Another Great New Snarky Puppy Jam: “Coney Bear”

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The funk. It is deep and stanky.

Snarky Puppy - Coney Bear
From ‘Empire Central’ - Available now
Stream/Buy: orcd.co

Written by Bob Lanzetti
Arranged by Bob Lanzetti, Michael League, and Snarky Puppy

Bob Lanzetti - electric guitar
Mark Lettieri - electric guitar
Chris McQueen - electric guitar
Justin Stanton - Minimoog Model D
Bobby Sparks - Hammond B3 organ and ARP String Ensemble
Bill Laurance - Fender Rhodes Mark 8 and Osmose
Shaun Martin - Talkbox, Mellotron and Moog Little Phatty
Zach Brock - violin
Mike “Maz” Maher - flugelhorn and trumpet (solo)
Jay Jennings - flugelhorn
Chris Bullock - tenor sax
Bob Reynolds - soprano sax
Michael League - electric bass
Nate Werth - percussion
Keita Ogawa - percussion
Marcelo Woloski - percussion
Jason “JT” Thomas - drum set
Larnell Lewis - drum set
Jamison Ross - drum set

Jep Jorba - Director / camera operator
David Bretones - Director of Photography / camera operator
Brad Holt - Line producer / camera operator
Andrew Redd - Gaffer / camera operator
Chris Brian - Camera operator
Ranjani Groth - Camera operator
Jun Kang - Camera operator
Emily Holt - Camera operator
Reid Walker - Dolly operator
Joseph Fisher - Dolly Operator

Produced by Michael League and Snarky Puppy
Engineered by Nic Hard, Matt Recchia, and Michael Harrison
Engineering assisted by Skyler Childress, Michael League, and Shakthi Prasad KT
Mixed by Nic Hard
Mastered by Dave McNair
Recorded and filmed March 3-10, 2022, at Deep Ellum Art Company in Dallas, Texas, USA
Mixed March 15 - April 7, 2022, at Estudi Vint in Els Prats de Rei, Catalonia, Spain
Photography by Brian Friedman and Jep Jorba
Video edited by Michael League and Jep Jorba
Film consulting by Andy LaViolette
Production managed by Rosanna Freedman
Project managed by Jamie Margulies
Stage assembled by Mason Davis, Matt Recchia, Rosanna Freedman, and Michael Harrison
Graphic design by Claire Morales
Managed by Mike Chadwick Management

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1
Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 23, 2023 • 10:50:15am
“Justice Department and FBI officials disagreed back in August about whether their investigation into the handling of sensitive documents justified the search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Fewer officials had doubts earlier this month, when prosecutors took an even bolder step: asking a grand jury to indict the former president on 37 counts,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“What turned the tide was an audio tape and other evidence investigators confirmed around February from meetings Trump held almost two years earlier and a thousand miles from the former president’s Palm Beach, Fla., resort.”

“That crucial evidence, along with notes from a Trump lawyer describing his response to the investigation, helped spur prosecutors to push forward with a criminal case.”

“i’ll be damned if we’re gonna be trump’s bitches” or something similar

oh and

it’s gonna be hard to argue against tapes.
both in court and in the jury room

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 23, 2023 • 10:52:22am

Through sheer luck, I unexpectedly managed to knock off a huge item from my bucket list yesterday.

Patrick Stewart is probably my all-time favorite celebrity. I’ve wanted to meet him/see him in person for years now, but never had the chance. Also, he’s about to be 83 so there won’t be all that many chances left.

After I came in from doing some yardwork yesterday, this popped up in my social feeds, posted by one of Patricks pages:

I don’t live near any of these places, but it just so happens I’m heading out west on 10/11 to visit my dad in Vegas. A quick change of flights and tweak to the travel plans later and….BOOM. I get to spend an evening with Sir Patrick himself! (Ms. Cyborg is also coming along for the ride)

This is a small venue (capacity only 1200), so it should be a wonderful experience. I got real lucky. Tickets sold out in less than a day.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 23, 2023 • 10:54:32am

re: #1 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

“He was just joking.”

“That’s not what he meant.”

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 23, 2023 • 10:54:51am

From downstairs.

re: #379 William Lewis

I can tell you a lot of Dems in Wisconsin, especially women said, I hate Trump but hate Hillary even more. They really figured that no matter how bad he was, he’d be better than her.

I myself actually briefly had that attitude. I was disabused of the notions about Hillary by someone here; I wish I could find the post, but I believe it was a link to a point-by-point debunking of the “Clinton Body Count” rumors that had stubbornly persisted since the 1990’s.

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Dr. Matt  Jun 23, 2023 • 10:55:34am

🤨😐😑😶

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William Lewis  Jun 23, 2023 • 10:57:31am

CL’d (PBUH):
re: #365 Thanos

One of the best guitarists I’ve ever had the privilege of knowing still hides his head behind the bose speaker and stands with his back to the crowd when soloing most days. It takes nerve to perform, different people handle it different ways.

The. Absolute. Best. Blues. Guitarist I’ve ever seen (and bear in mind that I have seen SRV in concert) walked away from performing because she couldn’t bear to do it in public. Nearly killed herself with alcohol before stopping performing.

Still plays for herself and her friends and partner but walked away from the biz.

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gwangung  Jun 23, 2023 • 10:57:43am

re: #4 Nerdy Fish

From downstairs.

I myself actually briefly had that attitude. I was disabused of the notions about Hillary by someone here; I wish I could find the post, but I believe it was a link to a point-by-point debunking of the “Clinton Body Count” rumors that had stubbornly persisted since the 1990’s.

Wonder if that dis-abusement is now spread more widely, or if there are still a lot of people who feel that way.

(Fortunately, not a problem with Biden. Unfortunately, it may be a problem with Harris…)

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 23, 2023 • 10:58:03am

re: #5 Dr. Matt

Narrator: The biggest law firms in fact rejected him…because they knew he would never pay them.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:00:22am

re: #7 gwangung

Wonder if that dis-abusement is now spread more widely, or if there are still a lot of people who feel that way.

(Fortunately, not a problem with Biden. Unfortunately, it may be a problem with Harris…)

Nahh. Harris is easy enough to tar and feather in the eyes of the rabid right because she’s a woman of color. They don’t need to invent scary sounding conspiracy theories to discredit her, like they did for Bill (primarily; they just re-used their old handiwork for Hillary). They’ll just pull out the old Obama “sooper sekrit Muslim non-American WHAR BIRTH CERTIFIKIT WHAR” playbook.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:01:06am

re: #5 Dr. Matt

🤨😐😑😶

[Embedded content]

Citrus Caligula says he don’t need no help.

Keep saying that asshole, just keep saying that!

