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Local news is dying. Please support it by visiting your local news site, where we’ve syndicated the same AP/Reuters story as everyone else, now with additional typos, auto playing video, and an ad between every paragraph for a sketchy-looking weight loss supplement.

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Local news is dying. Please support it by visiting your local news site, where we’ve syndicated the same AP/Reuters story as everyone else, now with additional typos, auto playing video, and an ad between every paragraph for a sketchy-looking weight loss supplement.

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Over four years since California voters approved permanent DST, and it still hasn’t happened. The state senate just refuses to do it. It sure seems like Democrats don’t care about democracy any more than Republicans do.

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Over four years since California voters approved permanent DST, and it still hasn’t happened. The state senate just refuses to do it. It sure seems like Democrats don’t care about democracy any more than Republicans do.

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Remember when Trump was President and Democrats rightfully criticized him for not taking Covid seriously, and then they got elected and were like “haha suckers” and changed their map from red to green and stuck their proverbial fingers in their ears while singing “lalala the pandemic is over” at the top of their lungs while record numbers of people died?

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Remember when Trump was President and Democrats rightfully criticized him for not taking Covid seriously, and then they got elected and were like “haha suckers” and changed their map from red to green and stuck their proverbial fingers in their ears while singing “lalala the pandemic is over” at the top of their lungs while record numbers of people died?

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transphobia, genocide, post directed at cis people

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@Fawn@ohai.social

There was a guy on my Facebook years ago saying that “illegal aliens” shouldn’t get trials. I asked him, “What if they arrested and deported you?” He said, “They can’t do that. I’m a citizen.” I said “How would you prove that without a trial?” And he said “That would never happen to me.”

That’s the thing these dipshit reactionaries never understand about civil rights. Either everyone has them or no one has them.

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@Fawn@ohai.social

There was a guy on my Facebook years ago saying that “illegal aliens” shouldn’t get trials. I asked him, “What if they arrested and deported you?” He said, “They can’t do that. I’m a citizen.” I said “How would you prove that without a trial?” And he said “That would never happen to me.”

That’s the thing these dipshit reactionaries never understand about civil rights. Either everyone has them or no one has them.

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Us: “Oh no, they’re dropping atomic bombs on us!”

Mainstream media pundits: “Well, ackshully, those aren’t ‘atomic bombs’. They’re ‘thermonuclear’ or ‘hydrogen’ bombs, as they derive part of their energy from fusion…”

Us: “That’s not what’s important. We’re all going to die imminently!”

Pundits: “You’re overreacting. Some of us will survive the initial blast, and only die later from radiation poisoning.”

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Us: “Oh no, they’re dropping atomic bombs on us!”

Mainstream media pundits: “Well, ackshully, those aren’t ‘atomic bombs’. They’re ‘thermonuclear’ or ‘hydrogen’ bombs, as they derive part of their energy from fusion…”

Us: “That’s not what’s important. We’re all going to die imminently!”

Pundits: “You’re overreacting. Some of us will survive the initial blast, and only die later from radiation poisoning.”

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@Meyerweb These conservatives are so dramatic. 🙄 Reminds me of:

“My family and my name have been totally and permanently destroyed” -Brett Kavanaugh, right before being granted a lifetime position on the highest court in the country.

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@Meyerweb These conservatives are so dramatic. 🙄 Reminds me of:

“My family and my name have been totally and permanently destroyed” -Brett Kavanaugh, right before being granted a lifetime position on the highest court in the country.

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@VooduDrew No, I don’t read or link to transphobic trash like the NYT.

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@VooduDrew No, I don’t read or link to transphobic trash like the NYT.

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@rticks @gotofritz@fosstodon.org

Thing is, we’re all more qualified than the clueless old farts who write Opinion pieces for the NYT.

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@rticks @gotofritz@fosstodon.org

Thing is, we’re all more qualified than the clueless old farts who write Opinion pieces for the NYT.

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Did the NYT really publish an Opinion speculating that young girls today are more depressed than ever because of _phones_?

In a world where they lost the right to control their own reproductive healthcare? Where states are pondering making them report their periods? In a world debating genital inspections to play school sports? While banning books? Where they practice school shooting drills? With climate change? Where sexual assault isn’t disqualifying for public office?

Sure, it’s the phones.

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Did the NYT really publish an Opinion speculating that young girls today are more depressed than ever because of _phones_?

In a world where they lost the right to control their own reproductive healthcare? Where states are pondering making them report their periods? In a world debating genital inspections to play school sports? While banning books? Where they practice school shooting drills? With climate change? Where sexual assault isn’t disqualifying for public office?

