulating organic materials necessitates tuning their electronic structure through chemical doping6. Furthermore, even organic materials that are intrinsically conductive, such as single-component molecular conductors7,8, require crystallinity for metallic behaviour. However, conducting polymers are often amorphous to aid durability and processability9. Using molecular design to produce high conductivity in undoped amorphous materials would enable tunable and robust conductivity in many applications10, but there are no intrinsically conducting organic materials that maintain high conductivity when disordered. Here we report an amorphous coordination polymer, Ni tetrathiafulvalene tetrathiolate, which displays markedly high electronic conductivity (up to 1,200 S cm−1) and intrinsic glassy-metallic behaviour. Theory shows that these properties are enabled by molecular overlap that is robust to structural perturbations. This unusual set of features results in high conductivity that is stable to humid air for weeks, pH 0-14 and temperatures up to 140 °C. These findings demonstrate that molecular design can enable metallic conductivity even in heavily disordered materials, raising fundamental questions about how metallic transport can exist without periodic structure and indicating exciting new applications for these materials.
Intrinsic glassy-metallic transport in an amorphous coordination polymer (Nature)
re: #72 Dr Lizardo
I’ve seen Iron Maiden five times now. And if they do another tour of Europe and come to Prague, I’ll see ‘em again. They always put on a great show.
I really want to see Ghost. I hope they do a European tour next year.
Last night was number 5 for me. Maiden was my first concert back in 1985 in Detroit (Twisted Sister opened).
I saw Ghost on Maiden’s last tour through the states. I didn’t know much about them, but really enjoyed them. There was a lot of Ghost t-shirts around the arena last night.
re: #73 Backwoods_Sleuth
attack witnessed by responding police
Unless he’s found mentally incompetent, Depape is going to go to prison for a very long time.
in Elon Musk’s appeal to advertisers, he claimed he bought Twitter in part to stop the social media echo chambers
his first interactions as Twitter owner? fielding personal requests from right wing accounts https://t.co/bsvRKMwPq5— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) October 28, 2022
re: #78 Backwoods_Sleuth
Elon Musk’s day one priorities at Twitter: catturd pic.twitter.com/bOHAXmve0q
— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) October 28, 2022
re: #76 Dr. Matt
Last night was number 5 for me. Maiden was my first concert back in 1985 in Detroit (Twisted Sister opened).
I saw Ghost on Maiden’s their last tour through the states. I didn’t know much about them, but really enjoyed them. There was a lot of Ghost t-shirts around the arena last night.
First time I saw Maiden, it was the World Slavery Tour, in December of 1984. Saw them again when they came around on their Somewhere on Tour in February, 1987. Seen them three times here in Czech Republic.
re: #76 Dr. Matt
I saw Ghost, but it was at an outside ampitheater. Really want to see them inside too.
re: #77 No Malarkey!
Unless he’s found mentally incompetent, Depape is going to go to prison for a very long time.
If I was his attorney, I would definitely ask for a mental competency exam.
Some of his posts referred to former President Donald Trump. “Either Q is Trump himself or Q is the deepstate moles within Trumps inner circle. So Q/Trump sabotaged their child trafficking operations. #2 self inflicted wound. Trumps covert id or a Deep state mole? Was Q refering to this? Did Q do this? another video,” he wrote, referring to QAnon.
In another post, he wrote, “The more Ukrainians die NEEDLESSLY the cheaper the land will be for Jews to buy up.” His website has posts on pedophiles, aliens, COVID, Communism, Kanye West, Derek Chauvin, what he called “climate hysteria” and more. It is filled with conspiracy theories and other ramblings.
the bird in question https://t.co/6wsMhCXaep pic.twitter.com/RuYMCAJnuY
— animals going goblin mode (@mischiefanimals) October 28, 2022
Rick Perlstein is being censored for criticizing Elon. Try to retweet this. You can’t. (the screenshot is also disappeared.) Text was this
@elonmusk has no interest in controlling his private company’s platform as a vector for fascist organizing. He’s bragged about that.
[This tweet may have been deleted.]
He tweeted it 3 times and then posted a screenshot. That has also been deleted
Status Update: Ain’t shit changed. https://t.co/PfvOmD1ayH
— Propane Jane™ 🔥💣 (@docrocktex26) October 28, 2022
re: #86 gocart mozart
Rick Perlstein is being censored for criticizing Elon. Try to retweet this. You can’t.
[This tweet may have been deleted.]
@elonmusk has no interest in controlling whether this platform becomes a vector for fascist organizing. He’s all but bragged about that.
— Rick Perlstein (@rickperlstein) October 28, 2022
Time to call it a day. Have a good one, Lizards and stay healthy.
Yeah, my belief in the sanity and goodwill of conservatives has been diluted right down to homeopathic levels.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) October 28, 2022
re: #90 Crush White Nationalism
Seems like I can.
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appears that some earlier incarnations of that tweet won’t retweet, so maybe he tweaked it and deleted earlier ones.
The bird has questions. pic.twitter.com/TtZaYhaY7S
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) October 28, 2022
this asshat
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re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
this asshat
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he deleted it, but there’s loads more nonsense conspiracy theory in his TL.
here’s what he deleted:
The stock market boomed today. The DOW is at its highest level since mid-August.
For those new to Stable Diffusion, OpenArt just published a PDF that works as a primer:
re: #98 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Start feeding sentences from it into the app.
Your tweet will be deleted by Mr. Free Speech himself
— gocart mozart (@EdMix13) October 28, 2022
🚨BREAKING: Federal judge allows the right-wing group Clean Elections USA and its members to continue “monitoring” Arizona drop boxes after a lawsuit argued the practice illegally intimidates voters. More info to come.https://t.co/3M1FsmdYqr
— Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) October 28, 2022
re: #102 Backwoods_Sleuth
PHOENIX (AP) - US judge in Arizona declines to bar group from monitoring ballot drop boxes, saying it would violate constitution.
— WBAY-TV 2 (@WBAY) October 28, 2022
Bitch’ll be back in the next five minutes if they let him. https://t.co/itYkA5a20l
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) October 28, 2022
The argument for the “Independent State Legislature Theory” that state legislatures are not bound by state courts or state constitutions in regulating federal elections is based on a forged document. State Justices, election officials, legal experts across the political spectrum and historians have all lined up to oppose the theory before SCOTUS.
wait what
The executive told CNN that West spoke openly about reading “Mein Kampf,” Hitler’s 1925 autobiographical manifesto and expressed his “admiration” for the Nazis and Hitler for their use of propaganda.
This individual stated that people in West’s inner circle were “fully aware” of his interest in Hitler. Four sources told CNN that West had originally suggested the title “Hitler” for his 2018 album that eventually released as “Ye.” They did not want to be named, citing concern for professional retribution.
Would you buy a bird from this man?
Made with NightCafe Creator https://t.co/V8hDn5A3CC #aiart #nightcafe #digitalart #vqganclip #TwitterTakeover #Twitter
via @NightcafeStudio— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) October 28, 2022
re: #94 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I wonder how many people noticed that it is not a real photo of a real bird?
I bet that if I posted DALL-E images on my Facebook timeline that half of the people seeing them will not know that the “photos” are not real.
“I prefer ‘Il Duce’.” https://t.co/r6UNKWPUxb
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 28, 2022
re: #109 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I did ask myself, but only knowing about your experiments.
Oh, god it sucks to be professional.
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re: #97 No Malarkey!
The stock market boomed today. The DOW is at its highest level since mid-August.
Is Elon taking credit yet?
re: #111 Charles Johnson
While there is no feminine Latin for “dux”, given Meloni is so big on right-wing gender fixations, her title should probably be “Il Duchessa”.
But I’m being pedantic.
re: #113 William Lewis
Oh, god is sucks to be professional.
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re: #115 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
While there is no feminine Latin for “dux”, given Meloni is so big on right-wing gender fixations, her title should probably be “Il Duchessa”.
But I’m
beingpedantic.
re: #117 I Would Prefer Not To
Now, now, we all know that a proper English sentence has to have a noun.
re: #97 No Malarkey!
The stock market boomed today. The DOW is at its highest level since mid-August.
Hope it keeps climbing through the election.
Longer term, IMHO, the stock market and the economy are screwed. A recession is much more likely than a soft landing, and stocks are still very expensive by historical standards.
re: #1 Charles Johnson
Apologies for not commenting on your link, but just wanted to say that i’m loving the pep of the site since your recent changes. One thing that has always frustrated me is that on my Iphone, when i want to view comments of pages that have (what seemed to be) more than 200 comments, the comments wouldn’t load. Now that doesn’t happen. Thank you!
re: #113 William Lewis
Oh, god is sucks to be professional.
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these are just bad human beings. there’s no way to sugarcoat it. Nancy Pelosi’s husband is currently fighting for his life after a brutal assault perpetrated by a guy deluded by lies peddled by the likes of Ronna McDaniel. and she can’t even lay off this stuff for one day. https://t.co/LTtiZDMi5P
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 28, 2022
Yesterday on my drive to walk my dog at a nice riverfront park the next town over I discovered four Patriot Front stickers on public road signage. Today I took the scraper and got them.
re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ronna changed her name to please a narcissistic sociopath who went on to attempt a coup and steal nuclear secrets. Of course she’s a bad person. She follows the lead of criminals.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) October 28, 2022
Trump Says He Won’t Return to Twitter
Donald Trump told Fox News that he wished Elon Musk the best with Twitter but stressed he will stay on his own Truth Social, a social media platform he touts as “better,” “safe” and that feels “like home.”
