Another Awesome New Track From Snarky Puppy: “Keep It on Your Mind”

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Synopsis: a deep feral groove, synth bass, baritone guitar, and a wild fluegelhorn solo. Another winner from the new album.

Snarky Puppy - Keep It On Your Mind
From ‘Empire Central’ - Available now
Stream/Buy: orcd.co

Written by Michael League
Arranged by Michael League, Justin Stanton, and Snarky Puppy

Bob Lanzetti - electric guitar
Mark Lettieri - baritone electric guitar
Chris McQueen - electric guitar
Justin Stanton - Wurlitzer, Minimoog Model D, Prophet 10, and trumpet
Bobby Sparks - Hammond B3 organ, ARP String Ensemble, and Minimoog Model D (solo)
Bill Laurance - Hohner D6 Clavinet
Shaun Martin - Fender Rhodes Mark 8 and Minimoog Model D
Zach Brock - violin
Mike “Maz” Maher - trumpet and flugelhorn (solo)
Jay Jennings - trumpet
Chris Bullock - tenor sax
Bob Reynolds - tenor sax
Michael League - Minimoog Model D bass
Nate Werth - percussion
Keita Ogawa - percussion
Marcelo Woloski - percussion
Jason “JT” Thomas - drum set
Larnell Lewis - drum set
Jamison Ross - drum set

Jep Jorba - Director / camera operator
David Bretones - Director of Photography / camera operator
Brad Holt - Line producer / camera operator
Andrew Redd - Gaffer / camera operator
Chris Brian - Camera operator
Ranjani Groth - Camera operator
Jun Kang - Camera operator
Emily Holt - Camera operator
Reid Walker - Dolly operator
Joseph Fisher - Dolly Operator

Produced by Michael League and Snarky Puppy
Engineered by Nic Hard, Matt Recchia, and Michael Harrison
Engineering assisted by Skyler Childress, Michael League, and Shakthi Prasad KT
Mixed by Nic Hard
Mastered by Dave McNair
Recorded and filmed March 3-10, 2022, at Deep Ellum Art Company in Dallas, Texas, USA
Mixed March 15 - April 7, 2022, at Estudi Vint in Els Prats de Rei, Catalonia, Spain
Photography by Brian Friedman and Jep Jorba
Video edited by Michael League and Jep Jorba
Film consulting by Andy LaViolette
Production managed by Rosanna Freedman
Project managed by Jamie Margulies
Stage assembled by Mason Davis, Matt Recchia, Rosanna Freedman, and Michael Harrison
Graphic design by Claire Morales
Managed by Mike Chadwick Management

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279 comments
1
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:12:52am

I am glad to hear that America understands the importance of good breeding: Legacy of Affirmative Action.

Acceptance to most European universities is based almost entirely on grades and test results.

I tried to explain the American system to Europeans and they are unable to comprehend what a fucking mess it is.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:19:24am

re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I am glad to hear that America understands the importance of good breeding: Legacy of Affirmative Action.

Acceptance to most European universities is based almost entirely on grades and test results.

I tried to explain the American system to Europeans and they are unable to comprehend what a fucking mess it is.

Don’t know about Germany, but university is free of charge here in Czech Republic. Admission is based on grades and test results, like in Germany.

It just doesn’t cost anything to go.

3
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:20:49am

re: #349 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

It’s back.

Not for me. Twitter is still blocked.

4
Nerdy Fish  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:20:57am

From downstairs:

re: #352 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Yikes! This follow up to the jet ingestion story is 4 days old but I missed it until today:

Texas airport worker who was sucked into a plane’s engine died by suicide

There were no details on how the suicide ruling was determined, whether he left a note for example. The NTSB is satisfied with the ruling though:

I am wondering if it’s “intentional or unintentional suicide,” aka, “He either killed himself on purpose or through misadventure, no fault of anyone or anything else.”

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Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:21:42am

I thought I had Teh Beagle but I will take Teh Birbie.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:21:49am

re: #2 Dr Lizardo

Don’t know about Germany, but university is free of charge here in Czech Republic. Admission is based on grades and test results, like in Germany.

It just doesn’t cost anything to go.

Our libertarian overlords really want their serfs back.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:22:49am

re: #6 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Our libertarian overlords really want their serfs back.

A capitalist system doesn’t work without an exploited underclass.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:22:54am

re: #350 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

As always, replace gay with jew or black and see if it’s OK..

Conservatives: Yes.

9
Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:23:14am

Awwwww

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:24:02am

re: #346 austin_blue

If you’ve got an account, it’s working. If you are lurking (as I do on Stonekettle’s page), Twitter is dead to you.

It’s back.

Sleazy E still won’t let me come in and play…😢

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:25:27am

re: #10 Joe Bacon ✅

re: #346 austin_blue

If you’ve got an account, it’s working. If you are lurking (as I do on Stonekettle’s page), Twitter is dead to you.

It’s back.

Sleazy E still won’t let me come in and play…😢

That could be seen as a good thing.

12
Nerdy Fish  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:26:59am

I see Spy Mode has been updated to revert to the official Twitter embed code instead of Charles’s lean, mean, API-key-using machine. Sigh. I’m going to miss that feature. I remember how excited we all were when he rolled it out, restoring our ability to link as many Tweets as we wanted in a thread without worrying about killing threads for mobile or other resource-limited users.

13
Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:27:25am
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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:30:21am

Christie told Bari Weiss he will “shame” Donald Trump into getting on the Republican presidential debate stage.

Said Christie: “Quite frankly, I think he’ll show up ‘cause I don’t think his ego will permit him not to.”

randos check in:

Kind of a win/win for Christie: If Trump refuses to debate, Christie can endlessly call him a coward. If Trump agrees to debate, Christie is right about Trump’s ego and successfully manipulated him.

and

Christie should show up with a digital scale, daring trump to reveal his true weight. Step on it himself. “See Donny, people can see I’m overweight, at least I don’t lie about it.”

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gocart mozart  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:31:20am

Grosse Point Blank

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Thanos  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:31:50am

A fairly cogent article about why the Fediverse is flailing right now, and why it might be destined to become B-Chan version X…

Op-ed: Why the great #TwitterMigration didn’t quite pan out

Mastodon is at risk of falling into the trap that a lot of free/open source software does, where the idea of the software being “free as in speech” is expected to outweigh or explain away deficiencies in its usefulness. However, this ignores three salient facts:

  • Most people don’t give a thruppenny fuck about their freedom to view and edit the source code of the software they use, which they would not know how to do even if they cared

      • Most people are not ideologically opposed to the notion of proprietary software and cannot be convinced to be because it is simply not important to them and cannot be explained in terms that are important to them

      When given the choice between a tool that is immediately useful for achieving some sort of goal but conflicts with some kind of ideological standpoint and a tool that is not as useful but they agree with ideologically, they will probably choose the former

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    Belafon  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:33:32am

    re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

    I am glad to hear that America understands the importance of good breeding: Legacy of Affirmative Action.

    Acceptance to most European universities is based almost entirely on grades and test results.

    I tried to explain the American system to Europeans and they are unable to comprehend what a fucking mess it is.

    In Texas, we now require public colleges and universities to accept top 10%. Which is good for minorities in places, like Mesquite, where the cmschools are overwhelming minority. But, since the school system here goes out of its way to punish minorities by not giving them adequate funding, if you were in a school system that wasn’t that well funded, whites tend to have the big advantage with money to get things like regular tutoring and SAT prep tutoring.

    18
    Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:34:15am

    At YouTube, Godless Granny responds to a Christian hate-preacher’s love, where he defends another preacher disrupting a drag queen story hour in a public library.

    She points out the relevant parts of international law where Christian hate against people they don’t like is defined as hate speech. (34:28)

    Colin can’t tell Love from Hate

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    Eventual Carrion  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:35:19am

    re: #13 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

    [Embedded content]

    I hope the Jersey Whale capsizes every GOP candidate in the running.

    20
    Charles Johnson  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:36:04am

    re: #12 Nerdy Fish

    I see Spy Mode has been updated to revert to the official Twitter embed code instead of Charles’s lean, mean, API-key-using machine. Sigh. I’m going to miss that feature. I remember how excited we all were when he rolled it out, restoring our ability to link as many Tweets as we wanted in a thread without worrying about killing threads for mobile or other resource-limited users.

    Yeah. Now I’m going to have to figure out something else to keep Twitter’s shitty embeds from crashing mobile devices.

    21
    Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:36:27am

    re: #4 Nerdy Fish

    From downstairs:

    I am wondering if it’s “intentional or unintentional suicide,” aka, “He either killed himself on purpose or through misadventure, no fault of anyone or anything else.”

    “Unintentional suicide” through misadventure would still be investigated by NTSB. Screwing around in front of a turning jet engine is a lack of effective training or failure to fire someone for their own good. In either case, that would be a failure of some aspect of the safety régimé around aviation.

    22
    Dr. Matt  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:36:52am

    re: #10 Joe Bacon ✅

    re: #346 austin_blue

    If you’ve got an account, it’s working. If you are lurking (as I do on Stonekettle’s page), Twitter is dead to you.

    It’s back.

    Sleazy E still won’t let me come in and play…😢

    Seems like he’s trying to force us lurkers to sign-up for an account. Fuck him with a rusty spoon. I won’t give in.

    23
    Belafon  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:38:15am

    re: #16 Thanos

    A fairly cogent article about why the Fediverse is flailing right now, and why it might be destined to become B-Chan version X…

    Op-ed: Why the great #TwitterMigration didn’t quite pan out

    Mastodon is at risk of falling into the trap that a lot of free/open source software does, where the idea of the software being “free as in speech” is expected to outweigh or explain away deficiencies in its usefulness. However, this ignores three salient facts:

    Which is why Facebook running a server is actually trouble for the ecosystem. If they make it workable, and devote Facebook levels of hardware at it, there will be one server that lots of people will join, and it will eventually choke off the rest of it.

    24
    gocart mozart  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:38:17am
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    Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:39:10am

    re: #22 Dr. Matt

    Seems like he’s trying to force us lurkers to sign-up for an account. Fuck him with a rusty spoon. I won’t give in.

    I think he is planning to make Twit subscriber only, and move up the blue check subscription to $25 and a regular subscription $8 and no badge.

    26
    Dr Lizardo  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:40:13am

    re: #16 Thanos

    When given the choice between a tool that is immediately useful for achieving some sort of goal but conflicts with some kind of ideological standpoint and a tool that is not as useful but they agree with ideologically, they will probably choose the former

    An example: local agrobaron, oligarch and ex-Prime Minister Andrej Babiš owns a bakery called Penam (as well as pretty much all the other bakeries in Czech Republic, having effectively created a monopoly) and Penam is literally the only bakery that makes English muffins, called “Toustis”.

