The Polynesian Spirit Land: Taimane, “HAWAIKI”

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This Music Video & Song is from my latest album, “HAWAIKI”, and pays homage to my late Mother, and her Samoan roots and culture. Me and little sister Teuila are featured, as well as Hoku Matalasi, the female fire knife dancer. 🔥

Shot and edited by Nick Cribbs.
Assisted by Walter Calinawan.
Mahalo to Brian Daniel Moore.

🌺 Download this Song:
taimane.bandcamp.com

MY UPCOMING SHOW! 🌟
HAWAIKI: A Musical & Theatrical Odyssey at Hawaii Theatre on August 25th. Whether you’ve been waiting to see me live, or an avid fan, THIS is the show!! 🤩

🎟️ Tickets Available Here:
bit.ly

This presentation is my latest album realized. I’ve been envisioning it for YEARS. It is the biggest & most important presentation of my life because it’s dedicated to my Samoan mama who inspired me to connect with my roots when she passed. I hope you’ll join me in experiencing Hawaiki; my interpretation of Polynesia’s spiritual realm.

“Taimane returns to Hawaii Theatre on Friday, August 25th with an ensemble poised to deliver a feast for the senses and soul with a one-night-only presentation of Hawaiki; a theatrical odyssey written, scored and produced by ‘ukulele star and composer. Music, dance, costume, aerial acrobatics and spoken word will transform Hawaii Theatre’s historic stage into a mystical orb, transporting attendees to Polynesia’s spiritual home through the eyes of Taimane.
Hawaiki is Taimane’s second theatrical concert at Hawaii Theatre. In March 2016, she produced and presented ‘Elemental’ to a full house garnering rave reviews from showgoers and critics alike. This video features highlights from Taimane’s March 2016 presentation, along with clips and music for Taimane’s upcoming show Hawaiki on August 25th.
Attendees of Taimane’s August 25th show will be treated to two sets of entertainment: Set 1 - Taimane performing her ‘greatest hits’ with her band, and Set 2 - Taimane’s presentation of Hawaiki with her entire ensemble.”

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261 comments
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 30, 2023 • 2:05:30pm

Don’t forget the major role that Polynesian music (Hawaiian guitar) played in the devleopment of American country music.

Try that on a small atoll…

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 30, 2023 • 2:07:57pm
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goddamnedfrank  Jul 30, 2023 • 2:08:50pm

You hate to see it.

bsky.app

OK so this is just “pull up your pants” respectability politics. At best it creates a world where trans people can only be safe to the degree that they’ve already successfully transitioned, are able to hide in plain sight and remain utterly unclockable.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 30, 2023 • 2:08:56pm

Mastodon

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 2:09:21pm

re: #2 Backwoods Sleuth

Amen Kamala

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 30, 2023 • 2:10:52pm

Anti-Abortionism is finding itself at odds with the “Keep Government Out of Our Lives” ideology that is also held near and der by a lot of Conservatives. A real conundrum

And deep down inside, all but the most rabid anti-abortionist Religious Fundamentalists wanna know that there is an option in the event that their daughter gets knocked up by some loser or raped by a relative.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 30, 2023 • 2:11:44pm

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 30, 2023 • 2:12:56pm
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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 2:13:40pm

re: #8 Backwoods Sleuth

Very cheap.

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Belafon  Jul 30, 2023 • 2:16:43pm

re: #3 goddamnedfrank

You hate to see it.

bsky.app

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It’s kind of reminds me of women complaining that some other women are out in their bikinis and how can women be taken seriously if that occurs.

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wrenchwench  Jul 30, 2023 • 2:18:28pm

re: #7 Charles Johnson

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Looks like a cone wrench in the lower right corner. Doesn’t show up at
bsky . app.

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wrenchwench  Jul 30, 2023 • 2:21:32pm

A little tiny cone wrench.

mini bike shop 1
mini bike shop 2
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Charles Johnson  Jul 30, 2023 • 2:21:35pm

re: #11 wrenchwench

Looks like a cone wrench in the lower right corner. Doesn’t show up at
bsky . app.

That’s my nefarious doing. The Sidetoolz extension adds that wrench icon; click it and there’s a popup menu of options including “Snapshot,” which I used to grab this screenshot.

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wrenchwench  Jul 30, 2023 • 2:22:32pm

A little tiny nefarious cone wrench.

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wrenchwench  Jul 30, 2023 • 2:34:52pm

I just paid my rent a little early (very unusual) because at midnight tomorrow, they are initiating a fee to pay online using ACH. I believe that is the absolutely cheapest way for them to process payments, and they want to raise my rent if I use it. Their office is a short bike ride away. I’d write a check. I’m keeping ‘cash’ as a backup plan.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 30, 2023 • 2:38:36pm

re: #15 wrenchwench

I have to pay $6.00 every time I pay my car loan because I do not have any checking or saving accounts at the bank who owns my loan (they do not operate in my state, so there is no point).

And if I have to do the payment with a CSR over the phone, the fee jumps to $9.99.

🙄

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 2:39:23pm
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wrenchwench  Jul 30, 2023 • 2:40:56pm

re: #16 Eclectic Cyborg

I have to pay $6.00 every time I pay my car loan because I do not have any checking or savings) accounts at the bank who owns my loan (they do not operate in my state, so there is no point).

And if I have to do the payment with a CSR over the phone, the fee jumps to $9.99.

🙄

It should be applied to the principal.

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 2:47:30pm

re: #16 Eclectic Cyborg

So far most of the places that I patronize are happy to accept electronic payments without additional fees.

The two exceptions are the electric and water utilities. Up until now, I have been too busy with other things. But I am thinking that I may look at alternative (fee-less) payment methods shortly. One thing I will _not_ do, however, is give them access to my bank accounts.

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 2:48:50pm
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DodgerFan1988  Jul 30, 2023 • 2:49:14pm
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wrenchwench  Jul 30, 2023 • 2:51:00pm

re: #20 ckkatz

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‘Dems use ‘Reality’ to talk about what we’re going to do.’

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 2:52:52pm

re: #5 PhillyPretzel ✅

Amen Kamala

Not reading the comments is self care

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 2:54:16pm

re: #23 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

I was just reading the title. And that is why I typed Amen Kamala.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 2:54:26pm

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 2:54:41pm

re: #21 DodgerFan1988

Every time I hear these whackos claiming that there are sex workers and pedos everywhere, I am reminded of this question -

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 2:56:09pm

re: #6 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“… all but the most rabid anti-abortionist Religious Fundamentalists wanna know that there is an option…

Nah, even those folx want a way out. Ignore their mouth words.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 30, 2023 • 2:56:40pm

re: #6 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It’s a two edged sword.

The anti-vaxxers can use the same slogan.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 30, 2023 • 2:57:34pm

I haven’t watched yet, but if anyone is interested, here is a link to part one of an NHK documentary on Miyazaki Hayao and his creation process. There are so far three parts starting in 2019 with one more on the way, I believe.

www3.nhk.or.jp

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:00:20pm

re: #17 ckkatz

How is this not a Baloonjuice headline?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:01:48pm

re: #20 ckkatz

Brought to you by the same idiots who joke “where’s all your global warming now?” every February.

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:03:18pm

Here’s a summary of the California GOPers infighting discussed earlier -

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:03:27pm

Mastodon

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:05:38pm

re: #107 Patricia Kayden

I’m catching a whiff of Lysenko…

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Teukka  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:07:56pm

re: #34 ckkatz

I’m catching a whiff of Lysenko…

You gagged too?

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:09:06pm


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sizzzzlerz  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:10:28pm

re: #6 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Anti-Abortionism is finding itself at odds with the “Keep Government Out of Our Lives” ideology that is also held near and der by a lot of Conservatives. A real conundrum

And deep down inside, all but the most rabid anti-abortionist Religious Fundamentalists wanna know that there is an option in the event that their daughter gets knocked up by some loser or raped by a relative.

That was as obvious to me from the very first. The jebus-loves-da-babbies control freaks were constantly whining about getting the big, bad gub’mint out of their lives only to turn around and start pushing it into women in a way-more-intimate manner than their partners. Also obvious was that they never give a fuck about the fetus or the eventual baby. It is and has always been a matter of control over women. Nothing else.And now that the calvin-ball SCOTUS has basically given them all that they wanted, they’re starting to find out what that means. It is up to all of us to make sure they learn the lesson and never forget it.