He added: “I don’t think Twitter can be successful without me.”
re: #126 Dangerman
Trump Says He Won’t Return to Twitter
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Everything he does is about his NPD. No one can criticize him on his ironically-named Truth Social propaganda site.
CHENEY AD: “I don’t know that I’ve ever voted for a Democrat, but if I lived in Arizona I would… if you care about our Republic you can’t empower people who don’t respect the results of elections.”
Every TN Republican Rep voted to reject the results.pic.twitter.com/srdlsHuV2b— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) October 28, 2022
“Trump says he won’t return to Twitter!”
Thereby confirming that he’ll be back the instant his account is restored.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 28, 2022
re: #113 William Lewis
Oh, god it sucks to be professional.
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Interesting tidbit from the Hollywood Reporter on celebs who left Twitter:
If some celebrities do quit Twitter, they will be part of a larger trend that preceded Musk’s takeover. According to a recent Reuters report, the platform has been quietly shedding its most active users — the 10 percent of heavy tweeting subscribers who account for 90 percent of tweets.
re: #126 Dangerman
Trump Says He Won’t Return to Twitter
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re: #131 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Interesting tidbit from the Hollywood Reporter on celebs who left Twitter:
I wonder how many Tweets these ten percenters send a day.
re: #131 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Interesting tidbit from the Hollywood Reporter on celebs who left Twitter:
That would be an interesting graph to see: Tweet volume over time.
re: #132 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Which confirms he’ll be back in a New York minute.
Maybe. I don’t know if he’s accepted that his crappy propaganda site is a failure. He’d need some excuse to give himself to finish off his site by going back to Twitter.
re: #135 Crush White Nationalism
Maybe. I don’t know if he’s accepted that his crappy propaganda site is a failure. He’d need some excuse to give himself to finish off his site by going back to Twitter.
“Donate to my campaign to help save TruthSocial.”
“I want you to watch Nancy Pelosi hand me that gavel. It will be hard not to hit her with it…”
- Kevin McCarthy
The assailant who attacked Paul Pelosi was looking for Nancy.
And he brought a hammer. pic.twitter.com/UbNYz8xvPQ— Jo 🌻 (@JoJoFromJerz) October 28, 2022
2022’s version of Howard Stern fans bombing the news.
confirmed that Rahul “Ligma,” who identified himself as a laid off Twitter employee carrying a box out of the building this morning, does in fact not work at Twitter (LOL) https://t.co/o0hG3Doij2
— Alex Heath (@alexeheath) October 28, 2022
I. P. Daly was not available for comment. 🙃
— David Moisan (@dmoisan) October 28, 2022
re: #115 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
While there is no feminine Latin for “dux”, given Meloni is so big on right-wing gender fixations, her title should probably be “Il Duchessa”.
But I’m being pedantic.
La Duchessa
/MOAR pendantic
What do y’all this about this?
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s new Bluesky Social app is now accepting users for beta testing, and is set to launch “soon”. https://t.co/e6LUiprjQV
— RELENTLESSLY Gay (@queertardo) October 28, 2022
re: #141 The Pie Overlord!
What do y’all this about this?
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I’m sure it will be transcendent.
And so it begins…
“GM temporarily suspends advertising on Twitter following Elon Musk takeover.” https://t.co/tkb4hnRH6n— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) October 28, 2022
“Both parties” again. Both of them dramatically escalating together, exactly alike, both of them, always and forever. pic.twitter.com/9AwhQEU0Y8
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 28, 2022
One of my former co-workers from a previous job murdered his wife with a hammer and scissors. He changed weapons mid-murder, then left the body there and went out of town on business, meeting another of my former co-workers who said he seemed a little off, but not as off as someone with a corpse at home should be. The print advertising industry is small enough that I happened to have worked with the killer and the person he met on business at the same agency. They had both moved on by the time of the murder.
Changing weapons mid-murder and going out of town for work as if nothing happened freak me out more than just the murder itself. He seemed like a pretty chill guy. We were all very surprised by what he did. It taught me that I never know what a person is capable of.
I totally missed the GM logo redesign.
creativebloq.com
re: #144 Charles Johnson
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re: #141 The Pie Overlord!
Not yet checked it out.
GM, focused on promoting their own electric cars, takes the opportunity to shiv Musk.
re: #144 Charles Johnson
They statement is focused on the wrong problem, but it is talking about the threats all of the Congresspeople are receiving, not who’s encouraging. And yes, Republicans are also getting threatened by people in their own party. They’re just too cowardly to do anything about it.
The ONLY reason Trump is saying he won’t go back to Twitter is that he wants the billion dollar payoff from DWAC when they take Trump Social public. That’s it. Once that happens, Trump Media and Technology Group will join the long list of Trump bankruptcies.
re: #152 Skip Intro
It’s hard to believe anyone would invest in a public company fronted by Trump, given his track record of fraud and failure.
re: #153 jaunte
It’s hard to believe anyone would invest in a public company fronted by Trump, given his track record of fraud and failure.
It’s hard to believe that Trump isn’t in jail, but here we are.
Who funded Trump’s Truth Social?
reuters.com
Rich assholes with money to burn.
If Trump walks from Truth Social, or rejoins Twitter, what recourse do his investors have for getting screwed?
re: #146 jaunte
I totally missed the GM logo redesign.
creativebloq.com
I mean like NO. NOPE. DON’T DO IT.
I worked for GM in the late 80’s & early 90’s when it sucked. I drove GM vehicles until 2011, when I switched to Ford (where I was working at the time). GM does not need to rebrand.
If Ford stopped using the Blue Oval & Henry’s handwriting, I would cry.
re: #157 jaunte
If Trump walks from Truth Social, or rejoins Twitter, what recourse do his investors have for getting screwed?
Civil court. And good luck with that.
Bye for now (This is NOT a flounce!)
I’ll see y’all Saturday night.
#Shabbat #ShabbatShalom #TweetYourShabbat @KosherSoul pic.twitter.com/FG2ZB2cqUT
— Liddle Cherry Pie 🌻🌈🍒🥧 (@Pie_Overlord) October 28, 2022
re: #157 jaunte
If Trump walks from Truth Social, or rejoins Twitter, what recourse do his investors have for getting screwed?
Decades in court, but they won’t want the money back. It was all bribes to Trump.
has the person who attacked Paul Pelosi been invited to speak at CPAC yet
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) October 28, 2022
Clean Elections USA is trying to mobilize thousands of volunteers to collect evidence of “ballot mules” for the creators of “2000 Mules,” (True the Vote) to pass to conservative sheriffs across the country. pic.twitter.com/LMPuRrA3jD
— Jen Fifield (@JenAFifield) October 28, 2022
Sheriff’s departments across the nation will be totally pumped to receive hundreds of false reports of ballot mules.
re: #141 The Pie Overlord!
What do y’all this about this?
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Fuck it. I signed up on the wait-list. I’m curious.
re: #165 jaunte
Sheriff’s departments across the nation will be totally pumped to receive hundreds of false reports of ballot mules.
Honest sheriffs will not be amused by this nonsense. Wingnut sheriffs will use it as an excuse to keep ‘undesirables’ from voting.
Everything has to be passed through a partisan filter these days.
re: #146 jaunte
I totally missed the GM logo redesign.
creativebloq.com
Meh. I’d like it if they kept the upper case lettering.
re: #141 The Pie Overlord!
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so, apparently somebody forgot to include a non-compete clause in his termination agreement?
re: #152 Skip Intro
The ONLY reason Trump is saying he won’t go back to Twitter is that he wants the billion dollar payoff from DWAC when they take Trump Social public. That’s it. Once that happens, Trump Media and Technology Group will join the long list of Trump bankruptcies.
Which is literally NEVER gonna happen.
Meet Judge Michael Liburdi of the District of Arizona, who was confirmed by the Senate in July 2019:https://t.co/6G2I34E1Rv
— Lisa Rubin (@lawofruby) October 28, 2022
re: #161 The Pie Overlord!
And a Git Shabbat (I cannot type in Yiddish too well) to you. :)
re: #169 sagehen
so, apparently somebody forgot to include a non-compete clause in his termination agreement?
More like lack of due diligence. Again. This isn’t new. There are articles on it going back to 2021.
Musk is an idiot whose success, I’m starting to doubt, had much to do with him.
Another update via @brahmresnik: The federal judge just denied one of the attempts to block the drop box watchers.
The activity is protected by the First Amendment, judge writes. https://t.co/meNtDtxr9q pic.twitter.com/fdhjKA6eYT— Jen Fifield (@JenAFifield) October 28, 2022
The bird is looking a bit ragged:#Twitter #TwitterTakeover pic.twitter.com/DVaP4UWb8S
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) October 28, 2022
How completely unsurprising that the Federal Judge that lets GOP goons intimidate people using the ballot drop boxes is a Trump judge.
The entire GOP really is hopelessly corrupt.
Tell the guy who thinks he’s still president, who said you deserved to be lynched. https://t.co/iwd2mBUdJR
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) October 28, 2022
re: #176 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Give it time and all heck will break loose.
GOP brown shirts https://t.co/zNgtmUFWN6
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) October 28, 2022
DALL-E is very good at the bird thing. I intentionally had that one colored a blue that looks like Twitter.
But if one just lets DALL-E do a natural bird it’s pretty good.
re: #32 Belafon
Have you read The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson? That seems like a pretty good fit.
One of my favourites.
re: #167 EPR-radar
Honest sheriffs will not be amused by this nonsense. Wingnut sheriffs will use it as an excuse to keep ‘undesirables’ from voting.
Everything has to be passed through a partisan filter these days.
