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Martini Glambassador's avatar

Fun documentary on a factory production lifecycle using toys as an example. Informative! https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/manufacturing-a-jack-in-the-box

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Mavenmaven's avatar

reminds me of those brilliant Charles and Ray Eames films, like Toccata for Toy Trains and our family favorite, Tops (beloved when our kids were toddlers) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ-VFMymEiE

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Martini Glambassador's avatar

Lovely!

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Menotsure's avatar

They are not called Jill's in the Box for nothing. Amusing doodads are what masculinity is about at it's core.

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Zap's avatar

Amusing doodads is good, but I have a proper name for mine : )

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M'Hael's avatar

So WEIRD how ALL of the engineers, designers, and specialized parts workers were all middle aged white guys. I guess women and minorities just HATED that work and wanted to work production lines in the factory instead, since that's the ONLY place I saw them during the gif.

(It's funny. You'd think I'd be completely inured to that after seeing so many short films on MST3K, but it just never ceases to amaze me how BLATANT it is.)

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Runfastandwin's avatar

A couple years ago we went to Lone Pine California which is a place where a lot of Oaters were filmed. There's a little Motion Picture Museum there. The racism and sexism of the movies themselves and the process of making them is inadvertently palpable throughout.

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Gingerwentworth's Theory's avatar

Lone Pine! I was there for about 3 hours and had 16 memorable experiences. Beginning with the plastic white rearing horse above the door of the coffee shop. And inside the coffee shop which was huge and empty and dark, the coffee girl said to us, "there's snow on the mountain top. the first snow!" It was only about 6 AM.

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Martini Glambassador's avatar

Yeah… probably pretty accurate as to what jobs were held by which people when the doc was made.

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Jens TINGLEFF's avatar

Sadly, gender imbalance continues. I'm in electronics engineering and there does not seem to be many more women electronics engineers today than there were 30 years ago when I studied.

At least, there has been recent press coverage of the woman engineer who was a very significant pioneer in VLSI - i.e. how we make big digital chips, like computers.

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Runfastandwin's avatar

I love it! I watch this show called Inside the Factory, it’s about factories in the UK and Europe. It’s just unreal what robots are doing these days. Factories that employed many hundreds are down to like a dozen. Someday they won’t need anyone!

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Richard S's avatar

Real life is becoming more like The Jetsons every day.

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Zap's avatar

WHAR flying cars?

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Doktor Zoom's avatar

Yet Klaus will still drive the forklift

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ_86lxP36I

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Blanche de Shambles's avatar

HE TRIIIIIED TO KILL ME WITH A FORKLIFT!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=616WIdWwuLM

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Runfastandwin's avatar

The chainsaw is an especially effective plot device!

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Martini Glambassador's avatar

Hell is other coworkers.

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Uncle Betamax's avatar

Fortunately, we live in an enlightened, post-scarcity society that will provide for all those people who were made obsolete...

AHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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Resource NW's avatar

I like the British word "redundant." "You are an unnecesasary extra. Goodbye, you get nothing."

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Shocktreatment's avatar

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘸𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘜𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘏𝘶𝘴𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 will be available to stream for a very reasonable monthly fee...

In advance.

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C&A Bongo Man's avatar

People will work one hour a week and the rest will be for leisure and personal growth. Truly a new age of enlightenment.

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Revenant's avatar

for us and others like us. I shudder to imagine what the RWNJ chuds will fill their leisure hours with; homemade bombs, curating innovative home arsenals, harassing liberal politicians and institutions, flooding school board meetings with shouty knuckleheads.

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Resource NW's avatar

As a yute I worked just enough to keep alive, and spent time in the hills doing shit. I had decided retirement was wasted on the oldz. Now I am retired and ye, I am wasting a lot of time. OK, except for here on wonkette.

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Zap's avatar

Just like computers did!

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Uncle Betamax's avatar

And the Swirly Jennifer!

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Runfastandwin's avatar

Yeah it's going to be a real problem over the next 100 years or so while we figure it all out. If we even can...

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Uncle Betamax's avatar

What will happen- the rich will ignore the consequences, seeing only the fractional increase in their fortunes.

The world will become divided into rich fucks, their dogsbodies and wannabes and the rest of us, eventually becoming a rigid, caste-like system.

Frogs riding warpigeons will destroy a decadent and exhausted humanity, ushering in a new world of really fucking odd internet meme pictures.

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Shocktreatment's avatar

"And the sky was blotted out by the passage of determined frogs astride fierce warpigeons. Such were their numbers that the sun was obscured for the whole day..."

Not with a bang, not with a whimper, outraged amphibians and their allies will do for us

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Uncle Betamax's avatar

Testify!