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Unabogie  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:11:40pm

re: #36 ckkatz

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They sure do pivot fast from “school libraries” to “all libraries”, don’t they?

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Sherlock Hound  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:12:27pm

re: #10 Belafon

It’s kind of reminds me of women complaining that some other women are out in their bikinis and how can women be taken seriously if that occurs.

How can we imply “respectability politics” without mentioning “respectability politics”.

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:12:40pm

re: #36 ckkatz

Follow-up


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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:12:47pm

re: #32 ckkatz

Example #1 of why the GOP is still collapsing in California

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:13:10pm

re: #36 ckkatz

Example 2 of why the GOP is collapsing in California

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:13:37pm

re: #38 Unabogie

They sure do pivot fast from “school libraries” to “all libraries”, don’t they?

Spoiler alert: It was never about “the kids.” That’s just the line they use to get their foot in the door, because who’s going to argue with wanting to protect kids?

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sizzzzlerz  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:14:52pm

re: #32 ckkatz

Here’s a summary of the California GOPers infighting discussed earlier -

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For all that it matters. Cal is going to go at least 2-1 for Biden, keep both Democratic Senators, and a clean sweep of state-wide offices. Might even pickup some currently red House seats, as well.

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:15:40pm
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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:16:17pm

re: #43 Nerdy Fish

Spoiler alert: It was never about “the kids.” That’s just the line they use to get their foot in the door, because who’s going to argue with wanting to protect kids?

Well it is about the kids, to the extent that their position is “kids are our property and therefore we are entitled to filter their existence and impose on their bodies” as a subset of their general agenda of “we are owed everything, your body is not your own.”

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Sherlock Hound  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:16:31pm

re: #19 ckkatz

So far most of the places that I patronize are happy to accept electronic payments without additional fees.

The two exceptions are the electric and water utilities. Up until now, I have been too busy with other things. But I am thinking that I may look at alternative (fee-less) payment methods shortly. One thing I will _not_ do, however, is give them access to my bank accounts.

The Salem Housing Authority, my landlord, charges $1.50 for bank payments and $8.00 for CC/debit. I don’t remember which third-party provider they use.

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Jay C  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:18:04pm

re: #40 ckkatz

Follow-up

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So the library not only got all their original books back, but raked in $30g for even more books as a bonus?

Yeah, great work, “Moms”….

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:18:12pm

re: #44 sizzzzlerz

For all that it matters. Cal is going to go at least 2-1 for Biden, keep both Democratic Senators, and a clean sweep of state-wide offices. Might even pickup some currently red House seats, as well.

As the old saying goes, “From your lips to G-d’s ears”.

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sizzzzlerz  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:18:19pm

re: #38 Unabogie

They sure do pivot fast from “school libraries” to “all libraries”, don’t they?

Only pivot faster will be the “ending abortion” to “ending contraception”.

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sagehen  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:19:06pm

re: #44 sizzzzlerz

For all that it matters. Cal is going to go at least 2-1 for Biden, keep both Democratic Senators, and a clean sweep of state-wide offices. Might even pickup some currently red House seats, as well.

why it matters —

if delegates are awarded proportionally, the guy who gets 54% of the primary vote gets 54% of the delegates and other candidates get the rest. If it’s winner-take-all, the guy who gets 54% of the primary vote gets more than 20% of what he’d need to win the nomination on the first ballot.

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Sherlock Hound  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:19:12pm

re: #26 ckkatz

“You say you’ve seen lots of CSAM? Was it yours? Did you produce it? Your kids?”

/s

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:22:41pm

Barbenheimer rolls on.

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sizzzzlerz  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:24:59pm

re: #51 sagehen

why it matters —

if delegates are awarded proportionally, the guy who gets 54% of the primary vote gets 54% of the delegates and other candidates get the rest. If it’s winner-take-all, the guy who gets 54% of the primary vote gets more than 20% of what he’d need to win the nomination on the first ballot.

Except they aren’t awarded proportionally. They’re winner-take-all. So if Biden wins, he get all 54 votes. Since individual votes don’t matter, it’s up to the states voters to insure Biden wins the popular vote there. That is all we can do.

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:25:48pm

re: #52 Sherlock Hound

Funny you should ask…
The original posting account “dom_lucre”, as I understand it, reportedly
1. attempted to post a very thinly censored CSAM picture.
2. It was intercepted by ‘X’ monitoring and the account locked.
3. Musk personally intervened and had the account reopened.
4. Which resulted in the post (and thread) you see above.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:27:23pm

Robin Bullock keeps on Pulpit Pimping!

“Prophet” Robin Bullock Insists That Prophets Could Not Possibly Have Been Wrong About the 2020 Election.

uh, Pulpit Pimpin “Prophets” like you WERE WRONG, Asshole!

rightwingwatch.org

Robin Bullock Insists That Prophets Could Not Possibly Have Been Wrong About the 2020 Election

Bullock has recently become a close associate of right-wing political operative Roger Stone, who was pardoned by former President Donald Trump after being convicted of lying, witness tampering, and obstructing a congressional investigation, and who now calls himself “a solider in the army of God.” Stone has appeared with Bullock on Elijah Streams and recently described Bullock as someone he can count on to “lift me up” and “get me headed in the right direction.”

Don’t you mean “EXTREME RIGHT DIRECTION”, Roger?????

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sagehen  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:27:36pm

re: #54 sizzzzlerz

Except they aren’t awarded proportionally. They’re winner-take-all. So if Biden wins, he get all 54 votes. Since individual votes don’t matter, it’s up to the states voters to insure Biden wins the popular vote there. That is all we can do.

in the primary, in some states, they are.

Do you want to see a floor fight at the RNC, or don’t you?

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sizzzzlerz  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:28:31pm

re: #53 Eclectic Cyborg

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Barbenheimer rolls on.

Haven’t seen Barbie but I did see Oppenheimer last week. Great movie! It’s my bet for best picture, best director, and best actor. Epic film.

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Sherlock Hound  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:29:38pm

re: #55 ckkatz

Funny you should ask…
The original posting account “dom_lucre”, as I understand it, reportedly
1. attempted to post a very thinly censored CSAM picture.
2. It was intercepted by ‘X’ monitoring and the account locked.
3. Musk personally intervened and had the account reopened.
4. Which resulted in the post (and thread) you see above.

LOL

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:30:36pm

re: #53 Eclectic Cyborg

[Embedded content]

Barbenheimer rolls on.

Oh yeah? Well the only reason Sound of Freedom didn’t have more was because they didn’t show the film that people paid for and the theaters changed the times and the theaters cut off A/C just to that theater and AMC is a pedo ring and…. //////

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:31:26pm

re: #60 Barefoot Grin

Oh yeah? Well the only reason Sound of Freedom didn’t have more was because they didn’t show the film that people paid for and the theaters changed the times and the theaters cut off A/C just to that theater and AMC is a pedo ring and…. //////

“There was an earthquake, a terrible flood, locusts! It wasn’t my fault! I swear to God!”

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Belafon  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:32:14pm

re: #58 sizzzzlerz

Haven’t seen Barbie but I did see Oppenheimer last week. Great movie! It’s my bet for best picture, best director, and best actor. Epic film.

I just saw Barbie. It was great as well.

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:33:14pm

(Latino hiphop group)

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sizzzzlerz  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:33:30pm

re: #60 Barefoot Grin

Oh yeah? Well the only reason Sound of Freedom didn’t have more was because they didn’t show the film that people paid for and the theaters changed the times and the theaters cut off A/C just to that theater and AMC is a pedo ring and…. //////

Biden must of had a hand in there, somewhere. Possibly in collaboration with Hunter. I’m sure Comer will come up with a witness.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:33:59pm

re: #62 Belafon

I just saw Barbie. It was great as well.

Mrs. Fish said that if her friend doesn’t connect with her to go see Barbie, maybe we can go see it together. My response: “Still better than Twilight.”

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:34:36pm

re: #36 ckkatz

IANAL but if someone takes books from a library and refuses to return them, can they be charged with theft? Would the police be willing to take them into custody? How would the justice system handle this attempt at extortion?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:34:47pm

re: #57 sagehen

in the primary, in some states, they are.

