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I've been saying for years that 2nd Amendment absolutists really do believe that the sacrifice of innocents is necessary to keep the world from collapsing; this was also the view of the ancient Aztecs and Carthaginians, both of whom practiced ritual human sacrifice.

[citation needed]

There are no atheists at Dolly Parton's bedside

Winner-take-all elections *always* decay into a two party system, where one is rewarded by being either indistinguishable or extreme. And, of course, gerrymandering.

☝🏻Follows almost nobody, almost no followers, but a thousand posts of Trump/Putin fecal matter?

Obvious troll farm.

SLED Investigating Alleged Arson Incident At S.C. Judge's Home - FITSNews Palmetto State circuit court judge Dianne Goodstein had been receiving death threats, sources say...

Agreed. Better source, lots of details:

SLED Investigating Alleged Arson Incident At S.C. Judge's Home - FITSNews share.google/bEONixRshqdT...

Thank you for the tip!

aaaand that's enough Internet for me tonight

Thank you for liveskeeting this!

I'm sitting here reading every post to an L&T lawyer who's cheering you on. (She's not on bsky, also she's 81.)

Biometrics specialist here: no, this is not real.

The regime may *think* it's real, may even have bought some product, but if so they're delusional or they've been scammed. Maybe both.

I've heard they are *always* at the super bowl, this year is not special but is being played up for propaganda

An anthropologist once said to me that Big Bird will certainly be assumed some sort of minor deity.

Major backlash to Michigan VPN ban bill as thousands call on lawmakers to defend VPNs Users sound off as online ID checks and social media bans lead lawmakers to consider bans on crucial Internet safety, privacy, and anti-censorship tech. As part of today’s VPN Day of Action, a kickoff...

Major backlash to Michigan VPN ban bill as thousands call on lawmakers to defend VPNs share.google/lyBoAeAD51O7...

I don't know the local laws—what are his choices?

This is from MSNBC, which doesn't usually invent stuff for lolz

They get fired?

Thank you for the "quick start" guide!

Could you give an idea of how to approach Discworld if we can't read them all?

I use them as literal comic relief while I work my way through Dickens, Gaskell, Eliot, Trollope, & the other Eminent Victorians.

I've read The Color of Magic; The Hogfather; and Mort. Liked them all. Where to go next?

Perfect. Alas.

Yes, alas, and they weren't all bots and trolls, either.

But this is a tiny corner of the mediascape, the rightists were the ones who made it Big News.

Caligula would have made him a Senator (of course of course)

Thank you! The very first thought I had on seeing the headline was "What? So fast?"

Analysis has shown that a small number of cops get a majority of the complaints; this will make it easier to get rid of the bad apples.

Interesting - how do you use genAI to help? Are there bots that do OCR or transcription?

EXCLUSIVE: NARA Ousts Eisenhower Library Director Over Proposed Trump Gift to King Charles The director, a historian and Army veteran, declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a priceless artifact from the library's permanent collection

BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles

lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

Don't forget Project Gutenberg—those two are the only reminding sites that don't push "AI" at you.

But it *was* pretty bad for a long time. Lots of edit wars, lots of editors staking out fiefdoms. It's much better now (even though anything gender-related is always on the brink of conflagration).

Pritzker calls for Trump's removal from office under 25th Amendment Gov. JB Pritzker for the first time is calling for President Donald Trump to be removed from office under the 25th Amendment, after the president said cities like Chicago should be used as “training g...

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/vide...

"Essential workers" are obliged to work even if there's no money to pay them.

Several officers have already spoken frankly to The Intercept about this.

Ensuring that top brass are loyalists is how a dictator prevents a military coup; but alienating the entire officer corps does the reverse.

The entire argument is weirdly disingenuous. I agree with the Dems' choice, but both parties had agency here.

The video is in support of the Dems' talking point (how the party decided to sell their principled stand), not their true goal (stopping the juggernaut).