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MatthewChat

@MatthewChat@mstdn.social

Retired curmudgeon, still curmudgeoning.

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MatthewChat, to random
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So once again, US media gives Trump a pass for calling the left "vermin" while calling out Hillary for "deplorables".

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    MatthewChat,
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    @idoubtit I just got an invite to blue sky so I could talk to a friend of mine from twitter. Posted at her account, and it looks like she got fed up with it and stopped posting a month ago! :nkoSad:

    georgetakei, to random

    And Fredo would know! https://secondnexus.com/eric-trump-crime-fraud-trial?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

    MatthewChat,
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    @georgetakei It is a crime in New York state to put any false figures in business statements. He is either ignorant or lying (take a guess).
    Also, he talks like all the people working at Trumps properties are going to get fired - wrong again. They will continue to work there when the properties are sold to the new owner. The new owner decides whether they are fired, most likely not.

    stevesilberman, to random
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    Incandescently scathing piece by @faineg.bsky.social on the year everyone learned that the edgelord savant who was supposed to shepherd us all to Mars is just a crude, basic, foul, utterly predictable, lying dumbass with Nazi friends. https://faineg.substack.com/p/our-year-of-watching-elon-musk-ruin

    MatthewChat,
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    @stevesilberman Elon Musk was the head of Paypal 20 years ago. He ran it into the ground by eliminating customer service and not giving refunds to scamming victims. The board of trustees forced him out. I still won't use paypal because of all the bad stuff that he caused back then.

    MatthewChat,
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    @stevesilberman "Twitter had once been a sketchy yet loveable dive bar where you accepted a non-zero risk of getting stabbed in the face with a butterfly knive in exchange for endless entertainment. Now, it had become a over-priced Palo Alto gastropub where Stanford MBA students who aspire to turn living, dreaming human beings into profitable meat-slurry bellowed at each other over $20 cocktails that taste like band-aids"

    flexghost, to random
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    The New York Times/Siena College poll claims Biden is losing to Trump in five states

    David Axlerod says Biden shouldn't run

    Bill Kristol says Biden shouldn't run

    Mainstream media is pushing Biden shouldn't run

    Your reminder...

    Polls had Romney beating Obama by as many as 5 points

    Spoiler alert: Obama won 332 electoral votes and 51.1% of the popular vote

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/11/07/us/elections/times-siena-battlegrounds-registered-voters.html

    headline Barack Obama suffers shock poll slump as Mitt Romney draws level Binders full of bullshit
    headline Romney's strong debate performance erases Obama's lead Lol. Is this from the debate where Obama said "Please, proceed" and Romney had the Libya moment?

    MatthewChat,
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    @flexghost Yeah, but OTOH

    GossiTheDog, to random
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    MatthewChat,
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    @GossiTheDog

    AbandonedAmerica, to random
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    Do you want Ninja Turtles? Because that's how you get Ninja Turtles https://abc7.com/green-slime-nyc-sewers-new-york-city-lower-manhattan/14018262/

    MatthewChat,
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    @AbandonedAmerica Or...

    lauren, to random
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    So I was watching one of Trump's lawyers outside the courtroom in NYC today, where they said something like "in 33 years of practicing law that's the best testimony a client has ever given". And I'm thinking to myself this isn't a stupid person saying this, but it sure reminds me of something ... something ... and ...

    I realized what it is.

    In the original "The Twilight Zone" episode "It's a Good Life" (1963), Billy Mumy plays a little boy who is described by Serling as a monster, who can kill anybody, create horrors of all kinds, simply with his mind.

    And the adults all live in abject fear of being turned into something horrible and being killed and being "buried in the cornfield."

    "It's good that you killed that, Anthony!"

    "That's a really fine two-headed gopher you made there Anthony!"

    They all said wonderful things about him, for fear of his retribution if they didn't.

    One of the most famous of all Twilight Zone episodes. And there it was, in front of a NYC courtroom today. No closing narration by Rod Serling required.

