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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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GrimmReality, to random
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Texas is a Klan-controlled state. Literally no one there is safe from being murdered by militant neo-Nazi goons and, if you are a militant neo-Nazi goon, you now have absolute carte blanche to murder anyone you want.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/16/texas-greg-abbott-pardons-daniel-perry

msbellows,
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@GrimmReality Jesus.
"Governor Greg Abbott of Texas issued a full pardon on Thursday to a former US army sergeant convicted of murder for fatally shooting an armed demonstrator in 2020 during nationwide protests against police violence and racial injustice.... Perry has been held in state prison on a 25-year sentence since his conviction in 2023."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/16/texas-greg-abbott-pardons-daniel-perry?utm_source=pocket_mylist

msbellows, to random
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I'm gonna just say it (and from the perspective of a former trial lawyer with 37 years' experience): the posse of GOP slanderers Trump's bringing with him daily, and Trump's defense's failure to finish cross-examination of Michael Cohen today, are partly because they're hoping some idiot will kill Cohen before he's left the stand (because under the Sixth Amendment, no jury is allowed to rely on his testimony until his cross is complete).

Yes, I believe they're that evil. Stochastic terrorism is a tool, not an accident.

shoq, to random
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I so hope this an error. But I know it’s not. This alone is grounds for impeachment in a sane society. I wish I lived in one of those.

In reply to…
https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/112453236723090182

msbellows,
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@shoq Look, man, at least we got to live in a mostly-sane society for most of our lives. My kids are clear that they never, ever have, and never will, and it breaks my fucking heart, because people like you and me tried really hard to prevent this.

msbellows, to random
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Okay, I'll admit it. I did not have this on my 2024 bingo card.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/angie-harmon-sues-instacart-delivery-driver-fatal-shooting-dog-north-carolina/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

JonBaker, to random
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GENIE: You have 3 wishes

ME: I want you to yeet Neptune out of the solar system

GENIE: what

ME: I don’t care where, just get it the fuck outta here

GENIE: Ok but why

ME: Gonna freak the fuck out of some scientists

msbellows,
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@JonBaker Yeah, that's an instafollow. Don't make me regret it, hoser.

msbellows, to random
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Under the Sixth Amendment, the jury isn't allowed to rely on Michael Cohen's testimony until cross-examination is complete. I hope he spends the time between now and Thursday sitting quietly in a reinforced-concrete safe room with an emergency physician and a well-vetted bodyguard.

tiamat271, to random
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@ai6yr in case you’re bored and need something to do?

https://www.fox21news.com/news/search-for-colorado-springs-man-missing-on-longs-peak

msbellows,
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@ai6yr @tiamat271 I almost certainly don't even need to say this, but if any hams listen in on searchers' comms, please be careful not to publicize info that might be misleading or raise false hopes (eg, team radioing that they found footprints or a piece of clothing, which may or may not be the subject's), and ESPECIALLY not to share news of a subject being found before cleared to do so by search officials (bec searchers will NOT radio in the clear that the subject is dead, so "we've found the subject" isn't necessarily good news). (Authority: I spent 10 years in mountain rescue.)

realtegan, to random
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For Americans looking at people posting in Celsius temperatures: don't try to convert, just remember this...

Zero is freezing,
Ten is not.
Twenty is warm and
Thirty is hot
(And forty is DAMNED hot)

msbellows,
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@realtegan

GrimmReality, to random
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As it is the greatest tv show ever made, we all have our favorite Futurama moments, but the one that may resonate most with me is when the Robot Devil says "This opera is as lousy as it is brilliant" because it reminds me of some of my favorite people's social medium jokes.

msbellows,
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@GrimmReality @RufusJCooter Okay sure respect etc. etc. except the greatest TV show ever made actually is Malcolm in the Middle.

msbellows,
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@RufusJCooter @GrimmReality I didn't disagree! Those two (+ Cloris Leachman) made the show. But of course very few child actors actually are great.

But their depiction of flawed parents resetting a flawed family but redeemed by love spoke to my wife and me when we were the same.

msbellows,
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@RufusJCooter @GrimmReality I rewatched it last year and told my family I want it played at my wake. :-)

QasimRashid, to random
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Nearly 700 Jewish professors call on Biden to veto bill equating criticism of Israel to antisemitism—specifically objecting to the IHRA definition of antisemitism as criticism of Israel.

Biden should listen, and focus on combatting actual antisemitism.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4651826-jewish-professors-biden-antisemitism-legislation/

msbellows,
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@QasimRashid If "Israel" = "Judaism," then Judaism didn't exist for nearly two millennia before 1948.

