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msbellows

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Twitter diaspora. Agamemnon sucks: we do the fighting, he gets the girls. (Oregonian. Mediator/lawyer/writer; bylines in The Guardian, Alternet, HuffPost/OffTheBus, more.)

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flexghost, to random
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It's Saturday.

Time to have a beverage and relax. No politics. No news.

JUST MEMES

** Post 'em if you got 'em **

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msbellows,
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@flexghost

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@flexghost

msbellows,
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@flexghost It really does!

mattsheffield, to random
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I see the Atlantic is continuing to destroy its brand by allowing terminally delusional NeverTrump Republicans space to entertain their fantasies.

What a disgrace. But unfortunately it's typical for the Atlantic, a magazine specializing in passing off conservative dogma as liberal thought. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/biden-2024-reelection-age/674634/

msbellows,
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@mattsheffield The author is a Bush admin alum and conservative commentator.

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jwildeboer, to fediverse
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If some people say the is a left-progressive project, it only shows how successful we collectively are to block the Nazis. Loads of far-right instances and users exist in the fediverse. Gab, anyone? But defederation and blocking makes that part invisible to most of us. They still exist and federate amongst themselves. ActivityPub, the protocol, is neutral. We decide what we want and not want. The fediverse is a herd of Venn diagrams, not a closed circle.

msbellows,
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@jwildeboer Agree completely. If someone wants to come into the fediverse and argue for lower taxes, school vouchers, smaller government, or similar (serious but nevertheless legitimate) policies that conservatives used to define themselves by, they would be welcome. People would debate them, Just as we did in the early days of Twitter. It's only assholes who aren't welcome here.

KagroX, to random

The problem with Jewish space lasers is that they don't work on Saturday.

msbellows,
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@chemoelectric @KagroX I'm pretty sure "Amish space lasers" are just horse apples thrown from a hayloft.

msbellows,
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@chemoelectric @KagroX Oh, absolutely effective! Especially on younger sisters.

msbellows,
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@mwyman @chemoelectric @KagroX Um... HORSE apples. (Is that term obsolete? Regional?) https://blog.oup.com/2008/04/bullshit/

But yeah, Red Delicious apples would work great too. And it's not like they're any good for eating!

annaleen, to random
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At some point Freud said that a proliferation of phallic images is actually a sign of castration anxiety. Just wondering what the proliferation of social media platforms says.

msbellows,
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@annaleen So what does this say about Jeff Bezos?

webuiltthiscity, to random
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    @tito_swineflu @webuiltthiscity @SafeStreetRebel @geographile I was tempted to create a more durable cone by using surplus carbon fiber, but then I realized that during multiple use cycles it would delaminate from the titanium shell and the cone would implode.

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    @geographile @tito_swineflu @webuiltthiscity @SafeStreetRebel Not a problem either way. I have incorporated my cones in the Bahamas.

    MattBinder, to random
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    Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta over Threads

    in November, Elon Musk mocked laid off Twitter employees, saying “their immense talent will no doubt be of great use elsewhere”

    well, apparently some went to Meta to build Threads & Musk now has a problem with that

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    msbellows,
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    @MattBinder Similar employees also went to Bluesky, which began as an internal Twitter project, but Musk's not whining seriously about that.

    I wonder why not.

    stevesilberman, to random
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    Tourist carves his and his girlfriend's name into the Colosseum in Rome because he didn't realize it was so frickin' old. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66121000

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    @stevesilberman The Italians call it "vandalism," the Brits call it "payback."

    Mastodon, to mastodon
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    ⚠️ We have just released important security fixes for the server software. Versions 4.1.3, 4.0.5, 3.5.9, as well as a new nightly are available now to make upgrading quick and painless. Please upgrade as soon as possible!

    msbellows,
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    @ned @GottaLaff @Mastodon That's discriminatory!

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    @dannotdaniel @ned @GottaLaff @Mastodon

    GregCirillo, to random

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    @GottaLaff @Teri_Kanefield @GregCirillo Wow. I do all my social media from my phone. Doing it on my desktop is painful, sort of like what I have to access my email remotely by going through my ISP's website.