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Teukka  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:02:50am

Two Steps From Hell - Sariel Nighthawk

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teleskiguy  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:05:15am

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:06:10am

re: #345 Nerdy Fish

Important to note that Hillary Clinton had, and still has, a bit of a public perception problem. Despite the fact that she’s very clearly not guilty of any of the charges that have been leveled at her, enough people believe she is that it may have materially affected the number of people who said, “I’ll never vote for Trump, but I’m not going to vote for HER, either.”

I can tell you a lot of Dems in Wisconsin, especially women said, I hate Trump but hate Hillary even more. They really figured that no matter how bad he was, he’d be better than her.

In 2016 all you had to do was listen to the callers I deal with at work and their absolute hatred of Hillary that oozed thru the phones like slime. They absolutely despised her and wanted her jailed or worse.

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Vicious Babushka  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:06:32am

What in the utter bejesusing purplefuck is this shit==> (In hide tags because WTAF)

Click to Reveal
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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:07:43am

re: #14 Vicious Babushka

What in the utter bejesusing purplefuck is this shit==> (In hide tags because WTAF)

[Embedded content]

Bad AI art created by some fascist dimwit?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:08:27am

re: #14 Vicious Babushka

A really bad horror take on Hell’s Kitchen?

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:10:46am

re: #15 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Bad AI art created by some fascist dimwit?

Speaking of which, apparently we’ve reached the recursive singularity, where AI “art” programs are starting to use their own and other AIs’ art creations in their training sets, and the quality of the product is starting to degrade as a result.

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teleskiguy  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:11:37am

re: #14 Vicious Babushka

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:13:44am

re: #18 teleskiguy

[Embedded content]

I had fun at the Paul Bunyan restaurant in the Dells as a kid.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:13:56am

re: #14 Vicious Babushka

What in the utter bejesusing purplefuck is this shit==> (In hide tags because WTAF)

[Embedded content]

Right out of the Soviet Communist Party Propaganda Handbook.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:15:23am

re: #17 Nerdy Fish

Speaking of which, apparently we’ve reached the recursive singularity, where AI “art” programs are starting to use their own and other AIs’ art creations in their training sets, and the quality of the product is starting to degrade as a result.

The intelligence in AI is human intelligence. It just gets more and more artificial as people are excluded in favor of logical rules churning data.

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Teddy's Person  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:16:01am

Raise a glass and boop a nose. Today is Teddy’s Sweet Sixteen.

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Teukka  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:17:48am

re: #14 Vicious Babushka

What in the utter bejesusing purplefuck is this shit==> (In hide tags because WTAF)

[Embedded content]

re: #20 Joe Bacon ✅

Right out of the Soviet Communist Party Propaganda Handbook.

Imma leave this right here, mmmkay?

Monty Python - Lumberjack Song

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:19:32am

re: #5 Dr. Matt

Did they go to him with tears in their eyes?

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Teddy's Person  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:19:57am

re: #14 Vicious Babushka

What in the utter bejesusing purplefuck is this shit==> (In hide tags because WTAF)

Satan’s maitre d.

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dat_said  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:21:17am

re: #18 teleskiguy

[Embedded content]

He lived a good life. Born in Maine. Brought to Bemidji MN in a sling carried by five storks and buried in Kelliher MN.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:22:53am

Elections matter

washingtonpost.com

I-95 reopens Friday, less than two weeks after Philadelphia bridge collapse

Shapiro led the effort to get it opened.

Masterbateriano would have called for a Commonwealth Day Of Prayer for Divine Intervention…

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retired cynic  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:24:46am

June 22, 2023, Heather Cox Richardson
substack.com

a study out today by Media Matters shows that cable news networks are “obsessed over Biden’s age while overwhelmingly ignoring Trump’s.” Biden is only three years older than Trump—80 and 77, respectively—and apparently in significantly better health, but in the week after Biden announced his reelection campaign, CNN, the Fox News Channel, and MSNBC mentioned his age 588 times, suggesting it is a negative attribute rather than a positive reflection on his experience, while mentioning Trump’s only 72 times.

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gwangung  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:26:27am

re: #9 Nerdy Fish

Nahh. Harris is easy enough to tar and feather in the eyes of the rabid right because she’s a woman of color. They don’t need to invent scary sounding conspiracy theories to discredit her, like they did for Bill (primarily; they just re-used their old handiwork for Hillary). They’ll just pull out the old Obama “sooper sekrit Muslim non-American WHAR BIRTH CERTIFIKIT WHAR” playbook.

I’m not concerned about confirmed right wingers. It’s the mushier independents and moderate right wing I’m curious about (also, conservative Democrats); is their racism and or sexism enough to sink her if and when she runs for President?

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:26:28am

re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg

I have recounted the story before in the comment section, but it’s worth a retell
I was in the United red carpet lounge at LAX and I was typing on my 11 year old MacBook Pro laptop. It was an ancient yet functional machine, formerly great device on its last legs.

Patrick Stewart walks in to the lounge and he is immediately greeted by well-wishers, of course, but then they give him some space while he settles in and I notice two things with amusement: one is that he has taken up a position directly behind me, and two is that he also has the identical 11 year old laptop
I think to myself wow even Patrick Stewart is a cheap bastard just like me and it somehow validated my decision to hang onto the machine for so long, wringing every last electron out of it.

So Captain Picard gets up to go get some tea and crumpets from the complementary service and he leaves his laptop unattended Meanwhile I continue to type as he’s coming back and He looks and he sees me typing on what has to be his laptop— because who else in the world has an 11 year old MacBook Pro, and he starts to storm over towards me with outrage, but at the last second, he notices that his laptop has been unmolested, and I, in fact, do have the identical laptop, and he composes himself instantaneously, and then returns to his seat in a very proper way, and he didn’t even spill a drop of the tea without further acknowledgment to me at all

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HypnoToad  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:27:51am

re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg

I was fortunate to check off that BL item in July 1991 at the total solar eclipse in Baja California. We were on the same eclipse trip, I had my camera rig set up about thirty feet away from where he’d set up. Patrick was as avid a photographer as any of us amateur astronomers, so none of us bothered him during the event. He gave us a very engaging after dinner talk and Q&A session that night back at the hotel—you should have a great time!

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DodgerFan1988  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:29:36am
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Dave In Austin  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:31:10am
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austin_blue  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:32:28am

re: #14 Vicious Babushka

What in the utter bejesusing purplefuck is this shit==> (In hide tags because WTAF)

[Embedded content]

Chippendale Paul Bunyan?

