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[anon59592690]

Well played

[Ratel]

Here are some books Bill Gates recommends we read this summer

Here’s a book I recommend Bill Gates read this summer

[anon61221983]

Fox & Friends host explains the Matrix, poorly

But how do I know if any of the words you use actually symbolise what they mean? For all I know you are telling me to make a bacon sandwich.

[davide405]

Practical advice for the modern pagan

Summer solstice at Stonehenge will be streamed live

Keep in mind you need to plunge the knife into the chest of the virgin/heretic/witch at the EXACT moment of occultation (because it has to be that very precise moment, before or after won’t awaken Cernunnos from his long sleep) - you need to factor in that stream delay folks. Imagine the egg on your face when you start screaming out the names of the undead and you’ve actually missed the real moment by the 25 to 40 seconds YouTube usually adds.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Doordash charges $16 for a $24 pizza, so the pizzeria bought its own pizzas and made money

Too bad. The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a pizza, is a good guy with a pizza.

[MalevolentPixy]

Incel terror killing at erotic spa

A person is dead. Dead. Not sadder but wiser. Not left with a lot of things to bring to therapy. Dead. Fucking perspective. This isn’t about every poor teen struggling with their individual life problems. A woman was murdered because of a toxic ideology that enables self pitying men to murder others and a bunch of men show up to whine about their feelings by relating the murderer’s ideology to their own feelings. No one is saying there is a miracle solution to being unpopular. But being unpopula…

[Sally_Mahoney]

A restaurant worker told a man to wear a mask, so the man shot him with a gun, say police

A well-regulated Waffle House, being necessary for the lunch of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

[Sally_Mahoney]

How to build a Viking camp chair

No Vikings were harmed in the making of this chair… I know that does not make any sense I just felt it needed to be said.

[mocon]

Continuing coronavirus happenings (Part 1)

Very important news!

Betty White is doing perfectly fine despite the coronavirus pandemic | CNN

I don’t know how to work #NeedsMoreLikes, but the above breath of fresh air on the Continuing Coronavirus Happenings thread is from @anon67050589 and requires more likes.

Hopefully I did this correctly.

[Purplecat]

@mocon

Hopefully I did this correctly.

Indeed you did!

[davide405]

Very important link embedded in this post.

Trump threatens GOP control of Twitter, Facebook: 'We will strongly regulate, or close them down'

A great illustration of what a greedpig he is. Without the cesspits of Twitter and Facebook, the right-wing populist movement he surfs would be nowhere. But having companies run by feckless and somewhat sympathetic founders who allow him to fart out his lies and BS without consequence just isn’t good enough, and he’s willing to toss the First Amendment out the window to consolidate power. Don’t get complacent, though. Remember Gessen’s first rule: Believe the autocrat – he means what he says. H…

[smulder]

@CreakyLadder

This is why we need blockchain

[anon29537550]

Could be a castle!

Castle of Aughhhh - Holy Grail

[Sally_Mahoney]

Here's what's in Trump's executive order against social media companies

So much is intersecting here. First, it’s another step toward claiming the next election is fraudulent. That makes me increasingly nervous. Second, it’s more evidence that we can no longer agree on measurable or otherwise verifiable facts. It seems that we are now entitled to both our own opinions and our own facts. Third, this is a too-familiar pattern. We’ve seen Berlusconi, Orban and others pulling this in extreme ways. But that’s not necessary in the US. You only have to make it too risky (l…

[Sally_Mahoney]

Supreme Court rejects church lockdown exemption

We survived a civil war. We never healed from it, but we survived it. This, too, shall pass, though I doubt I’ll see any healing in what remains of my life time, which honestly I have to admit is heart breaking. I had such high hopes for our progress when I was in my twenties, and it’s been all backward steps with a few incremental changes (gay marriage being the one big one I can be proud we achieved).

[anon15383236]

2020 Uprising: Enough is Enough

The “if Hillary had won we’d be at brunch now” people are at brunch now. [EZXJT1CUYAAARgv.jpeg]

[Nightflyer]

Cop who killed George Floyd arrested

It pretty much boils down to goal posts constantly being moved and gaslighting. Peacefully kneeling during the anthem to decry police abuse? You’re disrespecting America. Now is not the time and place. It’s dishonoring American soldiers. etc. etc. blah blah. Peacefully protesting, black lives matter? Blue lives matter too. Hey FBI can you keep an eye on these uppity minorities? It’s not a real organization, it’s potentially a terrorist or criminal group. etc, etc. blah blah. En masse protests, a…

[anothernewbbaccount]

Police response to protests against police brutality with more brutality

[baddies]

@euansmith sums it all up perfectly.

And just in case there is anyone who does not get the reference, here’s the source - key phrase at about 49 seconds in

- YouTube

[davide405]

Poignant and yet brilliant message on the sign carried by a young protester (don’t know where or when, but the message is timeless).

List: 100+ times law enforcement violently assaulted journalists in US at George Floyd protests

[image] (Source, I think.)

[Sally_Mahoney]

New York Times column calls for U.S. military to suppress protests with "overwhelming force"

The Times is such a goddamn conundrum. They do legitimately incredible journalism work that no other organization has the resources or willpower to do, like dedicating investigative reporters and financial experts to spend more than a year sorting through decades of the Trump family’s financial shenanigans or creating the 1619 series on the living history of slavery in America. And then they publish infuriatingly misleading headlines and pull ridiculous stunts like this op-ed in the name of “bal…