Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@qoto.org

This is truly enraging.

The terrorist who killed 5 people at Club Q boasted during a 2021 bomb threat about his plans to become “the next mass killer.” Knowing this full well, authorities dropped all charges anyway and still let him keep his guns. His records were then sealed to ensure he wouldn't have to face the consequences for his threats to terrorism.

Meanwhile, Tamir Rice played with a toy gun and authorities killed him in 1.7 seconds because they "feared for their lives."

Two Americas.

RIP to our Benjamin. 2014-2022. The universe threw him a crappy dice roll of bad genes that ultimately caused his early demise from illness. He was such a little cathole and we loved his spirit deeply. It’s been a rough couple days, we took him to the vet yesterday evening to help him cross the bridge as it was time. I just need to throw this to the cloud to know he was beloved.

I was blocked by #KirstieAlley on Twitter several years ago and now I finally get to ask why.

House Republicans: The fact that the Biden Organization hasn't also been found guilty of tax fraud shows how biased the system is.

Be sure to catch the end of this clever NASA "climate spiral" video showing monthly global temperature changes between 1880 and 2021
https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/300/video-climate-spiral/ #dataviz #boost #climatechange #climate

"While anecdotally there are people on the platform who claim the number of child exploitation images is down since Musk took over..." My eyebrows are raised when someone talks about how they're personally seeing fewer child pron photos on Twitter, because I've never seen any.

Please stop referring to domestic terrorists, seditionists as "rioters."

Via NBC's Daniel Barnes:

Convicted #January6th rioter and former member of the West Virginia House of Delegates, Derrick Evans, is exploring a run for #Congress. "Right now, my eyes are on Capitol Hill," Evans says in his announcement.

Twitter is NOT the public square.

It literally exists on a server farm owned by Elon.

If he wants, he can literally pull the plug on Twitter.

No one should base their online life on that thing. Or anything owned by Meta, for that matter.

I've said this previously in a reply, but it deserves its own thread 🧵

The Holocaust did not begin with killing; it began with words.

Genocides do not start with mass murder. That's where they end up.

Genocides & other mass atrocity crimes begin with words - specifically, with powerful people dehumanizing a minority.

Once they are seen as less than human, anything is possible, even mass murder.

👉 You can speak out loudly today for the rights of others, or you can stay silent & wait for tomorrow, when your rights will be taken away too.

Musk’s Neuralink faces federal inquiry after killing 1,500 animals in testing - Brain-implant company accused of causing needless suffering and deaths amid pressure from CEOElon Musk’s Neuralink, a medical device company, is under federal investigation for potential animal-welfare violations amid internal staff complaints that its animal testing is being rushed, causing... #theguardian

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/05/neuralink-animal-testing-elon-musk-investigation

HANNITY: If the hecklers are prevented from taunting the players at bat, how can we truly claim the final score is valid

CARLSON: If the Woke Mob can come for baseball, it will come for us all

WATTERS: The commissioner says “NAY Batta-Batta”, but I say “YAY Batta-Batta!”

So it appears that Congress may have decided to include the incredibly dangerous JCPA in the must pass NDAA today. The JCPA is effectively a "link tax" that will force internet companies to pay cash to private equity firms who are buying up newspapers and firing most of the staff.

It's a horrible bill for so many reasons. Even the Copyright Office says it's not useful or needed.

@scottjshapiro I strongly oppose Trump’s suggestion to TERMINATE the Constitution but will vote for him because I'm very afraid of woke liberals.

NYT: We’re here with GOP Congressman Reginald Swinefarmer to ask how he feels about Trump saying the Constitution should be suspended

SWINEFARMER: (chuckles) Oh, you can’t take anything he says too seriously

NYT: So will you support him again

SWINEFARMER: Yes, without question

New social media site. (Cartoon for @newscientist ) #twitter

BTW, there are systematic injustices in American society that should be addressed

Republicans are against being "woke"

But what does "woke" mean?

Ryan Newman, Ron DeSantis’ General Counsel, defined it in court last week.

Woke is "the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them," Newman says.

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