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jeffreyw  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:32:41am

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:38:24am

The Trillion Gallon Question:
Good NYtimes in depth article on California dam issues.
The opening video is spectacular:

No paywall

nytimes.com

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Mike Lamb  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:42:17am

re: #5 Dr. Matt

🤨😐😑😶

[Embedded content]

Probably completely true—he rejected them once they demanded a YUUUUUUGE retainer.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:43:56am

re: #5 Dr. Matt

🤨😐😑😶

yeah he rejected them the minute after they rejected him

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steve_davis  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:45:47am

re: #3 GlutenFreeJesus

“He was just joking.”

“That’s not what he meant.”

“Ha ha! Then you’ll find my ruling equally hilarious. Death by hanging. No, no. Really, I’m joking…..death by torture.”

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:49:36am

Lookee what I found here while shopping this evening.

Notice what it says on the can - made with cane sugar.

I looked on the ingredients list, and it is indeed made with cane sugar, and contains no HFCS. Interestingly, Coca-Cola here in Czech Republic does use HFCS, but Pepsi uses real sugar.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:50:50am

Does he realize what he’s saying?

Nope.

And this asshole is going to be a keynote speaker at Pulpit Pimp-0-Rama, er, the Faith and FreeDUMB confab along with his right wing buddies!

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William Lewis  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:53:34am

re: #29 gwangung

I’m not concerned about confirmed right wingers. It’s the mushier independents and moderate right wing I’m curious about (also, conservative Democrats); is their racism and or sexism enough to sink her if and when she runs for President?

I think so, watching the yahoos in northern Wisconsin vote for Moscow Ron because the Democrats ran “one of them” from the “ghettos” of Milwaukee.

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darthstar  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:56:18am

I like this development…

Mastodon

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 23, 2023 • 11:57:32am

re: #43 darthstar

I like this development…

[Embedded content]

If true, LOL. Let them fight.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:02:01pm

re: #43 darthstar

I like this development…

[Embedded content]

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:03:11pm
“Donald Trump spoke on Thursday at a fundraiser on behalf of people charged in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol — even as he faces scrutiny from national and state prosecutors for his own actions surrounding the attempt to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 election win,” NBC News reports.

Said Trump: “I’m going to make a contribution.”

(he didn’t make a contribution)

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:05:59pm
The Washington Post has obtained internal Twitter records, including a copy of a Jan. 5, 2021, video call, that show Twitter leaders discouraged the platform’s trust and safety staff members from removing tweets they felt were calls for violence in the wake of Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss.

The video and the other documents, which were collected by the Jan. 6 committee but not released, undermine current Republican efforts in Congress to build a case that the tech companies were “weaponized” against conservative ideas.

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darthstar  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:06:22pm

re: #44 Nerdy Fish

If true, LOL. Let them fight.

Wagner should strike back hard!

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:07:00pm

re: #37 Mike Lamb

Probably completely true—he rejected them once they demanded a YUUUUUUGE retainer.

The law firms - after careful consideration (based upon Trump’s history that he doesn’t follow counsel’s advice, and there are more indictments pending) - politely declined to represent due “to conflicts”.

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retired cynic  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:07:25pm

re: #41 Joe Bacon ✅

Does he realize what he’s saying?

Nope.

[Embedded content]

This man is mentally ill.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:09:41pm

re: #41 Joe Bacon ✅

Does he realize what he’s saying?

Nope.

[Embedded content]

And this asshole is going to be a keynote speaker at Pulpit Pimp-0-Rama, er, the Faith and FreeDUMB confab along with his right wing buddies!

RFK Jr should cut off his shoes, live in a tree, and learn to play the flute.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:11:51pm

re: #40 Dr Lizardo

Lookee what I found here while shopping this evening.

[Embedded content]

Notice what it says on the can - made with cane sugar.

I looked on the ingredients list, and it is indeed made with cane sugar, and contains no HFCS. Interestingly, Coca-Cola here in Czech Republic does use HFCS, but Pepsi uses real sugar.

Did the store have any moon pies to go with the RC Cola?

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:17:31pm

re: #45 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

I’ll believe it when Prigozhin gathers his Wagner forces together (what’s left of them, at least) and stages a straight-up assault on the Ministry of Defense building in Moscow.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:19:54pm

re: #52 BeenHereAwhile

Did the store have any moon pies to go with the RC Cola?

Sadly…no. No such thing as Moon Pies here in Czech Republic. However, it’s now very easy to find Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups here now - as little as five years ago, that was pretty much impossible.

Root beer (typically A&W but I have seen Barq’s every now and then) is only carried by some of the small Vietnamese-owned shops here (and why that is, I have no idea).

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wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:19:56pm

re: #52 BeenHereAwhile

Did the store have any moon pies to go with the RC Cola?

RC Cola and a Moon Pie

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Vicious Babushka  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:20:10pm

re: #41 Joe Bacon ✅

Does he realize what he’s saying?

Nope.

[Embedded content]

And this asshole is going to be a keynote speaker at Pulpit Pimp-0-Rama, er, the Faith and FreeDUMB confab along with his right wing buddies!

Watch as he is introduced as “A Liberal Icon!”

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BeachDem  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:24:47pm

re: #50 retired cynic

This man is mentally ill.

Sometimes an asshole is just an asshole.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:27:31pm

re: #40 Dr Lizardo

Lookee what I found here while shopping this evening.

[Embedded content]

Notice what it says on the can - made with cane sugar.

I looked on the ingredients list, and it is indeed made with cane sugar, and contains no HFCS. Interestingly, Coca-Cola here in Czech Republic does use HFCS, but Pepsi uses real sugar.

iirc mexican coca-cola sold in the US too

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:28:41pm
Paramount+ had previously given the go-ahead to a second season of kid-focused animated series Star Trek: Prodigy, but the series has now been cancelled ahead of that. Additionally, the Hollywood Reporter notes, Prodigy will be removed from the streaming platform altogether.

The surprising decision to remove the series—which will mean a tax write-off for the streamer, a tactic we’ve also seen recently from Disney+ and Warner Bros.—affects a handful of other Paramount+ series beyond Prodigy, including Grease spin-off Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, which just wrapped on June 1. But the Prodigy news cuts especially deep, not least because the series is the first Trek show to end after just one season, but also because a second installment had already been confirmed. Now, that’s obviously not going to happen—at least at Paramount, as THR further noted that the show will “complete post-production on season two…and producers CBS Studios will shop both seasons to a new buyer.”

Star Trek: Prodigy Has Been Cancelled—and Will Be Removed From Paramount+ (Gizmodo)

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:28:48pm

re: #58 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

iirc mexican coca-cola sold in the US too

That’s what I’ve always heard, that Coca-Cola bottled in Mexico uses real sugar and not HFCS.

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Vicious Babushka  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:29:07pm

re: #58 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

iirc mexican coca-cola sold in the US too

Kosher-for-Passover Coca-Cola (yellow cap)

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:30:10pm

re: #40 Dr Lizardo

Lookee what I found here while shopping this evening.