    MatthewChat,
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    @lauren To me it says a basically incompetent lawyer (forgot to check a box) kissing up to a narcissist with his very own style of self admiration.

    georgetakei, to random

    So glad she's okay! https://www.comicsands.com/brooke-shields-seizure-bradley-cooper-2666142066.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

    MatthewChat, (edited )
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    @georgetakei Shields revealed to the magazine that her seizure was the result of low sodium from drinking too much water.
    "Low sodium. I had had too much water. I flooded my system, and I drowned myself."
    "And if you don’t have enough sodium in your blood or urine or your body, you can have a seizure."
    I remember as a child people doing strenuous exercise would take salt pills along with their water.🧂

    show, to random
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    Nikki's in the garden again (a little early to avoid the storms), but here potatoes haven't got the message about it now being autumn...

    Watch on PeerTube: https://peertube.tv/w/rM5a55K5j7fo7Zu7NMYv9a
    Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-l2NwVt66cA

    MatthewChat,
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    @show potatoes are a different type of vegetable.

    fraser, to random
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    When you measure the Universe's expansion rate to relatively nearby galaxies against the expansion rate in the cosmic microwave background radiation, the numbers don't agree, and their error bars don't overlap. This is the Hubble Tension. A new paper suggests the difference might be even greater by 2-3% (1.1 km/s/Mpc) when you account for the gravitational effect from the Laniakea supercluster, which dominates the gravity in our part of the Universe.

    https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00215

    MatthewChat, (edited )
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    @fraser I remember something from a long time ago called "the great attractor" - something behind the disk of the galaxy that was pulling the nearby galaxies towards it. Wikipedia mentions Laniakea in the article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Attractor
    also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapley_Supercluster

    georgetakei, to random

    Riiiiight. https://www.comicsands.com/johnson-impossible-hateful-christian-bible-2666133735.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

    MatthewChat,
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    @georgetakei its impossible for him to have any bad characteristics at all because he is a malignant narcissist like Trump is.

    taylorlorenz, to random
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    Excellent story on how HBO execs used an army of secret fake accounts on Twitter to harass TV critics who gave poor reviews to their shows

    It shows why people shouldn't just write off anonymous comments online as just "trolls" — some of them are coordinated campaigns by extremely powerful people with an axe to grind.
    https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/hbo-casey-bloys-secret-twitter-trolls-tv-critics-leaked-texts-lawsuit-the-idol-1234867722/

    MatthewChat,
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    @taylorlorenz I remember Microsoft writing fake letters to the editor saying how the anti-trust case to break them up was terrible for America. Also: https://www.businessinsider.com/astroturfing-grassroots-movements-2011-9?op=1#the-alliance-of-australian-retailers-was-against-repackaging-cigarettes-with-health-warnings-which-makes-sense-considering-they-were-created-by-philip-morris-4

    stevesilberman, to random
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    Years of antivaxx propaganda by Republicans and creeps like RFK Jr and Joe Rogan have taken a toll on Americans' knowledge of what protects them from potentially fatal illness. These numbers don't bode well for our collective future. https://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/vaccine-confidence-falls-as-belief-in-health-misinformation-grows/

    MatthewChat,
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    @stevesilberman Well, I for one, just got covid, flu, rsv, and shingles vaccines yesterday. I figure feeling crappy will be better all at once, and then i can go to all the holiday festivities and not worry. Boy are my arms sore! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

    georgetakei, to random

    Judge Tanya Chutkan, who had stayed her gag order pending appeal, reinstated it after Trump came after Mark Meadows. She ruled that this “almost certainly” would have been a violation had it been in effect. Now, we know that Donald Trump can’t help himself. He’s sure to violate it again. So the parties will be back before the judge not long from now arguing what the appropriate sanction should be. A big fine? He won’t care. Send him to jail? That will make him a martyr and turn the trial into a circus. It will certainly be interesting to see what she does next time he crosses her.

