Judith Hill Brings the Funk: KNKX Studio Session

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The first KNKX session performance at our temporary location at Avast! Studios was a family affair. But it wasn’t without a little stress as Judith Hill (@JudithHillMusic) shared her uniquely funky music with us.

Hill’s quartet on this trip to Seattle included drummer John Staten and Hill’s parents, funk veterans Pee Wee Hill and Michiko Hill on bass and keyboards. The singer, guitarist, pianist and composer was in the middle of several shows that were taking their toll on her voice.

This powerful instrument wasn’t up to Judith Hill’s recording studio standards, but her band and the small crew at Avast! were knocked out by her incredible talent.

The session kicked off in high gear with the ferocious funk of “The Pepper Club” from Hill’s 2018 album Golden Child. The tightly wound funk carried the swagger of Prince, who produced her debut album, and included a charming piano solo from Michiko Hill.

Judith Hill sang her passionate blues song “Burn It All” from her most recent album next, with Michiko playing a churchy organ backing. It’s a classic story of a “sugar man” who turns out to be a “dirty dog” as Hill puts this character in his place. Fuzzy bass and oddly effective synthesizer sounds from Hill’s parental bandmates, and her own rocking guitar solo and yearning vocals bring a fresh energy to the song.

Concluding the session, Judith Hill played both piano and guitar on the extended ballad “Give Your Love to Someone Else,” also from Baby, I’m Hollywood. This epic, soulful singer-songwriter effort is a showcase for Hill’s incredible vocal power as well as her knack for a melody. Decorating the song’s story of a failed relationship with a potent guitar solo, Hill was commanding and authoritative as a singer and bandleader.

She is also her toughest critic. Judith Hill was leaning toward a fourth take of the song, but her band and the lateness of the hour convinced her to call it a day. For the KNKX crew, it was a day we’ll never forget.

These three tunes were a sampling of the musical diversity on her latest album, and Hill promises more to come on an already recorded (but not scheduled for release) next album. Still a young woman in her 30s, Judith Hill has lived an artist’s life in a short time. That experience and her passion and talent are sure to bring her and music fans around the world plenty of incredible music in many years to come.

Artists:
Judith Hill - vocals, guitar, piano
Robert Lee “Pee Wee” Hill - bass
Michiko Hill - keyboards
John Staten - drums

Songs:
00:00 The Pepper Club
04:53 Burn It All
10:31 Give Your Love to Someone Else

Audio:
Brian Moynihan

Video:
Parker Miles Blohm

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:24:11pm

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:29:21pm

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austin_blue  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:29:25pm

The Ulimate CL:

Well Canada vs Australia is kicking off at 5:00 AM CST tomorrow. I’m up for it.

Damn, a new thread popped up. Always the bridesmaid.

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ckkatz  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:31:14pm
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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:35:14pm

From downstairs

Of his entire cabinet four people are willing to endorse him

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:38:25pm

First-world problems in Aspen.

As he reflected on the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously referred to Dec. 7, 1941, as “a date which will live in infamy.”

As he reflected on cold food and a concert by Nelly in court documents, real estate developer Craig Spencer less famously referred to March 26, 2022, as “a day that will go down in infamy.”

That is the day that his daughter married her husband. Or, in Spencer’s words, the day that his family endured “a horrific wedding nightmare costing over two million dollars.”

On Tuesday, Spencer and his wife, Barbara, sued Alchemy Concert Systems, a company in the small Western Slope town of Carbondale, for its alleged role in that nightmare.

The nuptials of Arielle Spencer and Caleb Hodge last March were to be a spare-no-expense dream wedding atop Aspen Mountain, complete with a gondola ride, a 12-piece band flown in from Los Angeles and a private performance by a once-prominent rapper. The event was overseen by Mindy Weiss, wedding planner to the stars, who was paid $100,000.

But when an engineer tested Alchemy’s stage and sound equipment in the hours before the wedding, the entire audio system shut down and couldn’t be revived, the Spencers say.

“The failure of the audio system caused a cascading number of issues that essentially ruined the wedding,” according to Tuesday’s lawsuit, which was filed in Denver federal court.

Stalling to give technicians time, Weiss pushed the guests’ 5:30 p.m. gondola ride back an hour, which moved the 6:30 p.m. wedding to 7 p.m. So, the 7 p.m. cocktail hour couldn’t start until 7:35 p.m. and that 8:20 p.m. entrance by the bride and groom? Not until 9:15 p.m.

“When the bride and groom entered the reception, instead of the 12-piece band flown in from Los Angeles to perform for guests, there was no music other than a DJ playing music through a single, barely audible speaker,” according to the lawsuit blaming Alchemy for that.

While the band “fidgeted around on stage, cursing and looking frustrated,” technicians tried and failed to fix Alchemy’s equipment, “making guests feel awkward and uncomfortable.”

The deluge of delays pushed dinner back an hour, so the food was cold “and the time between courses severely condensed.” Meanwhile, the band played on with faulty equipment, limiting their repertoire to the few songs they could be heard playing, the lawsuit claims.

And then there was Nelly. Scheduled to play at 11:30 p.m., the rapper instead took the stage at 12:20 a.m. As he played a shortened set — events on the mountain must end at 1 a.m., so guests can ride the gondola down before it stops running — the audio crashed again.

(more)

$2M “wedding nightmare” in Aspen due to audio malfunction, lawsuit says (Denver Post, July 27, 2023)

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:39:37pm

re: #5 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

The calm professionalism = non-criminal adults in the White House.

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austin_blue  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:41:14pm

I have put myself into a jet-lagged reality.

Depending on who’s playing who, I wake up either at 2 AM or +/- 5 AM to see the best/important games. If you didn’t watch Columbia vs Germany today, you missed the most entertaining game of the tournament so far.

So I’m for the rack. Australia vs Canada is at 5 CDT time.

Night all, sweet dreams.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:41:51pm

re: #6 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Lucky me. I was 1 hour and a half late to my wedding but didn’t have to pay out $2 million. Woohoo!!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:43:41pm

re: #255 ckkatz

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:48:15pm

Mt. Airy, NC News, July 17, 2023

A Mount Airy Board of Education member who has been publicly censured by fellow members over a Facebook posting with an anti-LGBTQ+ slant is defending his action on religious and constitutional grounds.

In responding to last week’s move by the board, Randy Moore stressed — in a written statement issued Friday afternoon and follow-up comments Saturday — that as a Christian he loves those in the LGBTQ+ community along with others.

“But not their doings,” Moore stated regarding homosexual behavior, a position he says is based on Scriptural references. The school board member added that his social media posting earlier this month, which professed his love for members of the LGBTQ+ apart from “their doings,” is “not personal.”

It was accompanied by an image of a figure dressed in red, white and blue kicking in the midsection another displaying rainbow colors symbolizing the LGBTQ+ movement.

Moore’s posting of that imagery led others on the seven-member school board to take what it called “the extraordinary step of a public censure” during a special called meeting on July 10.

“The Mount Airy City Schools Board of Education disavows and disapproves of Mr. Randy Moore’s recent social media posts,” says a statement released after that session.

(more)

Moore defends posting of anti-LGBTQ image

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darthstar  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:53:03pm

From downthread:
re: #259 austin_blue

Well Canada vs Australia is. kicking off at 5:00 AM CST tomorrow. I’m up for it.

Damn, a new thread popped up. Always the bidesmaid,,,

I haven’t watched any of the matches, though a couple have been scheduled for prime time here…but the World Cup isn’t about entertaining people in North America. There’s a whole rest of the planet that cares fare more than we do.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:54:49pm

In the category “Conservatism equals Death”:

Anti-abortion advocates in the U.S. are threatening to kill one of the most successful public health programs in history over unsubstantiated facts, unwavering opposition to a woman’s right to choose, and blatant anti-LGBTQ+ bias.

Conservative rganizations, including the Heritage Foundation and Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, are threatening U.S. lawmakers with the withdrawal of their support if they grant a routine reauthorization to the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the hugely successful HIV prevention initiative in Africa.

The far-right Family Research Council describes the 20-year-old program as “a massive slush fund for abortion and LGBT advocacy.”

(more)

Anti-abortion politics are threatening a vital HIV prevention program (LGBTQ Nation, July 30, 2023)

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sizzzzlerz  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:06:31pm

re: #5 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

From downstairs

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Of his entire cabinet four people are willing to endorse him

I guess when you’ve dug deep enough, you’ll always find someone with similar scruples and absolutely no self-esteem.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:07:43pm

re: #4 ckkatz

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Here is another amazing animal acrobat.

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gwangung  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:09:55pm

re: #11 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Mt. Airy, NC News, July 17, 2023

(more)

Moore defends posting of anti-LGBTQ image

He has the perfect, American right to say what he did.

And the board had the perfect American right to react the way he did.

The PERFECT example to show that the Right doesn’t want freedom of speech. They want freedom from consequences.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:12:57pm

re: #6 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

First-world problems in Aspen.

(more)

$2M “wedding nightmare” in Aspen due to audio malfunction, lawsuit says (Denver Post, July 27, 2023)

Another reason to eliminate tax loopholes for the parasite rich.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:13:22pm

re: #16 gwangung

He has the perfect, American right to say what he did.

And the board had the perfect American right to react the way he did.

The PERFECT example to show that the Right doesn’t want freedom of speech. They want freedom from consequences.

He also invoked his Christian beliefs to both defend himself and condemn the other board members, during the school board meeting.

This is what will come to Colorado if there is low voter turnout in the statewide school board elections this year.

School board elections were moved to off-years when the legislature was still controlled by Republicans, for the purpose of getting low turn-out elections.

Colorado’s Democrats in the legislature should move school board elections back to regular election years.

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sizzzzlerz  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:16:15pm

re: #16 gwangung

He has the perfect, American right to say what he did.

And the board had the perfect American right to react the way he did.

The PERFECT example to show that the Right doesn’t want freedom of speech. They want freedom from consequences.

Stay tuned for a breaking story out of Mayberry, er, Mt. Airy, regarding inappropriate contact with a minor by a board of education member.

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jeffreyw  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:16:24pm

Mastodon

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silverdolphin  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:18:47pm

Conservative Attacks On Librarians Just Took A Very Dark Turn

The Texas government is only doing this in liberal areas to punish them for voting against the GOP. They want to turn those areas in to a wasteland. So first they take over the schools. Next will be city government, I expect.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:20:06pm

Florida Politics, July 27, 2023

Florida House District 120 is represented by two-term Republican Jim Mooney.

Key West drag show performer challenging two-term incumbent in Monroe County’s HD 120

He views the election as a win-win: Either he wins the election, or he inspires others to run for office.

Michael Travis aka ‘Erika Rose’ could be the first member of the Florida Legislature to be openly performing in drag shows.

The Florida Legislature could be getting its first openly performing drag queen.

Michael Elgin Travis, who performs as “Erika Rose” in Key West, has filed to challenge Republican incumbent, Rep. Jim Mooney in Monroe County’s House District 120.

He said the inspiration to run for state office hit while he went to Tallahassee with friends to testify against the bill that later became law (SB 1438) — “Protection of Children.” The law criminalizes allowing children into live shows with “lewd” content.

He said he’s not worried about taking on a two-term incumbent.

“Either way, I win,” said the Key West Democrat. “I’ll either win the election or inspire others and let them know they are valued.”

Voters will see a stark contrast between the candidates, not to mention makeup.

Mooney is a Realtor; Travis works as a bartender at 801 Bourbon Bar on the famed Duval Street two nights each week, performs as “Erika Rose” for another two nights, and serves as a ghost tour guide on other nights.

Mooney, whose district covers all of Monroe County, most of Everglades National Park, and the southernmost portion of Miami-Dade County, won against Democrat Adam Gentle, an openly gay candidate, in the 2022 General Election by double digits, 60-49%.

(more)

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:24:38pm

re: #14 sizzzzlerz

I guess when you’ve dug deep enough, you’ll always find someone with similar scruples and absolutely no self-esteem.

