Beeks

mbonsma, 27 days ago to random

Cars parking in the bike lane radicalized me 13 years ago, and these days my willingness to "just go around" has hit rock bottom. It feels more important than ever to make it safe for ALL of us to walk and bike.
#PreciousCargo

mattsheffield, 1 month ago to random

Arizona Republicans are blocking Democrats' efforts to repeal the Civil War-era abortion law that is now in effect in the state.

Shortly before the Republicans on Arizona's supreme court upheld the 1864 law, a group of Republican state senators gathered on the floor holding what looks like a gibbering seance, praying that gawd would allow them to force children to carry rapist pregnancies.

Please spread this clip. This is the true face of the Republican party.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anthony-kern-prayer-circle-abortion_n_6616590be4b02edf20089de3

video/mp4

w7voa, 1 month ago to random

A day before Passover begins, the rabbi at Columbia University in NYC tells his Jewish students to go home as the school cannot keep them safe after pro-Palestinian protestors on campus yell “Burn Tel Aviv to the ground!” and other pro-violence slogans supporting Hamas.

TheConversationUS, 1 month ago to USpolitics

Is being ‘woke’ a badge of honor?

Historically, the word was used as a warning to be aware of racial injustices.

https://theconversation.com/back-in-the-day-being-woke-meant-being-smart-215635
#racialinjustice #equality #USPolitics #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon

CultureDesk, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to television

Zoinks! Digital Trends has compiled a list of 10 TV shows that they say are overrated, from "Parks and Recreation" ("overly hopeful") to "The Bear" ("a great dramedy, but award shows and audiences keep treating it as Christ’s second coming, which it most certainly isn’t."). Here's the full list. We want to know: Which of these do you think are overhyped, or just don't stand the test of time (choose as many as you like)? Tell us in the comments if there's another show that's critically adored but that you just can't see the appeal of.

https://flip.it/.1kuN9

#Television #TV #Culture #PopCulture #Entertainment #TheOffice #TheBear #TedLasso

ismh, 1 month ago to random

Logitech slipped some ChatGPT into its mouse software, and a gross directory into everyone's Home folder. https://512pixels.net/2024/04/ai-overlay-tmp-home-folder-mac-os/

HopePunkFTW, 1 month ago to solarpunk

America's first sustainable urban agrihood in Detroit.
"The three-acre development has vacant land, along with occupied and abandoned homes centered around a two-acre urban garden, with more than 300 organic vegetable varieties, like lettuce, kale, and carrots, as well as a 200-tree fruit orchard, with apples, pears, plums, and cherries, a children’s sensory garden, and more."

https://thegardenmagazine.com/this-area-in-detroit-is-now-americas-first-self-sustainable-agrihood/
#HopePunk #EcoPunk #SolarPunk

cstross, 19 days ago to random

Prediction: this is going to go down like a head shot in a neonatal ward.

w7voa, 1 month ago to random

Hamas publishes a hostage video of an Israeli-American it kidnapped. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-798476

mondoweiss, 17 days ago to Palestine

In the first such divestment action by a major Christian denomination, the General Conference of The United Methodist Church has voted to divest from Israel bonds, and those of other countries carrying out prolonged military occupations.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/united-methodist-church-votes-to-divest-from-israel-bonds/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

TucsonSentinel, 1 month ago to Tucson

Planned Parenthood will offer low-cost vasectomies in Phoenix https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/040324_vasectomy_growth/planned-parenthood-will-offer-low-cost-vasectomies-phoenix/
Planned Parenthood Arizona is now offering vasectomy services in Phoenix after demand for the procedure at the Tucson clinic was overwhelming, with nearly half of all appointments booked by Valley residents.
#Tucson #Arizona

Beeks, 7 months ago to Patriots

I never thought I'd think this thought but here I am... Is it time to move on from Belichick? I say yes and that's including his whole family and coaching tree. We need a full scale cleansing.

I apologize for my Monday morning blasphemy.
#Patriots #Belichick #NewEngland #NFL #Football

Beeks, 10 months ago to anime_titties

Huh, I wonder if that means he's 100% going to be attacking Poland soon? 😔

The only question is if he's patient enough to wait for America to be hamstrung by its elections or not.

