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Woman On Sidewalk Can’t Even Summon Kernel Of Whimsy Required To Skip Along Hopscotch
SEATTLE—Unmoved by the colorful chalk pattern drawn on the sidewalk by neighborhood youth, local woman Abigail Keston could not summon from anywhere inside herself the kernel of whimsy required to skip through the hopscotch grid she was walking past,…The Onion Staff (The Onion)
A couple more shots from Paris.
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I am going to “yes-and” the core thought of this article (via @ianb):
❝Economically depressed young men are aggressively targeted with the oldest, most seductive pitch there is — money for nothing — by bad faith actors with enormous wealth❞
Yes, and also by the pitch of •power• for nothing.
No matter how small of a person they are inside, no matter whose boot they’re under, patriarchy promises every man that they can have power over •someone•, that they are entitled to at least one sphere of their own life in which •they• are the tyrant.
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This is a very good piece on the attraction of the "manosphere" to young men. https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-columnists/arid-41592826.htmlMastodon
Racism makes a very similar promise, thus the famous LBJ quote:
❝If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.❞
Feels like this is a significant aspect to all types of bigotry. No matter how high or low you are in the hierarchy the right wants to enforce, there's always someone you can be offered as a scapegoat to look down on.
This is very clear when you compare the manosphere to, for example, the ways the anti-trans movement tries to appeal to cis women. It's very clearly the same tactics, just with a different coat of paint.
Noise: We are surrounded by an invisible killer. One so common that we barely notice it shortening our lives. It's causing heart attacks, type 2 diabetes, and studies now even link it to dementia..
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Noise: The invisible killer in all our lives
The BBC's James Gallagher investigates the invisible killer all around us.James Gallagher (BBC News)
Big cuts at the Education Department’s civil rights office will affect vulnerable students for years to come
The layoffs further complicate staffing shortages at the Office for Civil Rights, which plays a vital role in promoting a fair education for public school students.The Conversation
Who's the bald-headed jerk and old politician in the photo who sold all of us down the river over Congressional spending?
I'm not talking about Sen. Bernie Sanders, either.
16 March 1932 | A Czech Jewish boy, Petr Löwenbach, was born in Prague.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from the #Theresienstadt ghetto on 18 December 1943. He did not survive.
The Trump administration isn’t stopping with undocumented immigrants.
They aren’t going to stop with •anyone• until there’s no one left — or until we stop them. No matter who we are, you and I and everyone are all in line to be targeted. That’s how fascism works.
#uspol 1/
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He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center.
ICE's deportation actions signal that anyone who isn't a US citizen is 'at risk – period,' immigration attorney says.Lauren Villagran (USA TODAY)
Who knows. And per your original reply, I’m at least as concerned about what she thinks, what happens next for her. The whole thing is just so sad.
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RIGHT?
Of course not.
If it's not good at language inference, what is it FOR?!
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Holy shit this dude just successfully argued that misgendering is a GDPR violation
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EDIT: If you are having trouble accessing evil cyber hacker dot net here is the underlying news article, it concerns an Iranian man seeking asylum in Hungary wearequeeraf.com/a-trans-refug…
wearequeeraf.com/a-trans-refug…That's an... interesting approach to it but I'll absolutely take itA trans refugee's court case against Hungary just improved Trans+ rights across all of Europe
A landmark case at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Thursday set a significant precedence for Trans+ rights across Europe.Jamie Wareham (QueerAF)
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Been a long loop to close, but playing The Bard's Tale on an Apple 2c has somehow prepared me for raising a kid who's getting into online gaming.
That game had _one_ save point, an inn in an alley in the middle of the city, and it didn't matter at all how much adventuring you'd done, if you didn't make it back to that bar at the end of the day you lost all of it. Poof.
So I make sure the kid gets a healthy advance notice before he has to shut it down.
I had completely forgotten about that mechanic! I remember loving that aspect of it.
Now I wonder how many of my favorite modern games I can improve by adopting it voluntarily.
and then there were those games whose save points were volatile because they weren’t provided for do-overs. We had copy the whole disk to have redundancy, which meant having to defeat the copy protection first and enduring such a long process that we typically got lazy and didn’t have enough backup points.
I still have my childhood computer. When I fire it up, I’m oddly sanguine about how much I have to wait for it to finish loading things. It feels almost meditative. It’s a genuine part of the experience and I’m not sure if I want it to load any faster.
Queensborough (59th Street) Bridge, NYC, 2019.
Enough pixels to make everyone feel groovy at flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/48…
59th Street Bridge
28 July 2019. From 58th Street and Sutton Place Park, Manhattan. Officially the "Queensborough Bridge" and, more recently, the "Ed Koch Queensborough Bridge", but immortalized as the 59th Street Bridge by the eponymous Simon and Garfunkel song (AKA …Flickr
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Officially the "Ed Koch Queensborough Bridge" but more generally simply the "59th Street Bridge", the view from Sutton Place at 58th Street on the Manhattan side is probably as flattering and uncluttered a perspective as you'll find for this piece of NYC infrastructure.
Immortalized in song by Simon and Garfunkel, in literature by Fitzgerald, and in cinema by Woody Allen, something about this bridge exemplifies the glamor and bustle of 20th century New York in a way that still holds up.
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"The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.
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Legitimately among the finest American novels ever written. When I read it as a teenager, I found its giddy prose exhilarating, but with every subsequent re-read - as I gained the maturity to appreciate its deeper meanings - it became more horrifying.
Such careless people...
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Took down some of these horrid plastic boxes that the old man had used as nesting boxes.
One actually had a nest inside from some time ago. The others just wet compost. Not that popular I guess.
They seem to be made from electric connection boxes, perhaps they came with all those concrete pylons from the garden?
I'll make some wooden ones instead. I don't want a plastic bird slum. You'll end up with square birds in these!
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Transmitting Wireless Power Over Longer Distances
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Transmitting Wireless Power Over Longer Distances
Everyone loves wireless power these days, almost vindicating [Tesla’s] push for wireless power. One reason why transmitting electricity this way is a terrible idea is the massive losses invol…Hackaday
#weirdnews #weird #offbeat #odd #news vice.com/en/article/people-are…
People Are Seasoning Packing Peanuts—and Eating Them
Hey, so…Not sure if anyone told you, but you’re absolutely not supposed to eat those packing peanuts. So don't do that.Sammi Caramela (VICE)
When algorithms take the field – inside MLB’s robo-umping experiment
Technological advances that lead to fairer, more accurate calls are often seen as triumphs. But new technology doesn’t mean perfect precision – nor does it necessarily create a better fan experience.The Conversation
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I love how the rain mirrors on the street and between the cobble stones. 👌🏻
Great scenery!