——

Those backing Trump’s bid for another term include former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker; Mark Meadows, his final chief of staff; former budget chief Russell Vought; and former acting director of national intelligence Richard Grenell,

Link

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:27:24pm

re: #18 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

His condemnation of the other board members was sort of like the Spider-Man meme pointing at each other.

He condemned them for not being “true Christians” for not condemning “gay ideology,” and they condemned him for not being a “true Christian” for his hateful meme he posted to Facebook.

So at least on the Mt. Airy School Board, everyone is a True Christian (tm) or no one is.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:53:22pm
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teleskiguy  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:19:34pm

I fucking hate golf with the heat of a thousand suns. What a stupid meaningless wasteful pastime. You golfers amongst the Lizard nation should be ashamed of yourselves.

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teleskiguy  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:21:33pm

There. I said it. Fuck golf and fuck you golfers. You fuckin’ suck.

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EPR-radar  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:29:23pm

re: #26 teleskiguy

Thank you for sharing. /s

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:30:12pm

Portland, Maine Press-Herald via Yahoo! News, July 30, 2023

Jul. 30—They had waited six years to see their former pastor in court.

On July 11, a small group of Wells residents gathered at the York County Judicial Center to watch the trial of the Rev. Peter Leon, indicted in 2017 on charges of endangering the welfare of a dependent person.

They were shocked by what happened next.

Police had said that Leon, 72, once pastor of the Wells Branch Baptist Church, befriended a woman in her 60s when he was ministering at her Kennebunk nursing home. They had said he took the woman, who was in a wheelchair, to a bank to withdraw cash and changed the locks at the house she still owned.

And prosecutors kept adding charges. In 2019, after Leon visited another nursing home where the woman now lived, they charged him with violating the terms of his bail. In 2020, they charged him with aggravated forgery for allegedly misrepresenting his finances when he had requested a court-appointed attorney.

Leon’s trial had been rescheduled several times, as he went back and forth between being represented and representing himself.

Then on July 11, more than half an hour after Leon was expected to go before a jury for the first time in the case on the forgery charge, prosecutors agreed behind closed doors to dismiss that charge, as well as the original 2017 charges — and to drop the bail violation charge in three months, once Leon completed 50 hours of community service.

Leon told the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram he wasn’t surprised.

“I think they wanted it gone, but they didn’t know how to get rid of it,” he said of his case. “And I wasn’t going to plead out to anything because I didn’t do anything wrong.”

But members of his former congregation and neighbors, who thought they would see him held accountable, were blindsided.

(more)

Can’t be putting Christian pastors in jail, I guess.

Dismissal of charges against a former Wells pastor comes as a shock to ex-neighbors and parishioners

I hope he doesn’t suffer too much with fifty hours of community service.

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Captain Ron  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:31:29pm

YouTube

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teleskiguy  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:35:26pm

re: #28 EPR-radar

You’re welcome. Enjoy your next round. I’m sure you won’t be kicking homeless people aside on your tees.

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[deleted]  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:39:04pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:39:33pm

re: #26 teleskiguy

I fucking hate golf with the heat of a thousand suns. What a stupid meaningless wasteful pastime. You golfers amongst the Lizard nation should be ashamed of yourselves.

Well, you can use a ski as a (shitty) golf club, but you can’t use a golf club as any kind of ski. So there’s that. /s

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[deleted]  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:40:46pm
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teleskiguy  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:43:47pm

re: #33 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This ski industry and the golf industry has been tied together for decades. Rich dude shit. The symbiosis where I live is incredible. Skiing and Golf has made this valley fucked for regular folk, you need MONEY!

I’ve been a part of this valley since 1987. And shit is getting untenable.

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teleskiguy  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:47:36pm

re: #34 EPR-radar

You are posting like an asshole at the moment.

I am an asshole. And to some on this board totally irredeemable, untrustworthy, and someone who should be completely ignored.

Personally, I think I suck. I’m a stupid human being who not only should be ignored but mocked,

I’m being honest.

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[deleted]  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:55:20pm
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William Lewis  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:57:10pm

re: #30 Captain Ron

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Video

Looks interesting, though I’d rather fantasize about the Triumph TE-1 instead 😎

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:59:32pm

Yeah, that’s disgusting.

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teleskiguy  Jul 30, 2023 • 11:01:11pm

LGF golf dudes, you like stepping on everyone you encounter at the course? Must be fun to make other humans around you less than you are I bet you wish you could ACTUALLY step on their necks…

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teleskiguy  Jul 30, 2023 • 11:03:43pm

Golf is a way that the elites make corrupt business deals in perpetuity.

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teleskiguy  Jul 30, 2023 • 11:06:31pm

A golf game is where the most corrupt business deals go down. None of you golfing LGF motherfuckers can say I’m wrong.

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teleskiguy  Jul 30, 2023 • 11:11:24pm

hitting a ball with a crooked stick … and then … walking after the ball, and then … hitting it again

So fucking stupid.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 30, 2023 • 11:11:26pm

re: #36 teleskiguy

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teleskiguy  Jul 30, 2023 • 11:16:18pm

re: #44 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

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teleskiguy  Jul 30, 2023 • 11:18:56pm

I suck. I am untrustworthy. Do not read anything I post.

Okay. Love you folks.

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teleskiguy  Jul 30, 2023 • 11:20:17pm

I suck and need to KMS according to the Internet…

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[deleted]  Jul 30, 2023 • 11:26:17pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 11:29:10pm

American woman in a Hindu temple yelling at people telling them they need to find Jesus and their religion is false. (8:55, Reddit’s r/ReligiousFruitcake)

Christian woman calls their gods false inside a hindu temple in bali.

Apparently she thought it was a good idea to record this and upload it herself.

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teleskiguy  Jul 30, 2023 • 11:31:14pm

Do you have any idea of the people who want to kill you because of what you believe? People alive today are ready to set up concentration camps for their political adversaries. Real concentration camps like you’ve read about in 1940s Germany are being set up and you may not even see it.

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TedStriker  Jul 30, 2023 • 11:31:45pm

re: #26 teleskiguy

re: #27 teleskiguy

re: #31 teleskiguy

re: #32 teleskiguy

re: #35 teleskiguy

re: #36 teleskiguy

re: #40 teleskiguy

re: #41 teleskiguy

re: #42 teleskiguy

re: #43 teleskiguy

Hey, man, I don’t have any dog in the hunt for either golf or skiing, but when you come out swinging towards fellow Lizards who, by and large, have been supportive of you when you’ve had some mighty low spells, it does make you look like a jerk just spoiling for a fight.

I agree golf’s a massive waste in more ways than one, but taking it out on supposed friends as collateral damage ain’t cool, man. I know you’re dealing with some heavy shit right now, so I doubt anyone’d fault you for taking a breather to get your head together.

There’s only one you, so take care of yourself as best as you can.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 30, 2023 • 11:32:52pm

re: #40 teleskiguy

LGF golf dudes, you like stepping on everyone you encounter at the course? Must be fun to make other humans around you less than you are I bet you wish you could ACTUALLY step on their necks…

I’m not a golf dude. I hate golf as much as you do, and for the same moral reasons; however, you really need to stop attacking other LGF posters now.

I know things have been shitty for you lately, and you’re a raw nerve, but this is at least the third time within the past two weeks that you’ve lost your shit and started attacking lizards out of the blue.

Unfortunately, very few people here are qualified to treat your underlying issues, whether those issues be suicidal ideation or anger management issues, especially at a long distance.

I do not want you to kill yourself. I want you to choose to live by seeking a referral for a trained mental health professional to help you work through your issues, because your current behavior here is not helping you. It’s not making you happy, and it’s not helping you better deal with crap.

You need to spend time offline away from the evils of the world - there will be time to come back and deal with them much later, when you’re in a better headspace to tackle them - and center yourself and regain your equilibrium. Usually, you seem to do that through skiing and Humphrey McGee concerts, and July and August are notoriously bad times for skiing.

Whatever you do to re-center yourself, DO NOT kill yourself. Do not make any irrevocable decisions or take any irreversible actions.

Also, do not destroy any existing relationships over this.

Step back from the abyss.

Please.

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Captain Ron  Jul 30, 2023 • 11:33:26pm
Click to Reveal

Take this with a grain of salt, I am not an armature psychologist so I could be off the mark, but… I see similarities in your moods with my wife’s. She’s bipolar. Have you thought that might be your case? Getting the right medication can be difficult but it may help your mood swings. You aren’t an asshole but you do have extreme mood swings.

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teleskiguy  Jul 30, 2023 • 11:38:05pm

re: #51 TedStriker

but taking it out on supposed friends as collateral damage ain’t cool, man.

I don’t care. This is collateral damage with the GOLF scene and all y’all can go straight to hell. It’s all deeply stupid and come at me with your rifles, you people suck and are evil. So I guess now I need to defend my place with guns. No problem.

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teleskiguy  Jul 30, 2023 • 11:41:26pm

lol

I am such a dipshit

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 30, 2023 • 11:50:31pm

bsky.app

Twitter’s new App Store page looks like it’s what creepy dudes use to trade bitcoin for Liam Neeson’s kidnapped daughter.

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Targetpractice  Jul 30, 2023 • 11:55:15pm

Guest calls to tell me that the handle came off when she went to flush the toilet, but because my boss insists that I have to at least offer to come to the room and attempt to fix any issues before passing them on to the relevant department, I sheepishly asked if the guest wanted me to come up and attempt to fix the handle or just make a note to maintenance to fix it in the morning. She seemed to almost pity me by suggesting that the note was probably the only option at this hour.

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William Lewis  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:02:17am

re: #57 Targetpractice

Guest calls to tell me that the handle came off when she went to flush the toilet, but because my boss insists that I have to at least offer to come to the room and attempt to fix any issues before passing them on to the relevant department, I sheepishly asked if the guest wanted me to come up and attempt to fix the handle or just make a note to maintenance to fix it in the morning. She seemed to almost pity me by suggesting that the note was probably the only option at this hour.

Yeah, been there. Every hotel I’ve worked at uses such cheap plastic handles that get so much use by the large number of guests passing through that they’re one of the most common things to go wrong. The only thing that comes close is the thermistor coupler for the PTAC. (I need to ask our maintenance guy where he hides them so I can fix that, especially in the winter). I used to have to repair both at the hotel in Hayward since we only had one maintenance guy who was on Tues - Sat 8 - 4 and if either broke on a Sunday night … O_O

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TedStriker  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:02:26am

re: #56 goddamnedfrank

bsky.app

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I don’t think I want what X gon’ give to me…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:03:50am

Christian conservative commentator at The Blaze Allie Beth Stuckey.


She’s getting praise from some Christians and ire from others.

Allie Beth Stuckey’s tweet that Christians shouldn’t support ‘evil’ Democrats stirs debate (Christian Post, June 28, 2023)

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Targetpractice  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:04:34am

re: #58 William Lewis

Yeah, been there. Every hotel I’ve worked at uses such cheap plastic handles that get so much use by the large number of guests passing through that they’re one of the most common things to go wrong. The only thing that comes close is the thermistor coupler for the PTAC. (I need to ask our maintenance guy where he hides them so I can fix that, especially in the winter). I used to have to repair both at the hotel in Hayward since we only had one maintenance guy who was on Tues - Sat 8 - 4 and if either broke on a Sunday night … O_O

Yeah, I have a vague idea where the parts are in the maintenance shop, but I doubt someone who only got up to take a piss in the middle of the night wants me making a lot of noise and swearing up a blue streak as I try to fix something that can wait til morning.

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Targetpractice  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:06:43am

re: #60 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Christian conservative commentator at The Blaze Allie Beth Stuckey.

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She’s getting praise from some Christians and ire from others.

