So the mainstream media and rethuglican party are merrily drumming up support to invade Iran, it looks like it’s working, and aside from a few memes on tumblr, I’m not getting a lot of reassurance that there are voices of sense out there. Anybody in the know have some odds, some thoughts for me? How likely are we to fuck up that badly? What are we looking at presently?
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One of our resident brain geniuses put together an excellent takedown of TERFery over at Reprobate Spreadsheet. Sensibly, HJ does not have a comment section. But if anyone wants to holla about how awesome the Reprobate is in my comments, I will high five you presently.
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As predicted, they convened a new grand jury just to toss her back in the clink, along with an unprecedented from of punitive extortion.
Chelsea E. Manning, @xychelsea, May 16:
** Today, Chelsea was not only put back in jail, but Judge Anthony Trenga ordered her to be fined $500 every day she is in custody after 30 days and $1,000 every day she is in custody after 60 days. This is unprecedented.
Linked article: https://www.sparrowmedia.net/2019/05/statement-from-chelsea-mannings-lawyers-regarding-chelsea-being-remanded-into-custody/
Like a champ she was streaming video games the night before the trial. I’d say the dirtbags doing this need a lesson in class, but they get one every time they’re in the room with her. Maybe that’s why they want her out of sight. Anyhow, storm every Bastille, smash the state, yadda yadda.
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You can see a video and transcript of her statement at this link. I hope she manages to evade further instances of this persecution. But if she goes abroad, the US courts can get up to all kinds of horseshit which could lead to her getting even worse treatment if she gets extradited or kidnapped. The whole situation is creepy as hell.
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Content Warning: Apocalypse Despair
Via Alex Wild, entomologist, six years ago:
Alex Wild @Myrmecos
“Being a naturalist in the 21st century is like being an art enthusiast in a world where an art museum burns to the ground every year.”
-12:20 PM – 22 Dec 2013
It’s an appropriately depressing way to phrase the problem. To that I would only say it’s more accurate if every drawing would take hundreds of thousands of years to complete and every painting millions. I see the value that investment of time represents in every species and it creeps me the hell out when I see them being smoked like cigarettes, by the dozens, the hundreds. Entire populations of organisms lost forever, many every single year.
Some people also see that value and the destruction gives them an erection. Some people would pay big money to personally kill the last rhinoceros. The same kind of people who destroy art, who blow up thousand year old statues. What can I even say about people that evil? Nothing. Whatever I say they’d enjoy it, wallow naked in it. I’m done.
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CNN has been caught deep in bald-faced lies about the situation in Venezuela, supporting Trump’s oil lust with very old school yellow journalism. If you work at CNN and have any principles left at all, you should resign. Take a stand against warhawking, or against false journalism, against propaganda, against lies at the very least.
That’s how I’d react in your shoes, but then, I’m pretty naive. Maybe this is more offensive to me than it should be, and capering like little dogs for the Shitbag in Chief is just de rigeur in your industry. How do you feel about it?
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I’d love to keep the tradition of International Down with Cis Day going, but I’m alone in this deal. Or am I? I did see one down with cis meme on my tumblr dash. It’s a variant on this new “what if we kissed” meme. Enjoy.
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Advertisements on Freethought Blogs – we used to have
plenty but now we have none. I used to see them as ugly,
rude, generally an eyesore. That’s to say nothing of the
infections of spyware unleashed by the more dubious
links. I didn’t like them before. But now?
Feeling kind of sad. I miss seeing the clickbait titles.
Obesity panaceas and hot bible prophecies, means for the
old to become young, or at least smooth out their skin.
Losing the ads has been like losing the spice on our blogs –
simply sad. FtB is too boring now. Capitalism save us.
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Just in case anyone’s forgotten, Chelsea Manning is still in jail, and currently in solitary confinement. The legal defense link again. When does the world stop burning? We could use a rest.
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The ads on FtB were so vile I rarely looked at the site without adblockers myself. Now that I know they’re gone, I know I have more control over how my blog looks. What do I do here? I feel frisky. Maybe if I get more free time I’ll gussy up the joint. What would you like to see more of on my blog?
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