    Thus, when I get a craving for, let’s say, a homemade Egg McMuffin, I have no choice but to buy Penam Toustis. That conflicts with the fact that I do, by and large, boycott the vast majority of Mr. Babiš’ brands (and there are many here) because he’s a populist piece of shit…sort of a Czech Trump, albeit, far more successful than Mr. Trump.

    All that having been said, it remains to me inexplicable why the government doesn’t simply enforce the anti-monopoly laws that have been on the books for the last quarter century. Babis’ enterprise - Agrofert - has been found by Czech courts to be a monopoly…and yet no one does a damn thing about it.

    27
    🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:40:53am

    re: #16 Thanos

    A fairly cogent article about why the Fediverse is flailing right now, and why it might be destined to become B-Chan version X…

    Op-ed: Why the great #TwitterMigration didn’t quite pan out

    Mastodon is already more useful than Twitter. The cargo-cult paid blue-checks make Twitter a mess.

    28
    Dr. Matt  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:41:12am

    re: #25 Vicious Babushka

    I think he is planning to make Twit subscriber only, and move up the blue check subscription to $25 and a regular subscription $8 and no badge.

    I hope so. That will only quicken its death.

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    🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:42:46am

    re: #28 Dr. Matt

    I hope so. That will only quicken its death.

    He has shown a talent for destroying value. He might as well go all the way.

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    Thanos  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:42:52am

    re: #27 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

    Mastodon is already more useful than Twitter. The cargo-cult paid blue-checks make Twitter a mess.

    I would argue with you there, as a news junkie I still must monitor twitter, unfortunate but true.

    31
    Nerdy Fish  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:43:22am

    re: #25 Vicious Babushka

    I think he is planning to make Twit subscriber only, and move up the blue check subscription to $25 and a regular subscription $8 and no badge.

    I said something similar to this downstairs, when I found that my access to Twitter was curtailed early this morning. I didn’t think about him putting in tiers of subscribers, but that sounds pretty on-brand for him.

    32
    Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:46:06am

    Billionaires shocked to learn they are in a precarious position.

    Super-rich warned of ‘pitchforks and torches’ unless they tackle inequality (The Guardian, today)

    In the ballroom of the five star Savoy hotel on the Strand in central London, the super-rich and their advisers were this week advised that they may soon need to watch out for people with “pitchforks and torches” unless they do more to use their fortunes to help the millions struggling with the cost of living crisis.

    At an investment conference organised by Spear’s wealth management magazine, members of the global elite and their financial teams were told by progressive advisers that there was a “real risk of actual insurrection” and “civil disruption” if the yawning inequality gap between rich and poor was allowed to widen as a result of energy and food price hikes hitting squeezed households.

    Julia Davies, a founding member of Patriotic Millionaires UK, a group of super-rich people calling for the introduction of a wealth tax, warned that global poverty and the climate emergency were going to get “so much worse” unless the wealthy did more to help poorer citizens.

    (more)

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    Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:47:35am

    re: #16 Thanos

    A fairly cogent article about why the Fediverse is flailing right now, and why it might be destined to become B-Chan version X…

    Op-ed: Why the great #TwitterMigration didn’t quite pan out

    it’s been about 8 months
    people sure are impatient and expect a lot

    mastadon doesnt generate any revenue. and it’s a decoupled model.
    so it’s messier right now. and confusing compared to how things were a year back.
    everyone’s still trying to figure out how to apply it, make it do what they want. and they’re doing that mostly by trying to parrot how the bird worked.

    a sea change will occur. imo sooner rather than later, because the need is there.

    proprietary generally means revenue generating as integral to the model. and that’s what determines who gets to control what.

    34
    Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:48:20am

    On Tweetdeck the blue checks show up as green dollar signs.

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    Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:49:10am
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    Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:50:00am
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    Thanos  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:51:59am

    Momfluencer gets too light a sentence after accusing a couple of trying to kidnap her children at a Michael’s store.

    A week later, she posted a video about the incident on Instagram, which went viral, and she repeated the claims on a local news program.

    “Ms. Sorensen’s report was determined to be false and resoundingly contradicted by the accused couple as well as store video that was obtained,” prosecutors said.

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    Belafon  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:53:01am

    re: #33 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

    it’s been about 8 months
    people sure are impatient and expect a lot

    mastadon doesnt generate any revenue. and it’s a decoupled model.
    so it’s messier right now. and confusing compared to how things were a year back.
    everyone’s still trying to figure out how to apply it, make it do what they want. and they’re doing that mostly by trying to parrot how the bird worked.

    a sea change will occur. imo sooner rather than later, because the need is there.

    proprietary generally means revenue generating as integral to the model. and that’s what determines who gets to control what.

    Linux didn’t really take off in companies until RedHat sold support.

    39
    Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:53:04am
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    Nerdy Fish  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:53:10am

    re: #35 Vicious Babushka

    “Taxpayers that made the hard decisions and played by the rules should not be forced to pay the bills of the 13% of Americans with student loan debt.”

    Bull-fucking-shit. That’s the WHOLE FUCKING POINT of paying taxes; those taxes that are paid in benefit EVERYBODY, not just your fat lazy entitled ass.

    41
    Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:55:23am

    re: #35 Vicious Babushka

    It’s amazing that the concept of some people actually WANTING their money to help other people is so damn foreign to them.

    42
    teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:56:32am

    Poem written by Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.

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    Dr. Matt  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:58:24am

    re: #37 Thanos

    Momfluencer gets too light a sentence after accusing a couple of trying to kidnap her children at a Michael’s store.

    Mission Accomplished: As an “influencer”, she got the attention she so sorely needs and wants as an “influencer”. Hopefully she gets a real job after she serves her sentence.

    44
    No Malarkey!  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:58:51am

    Justice Roberts wants us to respect his bought and paid for Court.

    45
    Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:59:41am

    re: #16 Thanos

    Although I can’t make a computer-technical article like this, that was the first thing I figured out about Mastadon: It simply isn’t as useful as Twitter. You can’t find anything on Mastadon unless you know both who and what to look for (and even then you might not find it).

    The big argument in favour of Mastadon is it’s “decentralised.” So what? “Functional” is the most important feature of anything.

    On a Linux rant, Linux users and promoters utter similar statements, such as “you can control it more finely” or “you can edit the code” or “it uses less memory” or “it’s not Windows.” So what? Those things don’t mean anything to me, and Windows works just fine for what I need a computer to do. I don’t have to become a software engineer to use Windows.

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    BeenHereAwhile  Jun 30, 2023 • 10:59:47am

    re: #338 Dr Lizardo

    I never saw it until the mid-1990s at an arthouse cinema in Portland, OR. My girlfriend at the time and me were bored and just walking around, and we saw this film playing that night, so we went and saw it.

    Pretty good film - though I think it’s biggest legacy is as the movie that introduced reggae to the world.

    This in 1969.

    Desmond Dekker & The Aces – Israelites (Official Lyrics Video)

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    Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:00:04am

    re: #44 No Malarkey!

    Justice Roberts wants us to respect his bought and paid for Court.

    [Embedded content]

    I’ll start respecting the Court when it SHOWS SOME INTEGRITY, Mr. Roberts.

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    🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:01:45am
    Two news directors at a Michigan NBC affiliate were ousted on Thursday following the circulation of an internal memo calling for scaled-back coverage of Pride Month events and directing the station’s journalists to “get both sides” on LGBTQ issues, a source with knowledge of the situation told CNN.

    The email, sent earlier this month by Stanton Tang, news director of Grand Rapids-based WOOD-TV, and Amy Fox, the station’s assistant news director, said the “polarizing” nature of Pride events had upset some of its conservative viewers, CNN previously reported.

    “We need to recognize that some stories related to LGBTQ issues are going to be controversial and polarizing in our community,” the memo sent by Fox said. “While you personally may not agree with a certain position, people are entitled to their opinions and they are our viewers.”

    “If we are covering Pride events we need to consider how to make the story balanced and get both sides of the issue,” she added.

    The memo sparked fierce backlash from the newsroom’s staff, prompting the station’s owner, Texas-based Nexstar, to launch an investigation into the matter. In a statement to CNN earlier this month, Nexstar said the email was “not consistent with Nexstar’s values, the way we cover the news, or the respect we have for our viewers” and apologized for offending members of the LGBTQ community and WOOD-TV’s viewers.

    News directors at Michigan TV station ousted after telling staff to ‘get both sides’ of Pride coverage (CNN)

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    BeachDem  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:02:36am

    re: #35 Vicious Babushka

    [Embedded content]

    And With a net worth of $157.2 million, Buchanan is the 6th-wealthiest member of Congress.

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    Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:03:12am

    OK. Here it is. This is how the ME and NTSB were so sure of willful suicide.

    Texas airport worker, 27, who killed himself by jumping into Delta jet engine handed his supervisor a suicide note ‘wrapped in $1 bill’ - as his mom says ‘I can’t believe this is real’

    Renner walked to the captain’s side of a Delta plane, bent down and jumped up into an engine and was ‘ingested’ the National Transportation Safety Board says

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    🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:03:18am

    re: #45 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

    Although I can’t make a computer-technical article like this, that was the first thing I figured out about Mastadon: It simply isn’t as useful as Twitter. You can’t find anything on Mastadon unless you know both who and what to look for (and even then you might not find it).

    The big argument in favour of Mastadon is it’s “decentralised.” So what? “Functional” is the most important feature of anything.

    On a Linux rant, Linux users and promoters utter similar statements, such as “you can control it more finely” or “you can edit the code” or “it uses less memory” or “it’s not Windows.” So what? Those things don’t mean anything to me, and Windows works just fine for what I need a computer to do. I don’t have to become a software engineer to use Windows.

    Functional goes away in centralized systems when a mad billionaire buys them.
    Resistance to the meddling of the wealthy is a key feature that is not present in centralized systems.

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    Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:07:50am

    re: #40 Nerdy Fish

    Bull-fucking-shit. That’s the WHOLE FUCKING POINT of paying taxes; those taxes that are paid in benefit EVERYBODY, not just your fat lazy entitled ass….

    Taxpayers that made the hard decisions and played by the rules should not be forced to pay the bills of the 13% of Americans with student loan debt.”

    Products should never go on sale
    Its unfair to those who paid full price last week. They’re subsidising the sale

    53
    No Malarkey!  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:08:40am

    Indiana Supreme Court holds Indiana can ban abortions except to protect a woman’s life or to protect her from a “serious health risk,” whatever that means. A separate court injunction barring enforcement of the law against those who assert a religious belief in the right to an abortion remains in effect for now.