[Embedded content]

Notice what it says on the can - made with cane sugar.

I looked on the ingredients list, and it is indeed made with cane sugar, and contains no HFCS. Interestingly, Coca-Cola here in Czech Republic does use HFCS, but Pepsi uses real sugar.

I get the coca-cola imported from Mexico. It is also made with cane sugar.

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Vicious Babushka  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:30:32pm
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JC1  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:32:39pm

re: #4 Nerdy Fish

From downstairs.

I myself actually briefly had that attitude. I was disabused of the notions about Hillary by someone here; I wish I could find the post, but I believe it was a link to a point-by-point debunking of the “Clinton Body Count” rumors that had stubbornly persisted since the 1990’s.

I never bought into any of the Clinton body count nonsense, but HRC had a lot of legitimate baggage and issues. If she didn’t, she would have cruised to the 08 nomination instead of losing to an unknown black man with a Muslim name.

IMHO, her tenure as SOS doesn’t look good in retrospect, between the Russia red reset button (a few years after Putin’s Georgia adventures), and the regime change in Libya (Benghazi accusations were nonsense, but she was a driving force for regime change, and the aftermath has been far shittier for Libya and the world than it had been under Gaddafi. It’s like she learned all the wrong lessons from Iraq.)

I was glad that Trump prevented a Bush v Clinton battle of the dynasties. Trump completely lost me when he appointment Manafort as his campaign manager.

And of course SCOTUS was on the line, and that was enough to make me support the blue team.

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William Lewis  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:33:03pm

re: #54 Dr Lizardo

Sadly…no. No such thing as Moon Pies here in Czech Republic. However, it’s now very easy to find Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups here now - as little as five years ago, that was pretty much impossible.

Root beer (typically A&W but I have seen Barq’s every now and then) is only carried by some of the small Vietnamese-owned shops here (and why that is, I have no idea).

Probably a legacy of the American War (as it was called when we were there to adopt our son).

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:34:56pm

re: #62 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

I get the coca-cola imported from Mexico. It is also made with cane sugar.

Ah, OK. I rarely drink soft drinks here - we have great beer, so there’s always that - but every now and then, I’ll get an RC or something.

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William Lewis  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:35:12pm

re: #59 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Star Trek: Prodigy Has Been Cancelled—and Will Be Removed From Paramount+ (Gizmodo)

The bastards have axed the best Trek out there? NOOOO!!!!!

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:38:45pm

re: #65 William Lewis

Probably a legacy of the American War (as it was called when we were there to adopt our son).

Yeah, that’s entirely possible. I know one Vietnamese shop assistant was quite surprised to see me buying a can; she said outright to me, in English, “You must not be Czech, because Czechs don’t like root beer. They say it tastes like cough medicine. Where are you from?”

So when I told her I was from Los Angeles, she wasn’t surprised at all.

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jaunte  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:39:51pm
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William Lewis  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:42:18pm

re: #69 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, that’s entirely possible. I know one Vietnamese shop assistant was quite surprised to see me buying a can; she said outright to me, in English, “You must not be Czech, because Czechs don’t like root beer. They say it tastes like cough medicine. Where are you from?”

So when I told her I was from Los Angeles, she wasn’t surprised at all.

Truth and requires a reposting of this…

DS9 Garak drinks root beer (The Way of the Warrior)

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darthstar  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:44:51pm

re: #43 darthstar

I like this development…

[Embedded content]

leonardwong.dev

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wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:44:56pm

re: #70 jaunte

[Embedded content]

That’s how Wallace of Wallace and Gromit says ‘cheeeze!’

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darthstar  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:45:43pm

re: #72 darthstar

leonardwong.dev

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:46:50pm

re: #71 William Lewis

One of the best little scenes in all of the Star Trek franchise.

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mmmirele  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:47:20pm

Folks, I just can’t…the implosion of the submersible is a Jewish plot, not a CEO who decided he could ignore best practices.

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JC1  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:49:08pm

Going to run out and buy some popcorn:

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wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:49:11pm

re: #71 William Lewis

Truth and requires a reposting of this…

[Embedded content]

Video

Someone needs to come out with a root beer called ‘Insidious’.

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BeachDem  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:49:49pm

re: #58 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

iirc mexican coca-cola sold in the US too

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Vicious Babushka  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:51:17pm

re: #76 mmmirele

Folks, I just can’t…the implosion of the submersible is a Jewish plot, not a CEO who decided he could ignore best practices.

[Embedded content]

Iceberg, Goldberg, what’s the difference? //

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:53:48pm

re: #78 🔧-wench

Someone needs to come out with a root beer called ‘Insidious’.

Or a cologne by Gianni Versace.

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JC1  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:53:53pm
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darthstar  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:54:30pm

re: #77 JC1

Going to run out and buy some popcorn:

He’s watching the response. He’s already walking back any talk of a coup.

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darthstar  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:55:07pm

re: #82 JC1

I was just about to post that. FA, meet FO

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:56:38pm

re: #82 JC1

Well then. Prigozhin has crossed the Rubicon.

There’s no going back for him now…it’s do or die.

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darthstar  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:57:00pm

Prigozhin vs Shoigu wasn’t part of the original counteroffensive strategy, but it is a welcome addition.

Now bring in that goat fucker Kadyrov and his Chechen tik tok brigade.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:57:20pm

re: #76 mmmirele

Folks, I just can’t…the implosion of the submersible is a Jewish plot, not a CEO who decided he could ignore best practices.

[Embedded content]

Stewpid Peters has always been a rabid anti-Semite.

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darthstar  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:57:43pm

re: #85 Dr Lizardo

Well then. Prigozhin has crossed the Rubicon.

There’s no going back for him now…it’s do or die.

Die. There is no do.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 23, 2023 • 12:59:30pm

re: #88 darthstar

Die. There is no do.

Maybe, maybe not. With the state of the Russian Army these days, the mercs might just be able to do some pretty significant damage on their way out. Either way, I’m perfectly happy to sit on the sidelines and watch these two idiots squabble with each other, and I’m sure the Ukrainian Army is also enjoying the spectacle.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:00:48pm

re: #88 darthstar

Die. There is no do.

I wish I’d thought of this turn of phrase….”Evel Knievel’d the Rubicon”

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:02:23pm

BTW, it looks like Twitter is breaking again. In post #90, I see this:

If I reload the page a couple of times (and presumably, if I use the Render Tweet button), it looks fine eventually.

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steve_davis  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:05:39pm

re: #58 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

iirc mexican coca-cola sold in the US too

the other thing to try is just buying those typically 4 in a carton brands. those hoity-toity brands generally use cane sugar. There’s a really good ginger ale maker who does the 4 in a carton thing. Not cheap, but good damned ginger ale.

