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Old Man Shadow's avatar

I mean, emptying trash cans is a job that needs doing. Just mandate that "Brad" gets a living wage.

Or make the government the employer of last resort, so he gets a job filling pot holes (for a living wage and benefits) or helping build a new road or helping renovate older state buildings or helping seniors keep up yards or replace them with low maintenance lawn fixtures.

That would mean that every adult between 18-60 would have a job and we could leave welfare for kids, folks incapable of work, and the elderly. That's what conservatives want, right? Couldn't possibly object to having folks do work in the community or state that's needed, right?

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

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I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

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Hahahahahaha....oh, you're serious.

𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐠𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐄𝐥𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐔𝐒 𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐞

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/pete-hegseth-appoints-elon-musk-211819332.html

Please, FFS....

Ukraine is the future of armed warfare and the US is no longer safe from invasion when a bunch of guys in a basement 5,000 miles away can turn off our power and water with some keystrokes.

End report.

Where's my check?

42tontom's avatar

I guess I missed whatever the Idiot’s big announcement was the other day.

Rosy red ASS's avatar

Good afternoon. Thought I would check in to see if he's dead yet. Unfortunately he is NOT. How the hell is everyone?

Bobathonic's avatar

Just got back home with Thai food - Panang Chicken, Thai hot, and a Thai iced tea.

Mavenmaven's avatar

well, they probably wouldn't tell us if he was...

Bagels of Doom's avatar

I swear, my brain is broken. In the wake of the Eric Schmitt shitting the bed on national TeeVee-debacle, whenever I hear them say "Iowa Hawkeyes", I hear "Iowa hot guys", and my brain goes immediately to an old Slipknot concert clip.

Jeff, still got my guitar's avatar

Slipknot is playing all the arenas around here, I'm barraged by ads on the stations. I guess they're doing well, never listened to them much, not my thing.

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2mEdited

They're good. I'm a bit disappointed in their current lineup adding Marilyn Manson to at least some dates on their tour, though. Edit: Not just because he's a terrible person, which he is, but also because when I saw him over a decade ago before knowing all that he put on one of the laziest, saddest shows I've ever seen, so I can't picture him being any better now.

Goin Green's avatar

Yep, it's broken...

Did you get the extended warranty?

Pauly2coffees's avatar

What about the undercoating?

Bagels of Doom's avatar

Should have gotten the warranty instead.

eppe's avatar
5mEdited

Yeah. It's broken. I'll be sure to keep my distance for a while.

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Hi, y'all. I thought I'd pop in for a bit. Details available upon request, but the TL;DR version is: I'm not working at the warehouse anymore--and I'm finally back on my meds (as of a few days ago), courtesy of state Medicaid. I'm also on unemployment, so I'm not in a particularly bad situation right now.

I've needed a near-total break from all US political news (the exception: Belle of the Ranch) for months, so I'm not up to speed on who's out or what's up or anything like that. I'm still working out how much energy I'll even have for catching back up on things. What I'm saying is: I'll probably pop in and out on here, depending on how much energy I have and how much else I have going on.

Crystalclear12's avatar

Well, at least we know where you are.

EyeQueue's avatar

Take care of yourself. It's good to turn off the shitshow completely when you need to.

MRK's avatar

Check out Sunday mornings here, if you haven't already. ziggy has started doing a nice times article.

Up Here in the Clouds's avatar

Welcome back!!!!!

Pop in, relax when you can, doors always open, there's food and drinks in the fridge, feel free to help yourself.

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OT here is part three of the video about the woman that an ACAB planted cocaine on to send her to prison-

https://youtu.be/aX37POVeAbM?is=7SWoB8VML1cBhS9h

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AI white supremacy, it had to happen. I've long argued that the language itself is prejudiced. Anything evil is dark against the forces of light.

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AH YES! THE "STICK!" WOULD'VE BEEN A WHOLE DIFFERENT DEAL AFTER THE CRASH.