    54
    wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:09:26am

    Mastodon

    Very well written alt text.

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    Belafon  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:12:05am

    re: #51 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

    Functional goes away in centralized systems when a mad billionaire buys them.
    Resistance to the meddling of the wealthy is a key feature that is not present in centralized systems.

    I always feel like open source software is incomplete. I am a software engineer, but even i don’t want to learn that you need to modify to three files necessary to allow the network printer to send a scanned document to my machine, or why, after i upgrade the driver for my nVidia card, I have to rebuild the CUDA code to get my ML tests to work again.

    Just think of how free you would be if you bought a cow, a few chickens, and converted your whole back yard into a garden.

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    wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:12:16am

    re: #53 No Malarkey!

    Indiana Supreme Court holds Indiana can ban abortions except to protect a woman’s life or to protect her from a “serious health risk,” whatever that means. A separate court injunction against enforcement of the law who assert a religious belief in the right to an abortion remains in effect for now.

    Every pregnancy is a serious health risk. Can they force abortions to protect a woman’s life?

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    Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:13:50am

    re: #44 No Malarkey!

    Justice Roberts wants us to respect his bought and paid for Court.

    [Embedded content]

    You earn it johnny, you don’t demand it

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    Dr Lizardo  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:14:50am

    re: #46 BeenHereAwhile

    That’s one I hadn’t heard before. Very good.

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    The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:14:52am
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    Belafon  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:16:56am

    re: #56 wrenchwench

    Every pregnancy is a serious health risk. Can they force abortions to protect a woman’s life?

    2021
    Number of non-pregnant women who died from pregnancy: 0
    Number of pregnant women who died from pregnancy: 1,205

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    Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:18:49am

    re: #44 No Malarkey!

    Justice Roberts wants us to respect his bought and paid for Court.

    [Embedded content]

    Fuck Roberts and the rest of the Sleazy Six.

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    Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:19:07am
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    No Malarkey!  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:22:05am

    re: #56 wrenchwench

    Every pregnancy is a serious health risk. Can they force abortions to protect a woman’s life?

    Clearly not serious enough for the Court. And doctors aren’t going to be willing to learn whether or not their patient’s health risk was serious enough through a trial which could result in their incarceration. The result will be more horror stories about bleeding women being told to wait in their car until they are close enough to death that the doctor believes that its legally permissible to treat her.

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    Belafon  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:22:06am

    re: #59 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

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    Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:22:13am

    re: #40 Nerdy Fish

    Bull-fucking-shit. That’s the WHOLE FUCKING POINT of paying taxes; those taxes that are paid in benefit EVERYBODY, not just your fat lazy entitled ass.

    A simple pill to cure cancer would be unfair to people like me who suffered through two years of pain, disability and radiation treatment to get clear of it.

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    Nerdy Fish  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:24:03am

    re: #44 No Malarkey!

    Justice Roberts wants us to respect his bought and paid for Court.

    [Embedded content]

    “Chief” Justice Roberts - I use that title loosely, because as events over the past year have shown, you do not control this court, Samuel Alito and the dark money interests that own him (and others) do - first of all, let me state that the following is written, per your request, with all due respect. That is to say, it is written with absolutely no fucking respect at all. You say that accusing the Court of going beyond its proper role is “disturbing.” You know what’s “disturbing,” Mr. Roberts? The fact that six people - SIX, in a country of 350 million souls - are allowed to be the final arbiters of all that is legal or illegal. More to the point, what’s absolutely gobsmacking is that these six people are, according to those six people themselves, supposed to be COMPLETELY UNACCOUNTABLE for their actions to ANYONE. That’s not a democracy, Mr. Roberts; that’s a monarchy. That is far, far beyond any mandate that the Constitution has given you, and so you very much have gone beyond your proper role. As has been stated elsewhere, we will give you respect when you have earned it, not because you demand it.

    Sincerely yours,
    Go fuck yourself.

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    Charles Johnson  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:26:22am

    Mastodon

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    Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:27:44am

    re: #63 No Malarkey!

    Clearly not serious enough for the Court. And doctors aren’t going to be willing to learn whether or not their patient’s health risk was serious enough through a trial which could result in their incarceration. The result will be more horror stories about bleeding women being told to wait in their car until they are close enough to death that the doctor believes that its legally permissible to treat her.

    And there will still be radical Xtians demanding the doctor who treats a suffering woman be sentenced to death. I have relatives demanding that especially female relatives who demand the death penalty for any doctor who performs an abortion.

    I have given up trying to reason with them.

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    Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:27:51am

    re: #46 BeenHereAwhile

    This in 1969.

    [Embedded content]

    Wow I had a lot of those lyrics wrong for.the last 50+ years

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    Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:30:04am

    re: #44 No Malarkey!

    Justice Roberts wants us to respect his bought and paid for Court.

    I can’t read the pages because clicking on them sends me to the Twitter login page.

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    sagehen  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:31:21am

    re: #32 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

    Billionaires shocked to learn they are in a precarious position.

    Super-rich warned of ‘pitchforks and torches’ unless they tackle inequality (The Guardian, today)

    (more)

    good time to re-up

    politico.com
    The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats
    By NICK HANAUER July/August 2014

    And so I have a message for my fellow filthy rich, for all of us who live in our gated bubble worlds: Wake up, people. It won’t last.

    If we don’t do something to fix the glaring inequities in this economy, the pitchforks are going to come for us. No society can sustain this kind of rising inequality. In fact, there is no example in human history where wealth accumulated like this and the pitchforks didn’t eventually come out. You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It’s not if, it’s when.

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    No Malarkey!  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:31:28am

    re: #64 Belafon

    [Embedded content]

    And this claim is false. “gender discrimination” means you can’t discriminate against men for being men anymore than you can women for being women. “racial discrimination” means you can’t discriminate against people of any race, including whites.

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    Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:33:02am

    re: #59 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

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    BeenHereAwhile  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:33:18am

    re: #16 Thanos

    A fairly cogent article about why the Fediverse is flailing right now, and why it might be destined to become B-Chan version X…

    Op-ed: Why the great #TwitterMigration didn’t quite pan out

    - Failing, “because it’s not like twitter.” -

    Mastodon works fine for me, because I don’t expect it to be “twitter.”

    I like to be able to seamlessly move between (1) Just my follows, (2) all posts on my server, and (3) all posts available thru my server’s links with the fediverse. Posts that are not fevered dementia of a fantasy idology of projection.

    I also like that if a post is not in my language, there is usually a link for translation.

    As of late, the Russian and Ukraine post translations have provided good (and bad) background on issues that may go unpublished in other media.

    Whats not to like?

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    Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:35:41am

    re: #43 Dr. Matt

    Mission Accomplished: As an “influencer”, she got the attention she so sorely needs and wants as an “influencer”. Hopefully she gets a real job after she serves her sentence.

    The Twitter meme “Here’s that attention you ordered.”

    The outcome seems satisfactory for everyone involved (except the influencer).

    Sadie Vega-Martinez, who was falsely accused by Sorensen along with her husband Eddie Martinez, told Elle magazine in April she was happy Sorensen had been convicted.

    “After [Sorensen] avoided accountability for years, and then hearing she was found guilty and walked out in handcuffs… yes, justice was served,” Vega-Martinez told Elle.

    Along with jail time, the judge ordered Sorensen to 12 months of probation “during which time she was ordered to have no social media presence, submit to warrantless search and seizure, to include her electronic devices, complete a 4-hour implicit bias training, as well as various fines and fees.”

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    Dr Lizardo  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:36:20am

    re: #71 sagehen

    Yep. That skyrocketing wealth inequality is how you end up with this:

    Because sooner or later, those who have nothing will realize they have nothing left to lose. And they’ll look at those who have everything - and decide to take that everything, one way or another.

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    Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:36:58am

    re: #70 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

    I can’t read the pages because clicking on them sends me to the Twitter login page.

    Ditto

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    Markm1960  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:39:00am

    re: #57 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

    You earn it johnny, you don’t demand it

    Remember Roberts claimed to just call balls and strikes. He never told us he was Angel Hernandez, with an arbitrary ever shifting strike zone that changed from batter to batter.

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    Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:39:14am

    re: #72 No Malarkey!

    And this claim is false. “gender discrimination” means you can’t discriminate against men for being men anymore than you can women for being women. “racial discrimination” means you can’t discriminate against people of any race, including whites.

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    Hecuba's daughter  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:40:19am

    re: #19 Eventual Carrion

    I hope the Jersey Whale capsizes every GOP candidate in the running.

    That would be nice. Of those running, he has the best qualifications, although he is as much a bully as Trump. He probably won’t want to ban books nationwide and I don’t think he ever supported the CRT nonsense.

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    Charles Johnson  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:41:06am

    I think nitter has now been shut down too.

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    No Malarkey!  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:41:44am

    re: #80 Hecuba’s daughter

    That would be nice. Of those running, he has the best qualifications, although he is as much a bully as Trump. He probably won’t want to ban books nationwide and I don’t think he ever supported the CRT nonsense.

    Christie is not going to win the GOP nomination, though I would very much enjoy watching him verbally maul Trump on a debate stage.

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    BeenHereAwhile  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:43:29am

    re: #19 Eventual Carrion

    I hope the Jersey Whale capsizes every GOP candidate in the running.

    Not a big fan of Christie, but my observation is this:

    Christie is a New Jersey guy, New Jersey guys know how to fight with their mouth.

    In a debate, DeSantis doesn’t have a chance.

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    Thanos  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:43:42am

    Regarding how I view the fediverse hurdles: Some days I have the energy to deal with it, some days I don’t, almost all days I’m going to still monitor twitter so I know what the heck is going on.

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    Markm1960  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:44:41am

    re: #67 Charles Johnson

    [Embedded content]

    It’s not like conservatives vocally and angrily criticized Roe for 50 years, Brown for 70 years, Miranda for 50+ years, Obergfell etc…

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    Belafon  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:44:44am

    re: #80 Hecuba’s daughter

    That would be nice. Of those running, he has the best qualifications, although he is as much a bully as Trump. He probably won’t want to ban books nationwide and I don’t think he ever supported the CRT nonsense.

    Christie is, at best, a pre-Trump Republican, he’ll rob you and blame others, he’ll send your kid to an unnecessary war, he’s just not going to get your uncle excited about reliving his childhood days of running over the black kids.

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    EPR-radar  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:44:50am

    re: #44 No Malarkey!

    Dear Mr. Roberts:

    Why should I respect the ‘judicial work’ of the right wing hacks on SCOTUS who are obviously deciding cases as they please and then inventing reasons to get to those conclusions?

    If you feel that is unfair to your and your wingnut colleagues, then try this little challenge — explain how your recent opinion ending affirmative action in colleges is consistent with the original intent of the 14th amendment.