FL sheriff departments will resume setting up driver license & vehicle registration checkpoints on routes from certain areas to voting locations on election day.
This is the kind of inhuman statement that contributes to the GOP’s normalization of violence. In better times, this one tweet would have led to @MikeLoychik being expelled from the House by fellow Republicans. Now, it just makes them chortle in delight. https://t.co/5fQr171OHo
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) October 28, 2022
Well I just went to twitter and signed in and saw this:
I’d just heard that Sunak has released a video to make him look good but chose a Gary Glitter song for the music… https://t.co/NvDHPDpdO0
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) October 28, 2022
re: #157 jaunte
If Trump walks from Truth Social, or rejoins Twitter, what recourse do his investors have for getting screwed?
They knew who they were dealing with.
Tough.
Junior wants people to stop doing business with “woke” companies and deal with his instead: “Stop giving these companies your money. Why don’t you support the people who believe the stuff that you believe in? That share your values. Help put their kids through school.” pic.twitter.com/W7CxyQNM0C
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) October 28, 2022
re: #186 Dangerman
Agreed, I’m totally unsympathetic. I should have asked, how do you take a Trump-dependent social network public when he could sabotage the whole thing in a day just by switching over to Twitter? What IPO investors would want to risk anything on such a bad bet?
re: #154 Crush White Nationalism
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morons
🚨 Federal court rules for free speech in Kentucky judge races.
Voters deserve to be informed about candidates on the ballot, and candidates do not forfeit their constitutionally protected rights to free speech when they file to run for office. https://t.co/XDWW3z9TJZ— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) October 28, 2022
I was very glad to get that dark money flyer in the mail touting Fischer. The gaslighting and hypocrisy was enlightening. Now I know who NOT to vote for. Oh, and Fischer has absolutely no qualification to be a judge anywhere, much less the Ky Supreme Court.
— justa farmer (@justafarmer4) October 28, 2022
here’s the dark money flyer we got in the mail…oh, be afraid of those liberals!
re: #152 Skip Intro
The ONLY reason Trump is saying he won’t go back to Twitter is that he wants the billion dollar payoff from DWAC when they take Trump Social public. That’s it. Once that happens, Trump Media and Technology Group will join the long list of Trump bankruptcies.
No one is going to buy Truth Social if Musk invites Trump back. I can’t believe any major investors are that stupid; OTOH MBS could launder a bribe to Trump through that mechanism.
And there you go..
“Russian Duma allowed the unblocking of Twitter in the Russian Federation after the acquisition of the social network by Elon Musk
This was stated by Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy Andrey Svintsov.”— Jay in Kyiv (@JayinKyiv) October 28, 2022
re: #192 Backwoods_Sleuth
morons
here’s the dark money flyer we got in the mail…oh, be afraid of those liberals!
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Joe Fischer’s “qualification” for Supreme Court is being a Kentucky General Assembly representative since 1999. He has never been a judge or even has any trial attorney experience.
Among his legislative accomplishments?
KY HB3 - AN ACT relating to public health and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 311.732, relating to performance of an abortion upon a minor, to require the informed written consent of a parent or legal guardian to include a copy of that parent’s or legal guardian’s government-issued identification and parent’s…
04/14/2022: delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 210)KY HB43 - AN ACT relating to religious freedom during a declared emergency.
Amend KRS 39A.100 to exclude houses of worship from emergency condemnation authority; prohibit a governmental entity from prohibiting religious services during an emergency to a greater extent than imposed on other organizations or businesses…
04/05/2022: signed by Governor (Acts ch. 82)KY HB23 - AN ACT relating to athletics.
Amend KRS 156.070 to require KHSAA to promulgate administrative regulations or bylaws requiring schools to designate all interscholastic athletics based upon the biological sex of the students eligible to participate; prohibit male students…
03/29/2022: recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)KY HB28 - AN ACT relating to immunization disclosure.
Create a new section in KRS Chapter 336 to prohibit public entity employers from requiring employees and applicants from disclosing his or her immunization status; create a new section in KRS Chapter 164 to prohibit postsecondary schools from…
03/28/2022: Senate Committee On Health And Welfare (16:00 3
and more of his legislative accomplishments at ballotpedia.org
fucking nightmare if he gets elected
re: #176 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
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In Angry Birds, the little blue ones are only good for breaking glass.
This is hilarious:
😍 Make it feel like Christmas is getting near by watching Hans Gruber fall off of Nakatomi Plaza for 25 straight days!
Get it👉https://t.co/3jFs7U6eVG pic.twitter.com/j03QJe3DAE— Moderndeal_Official (@TheModerndeal) October 27, 2022
And after proving he is a piece of 💩, this azzhole shows he’s not smart enough to know the difference between these two incidents.
— EstebanTornadoPGA (@ETornado1963) October 28, 2022
re: #157 jaunte
If Trump walks from Truth Social, or rejoins Twitter, what recourse do his investors have for getting screwed?
Are you kidding?
Tomorrow’s Wordle is busy decluttering, and it’s scary.
Wordle 497 4/6
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Took altogether too long getting from line 3 to line 4 but that’s all on me.
SibData: 3,4,4,5
re: #202 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
None of the above.
Answer will be later.
re: #206 Ace Rothstein
I’m going to count to three. There will not be a four.
I’m in a different reference frame than you. Always have to account for relativity.
re: #207 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I’m in a different reference frame than you. Always have to account for relativity.
Now I have a machine gun. Ho Ho Ho.
Hans Gruber has to be in the top five of greatest film villains.
New York Attorney General Letitia James has reached a first-of-its-kind arrangement in an investigation of child abuse cover-ups by the Catholic Church. The Diocese of Buffalo has agreed to secular oversight.
Seven other New York dioceses are under investigation by the Attorney General.
Catholic Diocese of Buffalo Will Submit to Government Oversight (New York Times, October 25, 2022)
The agreement, which is the first of its kind in New York, includes no financial penalties but instead mandates a series of structural reforms within the diocese, particularly regarding its handling of abuse allegations.
Under the deal, priests who have been credibly accused of abuse will be assigned an independent monitor with law enforcement experience to ensure they comply with a list of restrictions, which include a ban on watching pornography, performing priestly duties and having a post office box.
Those monitors will be overseen by Kathleen McChesney, a former high-ranking F.B.I. official who also led the child protection office at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. As part of the settlement, two former Buffalo bishops, Richard Malone and Edward Grosz, will also be banned for life from holding any fiduciary role in a charity registered in New York.
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At least we aren’t the spiders https://t.co/D7xJnd1mv9
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) October 28, 2022
re: #212 Belafon
Mom cat is saying the perfect gift for Halloween.
Astros in 7. Phillies win Game 1 tonight though.
So it turns out getting a muffler replaced on a Smart is not an easy task.
My wife on the Smart forum (she goes by the handle “Long Haul Smart”) ran into dozens of people looking for anyone who could change mufflers on a Smart, because Mercedes dealerships are short-handed on Smart mechanics. The shop we had our car in cannot even get the parts.
We called around as far away as Ft. Collins, Rapid City, and Lincoln, but no muffler shop could accommodate us.
I caved and tried the Mercedes dealership in Denver. Our last trip there (just before we went to Canada) didn’t work out so well because of a very long delay in getting an appointment. This time when I called them, they said “how about Wednesday?” So we’re off to Denver Tuesday afternoon. (The shop in Scottsbluff tried adjusting our low-beam headlights, and they won’t stay adjusted. The mechanic posited that Hurricane Fiona damaged them, and it would take him a long time to get replacement parts. That will get fixed in Denver as well. They have all the parts in stock.)
Phase Two will be the tires: There is only one shop in our area which can change the tires on our car. We’ll hit them up for a new set of tires next.
Phase Three is the auto body shop which repaired our car after I hit the elk in June. They can replace the hurricane-lost body parts on the starboard side of the car.
LOL my wife just ran into an advert for a used Smart:
“Complete set of replacement parts for a Smart car.”
It’s almost Halloween, which means we can start talking about how many shopping days till Christmas.
re: #220 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
It’s almost Halloween, which means we can start talking about how many shopping days till Christmas.
Christ, I still haven’t finished writing last year’s Christmas cards.
Fun times ahead for #Adobe designers. Today, if you open a PSD (even one that’s 20 years old) with an obscure PANTONE colour, it will remove the colour and make it black. Pantone want US$21/month for access, and Solid Coated goes behind the paywall in early November. pic.twitter.com/BUxzViYFaQ
— Iain Anderson (@funwithstuff) October 28, 2022
I will be your content moderation council and you can call me Al.
oh, I am so causing trouble tonight
Then someone sitting right next to the reader machine where you had to feed your ballot in marked side up and he could see how you voted. Is this bullshit or not? Honest question. 2/2
— justa farmer (@justafarmer4) October 28, 2022
Now is not the time to be quiet. Your life is worth more than their interpretation of 2nd Amendment. Your life is worth more than the anti-vaxxers who feel like it’s allergies but run about infecting people because THEY DON’T FUCKING CARE ABOUT YOU.
— justa farmer (@justafarmer4) October 28, 2022
Marcy, as usual, nails it:
AKA: Donald Trump and Mike Flynn’s lies are contributing to terrorist attacks.
Imagine if that’s how it was reported, @SchneiderCNN? https://t.co/iNyyY0Z6DW— emptywheel (@emptywheel) October 28, 2022
He seems nice. (not)
On Sunday, in one of the most vile sermons he’s ever delivered—and that’s saying a lot—Christian hate-preacher Jonathan Shelley told his congregation at Stedfast Baptist Church in Texas that we’d be “lucky” if the Holocaust really took the lives of six million Jews, that being Jesus-like meant spreading antisemitic hate, and that the biggest problem with the phrase “Judeo-Christian” was the “Judeo” part.