Do you want to see a floor fight at the RNC, or don’t you?

DO YOU NOT WANT TO BE ENTERTAINED?

(I know do!)

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:36:58pm

re: #64 sizzzzlerz

Biden must of had a hand in there, somewhere. Possibly in collaboration with Hunter. I’m sure Comer will come up with a witness.

Shhhhh….it’s the illuminati….

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:37:21pm

re: #66 Hecuba’s daughter

IANAL but if someone takes books from a library and refuses to return them, can they be charged with theft? Would the police be willing to take them into custody? How would the justice system handle this attempt at extortion?

As I understand it, they chickened out and returned the materials.

Like you, IANAL, but I guess that there may not be many legal sanctions available for being an asshole.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:37:43pm
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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:40:04pm
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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:40:58pm
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Barefoot Grin  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:41:23pm

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Well shit, the “yasashii” for easy is a different kanji (易しい）I really need to get back into the hard work of doing it from physical dictionaries and writing by hand.

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sizzzzlerz  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:42:22pm

re: #66 Hecuba’s daughter

IANAL but if someone takes books from a library and refuses to return them, can they be charged with theft? Would the police be willing to take them into custody? How would the justice system handle this attempt at extortion?

I doubt the police would be willing to arrest anyone for library book napping. Unfortunately, there is little that can be done. If I were the library, though, some one is definitely losing their library card!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:43:34pm

re: #16 Eclectic Cyborg

I have to pay $6.00 every time I pay my car loan because I do not have any checking or saving accounts at the bank who owns my loan (they do not operate in my state, so there is no point).

And if I have to do the payment with a CSR over the phone, the fee jumps to $9.99.

🙄

My telephone company rent-seeks from all angles.

When we were in Canada in 2015, we’d somehow missed paying our bill ahead. As such when we found we were behind, I called the telephone company to pay them with a credit card.

CenturyLink told me there would be a $25 fee to accept a credit card over the telephone (which literally costs them nothing to accept). I said “no thanks” and asked for the mailing address so I could mail them a cheque from Canada.

Later, they started charging a fee for paying on-line. (I never paid on-line; I always pay by paper cheque with my paper bill.)

Now they are charging to mail paper bills.

They have literally off-loaded every method of paying them as a charge to you.

In good news in my area, the attempt at rent-seeking by credit card companies (charging you to use a credit card in any business) has ended. However, very few merchants have gone back to accepting credit cards.

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EPR-radar  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:43:36pm

re: #3 goddamnedfrank

It’s an old and stupid argument for “respectability”.

“If it weren’t for those outrageous drag queens (or the like), we wouldn’t have such difficulty securing gay rights.”

That argument was false and contemptible back then, and age has not improved it.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:44:39pm

re: #74 sizzzzlerz

I doubt the police would be willing to arrest anyone for library book napping. Unfortunately, there is little that can be done. If I were the library, though, some one is definitely losing their library card!

Libraries have also largely done away with late fees, at least around here. There is technically no penalty for just keeping a book forever, though I’m reasonably sure that would make you persona non grata at that particular library branch, and the librarian may refuse to lend you any other books until the situation is corrected. (Not that that would matter in this case.)

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dharmamark  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:45:52pm

re: #66 Hecuba’s daughter

We need

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jaunte  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:46:15pm

Mastodon

Mastodon

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:48:04pm

re: #51 sagehen

why it matters —

if delegates are awarded proportionally, the guy who gets 54% of the primary vote gets 54% of the delegates and other candidates get the rest. If it’s winner-take-all, the guy who gets 54% of the primary vote gets more than 20% of what he’d need to win the nomination on the first ballot.

In a winner-take-all primary, the guy who gets a plurality of the vote gets 100% of the delegates and the plurality could be 30% or lower if there are enough candidates running.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:48:25pm

re: #66 Hecuba’s daughter

IANAL but if someone takes books from a library and refuses to return them, can they be charged with theft? Would the police be willing to take them into custody? How would the justice system handle this attempt at extortion?

It depends on how many books they took. If enough books were stolen by the same person, the library can file a complaint. Books are expensive enough it doesn’t take long to get into felony grand theft territory.

If one rare book is stolen that will be immediately prosecuted.

Library theft (Wikipedia)

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:49:05pm

re: #73 Barefoot Grin

Some years back I listened to a lecture/podcast on Japanese writing. I do not remember much about it except for one thing…

The complexity and intertwined threads of history, multiple cultures and multiple writing methodologies was, for at least me, mindboggling.

I am deeply grateful of the willingness of so many different cultures and nations, such as the Japanese, to make so much of their linguistic and cultural richness available to to those of us limited to English.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:51:09pm

re: #56 Joe Bacon ✅

Robin Bullock keeps on Pulpit Pimping!

“Prophet” Robin Bullock Insists That Prophets Could Not Possibly Have Been Wrong About the 2020 Election.

uh, Pulpit Pimpin “Prophets” like you WERE WRONG, Asshole!

rightwingwatch.org

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Bullock has recently become a close associate of right-wing political operative Roger Stone, who was pardoned by former President Donald Trump after being convicted of lying, witness tampering, and obstructing a congressional investigation, and who now calls himself “a solider in the army of God.” Stone has appeared with Bullock on Elijah Streams and recently described Bullock as someone he can count on to “lift me up” and “get me headed in the right direction.”

Don’t you mean “EXTREME RIGHT DIRECTION”, Roger?????

THEY ARE FALSE PROPHETS!!!

You know what Scripture says to do with a false prophet.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:51:29pm

re: #44 sizzzzlerz

For all that it matters. Cal is going to go at least 2-1 for Biden, keep both Democratic Senators, and a clean sweep of state-wide offices. Might even pickup some currently red House seats, as well.

Picking up some of the currently-red House seats matters.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:51:34pm

re: #74 sizzzzlerz

I doubt the police would be willing to arrest anyone for library book napping. Unfortunately, there is little that can be done. If I were the library, though, some one is definitely losing their library card!

People are arrested for shoplifting all the time; shouldn’t this be treated the same way?

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:51:40pm

re: #106 Charles Johnson

So it took Elon Musk just a little over 9 months to completely destroy Twitter and bring into the world a hellish far right nightmare changeling in its place.

He carried a monster to term and then birthed it.

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wrenchwench  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:55:13pm

re: #86 Vicious Babushka

He carried a monster to term and then birthed it.

Not even a C-section could get the monster out. They did the X section.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:58:42pm

This is what Skydeck looks like after adding some custom feeds to it.

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:59:04pm

Sounds like the GOP SCOTUS strategy…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:02:52pm

re: #77 Nerdy Fish

Libraries have also largely done away with late fees, at least around here. There is technically no penalty for just keeping a book forever, though I’m reasonably sure that would make you persona non grata at that particular library branch, and the librarian may refuse to lend you any other books until the situation is corrected. (Not that that would matter in this case.)

As part of the library ordinance revisions I submitted several years ago to the village board, one was eliminating the late fee for the library (2¢ per day: It was set back in 1938).

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Belafon  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:04:45pm

re: #89 ckkatz

Sounds like the GOP SCOTUS strategy…

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Eyeballing, the Democrats seem to be spread pretty evenly in the House across all the age ranges, while the Republicans are concentrated more around 60. The House, yes, is skewed older, but I think a lot of that is Democrats losing in red states, where younger Democrats have been running.

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Belafon  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:05:11pm
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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:05:46pm
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wrenchwench  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:05:52pm

re: #92 Belafon

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Build the wall!

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:07:44pm

Mastodon

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:09:44pm

re: #89 ckkatz

A lot of younger people cannot afford to run for office.

Also, they don’t want to deal with harassment and death threats from the MAGAts.

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sizzzzlerz  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:09:58pm

re: #85 Hecuba’s daughter

People are arrested for shoplifting all the time; shouldn’t this be treated the same way?

In a perfect world, it would. But the police are stretched too thin and don’t have the time or man-power for low level crimes like this. and the DA wouldn’t prosecute anyway for similar reasons. Besides, they checked out the books. It will be a month before they’re due and the library will send several notices so it could be 6 months before it could even be possible to call it a crime.

It was an idiotic stunt. They were humiliated. In the end, that is the best possible result.