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Runfastandwin's avatar

Vonnegut wrote a book about that, it's called Player Piano. Very prescient!

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Mark Linimon's avatar

Also see Farmer's SF work "Riders Of The Purple Wage".

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Internet Personae's avatar

Also too Martini, you could make us a GIF where Jack Smith pops out of the box - LOL - I carck myself up -

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Internet Personae's avatar

It’s TABZ in a Box!

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Erin's avatar

I'd rather have that than the other thing SNL famously put in a box

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DDB9000's avatar

Jimmy Fallon? Oh, no - he should've never been let out in public...

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Stroke1's avatar

Teeeeeeeni, you know how I love it when you go steampunk.

/swoons like Gomez Addams when Morticia speaks French/

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Babe Paley's avatar

This was timely, since Fukui was just talking about some old-timey toys he found in Germany!

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Mavenmaven's avatar

There's a toy museum in Vienna that is worth seeing for those who like these types of old toys

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Fog of Jen's avatar

Toys are among my favorite things to find, on historic sites. Make it soooo much more personal.

Found a die cast plane, a cast iron cap gun, marbles, porcelain doll parts and jacks on various sites and I got all giddy

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Revenant's avatar

I haven't seen an actual Jack-In-The-Box since about the time I last saw Lincoln Logs. We (myself and two siblings) had both of these things, as well as a Hula Hoop back in the 1950s.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

Ha my spawn had all of those

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Opal's avatar

Re: Uvalde police. My husband has gone upstairs bc he doesn’t understand why I’m crying and I’m struggling through the tears to not throw things and destroy my house. We live in such a sick f**king world.

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John Duresky's avatar

I don't know what Katrina's chances are in North Dakota, but D-nation pay attention: This is how. to. win. (I mean... IMO).

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WokeGrandma's avatar

Thanks for clarifying. One reason I enjoy Wonkette is that, by and large, the folks who post are respectful of each other.

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Gingerwentworth's Theory's avatar

Want to hear a funny thing about the hair? Everyone I've spoken to so far really likes Gavin Newsom-- esp. from the beginning of covid. Yet everyone seems to be afraid he's 'slick.' But I havn't heard any evidence of it. And I think it's just to do with his excellent hair.

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DDB9000's avatar

I don't know why Wonkette is subjecting us to this 885 songs by women from WXPN when they are NOT done with the list yet. I love songs by women and I likley have well over 8850 songs by women in my music collection.

But one thing I HATE in every form is this countdown bullshit. Not all of us have the time to do this, and it would be the same with movies, books, varieties of M&Ms and anything else being judged this way.

And also to have bullshit sublists like ''First Word'' and ''Last Word'' just show to me that WXPN is not being serious about their music any more. Sad. They used to be great.

Also, while I know where the name''Lilith'' comes from I have never heard it used as a name for a genre, and I assume ''ectofolk'' is a genre of ghosts playing folk (are Odetta and Nancy Griffith counted there now?). Also, are those ectofolk on the cover of a couple of Phoebe Bridgers' records?

Anyway, I suppose I may come back to this in a couple of weeks to see the whole list, but to look at it now is a monumental waste of time.

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Gingerwentworth's Theory's avatar

You're obviously anti-woman.

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DDB9000's avatar

You are obviously anti-reading and anti-comprehension.

Regarding comprehension, the whole point of this was about the methodology that WXPN used in not including the whole list at one time.

Not all of us like to be dragged along that way.

And did you not get that I have musical knowledge and have the thousands of items to prove it?

Maybe what bothered you was when I mentioned ''Lilith'' and not knowing it was being used as a genre now. Of course I know of the Lilith Fair, and while I have not gone to any (I don't like ANY outdoor show), in the first three years of the show people that played there that I have seen include Tracy Bonham*, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Shawn Colvin, Indigo Girls*, Lisa Loeb, Joan Osborne*, Jill Sobule*, Cat Power*, The Bangles (as The Bangs), Metric* (ones asterisked I have met). And I will be seeing Suzanne Vegs in the Spring of 2024.

If I was anti-woman, why would I see and meet all of these artists?

Also I imagine you also got upset about my not actually knowing about ''ectofolk", and while I did look it up I decided to make a joke, partly in bad taste, based of ectoplasm and ghosts. I imagine you might've got the Odetta and Nancy Griffith references, but maybe not the Phoebe Bridgers one (I'll let you look that one up).

Anyway, unless you have them hidden somewhere, I looked at all your Substack comments to see just what kind of music you listen to and... nada.

All politics. That's fine.

But don't bring your clearly flawed poliitics to a music fight. You will not win

You are clearly anti-logic.

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WokeGrandma's avatar

Please chill. And learn to respond to people in a civil manner. Otherwise I might have to conclude that you are a MAGA.

