#NeedsMoreLikes

[MerelyGifted]

Just giving the CannibalPeas what they want, and keeping cannibals happy seems like wisdom.

[cannibalpeas]

Meh, dog isn’t really my taste. Especially ancient mystic dogs.

[MerelyGifted]

Good. Then I’ll just protect you as we walk.

[anon52120741]

I was about to say, “As a non-pea, you are safe!”

(artist’s rendering based on eye-witness accounts)

(also, be very careful is you ever decide to google for “pea monster”. Typos matter)

[cannibalpeas]

When you saw only one set of footprints,
It was then that you carried me.

[MerelyGifted]

awww!

I can carry the Moon - I can easily carry you, too.

[anon52120741]

This is reminding me of the time I got to visit Cementerio de la Recoleta in Buenos Aries. As we approached the gate there was an Anubis-y looking black dog sitting, at attention, off to the right side, motionless…just watching the crowd go in and out.

My partner at the time and I simultaneously looked at each other and said something along the lines of “You see that too, right?” to each other

[MerelyGifted]

Wow. Just…wow. @_@

[DukeTrout]

Marjorie Taylor Greene blames Biden for brothers' fentanyl deaths, but Biden was not in office; Trump was

And that is very useful for traditional tankies. Make the word meaningless and they can claim it means whatever you like, while denying it applies to them. Maybe it’s because the US never had to deal with MLs defending the suppression of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and attacking dissenters on the left, so it never meant anything over there. I mean, we see people accuse the victims of fascism of being fascists themselves, while the fascists abusers get a slap on the wrist at most. We have tran…

[ClutchLinkey]

Sunlight is the Best Disinfectant

If you can do this safely, it speaks to your level of privilege. And if you have that level of privilege, you have a responsibility to stand up to it, which you cannot do if you ignore it’s very existence.

Well said, doc.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Man tests minimal address experiment by sending himself a letter

A fine reminder that the postal service is one of the most remarkably reliable and effective government agencies the US has ever seen, and that the workers deserve the kind of public adulation we reserve almost exclusively for military personnel.

[nosaj]

On this day in 1943, the Office of War Information won an Academy Award for Best Documentary

This is a great quote and says a lot about how mass media has worked, historically… But what I find a little lacking is who is behind the shaping of the message in the medium. I notice that when we talk about, say, Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union, we often know who is putting out the message, the goal, and how unified it was… Which makes sense - these were clearly state-run apparatuses, which particular individuals we can point to shaping their messages. Ultimately, Goebbles was responsible fo…

[Sally_Mahoney]

Noam Chomsky explains the difference between ChatGPT and "True Intelligence"

I think of “artificial intelligence” kind of like “artificial turf.” No matter how technologically advanced it becomes it will always be fundamentally different than the thing it’s standing in for even if it is an acceptable substitute for narrow use cases.

[Purplecat]

Continuing coronavirus happenings (Part 4)

My like is for sharing this, but I don’t agree with author’s conclusions. Terms aren’t the real issue, especially when government organizations are attempting to maintain order and prevent chaos in emergency situations. To me, making it clear that we’re in a battle for our survival is important. Solidarity and compassion might be what we need, but we don’t get that when we’re not facing any threats at all. Due to overreactions from citizens of countries that never even came close to the kind …

[smulder]

@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