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TedStriker  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:10:26pm

re: #60 Barefoot Grin

Oh yeah? Well the only reason Sound of Freedom didn’t have more was because they didn’t show the film that people paid for and the theaters changed the times and the theaters cut off A/C just to that theater and AMC is a pedo ring and…. //////

re: #61 Nerdy Fish

“There was an earthquake, a terrible flood, locusts! It wasn’t my fault! I swear to God!”

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:12:37pm

re: #95 Vicious Babushka

Now it’s BDS.

Back in the 70s when I was an undergrad at Pitt it was the Campus Crusade For Christ which endlessly harassed Jewish students.

Almost 50 years later and the hate doesn’t stop. It mutates into another form.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:13:13pm

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:15:09pm

re: #73 Barefoot Grin

Three Hour Position Update Typhoon Khanun (Joint Typhoon Warning Center)

The typhoon’s track has been shifted slightly left. The latest track takes it just off-shore from Okinawa with wind speeds of 115 knots. The Japan Metrological Agency uses different classifications than the National Hurricane Center: 105 knots is classified as a “Violent Typhoon” (the highest classification).

The storm is expected to reach Okinawa on August 1 around at 1800Z (0300 August 2 Okinawa time).

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wrenchwench  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:16:10pm

Mastodon

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Charles Johnson  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:25:46pm

This is what I was referring to earlier, about the cat pic accounts at Bluesky.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:27:23pm

re: #103 Charles Johnson

This is what I was referring to earlier, about the cat pic accounts at Bluesky.

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So that’s the scam. Interesting. I did wind up blocking them.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:27:36pm

re: #103 Charles Johnson

Thanks again and Cats with Confusing Aura is blocked. And Cats curing depression too.

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TedStriker  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:29:28pm

re: #103 Charles Johnson

This is what I was referring to earlier, about the cat pic accounts at Bluesky.

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re: #104 Nerdy Fish

So that’s the scam. Interesting. I did wind up blocking them.

Maybe I’m not hip to the latest crypto scams, but what the hell is that Bluesky stuff all about?

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:30:09pm

re: #105 PhillyPretzel ✅

Thanks again and Cats with Confusing Aura is blocked.

They’re based on popular Twitter accounts with similar names, which is supposed to get past people’s natural guard about being followed by unknown accounts.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:30:44pm

re: #75 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My telephone company rent-seeks from all angles.

When we were in Canada in 2015, we’d somehow missed paying our bill ahead. As such when we found we were behind, I called the telephone company to pay them with a credit card.

CenturyLink told me there would be a $25 fee to accept a credit card over the telephone (which literally costs them nothing to accept). I said “no thanks” and asked for the mailing address so I could mail them a cheque from Canada.

Later, they started charging a fee for paying on-line. (I never paid on-line; I always pay by paper cheque with my paper bill.)

Now they are charging to mail paper bills.

They have literally off-loaded every method of paying them as a charge to you.

In good news in my area, the attempt at rent-seeking by credit card companies (charging you to use a credit card in any business) has ended. However, very few merchants have gone back to accepting credit cards.

I pay CenturyLink online every month by literally entering my bank’s checking account routing number. I have yet to be charged an additional fee for paying by that method. I haven’t tried paying it with one of my credit cards. If I did it that way, that’s where I suspect a fee for paying online would come into play. (That’s the case with my electricity and gas bills. If I pay online via electronic check, there’s no fee. If I pay via credit card, there’s a processing fee. I’m a cheap bastard, so I don’t use my credit card to pay those bills.)

As for that rent-seeking paper bill fee, according to the breakdown of fees, taxes, and service charges on my CenturyLink bill, it adds a whopping dollar per month to my total bill. It’s supposedly their way of encouraging cheap bastards to switch to paperless billing and go completely online. I may be a cheap bastard, but I refuse to go completely paperless when it comes to bills. For me, piles of bills that need to be paid are hard to ignore. Going completely online would make it too easy for me to adopt an “out of sight, out of mind” mentality.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:36:15pm

re: #106 TedStriker

Maybe I’m not hip to the latest crypto scams, but what the hell is the all about?

I’m not exactly hip to it myself, but I think it amounts to a bait-and-switch, where you think you’re following an account with cute cat pictures, but then end up following a crypobro hawking their favorite NFTs.

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darthstar  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:42:42pm

re: #106 TedStriker

Maybe I’m not hip to the latest crypto scams, but what the hell is that Bluesky stuff all about?

Bluesky is the next Twitter. Crypto, porno, conspiracy theories, and troll farms are just four of the main components they’re still figuring out how to adopt properly.

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darthstar  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:43:46pm

re: #109 Nerdy Fish

I’m not exactly hip to it myself, but I think it amounts to a bait-and-switch, where you think you’re following an account with cute cat pictures, but then end up following a crypobro hawking their favorite NFTs.

And once an image has enough followers, making it an NFT gives it value? Seems like the targets are going to be other wannabe crypto bros.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:44:57pm

re: #109 Nerdy Fish

I’m not exactly hip to it myself, but I think it amounts to a bait-and-switch, where you think you’re following an account with cute cat pictures, but then end up following a crypobro hawking their favorite NFTs.

As long as you’re not buying but just looking, is there some way they can actually harm you?

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:45:08pm

re: #111 darthstar

And once an image has enough followers, making it an NFT gives it value? Seems like the targets are going to be other wannabe crypto bros.

No, I think it’s so that they get an instant audience when they do the switch. So rather than having to find a bunch of people to follow a sketchy cryptobro account, they can just magically appear with thousands of followers.

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jaunte  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:46:19pm

re: #103 Charles Johnson

Thanks, just blocked some cats.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:47:56pm

re: #95 Vicious Babushka

AAA has in fact condemned other nations. Specifically, they condemned the United State government for seeking help from them to gather information on Afghan villagers and their way of life to help military operations.

Back in 1947, they submitted to the United Nations their statement on human rights, where they called for unlimited tolerance of all cultures and political systems (in direct opposition to Karl Popper). Pretty much ever since then, they’ve been embarrassed

The actual resolution they adopted does not call for “the destruction of Israel” but there sure are a lot of hot takes all over the Internet claiming they did.

They called for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions (one way, they did not call for Israeli academics from being banned to come to the USA).

They called for this because they view that Israeli academic institutions are violating the rights of Palestinians which provide information to the Israeli Defence Forces and they won’t participate in that.

As to whether Israel qualifies as an “apartheid state” as defined by the United Nations I can’t say.

You can read their actual resolution at their own site and make up your own mind about it.

REFERENDUM ON A PROPOSED RESOLUTION TO BOYCOTT ISRAELI
ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS (adopted in March 2023 but suddenly becoming an issue now for some reason, two pages PDF)

As for the Boston mapping project, a lot of people are concerned this project is painting a target on Jews and Jewish institutions (without mentioning that Google and Mapquest have long had the same institutions).

Something about all the sudden outrage to me seems Astroturfed.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:48:10pm

Pardoning Trump will ‘move our country forward’: Vivek Ramaswamy

No It Won’t You F’n Asshole.

It will prove that Republicans are above the law.

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darthstar  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:49:08pm

Went to Nick’s Seafood Restaurant in Pacifica for breakfast today - it’s our new go-to spot since Ketch Joann across the street closed permanently. Their breakfasts aren’t bad for the most part, and today they had a huevos rancheros on special. It was to die for. They made their own ranchero sauce that they put under the eggs - basically sauteed bell pepper and onion with lots of cumin and coriander. The spices were fantastic.

Image ain’t so great as I sat at the end of the bar under a row of purple lights.
Cazadores w/Stella back and some extra crispy bacon as the missus likes it that way.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:50:30pm

re: #116 Joe Bacon ✅

Pardoning Trump will ‘move our country forward’: Vivek Ramaswamy

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No It Won’t You F’n Asshole.

It will prove that Republicans are above the law.

If you read his statement, apparently, he haz a mad that the government can charge people with “process crimes,” as he calls them - crimes that only occur because people are under investigation. Things like obstruction of justice, for example.

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darthstar  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:52:03pm

re: #116 Joe Bacon ✅

Pardoning Trump will ‘move our country forward’: Vivek Ramaswamy

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No It Won’t You F’n Asshole.