Allie Beth Stuckey’s tweet that Christians shouldn’t support ‘evil’ Democrats stirs debate (Christian Post, June 28, 2023)

Well, she is right, there is no “both sides” argument here. Robbing women of their rights is wrong, doubly so if the reason for doing so is based not upon scientific fact or legal reasoning but emotional appeals rooted in religious orthodoxy.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:10:27am

Severe thunderstorm warning just popped off on the weather radio, expires at 2AM MDT.

windy.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:13:46am

Anti-abortion Democratic strategist calls out Allie Beth Stuckey.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:24:27am

*sigh*
My blood pressure is currently 150/89.
I’ve been seriously hypertensive since my bloodwork Thursday morning where I got the word that my platelet count was high enough for me to have my two infected big toenails removed Friday. (We don’t yet know what the infection was, but several rounds of antibiotics did not kill it. I also had a condition called retronycia in which a second toenail was growing under the upper one like two tectonic plated and those toenails had fused together. And yes, the surgery and aftermath was/and is painful.)

As for the reason for the platelet count, earlier in the spring, I was officially diagnosed with Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia Purpurra (ITP). My immune system has decided that my platelets are a threat and is attacking them. I haven’t dropped low enough for actual treatment yet, but I have to be on the lookout for suspicious bleeding and come in periodically for a complete blood count. (My red and white blood cells are still well within normal parameters, as is my hemoglobin count. It’s just the platelets that are affected, and that affects my blood’s ability to form clots, so it takes longer for me to stop bleeding and I also have to apply direct pressure harder than I previously would for a longer period of time to stop bleeding from a wound.)

I hope that I can bring my blood pressure back down to a reasonable level more consistently over the next few days, or I’m going to have to contact my doctor about possibly upping my medication or switching it altogether.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:32:33am

The correct phrase would be “overshared.” (0:30)


Needz moar boxes of shivs.

Conservatives Are Furious That Nancy Mace Has Premarital Sex

“The Republican congresswoman caused a firestorm when she mentioned snubbing her fiancé to make it to a prayer breakfast on time”

Whomst among us hasn’t forgone a morning quickie to make it to work on time? On Thursday morning, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) told attendees at Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-S.C.) prayer breakfast about her own dilemma.

“When I woke up this morning at seven,” Mace explained, “Patrick, my fiancé, tried to pull me by my waist over this morning in bed and I was like ‘no baby we don’t got time for that this morning, I’ve gotta get to the prayer breakfast.’”

“He can wait, I’ll see him later tonight,” she added.

While the comment may have been a little TMI, conservative influencers reacted with wholehearted disgust. You see, Mace, 45, made the grave mistake of admitting that she, an adult woman, has a sex life outside of the confines of matrimony. A thing we’re 100 percent sure no other right-wing commentator has ever done.

“That’s some hoe talk,” tweeted Florida Congressional candidate Lavern Spicer in response to a video of the moment.

“Here’s your daily reminder that Nancy Mace is trash,” wrote Tim Young, a conservative comedian boasting more than 800,000 followers, referring specifically to how she “mentioned not fucking her fiance to make it on time to a prayer breakfast,” as he clarified in another tweet.

(more)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:35:46am

re: #65 A Three Hour Tour

I hope things settle down soon. That doesn’t sound like fun, and the toenail thing sounds painful.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:36:34am

re: #65 A Three Hour Tour

Best wishes!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:41:51am

Yeah, I think I’m going to take anything Roosh V has to say with a “you’re a dipshit” attitude.

‘Democracy is a tool of satan’: The murky world of Orthodox influencers (Euronews, July 31, 2023)

It’s not just him though. A lot of Orthodox Christians are making the same argument. It is important to listen to what influencers say though (no matter how much you might dislike “influencer” as an idea) because prominent and well-known Christians are telling us exactly what they want to do with our government.

Euronews comp
By Joshua Askew • Updated: 31/07/2023 - 09:17

A small, slick contingent of young Orthodox stars are harnessing social media to spread extreme messages around the globe.

“Democracy is a tool of Satan that has been perfected by Jews and their gentile allies in secret societies to take sly control of nations while allowing citizens to feel that they have a choice in the matter, keeping them compliant and dumb.”

These are the written words of Roosh Valizadeh.

In his rampantly anti-Semitic online writings - which parrot the classic line that Jews run the world - the former pickup and alt-right blogger, turned Orthodox zealot, talks about a once Christian West transformed into a state of “Jewish pornographic sewage”.

Alleged national decline is a prominent theme in the American’s writings, believing untold millions in the Western world have sold their “souls for comfort, money, and sex”.

(more)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:44:43am

re: #7 Patricia Kayden

The calm professionalism = non-criminal adults in the White House.

“Deep State” is ised as a derogatory, sonspiratorial term, but it refers to the fact that modern government requires serious professionals whose careers span multiple administrations. These people need to be able and ready to look beyond the immediate demands of their currrent boss to ensure the greater long-term needs of the nation.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:46:03am

re: #69 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Some of the more dude-bro God-hates-you folk I come across on Twitter are Orthodox of some stripe.

I will also point out that the Putin gang leverages Russian Orthodox sentiments, directly linking Putinism with God’s will.

Hence Ukraine moving the official Christmas holiday.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:51:43am

.


Mosolov: Iron Foundry (machine music) , Op. 19





..

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:52:22am

re: #16 gwangung

The PERFECT example to show that the Right doesn’t want freedom of speech. They want freedom from consequences.

Remind these Fans of the Constitution again that the 1st Amendment reads:

“CONGRESS shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:53:27am

re: #71 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Some of the more dude-bro God-hates-you folk I come across on Twitter are Orthodox of some stripe.

I will also point out that the Putin gang leverages Russian Orthodox sentiments, directly linking Putinism with God’s will.

Hence Ukraine moving the official Christmas holiday.

Coming up next month here in the county seat is the Greek Orthodox Festival Weekend. (My county has three Greek Orthodox churches due to a pogrom in Omaha in the Twenties. Citizens were convinced a Greek immigrant killed a white girl. Turned out after they killed a bunch of Greek immigrants and burnt their properties and everyone fled for the uninhabited Panhandle, it was a white man who killed her.)

As far as I know, I don’t think anyone in the Greek Orthodox community here believes they should chuck democracy and start killing all its enemies.

As the local atheists, my wife and I will be infiltrating the very public festival again this year. I’ll report back on any subversive activity. /s

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:53:48am

re: #26 teleskiguy

I fucking hate golf with the heat of a thousand suns. What a stupid meaningless wasteful pastime. You golfers amongst the Lizard nation should be ashamed of yourselves.

Tell us what you think of snow cannons…

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:54:14am

re: #72 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

That’s one of those let’s-put-the-industrial-revolution-into-music types of pieces.

On a gentler note for the wee hours of the morning:

The Fruit of Silence



..

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:54:23am

re: #73 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Remind these Fans of the Constitution again that the 1st Amendment reads:

“CONGRESS shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech”

He’s a school board member, not Congress. /s

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:58:34am

re: #71 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I will also point out that the Putin gang leverages Russian Orthodox sentiments, directly linking Putinism with God’s will.

Another reason our Dominionists are such devoted Vlad fanboys: they long for that sort of theocracy in America, just with a Fundamentalist Protestant bent to it.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:06:55am

re: #11 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Moore sent a clear message that he is okay with anti-LGBT violence. He should be forced off the board. I can’t imagine being a LGBT student in that school district.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:12:58am

re: #79 Patricia Kayden

Moore sent a clear message that he is okay with anti-LGBT violence. He should be forced off the board. I can’t imagine being a LGBT student in that school district.

While at the same time pulling the Christian canard “love the sinner hate the sin.”

… that as a Christian he loves those in the LGBTQ+ community along with others.

“But not their doings,” Moore stated regarding homosexual behavior

I’m sure they don’t approve of your heterosexual behaviour either. But you have the Bible, so you’re allowed to disguise your hate in religion.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:15:50am

Not satisfied with putting tracts on the back of twenty dollar bills, they’re now putting tracks on the backs of fake £1,000,000 banknotes.

This was dropped off in the British shop I manage in Iowa (Reddit’s r/FundieSnarkUncensored)

King Charles III: The new face of Christian Evangelicals.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:17:56am

re: #81 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

King Charles III: The new face of Christian Evangelicals.

And the very embodiment of morality and fidelity.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:21:25am

re: #82 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And the very embodiment of morality and fidelity.

Well, it came from Ray Comfort’s organisation. He’s unsure about the provenience of bananas.

As I recall, when Charles was coronated he changed the formula saying he wanted to be “the defender of all faiths.” Ray’s head would ‘splody over Charles being the Defender of Hinduism or the Defender of Wicca.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:23:24am

re: #83 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Well, it came from Ray Comfort’s organisation. He’s unsure about the provenience of bananas.

As I recall, when Charles was coronated he changed the formula saying he wanted to be “the defender of all faiths.” Ray’s head would ‘splody over Charles being the Defender of Hinduism or the Defender of Wicca.

He is still the titular Head of the Church of England, regardless of what other hats he may chosse to don.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:29:41am

re: #84 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He is still the titular Head of the Church of England, regardless of what other hats he may chosse to don.

I don’t think King Charles abandoned the Anglican Church with that formula.

Plus he isn’t on the money yet.

Why can’t we send Ray back to New Zealand?

—

On a more mundane note, I need to hit the rack. Trip to Cheyenne later today to see the doc and get an osteoporosis scan.

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BlueSpotinAL ✅  Jul 31, 2023 • 2:00:05am

Good morning.

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿  Jul 31, 2023 • 2:36:08am

re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Why can’t we send Ray back to New Zealand?

What makes you think we want him back?

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:06:13am

Whoever edits the Wordle (and yes, I know the name is on the front page, I just want not to feel guilty for being mean) should be beaten gently with a feather pillow.

Click to Reveal

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:11:32am

re: #87 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

What makes you think we want him back?

Okay, we’ll send you Ted Cruz and send Ray Comfort to Canada.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:12:20am

re: #89 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Okay, we’ll send you Ted Cruz and send Ray Comfort to Canada.

Wow, you’re in a particularly cruel mood this morning, aren’t you./

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:16:31am

re: #90 Nerdy Fish

Wow, you’re in a particularly cruel mood this morning, aren’t you./

I woke up with a cramp. That might be it.

I’m going back to bed.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 31, 2023 • 3:38:33am

I don’t know why there is an ammo shortage, they don’t miss! //

Footage released by the 54th Mechanized Brigade appears to show Ukrainian troops targeting and blowing up Russians hiding in dugout.

The strike was a joint work of 155-mm brigade artillery and Mk 19 automatic grenade launcher.

Watch the whole thing.

Ukrainian rocket launcher hits Russian soldiers hiding in dugout

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DodgerFan1988  Jul 31, 2023 • 4:05:49am
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steve_davis  Jul 31, 2023 • 4:23:13am

re: #66 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The correct phrase would be “overshared.” (0:30)

[Embedded content]

Needz moar boxes of shivs.

Conservatives Are Furious That Nancy Mace Has Premarital Sex

“The Republican congresswoman caused a firestorm when she mentioned snubbing her fiancé to make it to a prayer breakfast on time”

(more)

Time and place. Fails on both counts.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 31, 2023 • 4:29:03am

re: #49 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Can you imagine the uproar if a Muslim foreigner visited the US and did something like that? He or she would probably be shot.

Btw, what the hell is she talking about when she said Jesus would bring peace to Bali? From what I’ve heard and seen, Bali is a safe, peaceful country. No American can say the same about the U.S. with a straight face given all the gun violence and domestic terrorism we have here.

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austin_blue  Jul 31, 2023 • 4:29:38am

Oh! My Stars and Garters!

The Matildas are up 3-0 against the poutine eating Canucks.

Tonight is going to be rough. The US plays at 2am CDT vs. Portugal and the Lionesses play at 6am CDT against the Heathen Chinese.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 31, 2023 • 4:30:46am

re: #82 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And the very embodiment of morality and fidelity.

So says Princess Di.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 31, 2023 • 4:32:09am

re: #91 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The problem is you’re too woke!!

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austin_blue  Jul 31, 2023 • 5:17:41am

Matildas and Nigeria are through, Canada are out.

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jeffreyw  Jul 31, 2023 • 5:25:05am

hot dogs are sammiches

Good morning!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 31, 2023 • 5:29:59am

hot dogs are mini-subs

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 31, 2023 • 5:37:00am

Yeah, I am claiming bullshit on this one.