He also added that he wouldn’t shed a single tear if a terrorist murdered everyone in a gay bar, echoing what his colleague said after the Pulse nightclub massacre several years ago.
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Christian hate-preacher: We’d be ‘lucky’ if Hitler killed 6 million Jews (Hemant Mehta, October 27, 2022)
Thread:
rly sensitive turf war happening on my street atm and that’s making me sooo nervous :( ….. basically there’s a guy who’s been polishing his car for 2.5 hrs right next to my crows’ food and they’ve just begun setting up attack formations
— Sydney Battle (@SydneyBattle) October 28, 2022
If you couldn’t tell, this makes me seriously concerned about the integrity of the Nov 8 election and I am not one of those trump wingnuts
— justa farmer (@justafarmer4) October 29, 2022
re: #218 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
LOL my wife just ran into an advert for a used Smart:
“Complete set of replacement parts for a Smart car.”
Buy it. Right now.
lol, you wish
— justa farmer (@justafarmer4) October 29, 2022
Burning the dust off the wood stove tonight. I’ll have all the windows and doors open in an hour.
Never fails
Anyone suspended for minor & dubious reasons will be freed from Twitter jail
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2022
these right eejits are just so full of themselves tonight
re: #229 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Buy it. Right now.
The car is in South Carolina, a 2013 (the same year and colour as ours). It has 53,000 miles on it (I just flipped over 98,000 miles coming home today). The owner wants $5,500.
Cast my early vote today in this super important election, just in case Baby is born on Election Day. Don’t sit this one out - too much is at stake. #VoteBlue @RepWexton @MomsDemand #GunSenseCandidate #Roevember pic.twitter.com/ebhKXj8Gam
— Emily Faulkner 🌻 (@erfaulkner) October 28, 2022
re: #235 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The car is in South Carolina, a 2013 (the same year and colour as ours). It has 53,000 miles on it (I just flipped over 98,000 miles coming home today). The owner wants $5,500.
That’s a lot for a 2013.
I almost bought a Smart some years ago. A new one. I was on the wait list for too long and got a different car by the time it was going to be built.
re: #237 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
That’s a lot for a 2013.
I almost bought a Smart some years ago. A new one. I was on the wait list for too long and got a different car by the time it was going to be built.
Huh. We bought our car new in November of 2012. The only wait we had was the bank making up a money order for us to take to the dealership.
re: #234 Backwoods_Sleuth
Never ever seen more troll responses to the people I follow. Gross.
Hopefully they’ll get bored & hungry. Etc.
Just as I thought.
To be super clear, we have not yet made any changes to Twitter’s content moderation policies https://t.co/k4guTsXOIu
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 29, 2022
re: #238 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Huh. We bought our car new in November of 2012. The only wait we had was the bank making up a money order for us to take to the dealership.
For me it was the first year they were available in the states. I don’t remember what year that was. I’d seen one a couple of years earlier in Paris and fell in love with it.
Ahhh yes… Of course.. the ‘ol “there’s good people on both sides” schtick. https://t.co/b5qy0hoo6h
— JΞSŦΞR ✪ ΔCŦUΔL³³°¹ (@th3j35t3r) October 29, 2022
re: #240 Nyet
Curious.
Ye’s account was restored by Twitter before the acquisition. They did not consult with or inform me.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2022
re: #241 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
For me it was the first year they were available in the states. I don’t remember what year that was. I’d seen one a couple of years earlier in Paris and fell in love with it.
Our county attorney (who then lived in Las Vegas) went to Canada to buy a new 2009 Smart. (It’s dead now after he ran a stop sign and was broadsided by a tractor.)
re: #243 Nyet
Curious.
so, you are saying you are ok with returning his account despite his horrible anti-jew tweets? Good to know.
— justa farmer (@justafarmer4) October 29, 2022
To no one’s surprise.
About a year ago, US Sen. Ron Wyden (D- Oregon) released an internal Department of Homeland Security report detailing how the Department’s officials, including Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf, Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli, and Acting Under Secretary for the Office of Intelligence and Analysis Brian Murphy desperately worked to exploit the 2020 George Floyd protests in Portland, Oregon, in order to create and promote a narrative of the city being “under siege” by evil agents of Antifa.
At the time, though damning, the report was heavily redacted — but thanks to Sen. Wyden’s efforts, it has now been unredacted so that we may see the full extent of the DHS’s malfeasance during this time.
“Oregonians had a right to get a full accounting of the Trump Administration’s twisted efforts to provoke violence in Portland for his political gain,” Wyden said. “Now the public knows much more about how political DHS officials spied on Oregonians for exercising their First Amendment right to protest and justified it with baseless conspiracy theories. Undersecretary [Kenneth] Wainstein deserves credit for following through on his commitment to me to review the last administration’s unnecessary redactions and release these important details.”
“The report documents shocking, coordinated efforts by our government to abuse its power and to invade liberty in violation of the Constitution,” said Oregon federal public defender Lisa Hay. “In Portland, we were concerned that the government unconstitutionally collected information, including through the illegal search of protestors’ cellphones last summer. This report confirms that was their intent.”
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How Trump DHS Officials Invented An Anti-Antifascist Conspiracy In Portland (Wonkette)
Kind of amazing that with everything coming out about the MAGA creepazoid who attacked Nancy Pelosi’s husband, right wing Twitter is *still* trying to play like he has nothing to do with them.
Denying reality is a way of life for the right.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 29, 2022
And make no mistake - this was an assassination attempt. From all accounts, the guy intended to kill Nancy Pelosi, and her husband was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 29, 2022
And he’s absolutely right. https://t.co/yo7Eysckw2
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 29, 2022
Fox News anchor Jesse Watters said “a lot of people get attacked with hammers” and dismissed the break in at Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s house as a “simple assault.” Paul Pelosi is currently in the hospital undergoing brain surgery to repair a skull fracture.
— Dash Dobrofsky (@DashDobrofsky) October 28, 2022
All I can say is poor tesla, SpaceX & his many children who now feel neglected.
Ha
burning all my fucking bridges tonight not just on Twitter but on Facebook as well
we’ll see how the dust settles by morning
Checked your timeline, and it’s obvious why you’re gaining followers, if you aren’t just lying about it.
[ blocked ] pic.twitter.com/8q0IozVac7— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 29, 2022
Followers dropped by about a hundred more. This doesn’t look like a bot purge to me, it looks like a fairly significant exodus.
I can’t blame anyone for getting fed up and bailing out, but I am one stubborn motherfucker and I want to be here to see what happens.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 29, 2022
re: #256 Charles Johnson
we’re here to see twitter burn out
A long-form article at The Verg on the feds abducting people off the streets of Portland, Ore. during the BLM protests (October 19, 2022)
Some hours before he was abducted by a squad of feds in camouflage tactical gear, Mark Pettibone was playing a pickup game of Frisbee.
It was what had become a normal night for the summer of 2020 in Portland, Oregon. The city was now four months into the pandemic and two months into the ongoing protests against police brutality in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
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I gotta jump in because of my dismay over the Pelosi attack. On a human level, I can’t imagine recovering from a fractured skull at all let alone in my eighties. The political dimension was literally screamed by the assailant. (Assuming current reports are accurate).
On a political/social level? This crowd is willing to deny election results, embrace Qanon, and commit insurrection. Some of them are murderers in waiting. What a horrible place to be.
*THUD*
Ventilators kill people
MAGA’s response to Covid in a bumper sticker https://t.co/Y26WZYvVF2— Robert E Kelly (@Robert_E_Kelly) October 29, 2022
An 82 year old man ends up in surgery with a skull fracture from a guy who broke into his home, and some of the certified Culture of Life™ conservatives on this site think it’s hilarious.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) October 28, 2022
— Karls_quest (@Karls_Quest) October 28, 2022
Humor has always been Obama’s not so secret weapon on the campaign trail. https://t.co/Ez5YxOfMGx
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) October 29, 2022
Kinda feel like this is something that should dominate headlines - the national conversation in general - for a while, and not be washed under by the latest sensational stories.
It reminds me very much of the time Elijah Cummings’ home was invaded, and Trump tweeted this. https://t.co/SOHlAESYx7— ClearingTheFog (@clearing_fog) October 29, 2022
Obama: Who will fight to keep you safe? Is it somebody who carries around a phony badge and says he’s in law enforcement like he’s a kid playing cops and robbers? pic.twitter.com/zGO2igHmsX
— Acyn (@Acyn) October 29, 2022
You’d think January 6th would have been enough evidence to convince America that Trumpism was a violent fascist movement bent on taking power that needs to be stopped.
You’d think that, wouldn’t ya?— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 29, 2022
re: #260 PhillyPretzel
soft pretzels are good
Obama: Seems to me he’s a celebrity who wants to be a politician and we’ve seen how that goes.. pic.twitter.com/DUHw9wQFo3
— Acyn (@Acyn) October 29, 2022
Obama: First time I ran for Congress, I got whooped. Had a big L on my forehead. I was frustrated too. You know what I didn’t do though? I didn’t claim that the election was rigged. I didn’t incite a mob to storm the Capitol.. pic.twitter.com/laU4Y10tHK
— Acyn (@Acyn) October 29, 2022
Obama: I have to admit sometimes going out on the campaign trail feels a little harder than it used to. It’s not just because I’m older, grayer, a little stiffer.. Michelle says I’m still cute though pic.twitter.com/xmU2dPPuec
— Acyn (@Acyn) October 29, 2022
re: #272 Charles Johnson
soft pretzels are good
Brushed with lots of butter and with a sprinkle of coarse salt, please.