It will prove that Republicans are above the law.

This is just for the primary. Get them all on board saying they’ll pardon Trump. Then convict Trump and send him to prison before the next election. Now…who thinks Republicans will want to run in a general election on the ‘let’s free the guy who attacked our country’ platform?

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darthstar  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:53:22pm

re: #118 Nerdy Fish

If you read his statement, apparently, he haz a mad that the government can charge people with “process crimes,” as he calls them - crimes that only occur because people are under investigation. Things like obstruction of justice, for example.

Obstruction is just there to help solidify a 12+ year sentence (20 year max but he’s a first time offender…technically).

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:53:31pm

re: #101 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Three Hour Position Update Typhoon Khanun (Joint Typhoon Warning Center)

The typhoon’s track has been shifted slightly left. The latest track takes it just off-shore from Okinawa with wind speeds of 115 knots. The Japan Metrological Agency uses different classifications than the National Hurricane Center: 105 knots is classified as a “Violent Typhoon” (the highest classification).

The storm is expected to reach Okinawa on August 1 around at 1800Z (0300 August 2 Okinawa time).

Thank you! We are arriving on the 10th. But I’ve lived through several typhoon seasons on the mainland; and reading now about Okinawan history I know that that is the sweet spot, so fingers crossed.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:54:36pm

So my question is what happens if trump dies prior to the election. It could happen. Would none of the above run against Biden? It seems insane, but they have to put up someone. They also have to pretend that this is the person they really wanted all along. Christie? Pence? It would almost be fun to watch.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:56:35pm

Bluesky is my first experience with twitter-type social media. How do you connect posts when you have more to say than allowed in a single post?

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:56:39pm

re: #122 I Would Prefer Not To

So my question is what happens if trump dies prior to the election. It could happen. Would none of the above run against Biden? It seems insane, but they have to put up someone. They also have to pretend that this is the person they really wanted all along. Christie? Pence? It would almost be fun to watch.

If that were to happen, I have to assume that DeathSentence would “sorrowfully” take up the mantle of GOP front runner while they all fight to be as Trump-like as possible.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:57:47pm

re: #109 Nerdy Fish

I’m not exactly hip to it myself, but I think it amounts to a bait-and-switch, where you think you’re following an account with cute cat pictures, but then end up following a crypobro hawking their favorite NFTs.

Yes, and another scam is to amass a large following, then sell the account.

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wrenchwench  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:59:34pm

Mastodon

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Charles Johnson  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:01:47pm

re: #123 Barefoot Grin

Bluesky is my first experience with twitter-type social media. How do you connect posts when you have more to say than allowed in a single post?

On Bluesky it’s not super-friendly, but you can do it. Just post the first post, then each post after that is a reply to the preceding post. A chain of replies.

(The extension I’m developing will create threads like this automatically.)

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:03:29pm

re: #127 Charles Johnson

On Bluesky it’s not super-friendly, but you can do it. Just post the first post, then each post after that is a reply to the preceding post. A chain of replies.

(The extension I’m developing will create threads like this automatically.)

Thank you! It’s not important. Just about cats and Japan.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:03:51pm

re: #122 I Would Prefer Not To

So my question is what happens if trump dies prior to the election. It could happen. Would none of the above run against Biden? It seems insane, but they have to put up someone. They also have to pretend that this is the person they really wanted all along. Christie? Pence? It would almost be fun to watch.

Trump dies before election but after convention? I believe that the parties have rules on how to handle the situation where a candidate dies (or withdraws) before the election. Through these rules, the party members select replacement candidates.

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TedStriker  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:04:44pm

re: #116 Joe Bacon ✅

Pardoning Trump will ‘move our country forward’: Vivek Ramaswamy

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No It Won’t You F’n Asshole.

It will prove that Republicans are above the law.

It’s the The Natural Order, natch.

Never mind, Mr. Ramaswamy, that a sizable portion of the political party that you’re a member of would rather string you up than as just look at you, but you keep right on trying to court their support that will never, ever come.

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:09:20pm

re: #116 Joe Bacon ✅

Pardoning Trump will ‘move our country forward’: Vivek Ramaswamy

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No It Won’t You F’n Asshole.

It will prove that Republicans are above the law.

“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.”
-General Óscar Benavides

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:10:19pm

Meanwhile Trump continues to trash officeholders who support him…

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wrenchwench  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:12:35pm

re: #128 Barefoot Grin

Thank you! It’s not important. Just about cats and Japan.

Sounds important.

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darthstar  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:12:59pm

CNN is doing a deep dive into Georgia right now so I suspect someone in Atlanta has a source who told them an indictment is coming soon.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:15:22pm

This time around, Donald Trump is well aware that he has a sizeable contingent of devoted followers who won’t hesitate to commit violence on his behalf.

I keep thinking about other cases where a tyrant didn’t succeed the first time.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:15:25pm

re: #133 wrenchwench

Sounds important.

illimij.bsky.social

I apologize for all the trash talk I’m doing on LGF lizards there.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:16:16pm

and ilDuce also chimes in

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:17:07pm

Otoh, I’m not sure how many Leopard 2s have actually been committed to the fight. According to the article.

A total of 95 modern NATO tanks have been delivered to Ukraine so far. Out of 240 promised by winter.

- Of 40 delivered out of 54 promised 2A4’s, 1 has been destroyed and 4 damaged
- Of 31 2A5/A6, 2 have been destroyed and 5 damaged

There are also Leopard 1’s, British Challenger 2’s and American M-1s

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:17:52pm

re: #137 Joe Bacon ✅

and ilDuce also chimes in

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Why wouldn’t it be good for the country, Ronnie? Be specific. Show your work. The only negative I can think of is for people like YOU, who would have to deal with the fact that the leader of your party and the center of your cult of personality is an actual criminal.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:18:26pm

I wouldn’t worry about Vivek too much. I’m pretty confident most Republicans won’t want to vote for a brown dude named Ramaswamy.

Just a hunch.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:19:14pm

re: #140 Eclectic Cyborg

I wouldn’t worry about Vivek too much. I’m pretty confident most Republicans won’t want to vote for a brown dude named Ramaswamy.

Just a hunch.

The Party of Rich Old White Guys, racist? Surely, you can’t be serious!

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teleskiguy  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:19:39pm

re: #135 Charles Johnson

As I recall Hitler, Tojo, the Confederacy, they were defeated on the battlefield.

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steve_davis  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:20:13pm

re: #15 wrenchwench

I just paid my rent a little early (very unusual) because at midnight tomorrow, they are initiating a fee to pay online using ACH. I believe that is the absolutely cheapest way for them to process payments, and they want to raise my rent if I use it. Their office is a short bike ride away. I’d write a check. I’m keeping ‘cash’ as a backup plan.

I had to jump on my landlord for including water/sewage on my rent. I specifically worked my rent agreement out so that I would never have to pay water/sewage, partly because rather than just letting me pay them, they’ve offshored it to some company in Pennsylvania that charged a 3.75 “convenience fee” to handle it. Fuck that. That’s basically a 10% upcharge on my typical month’s rate. The landlord was apologetic, so things are all right now.

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:20:31pm

re: #136 Barefoot Grin

That account seems to be suffering from quite an infestation of the ‘cat’ accounts mentioned above by our esteemed host.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:21:54pm

Popcorn time with a classic episode of The Outer Limits.

Martin Landau and Sally Kellerman in THE BELLERO SHIELD.

The Bellero Shield | Full Episode S01E20 | The Outer Limits

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wrenchwench  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:22:14pm

re: #136 Barefoot Grin

illimij.bsky.social

Links like that get stripped down to bsky . app, but I searched for it there and found a cat/Japan reference.

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:23:34pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:23:40pm

re: #122 I Would Prefer Not To

So my question is what happens if trump dies prior to the election.

Then clearly Trump was murdered by Hillary. Trump’s followers will cry out for blood.

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wrenchwench  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:24:30pm

re: #143 steve_davis

I had to jump on my landlord for including water/sewage on my rent. I specifically worked my rent agreement out so that I would never have to pay water/sewage, partly because rather than just letting me pay them, they’ve offshored it to some company in Pennsylvania that charged a 3.75 “convenience fee” to handle it. Fuck that. That’s basically a 10% upcharge on my typical month’s rate. The landlord was apologetic, so things are all right now.