World Cup and Olympic ski champ Bode Miller has warned parents about the risks of carbon monoxide poisoning after his three young children were briefly hospitalized after being exposed to the odorless, invisible gas while work was being done on their house.

Bode Miller and his wife Morgan both shared images on Instagram of their three youngest children in an emergency room, wearing oxygen masks, to reveal the “terrifying” medical ordeal that unfolded due to carbon monoxide emanating from a crane that had been operating in front of their home in Big Sky, Montana.

“Two weeks ago, we had a crane at our house to remove our broken hot tub,” Morgan Miller began her post, which featured 3-year-old twins Asher and Aksel and 19-month-old daughter Scarlet in hospital beds while being tended to medical staff.

“Asher, Aksel and Scarlet innocently stood on the front step of our house to watch the action which resulted in them getting carbon monoxide poisoning due to the lack of airflow in our driveway landing them in the ER,” the former professional beach volleyball player continued. “They were on high-flow oxygen for over four hours. It was a terrifying experience but thanking my lucky stars they are OK.”

Sharing your ER visit on social media may be overcompensating…
mercurynews.com

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lawhawk  Jul 31, 2023 • 5:37:32am

BWHAHAH

Trump’s hope to get money from CNN to pay for his other legal bills has failed miserably. Trump sought $475 million from CNN claiming he was being defamed.

Too bad his suit was dismissed. By a Trump appointed federal judge. In Florida.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit Donald Trump filed against CNN in which the former U.S. president claimed that references in news articles or by the network’s hosts to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election as “the Big Lie” were tantamount to comparing him to Adolf Hitler.

Trump had been seeking punitive damages of $475 million in the federal lawsuit filed last October in South Florida, claiming the references hurt his reputation and political career. Trump is a candidate for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination in what is his third run for the presidency as a major-party candidate.

U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal, who was appointed by Trump, said Friday in his ruling that the former president’s defamation claims failed because the references were opinions and not factual statements. Moreover, it was a stretch to believe that, in viewers’ minds, that phrase would connect Trump’s efforts challenging the 2020 election results to Nazi propaganda or Hitler’s genocidal and authoritarian regime, the judge said.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jul 31, 2023 • 5:46:54am

Tricksy wordle — par
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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jul 31, 2023 • 5:47:47am

re: #101 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

hot dogs are mini-subs tacos

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jul 31, 2023 • 5:50:08am

re: #102 Shropshire Slasher

Yeah, I am claiming bullshit on this one.

Sharing your ER visit on social media may be overcompensating…
mercurynews.com

That’s not the way CO works.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 31, 2023 • 5:51:22am

re: #103 lawhawk

The former U.S. president was seeking punitive damages of $475 million. But a judge said Friday in his ruling that Donald Trump’s defamation claims failed because the references were opinions and not factual statements.

“Stupid son-of-a-bitch”

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HRH Stanley Sea  Jul 31, 2023 • 5:52:39am

re: #88 Nerdy Fish

Was expecting worse.

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lawhawk  Jul 31, 2023 • 5:53:28am

re: #107 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

No. That’s a statement of fact. /sarc not sarc

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lawhawk  Jul 31, 2023 • 6:01:02am
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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Jul 31, 2023 • 6:06:55am

re: #26 teleskiguy

I fucking hate golf with the heat of a thousand suns. What a stupid meaningless wasteful pastime. You golfers amongst the Lizard nation should be ashamed of yourselves.

Golfer here … but … What is more fun and also sustainable? Disc golf. Any year now there will be more rounds of disc golf played than ball golf. And 90 percent of courses are free. Including my two private disc golf courses on previously tilled land - I have planted more than 16,000 trees to reforest it in the shape of fairways. This year I am focused on transplanting baby black walnut volunteers. (Many older courses are on flood plains where nothing else can exist.)

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gocart mozart  Jul 31, 2023 • 6:18:15am
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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 31, 2023 • 6:20:24am

re: #105 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

*if* the bun stays attached.

If not its a Sammy

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 31, 2023 • 6:20:55am

Fulton County DA Says Charging Decision Will Come By Sept. 1 In Trump 2020 Probe

Georgia’s Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said in an interview over the weekend that she will announce charging decisions in her investigation into efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the state’s 2020 presidential election result by September 1.

“The work is accomplished,” Willis told the CNN affiliate WXIA at a back-to-school event on Saturday. “We’ve been working for two and half years. We’re ready to go.”

In letters to local officials, Willis has previously signaled that she would make any charging announcements between July 31 and the end of August. At this point, it is still unclear whether Trump will be indicted in the state, but with possible charges expected security measures around the county courthouse have increased.

The Fulton County Sheriff’s Department put up barricades around the building last week in expectation of the announcement.

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 31, 2023 • 6:20:56am

re: #106 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

That’s not the way CO works.

Or air
Or circulation
Or …

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No Malarkey!  Jul 31, 2023 • 6:22:04am

Wisconsin’s new Supreme Court Justice takes office tomorrow, giving the Wisconsin Supreme Court a 4-3 liberal majority. The likely result, once the necessary cases appear before the Court, will be reversal of Wisconsin’s 1849 abortion ban, and an end to partisan gerrymandering, which has kept the GOP in power in the state legislature despite Republican voters being in the minority. One of the silver linings of Dobbs is that its turning purple states blue as people wake up to the authoritarian threat the GOP represents.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 31, 2023 • 6:22:22am

re: #111 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

Golfer here … but … What is more fun and also sustainable? Disc golf. Any year now there will be more rounds of disc golf played than ball golf. And 90 percent of courses are free. Including my two private disc golf courses on previously tilled land - I have planted more than 16,000 trees to reforest it in the shape of fairways. This year I am focused on transplanting baby black walnut volunteers. (Many older courses are on flood plains where nothing else can exist.)

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 31, 2023 • 6:24:53am

re: #105 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Speaking of Tacos—it’s time to get down and be funky on a Monday morning…

Taco - Puttin’ On The Ritz (Official Video)

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No Malarkey!  Jul 31, 2023 • 6:25:15am

re: #112 gocart mozart

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I’m guessing David Dennison or John Barron.

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lawhawk  Jul 31, 2023 • 6:36:27am

re: #112 gocart mozart

John Barron, John Miller, and David Dennison.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 31, 2023 • 6:37:43am

Some people never learn.

Richard Dawkins used his new podcast to promote more transphobic lies

and he sounds just like Robin Bullock and other Pulpit Pimps when it comes to attacking trans people.

friendlyatheist.com

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jul 31, 2023 • 6:38:16am

re: #26 teleskiguy

I fucking hate golf with the heat of a thousand suns. What a stupid meaningless wasteful pastime. You golfers amongst the Lizard nation should be ashamed of yourselves.

The same could be said about downhill skiing.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 31, 2023 • 6:39:21am

Well Guess Who Can’t Find A Lawyer?

Newly indicted Trump employee doesn’t have a Florida lawyer ahead of his first court date

Carlos De Oliveira, a Mar-a-Lago property manager, is set to appear Monday in Miami to enter his plea after he was named a third co-defendant alongside Trump.

nbcnews.com

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 31, 2023 • 6:40:46am

re: #123 Joe Bacon ✅

Well Guess Who Can’t Find A Lawyer?

Newly indicted Trump employee doesn’t have a Florida lawyer ahead of his first court date

Carlos De Oliveira, a Mar-a-Lago property manager, is set to appear Monday in Miami to enter his plea after he was named a third co-defendant alongside Trump.

nbcnews.com

Lawyers cost money
Good lawyers cost more
He worked for trump
Ergo shit wages

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 31, 2023 • 6:42:38am

re: #124 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Lawyers cost money
Good lawyers cost more
He worked for trump
Ergo shit wages

and nobody wants to touch anyone tarred by DJT, they can only be bad news

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No Malarkey!  Jul 31, 2023 • 6:42:59am

re: #124 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Lawyers cost money
Good lawyers cost more
He worked for trump
Ergo shit wages

Trump will provide him a lawyer, as long as he keeps his mouth shut.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 31, 2023 • 6:45:08am

First US nuclear reactor built from scratch in decades to enter commercial operation in Georgia. We need to cut red tape to make new safe nuclear reactors possible to build in order to combat climate change.

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lawhawk  Jul 31, 2023 • 6:46:18am

re: #124 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Lawyers cost money
Good lawyers cost more
He worked for trump
Ergo shit wages

He worked for Trump and thinks he can benefit from that relationship, when criminal defense lawyers want nothing to do with Trump or his coconspirators/accomplices. The last sentence of the article notes he’s hoping Trump can help him score a lawyer.

If he thinks that he’s getting a lawyer via Trump, that explains why he is having trouble.

The problem is also that the crimes he’s being charged with are not run of the mill criminal defense charges but national security ones.

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jeffreyw  Jul 31, 2023 • 6:50:59am

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Nojay UK  Jul 31, 2023 • 6:54:24am

re: #127 No Malarkey!

First US nuclear reactor built from scratch in decades to enter commercial operation in Georgia.

Watts Bar was built from scratch too. There was just a bit of a hiatus in its construction before it was finished and commissioned.

We need to cut red tape to make new safe nuclear reactors possible to build in order to combat climate change.

No, we don’t want to cut red tape. There are already simplified arrangements for starting, building and commissioning new reactors in the US, things like Construction and Operating Licences (COLs). Cutting red tape leads to safety violations and other issues. KEPCO, South Korea’s reactor builders “cut red tape” a while back by paying bribes to government safety inspectors to pass below-specification wiring in the control systems of a number of their reactors. That issue was discovered and rectified but we don’t know what other “cutting red tape” issues haven’t been revealed.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 31, 2023 • 6:54:26am

re: #127 No Malarkey!

First US nuclear reactor built from scratch in decades to enter commercial operation in Georgia. We need to cut red tape to make new safe nuclear reactors possible to build in order to combat climate change.

I am fine with leaving existing reactors on line for a bit longer as a stopgap, soething the Germans seem to have a big problem with

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sagehen  Jul 31, 2023 • 6:59:40am

this looks good (supposed to open in the US late August, but since striking actors can’t do promotion and late night isn’t airing, I suppose it will have to be word of mouth. )

GOLDA Trailer (2023) Helen Mirren

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No Malarkey!  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:01:52am

re: #131 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I am fine with leaving existing reactors on line for a bit longer as a stopgap, soething the Germans seem to have a big problem with

Newer reactors will be safer than very old reactors.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:06:36am

re: #130 Nojay UK

Watts Bar was built from scratch too. There was just a bit of a hiatus in its construction before it was finished and commissioned.

No, we don’t want to cut red tape. There are already simplified arrangements for starting, building and commissioning new reactors in the US, things like Construction and Operating Licences (COLs). Cutting red tape leads to safety violations and other issues. KEPCO, South Korea’s reactor builders “cut red tape” a while back by paying bribes to government safety inspectors to pass below-specification wiring in the control systems of a number of their reactors. That issue was discovered and rectified but we don’t know what other “cutting red tape” issues haven’t been revealed.

I’m obviously not talking about bribery to ignore safety concerns. But we need a balance because the current regulatory regime makes it nearly impossible to build new reactors in the U.S., while ignoring the severe danger presented by fossil fuel plants, not only due to greenhouse gas emissions but also air pollution.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:06:45am

Grift-O-Mellon

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:09:15am

re: #88 Nerdy Fish

Whoever edits the Wordle (and yes, I know the name is on the front page, I just want not to feel guilty for being mean) should be beaten gently with a feather pillow.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:10:04am

re: #135 Dave In Austin

Grift-O-Mellon

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I would be amazed if there was even one charitable organization run by a Trump* that isn’t a grift.

*Excluding Mary.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:10:27am

re: #133 No Malarkey!

Newer reactors will be safer than very old reactors.

shut down the old ones, leave some of the newer ones online as a stopgap until we can increase our use of renewables but I do not favor building any more.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:10:33am

re: #126 No Malarkey!