“You’re all saying I’m your dad? I don’t even remember your moms.”
with NightCafe Creator https://t.co/opbh07bjdr #aiart #nightcafe #digitalart #vqganclip #HerschelWalker
via @NightcafeStudio— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) October 29, 2022
re: #276 TedStriker
You can have them that way and I will take mine plain.
It’s California, so it’s less likely to matter as much as in many other states, but I mail-voted against every self-identified Republican on the ballot and a few who were trying to hide their shit.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 29, 2022
FYI - it’s been a stressful (in a good way) couple of days over at https://t.co/lpbZFFsXNr but we got this. pic.twitter.com/OtID61clg6
— JΞSŦΞR ✪ ΔCŦUΔL³³°¹ (@th3j35t3r) October 29, 2022
Lol. I bet Paul Pelosi doesn’t cry as much as this little bitch.
Pelosi’s attack was politically motivated. It happened because people like you won’t disavow Qanon and the Proud Boys and shit.
You got your ass whipped by your neighbor because you’re a fucking jerk. https://t.co/m42SpNgWEH— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) October 28, 2022
TX Republican stunt costs police millions, blocks other important spending https://t.co/psAYVfJFrw - Thanks @TomSRamsey2 and @RJackCagle for this national coverage. #No200LEOBoots #NoLEOPayRaises #DefundersOfLEO #DefundersOfDA #DefundersOfHospitals #NoShowsforWork #ShowUpForGolf
— Adrian Garcia (@AdrianGarciaHTX) October 29, 2022
re: #267 Backwoods_Sleuth
*Hershell Walker pulls out a pair of pilot’s wings*
“Captain gave me these when I visited the cockpit. I can fly a plane now!”
(I’m riffing on Obama’s dig at Walker. Walker didn’t actually say this.)
Old habits die hard, especially when there are no consequences. https://t.co/WWDQ5q5mWS
— Propane Jane™ 🔥💣 (@docrocktex26) October 29, 2022
re: #284 A Three Hour Tour
*Hershell Walker pulls out a pair of pilot’s wings*
“Captain gave me these when I visited the cockpit. I can fly a plane now!”
So Herschel has “stolen competency” as compared to the usual “stolen valor” thing.
re: #281 Backwoods_Sleuth
Just set up account, tried three times, even with confirmation email, still won’t sign in………
All this AI stuff I find fun to play with, but the nagging question in my mind is how much will this hurt all of us?
Consider the AIs for writing.
Content at Scale advertises:
The first ever content automation platform that was built to scale content marketing by replacing the need to hire a team of writers.
“The output from the AI has beaten 36 out of 40 writers I’ve hired!”
Creating something new is already nearly impossible. Original thoughts are rare, and even more so when put on paper/screen.
I stated earlier that I think we’re only 10 years away from when TV and cinema are going to be transitioned to something other than they have been.
I think we’re even closer for writing, at least commercial writing. Given so much ad copy is already automatic how long before scripts for advertisements to be done likewise.
And when AI for animation makes a few more leaps, will there be need for actors?
re: #284 A Three Hour Tour
Just like Frank Abagnale had real Pan Am logos on his checks.
re: #28 jaunte
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“Crazed loner”
There it is.
Ingraham: The question is will Democrats attempt to use the actions of a lone lunatic to chill political speech pic.twitter.com/EN4sfJ6nyH
— Acyn (@Acyn) October 29, 2022
I’m gonna drive the value of this app into the shitter if it’s the last thing I do
— Akilah Hughes (@AkilahObviously) October 28, 2022
An 82 year old man ends up in surgery with a skull fracture from a guy who broke into his home, and some of the certified Culture of Life™ conservatives on this site think it’s hilarious.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) October 28, 2022
Why should we still be surprised? That’s who these people are. The same Pro-Lifers over the decades celebrated the deaths of George Tiller, Brisenia Flores, Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Philando Castile, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery.
Dan Smoot was funded for much of his career by Texas oil tycoon and all around major weirdo, HL Hunt. https://t.co/9K3o3L9Icb
— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) October 29, 2022
re: #271 Charles Johnson
You’d think January 6th would have been enough evidence to convince America that Trumpism was a violent fascist movement bent on taking power that needs to be stopped.
You’d think that, wouldn’t ya?
Unfortunately everyone who supports Trump is part of a violent fascist movement bent on taking power. And especially public officials who see this as a way for success in their party.
Has either Abbott or DeSantis expressed any sympathy to the Pelosi family?
re: #290 jaunte
There it is.
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No, Laura, he is not a lunatic. His behavior is entirely logical and justified for someone who believes that top Democrats torture children for sexual gratification. He gets these stories either from trusted Republicans or from close allies whom they refuse to repudiate. If stories like this were true, who would NOT resort to violence to put a stop to this horror? This is also compelling evidence that very few Repugs actually believe the claims they make.
So I got a robo call tonight from this number.
They even have sprinkled the internet connecting their phone number to legitimate physician groups around the country, so someone googling the phone number will get links to legitimate doctors.
Scamming is an American tradition.
Here’s a Twitter/BlueSky theory:
Since everyone has amnesia, here’s Jack in April. He thinks Twitter was a mistake and it should have been a protocol. I’ve known Jack personally since 2007. This is what’s going on. https://t.co/ZwTLwaDFFP
— Dave Troy (@davetroy) October 29, 2022
Trying out one AI writing bot, feeding it some Trump inanity to see what AI can do with it.
From Trump’s recent rambling: “Who is going to enter the Trump Quicksand? Many have tried, leaving permanently damaged, or never to be heard from again!”
Feeding that into the AI to see what different flavors it can create:
Enter the Trump Quicksand! Many have tried, leaving permanently damaged.
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Quicksand is a dangerous substance, its victims are often considered nightmarish. It is thought that if you fall into the Quicksand, it will destroy your body and soul. For example, many have tried, leaving permanently damaged, or never to be heard from again!
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The Trump Quicksand is perilous territory. It can swallow a person, forever trapping them in an underground world of darkness. If you fall in, you will never be heard from again!
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Who will be the first? The Trump Quicksand of Politics, or the individuals who are trapped in by political battles?
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Who Is Going to Enter The Trump Quicksand? If you are watching this video, you already know that! We might ask ourselves what is lost in the world by trying to get back up to the surface. But it is even worse if we don’t try at all!
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There are many who have gone before you, only to disappear forever….enter the quicksand of Trump’s world and you can be next!
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And my favorite:
Enter the Trump Quicksand and you may lose not only your dignity and reputation; but more importantly, your self respect. One wrong move can change everything about you in one moment!
re: #296 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
So I got a robo call tonight from this number.
They even have sprinkled the internet connecting their phone number to legitimate physician groups around the country, so someone googling the phone number will get links to legitimate doctors.
Scamming is an American tradition.
I see no reason to ever pick up the telephone if the caller is calling from a toll-free number. If it’s legit, they’ll leave a message on my answering machine and I can call them back.
So I took the first 980 words from Trump’s ranting in Arizona this month, as found here: c-span.org .
Told the AI to make an intro in the style of Tolkien, and voila:
In the dark world of Middle Earth, there cometh new hope. The long night is over, my friends. The knights of Gondor have rallied and they have formed into a Brotherhood. And they have sworn to bring back order to the once great land of Middle Earth. To bring back jobs to Middle Earth and raise wages in Middle Earth. That’s why we call him the Great Elector of Gondor: Trump.
re: #300 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
So I took the first 980 words from Trump’s ranting in Arizona this month, as found here: c-span.org .
Told the AI to make an intro in the style of Tolkien, and voila:
The pomposity fits Trump.
Hey, just thought I’d drop by for a second to drop some knowledge. Hope y’all are doing well.
Pro-tip: If you have to visit this hell site just know that you can delete the twitter app from your phone and only visit via https://t.co/tZhig0IKwK: that way you 1.) won’t see any ads and 2.) will deny twitter access to app specific user data like highly accurate gps location.
— Jason McGoblin (@goddamnedfrank) October 29, 2022
Tweetdeck hasn’t been supported in years and yes it low key sucks (outdated emoji support, somewhat unreliable video playback - shutting down the video window and trying again often works for me) but if we want to rob Elon of ad revenue that works in our favor because it means he gets NO ad revenue via our moist, bullshit addicted eyeballs.
Anyway, that’s it. I’m out. Take care.
*smoke bomb*
re: #302 goddamnedfrank
Good to hear from you.
re: #301 TedStriker
The pomposity fits Trump.
The AI pumps out all sorts of options. Here’s another one:
Well, you see, I was going to run for president. Historically, most republican presidents and prime ministers have some sort of degree in government. This is good for two reasons: 1) It’s evidence of a long-term interest in the issues foremost in the job description, and 2) It shows one is capable of acquiring facts and learning from them. People who claim not to see any difference between republicans and democrats also tend to be stupid, but that’s a different story.
re: #246 Barefoot Grin
This morning someone I’m on close terms with used the Japanese phrase “choro choro” to describe the way the dog was moving before we went on our walk. I hadn’t heard that before, so this is what google turned up and it hits:
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Seen it. Learnt it. It’s dogese for “Walk me. Stat.”
re: #255 Charles Johnson
One of many detrimental the effects of lying for too long is that you eventually lose the compass which tells you which lies you can actually away with.
Leading to lies being told that have a snowballs chance in hell of surviving even the ride to scrutiny…— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) October 29, 2022
re: #299 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I see no reason to ever pick up the telephone if the caller is calling from a toll-free number. If it’s legit, they’ll leave a message on my answering machine and I can call them back.
