Former President Donald Trump, fresh off his third appearance in court as a criminal defendant, delivered a speech full of defiance and bluster on Friday night, insulting prosecutors and declaring that the charges he faces only help his 2024 presidential campaign.
Listen to this episode from Behind the Bastards on Spotify. Robert is joined again by cartoonist Randy Milholland to continue to discuss Scott Adams. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Listen to this episode from Behind the Bastards on Spotify. Robert sits down with cartoonist Randy Milholland to discuss Scott Adams and the secret of his madness. (2 Part Series)...
Description: Cody from Denver shares his experiences with the devastating real-world impact of transphobia on individuals and their communities, and inspires a discussion......
Listen to this episode from Behind the Bastards on Spotify. Robert, Katy and Cody read a Proud Boys manual that was recently released as part of a sedition case. (1 part) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It’s one thing to have differing views, but I’ve seen enough attempted reddit migrations to be relieved that the popular communities in the fediverse so far haven’t been about crazy racist stuff or other extreme right bullshit....
The court ended one of our most effective social justice policies because anything that isn’t seen to primarily benefit white people is anathema to this country.
In February of 2020, former Ohio State wrestling captain Adam DiSabato testified to an Ohio House Subcommittee that Rep. Jim Jordan knew about hundreds of se...
Well-known enlightened centrist Tim Pool finds himself absolutely and brutally owned on his own show by Emma. I couldn't quite believe that this intellectual giant would ever find himself on the wrong side of a debate, so I wanted to gather some evidence and reactions to better understand how it could have possibly happened....
Listen to this episode from Behind the Bastards on Spotify. Robert sits down with Ben Bowlin to talk about the flood of AI-generated children's books con-artists are putting on Kindle. Not only are they off-putting and bad, they might represent a serious threat to literacy itself.
I think most of us who moved here from Reddit are enjoying our time here on kbin.social. We've left a lot of the riff-raff behind us and made new friends with intelligent, thoughtful members of kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon, etc.....
It hasn't even been two weeks. Let people get used to the platforms.
Difference instances are showing up slowly, so maybe instead of saying everyone needs to split up before communities and magazines have had a chance to mature even in the slightest, we slow down a little bit and support the hosts and developers we have now.
Or perhaps, look for new instances and report back on places folks can migrate to.
I think it's great that so many people want to build and grow Lemmy, but why are we doing it by copying over Reddit content? It didn't seem as bad when it was funny pics or memes or whatever, but now I'm seeing discussion threads, which doesn't make sense to me....
Trump boasts at Alabama fundraiser that he needs ‘one more indictment to close out this election’ (apnews.com)
Former President Donald Trump, fresh off his third appearance in court as a criminal defendant, delivered a speech full of defiance and bluster on Friday night, insulting prosecutors and declaring that the charges he faces only help his 2024 presidential campaign.
time for a rebrand! (lemmy.world)
Part Two: How The Dilbert Guy Lost His Mind (open.spotify.com)
Listen to this episode from Behind the Bastards on Spotify. Robert is joined again by cartoonist Randy Milholland to continue to discuss Scott Adams. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Part One: How The Dilbert Guy Lost His Mind (open.spotify.com)
Listen to this episode from Behind the Bastards on Spotify. Robert sits down with cartoonist Randy Milholland to discuss Scott Adams and the secret of his madness. (2 Part Series)...
Bad Faith Justifications For Trans Political Persecution MUST Be Met With Militant Advocacy (www.youtube.com)
Description: Cody from Denver shares his experiences with the devastating real-world impact of transphobia on individuals and their communities, and inspires a discussion......
A staple of my childhood: NBA Jam Session (1993 VHS) (www.youtube.com)
You dang kids and your tiktoks and youtube. I still say the peak of NBA highlights was NBA Jam Session and anything narrated by Ahmad Rashad....
Let's Read the Proud Boys Membership Manual (open.spotify.com)
Listen to this episode from Behind the Bastards on Spotify. Robert, Katy and Cody read a Proud Boys manual that was recently released as part of a sedition case. (1 part) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
[Best of] Part Two: How Cigarettes Invented Everything (open.spotify.com)
From my personal "Best of" Behind the Bastards episodes...
The Supreme Court strikes down Biden's student-loan forgiveness plan, blocking debt relief for millions of borrowers (www.businessinsider.com)
The Supreme Court ruled Biden's student-loan forgiveness is illegal, meaning borrowers will resume payments without debt cancellation this year.
OC Unlike previous attempts at trying reddit alternatives (like Voat), kbin and much of the lemmyverse doesn’t seem to be plagued with extreme far right buffoonery.
It’s one thing to have differing views, but I’ve seen enough attempted reddit migrations to be relieved that the popular communities in the fediverse so far haven’t been about crazy racist stuff or other extreme right bullshit....
The Supreme Court Has Killed Affirmative Action. Mediocre Whites Can Rest Easier. (www.thenation.com)
The court ended one of our most effective social justice policies because anything that isn’t seen to primarily benefit white people is anathema to this country.
Part: Two Stockton Rush: Inventor of the Deathsub (open.spotify.com)
Listen to this episode from Behind the Bastards on Spotify. Robert is joined again by Andrew Ti to continue to discuss Oceangate CEO, Stockton Rush.
Legal Dragnet Closing In On GOP’s Jim Jordan (www.youtube.com)
In February of 2020, former Ohio State wrestling captain Adam DiSabato testified to an Ohio House Subcommittee that Rep. Jim Jordan knew about hundreds of se...
Part One: Stockton Rush: Inventor of the Deathsub (open.spotify.com)
Listen to this episode from Behind the Bastards on Spotify. Robert is joined by Andrew Ti to discuss Oceangate CEO, Stockton Rush. (2 Part Series)...
Emma Vigeland murders Tim Pool megathread
Well-known enlightened centrist Tim Pool finds himself absolutely and brutally owned on his own show by Emma. I couldn't quite believe that this intellectual giant would ever find himself on the wrong side of a debate, so I wanted to gather some evidence and reactions to better understand how it could have possibly happened....
[substack] AI Is Coming For Your Children (shatterzone.substack.com)
Con-men are flooding kindle with AI children's books. They could do permanent damage to childhood literacy.
Part Two: AI Is Coming for Your Children (open.spotify.com)
Listen to this episode from Behind the Bastards on Spotify. We continue our investigation of weird AI children's book grifters.
Part One: AI Is Coming for Your Children (open.spotify.com)
Listen to this episode from Behind the Bastards on Spotify. Robert sits down with Ben Bowlin to talk about the flood of AI-generated children's books con-artists are putting on Kindle. Not only are they off-putting and bad, they might represent a serious threat to literacy itself.
Why we need to move on from kbin.social
I think most of us who moved here from Reddit are enjoying our time here on kbin.social. We've left a lot of the riff-raff behind us and made new friends with intelligent, thoughtful members of kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon, etc.....
Why are we copying over so much Reddit content?
I think it's great that so many people want to build and grow Lemmy, but why are we doing it by copying over Reddit content? It didn't seem as bad when it was funny pics or memes or whatever, but now I'm seeing discussion threads, which doesn't make sense to me....
I'm just so relieved Lemmy's OK
In heaven, you get to do whatever you like best all the time.
Reddit just removed all the mods from /r/self and locked the sub (imgur.com)
Looks like another hostile takeover.
That's not the wallet inspector