Trump will provide him a lawyer, as long as he keeps his mouth shut.

Balanced against jack smiths offer of immunity
Hmmm
What to do…

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jeffreyw  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:13:43am

Critter Cam

three fawns

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:14:12am

re: #128 lawhawk

He worked for Trump and thinks he can benefit from that relationship, when criminal defense lawyers want nothing to do with Trump or his coconspirators/accomplices. The last sentence of the article notes he’s hoping Trump can help him score a lawyer.

If he thinks that he’s getting a lawyer via Trump, that explains why he is having trouble.

The problem is also that the crimes he’s being charged with are not run of the mill criminal defense charges but national security ones.

Guys gonna be a witness against tfg, right? I mean that’s the plan.
So what’s the ethics of paying for a lawyer for a witness against you?
Further it can’t be one of tfgs lawyers. You can’t be a lawyer for the defendant and a witness, right?

Ettd.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:19:33am

re: #141 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Guys gonna be a witness against tfg, right? I mean that’s the plan.
So what’s the ethics of paying for a lawyer for a witness against you?
Further it can’t be one of tfgs lawyers. You can’t be a lawyer for the defendant and a witness, right?

Ettd.

Trump isn’t going to pay for his lawyer if he testifies against Trump. The employee who revealed the plan to delete the server dropped his Trump lawyer and got a new one.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:27:51am

re: #142 No Malarkey!

Trump isn’t going to pay for his lawyer if he testifies against Trump. The employee who revealed the plan to delete the server dropped his Trump lawyer and got a new one.

I should add that ethically and legally, your lawyer is supposed to advise you based on what’s in your best interest, not the interests of the guy who is paying the lawyer, and the lawyer is required to notify the client of any settlement offer, such as an immunity deal from the government in return for his testimony. If a Trump lawyer promises a defendant that Trump will take care of him if he stays silent, that would be illegal witness tampering.

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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:29:02am

Learn to read the room…

LA Times
Santa Barbara News-Press bankruptcy brings uneasy end to an owner’s bitter tenure

Santa Barbarans reacted to the shutdown with measures of sadness and resignation. Many said the newspaper’s fate had been sealed ever since McCaw began warring with her staff and injecting her right-leaning, government-upbraiding views deep into the news pages. Whether through inexperience or intent, her critics said, McCaw transformed a respected local news organization — steeped in industry standards of fairness and independence — into a tormented plaything. Circulation swooned.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:32:31am

Trump loses again.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:33:04am

re: #145 No Malarkey!

Trump loses again.

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And Indictment Watch begins tomorrow in Georgia, too.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:33:39am

Here’s to a bright week.

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Dr. Matt  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:36:28am

re: #135 Dave In Austin

Grift-O-Mellon

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SerialUpDinger  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:36:47am

My kind of Humor

Just in case you have not seen this….

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No Malarkey!  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:37:00am

re: #146 Nerdy Fish

And Indictment Watch begins tomorrow in Georgia, too.

I am going to try to go cold turkey and join the X boycott tomorrow, but if anybody indicts Trump, I doubt I will be able to stay off.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:39:27am

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Dr. Matt  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:39:56am

re: #146 Nerdy Fish

And Indictment Watch begins tomorrow in Georgia, too.

Why tomorrow and not today? Sorry….I’ve been on vacay and just catching up on work, news, and fur babies.

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A Cranky One  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:40:03am

Roofers are here today, replacing our house and garage roofs.

Our house roof is VERY steep, so the job isn’t any fun. Got a crew of 15 people here. Lots of safety equipment, which is encouraging.

Dogs aren’t thrilled about all the noise (they are currently tearing off the existing shingles). Shingles dropping by all the windows. It’s going to be an interesting day.

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sizzzzlerz  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:40:23am

re: #135 Dave In Austin

Grift-O-Mellon

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Maybe she meant The Human Fund-Money for People.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:42:36am

re: #145 No Malarkey!

Trump loses again.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:44:13am

Ohio amendment to curb ‘out-of-state special interests’ gets nearly all its funding from them

SO what else is new?

rawstory.com

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Unabogie  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:44:19am

re: #121 Joe Bacon ✅

Some people never learn.

Richard Dawkins used his new podcast to promote more transphobic lies

and he sounds just like Robin Bullock and other Pulpit Pimps when it comes to attacking trans people.

friendlyatheist.com

There are very few people more disappointing than Dawkins, Krauss, Maher, and Harris when it comes to “New Atheists”

Not one of them has acquitted themselves well after gaining fame and notoriety.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:45:55am

Expect a lot of “Hunter Biden” on Fox this week.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:46:48am

re: #152 Dr. Matt

Why tomorrow and not today? Sorry….I’ve been on vacay and just catching up on work, news, and fur babies.

I believe DA Willis said that indictments would be handed down starting tomorrow, but that was an ambiguous tweet that was linked here last night that I don’t know if I can find again.

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mmmirele  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:49:50am

re: #135 Dave In Austin

Grift-O-Mellon

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Did anyone else look at that picture and then count the number of fingers visible on her hand? I swear, it looked like AI.

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darthstar  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:50:25am

August 1st tomorrow - will it be the DC indictment or the GA one?

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:52:07am

re: #143 No Malarkey!

I should add that ethically and legally, your lawyer is supposed to advise you based on what’s in your best interest, not the interests of the guy who is paying the lawyer, and the lawyer is required to notify the client of any settlement offer, such as an immunity deal from the government in return for his testimony. If a Trump lawyer promises a defendant that Trump will take care of him if he stays silent, that would be illegal witness tampering.

So…definitely happening. //

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No Malarkey!  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:52:14am

re: #161 darthstar

August 1st tomorrow - will it be the DC indictment or the GA one?

Fani has said “by September 1st” and of course Jack has said nothing, so it could be neither, and no-one who is talking knows who will pull the trigger first.

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darthstar  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:52:42am

re: #160 mmmirele

Did anyone else look at that picture and then count the number of fingers visible on her hand? I swear, it looked like AI.

Hand looks normal, but the image is 100% computer generated.

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A Cranky One  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:53:43am

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No Malarkey!  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:54:22am

re: #162 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

So…definitely happening. //

A lawyer who looks at all the deep shit Trump lawyers are in ought to think long and hard before he goes ahead and commits highly illegal acts for Trump.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:56:28am

re: #38 teleskiguy

Nope. No mocking
You have a somewhat controversial take today
I will not ignore it either. I can’t ever 4 putt the ball through the windmill, which is as close as I have ever come to golfing.
Yes you suck and sometimes you blow. It’s called breathing round these parts

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No Malarkey!  Jul 31, 2023 • 7:58:14am

re: #145 No Malarkey!

Trump loses again.

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Judge brings the snark in a footnote slamming Trump’s lawyers.

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wrenchwench  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:00:51am

I needed another four.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 772 4/6*

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Now I have it.

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sagehen  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:01:02am

re: #153 A Cranky One

Roofers are here today, replacing our house and garage roofs.

Our house roof is VERY steep, so the job isn’t any fun. Got a crew of 15 people here. Lots of safety equipment, which is encouraging.

Dogs aren’t thrilled about all the noise (they are currently tearing off the existing shingles). Shingles dropping by all the windows. It’s going to be an interesting day.

Are you being a Best Client by providing cold drinks and orange slices?

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:01:12am

re: #130 Nojay UK

Regulation and inspection are critical in any era. Libertarians think that cutting red tape is good. We’ve had the experience of a no regulation time, it sucked.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:01:54am

re: #160 mmmirele

Did anyone else look at that picture and then count the number of fingers visible on her hand? I swear, it looked like AI.

It appears to be a photo from years ago that’s been heavily photoshopped.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:04:24am

re: #151 Joe Bacon ✅

That is … very specific, sir. 😹

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:05:37am

re: #66 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The correct phrase would be “overshared.” (0:30)

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Needz moar boxes of shivs.

Conservatives Are Furious That Nancy Mace Has Premarital Sex

“The Republican congresswoman caused a firestorm when she mentioned snubbing her fiancé to make it to a prayer breakfast on time”
…………
“Here’s your daily reminder that Nancy Mace is trash,” wrote Tim Young, a conservative comedian boasting more than 800,000 followers…….

(more)

Young is right that she is trash — but because of her support for Trump and the GOP agenda. Her comment was foolish given her audience — she should have known better.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:08:55am

re: #135 Dave In Austin

How many airbruses died creating that image? Or ‘shop filters, etc.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:09:19am

re: #153 A Cranky One

Roofers are here today, replacing our house and garage roofs.

Our house roof is VERY steep, so the job isn’t any fun. Got a crew of 15 people here. Lots of safety equipment, which is encouraging.

Dogs aren’t thrilled about all the noise (they are currently tearing off the existing shingles). Shingles dropping by all the windows. It’s going to be an interesting day.

I first read that and thought “must be Belgian Malinois. No other dog would be able to get onto a steep roof like that.”

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:09:32am

re: #88 Nerdy Fish

Whoever edits the Wordle (and yes, I know the name is on the front page, I just want not to feel guilty for being mean) should be beaten gently with a feather pillow.

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birdie for me

Click to Reveal

Wordle 772 3/6

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At least it wasn’t an “ight” word!
The group: 3,4,4

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No Malarkey!  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:09:37am

re: #171 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Regulation and inspection are critical in any era. Libertarians think that cutting red tape is good. We’ve had the experience of a no regulation time, it sucked.

I am no libertarian, but sometimes the red tape is excessive. I’m sure that everyone on this board would agree, for example, that regulations designed to make it impossible to operate an abortion clinic should be repealed.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:16:16am

One job I had many years ago was window tint installation. Another “employee” was a friend of the boss/owner who got injured while working construction on a nuclear power plant in downstate east central Illinois and was drawing disability. I was often paired with this guy when we went to install tint in commercial buildings and residences. As you can imagine from a guy who worked on power plants, he was a real stickler for detail. His favorite phrase was “piss on it, looks good enough to me!” (No accidents that I’m aware of at that particular plant.)

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:23:25am

re: #178 No Malarkey!

I am no libertarian, but sometimes the red tape is excessive. I’m sure that everyone on this board would agree, for example, that regulations designed to make it impossible to operate an abortion clinic should be repealed.

Most (if not all) issues with making abortion illegal are not regulation, but laws passed by partisan shitheels. Don’t compare regulators with lawmakers. A regulator should be apolitical, and the NRC is nothing but.

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lawhawk  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:23:36am
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No Malarkey!  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:23:41am

Joe Rogan embraces conspiracy theory that Ray Epps may have been a federal agent provoking the insurrection, never mind the fascist militias which had immediately begun planning a violent attack on the Capitol when Trump called for a “wild” rally on January 6.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:29:22am
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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:31:12am

re: #183 Dave In Austin

Why eat the rich when you can grift them?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:33:05am

re: #174 Hecuba’s daughter

Attacking a 45-year-old woman over having sex outside of marriage is fucking ridiculous.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:33:26am

He’s an actual 12-year-old. Actually, no, strike that; my 12-year-old is more mature than this.

Mastodon

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danarchy  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:33:47am

re: #183 Dave In Austin

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You’d think for 1.5 mil you could get something that wasn’t so damn ugly.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:34:08am

re: #185 Eclectic Cyborg

Attacking a 45-year-old woman over having sex outside of marriage is fucking ridiculous.

But it’s a sin, we have to mercilessly condemn them for it.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:34:20am

re: #185 Eclectic Cyborg

Attacking a 45-year-old woman over having sex outside of marriage is fucking ridiculous.

Sure, but Mace is absolutely nuts to think that was appropriate to say to theocratic fascists at a prayer breakfast.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:35:11am

re: #182 No Malarkey!

Joe Rogan embraces conspiracy theory that Ray Epps may have been a federal agent provoking the insurrection, never mind the fascist militias which had immediately begun planning a violent attack on the Capitol when Trump called for a “wild” rally on January 6.