    You can’t, and you know it.

    In hopes this finds you dying of a singularly painful and loathsome disease,

    An extremely annoyed citizen.

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    Hecuba's daughter  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:46:41am

    re: #23 Belafon

    Which is why Facebook running a server is actually trouble for the ecosystem. If they make it workable, and devote Facebook levels of hardware at it, there will be one server that lots of people will join, and it will eventually choke off the rest of it.

    Yep. Always thought FB is the one company that could easily replace Twitter because it knows how to support billions of users. It may be evil as is Zuckerberg, but at least Zuckerberg isn’t on his site ranting daily and engaging directly with Nazis. Mark even has (apparently) a normal family life, married to an intelligent woman he met in college.

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    Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:50:15am

    re: #87 EPR-radar

    Dear Mr. Roberts:

    Why should I respect the ‘judicial work’ of the right wing hacks on SCOTUS who are obviously deciding cases as they please and then inventing reasons to get to those conclusions?

    If you feel that is unfair to your and your wingnut colleagues, then try this little challenge — explain how your recent opinion ending affirmative action in colleges is consistent with the original intent of the 14th amendment.

    You can’t, and you know it.

    In hopes this finds you dying ** of a singularly painful and loathsome disease,

    An extremely annoyed citizen.

    ** quickly

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    teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:51:39am

    Mastodon

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    Barefoot Grin  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:51:47am

    re: #62 Vicious Babushka

    [Embedded content]

    I was just talking with my wife at lunch about the young people I know who told me in 2016 that they hated both HRC and Trump and either didn’t vote or wrote in things like “queen elizabeth.” We both wondered if they now understood the big mistake they had made as they struggle with their loans, women’s reproductive rights, etc.

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    Teukka  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:53:39am

    Oh Wow, RFK Jr. is going down the Operation Denver route…

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    Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:54:43am

    re: #91 Barefoot Grin

    I was just talking with my wife at lunch about the young people I know who told me in 2016 that they hated both HRC and Trump and either didn’t vote or wrote in things like “queen elizabeth.” We both wondered if they now understood the big mistake they had made as they struggle with their loans, women’s reproductive rights, etc.

    DSA members in Los Angeles STILL gloat that they voted for Jill Stein in 2016 and they voted for the Green Stooge in 2020 as well. And now some of them are blaming Biden for the court killing Roe because Biden is Catholic…Go figure…

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    teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:54:44am

    Mastodon

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    Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:55:00am

    re: #86 Belafon

    Christie is, at best, a pre-Trump Republican,… .

    Link

    Christie is the only contender who actually realizes the 2024 election is about one question and one question only: Trump or not Trump.”

    “This is to say, the 2024 GOP primary is not about who has the best 10-point policy plan or who is the most anti-woke. It’s simply about whether or not Republicans want Trump again.”

    “Christie is the only candidate whose strategy and message suggest he accepts this reality—and is acting accordingly.”

    “What this means is that Christie can get on TV at any time he wants because Trump is always in the news.”

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    wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:55:30am

    re: #90 teleskiguy

    [Embedded content]

    Imagine….some….Crow just flies up and takes it!

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    🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:56:19am

    re: #59 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

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    Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:57:05am

    Since the Republicans are letting RFK go after Joe I say let’s have Christie rip up the GOP field because two can play the same game.

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    No Malarkey!  Jun 30, 2023 • 11:57:08am
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    Dr Lizardo  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:01:25pm

    re: #99 No Malarkey!

    Flight risk? With guns firearms and 400 rounds of ammo in his van, I’d think he’s more of a terrorism risk.

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    Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:04:21pm

    The Supreme Court Has Validated Every Bigot Who Ever Called a Talk Show

    The 14th Amendment is now magically and completely converted into a vehicle for white victimhood.

    Charlie Pierce butt-bongoes the Sleazy Six

    Chief Justice John Roberts got the chance to complete the Day of Jubilee he declared in Shelby County. The 14th Amendment is now magically and completely converted into a vehicle for white victimhood. Justice Clarence Thomas gets to take his twisted self-loathing out for another walk. And affirmative action is now as dead as Roger Taney because, you know, colorblind. By deciding Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the carefully manufactured conservative majority on the Supreme Court kept faith with conservatism’s multi-decade alliance with the remnants of American apartheid. As Garrett Epps pointed out on the electric Twitter machine, when Roberts was just starting out, he tried to get Ronald Reagan to abolish affirmative action by executive order. Roberts has been in this for the long haul.

    esquire.com

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    🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:06:05pm

    re: #98 Joe Bacon ✅

    Since the Republicans are letting RFK go after Joe I say let’s have Christie rip up the GOP field because two can play the same game.

    That’s already happening.

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    Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:06:28pm

    Joe Bacon mentioned a couple threads ago about how the Democratic Socialists in his area are so purity pony that they would tank Joe Biden if they could and leave us with Trump (or worse).

    I think (but cannot prove) that DSA chapters in solidly blue areas like Los Angeles work from a sense of privilege. They do not see (or if they do, believe) that any harm will come to them because the GOP is largely a dead-letter in most of the state (Kevin McCarthy notwithstanding).

    In places like mine, the Lincoln and Omaha DSA are much more pragmatic. (The Chadron DSA in my area collapsed, so now I’m a member of Lincoln’s group four hundred miles away.) We don’t have the luxury of ignoring the GOP since they control our Unicameral and the mayor’s office of Omaha (Jean Stothert, R-St. Louis, Mo. because she doesn’t live in Omaha and the state GOP is fighting ousting her).

    So sure, when the 2016 Primary season was going, the three DSA groups here supported Sen. Bernie Sanders; I caucused for him in my county. When it became obvious that Sanders was not going to win, all three groups switched support for Sec’y Hillary Clinton. The idea of the id of the Republican Party becoming President was too much for our DSA because we live under Republican rule.

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    Teukka  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:10:11pm

    re: #94 teleskiguy

    [Embedded content]

    Mastodon

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    jaunte  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:10:50pm

    I got your respect right here.

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    Hecuba's daughter  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:14:45pm

    re: #71 sagehen

    good time to re-up

    politico.com
    The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats
    By NICK HANAUER July/August 2014

    …..

    You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples.

    And the entire GOP is fine with a police state if they are the ones in charge.

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    gocart mozart  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:16:48pm
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    Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:18:00pm

    re: #67 Charles Johnson

    Subtext of John Roberts: You may not exercise your I Amendment right to criticise us.

    Supreme Court decisions have been criticised as long as there’s been a Supreme Court.

    Like all conservatives he wants to rule.

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    gocart mozart  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:20:08pm
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    Shropshire Slasher  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:21:12pm

    SHIT PRESENT - Kick Me (music video)

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    Teukka  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:21:44pm

    New tool dropped: Google Fact Check Tool. Backgrounder on tool: New features coming to Fact Check Explorer

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    Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:22:12pm

    re: #81 Charles Johnson

    I think nitter has now been shut down too.

    Well, the site isn’t shut down but it can’t fetch any information from Twitter.

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    Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:24:14pm

    TPM Josh chimes in on Sleazy E’s latest screwing.

    I will simply note as a general point that while I didn’t know about this new policy until readers started flagging it to my attention, it is not surprising and another of Elon Musk’s really stupid ideas — another shortsighted, petulant and generally self-harming decision that will only hasten Twitter’s longterm decline. The key is that, to paraphrase Adam Smith, there’s a lot of ruin in Twitter. Yes, he’s killing it. But it’s big enough and has those network effects and mass buy-in that the decline will take some time to play out.

    talkingpointsmemo.com

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    Belafon  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:26:19pm

    re: #113 Joe Bacon ✅

    “If you ever wondered what it would be like living in a simulation of the end of the Roman empire” said no one.

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    Hecuba's daughter  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:27:40pm

    re: #108 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

    Subtext of John Roberts: You may not exercise your I Amendment right to criticise us.

    Supreme Court decisions have been criticised as long as there’s been a Supreme Court.

    Like all conservatives he wants to rule.

    Wasn’t his criticism directed against the liberal members of the Court rather than the population at large? Or am I misreading his remarks?

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    jaunte  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:27:52pm

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    Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:28:14pm

    re: #87 EPR-radar

    Dear Mr. Roberts:

    Why should I respect the ‘judicial work’ of the right wing hacks on SCOTUS who are obviously deciding cases as they please and then inventing reasons to get to those conclusions?

    If you feel that is unfair to your and your wingnut colleagues, then try this little challenge — explain how your recent opinion ending affirmative action in colleges is consistent with the original intent of the 14th amendment.

    You can’t, and you know it.

    In hopes this finds you dying of a singularly painful and loathsome disease,

    An extremely annoyed citizen.

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    Charles Johnson  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:28:49pm

    Thing is, I don’t think Elon Musk is being stupid. I think these moves are done intentionally, with full awareness of what the results will be.

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    Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:29:09pm

    re: #114 Belafon

    “If you ever wondered what it would be like living in a simulation of the end of the Roman empire” said no one.

    I read Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was a kid.

    Didn’t think it would ever happen here and damn I was so naive…

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    Barefoot Grin  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:29:31pm

    So, like others here, I won’t sign up for twitter. Also, I cleared my cache and now can’t immediately connect to FB because I don’t remember my password—I’m in no hurry to restart that habit. So basically except for here, I have all of this freedom to disengage and I ask, along with Mark Eitzel “what do I do with my time?”

    Youtube Video

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    Barefoot Grin  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:30:23pm

    re: #118 Charles Johnson

    Thing is, I don’t think Elon Musk is being stupid. I think these moves are done intentionally, with full awareness of what the results will be.

    Yep, sever the information cords.

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    teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:31:53pm

    Mastodon

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    🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:32:48pm

    re: #118 Charles Johnson

    Thing is, I don’t think Elon Musk is being stupid. I think these moves are done intentionally, with full awareness of what the results will be.

    He constantly comes across as a stupid person, so I do think he’s being stupid.
    Destroying Twitter just drives people to other platforms.

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    Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:34:14pm

    re: #122 teleskiguy

    [Embedded content]

    Gee what has priority with the Sleazy Six? Guns or…oh silly me it’s the Guns!

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    🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:34:55pm

    re: #122 teleskiguy

    [Embedded content]

    Just accused? I think it’s obvious how they’ll find, and it’ll be in line with the constitution this time. I don’t like it, but I have no solid argument to support revoking rights based on accusations.

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    austin_blue  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:35:05pm

    re: #3 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

    Not for me. Twitter is still blocked.

    Yup, still blocked. No Stansaid Airport, no Stonekettle.

    I haz a sadz.