Sure, it’s the phones.

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It’s only “AI” if it comes from the Bullshit region of the Tech Industry. Otherwise, it’s just sparkling statistics.

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It’s only “AI” if it comes from the Bullshit region of the Tech Industry. Otherwise, it’s just sparkling statistics.

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Part of the reason the NYT thinks they did nothing is wrong is that they were very polite in their articles. To a certain kind of center-right liberal elite, politeness is all that matters. They think it’s okay to advocate for genocide if you say it in a nice way.

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Part of the reason the NYT thinks they did nothing is wrong is that they were very polite in their articles. To a certain kind of center-right liberal elite, politeness is all that matters. They think it’s okay to advocate for genocide if you say it in a nice way.

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@Noupside That tweet reminds me of

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@Noupside That tweet reminds me of

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the Onion

Commentary

This War Will
Destabilize The
Entire Mideast
Region And Set Off
A Global Shockwave
Of Anti-
Americanism vs. No
It Won't

Published March 26, 2003

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Buddy, if AI passes your hiring interview process, that says more about your hiring interview process than it does about AI.

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Buddy, if AI passes your hiring interview process, that says more about your hiring interview process than it does about AI.

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Ranking social networks from least to most unhinged:
7. Mastodon
6. Reddit
5. Tumblr
4. Facebook
3. Twitter
2. LinkedIn
1. NextDoor

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Ranking social networks from least to most unhinged:
7. Mastodon
6. Reddit
5. Tumblr
4. Facebook
3. Twitter
2. LinkedIn
1. NextDoor

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Every MLK Day I think about how 90% of the people praising him would absolutely hate him if he were still alive today.

He was a radical. He fought for social justice. He was pro-union. He hated economic inequality. He was no fan of centrists and moderates. It’s all there in his writing, clear as day, but they don’t read those parts.

It’s easy to praise someone who’s dead. He’s no longer a threat to the status quo.

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Every MLK Day I think about how 90% of the people praising him would absolutely hate him if he were still alive today.

He was a radical. He fought for social justice. He was pro-union. He hated economic inequality. He was no fan of centrists and moderates. It’s all there in his writing, clear as day, but they don’t read those parts.

It’s easy to praise someone who’s dead. He’s no longer a threat to the status quo.

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@michaelgemar @annaleen I have a couple of invites to the closed beta if you want one. You just gotta find a way to upload some of your blood for the signup process.

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@michaelgemar @annaleen I have a couple of invites to the closed beta if you want one. You just gotta find a way to upload some of your blood for the signup process.

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Oh lord, having a viral toot is just as bad as having a viral tweet. Remind me never to say anything interesting again.

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Oh lord, having a viral toot is just as bad as having a viral tweet. Remind me never to say anything interesting again.

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I keep seeing that “first they came for the journalists” sign, and it pisses me off so much, because when they came for muslims, immigrants, and trans people, mainstream journalists normalized it and reported it as “both sides”. Somehow it didn’t count for them until it was happening to them personally, which is *exactly* what the fucking poem was warning against in the first place.

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I keep seeing that “first they came for the journalists” sign, and it pisses me off so much, because when they came for muslims, immigrants, and trans people, mainstream journalists normalized it and reported it as “both sides”. Somehow it didn’t count for them until it was happening to them personally, which is *exactly* what the fucking poem was warning against in the first place.

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I guess I should do an #introduction even if only to get my own thoughts in order.

I’ve been a software engineer in Silicon Valley for about 20 years, but please don’t hold that against me. I like to talk tech. I don’t like to talk about the industry.

I’m pseudonymous because being the same person all the time is boring. I have always used they/them online because the way you interact with me shouldn’t depend on my gender.

I have zero tolerance for fascists, racists, xenophobes, terfs, etc.

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I guess I should do an #introduction even if only to get my own thoughts in order.

I’ve been a software engineer in Silicon Valley for about 20 years, but please don’t hold that against me. I like to talk tech. I don’t like to talk about the industry.

I’m pseudonymous because being the same person all the time is boring. I have always used they/them online because the way you interact with me shouldn’t depend on my gender.

I have zero tolerance for fascists, racists, xenophobes, terfs, etc.

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compilers these days are always like "you never read from this variable, you fool, you miscreant"

and I'm just like buddy, I'm 42 years old. I can make an unused variable. you're not my supervisor

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compilers these days are always like "you never read from this variable, you fool, you miscreant"

and I'm just like buddy, I'm 42 years old. I can make an unused variable. you're not my supervisor