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Maybe Mr. Epps can add Joe to his defamation suit against Fox News.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:36:23am

Duuuuuuuuud Ball

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:36:24am

re: #160 mmmirele

Did anyone else look at that picture and then count the number of fingers visible on her hand? I swear, it looked like AI.

if it’s not AI, it’s been seriously airbrushed

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steve_davis  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:38:56am

re: #167 So Cal Greek Hippie

Nope. No mocking
You have a somewhat controversial take today
I will not ignore it either. I can’t ever 4 putt the ball through the windmill, which is as close as I have ever come to golfing.
Yes you suck and sometimes you blow. It’s called breathing round these parts

the problem with the take is that I live in the poorest state in the country, and here, golf is a redneck sport. Sure, there are some whites-only 40,000 dollar a year, dining room privileges golf courses around, but mostly, it’s men who fish and golf for the same reasons—it’s a pointless sport that let’s you do it while drinking beer and not having to move around too much.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:40:53am

re: #193 steve_davis

the problem with the take is that I live in the poorest state in the country, and here, golf is a redneck sport. Sure, there are some whites-only 40,000 dollar a year, dining room privileges golf courses around, but mostly, it’s men who fish and golf for the same reasons—it’s a pointless sport that let’s you do it while drinking beer and not having to move around too much.

And when the red clay bakes hard in the summer sun them balls will just roll on forever.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:44:06am

re: #27 teleskiguy

There. I said it. Fuck golf and fuck you golfers. You fuckin’ suck.

levelbot
@levelbot@mastodon.social

banana levels are 02% and steady

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:45:40am

when is a 16x6.50-8 tire NOT 16” across or 6.5” wide?

when it’s on a cart dangerman bought.

2018 i bought a replacement tire from the cart mfgr.
the other tire just shredded so i searched for cheaper - saved $30
i ordered by the numbers on the side of the tire. No, i did not measure the old tire. what for?

anyway the tire i received wouldnt fit
first i checked i got the number right off the old tire.
yup

then the measurements.
the new one is 16”x6.5”. on an 8” rim. exactly as labeled.
so wtf?
measure the old one
it’s actually only 15” x 5”
at least they got the rim right.

so return the new tire. pay the restocking. it’s not their fault.
then have to buy direct from the source because there are no specs anywhere other than buy this tire for this cart. and i guess forget the numbers molded into the sidewall. and pay $30 more.

sheesh.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:49:12am

Mastodon

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Dave In Austin  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:50:19am

This is a large Anaconda….

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:51:28am

re: #198 Dave In Austin

This is a large Anaconda….

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Jeebus

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sagehen  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:52:05am

re: #186 Nerdy Fish

He’s an actual 12-year-old. Actually, no, strike that; my 12-year-old is more mature than this.

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San Francisco must have helicopters. Maybe they can just have a team drop down on ropes, like a fucking SEAL team, take the X apart and cut open the sandbags.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:53:31am

Time to resurrect STUPID TREK with this episode.

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Thanos  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:53:46am

re: #135 Dave In Austin

Grift-O-Mellon

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Fostering the Future — was that the program where they stole immigrants children for U.S. evangelicals wanting to adopt?

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:55:25am

re: #198 Dave In Austin

This is a large Anaconda….

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Being harassed by assholes.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:55:37am

Someone I’ve followed for years on Twitter just posted this from his time line:

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Jay C  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:55:48am

re: #198 Dave In Austin

This is a large Anaconda….

[Embedded content]

JFC: given that it had a big bulge in the middle, I would have sworn that was a crocodile.
Though if it was a snake, that bulge means bad luck for some poor pig…
(Hopefully just a pig)

ADD: re #203: glad to see these assclowns got fined….

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 31, 2023 • 8:59:53am

re: #188 Nerdy Fish

But it’s a sin, we have to mercilessly condemn them for it.

Women who do that are sluts, men who do it are just finding an outlet to vent their passion for America

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Thanos  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:03:18am

The Race of life on this planet as a human, regardless of station, wealth, origin, etc. is painful and hard for a lot of it’s distance - so I don’t begrudge anyone anything that help them get through it, whether that be golf, grits, or god.

As that sometimes a shitheel Morrisey said:

“But you’re in the wrong place, and you’ve got the wrong face
And humans are not really very humane”

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Dave In Austin  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:04:26am

re: #205 Jay C

JFC: given that it had a big bulge in the middle, I would have sworn that was a crocodile.
Though if it was a snake, that bulge means bad luck for some poor pig…
(Hopefully just a pig)

ADD: re #203: glad to see these assclowns got fined….

Caiman. No Crocs in the Amazon. Caiman make up a large part of their diet.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:08:47am

]re: #205 Jay C

JFC: given that it had a big bulge in the middle, I would have sworn that was a crocodile.
Though if it was a snake, that bulge means bad luck for some poor pig…
(Hopefully just a pig)

Maybe it was Jon Voight.

Nope. Ain’t posting a clip from that RAZZIE Classic Anaconda.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:08:59am

My computer just finished its update
I am back in the work clock in 30 seconds after a week of vacation
Final photo

Morning in Arroyo Grande, California
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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:09:59am

re: #197 Backwoods Sleuth

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there is no right to not be indicted
there is no right to not be investigated
there is no right to not be accused

sheesh

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Thanos  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:11:35am

re: #196 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

when is a 16x6.50-8 tire NOT 16” across or 6.5” wide?

when it’s on a cart dangerman bought.

2018 i bought a replacement tire from the cart mfgr.
the other tire just shredded so i searched for cheaper - saved $30
i ordered by the numbers on the side of the tire. No, i did not measure the old tire. what for?

anyway the tire i received wouldnt fit
first i checked i got the number right off the old tire.
yup

then the measurements.
the new one is 16”x6.5”. on an 8” rim. exactly as labeled.
so wtf?
measure the old one
it’s actually only 15” x 5”
at least they got the rim right.

so return the new tire. pay the restocking. it’s not their fault.
then have to buy direct from the source because there are no specs anywhere other than buy this tire for this cart. and i guess forget the numbers molded into the sidewall. and pay $30 more.

sheesh.

I’d go to a local tire store, not the name branded one, but the large box store in the industrial area that sells & repairs all tires for 18 wheelers, cars, and lawn mowers. They will have the right tire, and be able to squeeze /press it onto the rim because they’ll have the right skills and tools for it.

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darthstar  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:11:43am

Sounds like DeOlivera is using the same defense strategy as the rest of the Trump team. Showed up for his arraignment without a Florida lawyer. This isn’t a surprise for these people.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:11:46am

re: #211 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

there is no right to not be indicted
there is no right to not be investigated
there is no right to not be accused

sheesh

Sure there is. Just declare yourself a candidate for President in the next election - whenever that election may be, doesn’t matter - and you’re automatically immune from any prosecution, because it would be illegal election interference.

*whisper whisper*

What’s that? Something about Hillary Clinton? Well, no, that’s obviously different, because she’s guilty, duh.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:12:53am

re: #211 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

there is no right to not be indicted
there is no right to not be investigated
there is no right to not be accused

sheesh


Don’t you understand that Trump is a wealthy white man who panders to white nationalists? They’re not supposed to be bound by the law.

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Dr. Matt  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:15:00am

re: #182 No Malarkey!

Joe Rogan embraces conspiracy theory that Ray Epps may have been a federal agent provoking the insurrection, never mind the fascist militias which had immediately begun planning a violent attack on the Capitol when Trump called for a “wild” rally on January 6.

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Ray Epps should be filing law suits against Fox, Tucker, SMOTI, Rogan, etc. But, I don’t feel sorry for him. He’s another FAFO.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:17:05am

re: #200 sagehen

San Francisco must have helicopters. Maybe they can just have a team drop down on ropes, like a fucking SEAL team, take the X apart and cut open the sandbags.

Tall structure secured by sand bags on top of a tall building in an earthquake zone.

What can go wrong?

And I’m sure the fabrication meets building codes

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Jay C  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:20:39am

wordlestuff:

Click to Reveal

Well, Wordle sez today’s effort was “Impressive”, but I’m not convinced:

Wordle 772 3/6

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🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

after scoring the letters I did on first guess, there were only two choices left: obviously, I chose the wrong one, but still…
(on a whim, I used the starting word Wordlebot always uses: not sure it will always work out, but there we are)

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DodgerFan1988  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:23:34am
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wrenchwench  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:23:53am

re: #196 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

when is a 16x6.50-8 tire NOT 16” across or 6.5” wide?

when it’s on a cart dangerman bought.

2018 i bought a replacement tire from the cart mfgr.
the other tire just shredded so i searched for cheaper - saved $30
i ordered by the numbers on the side of the tire. No, i did not measure the old tire. what for?

anyway the tire i received wouldnt fit
first i checked i got the number right off the old tire.
yup

then the measurements.
the new one is 16”x6.5”. on an 8” rim. exactly as labeled.
so wtf?
measure the old one
it’s actually only 15” x 5”
at least they got the rim right.

so return the new tire. pay the restocking. it’s not their fault.
then have to buy direct from the source because there are no specs anywhere other than buy this tire for this cart. and i guess forget the numbers molded into the sidewall. and pay $30 more.

sheesh.

Bicycle tires have an ISO # (International Standards Organization) in the format; xx-xxx. They also have inch markings (most of them) that are less reliable. There are 3 common sizes called 26” that will not fit the same rim.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:25:30am

re: #212 Thanos

I’d go to a local tire store, not the name branded one, but the large box store in the industrial area that sells & repairs all tires for 18 wheelers, cars, and lawn mowers. They will have the right tire, and be able to squeeze /press it onto the rim because they’ll have the right skills and tools for it.

i did that once. it was hard to find anyone willing to pay some attention to lawn tractor tires.

this time i bought a tire already mounted on a rim.

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wrenchwench  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:26:57am

re: #221 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

i did that once. it was hard to find anyone willing to pay some attention to lawn tractor tires.

this time i bought a tire already mounted on a rim.

Now you just need to respoke the new rim onto the old hub?

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darthstar  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:28:38am

This is all very tiring.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:31:32am

re: #223 darthstar

This is all very tiring.

Groan!!!

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wrenchwench  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:31:47am

re: #223 darthstar

This is all very tiring.

Treadful.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:32:10am

re: #219 DodgerFan1988

Joe Rogan Argues Jan. 6 Might Have Been False Flag to Take Down Trump: ‘I Think They Were Going to Get Him In Any Way They Could’

Of course it was just a total coincidence that he was up giving a speech urging his supporters to maarch on Congress and promising that he would be there with them…

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:33:06am

Somehow I can’t get the Rolling Stones “Let It Bleed” album cover out of my head.

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:34:14am

re: #88 Nerdy Fish

Whoever edits the Wordle (and yes, I know the name is on the front page, I just want not to feel guilty for being mean) should be beaten gently with a feather pillow.

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4/6 here also

Click to Reveal

Wordle 772 4/6

🟨🟨⬜🟨🟨
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩
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wrenchwench  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:35:10am

Mastodon

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A Cranky One  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:37:10am

re: #170 sagehen

Are you being a Best Client by providing cold drinks and orange slices?

The roofers work for my step son. They are being well treated. In fact they were delivered a very nice lunch.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:37:53am

Another Matt Walsh contribution to our discourse, via FB:

My response:

If I could trade in Matt Walsh for a free meal at Denny’s, I would do it in a heartbeat.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:39:03am

re: #222 wrenchwench

Now you just need to respoke the new rim onto the old hub?

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:39:19am

A couple of weeks ago, the video game community celebrated as game developer Bungie - recently emerging as a champion of players’ and employees’ rights alike - won $500k in damages against a troll who sent threatening messages to a community manager. The key event was the troll having a pizza delivered to their victim’s house, and making the pizza guy unknowingly simulate a swatting attack after texting the victim that they were going to send the SWAT team after them. WaPo has an article here on the judgment (gift link courtesy of Bluesky). The kicker is this:

The case, the victorious lawyers point out, matters in part because it allows an employer to recover for harassment of an employee, and harassment victims usually don’t have the resources or wherewithal on their own to hire crack representation plus a team of digital detectives to track anonymous scofflaws across the internet.

