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[anon61221983]

How about plaster?

Cynthia Plaster Caster

[Nightflyer]

Video surfaces of Canadian Prime Minister in blackface

There is still the question of why a black actor COULD NOT play the role. Doesn’t make it and the society that produced that reality any less racist. That’s the whole point, it’s racist due to the blackface connection, and it’s racist because of who is being denied roles that are specifically characters of color. We’re STILL having these issues, where “big names sell” being used as the lazy excuse for not casting characters of color or LBGQT actors. Take Pose, a show about LBGQT lives - the e…

[anon61221983]

[MalevolentPixy]

https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/video-surfaces-of-canadian-prime-minister-in-blackface/151776/221?u=malevolentpixy

[Melz2]

https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/video-surfaces-of-canadian-prime-minister-in-blackface/151776/231?u=melz2

[anon61833566]

Boing Boing subscription?

Is it too soon to ask about an ad-free version of Boing Boing available as a subscription? I have no idea how much the publishers make from the ads that appear when I visit the site. I don’t need to know. Boing Boing is a commercial website with a lot of traffic and I know that’s not free. But it’s getting really hard to read the site anymore. The front page and the articles are so cluttered with ads that cause the content to scroll off the screen while I’m reading it that I have to repeate…

[Purplecat]

Republic of Lies: the rise of conspiratorial thinking and the actual conspiracies that fuel it

My own hypothesis is that conspiracy theories are a pathology of class consciousness. Feel like there’s a nameless, faceless THEY that makes all the calls, that lies to you all the time, and that absolutely does not have your best interests at heart? Well… …you aren’t wrong. If you are a normal person there is a conspiracy against you, there has always been a conspiracy against you. The system does not have your best interests in mind. The system (even without any malice from its actors!) sim…

[LutherBlisset]

Way, way to few likes:

Video surfaces of Canadian Prime Minister in blackface

I’d say the same thing that I’d say to someone who really likes Swastikas but doesn’t want to be affiliated with Nazis. Too bad things worked out this way, but people have to weigh their priorities. Just realize that if you don’t want to be read by others as racist, you shouldn’t wear blackface. If a person decides their halloween costume looking a certain way is more important than whether other people think they are racist, they can deal with the fact that people think they are racist. Maybe …

As a white German-speaking European who also lived and worked in several African countries, I feel this is the concise summary for a 300+ posts topic.

ETA: please go to the post and like this, including the last line.

[davide405]

For perfectly capturing the mood…

Pelosi says House to begin 'official impeachment inquiry' on Donald Trump

You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it’s hotlining a bill in the Senate. You reach down, you try to flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise stays upright no matter what you do. You try offering compromise and later Impeachment, but you end up laying on your back in the House, your belly baking in the hot sun, beating your own legs trying to turn yourself over, but you can’t, not without the Senate’s help. But they’…

[davide405]

For brilliant book-ending of the leadership of the Republican party.

Trump repeats claim that impeaching him will lead to civil war

A comment in the Post today: Lincoln’s attitude: We must have a Civil War to save the Republic, even if it kills me. Trump’s attitude: We must have a Civil War to save me, even if it kills the Republic.

[DukeTrout]

Thieves apologize profusely and return stolen Indigenous artwork

This is local. The original story said the hand was stolen. But a later story detailed video footage that suggested someone was hanging from the hand, and it came off. That suggests it wasn’t destruction (they could have done much more damage) or scoring (bringing home something to boast about) but stupidity. Since the hand has been returned, all is well. And I think the museum is right to not pursue charges. The hand is back, and maybe in the future if something like this happens again an…

A very thoughtful post on a topic that is too easily humorized.

[davide405]

For a wonderful exercise in missing hyphens

AP's how-to-use-hyphens-wisely guide causes consternation among pedants

It means you have to believe in your own decision-making abilities. I believe in my own, sure. But other people’s… the no-hyphen first grade student, What was the first grade given by the first first grade grade school teacher to the first first grade grade grubber?

[davide405]

In response to the question: “What does the BSOD for democracy look like?”

Tee: You can't fix democracy by turning it off and on again

It’s a campaign sign that reads “Trump 2024”

[DukeTrout]

Hunter Biden's Ukraine gig was corrupt, just not in the way Republican conspiracists claim it was

I mean, the odds of choosing four Americans and it turning out all of them have children who worked on the board of Ukrainian energy companies are very low. If N is the number of Americans who have worked on the board of a Ukrainian energy company, and we are choosing Americans over 50 (so they have a chance of having children old enough to have done so) and they all had an average of 2 children (birth rates were higher 30 years ago) then the odd would be: [image] Which, if N is, say 10, comes…

@anon50609448

Of course the odds that someone could put together a panel of people who didn’t have children working for Ukranian energy companies and imply that they did are 100%.

That last line is such a subtle but scathing critique, bravo!

[DukeTrout]

Medallion Status: comparison is the thief of joy, and John Hodgman is the thief-taker

What all of us who have an abundance of privilege (and a middle class income) need to remember is that we live better than nobility of not all that long ago. We light lamps or open doors with a word, a wave, or even with no effort at all. We have thermostats that heat and cool us without thought or complaint. We have cars, helicopters, jets, and rockets to take us unfathomable distances at ludicrous speeds. We can communicate around the world at rates governed by the laws of physics, instead of…

Just…well said.

[Melizmatic]

Bravo:

On the topic of guillotines and false equivalencies

[image] I hope I don’t come off as sounding dismissive or like a jerk here, I’m really hoping to engage. I get the sense from what you write that you have a reasoned objection on moral grounds to using images of violence to promote a political idea. But I’m not exactly sure, like maybe you see this as a tactical issue of promoting politics, like you feel this using violent images to counter violent images is blurring rather than sharpening distinctions. I also wonder if this is actually pers…

[davide405]

Can opener, open thy cans no more

The light has gone out in my life.

[davide405]

This is an excellent breakout of the details of the case.

GNOME fires back at patent troll

Wow, this suit is a stretch, as in ‘entirely baseless, even given the patent as written.’ Not a lawyer, much less a patent lawyer, but I’ve been around the block a few times. Let’s see if I’m thinking like a patent lawyer here: Both independent claims (1 and 4) specify an ‘image-capturing mobile device’. Direct infringement is out of the question. Shotwell is not a mobile device. It is a piece of software. The developers of Shotwell do not market nor manufacture an ‘image-capturing mobile dev…

[Sally_Mahoney]

Nearly all Americans' taxes will go down under Medicare for All

Years ago I wouldn’t have even noticed that the fictional secretary was female while the fictional executive was male. Now that sort of gender stereotyping leaps off the page at me. I really think its time for english to adopt a gender neutral pronoun for people.

[Purplecat]

This-City's-Makin'-A-Comeback Bingo Card

I really wish I knew how in all the discussions about how bad gentrification was, we got it so messed up that the act of making the neighborhood nicer and more livable was the problem, and not that we have a huge group of people who are so structurally de-invested in their communities that they rely on them being so crappy no one else wants to live there to be able to afford to be there… and that the structural de-investment (or bars from investment) was racially and ethnicity driven. Just my t…