    MatthewChat,
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    @georgetakei I think it would be a good idea to put Trump in jail a day at a time. His followers will eventually get used to the idea of him being in jail without doing too much domestic terrorism if he is in for a day, then two days, then 4, etc.

    QasimRashid, (edited ) to random
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    Need to point this out.

    As a murderer stabbed a Muslim woman named Dr. Talat Khan to death, witnesses report that 17 Texans pulled out their firearms. 17! The murderer stabbed her, stopped to check her pulse, confirmed she was alive, & went back to stabbing her to death.

    And 17 "good guys with guns" did nothing.

    A reminder that the "good guy with a gun" myth is a propaganda point to sell more guns. It does nothing beyond an anecdote to save lives.
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12688199/pulse-talat-khan-miles-fridrich-texas.html

    MatthewChat,
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    @QasimRashid maybe because the victim was female and not white?

    emptywheel, to random
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    After Trump Issued Threats, Abigail Jo Shry "Came after" Judge Tanya Chutkan

    https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/10/30/after-trump-issued-threats-abigail-jo-shry-came-after-judge-tanya-chutkan/

    MatthewChat,
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    @emptywheel So what would happen if she listened to AM radio while driving her car? Probably the same as in the video of that guy driving through the pride parade in Portland.
    "Mr. Shry believes that Defendant is a non-violent alcoholic. He testified that she sits on her couch daily watching the news while drinking too many beers. She then becomes agitated by the news and starts calling people and threatening them."

    georgetakei, to random

    Wait, is this a thing? https://www.comicsands.com/man-magic-yellow-pillow-debate-2666079142.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

    MatthewChat,
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    @georgetakei solution: a second new white pillow case.

    georgetakei, to random

    Absolutely terrifying. https://www.comicsands.com/dashcam-video-raging-portland-man-2666074545.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

    MatthewChat,
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    @georgetakei This is your grandpa after a night watching Fox News.

    JamesGleick, to random
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    A paradox. The US economy has grown and added jobs at record rates throughout the Biden administration. Wages are rising and inflation is down to 2.4%. The economy is outperforming most of the world.

    Yet most Americans think the economy is in poor shape. Mistakenly, they think it was better under Trump.

    Who is to blame?

    https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/october-27-2023?r=g7z5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

    MatthewChat,
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    @JamesGleick corporate oligopoly media corps. My local news station has gone from being actual news to mostly "lifestyle" crap, more commercials, and right wing "news" blurbs almost all criticizing Biden or the government in some way.

    thejapantimes, to worldnews
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    From fake street art to doctored media reports demonizing President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a torrent of online disinformation seeks to erode Western support that is crucial for Kyiv's war effort against Russia. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/10/28/world/russia-ukraine-misinformation/?utm_content=buffer27b14&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn

    MatthewChat,
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    @thejapantimes This is real though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

    georgetakei, to random

    I wish I could say I was surprised. https://secondnexus.com/maine-shooting-card-twitter-maga?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

    MatthewChat,
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    @georgetakei Steve Bannon specifically targeted the mentally ill, violent, and the sociopaths with Cambridge Analytica. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/202009/how-trump-and-media-allies-target-the-mentally-vulnerable

    GottaLaff, to random
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    Better late than never. More like this.

    MSNBC: Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) calls his opposition to an a mistake after deadly mass shooting in his district.

    Golden: I have opposed efforts to ban deadly weapons of war like the assault rifle he used to carry out this crime. The time has now come for me to take responsibility for this failure. Which is why I now call on the US congress to ban assault rifles..for those who have been harmed, I ask for forgiveness"

    MatthewChat,
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    @GottaLaff "Hours before the rampage, the Senate voted 53-45 to adopt an amendment making it easier for veterans with mental disabilities to get guns" https://mstdn.social/@RollingStone/111303317028454418

    georgetakei, to random

    Keep your religion where it belongs: in the church https://www.comicsands.com/johnson-speaker-ordained-by-god-2666077574.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

    MatthewChat,
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    @georgetakei Johnson's god is Trump

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