I think that’s always on the landlord in Oregon, as it was in New Mexico.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:24:41pm

re: #144 ckkatz

That account seems to be suffering from quite an infestation of the ‘cat’ accounts mentioned above by our esteemed host.

Unfortunately—and this is true—I have an allergic response to cats like an asthmatic attack. I would love to have a Maine coon cat.

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:26:53pm

re: #150 Barefoot Grin

Unfortunately—and this is true—I have an allergic response to cats like an asthmatic attack. I would love to have a Maine coon cat.

That sucks! I am sorry to hear that.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:26:56pm

I noticed several of these cat pic accounts following me and was already suspicious before I saw that post. It’s how scammers target people who just want to see funny cat pics. I’ve seen this SO many times on social media.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:29:34pm

re: #152 Charles Johnson

I noticed several of these cat pic accounts following me and was already suspicious before I saw that post. It’s how scammers target people who just want to see funny cat pics. I’ve seen this SO many times on social media.

Will not follow. The anti-U2 song.

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steve_davis  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:30:55pm

re: #56 Joe Bacon ✅

Robin Bullock keeps on Pulpit Pimping!

“Prophet” Robin Bullock Insists That Prophets Could Not Possibly Have Been Wrong About the 2020 Election.

uh, Pulpit Pimpin “Prophets” like you WERE WRONG, Asshole!

rightwingwatch.org

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Bullock has recently become a close associate of right-wing political operative Roger Stone, who was pardoned by former President Donald Trump after being convicted of lying, witness tampering, and obstructing a congressional investigation, and who now calls himself “a solider in the army of God.” Stone has appeared with Bullock on Elijah Streams and recently described Bullock as someone he can count on to “lift me up” and “get me headed in the right direction.”

Don’t you mean “EXTREME RIGHT DIRECTION”, Roger?????

A man who saw Sean Bean in Game of Thrones and wrongly thought, “I can pull that off.”

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:30:59pm

re: #152 Charles Johnson

I noticed several of these cat pic accounts following me and was already suspicious before I saw that post. It’s how scammers target people who just want to see funny cat pics. I’ve seen this SO many times on social media.

only cat account I follow is Cats of Yore

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:31:45pm

re: #152 Charles Johnson

I noticed several of these cat pic accounts following me and was already suspicious before I saw that post. It’s how scammers target people who just want to see funny cat pics. I’ve seen this SO many times on social media.

I appreciate the heads up. I was kind of suspicious because I didn’t think those kinds of accounts followed random tiny accounts like mine, especially with zero prior interaction. Glad to know my instincts were correct.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:33:12pm

I’ll miss Larry and Lorenzo and all those cat accounts on twitter if they don’t eventually move

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wrenchwench  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:33:28pm

re: #156 Nerdy Fish

I appreciate the heads up. I was kind of suspicious because I didn’t think those kinds of accounts followed random tiny accounts like mine, especially with zero prior interaction. Glad to know my instincts were correct.

Cats following a fishy…. Instincts will keep you alive.

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sagehen  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:34:31pm

re: #155 Backwoods Sleuth

only cat account I follow is Cats of Yore

and Larry. You must follow Number10cat.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:34:51pm

I haven’t been on Bluesky that long but I’ve already seen in real-time some coordinated right wing attempts to wedge poison into the discourse. They really want to pollute these blue skies.

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darthstar  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:35:11pm

Baby back ribs in the smoker at 275(max temp… using it as an outside oven)….3 1/2 hours in… about 45 minutes into the stall.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:36:26pm

re: #159 sagehen

and Larry. You must follow Number10cat.

I should have clarified that Cats of Yore is the only cat account I follow on bluesky

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Charles Johnson  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:36:47pm

re: #157 Backwoods Sleuth

I’ll miss Larry and Lorenzo and all those cat accounts on twitter if they don’t eventually move

Not all cat pic accounts, I hasten to add! But the success of some of them has drawn the scammers.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:37:10pm

re: #160 Charles Johnson

I haven’t been on Bluesky that long but I’ve already seen in real-time some coordinated right wing attempts to wedge poison into the discourse. They really want to pollute these blue skies.

I’ve already had to dismiss a sea lion.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:37:40pm

re: #73 Barefoot Grin

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:39:13pm

re: #163 Charles Johnson

Not all cat pic accounts, I hasten to add! But the success of some of them has drawn the scammers.

Larry is on Mastodon occasionally so he’s started making the move

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jaunte  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:39:36pm

re: #135 Charles Johnson

This time around, Donald Trump is well aware that he has a sizeable contingent of devoted followers who won’t hesitate to commit violence on his behalf.

I’m hoping that, unlike Jan 6, they have no single point of focus, and organizing a multi-state insurgency is going to be too much for them to pull off.

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darthstar  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:39:43pm

re: #160 Charles Johnson

I haven’t been on Bluesky that long but I’ve already seen in real-time some coordinated right wing attempts to wedge poison into the discourse. They really want to pollute these blue skies.

Any site that tries to handle millions of users as its primary business objective is going to have the same problem. Twitter (of old) had a security infrastructure in place that, while imperfect, slowed the march of disinformation.

Imagine trying to manage that many users here, Charles…. assuming no technical hurdles… fucking shit show.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:40:32pm

Mastodon

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darthstar  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:41:59pm

re: #167 jaunte

I’m hoping that, unlike Jan 6, they have no single point of focus, and organizing a multi-state insurgency is going to be too much for them to pull off.

They don’t. And the last two indictment parades were an embarrassment for Trump. Small crowds, no headlines.

The next coup will not be televised nor will it be successful if run by the same people.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:42:19pm
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darthstar  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:42:53pm

re: #169 Vicious Babushka

That’s just their way of showing affection.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:44:03pm

re: #168 darthstar

It may be inevitable that Bluesky degenerates into more of the same old shit. Some people certainly think so. The real test will be when it opens to the public.

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jaunte  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:44:21pm

Mastodon

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darthstar  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:45:17pm

re: #173 Charles Johnson

It may be inevitable that Bluesky degenerates into more of the same old shit. Some people certainly think so. The real test will be when it opens to the public.

Oh… it’s still invite only? Well, that’s a good sign…not

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gocart mozart  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:47:33pm
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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:48:50pm

Interesting to see Ukraine turn towards the West.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:49:00pm

re: #171 Backwoods Sleuth

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The only minimal protection in Louisiana is their Democratic (anti-choice) governor who apparently succeeded in blocking a couple bills.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:50:20pm

re: #165 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

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Belafon  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:51:31pm

Last night, I played D&D with my family. It’s an intro box. In it, a mimic was hiding. At one point, the bard charmed it and they had it walking around as a pet.

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:51:36pm

re: #160 Charles Johnson

I haven’t been on Bluesky that long but I’ve already seen in real-time some coordinated right wing attempts to wedge poison into the discourse. They really want to pollute these blue skies.

My first block was given to that Three Year Letterman dude when he showed up today, just ‘cuz I absolutely despise his entire insincere schtick persona and the dogpiling claque of toady ass fuckwits that swarm after his drive-by trolling bullshit.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:52:00pm

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:52:03pm

re: #180 Belafon

Last night, I played D&D with my family. It’s an intro box. In it, a mimic was hiding. At one point, the bard charmed it and they had it walking around as a pet.

Nice! I love having gotten into D&D with my family.

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:52:07pm

re: #171 Backwoods Sleuth

Watching the Red States burn down public institutions. With the result that the population will be poorer, sicker, less educated and less able to change the rulers.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:52:43pm

re: #171 Backwoods Sleuth

Red states are losing more and more good doctors and other professionals by the day.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:52:56pm

re: #152 Charles Johnson

I noticed several of these cat pic accounts following me and was already suspicious before I saw that post. It’s how scammers target people who just want to see funny cat pics. I’ve seen this SO many times on social media.

“Can those be reported,” I asked stupidly?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:53:33pm

Kevin would like you all to know you don’t need to go anywhere else for cat pics.

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gwangung  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:54:01pm

re: #174 jaunte

On the right track.

(I’m kinda neutral on the term, even though I fall under that rubric. But if it pisses off certain people, I’m all for it).