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Thanos  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:08:09pm

re: #36 BeenHereAwhile

The Trillion Gallon Question:
Good NYtimes in depth article on California dam issues.
The opening video is spectacular:

No paywall

nytimes.com

Thanks, very informative.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:08:47pm

Welp, folks, it looks like Twitter has finally shut down the LGF app, which means our custom tweet display code isn’t working right any more, and we won’t be able to auto-post new LGF articles to Twitter any more. This is the end, my only friend, the end.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:09:07pm

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Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:09:30pm

We didn’t violate any of their fucking policies, of course.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:10:03pm

re: #96 Charles Johnson

We didn’t violate any of their fucking policies, of course.

Twitter is a sick joke.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:10:09pm

Sleazy E Strikes Again…

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jaunte  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:11:08pm

“…After months of negotiations, the IBEW’s Railroad members at four of the largest U.S. freight carriers finally have what they’ve long sought but that many working people take for granted: paid sick days.

This is a big deal, said Railroad Department Director Al Russo, because the paid-sick-days issue, which nearly caused a nationwide shutdown of freight rail just before Christmas, had consistently been rejected by the carriers. It was not part of last December’s congressionally implemented update of the national collective bargaining agreement between the freight lines and the IBEW and 11 other railroad-related unions.

Russo:
“We’re thankful that the Biden administration played the long game on sick days and stuck with us for months after Congress imposed our updated national agreement.”

ibew.org

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:12:31pm

...

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wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:13:25pm

re: #92 steve_davis

the other thing to try is just buying those typically 4 in a carton brands. those hoity-toity brands generally use cane sugar. There’s a really good ginger ale maker who does the 4 in a carton thing. Not cheap, but good damned ginger ale.

Everybody has a good vanilla creme soda, too. Romano’s is the best. 12 pack!

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:13:57pm

Here we go…

The madlad! Is he really going for it? Is Prigozhin really launching a bona-fide coup d’etat?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:15:03pm

re: #348 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Nope. Self-adjusting vacuums do not require even fake AI, and any of us can adjust a vacuum.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there are “AI” powerstrips like the “Internet ready” powerstrips marketed when the Internet was catching on.

“Gluten-free” power strips.
“Vegan” power strips.
“Organic” power strips.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:15:20pm

re: #102 Dr Lizardo

Here we go…

[Embedded content]

The madlad! Is he really going for it? Is Prigozhin really launching a bona-fide coup d’etat?

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:16:14pm
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jaunte  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:17:00pm

“…On Capitol Hill and in the courts, Republican lawmakers and activists are mounting a sweeping legal campaign against universities, think tanks and private companies that study the spread of disinformation, accusing them of colluding with the government to suppress conservative speech online.”

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:17:24pm
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wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:17:28pm

re: #103 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“Gluten-free” power strips.
“Vegan” power strips.
“Organic” power strips.

“Non-GMO” power strips.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:23:27pm

re: #107 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

It’s not at all unheard of for studios to tweak films slightly for international markets.

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jaunte  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:24:49pm

“…The current campaign’s focus is not government officials but rather private individuals working for universities or nongovernmental organizations. They have their own First Amendment guarantees of free speech, including their interactions with the social media companies.

The group behind the class action, [Stephen Miller] America First Legal, named as defendants two researchers at the Stanford Internet Observatory, Alex Stamos and Renée DiResta; a professor at the University of Washington, Kate Starbird; an executive of Graphika, Camille François; and the senior director of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, Graham Brookie.”
nytimes.com

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:25:21pm

re: #109 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s not at all unheard of for studios to tweak films slightly for international markets.

For instance, I saw Across the Spider-Verse here in Ostrava and that scene with Lyla taking the selfie with Miguel wasn’t what was seen here. It was the first scene.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:25:53pm

Time to call it a day. Have a good one, Lizards and stay healthy.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:27:24pm

re: #102 Dr Lizardo

Here we go…

The madlad! Is he really going for it? Is Prigozhin really launching a bona-fide coup d’etat?

That page sure went down fast.

It no longer exists.

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Vicious Babushka  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:29:07pm

Mastodon

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wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:29:15pm

re: #94 Charles Johnson

Welp, folks, it looks like Twitter has finally shut down the LGF app, which means our custom tweet display code isn’t working right any more, and we won’t be able to auto-post new LGF articles to Twitter any more. This is the end, my only friend, the end.

I fixed how tweets show on my screen last week. Or maybe it was this week. It’s been a long one.

Tweets will still render for me with a single comment-refresh. Is that until I refresh the page?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:30:00pm
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EPR-radar  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:30:56pm

re: #106 jaunte

In other words, Republicans are admitting that conservatism is axiomatically dishonest, and that any attempt to counter disinformation is necessarily bad for the Party.

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wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:31:09pm

re: #99 jaunte

Good to see. A dropped ball was picked up.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:32:50pm

Those blue bars with extra options you used to see below embedded tweets here? Yep, those are gone now too.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:34:12pm

re: #115 🔧-wench

I fixed how tweets show on my screen last week. Or maybe it was this week. It’s been a long one.

Tweets will still render for me with a single comment-refresh. Is that until I refresh the page?

If you refresh the page now all the tweets are in Twitter’s standard embedded format.

I’m considering whether to remove support for that, too, because Twitter’s embedding code contains a bunch of tracking shit.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:34:34pm

rawstory.com

GOP moderates left squirming as McCarthy vows to ‘expunge’ Trump impeachments

Bullshit!

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told reporters Friday that he backs a proposed resolution that would “expunge” former President Donald Trump’s two impeachments.

“This is a symbolic resolution that is being pushed by Elise Stefanik, who is a member of the House Republican leadership, and [Congresswoman] Marjorie Taylor Greene, she is a close Trump ally, a staunch conservative,” said Raju. “They have put together this resolution what would call for the expungement of two of Trump’s impeachments from the last Congress.”

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wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:35:33pm

re: #120 Charles Johnson

I’m in favor of ditching the whole thing.

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Vicious Babushka  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:40:27pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:40:55pm

re: #119 Charles Johnson

Those blue bars with extra options you used to see below embedded tweets here? Yep, those are gone now too.

I can still see them.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:42:22pm

re: #123 Vicious Babushka

[Embedded content]

Right Wing Xtians NEVER stop their lying for the lawd bullshit.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:44:13pm

re: #123 Vicious Babushka

(0:53)

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Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:46:15pm

re: #124 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Reload and they’ll be gone.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:46:31pm

re: #120 Charles Johnson

If you refresh the page now all the tweets are in Twitter’s standard embedded format.

