Month: 8 Av 5783 (July 2023)

Remember when all the meddling used to be done by kids, who rode around in a van?

—@TootOfBob

Bibi Netanyahu, who I do not support, is right to turn Israel into a religious autocracy, which I also do not support, if that’s what it takes to expose the shitlibs as drone-loving hypocrites.

by Glenn Greenwald

—@dougjballoon

Today my four-year-old was reading a Florida high-school history book when he turned to me gravely and asked “Daddy, why didn’t the liberals want the slaves to learn to be blacksmiths?” And when I told him “Because they are infected with the woke mind virus,” he started crying.

—@dougjballoon

OMG, this Zombie Apocalypse is worse than I thought..
wait, the coffee is kicking in now, we’re fine.

—@dabertime

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 is a W3C Proposed Recommendation. WCAG explains how to make content more accessible to people with disabilities. Seee What’s New in WCAG 2.2.
https://www.w3.org/news/2023/web-content-accessibility-guidelines-wcag-2-2-is-a-w3c-proposed-recommendation/

—@w3c

“Vanderbilt University Medical Center is being sued by its transgender clinic patients, who accuse the hospital of violating their privacy by turning their records over to Tennessee’s attorney general.”

~ AP

Good for those patients. All those Republican attorneys general now bullying healthcare providers to turn over medical records need to have the pants sued off them.

#trans #healthcare #Republicans #Tennessee

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bc-us-transgender-clinic-tennessee_n_64c0372fe4b0df86321215fe

—@wdlindsy

Sinead O’Connor’s untimely death is a good time to remember her courageous act of calling out the Pope and the Catholic Church for their aiding and abetting of widespread child rape. This was the first right-wing outrage hysteria I have a clear memory of, and it was an important example of taking advantage of a large audience to speak truth to power. https://ultimateclassicrock.com/sinead-oconnor-pope-saturday-night-live/

—@arossp

[New post] Leaving Evernote: part 2.

I didn’t think it would be so difficult to find an alternative note-taking app.

https://www.lireo.com/leaving-evernote-part-2/

#Evernote #NoteTaking #productivity

—@redcrew

New Post: Science Briefs – Edition 45 https://www.worldblindherald.com/science-briefs-edition-45

—@worldblindherald

Dear Gen Z,

In 1992 Sinéad O’Connor ripped a picture of the Pope in half on Saturday Night Live to protest the sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church. She was roundly condemned except by a few.

In the years and decades that followed the truth came out and the scope of abuse within the Catholic Church came to light. Many, but not enough, were punished. Many, but no where near enough, victims were heard, believed and lived to see some measure of justice.

1/2

—@lyda

Very few people who condemned her then apologised.

In your lives you will see people speak the truth. It might be uncomfortable. They might not do it “the right way.” It will still be the truth. Meet their brash bravery with kindness and an open ear.

Do better than we did. Not for us but for her.

2/2

—@lyda

*takes deep breath*

Dear Republicans,

We can’t believe this needs to be said…But slavery did not ‘benefit’ Black Americans and the Holocaust did not did not help make Jews ‘useful,’ whatever that means.

Despicable.

—@MeidasTouch

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—@azonenberg