I take that a bit further. I don’t pick up the phone unless I’m expecting a call, and I never return a missed call that doesn’t leave a message (unless its from a known caller).
More rewriting of Trump’s Arizona rant, as intros to an essay:
Barak Obama is the ruler of men. He has the power to command peace and prosperity. The world was once flat, but he discovered it was round. You should not speak to him, nor trust him with your secrets or your money. He may attempt to trick you into signing up for Obamacare.
The AI is smarter than Trump’s audience.
re: #307 EPR-radar
I take that a bit further. I don’t pick up the phone unless I’m expecting a call, and I never return a missed call that doesn’t leave a message (unless its from a known caller).
I don’t normally expect calls. My mother calls me when the whim takes her, as does my wife’s first ex-hub. The only other people who call me are in my town.
Most folks who try to spoof local numbers get it wrong (the last four digits start either with 0 or 9, and local calls here can still be made with seven digits, despite the national changeover to ten digits).
LOL
I’m gonna drive the value of this app into the shitter if it’s the last thing I do
— Akilah Hughes (@AkilahObviously) October 28, 2022
This is a dark time for the world. There are rumors of war between The Two Towers and The Ring’s minions. Trump, leader of the free world, tweeted that he’d be meeting with Azog to form an alliance against them.
Of course Trump will make an alliance with Azog.
The AI nailed it, what Trump really said in AZ:
My fellow Americans, we are indeed in a blissful era. We not only see an incoming Supreme Leader, but also a nice and kind congress who is prepared to use their powers to make him a happy man. By destroying incredibly annoying checks and balances, so that they can promote the cause of free-market orthodoxy around the world. It’s in this context that we bid farewell to a painful past: the one where people are calling for more regulation, democracy and human rights.
it is a dark time for the republic
Jaylen Brown says he feels terrible for the talented young men on the Donda Academy hoops roster who are missing out on opportunities because of Kanye West … so he’s doing something about it — by offering to sponsor any event that will host the team.Brown took to Twitter on Friday to announce his plan … explaining kids shouldn’t be punished for West’s antisemitic rants.
“These student-athletes can’t be negatively impacted by this,” 26-year-old Brown said. “We all must ensure they complete their senior yr both academically & athletically.”
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I’ll Sponsor Any Hoops Event … Willing To Host Donda (TMZ, today)
Jaylen Brown plays professional basketball for the Boston Celtics.
Twitter “event” thread from the Huston Chronicle
Uvalde families confront Texas DPS chief, demand his resignation: ‘You, sir, have told lies’
The thread includes statements from parents at a hearing. The head of DPS at the time said he would resign if there was any problem shown in DPS. Now that a report came out from DPS shown to be full of falsehoods, the Texas DPS head says he will not resign.
Paul Pelosi Secretly Called 911 and Spoke in ‘Code’
politicalwire.com
“The San Francisco Police Department confirmed during a press conference on Friday evening that Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was somehow able to call 911 before being attacked with a hammer, allowing dispatch to respond,” Insider reports.
“Confirmation that Paul Pelosi made a 911 call came after media reports said he had secretly called 911 so that the intruder would not know and spoke in a way that would alert the dispatcher to what was happening without giving himself away.”
re: #317 retired cynic
My theory is that he said something like “Hey Siri, dial 911” either next to a nearby iPhone or via an Apple Watch. Amazon Echo Connect via a landline is also a possibility.
re: #318 goddamnedfrank
They’ve had trouble before. It would not be surprising if they had something set up with the police, where he could have it programmed in his phone or something.
re: #320 retired cynic
They’ve had trouble before. It would not be surprising if they had something set up with the police, where he could have it programmed in his phone or something.
Depending on where you are, the police can be dispatched pretty quickly even without a message.
Back in the 1980s, I accidentally set off my Commodore 64’s modem to dial 911. Within a couple minutes, the Virginia Beach Police were at my door, even though I’d killed the call when the police dispatcher came over the speaker of my modem. I had to explain to the police I’d mistakenly directed my computer to dial 911, which got me a short tongue-lashing about frivolous waste of city resources.
In the case of high-profile politicians and their families, I imagine local police would respond even quicker.
New: In the months before police accused him of attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, David DePape had been drifting further into the world of far-right conspiracies, antisemitism and hate, according to a Times review of his online accounts.https://t.co/XUuGfgOkux
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) October 28, 2022
Took 4 — hint below.
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re: #318 goddamnedfrank
My theory is that he said something like “Hey Siri, dial 911” either next to a nearby iPhone or via an Apple Watch. Amazon Echo Connect via a landline is also a possibility.
Culled from Reddit’s r/ReligiousFruitcake
Putin Appointed ‘Chief Exorcist’ as Kremlin Whips up Satanic Panic (Newsweek, October 26, 2022)
This is where the “desatanisation” of Ukraine came from. Patriarch Kirill designated Putin so-called Chief Exorcist.
The assistant secretary of the Security Council of Russia also accused the United States of trying to spread the Church of Satan in Ukraine.
In the category Economics 101:
Arvind Kejriwal: Row over plea for Hindu deities on India currency (BBC)
The Chief Minister of Delhi says the way to combat the fall of the rupee is to print Hindu gods on the money. He has written Prime Minister Modi to urge this economic solution.
Via LGBTQ Nation:
GOP senator speaks at transphobic rally where people threatened to kill doctors (yesterday)
Signs read “Doctors who mutilate children should be killed” and “Homo sex is sin” at the rally Sen. Marsha Blackburn and other Republicans spoke at.
By the way, I thought Tulsi Gabbard said she’d rejected her previous anti-LGBT positions? Wait, she did, in 2019 in Politico, saying her statements were wrong and hurtful. Now she’s palling around with Sen. Marsha Blackburn and the “kill the gays” party.
White supremacists and Proud Boys joined other far-right politicians, pundits, and protestors at a recent “Rally to End Child Mutilation” in Nashville, Tennessee. Some of the protestors held signs supporting death and violence against doctors who provide gender-affirming care to transgender youth, and a Republican elected official was in attendance.
The rally, held at the city’s War Memorial Plaza on October 21, was organized by conservative podcaster and transphobe Matt Walsh. Walsh spoke at the event alongside Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), state lawmakers like state Sen. Jack Johnson (R) and state Rep. William Lamberth (R), former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard from Hawaii, a lawyer from the anti-LGBTQ hate group Alliance Defending Freedom, and other anti-trans activists. An estimated 1,500 to 3,000 people attended, according to varying media reports.
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re: #329 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
They should have just put a fence around that bunch and jailed them for spreading hate and violence.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio law does not permit voters to return absentee ballots at their precincts on Election Day, the state’s elections chief is cautioning amid a misinformation campaign around the security of voting machines that’s urging them to do so.
re: #330 retired cynic
They should have just put a fence around that bunch and jailed them for spreading hate and violence.
Letting loose a bunch of skunks would work too.
Good thing there were local politicians on the scene.
— x - Sid MacLeod (@sidmacleod) October 26, 2022
It’s going to get cold, and rain, in SoCal next week:
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Federal funding for the Covid vaccine is about to end, but you’ll be happy to know that FEMA is still paying for funeral expenses.
FEMA COVID-19 Funeral Assistance State-by-State Breakdown (September 6, 2022)
WASHINGTON — FEMA has provided more than $2.7 billion to over 431,000 individuals and families to assist with COVID-19-related funeral costs for deaths occurring on or after Jan. 20, 2020. This assistance helped pay for the funerals of more than 441,000 people who died from COVID-19.
(more at FEMA)
For the Covid denying families, they first have to admit their family member actually died from Covid, and second they have to apply.
The chart breaks down payouts so far by state, and the number of applications.
Over at the National Hurricane Center, they are watching two tropical waves. One in the Caribbean Sea has a strong chance of becoming a tropical storm within five days.
I’m off to bed. I’ll catch y’all sometime soon.
re: #325 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Culled from Reddit’s r/ReligiousFruitcake
Putin Appointed ‘Chief Exorcist’ as Kremlin Whips up Satanic Panic (Newsweek, October 26, 2022)
This is where the “desatanisation” of Ukraine came from. Patriarch Kirill designated Putin so-called Chief Exorcist.
The assistant secretary of the Security Council of Russia also accused the United States of trying to spread the Church of Satan in Ukraine.
The usual fake news chain.
Step 1: A Telegram channel posts a video in which Kirill rants against “globalism”, putting it into an eschatological context, thus of course mentioning the Antichrist, Russia, Putin, LGBT and whatnot. The channel itself claims that thus Kirill makes Putin into fighter against the Antichrist (even though Kirill does not actually mention any fight by Putin, he only mentions him as a president who openly professes his faith.)
Step 2: various websites don’t factcheck what the Telegram channel wrote and quote the channel’s interpretations as Kirill’s words.
Step 3: some of them tack the “exorcist” description on top of what the Telegram channel claimed, even though the word is also never mentioned in the video and its use would be extremely weird in this context simply culturally (despite exorcists existing in the Orthodox church). Which means it is merely their own description of what they perceive as Kirill’s message.
Step 4: clueless and oblivious Western outlets uncritically repeat what the dregs of the Slavic internet have brought to their porch, without any sort of factchecking, and also misinterpret these sources’ own formulations of Kirill’s message as Kirill’s direct words, despite the sources not having claimed that they were citing Kirill directly.
And so it goes.
