Adam Clifford

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IT consultant, clergy spouse, always looking for better ideas.
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How fucking weak is your political party that your favorite punching bag is a 10 year old kid in a dress
@SrRochardBunson ā€œMind your own businessā€ used to be a conservative principle, but they don’t make conservatives like they used to.

This week on Serious Trouble: Mouse on Manboy, my friend Mitch Epner shows up to prove he DOES have better cross-examination ideas than Joe Tacopina, and the hot hot Rule against Perpetuities action you’ve been demanding.

https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/a-detailed-explanation-of-the-rule#details

A Detailed Explanation of the Rule Against Perpetuities

Listen now (47 min) | You asked for it...

Serious Trouble

If you have friends on mastodon.social and mastodon.online who belong to marginalised groups, who need online safety and protection from targeted harassment, perhaps they should be made aware that the instance they're on is not the safest.

The moderation on those two instances has improved in the past few months in terms of dealing with individual account reports, but they're still clearly sorely lacking in the fediblock department.

Disney announces LGBTQ event night at its California resort immediately after DeSantis threats https://www.rawstory.com/disney-announces-lgbtq-event-night-at-its-california-resort-immediately-after-desantis-threats/
Disney announces LGBTQ event night at its California resort immediately after DeSantis threats

The Disneyland resort in California will hold a new LGBTQ-themed event night, according to the company in a tweeted statement on Monday."The first-ever Disneyland After Dark: Pride Nite is coming to @Disneyland during Pride Month in June!" said the statement. "This separately ticketed event celebrat...

Raw Story - Celebrating 19 Years of Independent Journalism

@alfredo_liberal Depends. Have you seen this yet?

How much right wing media (Fox News) dov you think this 80 year old qas consuming?

https://kansascitydefender.com/justice/kansas-city-black-family-demands-justice-white-man-shoots-black-boy-ralph-yarl/

Black Family Demands Justice After White Man Shoots Black Boy Twice for Ringing Doorbell of Wrong Home

Community members are demanding justice after a white man in Kansas City shot a black boy, Ralph Yarl, twice in the head for ringing the doorbell of the wrong home.

Kansas City Defender

Really excellent analysis by @Pwnallthethings of the damage caused by the Pentagon leaks.

Read the whole thing, but two things jump out:

1. Tucker Carlson used the fabricated photoshopped numbers of Ukrainian casualties on the air.

2. "We don’t know yet if Teixeira wanted lots of Ukrainians to die as a result of his leak. But we definitely know he didn’t care if they did"
https://www.pwnallthethings.com/p/pentagon-leaks-whats-the-damage?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Pentagon Leaks: What's the Damage?

Not all the leaks are equally bad, and only by chance we avoided much worse

PwnAllTheThings
Had an Anchor Steam and watched the Taibbi interview, and I have to say it is nice to be so entertained on a Friday afternoon. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/07/mehdi-hasan-dismantles-the-entire-foundation-of-the-twitter-files-as-matt-taibbi-stumbles-to-defend-it/ You can never go wrong when @mmasnick recommends a good comedy show on television.
Mehdi Hasan Dismantles The Entire Foundation Of The Twitter Files As Matt Taibbi Stumbles To Defend It

So here’s the deal. If you think the Twitter Files are still something legit or telling or powerful, watch this 30 minute interview that Mehdi Hasan did with Matt Taibbi (at Taibbi’s own demand): H…

Techdirt
T-Mobile US, a data broker partly owned by Deutsche Telekom and by the German government, now boasts to commercially exploit "billions of data signals" on 50m households, 110m customers and 230m devices about how they use apps, "what they do, where they go, and what they buy".