When looking at employment at a company, one sign of a really great employer is, “Will they go to bat for you if you are being harassed just for being an employee or for reasons related to your scope of employment?” It’s the first step in a long road to recognizing that the Internet is a real place that exists, and that things that happen on it are real and can have tangible impacts that extend beyond its borders.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:39:29am

re: #223 darthstar

This is all very tiring.

it’s how i roll

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:40:56am

Mastodon

Mastodon

Mastodon

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Dr. Matt  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:41:09am

re: #231 Hecuba’s daughter

Another Matt Walsh contribution to our discourse, via FB:

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My response:

Matty is too dense to realize that anti-feminist conservative women get abortions too.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:41:40am

re: #234 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

it’s how i roll

or would be if i didnt have a damn flat tire!

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piratedan  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:44:38am

re: #219 DodgerFan1988

it’s still somewhat amazing how smoothly Joe is able to speak even with Roger Stone’s hand all the way up his ass to manipulate his vocal chords…

still something of a mystery to me about who becomes a “media personality” but then I remind myself that very little of this actually comes down to chance or talent…

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wrenchwench  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:45:20am

re: #232 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

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So now it’s a new axle to fit the new hub…then a new wheel for the other side…

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Jay C  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:45:29am

re: #237 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

or would be if i didnt have a damn flat tire!

Maybe it’s the “Don’t Tread On Me” motto….???

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:45:29am

re: #231 Hecuba’s daughter

Another Matt Walsh contribution to our discourse, via FB:

“If we could go back to the days of treating women as chattel, I would gladly don robes and herd sheep!”

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:46:28am
“July is a hard month for a lot of us here in New Mexico, where thousands of people’s lives were upended by the test of the world’s first nuclear bomb,” Cordova explains. “The events of July 16, 1945, weigh heavily on us. And why wouldn’t they? They changed everything. The people of New Mexico were the first human test subjects of the world’s most powerful weapon.”

The release of “Oppenheimer,” she adds, has made her area of New Mexico “more tense than usual.”

“The three-hour movie tells only part of the story of the Manhattan Project, which developed the bomb, and conducted the test code-named Trinity that day in July,” Cordova argues. “It does not explore in any depth the costs of deciding to test the bomb in a place where my family and many others had lived for generations.”

Cordova goes on to observe that “Oppenheimer’s” release is a “missed opportunity” to convey the health problems New Mexico residents suffered following the Manhattan Project — including “four or five generations of cancers.”

‘5 generations of cancers’: What ‘Oppenheimer’ movie fails to tell us about the Manhattan Project (Alternet because NYT is paywalled)

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:47:50am

Mastodon

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:48:24am

re: #236 Dr. Matt

Matty is too dense to realize that anti-feminist conservative women get abortions too.

and that ‘human’ and ‘killed’ are doing an awful lot of heavy lifting

‘human’ is not the issue

in the US, the issue is when, in the seamless progression from before fertilization to birth, it ‘becomes’ a single, discrete human life with constitutional rights and protections.

till recently that has been defined as surviving birth one way or another.
for the most part.

further, if the anti- side ever gets to this point they will have put themselves in a bind.
when discrete humans with constitutional rights conflict they get resolved.
neither side gets - a priori - a presumptive superiority of all claims that cannot even be questioned.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:48:59am

re: #243 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

“The three-hour movie tells only part of the story of the Manhattan Project, which developed the bomb, and conducted the test code-named Trinity that day in July,” Cordova argues. “It does not explore in any depth the costs of deciding to test the bomb in a place where my family and many others had lived for generations.”

It is the story of Oppenheimer and his fate in relation to the project - and it is already three hours long

A movie about the project and its impact on New Mexico (called Trinity for example) would be an excellent follow-up

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:49:16am

re: #240 wrenchwench

So now it’s a new axle to fit the new hub…then a new wheel for the other side…

i almost went for a new cart.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:49:18am

re: #236 Dr. Matt

Matty is too dense to realize that anti-feminist conservative women get abortions too.

He’s too dense to realize abortions have nothing to do with feminism — they’ve been going on for thousands of years.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:49:52am

re: #221 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

i did that once. it was hard to find anyone willing to pay some attention to lawn tractor tires.

this time i bought a tire already mounted on a rim.

Since lawn tractor tires are usually tubeless the next problem once you have DIY mounted the new tire onto the old rim is:

If you’re 20 miles outside of town how do you seat both sides of the tire bead on the wheel rim for an airtight seal?

1) Pour a *teaspoon or less* of gasoline into the interior of the tire and lay the tire and wheel on its side. If the wheel is mounted the can be done with the wheel and tire in a vertical position.

2) light a match and place it near the opening between the tire bed and wheel.

3) The resulting combustion will seat the beads, and immediately continue to inflate the tire with air pressure.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:51:30am

re: #245 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

further, if the anti- side ever gets to this point they will have put themselves in a bind.
when discrete humans with constitutional rights conflict they get resolved.
neither side gets - a priori - a presumptive superiority of all claims that cannot even be questioned.

Their argument is that the unborn, by virtue of not being born yet, must necessarily have an overriding right to BE born so that they have a chance to assert their other Constitutional rights. That this often comes at the cost of other people’s presumptive “right to life” is never questioned; nor is it even necessarily an accurate statement, as infants aren’t going to advocate for themselves, hence why we have these things called “legal guardians” to advocate on their behalf. Which they could just as easily do for unborn individuals as for already-born ones, thus eliminating the seeming requirement for an overriding right to life.

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Dr. Matt  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:53:04am

re: #248 Hecuba’s daughter

He’s too dense to realize abortions have nothing to do with feminism — they’ve been going on for thousands of years.

Feminism is to blame for everything. If it weren’t for feminism, Ronald Raygun would still be alive, public schools would have daily prayers, every male American would get an AR-15 on their 13th b-day, and pronouns would be banned from the English language.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:53:08am

re: #250 Nerdy Fish

and you have to assume that once a woman is impregnated, her rights no longer take precedent over the embryo/fetus.

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wrenchwench  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:53:38am

re: #245 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

in the US, the issue is when…it ‘becomes’ a single, discrete human life with constitutional rights and protections.

Age 18. Until then, no Constitutional protections. Parents are authoritarians.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:54:55am

re: #251 Dr. Matt

Feminism is to blame for everything. If it weren’t for feminism, Ronald Raygun would still be alive, public schools would have daily prayers, every male American would get an AR-15 on their 13th b-day, and pronouns would be banned from the English language.

Before feminism, my mom took care of all my needs. Now I’m expected to work every weekday to support myself. This is an outrage!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:55:52am

re: #231 Hecuba’s daughter

Another Matt Walsh contribution to our discourse, via FB:

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My response:

Matt Walsh endlessly bullshits about abortion but we know he’d whine about all those kids on welfare.

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Dr. Matt  Jul 31, 2023 • 9:55:59am

File this under: “No Shit Sherlock”

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sagehen  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:00:02am

re: #246 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It is the story of Oppenheimer and his fate in relation to the project - and it is already three hours long

A movie about the project and its impact on New Mexico (called Trinity for example) would be an excellent follow-up

Not NM 1945 so much as Utah and Nevada 1950’s/1960’s…

Downwinders and the Radioactive West (PBS)

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:03:29am

re: #231 Hecuba’s daughter

Another Matt Walsh contribution to our discourse, via FB:

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My response:

60 million MORE people, that’s EXACTLY what our planet needs right now!

//

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wrenchwench  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:04:17am

re: #257 sagehen

Not NM 1946 so much as Utah and Nevada 1950’s/1960’s…

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NM had no warning. People were tasting the ‘snow’ that was falling.
Cattle had burns and bare patches (and then were eaten).

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:05:07am

RIP Pee Wee

ktla.com

He’s gone to the Porn Theater in the sky…

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wrenchwench  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:05:11am

re: #244 Backwoods Sleuth

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Mastodon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:06:11am

re: #257 sagehen

Not NM 1945 so much as Utah and Nevada 1950’s/1960’s…

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John Wayne was likely a victim of those tests, he was there filming Ghenghis Khan out in the desert and likely exposed to radioactive dust that affected numerous other extras and film crew on the set.

He died of lung cancer.

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BigPapa  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:06:19am

re: #252 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and you have to assume that once a woman is impregnated, her rights no longer take precedent over the embryo/fetus.

That’s the point of personhood. To remove a woman’s rights. To control her. Because ‘equal’ rights of a fetus and carrying mother are impossible to achieve.

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Captain Ron  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:07:05am

re: #257 sagehen

Not NM 1946 so much as Utah and Nevada 1950’s/1960’s…

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I had a high school teacher who had been in the army at the time. They were in a trench for the blast and then after it dims they marched toward the test site. They covered their face in their elbow and he said he could see the bones in his arm from the flash.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:07:26am

This guy is my idea of a good neighbor:

mycotropic
@mycotropic@geekdom.social

@pluralistic the enshitification is why I have 3000 physical DVDs in my garage to match the 3000 movies on my Plex server. Also why I have thousands of physical books on my shelves including an advanced uncorrected proof of your first book somehow!

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Thanos  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:08:26am

re: #262 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

John Wayne was likely a victim of those tests, he was there filming Ghenghis Khan out in the desert and likely exposed to radioactive dust that affected numerous other extras and film crew on the set.

He died of lung cancer.

He also smoked several packs of unfiltered camels per day…

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sagehen  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:09:01am

re: #258 Eclectic Cyborg

60 million MORE people, that’s EXACTLY what our planet needs right now!

//

and yet every time we try to discuss immigration, they insist “there’s no more room, we’re full up.”

(p.s., it would be more than 60 million. since more than half of those abortions were in the 1900s, if they’d become born people they’d now be of an age to have produced offspring themselves….)

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wrenchwench  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:09:12am

re: #264 Captain Ron

I had a high school teacher who had been in the army at the time. They were in a trench for the blast and then after it dims they marched toward the test site. They covered their face in their elbow and he said he could see the bones in his arm from the flash.

Mr. w witnessed one from a Navy ship. Lots of sailors did, many times.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:09:20am

re: #263 BigPapa

That’s the point of personhood. To remove a woman’s rights. To control her. Because ‘equal’ rights of a fetus and carrying mother are impossible to achieve.

The religious-fundamentalist interpretation is that once God has Given the Gift of Life to the Fetus it takes precedent over the mother as it is helpless and fully in her care.

But again, that is a view that goes back to the days of goatherding patriarchs and their wives, daughters and livestock.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:11:05am

re: #267 sagehen

and yet every time we try to discuss immigration, they insist “there’s no more room, we’re full up.”

(p.s., it would be more than 60 million. since more than half of those abortions were in the 1900s, if they’d become born people they’d now be of an age to have produced offspring themselves….)

Matt’s pandering to fascists. Facts don’t matter at all to those imbeciles, so consistency is not required.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:12:10am

re: #269 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The religious-fundamentalist interpretation is that once God has Given the Gift of Life to the Fetus it takes precedent over the mother as it is helpless and fully in her care.

They need to keep that within their oppressive sects. People who forget that their religion only applies to voluntary members are a menace.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:12:42am

re: #262 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

John Wayne was likely a victim of those tests, he was there filming Ghenghis Khan out in the desert and likely exposed to radioactive dust that affected numerous other extras and film crew on the set.

He died of lung cancer.

He was also a chain smoker.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:14:28am

heh

Mastodon

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Jay C  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:14:37am

re: #262 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

John Wayne was likely a victim of those tests, he was there filming Ghenghis Khan out in the desert and likely exposed to radioactive dust that affected numerous other extras and film crew on the set.

He died of lung cancer.

The film was actually called “The Conqueror”.
And it was not helpful that Howard Hughes- who had financed the turkey - had truckloads (60 tons) of (radioactively contaminated) soil from the location hauled back to Hollywood so that they could complete filming with consistent backgrounds.
IMDB sez that out of 220 cast and crew, 91 developed cancer, and 46 died of it. Pretty poor odds, there.