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gocart mozart  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:55:00pm
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mmmirele  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:56:30pm

re: #15 wrenchwench

I just paid my rent a little early (very unusual) because at midnight tomorrow, they are initiating a fee to pay online using ACH. I believe that is the absolutely cheapest way for them to process payments, and they want to raise my rent if I use it. Their office is a short bike ride away. I’d write a check. I’m keeping ‘cash’ as a backup plan.

ACH (Automated Clearing House) is is as close to free as can be for these bastards. For a business, it is the cheapest way to handle money. Unlike checks or money orders, you don’t need someone to prepare the deposit and make it (whether manually or using a tool like my employer’s Desktop Deposit). Cash you have to bring down to the bank and deposit anyway. And we know banks charge between 2-3% to use credit cards. It sets a fire inside me to realize that landlords are charging for ACH. They get it as part of their commercial service. Hell, they should be giving you a couple dollar discount for saving them so much time and hassle in preparing your payment.

Bank bill pay is ACH!

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:57:49pm

Current Mood -

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gocart mozart  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:59:09pm
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wrenchwench  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:59:59pm

re: #190 mmmirele

Thank you.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:02:09pm

re: #173 Charles Johnson

I expect full press from crypto-dudes, because they can’t allow anything to happen without their need to dominate.

The religious right types will show up too, but right now they are feeling more comfortable at Twitter 𝕏. Eventually the evangelical leaders will find that dude-bro will go against them and then they’ll find a new place, possibly Blue Sky.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:02:35pm

re: #192 gocart mozart

Neo-Nazi Matthew Hale’s attorney says what, now?

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teleskiguy  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:07:07pm

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:08:46pm

re: #179 Barefoot Grin

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:12:02pm

re: #192 gocart mozart

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Actually, Glenn, we’re funding their opponents.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:12:29pm

‘Real consequences’: Report warns Trump could use Truth Social to ‘inflict real-world damage’

Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform could be weaponized to become the former president’s most powerful tool against his enemies, Forbes reported Sunday.

Already hosting almost daily messages from Trump railing against perceived attacks from the Department or Justice, Jack Smith and many, many others, Forbes’ Matt Novak wrote that it wouldn’t take a huge step for him to use it to mobilize his own army of followers to act.

uh…he’s already doing that…

alternet.org

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:12:52pm

re: #195 A Three Hour Tour

Neo-Nazi Matthew Hale’s attorney says what, now?

Connecting to my earlier post about my experience, I was a language coordinator in 1999 at Indiana University’s summer intensive language camp when Matthew Hale’s protégé went on a shooting spree that included the murder of a Korean grad student at a church a couple of blocks from the dorm where we held the students on 3rd street in Bloomington. That’s when GG as an odious person appeared on my radar. Even before others seemed to hold GG in high regard, I already knew him as a terrorist supporting asshole in the name of “free speech.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:14:15pm

Muslim fruitcake on Twitter, via Reddit’s r/ReligiousFruitcake.

Her account does not get suspended for some mysterious reason.

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retired cynic  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:20:59pm

re: #179 Barefoot Grin

I am impressed, sir!

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:25:13pm
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:29:21pm

re: #74 sizzzzlerz

I doubt the police would be willing to arrest anyone for library book napping. Unfortunately, there is little that can be done. If I were the library, though, some one is definitely losing their library card!

When I worked in a university library the penalties for overdue books* ran like this:
1. Fee per day (usually $0.25 - but this was 40 years ago)
2. Borrowing privileges revoked
3. List was reviewed periodically and I think once the overdue time exceeded 90 days they would bill the person (usually a student) the cost of the book.
4. I believe the senior librarian also had capability to escalate things to Student Affairs which could lead to fun things when graduation came along or trying to get transcripts.

* - Faculty, of course, suffered no penalties whatsoever. And as a result some heavily abused their borrowing privileges.

If you wanted to borrow reserved materials (books or photocopied articles put there for use by a class) you had to leave your university ID at the desk and also could not take the materials out of the library. My biggest kerfluffle while working there was refusing to give a reserved book to a professor who asked to check it out to take it with him.

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teleskiguy  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:40:12pm

Fire up on the hill hasn’t done much of anything since I spotted it over an hour ago. We received a good wetting rain before it started, it’s cool out, the humidity is high. And it might rain again very soon.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:40:57pm

Conservatives will lie about anything at all to keep their voters outraged. Case in point from FOX News Channel (July 28, 2023)

Biden admin withholding key funding for schools with hunting, archery programs

Severe thunderstorm warning just went up in my county. The storm is moving toward us. It has tennis ball size hail. It may pass to our east. This thing is huge.

windy.com

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teleskiguy  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:41:19pm

Now if this fire had started last week, I’d probably be evacuated.

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:45:15pm

Over the past few days, there have been a bunch of stories on how Trump has been burning through cash for legal fees. And how he is moving money around various PACS.

Marcy Wheeler is curious about what Trump is hiding and folks like Haberman are enabling?


.


.

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Captain Ron  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:46:48pm
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Nerdy Fish  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:49:58pm

re: #209 Captain Ron

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Fire in the hole!

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:51:17pm

re: #14 wrenchwench

A little tiny nefarious cone wrench.

Aren’t they always

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:54:04pm

re: #206 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

FOX is sourcing a wingnut they interviewed on FOX Nation, and a whole bunch of bush-league wingnut blogs for his supposed ban on funding for hunting and archery programmes in schools.

John Cornyn and Tom Tillis sent a letter saying the administration is misinterpreting a law signed in the wake of the mass-murder in Uvalde, Texas.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:55:26pm

A second severe thunderstorm warning has gone up regarding the long line of thunderstorms to my west. The massive thunderstorm in the northeast of the county has turned directly toward my town.

Ugh. Prepare for hail (again).

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:59:46pm

re: #26 ckkatz

re: #55 ckkatz

Follow-up

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:00:05pm

re: #32 ckkatz

Here’s a summary of the California GOPers infighting discussed earlier -

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Confusion is a strong offense/defense. See zebra, schooling fish, dingo’s (before they ate yer baby), etc..

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teleskiguy  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:00:13pm

Vacation (06.28.15, Morrison, CO)

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:04:21pm

Oh shit, I changed my password on Bluesky and now Skydeck is hosed.

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:06:06pm

If this has already been posted, my apologies.

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teleskiguy  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:12:57pm

Very interesting social media experiment. Results are shockingly predictable.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:13:19pm

Christian fruitcakes on social media today:

“The opening scene in the Barbie movie of the little girls smashing their baby dolls is really a metaphor to promote abortion to children.”

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:19:31pm

Thread by the author of an Atlantic Magazine piece on why some TV shows were successful and others less so.

Someone responded with what appears to be an AI generated response. He comments on it and how AI is starting to permeate social media.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:21:54pm
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teleskiguy  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:22:50pm

re: #219 teleskiguy

I am firmly on the side of the dirtbikes and ATVs. I hope they fucking ruined that green.

I live in a place where there are at least a half dozen private golf courses that demand $100,000 sign up fees with $15,000 annual dues. And that’s on the low end of some of these fucking places. Augusta National in Georgia, their books are completely secret.

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jaunte  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:25:30pm

re: #223 teleskiguy

I know it’s fun for some people, but it’s a terrible land use, and worse waste of water.

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gwangung  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:27:44pm

re: #223 teleskiguy

I am firmly on the side of the dirtbikes and ATVs. I hope they fucking ruined that green.

I live in a place where there are at least a half dozen private golf courses that demand $100,000 sign up fees with $15,000 annual dues. And that’s on the low end of some of these fucking places. Augusta National in Georgia, their books are completely secret.

Can’t I root for injuries for both?

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teleskiguy  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:27:51pm

I know there are a lot of Lizards who enjoy golf, and that’s fine. Plenty of golf courses built in an environment where their mere presence doesn’t affect the water supply too much (the American southeast, where there are a fuccktonne of golf courses) but where I live it’s just (pardon my french) retarded. And it gets worse when you get to southern Utah and the Las Vegas Valley. Golf courses should not exist in those areas and yet there they are in very high numbers, straining the water supply for a really stupid activity.

Have I said how much I hate golf?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:28:55pm

re: #222 I Would Prefer Not To

That’s why in the recent election the conservative and fascist parties failed to win the election in Spain. Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez remains in office.