#Putin tells #Poland any aggression against #Belarus is attack on #Russia | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-tells-poland-any-aggression-against-belarus-is-attack-russia-2023-07-21/

Beeks, 4 months ago to random

JFC, I did not expect this stupid craze to get to this level of idiocy.

Evidence item number 34,267,357 that we currently reside in the worst timeline.

#Target Workers Caught Off Guard by #Stanley-Cup Crackdown
https://www.businessinsider.com/target-workers-caught-off-guard-by-stanley-cup-crackdown-2024-1

Beeks, 1 month ago to Israel

I've been very critical of the anti-Biden Leftists, but it does appear that maybe I need to eat crow. They may have actually applied enough pressure to stop the genocide. Granted if they still protest vote and Trump wins it won't have matterered, but I'll tip my cap right now if it saves Palestinian lives. 🫡

#Pelosi joins US #Democrats call for #Biden to halt arms transfer to #Israel | Israel War on #Gaza News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/6/us-democrats-urge-biden-to-halt-weapons-transfer-to-israel-amid-gaza-war

Beeks, 4 months ago to mastodon

Anyone else noticing #Mastodon being super slow the last day or two? (on #Tusky)

coffeegeek, 29 days ago to coffee

Our second Best of guide, the Best Budget Coffee Grinders for 2024, has had a good roll out. In 2 weeks, we've gone to the top 5 in search results (non sponsored, lol) on most search engines, and it's been read 140K.

I also heard back from one of the vendors we list (but make $0 from) and they noticed a real bump in sales. Good for them I suppose LOL! and good for the consumers who bought those grinders because they truly are fantastic machines.

cc @coffee @espresso

https://coffeegeek.com/guides/feature-guides/best-budget-coffee-grinders-for-2024/

CultureDesk, 22 days ago to journalism

The winners of the 2024 Pulitzer Prizes have been announced. The New York Times took three: One for its coverage of the war in Gaza and others in the Features and Investigative categories. The Washington Post tied with wins in Commentary, Editorial Writing and National Reporting. The Fiction Pulitzer went to West Virginia writer Jayne Anne Phillips for her novel, "Night Watch," while the Nonfiction prize went to "A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy," by Nathan Thrall, which tells the story of a Palestinian father living under Israeli occupation of the West Bank. Here's the full list from NPR. This Poynter.org story has links to all the winning pieces of journalism.

https://flip.it/JD8UZ-

https://flip.it/.KYaqs

#Journalism #Fiction #Nonfiction #Books @bookstodon

Beeks, 9 months ago to chess

Imagine sitting down to play #Chess and you don't have a 2 year report on your opponent's genetalia. What if I go to mate a woman but then she jumps up, whips out a giant cock and says "Not so fast buster, it is I who will mate you!" and now according to the rules of the game I have to bottom for her. I didn't sign up for that. Like, do I still call her afterwards or do I wait for her to call me? Is it all texts these days? I just wanted to play a boardgame and now I'm all stressed out.

#FIDE

Beeks, 1 year ago to random

Searching for a workbench for my garage. Found a nice one from Home Depot but wanted to price check so I googled it.
First 4 links are ads. Next 2 are Home Depot. Then MSN linking to Home Depot, and finally Pinterest linking to Home Depot.
I say finally because the 5th non-ad is literally a scam website.
WTAF #Google?
I checked #DuckDuckGo and way fewer ads and NO FREAKING SCAMS.
I'm done. Google is dead to me.

jonburr, 1 month ago to nature

Fun Fact.

#BeeKeeping is f*cking up the Environment and Pushing Wild Bees to the Edge.

Keeping honeybees doesn’t save bees – or the environment
It’s great to see people backing the pollinator movement, but managing hives does nothing to protect our wild pollinators. It’s the equivalent of farming chickens to save wild birds
https://theconversation.com/keeping-honeybees-doesnt-save-bees-or-the-environment-102931

#Nature #Bees #Ecology #Environment #conservation

Beeks, 1 month ago to random

I finished #3BodyProblem last night. It's dogshit. 0/10 I hate it. If you're a fan of the books watch #ThreeBody on Prime instead. It's a very good representation of the books. If you just like random Game of Thrones actors doing their best with a god awful script that is tangentially related to the books, I guess sure check out 3BP, I'm not your dad.