badtux

@badtux@mastodon.social

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

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Meyerweb, to random
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For my own peace of mind I am not going to read the Techno-Goatse essay, but from what I’m seeing in my timeline, it makes sense that Marc has gone with an Alex Jones look. https://fortune.com/2023/10/16/marc-andreessen-techno-optimist-manifesto-ai-50-billion-people-billionaire-vc/

badtux,

@Meyerweb Andreessen is such a tool. Always has been, ever since he decided that commercializing software written with government money was fine and dandy.

malwaretech, (edited ) to random

I think this might actually be the first time in my life I've been more horrified by some of the left than the right. The Ukraine war came close-ish, with some factions of the left siding with Russia due to distrust of the US (which, fair enough), and then tankies apparently being confused as to whether Russia is still socialist or not. But all of that was balanced out by the right trying to undermine Ukraine funding in favor of the most stupid shit ever.

But this week a lot of leftists who support Palestine somehow stumbled past the point and went straight for glorifying one of the most horrific massacres in recent history, openly supporting Hamas, and even straight up calling for the elimination of Israel. I always thought the right had a monopoly on overt racism and unjust violence, but apparently if you substitute in words like "decolonization" you can get some of the left to go full Nazi too.

badtux,

@malwaretech Saying that the solution to massacring civilians is not to massacre even more civilians is not glorifying massacres. It is the opposite.

I fully expect that Israel will massacre 100 Palestinians for each Israeli who died. Because that is what they do. This will not stop future massacres however, it will just feed more extremism amongst Palestinians who already believe that they are considered cockroaches rather than human by Israelis -- or by most Americans.

badtux,

@malwaretech Of course there is one possible way that Israel massacring Palestinians will stop Palestinians from massacring Israelis. And that is if Israel decides upon the Final Solution to the Palestinian problem.

Or as Stalin put it, "no people, no problem."

Too bad about the women and children. But Israelis just consider them to be cockroaches anyhow, vermin to be exterminated, so.

dgoldsmith, to random
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I feel like about one out of every ten ads I see on Youtube are transphobic propaganda from the Epoch Times, and each time it's like a punch in the gut. The ferocity—and money—with which the theocratic right is coming after trans people is terrifying.

badtux,

@dgoldsmith I wonder how many of these folks have even met a trans person. I've probably met one -- but if so, I didn't know it.

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.

SirTapTap, to Cat
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tips for teaching a to use a transparent door flap on a new litter box? He's used the box plenty, but if I put the flap on he seems to ignore it.

It's important for sealing in the odor so they're forced to go through the carbon filter

badtux,

@SirTapTap The smell is what tells them that's the place to go potty. No smell = no potty. Sorry to give you the bad news.

thomasfuchs, to random
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badtux,

@thomasfuchs That said, it worked pretty well for bringing peace with Japan in 1945. Two bombs, and peace was signed.

badtux, to animals

Truth.

badtux, to animals

This feral cat sporting his rackish eartip is obviously terrified.

badtux, to animals

This cat with his stylish feral eartip sleeping on the folding chair next to my office chair is clearly totally stressed out by being indoors next to humans. He also snores.

badtux, to animals

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

badtux,

@Virginicus Thus why my cat is judging me.

McCoy is sitting down outside because I didn't want to store him between buying him on September 27, and deploying him on October 1 with the rest of the Halloween decorations. McCoy is this year's new Halloween decoration. He looks like he's enjoying the sunlight getting a tan, lol.

RadicalGraffiti, to random
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"Behind every fortune is a crime"
Freight graffiti seen in St. Paul, Minnesota

badtux,

@RadicalGraffiti They're not wrong. Every billionaire got there by claiming the work product of workers "employed" by them as their own property. It's basically a grift enabled by the fact that they monopolized so much capital in the first place using government guns on their behalf that workers can't create their own businesses and keep their own work product.

badtux, to animals

Mah gigantic cat tree, complete with cats.

Yes, they occupy the tree most of the day.

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.

mekkaokereke, to random
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When I said that the college athlete NIL law passing, transfer portal happening, hiring Black head coaches, and eventually, paying players would increase graduation rates and revenue for the NCAA, lots of y'all didn't believe me.

If you stayed up late watching Colorado vs CSU, now you get it.

Would you rather make:

A) 95% of $20 billion, but Black kids get next to nothing.

B) 50% of $50 billion, but you have to give $25 billion to Black people.

This math is surprisingly hard for racists.🤷🏿‍♂️

badtux,

@mekkaokereke Racists have always been more interested in being mean to black people than in profits. Locking black people out of hotels, restaurants, etc during segregation literally was turning away money but they did it anyhow.

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”.