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teleskiguy  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:30:29pm

re: #225 gwangung

Can’t I root for injuries for both?

Yes! Of course! The dirtbike/ATV people are polluting the atmosphere something fierce. I know, having worked with two and four stroke motors. Dirty dirty stuff.

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:31:15pm

re: #219 teleskiguy

You raise an interesting series of questions!

Beyond the social media issue, which is indeed interesting in itself, the original ‘misdeed’ also raises some other important questions.

In the DC region, there have been a number of cases where dozens to hundreds of non-street legal atv’s/motorized bikes/etc have driven as a group onto major roads, including the Washington Beltway. Where they entangled themselves with general auto and truck traffic. In general, the legal vehicles basically pulled over and waited until the goat rope moved on. As far as I know there were, fortunately, few accidents.

The only fatality that I am aware of is when a cop tried to physically halt one of the drivers. Which resulted in the death of the underage operator and the conviction of the cop for that action.

So, what can and should be done in response to incidents like these? And to incidents (unlike this) that endanger innocent passersby?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:34:16pm

A Mormon vows to “take back” Utah for Mormons.

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Florida Panhandler  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:38:31pm

re: #230 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

A Mormon vows to “take back” Utah for Mormons.

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Just wait for what a hardcore Fundamentalist Christian theocracy has in store for Mormons.

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:40:05pm


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Eventual Carrion  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:41:18pm

re: #60 Barefoot Grin

Oh yeah? Well the only reason Sound of Freedom didn’t have more was because they didn’t show the film that people paid for and the theaters changed the times and the theaters cut off A/C just to that theater and AMC is a pedo ring and…. //////

I’ve heard that. Must be true.

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:42:54pm

re: #233 Eventual Carrion

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:43:26pm

re: #71 ckkatz

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As was intended I would guess.

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teleskiguy  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:43:47pm

re: #229 ckkatz

It’s a new thing (became, we’ll call it, “endemic” this summer), but these big ATVs (Polaris RZR is the most popular) are everywhere now. It’s so bad in Moab, UT in the summer that these things sometimes outnumber regular automobiles. And they are very loud. And people trick them out with bright strobing lights and American flags and whatever, that’s just what I’ve seen in my town, four hours from Moab where it’s an existential problem for the locals.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:46:45pm

re: #232 ckkatz

All conservatives lie: Ramaswamy is no different. He didn’t achieve anything from the wonderfulness of the American dream.

His family immigrated here from India. His family are all Brahmins from Kerala. His father worked for General Electric in India as a patent attorney and his mother worked as a geriatric psychiatrist.

Vivek got a free-ride scholarship (his dad paid) for a bachelor’s in biology from Harvard and a JD from Yale.

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:47:01pm

re: #83 Vicious Babushka

THEY ARE FALSE PROPHETS!!!

You know what Scripture says to do with a false prophet.

Turn them into a newt?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:48:02pm

re: #238 Eventual Carrion

Turn them into a newt?

Not that, they might get better.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:49:54pm

We dodged the bullet on the thunderstorm. The severe thunderstorm turned west and merged with the line of thunderstorms moving east, then the line lifted away to the north. We’re getting rain but not much else.

Behind this line it seems to be clear.

The National Weather Service has us scheduled for thunderstorms for the next several days.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:50:09pm

re: #238 Eventual Carrion

re: #83 Vicious Babushka

THEY ARE FALSE PROPHETS!!!

You know what Scripture says to do with a false prophet.

Turn them into a newt?

AW HELL NO!

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:50:51pm

Stonekettle is on a tear-


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.

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teleskiguy  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:52:33pm

There’s been intermittent light rain most of this evening. Fire on the hillside ain’t gonna grow.

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:53:03pm

re: #236 teleskiguy

It’s a new thing (became, we’ll call it, “endemic” this summer), but these big ATVs (Polaris RZR is the most popular) are everywhere now. It’s so bad in Moab, UT in the summer that these things sometimes outnumber regular automobiles. And they are very loud. And people trick them out with bright strobing lights and American flags and whatever, that’s just what I’ve seen in my town, four hours from Moab where it’s an existential problem for the locals.

That almost sounds like “The Villages” and their golf-carts… Although I suspect that the std rates are way higher in The Villages.

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Captain Ron  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:53:08pm
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wrenchwench  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:55:40pm

re: #229 ckkatz

You raise an interesting series of questions!

Beyond the social media issue, which is indeed interesting in itself, the original ‘misdeed’ also raises some other important questions.

In the DC region, there have been a number of cases where dozens to hundreds of non-street legal atv’s/motorized bikes/etc have driven as a group onto major roads, including the Washington Beltway. Where they entangled themselves with general auto and truck traffic. In general, the legal vehicles basically pulled over and waited until the goat rope moved on. As far as I know there were, fortunately, few accidents.

The only fatality that I am aware of is when a cop tried to physically halt one of the drivers. Which resulted in the death of the underage operator and the conviction of the cop for that action.

So, what can and should be done in response to incidents like these? And to incidents (unlike this) that endanger innocent passersby?

Arrest them all. I used to have an article posted at my bike shop about a cyclist who pleaded guilty for killing a pedestrian, in San Francisco IIRC. Pedestrians have right of way everywhere (that I get to make the rules).

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:58:13pm

re: #245 Captain Ron

Even Archer’s attorney called bs on the grifters’ nonsense. Saying that “To be clear, Mr Archer does not agree with that speculation.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:00:23pm

Did anyone in Idaho notice Sean Feucht “taking back Idaho for Jesus” at the state capitol today?

I notice his photograph is cropped really tight (as if almost no people were there).

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:01:46pm

Saturday afternoon -

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darthstar  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:02:56pm

Mastodon

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austin_blue  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:09:41pm

Well, we had our cool front hit us, two days of 103 after 18 consecutive days of 104 and greater, and the next week is just hell with temps between 105 and 107.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:10:40pm
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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:11:13pm

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:12:38pm

“Not a Dr—- aw, fuque it.”

Former Spokesman-Review editor Steve Smith accused of paying girls to provide him sexually explicit videos (Spokane Spokesman-Review, July 21, 2023)

Former Spokesman-Review Editor Steve Smith had a “very large amount” of images depicting child sexual abuse in his possession and was downloading more when investigators searched his home Thursday afternoon, according to court documents filed Friday.

Smith, 73, served as executive editor of The Spokesman-Review from 2002 to 2008 and taught journalism ethics at the University of Idaho for about a decade until 2020.

He was arrested by Washington State Patrol detectives Thursday on 10 counts of first-degree possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Investigators indicated more charges are likely.

He made his first court appearance Friday afternoon in a yellow Spokane County Jail jumpsuit. He was represented by a public defender and was ordered held on $25,000 bond by Spokane County Superior Court Commissioner John Stine.

Homeland Security investigators were looking into children using social media to send sexually explicit photos of themselves in exchange for money sent via CashApp, according to court documents. Smith became tied to the investigation through a CashApp account registered in his name.

In March, a federal search warrant pertaining to child pornography in the Western District of Kentucky helped investigators obtain information on two Instagram accounts used by the children, according to court documents.

A spokesman for Homeland Security Investigations said in an email Friday he could not comment on the status of the Kentucky investigation or whether it resulted in criminal charges elsewhere.

(more)

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:13:12pm
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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:16:17pm
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teleskiguy  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:16:21pm

The abortion thing is currently dooming Republicans. Bigly.

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:19:09pm

re: #72 ckkatz

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austin_blue  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:25:13pm

Well Canada vs Australia is. kicking off at 5:00 AM CST tomorrow. I’m up for it.

Damn, a new thread popped up. Always the bidesmaid,,,

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:25:45pm

My father grew up in NYC in the 1920’s and he had stories about factories there like this.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Jul 31, 2023 • 5:56:52am

re: #224 jaunte

I know it’s fun for some people, but it’s a terrible land use, and worse waste of water.

What is more fun and also sustainable? Disc golf. Any year now there will be more rounds of disc golf played than ball golf. And 90 percent of courses are free. Including my two private disc golf courses on previously tilled land - I have planted more than 16,000 trees to reforest it in the shape of fairways. This year I am focused on transplanting baby black walnut volunteers. (Many older courses are on flood plains where nothing else can exist.)


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