The Hogfather

Mohammad Alsaafin @malsaafin Jake Tapper had this lady on his show last month as an “expert on hate”. with embedded tweet: Stop Antisemitism ( @StopAntisemites ) the organization that listed Ms. Rachel as a top ten nominee for "Antisemite of the Year" is run by Liora Reznichenko, a rabid anti-black racist who publicly used a racial slur to attack Rep. Ilhan Omar. But there's more (screenshot of Stop Antisemites's founder Liora Reznichenko tweeting a slur at Ilhan Omar) https://x.com/malsaafin/status/1997849175506174070

LAST MONTH, after *years* of lies, defamation, hate-mongering, slurs, and fascist activism.

(check the embedded tweet if you're on that site for a long thread of receipts; link is pasted in the alt-text)

the balance hasn't remained constant, but people have long wrongly seen the NYT as a liberal publication that feels the need to bend over backwards for conservatives to fight bias charges, when in fact it's a conservative publication aimed at convincing liberals. they're more open about that now

ffs

Spotify now features Al band clones discussion .. . King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard prominently left Spotify earlier this year. Today this was recommended to me by their release radar: https://open.spotify.com/intl- de/artist/6WFS7oPAEirPXePSayORzn?si=jtf|za1qI- gRyUUBjD-EHA A bad Al ripoff, from aesthetics to band name, copying their songs.

= Spotify® Open App King Lizard Wizard 29,303 monthly listeners Follow Popular Rattlesnake 32,355 The River 5,881 Gamma Knife 4,345 ... ... ..

pals you gotta quit spotify

Wow.

Strikes me as a big escalation in the Trump Admin's ongoing war against the judiciary.

Which is, by the by, being enabled by the Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority.

Love the smell of free market-ism in the morning.

GNU Terry Pratchett

Nothing I regret more in life than opening LinkedIn

Glad to see people talking about Penn Jillette. The 2024 interview was done by me. I found him to be a refreshingly reflective, self-critical individual who has remained curious and willing to evolve.

i no longer wish to see twitter posts with franklin the turtle. it's rage bait and as far as i'm concerned, twitter posts should stay on twitter. it's all garbage and you're gunking up the works

Had the basketball one. Lotta hours lost to that bad boy.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard Mode: No Star Wars, Marvel etc.

HO HO HO

Was fantasising about a brand new internet where I can go read things and it would have no AI or ads or influencers…and realised that is the library

$28 million of cocaine seized off Miami Beach. Three men charged Coast Guard and CBP seized about 3,715 pounds of cocaine worth $28 million from a 65-foot vessel near Government Cut off Miami Beach; three men were arrested.

Whoa … this is really strange.

Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.

🎁 link ⤵️

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Pictured (L-R): Sylvester Stallone, apparently stung by an entire beehive; Paul Stanley, revealing that the KISS makeup was load bearing; and Donald Trump, recently poisoned by the Joker

These supposed "resistance" accounts (not Kevin but the account he's highlighting) and garbage that don't actually give a shit about ICE's abuses but only their clout.

It’s a great tweet because it illustrates how building clout in the right, as far back as 2015, was so much about being racist that this guy made up a racist tradition to farm likes bsky.app/profile/jess...

At some point someone just needs to say “you are an indecent person, you are lying to cover the slaughter of defenseless men, you know you are lying, and even under the tenets of your own professed faith you will certainly burn in hell if you continue down this path”

I really would like to hear a non-nefarious reason why reporters at places like the NYT, WaPo, or NPR can't take 10 second to tell us that the $100 billion we spend on SNAP is 1.3% of the budget or the $6 billion that went to the AIDS program in Africa was 0.9% of the budget. Love to hear a reason.

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

If you value a millionaire more than other people, think about what you’re actually valuing.

In the US, we make sure that our 300 million motor vehicles have proper housing. Sometimes, there's even room for vehicle operators to be co-housed.

If you see this, repost with your positive model of masculinity.

I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.

At the risk of being that guy, Yes? That is his entire personality. There is not a thing you can point to that he has touched that hasn't gotten demonstrably worse.

Ban this garbage product. If it kills cats, it’ll kill kids.

Well, he was until they dropped him off at the train station.

What an interesting coincidence.

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

Is it weird that I think if you shove the goalkeeper as a shot is coming in that’s a foul?