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[Sally_Mahoney]

The blonde, white Capitol rioter who bragged her race and status would keep her from prison is sentenced to 60 days in prison

It sure does seem like they’ve given her a pro forma sentence just so they could avoid validating her entirely accurate assumption that they’d likely let her walk. The courts are still not quite willing to let the quiet part be said out loud yet.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Amusing ourselves to death, a spot-on future prediction from 1985

"What problem does the information solve?” just my opinion, but while the answer ( at those events ) will range from the one he gave to “making lots of money” i think other hats in the ring are curiosity and human connection. or as huxley said via the op: amusement. or as orwell said via the op: fear look at why people are “here” on boing boing: trading in information and i think it’s a mixture of all of those things: status in having information faster, curiosity about the world, discussio…

[LurksNoMore]

After posting video depicting violent murder of Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Paul A. Gosar to be ejected from congressional committees

Gosar the Barbaric will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the third reconciliation of the last of the McConnell sycophants, they chose a new form for him: that of a violent racist! Many Greenes and Boeberts knew what it was to be censured in the depths of the committee that day, I can tell you!

[milliefink]

A restaurant profits from anti-masker 1-star review in the most devilish way

perhaps boingboing could offer up the t-shirts as one of their endless Pre-Black Friday deals

[Sally_Mahoney]

Student creates an incredibly detailed "cheat sheet" for final exam

Teacher here. Allowing students to bring in a “cheat sheet” is one of the dirtiest tricks that we pull. If we said, “review the material and take detailed notes,” we’d be widely ignored, but if we say they can bring in a cheat sheet, students produce masterpieces like this.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Watch: Matt Gaetz says he will "take power" after 2022 election

I’ve seen enough Batman stuff to know these kinds of supervillain team-ups never last. Sooner or later the Penguin gets a little too greedy or Catwoman makes the Riddler jealous just before Joker stabs everyone else in the back.

[smulder]

How exactly did Dubstep die

Not with a bang but a wubwub.

[Sally_Mahoney]

In "demeaning" competition, teachers scramble to scoop up dollar bills for school supplies

In this country it’s important to humiliate teachers, because they’re doing something they love for the betterment of people around them, rather than contributing directly to the production of commodities to enrich private owners.

[Immutable_Mike]

Florida man and woman find 80,000 bees behind their bathroom wall

And though the bees were rather small, they had to count them all. Now they know how many bees it takes to fill their bathroom wall.

[ChuckV]

Cruise ships experiencing COVID outbreaks despite 'safety protocols'

I can’t believe this is actually news this week. LISTEN UP– I worked at a major cruise line for a number of years. As long as the pandemic is going on, DO NOT BOARD A CRUISE SHIP. Multiple times different cruises lines have tried to re-open, and every time there was a Covid outbreak. At the beginning, they shut down one of our ships, cleaned it top to bottom, started the next cruise, and there was IMMEDIATELY another outbreak. This was early on, of course, so maybe they missed some things, but…

[chgoliz]

Let’s get this to “Great Post” level!

On calling women "females" (and why you shouldn't)

Iron Man was a Fe-Male. Pass it on.

[smulder]

Fish rained from the sky in Texas this week

Please Lord, send potato wedges.

[Tamsin_Bailey]

2021: The Year in Review

All this list needs is “voted most likely to succeed,” “class clown,” “too cool for school” and…oh wait, I’m thinking of a yearbook.

[Immutable_Mike]

This excited doggo doesn't let head-high snow get in the way of playing frisbee

Apparently the super slow music is a “popular trend” being done by the “kids” these “days”. I grow old I grow old, I shall wear my trousers rolled.

This excited doggo doesn't let head-high snow get in the way of playing frisbee

Is that style of music called pruf rock?

[Sally_Mahoney]

NYT declares "bullet" killed 14 year old girl, not the cop that fired it

Of course, only cops get the magic self-firing bullets. Around the country, brown people, in contrast, have the magic disappearing gun seen only by cops before self-firing bullets self-actuate and save the cop from the danger of their insidious brownness. /S

[DukeTrout]

A cat was accidentally donated to a thrift store along with the chair he was hiding in

After the rescue, the family is now anxiously awaiting Montequilla’s revenge. [Black Cat GIF]

[ChuckV]

An unsteady Ron DeSantis seemed to struggle today while speaking

I’ll save my prayers for those of us who are without the blood of thousands of our constituents on our hands. I’ll pray for those of us who are doing everything we can to keep others and ourselves safe - by wearing masks, keeping our distance, getting vaccinated, sharing truthful information, and just waiting to do whatever is next asked of us - so we can end this plague, not others’ lives. I pray the death cult politicos reach complete enlightenment, and stop killing their people with lies an…

[MerelyGifted]

Thanks much, Luv.

[LurksNoMore]

Worth a bitter but heartfelt laugh!

'Cyber Ninjas' shut down after judge fines them $50k/day

Except instead of the Night of the Long Knives we got the Years of the Short Fingers.

[smulder]

Watch a very strange video of Suzanne Vega performing "Tom's Diner" in the metaverse

Stop trying to make metaverse happen. It’s not going to happen.