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DDB9000's avatar

Please note the e-mail below. She was teasing me and we have communicated before but I did not realise. I am a fool. I am not anywhere near a MAGA

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Gingerwentworth's Theory's avatar

I was teasing you. We've had long conversations in the past. I could see what you meant exactly.

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DDB9000's avatar

Oh dear - oh yikers. I recognised your anem but I often forget sometimes which people I've talked to more, escpacially post-Disqus. Now I feel bad at my insults to you. I have to also say the I had a teriible couple of days for various reasons.

I have a package (a CD/LP box set) coming feom England through FedEx and I was getting conflicting info about when it would come as I have to be home to sign for it. First it looked liked Monday (coming hoperfully after I got back on the bus from NYC), then Tuesday, then I called and kept talking to people giving me the runaround,

Evenuaally I find the package is at l'Aeroport Charles de Gaulle dans les environs de Paris, France.

At the risk of being longer than «À la recherche du temps perdu» de

Marcel Proust, I will have to condense...

Hours of arguing with people at FedEx

Talking with my friend who talks too much and never listens about it

Investgating it with him

The next morning seeing an e-mail with him saying the package is coming and clicking on the link he sent

Calling to FedEx ro ask them why one place says iis in la Belle France, another saying it has left Tennessee for NY state.

More hours of complaining and no resolve. People telling me that cannot connect to a supervisor cause it is the holiday season (no kidding)

After about two hours it is resolved as it turns out my friend sent me a link to a package of HIS (not mine) that he should be getting today (customer names are nowhere on the pages).

Talked to him later that day - I THINK he could tell I was a bit pissed!

As it is, il est encore dans la (pas si) belle France à 3 heures et demi! Merde!

Meanwhile I was unable to go to a concert last night as I accidentally had not asked my friends at the promoter's office to hold me a ticket and it was long sold out and out of town.

Well, wasn't that a fine whatever one calls that. Sorry again for not realising.

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Gingerwentworth's Theory's avatar

Don't worry. It sounds horrible. Personally, I'm getting less and less adept at understanding things I have to do on my computer and more and more incensed every day. It takes all day to cancel a service you don't believe you ever joined-- have you noticed that? Yet you find you've been shelling out on autopay-- it turns out they've changed their name. Does that mean they can't recognize my password anymore? Yes it does. And I also get bad vibes from France. It's typical that they don't have a word in their language for cozy. (Actually I was told it's "cozy.") GW

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DDB9000's avatar

As I am a semi-Luddite and have no cellphone or stupidphone and just a landline with no answering machine - except me, I have avoided many of the pitfalls that others get. I've never really enrolled in autopay execpt for a monthly subcription to Patreon which allows you to get info, e-mails, and free downloads from various musicians.

Haven't had to cancel any services except that I got close to changing my Medicare ''provider'',

I don't get bad vibes from France, I've enevr been, but Having had 8 years of French I know I could manage, as I have had no problems in French speaking parts of Canada. Asis is, I am told I have a very good Parisian accent by the French-Canadians.

I was curious about 'cozy'' as I did not know that in Frnech. I found...

douillet adj (moelleux, confortable) snug, comfortable adj

(UK) cosy adj

(US) cozy adj

(informal) comfy adj

On est bien dans ce lit douillet....

We're all right in this cosy bed.

douillet adj familier (sensible à la douleur) oversensitive to pain

(informal, pejorative) wimpy, wimpish adj

(informal, pejorative) wimp, weakling n

(UK, informal, pejorative) wuss n

La moindre égratignure le fait pleurer, c'est un enfant très douillet...

The slightest scratch makes him cry; the child is oversensitive to pain.

So douillet sometimes means cozy, sometimes not.

After decades of rolling with the punches, it's easy to get used to things that don't make perfect sense

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MeanQweenKristine's avatar

Go Katrina Christiansen! North Dakota Trumplodytes are driving this wonderful state into the ground, when they aren't busy trying to keep their worthless kids from committing manslaughter. It's time to balance these two-bit theocrats out with a sensible Democrat.

https://apnews.com/article/senator-kevin-cramer-son-deputy-killed-crash-8bc104624d74428eb196a830f4aafbce

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DJ Teetop's avatar

I didn't miss Robyn so much that I don't miss her

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OneYieldRegular's avatar

I was rather delighted to find that when I turned on to WXPN streaming, one of my own choices for the 885 greatest songs by women was playing at the moment: Grace Jones' "Slave to the Rhythm."

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Satanic Pancake's avatar

Huh. The kids just texted, saying their roof is leaking. I wonder if I should answer.

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John Norris's avatar

"The roof is leaking" is code for what?