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    @GottaLaff @Teri_Kanefield @GregCirillo On my desktop, I have to type every letter instead of swiping or dictating. At my desk, there are piles and piles of actual work I'm supposed to be doing. My desk is my chain; my phone is my freedom.

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    @AnitaH2 @3goodthings If they do ship to the U.S., I'd be glad to forward them to you.

    jbe, to random

    This is a remarkable ruling, and not in a good way.

    "The judge’s order puts limits on a number of executive agencies with a wide range of responsibilities across the federal government, including the , State Department, , and . It also names more than a dozen individual officials, including Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Jen Easterly, who leads ."

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/04/biden-social-lawsuit-missouri-louisiana/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjMwMjI2NDAxIiwicmVhc29uIjoiZ2lmdCIsIm5iZiI6MTY4ODQ0MzIwMCwiaXNzIjoic3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ucyIsImV4cCI6MTY4OTczOTE5OSwiaWF0IjoxNjg4NDQzMjAwLCJqdGkiOiI5NTllY2YyZC1lY2EwLTQzZWUtOGI4NC02YTMxMmZlYWM3OTMiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vdGVjaG5vbG9neS8yMDIzLzA3LzA0L2JpZGVuLXNvY2lhbC1sYXdzdWl0LW1pc3NvdXJpLWxvdWlzaWFuYS8ifQ.CWtVm2TZYi8Nki6yrRYr5yeXUm07h5QHq-h-mVZYY2Q

    msbellows,
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    @jbe Jesus H. Christ, this is an awful ruling. Trump-appointed judge, of
    course (ie, a Federalist Society handpick).

    I don't see how U.S. democracy can recover from all these fascist body-blows without a Democratic supermajority and a wartime consigliere President willing to support massive numbers of judicial impeachments (including on SCOTUS), reversal of countless bad decisions, bold Congressional preemption of state voting laws, etc. But I don't see how we can win such supermajorites given our congenitally flawed Constitution.

    Judge blocks U.S. officials from tech contacts in First Amendment case
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/04/biden-social-lawsuit-missouri-louisiana/

    msbellows, to random
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    When I was a kid, we didn't have"super moons" and "thunder moons." We just had one "the moon," which sounds boring except that sometimes people flew there and walked on it.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/01/july-thunder-moon-saturn-rising-venus-falling/

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    @GottaLaff And "harvest moon," but that was mostly a song title.

    msbellows,
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    @GottaLaff That's "moon" as the adjective, not as the noun, so it doesn't count. "River moon" would work.

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    @Teri_Kanefield I'll bet @kackkimble is furious about this.

    Green_Footballs, to random
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    the scene outside my house

    I think they have it under control, it didn't get to my house

    msbellows,
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    @Green_Footballs @grammargirl My God. Was it... Republicans? Did Republicans ingest a neighboring house, and threaten to spread?

    ephemeromorph, to random
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    Holy shit. We knew the Titan was fucked, but I didn't realise it was this Super Fucked.
    https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fnews%2Fa-reporter-at-large%2Fthe-titan-submersible-was-an-accident-waiting-to-happen

    • The satellite beacon was zip-tied to the outside
    • The carbon fibre was already fraying/delaminating
    • No other sub companies use carbon fibre because it's clownshoes
    • The safety engineer refused to sign off on the sub, because it was donkey poop, so Stockton Rush fired him
    • Stockton Rush asked the accountant to be the pilot. She quit because that was a bananapants proposal.
    msbellows,
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    @ephemeromorph Lots of people talk about how wealth accumulation is bad for everyone else, but few talk about how it is bad for the wealthy themselves.

    My view: excessive wealth is toxic to the humans afflicted with it; generational wealth is even worse; and appropriate taxation and redistribution of excessive wealth provides a vital, sometimes even life-saving, spiritual benefit to the people whose wealth is decreased.

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