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wrenchwench  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:14:50am

The lynx, a fearsome predator. 😍

#FluffTheCurve
Translated from Deutsch using deepl.com

Mastodon

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Dave In Austin  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:15:36am

I’m going to run the clock on this one.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:16:03am

Wingnuts go from claiming that Joe Biden is senile suffering from advanced dementia, to being a world-class criminal mastermind. Please make up your minds, dumbshits.

Mastodon

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:16:27am

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:16:45am

re: #276 Dave In Austin

I’m going to run the clock on this one.

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I’d fix the spelling error.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:17:39am

OK now I have completely screwed up skydeck because I changed my Bluesky password.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:19:30am

re: #279 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

I’d fix the spelling error.

I just worked it in.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:19:39am

Was Lauren the original TBOFH?

Lauren Weinstein
@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org

When I’d let individuals type in what they wanted to say for voice synthesis demos at UCLA for my Touch-Tone UNIX and my related projects, I learned quickly that obscenities would be among the frequent entries. So I tuned the text to phoneme algorithms to handle those especially well. Also the names of the department heads, etc.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:20:39am

Yeah it was a tricksy Wordle but I pulled off the birbie.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 772 3/6

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Jay C  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:21:50am

re: #277 Vicious Babushka

Wingnuts go from claiming that Joe Biden is senile suffering from advanced dementia, to being a world-class criminal mastermind. Please make up your minds, dumbshits.

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“Linchpin” or (more likely) just “Pinhead”?
Where do these RW assclowns dig up all these “whistleblowers”/”informants”?
What’s the likely “revelation”? That this guy was Hunter Biden’s coke dealer, and one day, while using Hunter’s laptop to browse p0rn, he found a file labeled “illegal bribery” full of emails from “Dad”…??

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:21:51am

re: #263 BigPapa

That’s the point of personhood. To remove a woman’s rights. To control her. Because ‘equal’ rights of a fetus and carrying mother are impossible to achieve.

Correct. But competing/conflicting rights is easy (imo)

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BigPapa  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:22:07am

The Big C got Paul Reuben, aka PeeWee Herman. Fought it for 6 years. 70. Thank you for entertaining us and making us laugh.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:23:21am

re: #262 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Agnes Moorhead and Dick Powell were other victims of fallout while they were shooting the movie with John Wayne.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:24:04am

re: #267 sagehen

and yet every time we try to discuss immigration, they insist “there’s no more room, we’re full up.”

(p.s., it would be more than 60 million. since more than half of those abortions were in the 1900s, if they’d become born people they’d now be of an age to have produced offspring themselves….)

We have no idea about the impact on current population because we don’t know whether the women forced to deliver these unwanted pregnancies would have fewer or more total offspring as a result. Their lives would have been very different. Or how many of these women would have died because of illegal abortions. After all, abortion was happening before Roe; it was just not as safe.

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Dr. Matt  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:24:53am

re: #277 Vicious Babushka

Wingnuts go from claiming that Joe Biden is senile suffering from advanced dementia, to being a world-class criminal mastermind. Please make up your minds, dumbshits.

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Charlie Kirk is 29, looks 39, and acts like an angry 79 year old. Just imagine if there was a 29 liberal obsessed with pushing a singular ideology on students…..remind me, what would they be called?

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:30:53am

re: #289 Dr. Matt

Charlie Kirk is 29, looks 39, and acts like an angry 79 year old. Just imagine if there was a 29 liberal obsessed with pushing a singular ideology on students…..remind me, what would they be called?

Antifa.

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Belafon  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:33:17am
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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:34:38am

re: #289 Dr. Matt

Charlie Kirk is 29, looks 39, and acts like an angry 79 year old. Just imagine if there was a 29 liberal obsessed with pushing a singular ideology on students…..remind me, what would they be called?

You’ve encountered the secret truth of Charlie Kirk: if you look at how he’s financed you begin to realize he acts like a stroppy 79 country club dude because that what his patrons want, it’s what they imagine is The Right Way to Do Rhetoric.

Like, the right wing complainosphere is basically OnlyFans, but the it’s figurative boobs, assholes, and pussies rather than literal ones.

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No Malarkey!  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:34:48am

re: #216 Dr. Matt

Ray Epps should be filing law suits against Fox, Tucker, SMOTI, Rogan, etc. But, I don’t feel sorry for him. He’s another FAFO.

Rogan was careful to say he didn’t know, so he’s probably safe from a lawsuit. He was “just asking questions.”

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lawhawk  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:35:57am

re: #257 sagehen

Not NM 1945 so much as Utah and Nevada 1950’s/1960’s…

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Nevada Nuclear Test Site - Upwind of Las Vegas and places like St. George Utah, which saw fallout from multiple nuclear tests. In fact, St. George was one of the most irradiated places in the US from nuclear tests (Dirty Harry) at the Nevada Test Site and Yucca Flat in particular.

One of the tests resulted in fallout that delivered high levels of radiation across much of the US, with particular fallout hard in some areas of the Northeast.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:37:30am

re: #274 Jay C

The film was actually called “The Conqueror”.
And it was not helpful that Howard Hughes- who had financed the turkey - had truckloads (60 tons) of (radioactively contaminated) soil from the location hauled back to Hollywood so that they could complete filming with consistent backgrounds.
IMDB sez that out of 220 cast and crew, 91 developed cancer, and 46 died of it. Pretty poor odds, there.

So the chain-smoking played a role, but I knew that many cast members who did not necessarily smoke also developed cancer

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:38:48am

re: #287 Joe Bacon ✅

Agnes Moorhead and Dick Powell were other victims of fallout while they were shooting the movie with John Wayne.

Not Agnes Moorehead!!!

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Dave In Austin  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:39:25am
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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:39:44am

Fucking up lung tissue is not a zero-sum competition.

If you’re a smoker you’ve fucked up your alveoli and you’ve steeped your lung tissue in carcinogens. If you’re also exposed to radiation…and yeah, there’s a whole history of cancer around nuclear test sites and dump sites…then your risk is vastly compounded because you don’t have a margin of healthy lung tissue to fall back on.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:40:31am

The Alt-Right Playbook: You Can’t Get Snakes from Chicken Eggs

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:41:19am

re: #299 The Ghost of a Flea

We failed science and we’re proud of it!

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Dr. Matt  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:42:34am

re: #293 No Malarkey!

Rogan was careful to say he didn’t know, so he’s probably safe from a lawsuit. He was “just asking questions.”

Glenn Beck “journalism” 101

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:44:05am

re: #289 Dr. Matt

Charlie Kirk is 29, looks 39, and acts like an angry 79 year old. Just imagine if there was a 29 liberal obsessed with pushing a singular ideology on students…..remind me, what would they be called?

I’m not sure, but for some reason I’m thinking of dogs that need their hair trimmed.
I think it’s “trimmer.” Something like that.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:45:00am

re: #287 Joe Bacon ✅

Agnes Moorhead and Dick Powell were other victims of fallout while they were shooting the movie with John Wayne.

Some people say Agnes was a heavy smoker, and others say she didn’t smoke outside of her roles.

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steve_davis  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:45:02am

re: #262 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

John Wayne was likely a victim of those tests, he was there filming Ghenghis Khan out in the desert and likely exposed to radioactive dust that affected numerous other extras and film crew on the set.

He died of lung cancer.

that’s a theory. the other theory is that all the people who died from that film were heavy, heavy smokers.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:45:44am

re: #293 No Malarkey!

Rogan was careful to say he didn’t know, so he’s probably safe from a lawsuit. He was “just asking questions.”

So, in other words, Rogan was just JAQing off as usual.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:49:12am

re: #296 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Not Agnes Moorehead!!!

No, that’s Steve Reeves.

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steve_davis  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:49:49am

re: #274 Jay C

The film was actually called “The Conqueror”.
And it was not helpful that Howard Hughes- who had financed the turkey - had truckloads (60 tons) of (radioactively contaminated) soil from the location hauled back to Hollywood so that they could complete filming with consistent backgrounds.
IMDB sez that out of 220 cast and crew, 91 developed cancer, and 46 died of it. Pretty poor odds, there.

but again, not really that unusual, especially for the time. I mean, fuck, Perry Mason had at least 3 major cast members die from smoking-related shit: William Talman, the guy who played Lt. Tragg, the guy who played Paul Drake (had a stroke, but he wasn’t that old, and chain-smoked his way through a lot of those Perry Mason scenes). Raymond Burr died of kidney cancer, admittedly in his later years. The chances of half the film crew on a 1950’s set all being dead within the next 30 years from something cancer related was pretty damned good.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:53:38am

re: #155 Dave In Austin

OMG! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

That literally made me cackle and snort. Unattractive but funny as hell and worth the embarrassment.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:53:54am

re: #300 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Yeah, I’m actually going to challenge this because no, this isn’t about intelligence, it’s about how people the authoritarian and fascist tendencies choose to define reality regardless of their intelligence.

It’s about a choice to deny scale and complexity—that’s hubris not stupidity—but the most important part is that they view “truth” as emanating from authority, such that complicated ideas are lies because they are produced by The Wrong Kinds of People.

The world is full of kind, open-minded people that don’t have any of the metrics of “intelligence” in their hand.

The world is full of cruel, self-involved people who deliberately choose to view the world as small enough that their judgements and selfish appetites are sufficient to understand everything.

Basically…the idea that these people are stupid, that that’s the explanation, is both auto-fellatio—it’s a hierarchical jab that liberals like, because it’s a meritocratic hierarchy—and just observably wrong.

(In no small part because “intelligence” is a horrible construct that plagues the modern discourse like one of those Goetic demons, constantly trying to turn everything in a measurement that can be used to create ranks)

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Nojay UK  Jul 31, 2023 • 10:56:58am

re: #295 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

So the chain-smoking played a role, but I knew that many cast members who did not smoke also developed cancer

My father died of cancer and he didn’t smoke. His work environment was terrible (deep coal mining, working with toxic materials etc.) but he still made it to 78 which, for someone working-class born back in the early part of the 20th century was a pretty damn good run. My mother also died of cancer but she smoked like a chimney and didn’t make it past 60.

Radioactive contamination from bombs is somehow treated as more dangerous than radioactivity from the regular environment for various reasons. I blame Godzilla movies, myself. As for direct exposure to nuclear weapons blast and fallout, it’s been studied hard and the numbers say meh. Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki stand testament to that today.

There are anecdotes on the other side of the scale: one American study set up a herd of cows in an open corral close to an above-ground nuclear test. I think the cows were penned about a mile or so from the test device when it was set off. They had bags over their heads to protect their eyes but no other protection. The researchers culled and dissected several cows over a period of a few weeks, expecting the cows to die rapidly from the radiation effects from the explosion and breathing in the fallout dust. In the end the last of the cows in the small herd died of old age several years later.

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gocart mozart  Jul 31, 2023 • 11:37:07am

re: #276 Dave In Austin

Just trying to help out.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jul 31, 2023 • 12:36:32pm

re: #291 Belafon

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Saw Paul Reubens in a most unexpected presentation a while back, the documentary Above and Beyond, a documentary about foreign volunteers who served in the new Israeli Air Force in 1948-49. Paul’s father, Milton Rubenfeld, was one such volunteer. Milton was something of an adventurer. He joined the RAF before the US entered World War II and served with 420 Squadron. He changed to the USAAF when the US entered the war and servied with Air Transport Command. He was one of the first five combat pilots in the Israeli Air Force in 1948 and flew the appalling Avia S199 fighter. Later he switched to the much better Spitfire IX. He and his wife Judy appeared as extras in their son Paul’s filmBig Top Pee-wee in 1988. Milton died in 2004. Paul and Judy appeared on camera to talk about him in Above and Beyond.

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danarchy  Jul 31, 2023 • 1:37:54pm

re: #262 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

John Wayne was likely a victim of those tests, he was there filming Ghenghis Khan out in the desert and likely exposed to radioactive dust that affected numerous other extras and film crew on the set.

He died of lung cancer.

While it is true the cast and crew of The Conquerer had higher cancer rates than would be expected, John Wayne himself was a pretty proliffic smoker, so even money wether the dust had anything to do with it in his case.


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