“Having never flown a plane, he took the stick, lifted it up and leveled out the plane before it crashed,” Trump said.

tek's avatar

That made perfect sense. To him.

SkeptiKC's avatar

Hell, if you've seen one of the "Airplane" movies from way back when you have a clue regarding use of the altimeter.

Hank Napkin's avatar

It’s all coming together: this guy is a plumber — with a silent “B” — and probably named Mario!

tek's avatar

Nice. This is part of why I support them.

𝐀𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐍𝐇𝐃® 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔-𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟕 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.

𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝐻𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝐷𝑎𝑦® (𝑁𝐻𝐷) 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑝 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑠 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑒. 𝑆𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑁𝐻𝐷 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑐 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑡. 𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 50 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠, 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑠, 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑓𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑠, 𝑏𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑥𝑡, 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑢𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒. 𝐴𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑐 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑁𝐻𝐷.

𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑦, 𝑁𝐻𝐷 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝐴𝐼 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑐 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑠. 𝐻𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟, 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑝𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑠, 𝑁𝐻𝐷 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒.

𝑆𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝐴𝐼 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ, 𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑦𝑠𝑖𝑠, 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛, 𝑜𝑟 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑠. 𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑜𝑤𝑛.

CzechJournalists's avatar

can still use it to make bibliography page? that was always a greater hell for me than doing the research and writing the actual paper.

Napoleon's avatar

Only thing I can see Ai being actually helpful with there is as advanced ocr for old primary documents. I've tried reading deeds from the 19th century and it was basically impossible.

MRK's avatar

Because they've stolen so much data, it can be helpful in ensuring a literature review is truly exhaustive. Doing anything else with it is a bad idea for several reasons, and I can see them choosing to just ban it outright rather than trying to determine if people crossed a line or not.

Napoleon's avatar

Yeah, anything but a blanket ban is way now work than they can afford. Can't imagine they ain't tightening the belt.

Napoleon's avatar

Maybe also filtering massive data sets such as historic weather records to check against other occurrences.

Napoleon's avatar

That's kinda outside of the scope of a high school program though.

Mavenmaven's avatar

"outraged that the ad did not instead show a Black woman named “Shaniqua.”"

That was not just some garden variety incel, that line was from Matt Walsh!!!

Anna-Elizabeth's avatar

~sigh~ There is some kind of plumbing leak. So maintenance unlocked my door before announcing themselves and were embarrassed because I wasn't dressed and miffed that my personal items had to be moved to check the bathroom.

Russell Jones's avatar

Jesus. Anyone who gets "miffed" after unlocking a door without so much as knocking needs a Jean Claude Van Damme 360-degree spin kick to the fucking face.

Anna-Elizabeth's avatar

They brought the female manager this time when they came back,

M-X's avatar

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Erisian's avatar

In the name of the bigoted Jeebus, Amen:

> "Every Sunday morning on the Wind River Reservation, congregants gather at Foundations for Nations Church to pray while protesters outside do the same.

The two rituals have unfolded in parallel since the Christian church’s pastor, Sarah Lucas, preached a sermon condemning Arapaho ceremonial ways.

[...]

“Jesus is the chain breaker. He is the only God that we should be praying to,” Lucas said.

[...]

“The Bible makes it very clear to only worship one God,” Lucas said." https://apnews.com/article/arapaho-christian-god-nations-ceremony-wind-river-1fbc7065317d503ca7c72fa1cba2ef96

* The good pastor has called the Arapaho idol worshipers, but is oblivious to the small deet that so are Christians. How many churches do you think there are without at least one sculpture of the Christ on a cross, most often in a location that worshipers face that sculpture during services.

* Lucas states, categorically, that Jesus is G-d. Unfortunately for her, her Bible says that Jesus is the Son of G-d, not G-d directly. (Fuck the Trinity, see below.)

* She believes in the Trinity which conflates the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit into one being. In effect Lucas (and the other Christians) claim, without realizing it, that their god suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder: to paraphrase an old Doublemint gum ad: three... three... three gods in one.)