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    Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:35:46pm

    re: #93 Joe Bacon ✅

    DSA members in Los Angeles STILL gloat that they voted for Jill Stein in 2016 and they voted for the Green Stooge in 2020 as well. And now some of them are blaming Biden for the court killing Roe because Biden is Catholic…Go figure…

    Huh. How many Catholic judges did Joe Biden appoint to the Supreme Court again?

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    🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:35:51pm

    re: #126 austin_blue

    Yup, still blocked. No Stansaid Airport, no Stonekettle.

    I haz a sadz.

    Stonekettle has a website, and is probably on other social media.

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    Belafon  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:36:16pm

    re: #122 teleskiguy

    Women allowed out of the house will vote for Democrats.

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    teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:38:06pm

    Mastodon

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    Charles Johnson  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:40:11pm

    Mastodon

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    Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:40:12pm

    re: #70 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

    I can’t read the pages because clicking on them sends me to the Twitter login page.

    I can’t either any longer. You have to be logged in to read any tweets which makes Twitter completely useless now.

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    Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:45:19pm

    re: #88 Hecuba’s daughter

    Yep. Always thought FB is the one company that could easily replace Twitter because it knows how to support billions of users. It may be evil as is Zuckerberg, but at least Zuckerberg isn’t on his site ranting daily and engaging directly with Nazis. Mark even has (apparently) a normal family life, married to an intelligent woman he met in college.

    He’ll just sell our democracy for a few bucks. Oh, he’ll sell your personal information for a few bucks, too. He’ll sell anything to the highest bidder without a care in the world what the impact is.

    Yeah, that fucker is as evil as Musk, he just does it differently.

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    darthstar  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:48:23pm

    re: #122 teleskiguy

    Only if they have a dick. We can’t be armin’ the womenfolk because it interferes with the makin’ of the biscuits.

    //

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    Hecuba's daughter  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:49:07pm

    re: #127 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

    Huh. How many Catholic judges did Joe Biden appoint to the Supreme Court again?

    Sotomayor is Catholic. It’s not the religion that matters but whether your rulings are based on the Constitution and our laws or on your Church.

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    Belafon  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:52:30pm
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    Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:54:20pm

    Sweet Golden Parachute from ol’ Screwpert Murdoch!

    Fox News will pay ex-Carlson producer $12 million settlement over network’s ‘treatment of women’

    Abby Grossberg, a former producer for ex-Fox News host Tucker Carlson, will be paid $12 million by the network to conclude a lawsuit she filed over its “treatment of women and minorities in the workplace,” The New York Times reports.

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    Belafon  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:55:52pm

    Once this site is mostly mastadon embeds, this site won’t be very readable at work. I know you talked about Javascript being the issue, Charles, but it has something to do with this site’s version. I can use sites like packtpub.com and im pretty sure they make use of a lot of Javascript. I’m not 100% certain, but I’m sure DailyKos does as well.

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    Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:57:23pm

    Ron DeSantis mercilessly mocked for mimicking Winston Churchill’s ‘Fight them on the beaches’ speech

    rawstory.com

    “As president, I will fight the woke in the corporations, I will fight the woke in the schools, I will fight the woke in the halls of Congress. We will never, ever surrender to the woke mob,” DeSantis said at the Moms for Liberty summit in Philadelphia.

    Some think the portion of the speech mimicked Churchill’s famous speech as he vowed to continue to fight Nazis during World War II: “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”

    One person on Twitter mockingly wrote: “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills;- Winston Churchill. ‘I will fight the Woke’- Wannabe Fascist Ron DeSantis.”

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    Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:58:02pm

    There’s another factor in Chrire: #86 Belafon

    Christie is, at best, a pre-Trump Republican, he’ll rob you and blame others, he’ll send your kid to an unnecessary war, he’s just not going to get your uncle excited about reliving his childhood days of running over the black kids.

    There is another factor for Christie. There are really dumb people in New Jersey, as in every state, but there is little of the proud, aggressive, in your face kind of epic stupid we see in places like Alabama and (regrettably) here in Texas. This probably keeps him from being tempted by the Flat Earth, vaccines-are-Satan type of Republicanism.

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    Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 12:59:48pm

    RFK can’t resist the adulation of his real base — online cranks

    Robert F Kennedy, Jr. cannot help himself. In his quixotic bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, he initially sought to distance himself from the 15-year crusade against vaccines that has defined him as a public figure. But this week he reverted to form, making outrageous claims during a panel discussion that he convened with fellow antivaxers and advertised on his campaign channels.

    “I do not believe that infectious disease is an enormous threat to human health,” Kennedy said on the livestream, a bold statement in the wake of more than a million excess deaths in the US in its first two years. Kennedy also pledged to target medical journals and defund epidemiology if elected, according to Rolling Stone.

    And that was just the beginning.

    He falsely claimed that vaccine research created HIV, the Spanish flu and Lyme disease. He has previously insinuated that HIV doesn’t cause AIDS, and that the only reason all reputable scientists think it does is because his nemesis, White House covid czar, Anthony Fauci nixed funding for research into alternative theories.

    When Kennedy threw his hat into the ring, many observers were surprised that his campaign website was silent on the vaccine issue, as the candidate sought to rebrand himself as a normal Democrat who criticizes corporate power while reminding boomers of his dead relatives.

    Perhaps Kennedy is returning to his antivax roots because the rest of his program is at odds with the Democratic base. He rejects common sense gun reform and instead blames school shootings on antidepressants; he dismisses US defense aid to Ukraine as a NATO proxy war against Russia; he refuses to criticize Donald Trump and says he’s proud the former president likes him.

    alternet.org

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    darthstar  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:00:39pm

    How does someone who’s only thinking of starting a website but doesn’t want to have the gays have standing? How did this case make it this far?

    Mastodon

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    Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:02:13pm

    re: #56 wrenchwench

    Every pregnancy is a serious health risk. Can they force abortions to protect a woman’s life?

    LOL of course they can, and they won’t. The cruelty is the point.

    The class-action lawsuit from Jews and some Christians arguing the state RFRA protects their right to an abortion is being appealed to the Supreme Court by the Indiana AG. Religious freedom (until it clashes with conservativism). Those arguments will be heard in September.

    On this case, The Satanic Temple decided not to get involved with the Jews and Christians, because they do not want to “taint” the case with hair-on-fire accusations that Jews and Christians are in bed with satanists.

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    Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:02:28pm

    Everything You Need To Know About Fox News Host Jesse Watters

    theonion.com

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    Ace Rothstein  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:03:16pm

    re: #44 No Malarkey!

    Justice Roberts wants us to respect his bought and paid for Court.

    [Embedded content]

    With all due respect, fuck you John.

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    Ace Rothstein  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:04:21pm

    re: #57 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

    You earn it johnny, you don’t demand it

    To quote Tony Soprano: “Those that want respect, give respect.”

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    Ace Rothstein  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:07:43pm

    re: #90 teleskiguy

    Uhhhh, student loans don’t just vanish. They are guaranteed by the federal government, and if you default, the debt will hang around your neck literally forever. And you can’t negotiate the debt down either.

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    Belafon  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:08:48pm

    re: #147 Ace Rothstein

    Uhhhh, student loans don’t just vanish. They are guaranteed by the federal government, and if you default, the debt will hang around your neck literally forever. And you can’t negotiate the debt down either.

    That’s the joke, that and his confirmation process.

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    Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:10:11pm

    re: #2 Dr Lizardo

    Don’t know about Germany, but university is free of charge here in Czech Republic. Admission is based on grades and test results, like in Germany.

    It just doesn’t cost anything to go.

    I went to a State university, they are more based on test results and grades, and at least when I went the tuition and expenses did not leave one with crippling debt.

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    Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:10:47pm

    You know, we may be the target of international sanctions if DeSatan or Cheeto come to power and really pursue their promised anti-woke and anti-science agenda.

    For that matter, I think our allies would be fully justified in banning admission for Republicans right now. The UK banned radio-idiot Michael Wiener-Savage several years ago and today’s repugs are an order of magnitude worse. It will be fun to watch them howl about their “constitutional rights” when they are barred from embarrassing us in London (as they invariably do) or vandalizing ancient monuments in Italy.

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    Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:12:19pm

    re: #7 Eclectic Cyborg

    A capitalist system doesn’t work without an exploited underclass.

    THe lack of an exploited class makes it a social market system, namely one in which the market is expected all of society, not just the capitalist class.

    and we don’t like us no socilists here in Floriday

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    Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:14:52pm

    re: #16 Thanos

    A fairly cogent article about why the Fediverse is flailing right now, and why it might be destined to become B-Chan version X…

    Op-ed: Why the great #TwitterMigration didn’t quite pan out

    I joined Mastodon a few monts ago out of curiosity (I was never on Twitter), I must admit I have no idea how to use or take any positive advantage of it and have not been there for weeks.

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    No Malarkey!  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:15:33pm

    Stock market ended the week up sharply, and the NASDAQ had its best first half of a year in decades.

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    Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:15:51pm

    re: #21 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

    “Unintentional suicide” through misadventure would still be investigated by NTSB. Screwing around in front of a turning jet engine is a lack of effective training or failure to fire someone for their own good. In either case, that would be a failure of some aspect of the safety régimé around aviation.

    I will repeat by comment of last week:

    That guy is still ground crew…

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    Dave In Austin  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:16:06pm
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    Dr. Matt  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:17:26pm

    Every “how bad could he be” voter can rot in Hell (if such a place existed).

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    Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:18:02pm

    re: #26 Dr Lizardo

    So Czechia has a muffin baron, Russia is nearly overthrown by a former hot-dog vendor and America by a former purveyor of brand-name steaks.

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    Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:19:00pm

    So this new SCOTUS ruling. Does this mean that if I’m say, a Muslim photographer, I can refuse a request to do graduation photos for a Christian family?

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    Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:19:15pm

    re: #32 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

    Billionaires shocked to learn they are in a precarious position.

    Super-rich warned of ‘pitchforks and torches’ unless they tackle inequality (The Guardian, today)

    (more)

    The sight of pitchfoks and torches will only make them smile, it means they get to break out the extraordinary measures to restore control and order.

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    Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:19:30pm

    re: #115 Hecuba’s daughter

    Wasn’t his criticism directed against the liberal members of the Court rather than the population at large? Or am I misreading his remarks?

    It was at the population at large.

    By the way, you can thank my state AG for using our state’s tax money to end your student loan relief in Biden v Nebraska (the case in question).

    In Justice Roberts’ Friday opinion, he included an unusual plea for Americans to not discount the Supreme Court’s ruling as political.

