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Changeling poet, musician and writer, born on the 13th floor. Left of counter-clockwise and right of the white rabbit, all twilight and sunrises, forever the inside outsider.
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Last month, a unknown molecular biologist claimed to have worked on alien DNA at the Battelle National Biodefense Institute. They posted an incredibly detailed breakdown of their work on r/aliens, then disappeared. (old.reddit.com)
First off, the link above to the bad place is for reference - no need to visit - full text below....
Reddit Activity Plummeted After The Protests - by Adam Bumas (www.garbageday.email)
Last month marked the official end of the Reddit protests. Any subreddit that had changed its rules or gone dark — or forced its users to post exclusively about John Oliver — has now gone back to normal. On the surface, it seems like a complete victory for Reddit, but things aren’t so simple when a major element of that...
Kbin Pornbot alert - looks like a number of bot accounts have taken up residence on kbin and are spamming /m/random with porn
Looks like we've had a wave of porn bots hit recently. Screenshot is a sampling of what's popping up on my threads feed when sorted by new....
YSK that Kbin can subscribe not only to magazines and communities, but entire instances.
This may be useful for folks looking to expand their feed. I discovered this on accident and it completely revolutionized my experience on Kbin....
The Supreme Court is out of control and must be reformed (www.dailykos.com)
The majority then announced, with an opinion from Chief Justice John Roberts, that it was overthrowing the student loan forgiveness program, granting a request from six Republican state attorneys general on behalf of a loan servicer, the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority, that did not want to be used as a plaintiff....
The Supreme Court May Preemptively Ban a Federal Wealth Tax (newrepublic.com)
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed published in 2021, two of the Moores’ lawyers also declared unambiguously that the lawsuit “stands to slam shut the door on a federal wealth tax like the one Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants to enact.” They made a direct pitch to “the courts” to hear the Moores’ case “now” to make it...
[News] Trump Has Been Privately Encouraging G.O.P. Lawmakers to Impeach Biden (www.nytimes.com)
The former president has talked regularly with members of the House Freedom Caucus and other congressional Republicans who pushed for impeachment....
[Opinion - Legal Analysis] The Constitution bars Trump from holding public office ever again - Donald K. Sherman (thehill.com)
While some on the right portray accountability for the Jan. 6 Capitol riot as just another partisan dispute, two prominent conservative legal scholars have made the case that the Constitution disqualifies former President Trump from public office....
Opinion: Joe Walsh - Trump Is a Dangerous Criminal Who Belongs in Prison (www.thedailybeast.com)
The four count indictment Special Counsel Jack Smith handed down against Donald Trump alleges that on Jan. 6, approximately two hours after the mob broke into the Capitol, “the Defendant” joined others in the outer Oval Office to watch the attack on television....
Italy begins stripping lesbian mothers of their parental rights (www.lgbtqnation.com)
One mom said she cried for 10 days after hearing she was being removed from her daughter's birth certificate....
[News] State Republicans Try to Remove NC Supreme Court Justice for Mentioning the Existence of Racial Bias (slate.com)
On Tuesday, it was reported that North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls could be ousted from her seat for judicial ethics violations. Did she fail to disclose gifts from a billionaire benefactor on whose cases she was ruling? No. Maybe she’d gone on luxury vacations across the globe paid for by some of the richest...
Analysis: How the Ukraine Counteroffensive Can Still Succeed - Time.com (time.com)
Shoutout to @Harry who originally posted the link....
Scientists discover huge, heat-emitting blob on the far side of the moon (www.livescience.com)
Scientists have discovered an anomalous blob of heat on the far side of the moon....
[News] "Hit list": Trump grand jurors face violent threats after names and addresses shared on QAnon forums - Salon.com (www.salon.com)
Users on far-right online forums are publishing private information about members of the Georgia grand jury that indicted former president Donald Trump and 18 of his allies in a sweeping criminal case focused on alleged 2020 election interference earlier this month, leading to jurors receiving threats online....
[News] Trump Pushes Total Lie About Georgia Prosecutor Sleeping With Gang Member (www.rollingstone.com)
The former president baselessly accused Fani Willis, who is investigating his 2020 election meddling, of having an “affair” with a “gang member”...
If you're a Kbin moderator, YSK how to remove downvotes and upvotes.
This method only works within your magazine, and will remove downvotes or upvotes on comments as well as posts....
How to Short-Circuit the Outrage Machine (slate.com)
Any citizen of the social internet knows the feeling: that irritable contentiousness, that desire to get into it that seems almost impossible to resist, even though you know you’ve already squandered too many hours and too much emotional energy on pointless internet disputes. If you use Twitter, you may have noticed that at...
[News] DeSantis-controlled Disney World district gets rid of all diversity, equity and inclusion programs and staffers (www.nbcnews.com)
ORLANDO, Fla. — Diversity, equity and inclusion programs were abolished Tuesday from Walt Disney World’s governing district, now controlled by appointees of Gov. Ron DeSantis, in an echo of the Florida governor’s agenda which has championed curtailing such programs in higher education and elsewhere....
Lemmy.world is down again
[News] “Dark” right-wing network recruits MAGA “army” to replace 50K federal workers Trump plans to purge (www.salon.com)
A network of conservative groups is gearing up for the potential reelection of Donald Trump, actively enlisting an "army" of Americans to come to Washington with a mission to disassemble the federal government and substitute it with a vision that aligns more closely with their own beliefs and ideas, according to The Associated...
[Poll Analysis] Lauren Boebert begs supporters for help after admitting her campaign is flailing (www.lgbtqnation.com)
It’s official: Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert (R) is scared. Recent polling has shown Democratic frontrunner Adam Frisch in the lead in Boebert’s district, and now the anti-LGBTQ+ Congresswoman is pleading with voters for help....
Ukraine says it wrecked Russian submarine with British cruise missiles (www.politico.eu)
KYIV — Ukraine on Thursday confirmed it wrecked a Russian submarine with British weapons, during a missile attack on the Black Sea port of Sevastopol in Russian-occupied Crimea....