badtux

@badtux@mastodon.social

A black and white and yellow penguin currently afloat somewhere near Sacramento CA

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shoq, to random
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It astounds me how effective the plastics industry was at duping the public as far back as the “crying indian” ad. We are a nation of suckers. We always were.

“Plastic experts say recycling is a scam. Should we even do it anymore?”

https://www.salon.com/2024/02/23/plastic-experts-say-recycling-is-a-scam-should-we-even-do-it-anymore/

badtux,

@shoq I just toss plastics into the trash these days since that's where it ends up anyhow. Cardboard and paper recycling, however, is not a scam -- most cardboard boxes and brown paper bags include significant amounts of recycled fibers.

badtux,

@shoq I just toss plastics into the trash these days since that's where it ends up anyhow. Cardboard and paper recycling, however, is not a scam -- most cardboard boxes and brown paper bags include significant amounts of recycled fibers.

TonyStark, to random
@TonyStark@progressivecafe.social avatar

81% of GOP primary voters think Hitler had a point.

Trump is a wannabe dictator with no actual governmental power right now outside of what damage he’s already done. Let’s not give him any more.

Please vote. Not registered? Register here: https://vote.gov/

Talk to like minded family and friends and take them with you.

And support Joe Biden because that’s the choice.

badtux,

@TonyStark What the literal fuck is wrong with 47% of Americans? I mean, yeah, it's good that 53% of Americans disagree with Trump Hitler but fuck. 47%? As for 81% of Republican primary voters agreeing with Trump Hitler, well, Republicans gotta Republican.

darnell, to threads
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So is slowly killing off , & Shop is spamming users to the point they are reopening ‽ I can not wait to introduce people to ! 🕺🏾

👉🏾 Instagram Threads triples downloads in December, reaching the top 10; X falls to No. 36 https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/30/instagram-threads-triples-downloads-in-december-reaching-the-top-10-x-falls-to-no-36/

badtux,

@darnell I have checked into Threads twice. Once I logged in, looked around, and logged out. The second time I logged in, accepted a friend request from a long-time friend, and logged out. Mastodon seems to work better for me, except for the problem that you can't do a news feed on Mastodon about a specific breaking news item because it has no global search function.

badtux, to random

Reminder: Nobody is interested in invading Russia. This is what Russia looks like outside of Moscow / St. Petersburg: a sea of mud surrounding Communist-era apartment blocks.

badtux, to random

Movie idea: Freddie Krueger gets a job as a systems administrator at a Fortune 500 company that has opened an office on Elm Street. Shortly thereafter end users start disappearing after making inane technical support requests about printers, power cords not plugged in correctly, or icons in the wrong place on their home page.

Nightmare on Elm Street Part MMXXIII

Or:

End user was supposed to be a description, not a goal!

emptywheel, to random
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Hunter Biden's lawyers confirm (and cite) my reporting: David Weiss claimed that Keith Ablow's sawdust was Hunter Biden's cocaine.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ded.82796/gov.uscourts.ded.82796.89.0.pdf

badtux,

@emptywheel "Mistaking sawdust for cocaine sounds more like a story line from a 1980s Police Academy comedy than what should be expected from a high-profile prosecution by the U.S. Department of Justice." LOL @ sick burn by Hunter Biden's lawyers.

badtux, to animals

This feral cat is so obviously stressed out from living indoors.

badtux, to food

At the rural school district I last worked at, we had 1500 students, of whom 1,000 were free lunch and 500 were not. The cost of personnel (an entire department!), computers, and software for vetting students to make sure those 500 didn't get free lunch cost more than the cost of simply feeding them, already.

The GOP jihad about preventing those 500 from getting free lunch is not about taxes or expense, it's about being mean to children.

AlSweigart, to random
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    badtux,

    @AlSweigart A friend had a cat that taught himself to use the toilet. That is the only scenario I can think of where a cat using a toilet is acceptable. The cat's name was Reuben. He had an artist paint a portrait of the cat while the cat was still alive, which hung in his hallway for years after Reuben died of old age. He never got another cat because he claimed that there would never be another cat as smart as Reuben.

    badtux, to animals

    That point in time when you realize your humans are insane:

    badtux, to animals

    Buddies.

    badtux, to animals

    My cat is judging me for posing a skeleton on my front porch.

    badtux, to random

    Personally I'm running a $140 UHF/VHF aerial for my 40 watt mobile base in my house but mostly from laziness. I could have built just as good an antenna from aluminum tubing.

    badtux, to random

    "At the core of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict lies the fact that both peoples are historically indigenous and neither has anywhere else to go, even as delusional dreams persist on both sides of the disappearance of the other." -- Roger Cohen

    badtux, to random

    That one always baffled me because yes planets in a star system often have an elliptical plane they stick to but up / down seems rather arbitrary. Seems to me north on the habitable planet would end up being “up”.

    badtux, to random

    The difference between Twitter and Chernobyl is that people actually paid to tour Chernobyl (not inside the containment dome of course!). Well, and Chernobyl is less toxic.

    badtux, to animals

    This feral cat sporting his rackish eartip is obviously terrified.

    badtux, to Cats

    Q: So what do cats want to be?
    A: Cats. Because every cat knows that they are perfect with no reason to be anything other than what they are. Arrogant little bastards they be.

    badtux, to random

    Heated cat beds are catnip to Mia. She is an old lady with achey bones.

    knittingknots2, to random
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    Suspect in father’s decapitation ‘went off the rails’ in college, those who knew him say

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suspect-fathers-decapitation-went-rails-college-knew-say-rcna136647

    badtux,

    @knittingknots2 Let's put it bluntly: This kid was radicalized by right-wing media until he committed a terrorist act against a Federal worker. This isn't a pure "went off the rails" situation. This is preachers of radicalization taking advantage of a vulnerable person to radicalize him into a terrorist murderer. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suspect-fathers-decapitation-went-rails-college-knew-say-rcna136647

    badtux, to Humor

    "I tell you what is best in life. To shush your patrons, see them browsing before you, and to confuse them with the Dewey Decimal System" -- Conan the Librarian

    badtux, to animals

    What are they conspiring about? Wrong answers only.

    badtux, to random

    Sigh.

    badtux, to random

    I miss real newspapers and their buildings. Every hometown newspaper of everywhere I lived in the past 50 years has been taken over by vulture capital funds and stripped, with their buildings being the first thing to go.

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