    “It has become a disturbing feature of some recent opinions to criticize the decisions with which they disagree as going beyond the proper role of the judiciary,” the opinion reads, adding, “our precedent—old and new—requires that Congress speak clearly before a Department Secretary can unilaterally alter large sections of the American economy.”

    He continued: “We have employed the traditional tools of judicial decision-making in doing so. Reasonable minds may disagree with our analysis—in fact, at least three do,” referring to the three liberal justices who dissented.

    (more)

    He explicitly exempts the three liberal justices as “reasonable minds” when referring to criticism. His statement was directed at us, not them.

    yahoo.com

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    Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:20:10pm

    re: #36 Vicious Babushka

    BIDDEN HAS STOLLEN THE ELLECTIONS!!!

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    No Malarkey!  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:21:38pm

    re: #158 Eclectic Cyborg

    So this new SCOTUS ruling. Does this mean that if I’m say, a Muslim photographer, I can refuse a request to do graduation photos for a Christian family?

    As long as you are in an “expressive business,” you can invent whatever religion and religious belief you want and discriminate against anyone your theology says you should.

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    Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:22:20pm

    re: #157 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

    So Czechia has a muffin baron, Russia is nearly overthrown by a former hot-dog vendor and America by a former purveyor of brand-name steaks.

    Big Food is a 3 TRILLION dollar a year industry. It dwarfs Big Pharma, Big Oil and even Big Bullshit (aka advertising and public relations).

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    Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:23:19pm

    re: #39 Vicious Babushka

    Then in the next sentence you say its an “open border”. HOW IS IT OPEN IF 650,000 PILLS WERE SEIZED?

    Actually, DEA and Customs generally never impound more than 10% of the traffic, but the volume is not all just the fault of open borders, it has to do with our drug policies and coddling the pharmaceutial industry and medical practice.

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    Patricia Kayden  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:24:36pm

    re: #17 Belafon

    The top 10% of each high school?

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    Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:25:31pm

    re: #123 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

    He constantly comes across as a stupid person, so I do think he’s being stupid.
    Destroying Twitter just drives people to other platforms.

    He’s being a Libertarian. They destroy everything they take control of (Sears, Honduras, Chile, &c). Libertarianism is a religion. As such it cannot fail, it can only be failed. All those failed libertarian projects? Headed by failures.

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    Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:27:27pm

    re: #67 Charles Johnson

    “It has become a disurbing feature of some recent comments not to welcome their new insect overlords…”

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    Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:28:20pm

    re: #125 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

    Just accused? I think it’s obvious how they’ll find, and it’ll be in line with the constitution this time. I don’t like it, but I have no solid argument to support revoking rights based on accusations.

    The nation frequently jails Christians paedophiles based on an accusation by a prosecutor in advance of a trial. When courts don’t do that, they often ban them from using the Internet.

    As horrible as child rape is, murder is arguably worse.

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    No Malarkey!  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:28:49pm

    re: #165 Patricia Kayden

    The top 10% of each high school?

    Yes

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    Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:31:10pm

    re: #165 Patricia Kayden

    The top 10% of each high school?

    Which is a great system for state schools, but private institutions can now coddle rich scions of donors all they want.

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    Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:31:23pm

    For months now, trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney has been subjected to some of the nastiest harassment and attacks of the internet era—all for merely being trans and helping to promote a beer brand back in April. As Bud Light became the next frontier of the right’s batshit, anti-trans culture war, Mulvaney said in a video Thursday that her life was upended by the hate she received, which has included “more bullying and transphobia than I could have ever imagined” and left her “scared to leave my house.”

    And she’s apparently received no support whatsoever from the company that propelled her into the spotlight.

    “For a company to hire a trans person and then not publicly stand by them is worse, in my opinion, than not hiring a trans person at all—because it gives customers permission to be as transphobic and hateful as they want,” Mulvaney said, without naming Bud Light specifically. She continued, “I’m not telling you this because I want your pity. I’m telling you this because if this is my experience from a very privileged perspective, know that it is much, much worse for other trans people.”

    The influencer explained that she waited to talk about her experience because she hoped the situation would improve, or the company might express public support for her. Neither happened, and the deluge of right-wing threats and attacks targeting Mulvaney only continues to escalate.

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    Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:33:42pm

    Then there is the entire American system and culture of collegiate and high school athletics, which are of course the ticket out of the ghetto or off the farm for a lot of children from less affluent families.

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    EPR-radar  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:34:37pm

    re: #160 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

    In other words, Roberts wants to be an oppressive right wing prick, and wants to be loved for it.

    Not gonna happen.

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    darthstar  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:35:51pm

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    Belafon  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:36:17pm

    re: #165 Patricia Kayden

    The top 10% of each high school?

    Yes, and you would probably believe how much some Republican lawmakers scream about that.

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    EPR-radar  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:37:05pm

    re: #172 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

    Then there is the entire American system and culture of collegiate and high school athletics, which are of course the ticket out of the ghetto or off the farm for a lot of children from less affluent families.

    That’s a messy issue, since many student athletes can only be that because of expensive training etc.. This causes many college sports to skew both white and wealthy (football and basketball being exceptions to this general rule).

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    silverdolphin  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:39:01pm

    re: #17 Belafon

    In Texas, we now require public colleges and universities to accept top 10%. Which is good for minorities in places, like Mesquite, where the cmschools are overwhelming minority. But, since the school system here goes out of its way to punish minorities by not giving them adequate funding, if you were in a school system that wasn’t that well funded, whites tend to have the big advantage with money to get things like regular tutoring and SAT prep tutoring.

    Because of COVID, Caltech stopped using SAT tests for admissions. They used other measures to track a student’s success. The interim results were so positive that the moratorium was extended to 2025. There is a lot of data to use today. And 66% of the undergraduates are either Asian or Hispanic. So DEI is not hurt.

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    Charles Johnson  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:39:14pm

    Twitter seeing ‘record user engagement’? The data tells a different story | ZDNET

    zdnet.com

    Despite Twitter’s owner Elon Musk’s slashing of Twitter’s workforce, Twitter is still a going concern. But as a former Twitter employee said: “You can blow both engines on a jet, and the jet is still going to glide.”

    So far, Twitter’s glide has amounted to an 18.7% traffic decline as of March 2023, according to the web analysis site Similarweb. True, Musk told the BBC that Twitter was seeing record user engagement and that major advertisers were returning. But as David F. Carr, Similarweb senior insights manager, said bluntly: “We’re not seeing it.”

    By Similarweb’s count, Twitter saw a 7.7% traffic year-over-year drop in March alone. In addition, Twitter’s unique visitor web count dropped 3.3% year over year in March. The Twitter Android app’s average daily active users were down 9.8% in March, with monthly active users down 8% year over year. Within the US, monthly active users were down 14% on Android and 15% on iOS.

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    wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:42:55pm

    re: #177 silverdolphin

    Because of COVID, Caltech stopped using SAT tests for admissions. They used other measures to track a student’s success. The interim results were so positive that the moratorium was extended to 2025. There is a lot of data to use today. And 66% of the undergraduates are either Asian or Hispanic. So DEI is not hurt.

    How’s the gender diversity at Caltech?

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    jeffreyw  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:44:05pm

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    silverdolphin  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:44:33pm

    re: #27 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

    Mastodon is already more useful than Twitter. The cargo-cult paid blue-checks make Twitter a mess.

    Wish I could give more for the cargo cult reference. That is exactly what I think is happening for most Trumpers - except instead of believing that a Coke bottle comes from God or that by making an airplane model out of palm trees the good times will return, they follow Trump.

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    teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:48:43pm

    …

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    Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:48:54pm

    re: #135 Hecuba’s daughter

    Sotomayor is Catholic. It’s not the religion that matters but whether your rulings are based on the Constitution and our laws or on your Church.

    I agree, but what Joe was talking about is the local DSA claiming Roe went down because Joe Biden is Catholic.

    So far I haven’t seen him invoke his religious faith (except regrettably in his inauguration). Unlike former President Obama, he specifically left out the non-religious in his speech.

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    teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:49:42pm

    Mastodon

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    wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2023 • 1:51:18pm

    re: #184 teleskiguy

    [Embedded content]

    She should be seated in all photos, because she didn’t have standing.

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    Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:00:09pm

    re: #159 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

    The sight of pitchfoks and torches will only make them smile, it means they get to break out the extraordinary measures to restore control and order.

    There are way more not-billionaires.

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    teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:00:29pm

    Mastodon

    Mastodon

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    A Cranky One  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:02:27pm

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    Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:03:30pm

    re: #158 Eclectic Cyborg

    So this new SCOTUS ruling. Does this mean that if I’m say, a Muslim photographer, I can refuse a request to do graduation photos for a Christian family?

    dude, they’re not gonna hire you //

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    A Cranky One  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:03:46pm

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    Jay C  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:03:53pm

    re: #188 A Cranky One

    [Embedded content]

    Donner Pass Cafe:
    “Have a friend for breakfast!”

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    Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:04:20pm

    re: #91 Barefoot Grin

    I was just talking with my wife at lunch about the young people I know who told me in 2016 that they hated both HRC and Trump and either didn’t vote or wrote in things like “queen elizabeth.” We both wondered if they now understood the big mistake they had made as they struggle with their loans, women’s reproductive rights, etc.

    The entire antipathy towards Hillary Clinton was invented and then magnified by a deaf, opioid-addicted radio talk host who made shit up about the Clintons and claimed it was “real.”

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    Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:04:58pm

    re: #158 Eclectic Cyborg

    So this new SCOTUS ruling. Does this mean that if I’m say, a Muslim photographer, I can refuse a request to do graduation photos for a Christian family?

    As long as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 remains in place, you can’t. The Conservacourt and the Libertarian Party both want that gone, though.

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    Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:06:03pm

    re: #162 No Malarkey!

    As long as you are in an “expressive business,” you can invent whatever religion and religious belief you want and discriminate against anyone your theology says you should.

    this web site case is easier to unmask than the cake baker

    i said at the time if 100 gay couples lined up at the door would that baker really refuse to do all their custom cakes?

    now it’s easier. get a hundred or more gay couples to inundate the ‘web designer’ with requests for quotes. see what happens.

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    teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:06:11pm

    Good news in ski world.

    Mastodon

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    Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:06:47pm

    re: #162 No Malarkey!

    As long as you are in an “expressive business,” you can invent whatever religion and religious belief you want and discriminate against anyone your theology says you should.

    Do expressive businesses use creative accounting?

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    Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:07:40pm

    re: #178 Charles Johnson

    Twitter seeing ‘record user engagement’? The data tells a different story | ZDNET

    zdnet.com

    ‘record’ doesn’t have to mean most ever

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    Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:14:51pm

    Emergency. Everybody to get from street.