I’m considering whether to remove support for that, too, because Twitter’s embedding code contains a bunch of tracking shit.

When I post a tweet, I remove all the tracking crap (everything after the ?). I do the same for any other Website, and remove Google Amp from Website URLs (Google’s new form of tracking and amplification to the tops of search results).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:47:59pm

Here we go again.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:48:56pm

re: #127 Charles Johnson

Reload and they’ll be gone.

Thanks. There’re gone now.

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retired cynic  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:52:40pm

re: #110 jaunte

“…The current campaign’s focus is not government officials but rather private individuals working for universities or nongovernmental organizations. They have their own First Amendment guarantees of free speech, including their interactions with the social media companies.

The group behind the class action, [Stephen Miller] America First Legal, named as defendants two researchers at the Stanford Internet Observatory, Alex Stamos and Renée DiResta; a professor at the University of Washington, Kate Starbird; an executive of Graphika, Camille François; and the senior director of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, Graham Brookie.”
nytimes.com

I’ve been following this on twitter and on substack. Really bad stuff.

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Teukka  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:55:05pm
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Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:55:45pm

re: #128 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

When I post a tweet, I remove all the tracking crap (everything after the ?). I do the same for any other Website, and remove Google Amp from Website URLs (Google’s new form of tracking and amplification to the tops of search results).

Unfortunately, just editing the URL doesn’t help. When Twitter displays embedded tweets, they use something called an “iframe,” which actually displays a page from their website, and it’s that page that contains all the tracking stuff I referred to.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 23, 2023 • 1:57:04pm

re: #86 darthstar

Prigozhin vs Shoigu wasn’t part of the original counteroffensive strategy, but it is a welcome addition.

Now bring in that goat fucker Kadyrov and his Chechen tik tok brigade.

Maybe things - getting a little twitchy in Chechnya.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:00:36pm

re: #133 Charles Johnson

Unfortunately, just editing the URL doesn’t help. When Twitter displays embedded tweets, they use something called an “iframe,” which actually displays a page from their website, and it’s that page that contains all the tracking stuff I referred to.

Hmm.

So when I get a tweet by directly going to the account (like I did with NWS Cheyenne’s tornado watch above) or this one, that tracks either to here or to me (without an account there)?

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gocart mozart  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:01:02pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:02:54pm

re: #106 jaunte

[Embedded content]

“…On Capitol Hill and in the courts, Republican lawmakers and activists are mounting a sweeping legal campaign against universities, think tanks and private companies that study the spread of disinformation, accusing them of colluding with the government to suppress conservative speech online.”

The GOP acknowledgement that conservative thought and policies are all based on disinformation.

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retired cynic  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:06:59pm
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Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:09:44pm

re: #135 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Hmm.

So when I get a tweet by directly going to the account (like I did with NWS Cheyenne’s tornado watch above) or this one, that tracks either to here or to me (without an account there)?

[Embedded content]

Yep.

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retired cynic  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:10:07pm
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gocart mozart  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:12:09pm

re: #68 Charles Johnson

I thought it was going to be a parody of this song.

John Fred and his playboy band - Judy in disguise

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:13:50pm

re: #140 retired cynic

Wouldn’t the EU give the UK some serious side eye if they asked about coming back?

Surely they’d have to pay a price for leaving…right?

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steve_davis  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:17:07pm

re: #141 gocart mozart

I thought it was going to be a parody of this song.

[Embedded content]

Video

this is a helluva song, loud.

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jaunte  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:19:45pm

CNN: “…The US Naval Criminal Investigative Service is investigating after multiple Navy personnel reported receiving unsolicited smartwatches in the mail that could be installed with data-stealing malicious software, an NCIS spokesperson told CNN on Friday.

The news comes after the Army warned publicly this month that “service members across the military” had reported receiving the devices in the mail.

It’s unclear who is mailing the suspicious watches, but the devices are telltale signs of a counterintelligence and cyberthreat. When used, the devices automatically connected to wireless networks and cell phones, “gaining access to a myriad of user data,” the advisory from the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division (CID) said.
cnn.com

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:21:23pm

re: #144 jaunte

You want to know why government employees are forbidden from receiving gifts? THIS IS WHY, PEOPLE.

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silverdolphin  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:22:08pm

In post-Roe US, clinical trials may be too risky during pregnancy

So it may well be unethical to have women participate in clinical trials in most Red states as the possibility of needing an abortion could result in a crime.

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ericblair  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:24:01pm

Shit seems to be getting real. Prigozhin is fucked, I think; he has crossed the Rubicon but I don’t think Wagner will be able to take on Shoigu and the Russian military. However, this has to make things so much easier for Ukraine when your enemy decides to turn on itself, not to mention Syria and multiple African countries that are infiltrated by Wagner forces who are officially in rebellion.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:25:36pm

re: #140 retired cynic

They were warned but they did it anyway…

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:26:46pm

re: #147 ericblair

Shit seems to be getting real. Prigozhin is fucked, I think; he has crossed the Rubicon but I don’t think Wagner will be able to take on Shoigu and the Russian military. However, this has to make things so much easier for Ukraine when your enemy decides to turn on itself, not to mention Syria and multiple African countries that are infiltrated by Wagner forces who are officially in rebellion.

Were any Wagner mercenaries currently deployed to the front lines in Ukraine? I have to assume that Ukrainian intelligence would know, and they don’t seem to be the type to look a gift horse in the mouth.

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ericblair  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:29:16pm

re: #149 Nerdy Fish

Were any Wagner mercenaries currently deployed to the front lines in Ukraine? I have to assume that Ukrainian intelligence would know, and they don’t seem to be the type to look a gift horse in the mouth.

Yes, they are/were the front lines in the Bakhmut area at least.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:30:26pm

Gonna be quite the weekend for Vlad, methinks.

152
Thanos  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:30:43pm

Well damn… we had tickets to see Orville Peck in August but he just canceled. bummed.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:32:49pm

re: #152 Thanos

Well damn… we had tickets to see Orville Peck in August but he just canceled. bummed.

All remaining tour dates due to physical and mental health struggles.

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:33:02pm
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No Malarkey!  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:34:34pm

re: #142 Eclectic Cyborg

Wouldn’t the EU give the UK some serious side eye if they asked about coming back?

Surely they’d have to pay a price for leaving…right?

If the EU would even consider taking the UK back, it will take years, and the UK will probably have to adopt the Euro and say goodbye to the Pound.

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ericblair  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:38:10pm

re: #151 Eclectic Cyborg

Gonna be quite the weekend for Vlad, methinks.

