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[MerelyGifted]

Kind woman's rescued baby hedgehog turns out to be something else entirely

Some where there is a kid with a hedgehog on their hat, and they are going on adventures.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Kansas classifies homosexuality as adult content in extreme age verification law

Until the idea that the only people who need to fight back in a meaningful and consequential way are the ones who are directly impacted by the removal of their personal individual rights falls by the wayside and we recognize that we must be willing to fight to the point of personal loss for other people who we may not even personally know over problems we may never personally experience… until that point I think we are fucked. Can people get it yet or do more of us have to die first?

[gero]

Pedestrian safety bricks: surprising crosswalk hack

This is a thoughtful and amusing prank, highlighting the daily violence done to pedestrians by vehicles, and pointing out the shock caused by a very small reversal of the threat of this violence. Also, it’s basically just showing how quickly we’re getting to endorsing the tyre spikes idea.

[Sally_Mahoney]

If Trump loses, America will erupt in violence: are we ready?

It’s not stirring. Whether or not you are worried about them seizing the country, there is good reason to worry about them hurting people in it. Timothy McVeigh ultimately didn’t accomplish anything of note but there are still 168 people who were dead from his efforts. Just because many of these people are stupid about things doesn’t mean their violence won’t still have real victims, and we should take it seriously.

[MerelyGifted]

Creepy video: Senator and extremists pray in tongues to resurrect anti-abortion law

Someone should write a history of the phenomena of tongues. You can find some interesting info online - but it seems to have a bit of a bias. My own experience is limited to seeing it very rarely in Catholic church growing up - then migrating to fundamentalist/evangelical settings. It seems to have evolved from speaking in other established languages to the Prisencolinensinainciusol it is today.

[Mindysan33]

Italian ad with nuns eating potato chips as communion wafers called 'blasphemy'

Did you just spud-splain an Irish guy?

[milliefink]

NYC's "Lost Valuables Search" lets you dig through raw garbage

Detroit recently-ish tore down what had once been the world’s largest garbage inciner-, um, “trash-to-energy” facility. Other states and Detroit’s suburbs had been shipping in their trash to be burned there. Detroiters’ garbage went to landfills. Turned out the damned thing was constantly exceeding limits for belching toxins, even after the operators were forced to install the smokestack scrubbers they’d “forgotten” during construction. People living for miles around the thing suffered from …

[Sally_Mahoney]

Supreme Court will decide on whether it's a crime to sleep outside if no inside space is available

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

[MerelyGifted]

Ted Cruz humiliated as Pecker spills beans on Trump's vicious insults

Prosecution picked a perfect Pecker, publisher to provoke the pickled perpetrator and Putin puppet of perpetual crime.

[MerelyGifted]

Ted Cruz humiliated as Pecker spills beans on Trump's vicious insults

perfidy

[Sally_Mahoney]

Trump fined, faces jail and perhaps violated his terms of release

There should be absolutely no issue with his secret service bodyguard and jail that isn’t just partisan politics. They’re not going to send him to the general population holding cells on Rikers. There’s a very good chance that a jail has already been prepared for him. It would be easy. This is America. Every courtroom, every police station and outpost, most malls, some schools, and even a few public housing projects have a jail in them. The New York State government alone has 44 jails and priso…

[MerelyGifted]

Moulin Rouge goes "topless" as blades fall off famed Parisian windmill

No, the blades were Toulouse.

[FGD135]

5 clever tactics for defusing bullies during negotiations

In the context of dealing specifically with bullies… That is: don’t go in naive and cold to negotiations with a bully. Practice negotiating in small stakes things elsewhere, with other people, so that you have at least some experience with the concept before going in to the lion’s den when you’re having to defend yourself against real harm. Why it is not useful advice: If you need to get practice, you’re not going to get nearly enough to be helpful in small doses here and there with low stake…

[Sally_Mahoney]

Judge threatens Donald Trump with jail time if he defies gag order again: "If I need to, I will"

Judges not wanting to do things because of fear of violence. Members of congress not wanting to do things because of fear of violence. Not doing those things has never stopped future violence. Really, it just shows that the fear of violence worked. It’ll get repeated again, it worked after all. This is a huge failure of media too. They know it’s happening. This should be the top story in every news outlet. Not that he fell asleep, not some pizza photo op, not his hair or makeup. Top st…

[Sally_Mahoney]

NY Times editor says Trump's danger to democracy is not a top concern

Their coverage of news is based on how topics poll!?! No wonder the NYT seems like the tail end of a Fox News human centipede…

[Mindysan33]

Trump's nightmarish "Project 2025" is summed up in a one-minute nutshell (video)

I do worry, as others have commented, that people won’t take this seriously enough. It’s hard to encapsulate in an “elevator pitch” what they are planning. All the years the MAGAts and their predecessors have been squealing about everything being a George Soros plot, are pure, uncut projection; Leonard Leo is the main architect of this, very literal, Christian Nationalist Authoritarian Coup. It is a documented plan to arrest the progress of our constitutional democracy and replace it with an abs…

[Sally_Mahoney]

NFL kicker tells young women to be homemakers — but his own mom is a scientist

Brain damage doesn’t cause misogyny, anyway. Misogyny is not a mental health issue, it’s a serious problem underwritten by ideology that plagues ALL women’s lives. If someone who does have serious brain damage is misogynistic, THE CAUSE WAS NOT THE BRAIN DAMAGE.

[Mindysan33]

[MerelyGifted]

Another victim claimed by 11foot8 + 8 bridge

@MerelyGifted & @nosaj What? No, no, no. I was thinking of the Blake/Parry/Elgar classic: And did this bridge in ancient time Crush rented trucks like rusty cans And was debris of Budget vans On Durham’s pleasant underpasses seen! And did the Countenance Divine, Shine forth upon the H-beam strong? And did the railroad build it there, Within the specs of ancient time? Bring me the crash bar of burning gold Bring me the water curtain of desire Bring me the unworkable suggestions! Bri…

[smulder]

@ZamboniWogglebug

Also, at this point, The Atlantic is Newsmax with a monocle and a cigarette holder