#NeedsMoreLikes

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@NukeML

I think you mean “Pedant Pendant”

[Melizmatic]

Seriously though:

Minnesota rep prioritizes son's taste buds over access to nutritious meals for thousands of students

it might be good to know how much food is currently being wasted at schools. Don’t care. Feed them. what percentage of kids pick the good bits off the plate and toss the rest Don’t care. Feed them. we might need to address the broader issue of child malnourishment before pumping more money into wasted veggies Don’t care. Feed them. Your objections have been duly noted. But it’s LONG past time we stopped listening to the constant objections which led to NOTHING ELSE BEING DONE. It’s a…

[Sally_Mahoney]

Now JK Rowling grossly equates trans people to her "Death Eaters"

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[milliefink]

Twitter's premium advertisers flee as interest in the platform evaporates

Backup solutions have to be developed for twitter. Write your business social media manager. Write your university IT, write your city council, spin up your own Mastodon instance. We have a short window to transition to something else while Twitter is still functional. If you wait until it collapses, it’ll be too late. Make every organization you are in regular contact with aware that their social media posts are on a platform that puts their communications in the same feed as extremists and sc…

[Mindysan33]

The adorable scamps of the Republican Circus

“Still problems” is a hell of a way to refer to things like how synagogue attacks have been on the rise, or a deadly pandemic just fell totally disproportionately on certain races, or how America’s last president literally started taking away children and putting them in cages based on race. How much more could you declare that you’re in a position of privilege than minimizing those – and yet “woke” people are supposed to be a problem for honestly pointing that out? “The problems of racial in…

[Sally_Mahoney]

Federal judge blocks Wyoming abortion ban

Agree that it shouldn’t be up to lawmakers to define health care, but it shouldn’t be up to courts either. How about we let healthcare professionals decide what counts as healthcare? I vote for that

[teknocholer]

https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/asking-for-a-correction-jk-rowling-podcast-s-pr-firm-mistakenly-confirms-her-transphobia/244678/56?u=teknocholer

[NukeML]

Wow, a ‘needs more likes’ for a vanished post! I don’t think I’ve seen that before.

[teknocholer]

Unfortunately it seems to have been collateral damage when the post it replied to was wiped out. I’ll leave it here anyway. It’s complete except for the included gif.

[NukeML]

Seems I missed some fireworks then

[teknocholer]

Or some tedium, depending on your point of view.

[Mitchell]

@NukeML

Wow, a ‘needs more likes’ for a vanished post! I don’t think I’ve seen that before.

Think there’s a badge for that?
Thanks @teknocholer, looks like we’ve gone boldly were no Boingers have gone before…

[milliefink]

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@NukeML

A police officer had his head cut off? Oops, on further review he was in fact decapod-ated

[Sally_Mahoney]

Finland invites you for a free masterclass in happiness

In two words, social democracy. There’s a reason that European countries, Australia, Canada, and similar places all rank so much higher than the US and it isn’t a mystery. You’re happier when you don’t have to worry about paying for healthcare. You’re happier when your regulators aren’t fully captured by industry. You’re happier when all sides of government are functional and debating policy, rather than one side trying to burn everything to the ground. You’re happier when women have reprod…

[chgoliz]

Before school shooting in Nashville, shooter warned a friend, who tried to warn police — but was ignored

Yeah shifting the conversation to a semantic argument about whether it’s “really the guns” is just a tactic to muddy the waters and prevent people from reacting like normal humans to their terrible terrible situation and doing something to stop it. Texas Poetry: My father loved guns. When he was angry enough he’d grab my mother and shove her against a wall. Sometimes he’d grab a gun. “This b*** wants me to kill her” he’d scream. Guns never protected me. He got better. He got worse. Good times…

[Sally_Mahoney]

Tech leaders, scientists, etc., call for pause in AI development

You may be right (maybe) but it doesn’t NEED to in order to potentially create major, widespread societal problems in the very near future. Consider just one relatively mundane example: a few Wall Street firms playing around with sub-prime derivatives and similar novel financial instruments that they didn’t necessarily understand caused a major global recession not very long ago. Now just imagine when all the firms are using the next generation of totally opaque and incomprehensible AI to do a…

[Murgatroyd]

Rep. Jamaal Bowman is screaming mad about gun violence,

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[Sally_Mahoney]

Low-volume alcohol consumption has no impact on longevity

“Groundbreaking New Study Shows [substance] Isn’t That Bad For You If You Don’t [ingest] Too Much Of It”

[gero]

Meta fired all the support staff and now influencers have no-one to turn to

“Are you recasting your very sense of personal identity in the terms that marketers use to hock commodities? Well, you should be, because this is the only form of existence that matters in the all-encompassing capitalist dystopia we now live in.”