Godzilla Died for Your Sins

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That warm and fuzzy feeling when you find out Ea-Nasir has his own subreddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ReallyShittyCopper/

ReallyShittyCopper • r/ReallyShittyCopper

A sub dedicated to making fun of Ea-Nasir, a Sumerian merchant circa 1750 BC, who sold exceptionally shitty copper.

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Apple Thinks Mastodon Has Legs

Apple’s Messages Apps Adding Rich Previews for Mastodon Posts

"In with the OS betas, there’s a new feature coming in the next round of Apple’s OS updates that reads like a vote of confidence for Mastodon. A piece from iDownloadBlog says the upcoming update will see the Messages app bring “native embeds for Mastodon posts that come with more details than standard URL previews.”

"For folks who don’t know, the piece says Mastodon is “a federated social media service…” Think of it as a social media idea that sort of ends up like a social media platform, running on individually controlled servers, beholden to no one corporate owner or shareholders. It’s been around for a few years, though it was little more than a nerd retreat before Elon Musk took over Twitter. Once that happened, people looking for somewhere to go that wasn’t Twitter found #Mastodon. And #Apple seems to think it has legs."
#TechNews #AppleMastodon

https://www.macobserver.com/columns-opinions/observation-deck/apple-mastodon-tmobile-soccer-streaming/

If you don't see the danger of the USA "conservatives" then you are blind in your right eye and deaf in your right ear.

https://www.axios.com/2023/02/23/mass-killings-extremism-adl-report-2022

All U.S. extremist mass killings in 2022 linked to far right, report says

"It is not an exaggeration to say that we live in an age of extremist mass killings," the report notes.

Axios

If anyone is wondering why we Wisconsinites are so worked up about our supreme court election:

"How rigged are Wisconsin’s maps? So rigged that the Harvard’s Electoral Integrity Project, which quantifies the health of electoral systems in America and worldwide, rated the state’s electoral boundaries as a three on a scale of one to 100 [...] lower than any nation graded by the EIP has ever scored on this measure."

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/wisconsin-legislature-jacob-blake-shooting-kenosha-gerrymander-gun-violence-1053561/

Wisconsin GOP Ends Special Session on Police Reform After 30 Seconds

It’s the latest case of malfeasance from lawmakers who’ve rigged the system to make themselves immune from the will of the voters

Rolling Stone

Eastman used data from the policy brief to claim that the death of an abused child could be “cost savings” for the government.

“It can be argued, periodically, that it’s actually a cost savings because that child is not going to need any of those government services that they might otherwise be entitled to receive and need based on growing up in this type of environment,” he said.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/oath-keeper-turned-alaska-rep-asks-if-there-are-economic-benefits-to-the-deaths-of-abused-children

Oath Keeper Alaska Rep Asks If There Are Economic Benefits To The Deaths Of Abused Children

Alaska State Rep. David Eastman (R), an Oath Keeper who attended the Stop the Steal rally on Jan. 6, sparked outrage on Monday when he asked whether there could be economic benefits to the deaths of…

TPM – Talking Points Memo
Have to hand it to the weather nerds. A degree up, rain. A degree down, snow. They called a very precise thing correctly.

Fully aware that archaeologists and historians love to de-queer history. "Oh these two women lived together and were buried together and they wrote scrolls of love poetry to each other but I'm sure they were just good friends." That sort of thing.

I did NOT realize this prudishness was universal. Exemplum gratum:

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.

Just a reminder that using "the children" and their need for "protection" has been the basis of every horrific moral panic targeting a marginalized group.