#FridayFeeling #Cycling #EBike #CarpeDiem #LiveLifeKingSize pic.twitter.com/afWxIk6dcm
— Sanjay Kalra, DX Sherpa 📈 🚀 (@sanjaykalra) October 28, 2022
Today is area marching competition. My son’s band performs first, at 8:15. Therefore, we have to be at the high school at 5 am.
I was in the tub and went to turn the volume up on my phone with wet hands. Idk what happened, but it somehow called 911 so I was in the tub trying to explain it to the operator….
re: #337 Nyet
It’s such a great example of how “news” becomes distorted that I made a page out of it.
How Fake News Is Baked. An Example of Putin “The Chief Exorcist”.
Went with a guess from the gut and snagged the birbie. Heading to the grocery stores, then home for some bacon and watching Netflix and college football with MrsTarH and HP the Magnificent. Hope everyone has an awesome weekend!
Wordle 497 3/6*
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re: #319 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
This is Clarence. He found something interesting at the beach today but he hasn’t figured out how to bury things yet:
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Needs googly eyes on the starfish.
re: #322 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Ugh. From that article…
DePape’s screeds included posts about QAnon, an unfounded theory that former President Trump is at war with a cabal of Satan-worshipping elites who run a child sex ring and control the world. In an Aug. 23 entry titled “Q,” DePape wrote: “Either Q is Trump himself or Q is the deepstate moles within Trumps inner circle.”
Unfounded? How about Patently Ridiculous?
re: #345 Nyet
So, Key and Peele return.
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My only complaint is they should have released it sooner.
“Widely diverse viewpoints” - Peter Thiel, Don Jr, Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, Lachlan Murdoch..the Pillow guy..
Am I right? .. am I close? … I think I’m close. pic.twitter.com/5kDdJGUscS— Liberal Reason 💙🌊 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🇹🇼💙 (@LiberalReason11) October 29, 2022
In previous Halloweens, my building has had people sign up at the front desk if they’re doing candy and kids know which doors to knock on.
This year, they’re doing better. We’re collaborating with the other 7 buildings in the complex to have a party in the private park we share; food, music, costumes, etc., and no concern about too many people in a too-small unventilated space.
Plus — A DOG COSTUME PARADE!!
This means I’ll have to figure out how to move photos from my phone to my computer so I can post the best ones. DOGS IN COSTUMES!!! Dozens of them!
Ingraham: The question is will Democrats attempt to use the actions of a lone lunatic to chill political speech pic.twitter.com/EN4sfJ6nyH
— Acyn (@Acyn) October 29, 2022
the network of “law and order” and “crime crisis” is telling you the media is overreacting to an attempted murder on the speaker of the house’s husband pic.twitter.com/K9hTWR66yu
— aliciasadowski (@aliciasadowski6) October 29, 2022
He makes normal level morons seem like Rhodes scholars in comparison. https://t.co/U2M6MObBn1
— Spiro’s Ghost (@SpiroAgnewGhost) October 29, 2022
re: #348 sagehen
This means I’ll have to figure out how to move photos from my phone to my computer so I can post the best ones. DOGS IN COSTUMES!!! Dozens of them!
YAY!!
Fantastic article in The New Yorker on China’s greatest grifter/possible agent Guo Wengui by Evan Osnos.
On the afternoon of June 4, 2020, bobbing on a boat in New York Harbor, Guo and Bannon held a live-streamed press event to announce a joint initiative. The two were an unusual sight: the exuberant Chinese tycoon in a dark, double-breasted suit, alongside the glowering American with his rumpled silver hair and distinctive assemblage of collared shirts. The setting had been carefully arranged, with planes trailing banners overhead and Guo’s yacht and the Statue of Liberty in the background. The date marked the anniversary of the crackdown at Tiananmen Square.
Peering into a camera, Guo announced the establishment of a shadow government, which he called the New Federal State of China. In Mandarin, he made an impassioned call to arms. “We can’t keep dreaming anymore. We need to take action, action, action!” he shouted, slicing the air with his hand. Bannon, who does not speak Chinese, stood by awkwardly. In 2018, he had signed a yearlong deal with one of Guo’s companies for “strategic consulting services,” at a cost of a million dollars.
The Osnos article claims that it was actually Guo and his Chinese supporters who first publicly called attention to Hunter Biden’s laptop and began distributing heavily edited images online. I hadn’t heard that before.
So do I have to watch Colbert to not see kanye
Or can I keep not watching Colbert to not see kanye
re: #353 Barefoot Grin
Hasn’t Walker lived in Texas for the last 20 years or so?
And does he have a badge from the Texas Rangers?
Brazil’s runoff presidential election Sunday will decide if the Amazon rainforest is protected or if its razed and the indigenous people who live there are exterminated. There are fears that if Bolsonaro loses, he will stage a coup like his American ally did.
Lol.
Doc who thinks vaccinated people are magnetic is in big trouble with the med board
The State Medical Board of Ohio is threatening to limit, suspend, or even permanently revoke the medical license of Sherri Tenpenny, the infamous anti-vaccine doctor who made headlines last year for falsely testifying to state lawmakers that COVID-19 vaccinations make people magnetic—among espousing other nonsensical anti-vaccine-related conspiracy theories.
“I’m sure you’ve seen the pictures all over the Internet of people who have had these shots and now they’re magnetized,” Tenpenny said in her viral testimony. “You can put a key on their forehead—it sticks. You can put spoons and forks all over and they can stick because now we think there is a metal piece to that.”
Why feed hungry children if you can throw the food away instead?
Davidson County, NC schools say they will throw away the lunches of high school students if they can’t pay for it. https://t.co/J17dCxHevi
— Gary Grumbach (@GaryGrumbach) October 29, 2022
re: #359 Rightwingconspirator
Lol.
Doc who thinks vaccinated people are magnetic is in big trouble with the med board
One wonders why this hasn’t happened already.
Saint Javelin Laboratories presents…
Copium+ pic.twitter.com/dFE2L843kW— Saint Javelin (@saintjavelin) October 29, 2022
Another major celebrity promoting anti-semitism.
— Hélà (@KyrieIrving) October 27, 2022
re: #360 No Malarkey!
Why feed hungry children if you can throw the food away instead?
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School instructional fees for students consist of overdue lunch payments, technology fees, senior fees, student-basic fees, etc. If students don’t have a zero balance, they potentially could miss out on school dances, proms, driving to school or even graduation.
So they have to pay, what, to use the computer lab? To enroll in physics or chemistry? I don’t know what the fuck “senior fees” and “student-basic fees” might be, but… isn’t that something that’s part of what public schools are supposed to provide all their students?
So it’s not just that you don’t get to eat. If your parents are poor, you can’t take science classes or use the computers or go on field trips, you can’t play sports or join drama club or chess club, because we want to be damn sure that if your parents are poor when you’re little, you should be poor your whole life. We don’t want the schools to be responsible for helping your better yourself.
re: #102 Backwoods_Sleuth
Maybe it’s time for some armed concerned citizens to monitor the monitors
re: #370 Nyet
> professional basketball player
Oh. A big intellectual, I see.
An “independent thinker.” Also an anti-vaxxer, naturally, and a flat earther.
re: #371 No Malarkey!
An “independent thinker.” Also an anti-vaxxer, naturally, and a flat earther.
He did his own research.
To detract from their disastrous handling of the illegal invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Defence is resorting to peddling false claims of an epic scale
This invented story, says more about arguments going on inside the Russian Government than it does about the west— Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) October 29, 2022
Update on marching: I was helping move the synthesizer cart, which contains a lot of the electronics, and my calf muscle popped.
So I’m waiting at a clinic to be seen.
re: #374 Belafon
Update on marching: I was helping move the synthesizer cart, which contains a lot of the electronics, and my calf muscle popped.
So I’m waiting at a clinic to be seen.
Sounds painful. You were not planning to march, right? Just hoping to be able to walk around and stuff…
re: #202 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
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Good morning. Glad you to see you’re still here. Me too. And I’m not going anywhere until they throw me out.
Now, let’s get back to work calling these sons of bitch on their shit.— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) October 29, 2022
re: #367 No Malarkey!
Another major celebrity promoting anti-semitism.
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re: #375 wrenchwench
Sounds painful. You were not planning to march, right? Just hoping to be able to walk around and stuff…
My job had been to push the cart onto and off of the field (you have five minutes to get all equipment onto the field and hooked up, and then two minutes to get it off the field; a whole lot of parents are involved). I popped it when we were pushing to the practice area.
re: #221 Barefoot Grin
Christ, I still haven’t finished writing last year’s Christmas cards.
Yesterday I put in my time off requests for the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons. Playing off the company days we get off just for the holidays I parlayed 6 vacation days into 19 days off. 9 for Thanksgiving and 10 for Christmas/New Year.
re: #385 Eventual Carrion
I signed up for the 3-11 shift on all the holidays. I don’t have any need to do anything on any of those days and I like time and a half on the paycheck ;)
A DIY copter made in Yemen from sticks and a simple motor. Talk about drone proliferation - this is about as simple as it gets. https://t.co/ZijUdQnxRM pic.twitter.com/1Kk6lvqwXf
— Samuel Bendett (@SamBendett) October 28, 2022
re: #385 Eventual Carrion
Where I work, priority on PTO days is based on seniority and nothing else. Since I have the least seniority in my department, I will never be able to get the weeks of Thanksgiving or Christmas off unless we have mass layoffs or a bunch of people suddenly quit.
re: #389 darthstar
Let’s see them do that but have enough payload capacity to hang an AK off of it aimed by a camera 😉 It’ll be the modern equivalent of Bazooka Charlie!
— Bill Barnett (@BillBar29495196) October 29, 2022
60 seconds of video, but worth the wait.