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    jeffreyw  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:19:06pm

    I-80 Buffet

    Mastodon

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    Barefoot Grin  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:21:04pm

    re: #192 Vicious Babushka

    The entire antipathy towards Hillary Clinton was invented and then magnified by a deaf, opioid-addicted radio talk host who made shit up about the Clintons and claimed it was “real.”

    I can mark the year as 1993 because I had not left for Japan yet for research and and Bill Clinton had just been elected. My parents were having several of their old church friends for Sunday dinner. The mother of a friend sitting next to me turned and out of nowhere whispered: “aren’t those Clintons horrible.” Hillary was right. There was a vast right-wing conspiracy.

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    Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:21:24pm

    re: #171 Eclectic Cyborg

    For months now, trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney has been subjected to some of the nastiest harassment and attacks of the internet era—all for merely being trans and helping to promote a beer brand back in April. As Bud Light became the next frontier of the right’s batshit, anti-trans culture war, Mulvaney said in a video Thursday that her life was upended by the hate she received, which has included “more bullying and transphobia than I could have ever imagined” and left her “scared to leave my house.”

    And she’s apparently received no support whatsoever from the company that propelled her into the spotlight.

    “For a company to hire a trans person and then not publicly stand by them is worse, in my opinion, than not hiring a trans person at all—because it gives customers permission to be as transphobic and hateful as they want,” Mulvaney said, without naming Bud Light specifically. She continued, “I’m not telling you this because I want your pity. I’m telling you this because if this is my experience from a very privileged perspective, know that it is much, much worse for other trans people.”

    The influencer explained that she waited to talk about her experience because she hoped the situation would improve, or the company might express public support for her. Neither happened, and the deluge of right-wing threats and attacks targeting Mulvaney only continues to escalate.

    And AB/INBEV response is dismal to say the least. They didn’t support her in order to “protect” her privacy. Pure and utter BS.

    In a statement responding to Mulvaney’s video, an Anheuser-Busch spokesperson told CNN on Thursday that, “we remain committed to the programs and partnerships we have forged over decades with organizations across a number of communities, including those in the LGBTQ+ community. The privacy and safety of our employees and our partners is always our top priority. As we move forward, we will focus on what we do best — brewing great beer for everyone and earning our place in moments that matter to our consumers.”

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    austin_blue  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:22:35pm

    re: #128 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

    Stonekettle has a website, and is probably on other social media.

    His website is for his long-format stuff. Only three posts this year.

    He’s on Instagram (registration required) and Etsy (his store). He’s also on Facebook, but rarely posts since moving to Florida. Nothing, really, since 2018.

    So it’s register with Lone Musky and be prepared to get extorted or nil.

    203
    Barefoot Grin  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:25:23pm

    I’ll also keep up with Marcy through her emptywheel site rather than her tweets, though I’m sad about that.

    204
    teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:25:27pm

    Mastodon

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    Nerdy Fish  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:26:04pm

    So we did a Chopped: Family Edition of sorts, where the boys had to cook with ingredients the girls picked, and vice versa. This week was the boys’ turn, next week we’re going shopping for them. We got smoked turkey legs, potatoes, and Cheetos instant mac and cheese cups, and we turned them into this.

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    🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:26:21pm

    re: #202 austin_blue

    Looks like he joined Mastodon, got a lot of followers, and never posted.

    masto.ai

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    teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:31:09pm

    Occasionally Stonekettle will find time to cross post his tweets to his counter•social account. He last posted there five days ago during the crisis in Russia.

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    Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:32:32pm

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    Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:35:22pm

    re: #156 Dr. Matt

    Every “how bad could he be” voter can rot in Hell (if such a place existed).

    We are all rotting in Hell because of them.

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    Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:38:05pm

    re: #161 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

    BIDDEN HAS STOLLEN THE ELLECTIONS!!!

    STOLLEN FOR EVERYONE WHO VOTES!!!

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    wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:38:16pm

    re: #205 Nerdy Fish

    So we did a Chopped: Family Edition of sorts, where the boys had to cook with ingredients the girls picked, and vice versa. This week was the boys’ turn, next week we’re going shopping for them. We got smoked turkey legs, potatoes, and Cheetos instant mac and cheese cups, and we turned them into this.

    [Embedded content]

    That kind of malarkey is how you make family memories, and once in a while, something to eat too.

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    Nerdy Fish  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:41:05pm

    re: #211 wrenchwench

    That kind of malarkey is how you make family memories, and once in a while, something to eat too.

    It tasted pretty good. In hindsight, I would have treated the smoked turkey legs differently; the cut-up chunks turned out a little rubbery, the skin was very tough, and there were a few bits of tendon. But otherwise, we made mashed potatoes for the base, and they were good. The pasta turned out just fine. We made a cheese sauce with the powdered cheese mix, some milk, some butter, and some shredded cheese, and it set up pretty well. The top is crushed Ritz crackers that my son bashed out with a bowl (couldn’t find the rolling pin) and a gallon Ziploc bag. Good flavor, everybody liked it, literally the only requested changes were to the meat and maybe adding some herbs for extra flavor.

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    jaunte  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:43:26pm

    @kevinmkruse.bsky.social

    I waited tables in a couple of restaurants and I can say with confidence that from now on the Supreme Court justices who eviscerated abortion rights, gay rights and student debt relief should probably not think too hard about how their meals were handled on the way to their table.

    I had the same thought earlier today.

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    jaunte  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:44:09pm

    Some people must really enjoy secondhand saliva.

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    austin_blue  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:44:32pm

    re: #199 jeffreyw

    I-80 Buffet

    [Embedded content]

    Dios mio!

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    teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:44:59pm

    Mastodon

    You may have noticed that I’m posting retweets as Mastodon posts. That’s also to help this site out as posting tweets to the comments threads slows the joint down something fierce for mobile devices. I’ve also cut back on posting at the birdsite.

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    wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:45:07pm

    re: #212 Nerdy Fish

    requested changes

    Oooh, they want to see it again!

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    Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:45:52pm

    re: #210 Vicious Babushka

    My oldest sister’s mother in law made wonderful stollen and she knew how I loved butterscotch so she frosted the top with butterscotch icing.

    It was so good once I ate half of it…and got a tummy ache when I was a kid but I did not care…it was sooooooooo goooooooooood!

    219
    Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:47:21pm

    I got a feeling the Sleazy Six are going to be made into a set of voodoo dolls…

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    Nerdy Fish  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:47:23pm

    re: #217 wrenchwench

    Oooh, they want to see it again!

    Yes! The judges, the females of the family, both rated it 4/5, “Would eat again, with changes.” Given the constraints and that neither of us put a ton of forethought into preparation, I thought that was pretty good.

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    wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:51:30pm

    Mastodon

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    nines09  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:52:11pm

    For every player/musician who ever stood in front of people and started to play and either forgot to plug in, unmute tuner, didn’t tune, cold guitar expanded into rogue tuning, discover bad patch cable, dead battery in wireless, or just a pick you forgot about and were wondering where that sound was coming from…Yes sir.

    As house lights fade and the hum rises….my unit is dead….and I spy a cable not plugged in as the intro tries to race past me…long ago and far away, and thus it shall ever be.

    Larkin Poe - Johnny B. Goode

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    teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:54:11pm

    Reminds me of the old old school way we retweeted tweets.

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    teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:58:38pm

    Mastodon

    Mastodon

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    Barefoot Grin  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:58:56pm

    tonight for my wife’s birthday I am making ropa viella vieja. It smells so good.

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    Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jun 30, 2023 • 2:59:55pm

    Florida bill allowing radioactive roads made of potentially cancer-causing mining waste signed by DeSantis
    DeSatan wants to abolish the DoE so he can add used fuel rods to the mix and eventually make the roads self lighting.

    227
    EPR-radar  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:01:40pm

    re: #224 teleskiguy

    I still need to read this ruling, but I strongly suspect it offers no principled way to reject the claims of a racist business owner that he has to exclude blacks from his store because of his ‘religion’.

    228
    teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:02:14pm

    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    Vicious Babushka  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:03:21pm

    THE WOKE RAP starring TFG & special guest Ken Copeland!

    DJT’s Everything Woke REMIX Ft. LIL’ KC - The Remix Bros

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    Belafon  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:03:44pm

    re: #227 EPR-radar

    I still need to read this ruling, but I strongly suspect it offers no principled way to reject the claims of a racist business owner that he has to exclude blacks from his store because of his ‘religion’.

    They don’t want to go that far. They just don’t want the icky stuff.

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    Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:04:02pm

    So Phony Stark is turning the “public square” into a pay-to-playground, going so far as to erect a privacy fence so the only way you can see what’s going on is to pay for the privilege. And before you rush to say that signing up is free, that’s true right now. Will that still be true in another six months when Elmo realizes that not everybody is rushing to join his walled off funhouse and starts trying to make up for lost ad revenue dollars by charging for even basic features?

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    Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:06:10pm

    re: #230 Belafon

    They don’t want to go that far. They just don’t want the icky stuff.

    I disagree. They DO want to go that far. They just need a good enough excuse to do it.

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    Hecuba's daughter  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:06:29pm

    re: #193 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

    As long as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 remains in place, you can’t. The Conservacourt and the Libertarian Party both want that gone, though.

    What if someone didn’t want to design a website for a couple like Loving who were the plaintiffs in the Loving vs Virginia case?

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    A Cranky One  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:07:18pm

    Want.

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    wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:07:39pm

    re: #230 Belafon

    They don’t want to go that far. They just don’t want the icky stuff.

    There are a lot of religious arguments against women. Many with ‘icky’ included.

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    sagehen  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:07:50pm

    re: #227 EPR-radar

    I still need to read this ruling, but I strongly suspect it offers no principled way to reject the claims of a racist business owner that he has to exclude blacks from his store because of his ‘religion’.

    oh, that would even give them another precedent to overturn, happy day.

    Lester Maddox didn’t want to abide by the Civil Rights Act at his restaurant, so he tried to claim it was his religious beliefs. Went all the way to the Supreme Court, who did not side with him.

    He then closed the restaurant, because just no way in hell was he going to let n-clangs! sit in his chairs, eat off his plates with his silverware, uh uh won’t do it.

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    Belafon  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:11:22pm

    For the supergeeks:

    Microsoft Research Lab has unveiled what it’s calling the first-ever analog optical computer programmed to speedily solve optimization problems. Microsoft researchers said the Analog Interactive Machine (AIM) system combines binary and continuous variables to facilitate a more expressive abstraction than heuristic algorithms can achieve. They induce photons to execute simple math operations like addition and multiplication by exploiting their ability to interact with the material through which they travel. The team established a physical system that uses optics and electronics to perform vector-matrix multiplications and miniaturized its components to fit on centimeter-scale processors.

    interestingengineering.com

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    gocart mozart  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:11:55pm
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    Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:11:56pm

    re: #226 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

    Florida bill allowing radioactive roads made of potentially cancer-causing mining waste signed by DeSantis
    DeSatan wants to abolish the DoE so he can add used fuel rods to the mix and eventually make the roads self lighting.