SocraticEthics, to Ukraine
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https://t.me/WarriorsUkrainian/11219
⚠️🇷🇺He shouldn’t have drank the tea. Kadyrov is in a coma, Andriy Yusov, a representative of the GUR. According to Ukrainian intelligence, the head of Chechnya's kidneys are failing.

badtux,

@SocraticEthics Kadyrov is the only person keeping Chechnya from erupting in rebellion again. No Kadyrov, no peace in Chechnya. I don't think Pooty thought this one through before poisoning him.

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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Emmett Brock was attacked by an LASD officer after he gave the officer "the finger" when he saw the officer berating a woman.

Then, because they're transphobic they did an invasive body inspection & charged him w/ "resisting arrest" (there was no reason for the arrest) Put him in the women's section.

Emmett's having a hard time so here is his legal fund. No one deserves this kind of treatment.

[Image of attack in replies.]

https://www.gofundme.com/f/emmett-with-legal-assistance

badtux,

@futurebird This is typical behavior by the L.A. Sheriff's Department. They are a bunch of brutal Okies who hate anybody who is different and bully and randomly assault people just because they can. They are a gang of thugs in blue and a disgrace to the entire law enforcement community and I am utterly unsurprised that one of their thugs beat up a school teacher using an idiotic pretext just because he could.

badtux, to animals

Yawwwwn!

The world's worst feral (well, bad at being feral) yawns while settling in to his cat bed on the futon in the living room.

GottaLaff, to random
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Booz Allen Hamilton to pay $377 million for false charges to U.S. government
The resolution in Justice Dept. case represents one of the largest financial settlements for a defense company under the federal False Claims Act.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/21/booz-allen-lawsuit-false-charges/

badtux,

@GottaLaff They electrocuted soldiers in Afghanistan with miswired outlets that they falsely claimed was installed by a licensed electrician when it was actually Haji the goat herder from the nearby village.

kravietz, to Ukraine
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Why troops gained a reputation of "TikTok warriors" universally among and soldiers? Due to their excessive presence in social media, where they post obviously staged videos, firing at empty forest, sieging bushes and destroying lone trees.

Last year a staged video with Kadyrov himself allegedly visiting was identified as taken on a petrol station deep inside Russia. On another video of Kadyrovites reportedly giving away humanitarian help to civilians the food packages had clearly visible Ukrainian brands, implying theft or robbery from actual volunteers.

Kadyrovites are hated by diaspora and Russian soldiers, from whom they visibly distance, never going to the actual front line, and playing the role of barrier troops. For Ukrainian troops they are barely any threat, as they are rarely seen in battle.

Another story is "Akhmat" battalion, which is a distinct structure from Kadyrovites, still funded by Kadyrov, but composed of contract soldiers, mostly not Chechens, and actually taking part in battles much like many other Russian "private military companies".

A selection of their best "Rambo" style productions so far is presented below.

Kadyrovite soldier fiercely firing in an empty forest
Kadyrovite soldier fiercely firing in an empty forest while screaming "Khokhol, surrender!" in Russian with a terrible Caucasian accent
Kadyrovite soldier fiercely firing from two machine guns in an empty forest

badtux,

@kravietz Kadyrov has the right idea. Why risk the lives of you and your troops on a bullshit war? Instead try to convince Pootey you are supporting him via TikTok ops.

SirTapTap, to random
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My cat: sitting still and not doing anything of note

Me: breaks out giggling "LOOK AT HIM!!"

badtux,

@SirTapTap My cat sleeping on top of the cat tree, virtually comatose as he digests a big meal, and me giving him a quick ear scritch as I pass by and say “Who’s a good kitty?” And he is literally just sleeping. Because adorable fluff.

badtux,

@SirTapTap Literally just sleeping. And I am telling him “Such a good boy!”

A fluffy cream colored cat sleeps on a cat tree doing absolutely nothing.

Free_Press, to Ukraine
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Russians built a replacement for the drowned cruiser "Moskva"

In Kerch, a ceremony was held to accept the Cyclone small missile ship into the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation. It became the first warship built at the Kerch Shipyard in 25 years.

RosSMI claims that the Cyclone is equipped with the latest air defense systems and is armed with a launcher for 8 Kalibr cruise missiles.

Looks like Harpoon or Neptune have a job.
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video/mp4

badtux,

@Free_Press Lol. The Cyclone is a 600 ton corvette ordered from Kerch Shipyard in 2016, taking approximately four years to build from the time that its construction started in 2016 and then another three years to commission after its launch. The Moskva was literally 16x the size and 16x the capability. If you look at the satellite footage you will see that two more Karakurt-class corvettes are currently under construction in Kerch as part of that 2016 order.

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