guyjantic

@guyjantic@mstdn.social

Guy. Jantic. I am at least one of these things. My partner admirably hides constant rage at my slovenly ways. I am bad at hiding things, like my despair and anger at my fellowcountryfolk selling their local and national democracy so cheaply.

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Free_Press, to news
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Your Thoughts on This Video?
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline

video/mp4

guyjantic,

@Free_Press It feels like a huge "whatabout" with a side of stereotyping.

  • Countries that hurt entire Palestinian populations believed those populations were all complicit in bad things, so obviously harming Palestinans was correct.

  • Now that we're assuming Palestinians are guilty of everything they've been accused of don't you think... [gestures broadly at Gaza in 2024 and hopes you'll come to the correct genocidal conclusion]

Yeah, this video is a form of propaganda.

lowqualityfacts, to random
@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar

I wonder how much they get paid.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

guyjantic,

@lowqualityfacts I snorted :)

GottaLaff, to random
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🏆
Via Scott MacFarlane:

There it is:

Rep Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Rep Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) introduce bill to change the name of the federal prison in Miami, Florida to the Donald J. Federal Correctional Institution

Days after House GOP members offered bill to rename Dulles Airport for Trump

guyjantic,

@GottaLaff I'd be happy if they just named the worst meal in the cafeteria after him.

Free_Press, to news
@Free_Press@mstdn.social avatar

"Friends of Russia" ask the EU to abandon the confiscation of frozen Russian assets worth $200 billion

According to Politico, representatives of China, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia are privately urging the European Union to continue to resist pressure from the United States and Great Britain. They fear that the confiscation of Russian assets will create a precedent, and they will be next.

guyjantic,

@Free_Press Russia seizes land that doesn't belong to it. Allies seize their cash. It doesn't make it right, but it's going in the right direction.

lowqualityfacts, to random
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I can feel it happen.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

guyjantic,

@lowqualityfacts That's why it hurts.

ProPublica, to Colorado
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An Expert Who Has Testified in Foster Care Cases Across #Colorado Admits Her Evaluations Are Unscientific

Diane Baird labeled her method for assessing families the “Kempe Protocol” after the renowned University of Colorado institute where she worked for decades.

The school has yet to publicly disavow it.

#news #kids #families #FosterCare #law #legal #parents #science

https://www.propublica.org/article/expert-in-foster-care-cases-admits-her-method-is-unscientific?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

guyjantic,

@ProPublica Holy shit this is bad. The "not scientific" part isn't the worst (though that's bad--she could just f***ing collect some basic stats as she goes along--but in this field lots of people just don't). Keep reading and it seems an awful lot like Baird kept children separated from their birth families because

  1. The foster families asked her to
  2. The birth families weren't white
guyjantic,

@_L1vY_ @ProPublica That claim made me deeply uncomfortable. I felt it was an excuse to ignore the heritage of the babies and their families.

guyjantic, to Cats

(Source: seriously random internets; oldest mention is a lame reposting account)
#cats #funny #victorian #notreally

vga256, (edited ) to edmonton
@vga256@dialup.cafe avatar

i've been sitting on this gem for 25 years. i think it's time.

so back in 1997, i was a first-year undergrad and dial-up was finally rolling out to the general public in most of canada.

with every new welcome package, u of a students received a 25 page manual on setting up smtp/pop for eudora lite, and a copy of netscape navigator.

the Computing and Network Services department decided that the best way to onramp students to the world wide web was via an interactive multimedia tutorial for win95 and macOS that they built themselves with macromedia director

last year an old buddy was cleaning out his basement, and he found his NetSurf '97 CD. couldn't resist capturing some of the 👌 performance by virtual paul

we all wish him well 🙏

guyjantic,

@vga256 This is adorable and bittersweet to me. I've attended then taught at universities since before 1997 and watched as uni admins gave up on making their own tools (probably laying off IT staff) and bought wave after wave of corporate "solutions" for everything, dumping the workload to learn each new system on others and eating more of the budget each time the corporate solutions enshittified. Stuff like this post is from a happier time. :)

Bellingcat, to random
@Bellingcat@mstdn.social avatar

Yesterday it was announced that federal charges against the co-founder of the white supremacist group the Rise Above Movement (RAM), Robert Rundo, have been dropped on the basis of 'selective prosecution'. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/us/politics/rise-above-selective-prosecution.html

guyjantic,

@Bellingcat Ah, excellent. Now I can get away with all the crimes I want. As long as the DA doesn't prosecute all the politically motivated jelly donut thieves/cop car vandals, prosecuting me would be "selective prosecution."

MediaActivist, to Palestine
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Britain wants to ban boycotts of Israel. Does that mean they’re working? https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/israel-palestine-boycott-divestment-sanctions-bds-uk-ban-house-lords/

guyjantic,

@zdl @MediaActivist My question exactly. If I just don't buy Israeli dates because I don't like dates, am I now a criminal?

stux, to random
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At some point I really should save up for a decent working place I guess :bloblaugh:

Currently I'm doing all my "computer work" from the couch with the laptop on the table but my back hates me for that 🧓 A week away from 31 but sometimes I feel 50 or something :blobcatgiggle:

Have a good sitting posture kids!

guyjantic,

@stux I feel that. I have cobbled together a raised monitor at my dining room table (for when I'm too lazy to go to my room in the house) and a multiple-monitor setup in my office, with a standing desk, more or less for free. It took a while, and depended on being in a university town where people give stuff away a lot, but it's been nice.

lowqualityfacts, to random
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I love Greek mythology.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

guyjantic,

@lowqualityfacts Arguably Yes.

lowqualityfacts, to random
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Obviously.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

guyjantic,

@lowqualityfacts I'm sorry, this one is just incorrect. Everyone knows it is Meese.

lowqualityfacts, to random
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DeSantis is the worst.

guyjantic,

@lowqualityfacts Every once in a while your misinformation circles back around and expresses the solid truth despite being technically false.

lowqualityfacts, to random
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I'm surprised that so many people don't know this.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

guyjantic,

@lowqualityfacts This is a real fact. The brain structures involved in smell/taste, encoding information into long-term memory, and some important emotional processing are located right next to each other, deep in your brain, and are highly interconnected.

I don't recommend licking random objects, but to each their own.

lowqualityfacts, to random
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That's why I never bother to adjust my clocks.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

guyjantic,

@lowqualityfacts this one is difficult to fully disprove

khalidabuhakmeh, to CSharp
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.social avatar

This is interesting, especially as someone who does . Maybe I should learn some , , or .

guyjantic,

@khalidabuhakmeh Is this chart showing reductions in salary or reductions in people doing the work... why do the bars go left?

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