Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@social.cleverlibre.org

Rees-Mogg, then and now:

@thinking_images @morgfair Mexico may be supplying the fentanyl that contaminates the illegal drug supply ... but it's American drug abusers who are buying it and taking it. You'd think a Republican would respect capitalism and decry drug abuse, not the other way around.

@emmalbriant

Would love to see what happened if Erdogan tried to block Twitter. It'd have blown up in his face and Musk actually would have looked pretty good. Pity he's not bright enough to work that out.

@juddlegum

He should have let Erdogan try to block Twitter in Turkey. It'd have blown up in Erdogan's face and the end result would have been a big win for Twitter and yes, Musk.

But no, here's his oh so principled take:

@elizatech

I've also noticed a weird thing on Mastodon where really similar posts get really popular at the same time. Somebody is copying somebody and there is zero attribution of the person/post the idea came from. I, personally, speaking only for myself, don’t like it.

@christianready @sundogplanets

Wearing several belts was a thing in the 80s. But Fomalhaut is only 25 light years away, so if it was doing it in 1998, it's not a very fashionable system

@sundogplanets

Speaking of which, I do think that the solar system is nice and elegant again post that decision...

Four small rocky worlds, one asteroid belt, four gas giants. How tidy can you get? Tacking a wonky Kuiper Belt object onto the end just threw off the balance, and then you've got to let them all in, bad orbital manners, chilly interstellar ways and all

@sundogplanets I thought it had a trillion or so moons, the size of dust particles up to 10 meters or so.

Shorter NYT for the last 7 years:

"Won't *someone* think of the forgotten white working class gun owning male in flyover country? I mean, besides us and every other media outlet?"

Before Brexit even passed I was wisecracking about the UK kids finally getting flammable pyjamas back...

And now today, Brexit pundits, when asked for examples of what they don't like about retained EU regulation, are actually going on about child car seat requirements and infant formula safety.

Can't say it often enough: there's no parodying these people.

@JamesGleick Yeah, sometimes it seems like entire days went by when the NYT didn't run a pity-party story about the forgotten white working class gun owning male in flyover country.

@Noupside

If you're still at the other place, Sarah Kendzior's had their number all along.

Massive standoff on the back porch last night between the cat and a raccoon. It was like that scene in The Incredibles 2, except Stanley doesn't have laser eyes.

I'd post video but my file server's motherboard failed three days ago so it didn't get recorded.

@Popehat

I just wish everyone had been reading Sarah Kendzior back at the other place. She was never fooled by any of it:

@Sardonicus Not all that far off the Mechanical Turk. https://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2765.htm
Which Amazon actually implemented, in a way: https://www.mturk.com/

@Sundae_Gurl Yep. Bernie Madoff was prosecuted because he stole from rich people. Was he the biggest fish in the banking scandals and financial meltdowns we've had, or the worst? Not remotely. Now go ahead, name another high-profile prosecution from that era. You can't, can you?

@sundogplanets (I'm just grumpy because my wife just had to fight tooth and nails to be allowed to attend virtually a two-day meeting with people flying in from all over the country.)

@sundogplanets Presenting (and attending) virtually is also a good way not to get COVID.

@Sundae_Gurl I haven't been able to find it again, but not too long ago a read a metasurvey -- basically a survey of surveys spanning multiple countries that showed pretty convincingly that around 36-38% of the population, everywhere, will reliably vote for the strongman, the one who does little more than identify an enemy and say he's one of you and he'll fight for you against _them_.