Drone footage of a volcanic eruption from above by Bjorn Steinbekk. pic.twitter.com/mQTzfu7Fz6
— Fascinating (@fasc1nate) October 29, 2022
In case you think it’s “just” the attack on Paul Pelosi, it’s not. There’s a straight line from the violence Trump resisted condemning on January 6 to where we are today. https://t.co/PtkOx6ySyj
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) October 29, 2022
re: #388 No Malarkey!
Kyrie Irving, an NBA star for the Brooklyn Nets.
Also an anti-vaxer, had to miss a few months of games when the mandates were still in effect.
Riiiight. https://t.co/4OlsTbWItD
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) October 29, 2022
another low talent blaming liberals
Ok news. I didn’t do any major damage. Gonna be put on an anti-inflammatory and told to rest it.
re: #394 Backwoods_Sleuth
Even that tweet is mealy mouthed. “Resisted condemning” is a poor way to say “Actively planned.”
Wanna see a dead body?? https://t.co/WAdOd2jvNh
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) October 29, 2022
Dr. Peter McCullough has just been stripped of his Board Certifications in cardiology and internal medicine after spending the last two years on right-wing podcasts and social media stating that covid was planned by global elites, along with other medical conspiracies.
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) October 29, 2022
Twitter now gonna be full of racists, misogyny, antisemites, bigots, haters, Russian stooges, MAGAs?
So? You already live in that world. They’re in your stores, your school boards, your neighborhoods, the cops.
You’re ALREADY surrounded by these assholes.
Stay and fight.— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) October 29, 2022
I’m pretty sure removing the gauzy filter would have the same effect on Kari Lake as sunlight has on a vampire. https://t.co/HSDCbhaFRs
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) October 29, 2022
YOU called for Nancy Pelosi to be executed, @RepMTG.
YOU said she should be hung for treason.
And now that someone listened, you’re making Paul Pelosi’s attack about YOU.
This is what Republicans stand for, America. It’s sick. https://t.co/Nrfbcj4eXI— Rep. Jim McGovern (@RepMcGovern) October 29, 2022
re: #403 Backwoods_Sleuth
I don’t know which is more disgusting, the “false flag” deniers, or the others who have been openly disappointed that Nancy Pelosi wasn’t home when the break-in and attack occurred.
typical
Gorka doubts the police account of the Pelosi attack: “What is a pro-nudist, hemp activist doing wanting to attack Pelosi? Where were the security guards? Are we going to see footage from security cameras? It’s strange.” pic.twitter.com/abgAvZU4Gz
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) October 29, 2022
Crossover Virginia women voters who propelled Glenn Youngkin to victory:
How ya feeling about your choice nowadays? https://t.co/QZ6tcc9MsL— Lindy Li (@lindyli) October 29, 2022
re: #403 Backwoods_Sleuth
Everything you say before “But” is bullshit.
re: #396 Backwoods_Sleuth
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wow. how controlling and oppressive that an earthquake-prone city doesn’t want him balancing flowerpots on the railing of his balcony.
I’m pretty sure he left SF for AZ because comparative real estate prices are what they are.
Bearded armoured sea robins use their fins to walk along the ocean floor. pic.twitter.com/ds4hXBs2zP
— Weird Animals (@Weird_AnimaIs) October 29, 2022
re: #405 Orange Impostor
I don’t know which is more disgusting, the “false flag” deniers, or the others who have been openly disappointed that Nancy Pelosi wasn’t home when the break-in and attack occurred.
If she’d been at home, so would her bodyguard contingent so I’m kind of disappointed too.
Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed becomes Twitter’s second-largest investor after Elon Musk https://t.co/PEIw1WuUSh
— Ahmed Al Omran (@ahmed) October 28, 2022
re: #413 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
If she’d been at home, so would her bodyguard contingent, so I’m, kind of disappointed too.
As much of a Jan. 6 target as she was, her husband should have had protection. As has been proven.
re: #414 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I have always read that name as ‘Ala weed’. I shall continue. Ala weed, Twit Two.
re: #416 wrenchwench
I have always read that name as ‘Ala weed’. I shall continue. Ala weed, Twit Two.
So in the future the Saudis will simply buy twitter I guess…
re: #417 Nyet
So in the future the Saudis will simply buy twitter I guess…
I hadn’t thought of it before, but I can see some possibilities
re: #405 Orange Impostor
I don’t know which is more disgusting, the “false flag” deniers, or the others who have been openly disappointed that Nancy Pelosi wasn’t home when the break-in and attack occurred.
what’s most disgusting is that it was all nauseatingly predictable / predicted
re: #412 Backwoods_Sleuth
the ocean floor has hashmarks?
re: #391 Nyet
That’s like the lowest bar there is.
I imagine that it’s not an exclusive list of what won’t be allowed. I wonder how long it’ll take for the crazies to turn on Musk when he announces that there was no shadow banning, etc.
re: #421 JC1
I wonder how long it’ll take for the crazies to turn on Musk when he announces that there was no shadow banning, etc.
Thousandth of a second.
I wordled.
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I’m starting to see a unifying reason to stay on Twitter:
It would be a shame if advertisers started leaving Twitter en masse and its stock value plummeted losing Tony Snark billions. A real shame.
— Antifa Tech Support (@kronocide1) October 29, 2022
re: #428 BigPapa
That sounds like an interesting idea.
I can’t find a Tweet from a Big Brain I cannot find. He gave some evidence a lot of polling is by GQP firms and they’re flooding the zone with shit tweaking 538.
In my modest AM Hateradio listening over the last few weeks they are assuredly leading in all the polls and it’s going to be a monstrous red wave. I know they are always lying, the only question is how they are lying.
It’s going to be close.
re: #415 wrenchwench
As much of a Jan. 6 target as she was, her husband should have had protection. As has been proven.
Yeah, well, they know that now. (When was the last attack on a Congresscritter’s family members? I can’t think of one offhand.)
re: #429 PhillyPretzel
That sounds like an interesting idea.
I don’t know what Twitter’s income should be/has to be to (at least) cover their operating costs, but I don’t think it’s likely that Chick-fil-A, Hobby Lobby and MyPillow will be able to cover any shortfalls by themselves…
re: #328 A Cranky One
And he’s still looking great for a kaiju.
I got my brother’s shopping list for Japan: he wants me to find and bring home a Mothra pillowcase or bedspread. (Yeah, he can buy them online from Ali Express, but he doesn’t want to buy it from China.) He also broadly hinted that if I could stuff a 3 foot Godzilla into my suitcase, that would be good too.
For my mother, he said I have to bring home “all the flavors of KitKats available.” It’s partially my fault. I inadvertently introduced mom to KitKats years ago when I was buying a dozen yogurts for her. I included a KitKat bar for me, it ended up in the bag, I shoved the yogurt bag into the vegetable crisper, didn’t take out the KitKat bar, and she ate it. She’d never had one. And then I brought home flavored KitKats from Japan and she was ecstatic.
re: #430 BigPapa
I can’t find a Tweet from a Big Brain I cannot find. He gave some evidence a lot of polling is by GQP firms and they’re flooding the zone with shit tweaking 538.
In my modest AM Hateradio listening over the last few weeks they are assuredly leading in all the polls and it’s going to be a monstrous red wave. I know they are always lying, the only question is how they are lying.
It’s going to be close.
They are also doing the groundwork for claiming that the elections were stolen if they lose.
Sorry if this has been posted, but I think it’s worth emphasizing that the Wuhan lab-leak story had very problematic error:
Dear @KatherineEban, @jeffykao and @ProPublica:
Your recent story misquotes me in multiple ways, including ones that I contacted you about multiple times.
Astonishingly, you managed to ignore my corrections AND quote my concerns that you might do so!https://t.co/OmROSt8LFV— Michael Worobey (@MichaelWorobey) October 28, 2022
We Are NAFO.pic.twitter.com/Np9r2fj9P1
— Oz Katerji (@OzKaterji) August 29, 2022
re: #390 Eclectic Cyborg
Where I work, priority on PTO days is based on seniority and nothing else. Since I have the least seniority in my department, I will never be able to get the weeks of Thanksgiving or Christmas off unless we have mass layoffs or a bunch of people suddenly quit.
We (the channel managers) have a lottery system at work because most of us have worked at the bank for a couple decades, so seniority is pretty well hardened. I don’t particularly care to want time off around the holidays*, but the lottery is good for me to be able to group together a few weeks (as I did here) so I could go off to Japan.
*I was on call last Christmas, I still went over to my mother’s house. I’m not that nuts.
Day 1 of tweeting this picture until I get permanently suspended from Twitter pic.twitter.com/ens9BjjXSt
— Travis Allen (@TravisAllen02) October 28, 2022
Well, there was this.
Fifty-nine people dead and 150 injured in crush during Halloween celebrations in South Korea’s capital, Seoul https://t.co/wtu6fL91yJ
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) October 29, 2022
And now I know the Tokyo city government is patting themselves on the back about banning public drinking in Shinjuku this week and until after Halloween to avoid this kind of tragedy.
re: #390 Eclectic Cyborg
Where I work, priority on PTO days is based on seniority and nothing else. Since I have the least seniority in my department, I will never be able to get the weeks of Thanksgiving or Christmas off unless we have mass layoffs or a bunch of people suddenly quit.
Huh?
If there are mass layoffs/multiple people quitting you will have less chance of getting the time off you want.
Assuming you don’t move to a civilised country.
re: #416 wrenchwench
I have always read that name as ‘Ala weed’. I shall continue. Ala weed, Twit Two.
Hahaha. Funny nonwhite people have funny names.
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