David Rasmussen, aka Rasamoto @Bertrecords@qoto.org

Kudos to all the librarians holding the line against fascism. 👏🏾

NYT:
They Checked Out Pride Books in Protest. It Backfired.

Ms. Peterson … was taken aback when she read an email last month from two neighborhood residents. They informed her that they had checked out nearly all of the books in the Pride display and would not return them unless the library permanently removed what they considered “inappropriate content.”

#LGBTQ #BlackMastodon

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/22/us/pride-books-library-protest.html?unlocked_article_code=PQwurFdsftNUGRxrNq6R8T9PYl7P11oSeIxIJFGy1mVFMjBY10nk7jV0XL6ChE5lQUsVWujPZV8mTJK-tBU_PenW9zpPV4gmZYTFltiPQsxQwMshfeyFczA_hhMZWhMt1-AWuHYT1mHYag_Tr0zItZFQm76fquhgpNwhx3DByPZYPlu17UPkzpxZDkSifDyCcW26Lbt45OFnKY7B96F5xio41j5Xy_wvVccik_3O1AxRgYu877LL6JHUrHWuB62HhHd8sOEMoNge9K5TiC11Yh7owdvfl8meOvb9O-5sN_fZn6daEng6nqfxJUFTNUxu8NJ3uVXj5Eut16v34wjLpQ&smid=url-share

45 years ago today
Can't Stand the Rezillos is the debut studio album by Edinburgh-based punk band the Rezillos, released on this day in 1978.

#punk #punks #punkrock #Rezillos #history #punkrockhistory #otd

@historyofpunkrock This is a really fun album. I learned about The Rezillos from a blog post mention by @rudytheelder several years ago.
I usually describe them as if the B-52s had been a Scottish guitar band.

We had a grifter and fraud as president for four years. This is the kind of thing that happens. What’s crazy is that he’s still at large. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-took-israeli-artifacts-mar-a-lago-1234790136/

No, Covid is not an ordinary illness.
https://nytimes.com/2023/07/17/briefing/covid.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
For *accurate* information, see Katelyn Jetelina's newsletter today
https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/covid-19-catch-up-quick

Where we're at.

Where we're going.

Why it's happening?

Understanding it all -> https://hubris.jimcarroll.com

If an effect of covid on the whole human race is that we lost say 20% of our ability to smell, do colognes and perfumes sell less because they "aren't as good as they used to be," or sell more because the users have to slather on a bigger dose just to smell anything?

Found something remarkable (and also quite sad).

In 1997, Wired published "The Long Boom", a hyper-optimistic article about how we'd achieve Utopia by 2020.

The authors included notes on some "scenario spoilers"—negative events that might send is in a worse direction.

...and those spoilers turned out to be almost spookily accurate.

https://www.wired.com/1997/07/longboom/

#MLB #Baseball #GoHalos #WhiteSox @baseball@a.gup.pe @baseball@chirp.social

Via OptaSTATS @optastats

#ShoheiOhtani of the @angels is the first MLB player to reach base 4+ times, hit 2+ home runs and strike out 10+ batters all in the same game since Jack Stivetts did so for the St. Louis Browns against the Toledo Maumees on June 10, 1890.

I just started a band called 999 Megabytes.

We haven’t done a gig yet.

#DadJokes #Puns #NotMyFault

Behind the Scenes of Justice Alito’s Unprecedented Wall Street Journal Pre-buttal

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The Journal editorial page accused ProPublica of misleading readers in a story that hadn’t yet been published.

#SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #Alito #SamuelAlito #WSJ

https://www.propublica.org/article/behind-scenes-alito-wall-street-journal-prebuttal-editorial?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

I'm in Seattle 9/1 with Mega Ran, Richie Branson, and Shubzilla. The Vera Project is where to be. Tix: https://wl.seetickets.us/event/Mega-RanB-DayBashTheVeraProject/556727?afflky=TheVeraProject

Barack Hussein Obama won as Barack Hussein Obama

Meanwhile…

Nimarata Nikki Randhawa had to run as Nikki Haley

Piyush Jindal had to run as Bobby Jindal

Rafael Edward Cruz had to run as Ted Cruz

Even Ronna Romney had to run as Ronna McDaniel

And don’t get me started on the 11-teen different names of George Santos

Point is, GOP claims that “Dems are obsessed with identity politics” is 100% projection.

BREAKING: Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, has passed away at 92. Rest in Power Daniel, and thank you. 🙏🏿 #BlackMastodon #Mastodon

Why have EIGHT people covering this? It is SERIOUS, yes. Could we have eight people talking about halting or slowing climate change? Or eight people talking about ending poverty? Or ending institutional racism? Or having world peace? Or ending domestic violence? #TrumpArraignment #BlackMastodon #Mastodon

Here is the indictment again. It really makes great reading. Unless you are a Republican official, apparently. https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/trump-indictment-document/967835b8a14a6b03/full.pdf

This is extremely serious. The U.S. corp news media must stop covering this like it’s “The Price Is Right”. When you sensationalize DT & news for 40 years this is what you get. Retire your peanut gallery of pundits. In the 1960s and 70s you’d have the story and maybe one other person to comment on it.

#Mastodon #BlackMastodon #indictment #indicted

This vertically oriented logarithmic map spans nearly 20 orders of magnitude, taking us from planet Earth to the edge of the observable #Universe.

#astronomy #cosmos
https://www.pablocarlosbudassi.com/2021/02/atlas-of-universe-is-linear-version-of_15.html