    Coal ash, already allowed as paving material, is usually radioactive and there is a sizable body of scientific literature on the subject.
    Coal Ash - The Other Radioactive Waste
    This is because radioactive trace elements, thorium and uranium, do not combust when the cial burns and become concentrated in the ash.

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    A Cranky One  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:15:56pm

    Looks like fun party to me.

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    Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:20:25pm

    re: #227 EPR-radar

    I still need to read this ruling, but I strongly suspect it offers no principled way to reject the claims of a racist business owner that he has to exclude blacks from his store because of his ‘religion’.

    For now the Civil Rights Act of 1964 still provides that protection. However, I imagine it will be challenged soon, since both the Republican and Libertarian Parties are opposed to the act.

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    🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:21:03pm

    re: #240 A Cranky One

    [Embedded content]

    Looks like fun party to me.

    I feel like that must be fake, but if it isn’t, it’s nice that the killer dictators got sandwiched between a clown and an ape.

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    Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:23:02pm

    re: #241 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

    For now the Civil Rights Act of 1964 still provides that protection. However, I imagine it will be challenged soon, since both the Republican and Libertarian Parties are opposed to the act.

    They seem to have found a workaround with the help of their paid mouthpieces on the SCOTUS bench: In absence of the ability to abolish the law outright, they’ll simply riddle it with so many legal loopholes that it’s effectively unenforceable.

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    Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:23:28pm

    re: #233 Hecuba’s daughter

    What if someone didn’t want to design a website for a couple like Loving who were the plaintiffs in the Loving vs Virginia case?

    They invoke the I Amendment as the reason the Civil Rights Act is unconstitutional.

    Libertarians’ principle argument against the Civil Rights Act is it denies freedom of association.

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    nines09  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:24:23pm

    I understand. It sucks. Bozo Boy Elon Rich Daddy torched a lot of good works by a lot of good people.
    It ain’t coming back.
    Who would buy this fragged wasteland?
    It’s suckers and they shall serve the suckers just what the suckers demand.
    A paid for Badge.
    Arrogant twat can’t even understand what he bought.
    Still there will be good there.
    Made by the true contributors.
    But as they get farked, well…
    Bitch moan cry and complain, but Twitter WAS an almost instantaneous way to connect and respond in real time for THE FUCKING WORLD.
    Na.
    Fuck you insects.
    Elon has larger worlds to burn.
    And sell to the worst among us.
    Just as that bubble gum and bailing wire sub imploded, Twitter is 3/4’s there.
    And in unrelated news, I bought a box of Cracker Jacks, and in the bottom was a Clarence Thomas figure.
    Huh.
    Imagine this.
    It’s a black guy who drags America back 100 years as the dark money flows and people forget how to fight.

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    Patricia Kayden  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:24:31pm

    re: #59 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

    White, straight males can and do file discrimination claims and are protected by Civil Rights laws. Walsh is a fruitcake to argue otherwise.

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    Charles Johnson  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:25:11pm

    Somebody wrote a little script that will display any Bluesky link.

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    A Cranky One  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:25:17pm

    re: #242 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

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    Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:25:56pm

    All I really feel about Twitter’s latest move right now is annoyance, as I’d already gotten over the spike of anger when they instituted the “Three tweets is your limit” policy last year (before Elmo took over) and any delight I felt over that being abolished disappeared when they cut off the search feature. So now I’m just miffed that the convenience of directing people to a tweet is gone. That I can’t even screenshot a funny tweet to share with a friend or access one that they might send me.

    250
    Charles Johnson  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:29:23pm

    Somebody else made a page where you can see the “firehose” of Bluesky posts as they appear and filter them by various options.

    251
    Charles Johnson  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:29:59pm

    Bluesky is ostensibly closed to the public but if you know how to access the API it’s wide open.

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    🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:30:10pm

    re: #248 A Cranky One

    This is the closest amazon listing I could find to that.

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    Charles Johnson  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:33:21pm

    Nitter is still dead. I think they may have shut down its access to the “unofficial” Twitter API.

    254
    A Cranky One  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:37:10pm

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    teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:37:16pm

    re: #247 Charles Johnson

    They’re really going with “skeets,” huh?

    Oooh-kay.

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    ckkatz  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:37:23pm

    Fwiw - Musk is claiming that the shut down is temporary. And was due the cost of content draining affecting their system.

    Elon Musk @elonmusk 2h
    Replying to @TitterDaily
    Temporary emergency measure. We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!

    link: twitter (dot) com/elonmusk/status/1674865731136020505

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    Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:38:09pm

    re: #251 Charles Johnson

    Bluesky is ostensibly closed to the public but if you know how to access the API it’s wide open.

    Remind me again, Bluesky is Jack’s “Free speech should be free, man!” effort that he says is supposed to be what Twitter was originally intended to be before he realized that he really likes being rich and is supposed to finally free us all from the drudgery of using the service he strong-armed Elmo into buying off him…right?

    /

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    Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:38:25pm

    re: #256 ckkatz

    Arrogant, lying motherfucker says what?

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    A Cranky One  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:38:27pm

    re: #252 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

    This is the closest amazon listing I could find to that.

    [Embedded content]

    Next you’ll tell me this isn’t real.

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    Targetpractice  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:38:57pm

    re: #256 ckkatz

    Fwiw - Musk is claiming that the shut down is temporary. And was due the cost of content draining affecting their system.

    Elon Musk @elonmusk 2h
    Replying to @TitterDaily
    Temporary emergency measure. We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!

    link: twitter (dot) com/elonmusk/status/1674865731136020505

    Yeah, I’ve seen this song and dance before. It’s amazing how often an “emergency measure” can become permanent when the people in charge decide that it’s “better” that way.

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    Nerdy Fish  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:39:26pm

    re: #253 Charles Johnson

    Nitter is still dead. I think they may have shut down its access to the “unofficial” Twitter API.

    Seems like they made the “unofficial” API authenticated:

    github.com

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    austin_blue  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:41:25pm

    re: #226 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

    Florida bill allowing radioactive roads made of potentially cancer-causing mining waste signed by DeSantis
    DeSatan wants to abolish the DoE so he can add used fuel rods to the mix and eventually make the roads self lighting.

    The solution to pollution is dilution!

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    Charles Johnson  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:41:31pm

    re: #255 teleskiguy

    They’re really going with “skeets,” huh?

    Oooh-kay.

    Irritating af. I’m just gonna keep saying “posts” and hope it’s a fad.

    264
    KGxvi  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:44:08pm

    re: #36 Vicious Babushka

    “none of the attorneys on the call minded my words…”

    that sounds like a waiver of attorney-client privilege for conversation about that call after it was made.

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    teleskiguy  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:45:42pm

    Mastodon

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    KGxvi  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:46:06pm

    re: #62 Vicious Babushka

    unless that young lady was from Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, or Michigan… Hillary Clinton didn’t need her vote. Because our system is archaic and dumb.

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    ckkatz  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:46:08pm

    And the folks who post skeets are ‘skeeters’?

    Skeeter Davis - Gonna get along without you now (HQ)

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    Charles Johnson  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:46:41pm

    skeeet.xyz

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    gocart mozart  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:46:56pm
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    jaunte  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:47:17pm

    re: #265 teleskiguy

    Elevating the catturd contingent will render any data useless, so his solution is coming.

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    wrenchwench  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:47:28pm

    re: #255 teleskiguy

    They’re really going with “skeets,” huh?

    Oooh-kay.

    Beats ‘toots’, but not by much. I hope to remember to call them all ‘posts’.

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    Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:48:10pm

    In state demographic changes:

    The smallest incorporated municipality in Nebraska (Monowi), the population has changed from 1 to 2 (an increase of 100%).
    The second-smallest incorporated municipality (Gross) has increased from 2 to 3.

    The biggest drop by percentage was the Village of Winslow (from 103 to 19).
    The second-biggest drop was the Village of Hamlet (from 57 to 27).

    In cities, the largest increase was Bellevue (suburb of Omaha) +28.00%, Papillion (suburb of Omaha) +27.87%, and Omaha +18.85%.

    The top-most populous cities all increased in population. Numbers 11 (North Platte) and 13 (Scottsbluff) decreased.

    My own village went from 128 to 95 (-25.78%).

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    EPR-radar  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:49:46pm

    re: #243 Targetpractice

    They seem to have found a workaround with the help of their paid mouthpieces on the SCOTUS bench: In absence of the ability to abolish the law outright, they’ll simply riddle it with so many legal loopholes that it’s effectively unenforceable.

    I’ve skimmed this opinion.

    As expected, it is a rehash of all the old arguments against public accommodation law dating back at least a century and a half. Right wing nut jobs just need a “sympathetic plaintiff” with a “sincere religious belief” and then they can pretend that “public accommodation” is the same thing as “coerced speech” (it isn’t, of course).

    For now, a Kluxer with a “no blacks on the premises” sign is an insufficiently sympathetic plaintiff.

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    nines09  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:52:07pm

    re: #245 nines09

    Let me put it a different way.
    Twitter was one of the first apps that was blocked when shit was going down in nations.
    Because Twitter was like Dick Tracys two way wrist radio.
    Remember how far out that was?
    It was a tool for good things. For freedom. Information. Truth.
    Twitter was powerful. Reached across nations, time zones and just sang.
    Then the Nazi’s showed up, understanding just what it could be, and strapped up.
    Thus, it is as it is. Elon understands that part of it.

    In much simpler terms, someone I follow or they follow me, could “ring” me. Call me. Let me know something, show me something.
    Talk to me and I, them.
    Like a phone call.
    That simple.
    And now the pigs have the trough.
    All Elon, all the time.
    Elon wants.
    That’s it.
    He. Wants.
    And his “followers” just want a taste of that.

    Gone, baby. Gone.

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    HRH Stanley Sea  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:53:40pm

    Succession fans!

    tiktok.com

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    Patricia Kayden  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:54:02pm

    re: #269 gocart mozart

    They are demonizing LGBTs with gusto. Disgusting.

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    ckkatz  Jun 30, 2023 • 3:56:17pm

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    Backwoods Sleuth  Jun 30, 2023 • 4:19:13pm

    re: #277 ckkatz

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    Moe Avattar  Jun 30, 2023 • 4:59:20pm

    re: #269 gocart mozart

    Leni Riefenstahl libel (and that’s not easy to achieve)


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