* Which one god does she think should be worshipped? YHWH? The Christian G-d? Allah? Krishna? The Trimurti (the Hindu Trinity: Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva)? The Flying Spaghetti Monster? Anton Szander LaVey's Satan?

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"In the July 13 episode of the "Christian Nationalist Weekly" podcast, Webbon made an explicit connection between nativism, racism, antisemitism, and opposition to feminism as he stoked the grievance of his white Christian American male audience. He told them that feminism—and what he called a “monstrous regiment of women”—is partly to blame for their being enslaved and exploited by the rest of the world." https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/monstrous-misogyny-theobros

Cuz nothing says one follows the teachings of the Christ as much as being nativist, racist, antisemitic, misogynistic assholes. (I was kinda surprised that there was no mention of THE evil in today's world: Transgenderism!)

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"The leaders of the center, which houses a mosque and food pantry and is situated in an underserved, majority-Black neighborhood in west Cincinnati, and local Muslim community members have called the incident a hate crime.

It’s the third time the center has been broken into in the past seven years" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/22/ohio-mosque-attack-fbi-trump

--and--

"Anti-Muslim bigotry by ***Republican Party elected officials*** across the United States has

surged dramatically since early 2025. In more than 1,100 posts on their official social

media accounts, Republican members of Congress and governors have promoted

conspiracy theories about Muslim Americans, called for the deportation and denaturalization

of Muslims, promoted negative portrayals of Islam, described U.S. cities with significant

Muslim populations as “conquered” or “invaded”, weaponized domestic terror attacks to vilify

Islam and Muslims even when no Muslim had anything to do with them, used dehumanizing

language, and invoked claims of a supposed Muslim takeover of the United Kingdom and

Europe to whip up anti-Muslim hysteria and fearmongering at home. [emphasis added] https://www.csohate.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Manufacturing-the-Muslim-Threat.pdf

* What kind of person would break into a religious building multiple times? A rhetorical question.

* Anyone care to bet on how many of these RINOs consider themselves G-d fearing "Christians?" The percent of RINO Congresscritters who identify as Christian or "Christian" is just short of 100%. ("Christians" as a group consist of, but not limited to, American Evangelicals like MAGA Mike Johnson, Christian nationalists, and the SBC.)

fnord

Aquaman, Real Estate Investor.'s avatar

On graven images.

That's one of the fundamental breaking points of Protestants vs Catholics.

I must stay true to my upbringing.

Christians don't worship idols.

The false Christians who call themselves Orthodox, or Catholic, or Mormon* worship Idols!

(And don't get me started on those 1864 Baptists)

*They have a giant freaking statue of Jesus that *talks*.

Sadly without its lips moving. But if they modified it to speak like a South Park Canadian I might consider converting.

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

'described U.S. cities with significant Muslim populations as “conquered” or “invaded”'

Or Jewish populations. Or gay populations. Or Hindu populations. Or Irish populations. Or queer populations. Or Italian populations.

Insert marginalized group here.

BillEGoatSmile's avatar

Was in the work cave this afternoon and I've been trying to catch up on the newses since I got home.

It did another stupid presser today?

Mr. Goat said he heard that whatever thing dumbass signed has the United States spelled incorrectly?

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

· 43m

Trump: "Super intelligence -- we've changed the name officially, by the way. I signed the document. We don't call it artificial intelligence. Because it's not artificial. It's real. It's a terrible world. It's amazing it loved on so long, actually."

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mwrbjl55y52g

Reposted by Aaron Rupar

Kevin M. Kruse

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

· 1h

He's so far gone he can't even maintain consciousness as his little toadies blow him

https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3mwraco5erc2b

MRK's avatar

One of the things I need to hear from Democrats running for president, when it matters (so, next year), is "No, the president doesn't get to just re-name things or change the meaning of words when they choose." It's not the most important thing, but it matters.

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Here's some nice times ... https://bsky.app/profile/teamtalaricohq.bsky.social/post/3mwr55phsei2e

James Talarico walks out to a standing ovation from 50,000 Texans at the State Fair Classic.