GottaLaff, to legal
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🧵 starts HERE.

Please remember I don’t reply while live-posting. Plz use NFL (Not For Laffy, but no hashtag) so I can ignore those replies.

1/

Pagliery:

Today's session starts with prosecutors asking for a sidebar with the judge. Lawyers on both sides are now discussing something in hushed tones.

msbellows,
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@GottaLaff Hmph. Cheater! :-)

McAwmcmillan, to chemistry
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This is part of the 2nd paragraph and keeps escalating each new paragraph
“I mean, this was definitely not planned. It was just supposed to be the removal of these shelves full of strange-sounding names, and so I’m sorry for whatever damage they’ve had and sorry they had to be evacuated,” https://ksltv.com/639989/holladay-homeowner-apologizes-to-neighbors-for-home-explosion/

msbellows,
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@Pagan_Animist @blogdiva @McAwmcmillan You have dementia, Connie?

msbellows, to random
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Yes, a bug dying in Jr.'s brain is a sexy headline, but to me the bigger story is that he also had severe memory problems due to MERCURY POISONING – 10x the maximum acceptable level – from massively overconsuming tuna and perch –

– despite being an environmental lawyer who should understand how heavy metals get concentrated in predatory fish –

AND THEN! AND THEN!

– urged parents to protect their children from mercury poisoning, not by limiting their' tuna consumption, but by denying them vaccines bECaUse oMG THiMeRoSaL!!!!

What a freaking idiot. What a nimrod. What a waste of privilege.

GottaLaff, to legal
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Welp! 🧵

Via Kyle Cheney: 1/...

: Judge has indefinitely postponed Donald 's trial date in Florida.

It may be months before we know the new schedule.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652.530.0.pdf

msbellows,
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@GottaLaff @artemesia Yeah, @Nonilex shared a comment by Katyal, who said Smith won't seek recusal now because now the calendar might be clearer for the 1/6 case (assuming SCOTUS rules on immunity correctly and soon). https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/112403045997186418

msbellows,
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@artemesia @GottaLaff @Nonilex And when Biden's re-elected and Dems recapture both houses, six R justices need to be impeached.

msbellows,
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@artemesia @GottaLaff @Nonilex It must be nice to have no emotions and never need to vent, late at night, when you're tired, among what are supposed to be your friends.

msbellows,
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@artemesia @GottaLaff @Nonilex My apologies, too. I was stressed and grumpy last night. _/_

blogdiva, to cooking
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to this day, i have no idea what rhubarb tastes like. it's been for so long one of those weird things euroamericans eat, that am afraid to taste it and be ghastly disappointed in my notion that, yup, doesn't taste good at all.

msbellows,
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@blogdiva DM me an address, you poor benighted thing, you.

msbellows,
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@blogdiva I have no idea but if it is even theoretically possible I will make a fzcking way.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited ) to Economics
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@economics@a.gup.pe

File this under the heading economics is not even a dismal science, because mainstream economics isn’t even science. Economics could actually be a rigorous discipline, if orthodoxy can be kicked out.

“ In contrast to its attitude to private debt, which it ignores, mainstream economics obsesses about government debt. But this volte-face doesn't besmirch its record of being 100% wrong.”

https://profstevekeen.substack.com/p/its-a-mixed-credit-fiat-world-e3f

msbellows,
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @economics@a.gup.pe Please explain this to me like I'm a preschooler (kindergarten being too rigorous): was Keynes right or wrong?

msbellows,
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @economics@a.gup.pe I suppose my main summary of my understanding of canes is that he said the government should collect surpluses when the economy is good, then spend them like crazy in deficit when the economy is bad, so that in the end the budget is roughly balanced but no one is truly obsessing about deficits.

hakaimagazine, to worldwithoutus
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“The winds will change the ocean, the ocean will melt —and the water is coming to visit you.” If the collapses, it could bring much of the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet with it and raise sea levels by over three meters. The potential collapse of Thwaites is among the largest environmental threats to global civilization—and we’ve barely begun to understand it. What took us so long?

By Marissa Grunes.

https://hakaimagazine.com/features/how-we-came-to-know-and-fear-the-doomsday-glacier/

msbellows,
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@hakaimagazine Link?

msbellows,
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@hakaimagazine Thanks! You might want to put a URL to your front page in your Mastodon bio, as well. (You look like a really interesting magazine, and I'm looking forward to following you, so it would make it easier for me!)Aa

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