Giphy

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Florida Panhandler  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:38:58pm

re: #147 ericblair

[Embedded content]

Shit seems to be getting real. Prigozhin is fucked, I think; he has crossed the Rubicon but I don’t think Wagner will be able to take on Shoigu and the Russian military. However, this has to make things so much easier for Ukraine when your enemy decides to turn on itself, not to mention Syria and multiple African countries that are infiltrated by Wagner forces who are officially in rebellion.

Should Putin fall, I can easily see Russia falling into regional warlordism. Ironically, the same fate Russian propaganda has been trumpeting about the U.S. after a civil war here they have been actively promoting.

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sizzzzlerz  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:39:51pm

re: #127 Charles Johnson

Reload and they’ll be gone.

Wouldn’t it be nice if reloading got rid of all our annoyances, not just blue bars.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:41:31pm

re: #145 Nerdy Fish

You want to know why government employees are forbidden from receiving gifts? THIS IS WHY, PEOPLE.

you can’t steal data by taking an unused seat on a private plane and going fishing. Checkmate, libtard

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:41:38pm
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JC1  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:42:26pm
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jaunte  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:43:58pm

Pete Strzok:
Google translate of BBC Russia tweet, since Elon killed Twitter’s translate feature

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:45:33pm

re: #162 jaunte

Pete Strzok:
Google translate of BBC Russia tweet, since Elon killed Twitter’s translate feature

[Embedded content]

I wonder if those roadblocks could be targeted once Wagner is stopped. Two birds and all that.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:46:38pm

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Florida Panhandler  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:46:42pm

re: #162 jaunte

Pete Strzok:
Google translate of BBC Russia tweet, since Elon killed Twitter’s translate feature

[Embedded content]

Perhaps the recent nuclear weapons transfers to Belarus has something to do with intel on the current situation. I wonder if mobile or compact nuclear weapons that are not fixed in Russian silos or heavy mobile platforms have been locked down with many transported out of the country to Belarus for safekeeping?

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:48:08pm

re: #142 Eclectic Cyborg

Wouldn’t the EU give the UK some serious side eye if they asked about coming back?

Surely they’d have to pay a price for leaving…right?

I expect they’d get none of the special status they had previously (like keeping the pound), but IMHO, the union is too good for both sides for the EU to keep them out forever (that’s assuming the Brits, or enough of them, get tired of splendid isolation with all the misery it entails).

167
No Malarkey!  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:48:37pm

Drag show bans are blatantly unconstitutional, another court rules.

168
jaunte  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:48:57pm

Having a “Fortress Plan” immediately ready to enact may not be the sign of a healthy polity. But after Jan. 6 we probably need one too.

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ericblair  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:54:01pm

I’m pretty sure this insurrection will fail, but Russia outsourced a lot of its combat capability to these assholes and they managed to start a rebellion in the middle of their enemy’s counteroffensive. Molodets!

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:55:12pm

re: #142 Eclectic Cyborg

Wouldn’t the EU give the UK some serious side eye if they asked about coming back?

Surely they’d have to pay a price for leaving…right?

Doubt the UK would be allowed this time to use the pound and maintain their own currency.

“If you want back into the EU, gotta convert to the euro.”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:55:48pm

I wonder if Ukraine has a few infiltrators in Wagner stirring this pot?

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Teukka  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:56:41pm

re: #171 Eclectic Cyborg

I wonder if Ukraine has a few infiltrators in Wagner stirring this pot?

bU04bU5CQ1VuaFdOUk94N1llR3NrcGx0dGRQczM2OFNKUE5uajdZVjdGST06OsO+04JMW5xcVk3Cr51JY+U=

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 23, 2023 • 2:56:53pm

re: #145 Nerdy Fish

You want to know why government employees are forbidden from receiving gifts? THIS IS WHY, PEOPLE.

‘but it’s just a pen”…

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:00:20pm

Who’s donating to No Labels

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darthstar  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:00:30pm

re: #171 Eclectic Cyborg

I wonder if Ukraine has a few infiltrators in Wagner stirring this pot?

I think Prigozhin is just mad enough to do this shit on autopilot.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:03:13pm

re: #70 jaunte

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jaunte  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:04:26pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:04:39pm

re: #76 mmmirele

New conspiracy theory just dropped: Teh Jews funded and then imploded the Oceangate sub to cover up the fact that teh Jews sunk the Titanic.

Wow, space lasers that can penetrate down to 2,000 fathoms!

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:06:30pm

re: #121 Joe Bacon ✅

rawstory.com

GOP moderates left squirming as McCarthy vows to ‘expunge’ Trump impeachments

Bullshit!

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told reporters Friday that he backs a proposed resolution that would “expunge” former President Donald Trump’s two impeachments.

“This is a symbolic resolution that is being pushed by Elise Stefanik, who is a member of the House Republican leadership, and [Congresswoman] Marjorie Taylor Greene, she is a close Trump ally, a staunch conservative,” said Raju. “They have put together this resolution what would call for the expungement of two of Trump’s impeachments from the last Congress.”

i’m old enough to remember right after 1/6 when mccarthy said if trump didn’t resign he would be impeached

that wasnt just kev predicting, it was his preference at the time

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darthstar  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:08:02pm

re: #176 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Cash on the barrel head, son!

The Louvin Brothers - Cash on the Barrel Head

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darthstar  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:08:27pm

shit…double post. - this is the masto-llnk I meant to paste.

mastodon.online

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:08:57pm
Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) told CBS News that Gov. Ron DeSantis’ (R) campaign is “one of the worst I’ve seen so far.”

Said Hogan: “I think it’s getting close to being over.”

idiotic florida voters electing this numbskull. twice

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darthstar  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:10:05pm

re: #181 darthstar

shit…double post. - this is the masto-llnk I meant to paste.

mastodon.online

Of course it doesn’t work in an edit.

Mastodon

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No Malarkey!  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:11:09pm

re: #179 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

i’m old enough to remember right after 1/6 when mccarthy said if trump didn’t resign he would be impeached

that wasnt just kev predicting, it was his preference at the time

If the Republicans were smart and wanted to pretend this is something more than just them being Trump’s bitch, they would vote to expunge Clinton’s impeachment as well.

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darthstar  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:12:25pm

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Florida Panhandler  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:13:11pm

re: #76 mmmirele

Folks, I just can’t…the implosion of the submersible is a Jewish plot, not a CEO who decided he could ignore best practices.

[Embedded content]

Missing bit of loony-bin-ism is that Hunter Biden’s laptop was in the sub.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:13:48pm

Man, we’re pretty addicted to those embedded tweets around here, aren’t we? I don’t know if it’s time to cut off support for those too. But keep in mind that using the standard Twitter embeds means pages will use more memory and be slower to load, in addition to the trackers Twitter puts in them.

