#NeedsMoreLikes

[Sally_Mahoney]

Judge tosses Trump’s performative lawsuit against Hillary and the DNC

I think the phrases “what you just said doesn’t have anything to do with the subject at hand” and “what you provided as evidence doesn’t support any of the conclusions that you made” apply to 95% of the verbage falling out of Republican politicians’ mouths these days.

[milliefink]

Chokepoint Capitalism: how Big Tech and Big Content captured creative labor markets and how we'll win them back

The peasants who overthrow monarchies are not hypocrites because they lived under feudalism.

(even better in the context of the thread)

[smulder]

Principal filmed assaulting an autistic 11-year-old boy

California is the Florida of California.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Lindsay Graham promises a National ban on abortion if the GOP wins in November

Ignore the predictions. VOTE. Even if a prediction makes you feel confident and secure. VOTE. Even if it shouldn’t be able to pass a veto. VOTE.

[DukeTrout]

Man who threatened Merriam-Webster over gender definitions pleads guilty

I’d be equally satisfied if the thesaurus was hurled, tossed, flung or pitched.

Stop, gather, and collect how clever this post is!

[gatto]

Late Stage GOP Fascists Events (Part 3)

[racist-fox]

a right and proper meme edit

[Sally_Mahoney]

Top Russian scientist dead in mysterious fall at Moscow Aviation Institute

If they weren’t billionaire oligarchs I’d say that’s a possibility. But these guys have minions and henchpersons to do their balcony shenanigans and dumb ladder/beer cooler stunts.

[Murgatroyd]

Watch the Tuned Mass Damper inside a Taipei skyscraper react to this weekend's 6.9-magnitude earthquake

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[Sally_Mahoney]

Russian recruitment officer in intensive care after draftee shoots him

Silly draftee doesn’t know defenestration is the only acceptable way to deal with troublesome public officials in Russia.

[anothernewbbaccount]

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine (Part 2)

You’d think the Russians, of all people, might have heard one or two stories about what happens to armies that go in with inadequate supplies and not enough time to wrap the campaign up before winter hits. [image]

Shame the graphic in the post above does not reappear here, but anything that oh so pertinently uses what Edward Tufte called “Probably the best statistical graphic ever drawn” needs more likes.

Here’s the graphic:

[gero]

Britain's new prime minister has a 15% approval rating

The Daleks had an understandable and clearly-articulated policy, a firm commitment to their mission, and a certain level of effectiveness. Moreover, they weren’t beholden to a mob of shadowy plutocrats, nor dominated by a hereditary clique of bumbling public schoolboys. When you think about it, there’s a lot to like about the Daleks, at least in comparison with the Tory party. As for the idea that the Conservatives have something worse in reserve, this is beyond any doubt. The ones whose names…

[Brainspore]

Still use that one in my Information Design class.

[milliefink]

Marjorie Taylor Greene's husband divorcing her

That really was the final straw. They’re just from different worlds. He was born a shoot-elk-from-a-zeppelin man and he’ll die a shoot-elk-from-a-zeppelin man. It was bad fate that he opened his heart to a dyed in the wool shoot-hogs-from-a-helicopter woman but the heart wants what the heart wants. When their eyes locked through their individual scopes as they were hovering over that petting zoo, there were fireworks. Sure, the explosions were because she shot his blimp down with a tracer round.…

[Sally_Mahoney]

California to stop harassing black people for crossing streets

I’ve never in my life under any any circumstance seen someone crossing the street and thought “My god, someone stop that maniac!”, but then I’ve never been a police officer so maybe I shouldn’t judge

[Sally_Mahoney]

A fluoride conspiracy theorist secretly helped kids get cavities

FUCKING EXACTLY. This is all part of the undermining of expertise that has been happening in many aspects of life. When one civil servant schmuck thinks he knows more than generations of public health experts, dentists, scientists, epidemiologists, and mountains of peer-reviewed research, we have a real problem. The benefits of fluoridated water are on par with vaccination in terms of unequivocal, rock solid, iron clad scientific success. Enormous benefits with extremely low risks. It’s as go…

[smulder]

@Akimbo_NOT

If the editing out of key info on FOXNews is your drinking game then I have a liver for sale.

[edgore]

Angela Lansbury dead at 96

Of natural causes, she wrote.

[gero]

For a succinct summary of the omnishambles that is the UK nuclear programme.

"Significant radioactive contamination" found at St. Louis elementary school 

All the early nuclear programmes were nightmares. Though the UK probably pips the US in screwing up each and every decision. Let’s build a reactor. Okay - but we don’t know how to cool it. Let’s use air - that’s simple! And we can use graphite as the moderator - oh dear, it’s caught fire. Take two. This graphite stuff is pretty good, but let’s use carbon dioxide - now it can’t possibly catch fire. Fantastic - how do you do enrichment again? Not a clue - let’s use natural uranium. Best protect …

[Sally_Mahoney]

A kid painted a nice mural at her high school. Angry parents called it witchcraft and left her in tears at a "hate fest" school board meeting

The only correction I would make it to point out is that they are not winning. It may seem like it, but they are not. Winners are in a position of strength, not weakness. It is weakness to gang up on a school child about a mural. It is weakness to resort to violence to get your way. It is weakness to scream at people who cannot scream back. It is weakness to attack the weakest and least protected in society (girls, gays, immigrants, trans, BIPOC). If they were “winning”, this wouldn’t have ma…

[DukeTrout]

Mad at Ukraine, Musk takes ball and goes home

He’ll end up tweeting from an undisclosed bunker somewhere in New Zealand. The last human left on Twitter. Buried under millions and millions of bots. Bots that are rudimentary self-aware by then and use his tweets for fun in a game that is basically a reversed Turing test.