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Satanic Pancake's avatar

It is code for "the ceiling in the bathroom is blistering and dripping water, what the fuck do we do now, dad?!!1!!!"

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Erin's avatar

Always happy to see XPN getting some love. I've been a member for years and they're the reason I still listen to good old FM radio in my car and at home.

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Babe Paley's avatar

This may be TMI, but yeech--you know how everyone has different body chemistry? I used my husband's weirdo lavender natural deodorant today and when I got in the car I was like, "what IS that?" Turns out that it actually makes...stuff worse. I smelled like raging BO. Like, someone who hasn't been able to bathe in weeks. It was really bad. I could not wait to get home and shower. Thank God I didn't use it on a day when I was headed for a full day of work!

I was actually making myself gag. Good thing I don't really care for lavender.

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Rocket Cat's avatar

Native brand? Their lavender deo reacts with my armpit chemistry, too . Tell him to try rosemary oer mint deos

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Babe Paley's avatar

YES.

It smells nice on him, though--I just can't ever use it ever again!

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Rocket Cat's avatar

I haven’t really studied the ingredients, but I was puzzled by response to Native lavender. It worked wonderfully for a month and then stopped. The best nat deo brand I have found is the German Weleda brand. Pricey, though

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Babe Paley's avatar

I used a Weleda one that I loved, but also--way too much for me. So I just use one that's not natural, but not every day (I use it when it's really hot or if it's a "Big Day" in court).

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RefillingThorsBeer's avatar

oddly enough, I do not use deodorant, as I don't get teh skunkies often, but when something changes my biome, it comes on HARD... symbiotic bacteria is a fickle mistress to be sure.

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Satanic Pancake's avatar

Same here. I found that after a few weeks of no deodorant, I was much less offensively stinky than if I used deodorant. Or maybe it was turning old(er. I'm not fucking old, dammit!) that made me not so eye-wateringly stanky.

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Babe Paley's avatar

I can go without on occasion as well and it's fine. This was so bad, though.

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Trux Mint In Box's avatar

The only problem with these best song lists is that they will throw in some mediocre song into the top ten just because it’s current. It’s worse when they do movies though. They will have a Top ten movies of all time and have stuff like The French Connection and Casablanca and then throw in Oppenheimer at number 6 or something

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Erin's avatar

It's a member-supported non-commercial radio station. The list was complied by regular folks submitting their top 10. I'm one of them! :)

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Trux Mint In Box's avatar

After Tuesday’s arguments, it’s still not exactly clear why the justices took the case — although it is almost certain that Alito and Gorsuch were among the justices who voted to hear the case.

Yeah why would justices take a case like this that involves hugely wealthy people and their tax liability and why would Alito and Gorusch twist themselves into pretzels trying to help this guy avoid his liability even to the point of Gorusch offering a “narrow” interpretation which basically means just for this one guy. That doesn’t reek of corruption at all right?

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Spleen Victoria's avatar

You are so CYNICAL! Everyone has good buddies who treat them to exclusive vacations, fly them places, pay their kid’s tuition and paint photorealistic portraits of them! That’s not suspicious! They believe in ORIGINALISM! Tell you what, if you can find a Bible verse referencing taxe….oh, wait, I have been informed that the Bibble mentions taxes. Uh…if you can find it in the Constitution…uh there’s an amendment for that? Ok, well, if Washington, Jefferson and Madison wanted wealth taxes, then they would surely appear in front of the court as amicus petitioners in spectral form to defend it. And have they, Trux? HAVE THEY?????

See, your argument is invalid, don’t tax my rich budd…I mean, ORIGINALISM!!!1!1!1

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Sister Artemis's avatar

Congratulations, Dr. Jen! I'd be there if I could (though I can't) even though I am not a millenial, because who doesn't need to get their sh*t together?

Also too, I put that Amazon link that helps Wonkette in my bookmark bar, named it "Wonkazon" and hopefully have been helping Trix and the Gang out.

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Linoleum von Curmudgeon, Esq.'s avatar

The tab about the Texas book publisher supporting the first amendment by distributing novels that exalt RWNJ horseshite started me down a rabbit hole on the google machine.

Whew! There's some crazy associated crazy adjacent stuff to be found out there!

All I had to do was go look for it and there it was. There be MONSTERS in that labyrinth my friends!

Fortunately I had kept the mommy blog tab open at the top of the browser where it served as a thread to guide me back out of that twisted morass of fever dream racism and apocalyptic "visioneering" (Disney style 'imagineers' meet Ted Turner).

I have used that thread to return to you with a warning: Don't go down that rabbit hole! Because...HOLY SHIT! My security software nearly melted down warning me 'DO NOT CLICK THIS!' These guys want alllllll the PII.

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