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EPR-radar  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:14:19pm

re: #157 Florida Panhandler

Should Putin fall, I can easily see Russia falling into regional warlordism. Ironically, the same fate Russian propaganda has been trumpeting about the U.S. after a civil war here they have been actively promoting.

I.e., Russian propaganda is conservatives projecting just like American conservatives do.

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No Malarkey!  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:15:03pm

Elect Democrats to get shit done.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:16:03pm

re: #187 Charles Johnson

Man, we’re pretty addicted to those embedded tweets around here, aren’t we? I don’t know if it’s time to cut off support for those too. But keep in mind that using the standard Twitter embeds means pages will use more memory and be slower to load, in addition to the trackers Twitter puts in them.

Addictions can be broken. We can post screenshots of any Tweet that’s interesting enough to do so, and Mastodon embeds pretty well. Reducing traffic to Twitter is the right thing to do.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:16:08pm

re: #187 Charles Johnson

Yes, I do use the Twitter embeds. It’s hard to escape them.

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TedStriker  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:18:18pm

re: #173 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

‘but it’s just a pen”…

“Just a pen” caused Boris to be frozen with liquid nitrogen:

Don’t be like Boris…

///

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sagehen  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:19:04pm

re: #177 jaunte

[Embedded content]

We’ll know Putin lost when they start airing Swan Lake…

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wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:20:00pm

re: #187 Charles Johnson

Man, we’re pretty addicted to those embedded tweets around here, aren’t we? I don’t know if it’s time to cut off support for those too. But keep in mind that using the standard Twitter embeds means pages will use more memory and be slower to load, in addition to the trackers Twitter puts in them.

How do mastodon posts compare?

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darthstar  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:20:08pm

re: #187 Charles Johnson

Man, we’re pretty addicted to those embedded tweets around here, aren’t we? I don’t know if it’s time to cut off support for those too. But keep in mind that using the standard Twitter embeds means pages will use more memory and be slower to load, in addition to the trackers Twitter puts in them.

I can quit any time I want…besides, Mastodon is the methodone clinic of social media…scratches the itch without all the negative side effects of having to see the shit-stream that is on Twitter.

Mastodon

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jaunte  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:22:29pm

@AlexKhrebet (Reporter, Kyiv Independent)

Read my piece from March on why Prigozhin and his Wagner Group have already lost against Russia’s regular army.

kyivindependent.com

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Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:25:15pm

re: #194 🔧-wench

How do mastodon posts compare?

Well, you don’t have to worry about trackers with the Mastodon embeds, and they use much less memory than Twitter. But they do have their own drawbacks; they can be slower depending on which site the embed is coming from.

I do have a pretty nice rendering library already mostly written for Mastodon posts, like the custom tweet library that no longer works. I’m thinking of porting it over to LGF, so they’d display much faster, and I could do things like popup images and video.

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wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:27:14pm

re: #197 Charles Johnson

Are mastodon and Blue Sky on parallel tracks?

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HRH Stanley Sea  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:29:24pm

re: #183 darthstar

Little regatta happening.

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Florida Panhandler  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:29:24pm

re: #38 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

[Embedded content]

yeah he rejected them the minute after they rejected him

They rejected Trump when he told them he wanted them to break laws and risk their Law licenses…. Oh- and the part about not getting paid probably hurt his chances too.

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Vicious Babushka  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:30:39pm

re: #187 Charles Johnson

Man, we’re pretty addicted to those embedded tweets around here, aren’t we? I don’t know if it’s time to cut off support for those too. But keep in mind that using the standard Twitter embeds means pages will use more memory and be slower to load, in addition to the trackers Twitter puts in them.

It won’t be long before Tweetdeck implodes like the Titan.

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Thanos  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:31:10pm

re: #153 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

All remaining tour dates due to physical and mental health struggles.

I saw that, I wonder what’s going on with him. I know he was doing some television judging for a streaming show, so who knows what is up?

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:32:02pm

re: #136 gocart mozart

OMG that’s his voice?! 😂😂😂😂

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:33:58pm

ABC Nightly News saying Wagner douche calling for armed rebellion because Russian troops attacked them. 😂😂😂

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austin_blue  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:34:13pm

re: #198 🔧-wench

Are mastodon and Blue Sky on parallel tracks?

Blue Sky is Twitter 2.0, run by Jack. Mastadon is a distributed system that has a bunch of independent servers that can communicate with other servers under an umbrella.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:38:53pm

re: #198 🔧-wench

Are mastodon and Blue Sky on parallel tracks?

Well, they’re both “federated” systems, which basically means anyone can set up a server that can inter-operate with other servers that use the same protocols. But Mastodon is based on the ActivityPub protocol, while Bluesky uses the AT Protocol. They’re very different but I know people are already working on ways to bridge them together.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2023 • 3:40:26pm

re: #205 austin_blue

Blue Sky is Twitter 2.0, run by Jack. Mastadon is a distributed system that has a bunch of independent servers that can communicate with other servers under an umbrella.

It actually isn’t run by Jack - he’s not involved in the development or day to day operations, although he is still a board member of the Bluesky company. Jack spends most of his time on Nostr these days.

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wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2023 • 4:15:18pm

re: #205 austin_blue

Blue Sky is Twitter 2.0, run by Jack. Mastadon is a distributed system that has a bunch of independent servers that can communicate with other servers under an umbrella.

Yeah, I was wondering along the lines of posting their items here and having them render and not go fishing and suck memory and stuff.

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Eventual Carrion  Jun 23, 2023 • 5:15:23pm

re: #76 mmmirele

Folks, I just can’t…the implosion of the submersible is a Jewish plot, not a CEO who decided he could ignore best practices.

[Embedded content]

Hard to believe these people remember to breath.

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Eventual Carrion  Jun 23, 2023 • 5:19:14pm

re: #89 Nerdy Fish

Maybe, maybe not. With the state of the Russian Army these days, the mercs might just be able to do some pretty significant damage on their way out. Either way, I’m perfectly happy to sit on the sidelines and watch these two idiots squabble with each other, and I’m sure the Ukrainian Army is also enjoying the spectacle.

And these mercs are pretty knowledgeable as to the state of the Russian army. And they don’t seem real scared.

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Eventual Carrion  Jun 23, 2023 • 5:21:10pm

re: #96 Charles Johnson

We didn’t violate any of their fucking policies, of course.

You violated their policy of “FUCKING PAY US!”.

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Eventual Carrion  Jun 23, 2023 • 5:58:26pm

re: #173 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

‘but it’s just a pen”…

Spectre “Writings on the wall” The quote is taken from GoldenEye Pen Grenade

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Eventual Carrion  Jun 23, 2023 • 6:01:54pm

re: #177 jaunte

[Embedded content]

Bobris


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