Replies – Page 288 – Amanda Unvarnished

· 18 Nisan 5782 (Tuesday 19 April 2022) · 2 minutes to read

Meet the woman behind Libs of TikTok, secretly fueling the right’s outrage machine by Taylor Lorenz (washingtonpost.com)

In just one year, the Twitter account has helped steer the outrage machine at the center of right-wing messaging and legislation.

RIP my mentions, but I have some thoughts on this whole libsoftictoc situation, and they’re probably going to piss a lot of people off.

I’m a huge fan of anonymity on the internet. However, if you intend to be anonymous on the internet, it’s not a good idea to register a domain, tie it to your anonymous account, and then fail to check the Whoisguard box when registering and entering your registrant contact info to include as much personally identifiable information as possible. Whois information for a domain is publicly available to everyone by default, which is why every single domain registrar on the planet offers to obscure that information for free and makes that offer prominent during the registration process. If you fail to take advantage of that service, you are explicitly declaring that you wish to be identifiable, regardless of whatever other attempts you make to remain anonymous. And if someone then looks up that already-published information and uses it, that’s not you being doxed. That’s an instance of "Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes". Also, if you intend to be anonymous on the internet, it’s really not a good idea to punch down and attempt to hide behind your anonymity while ruining the lives of average people. That kind of behavior is about the only kind that would get you uncloaked back in the before-social-media era of the internet. It’s also not a good idea to do things like appear on TV while attempting to remain anonymous. The whole point of anonymity is to have a low profile. You can be anonymous, or you can go viral and get a ton of fame and notoriety, but you can’t have both. You have to pick one.

Amanda CAARSON

· 13 Nisan 5782 (Thursday 14 April 2022) · 1 minute to read

SCOOP: A collection of more than three dozen Ohio county GOP chairs and state party central cmte. members have banded together to sign a letter urging Trump not to endorse JD Vance for Senate, noting that he “referred to your supporters as ‘racists.’” https://t.co/S80tqg78r5 pic.twitter.com/afuQUN4IDt
— Daniel Lippman (@dlippman) April 14, 2022

Don’t get squeemish now guys, you’ve spent the last seven years absolutely loving Donald Trump’s habit of doing whatever he wants and you reveled in his assholery towards everyone else but you. And now it’s your turn. You made this bed, fucking snuggle into those shitblankies.

Amanda CAARSON

· 12 Nisan 5782 (Wednesday 13 April 2022) · 1 minute to read

Definition of “abuse” is getting very wobbly indeed in all kinds of contexts (VAWA, CPS, public schools). Watch this space as “abuse” - obviously a real problem with real victims - becomes the next powerful institutional vessel for wokeness and destroying families.
— Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ (@InezFeltscher) April 13, 2022

You’ve got a lot of fucking nerve accusing others of destroying families after you and your political pals have spent the last three weeks tossing around groomer and pedophile to push a political agenda and then twisting the definitions in order to try to avoid catching the car you set on fire.

Amanda CAARSON

· 12 Nisan 5782 (Wednesday 13 April 2022) · 1 minute to read

Ben Shapiro's 'WAP' Criticism Backfires | The Mary Sue (The Mary Sue)

Ben Shapiro tried to criticize Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B's summer bop 'WAP,' but he just came off as a tool incapable of pleasing a woman.

I’ll admit that I skipped over this whole thing back in 2020 because redoing the 1990’s rap freakout just wasn’t something I was interested in. But if I were Ben’s wife, and I found out that he discussed explicit details of our intimate life for clicks, (and she had to have found out because this was all over the place), I’d be very angry to say the least. And hurt. Also I’d have to check this but I’m pretty sure that publicly humiliating your wife, regardless of whether or not she’s a strong enough woman to just shrug it off, violates that whole lashon hara bit of Jewish law. His relationship with God is his own business, but even if he managed some sort of moral dispensation, it’s still an incredibly shitty thing to do and demonstrates that maybe you’re not a person who should be looked to for moral examples of what to do. And it was all for clicks and culture war points. Pathetic.

Amanda CAARSON

· 11 Nisan 5782 (Monday 11 April 2022) · 1 minute to read

David Mamet on Fox News: "Teachers are inclined, particularly men because men are predators, to pedophilia" pic.twitter.com/azAlXPWRUc
— Madeline Peltz (@peltzmadeline) April 11, 2022

I don’t know man I had several male teachers in school and they definitely weren’t the pedophiles in my life. Also several of them would probably personally rearrange your teeth if you called them pedos to their faces. Finally I’d like to point out that if any liberal implied that men as a group have a tendency toward pedophilia the right would scream bloody murder and jump up and down in outrage for weeks.

Amanda CAARSON

· 6 Nisan 5782 (Thursday 7 April 2022) · 1 minute to read

In unearthed audio, Tucker Carlson makes numerous misogynistic and perverted comments (Media Matters for America)

Between 2006 and 2011, Tucker Carlson spent approximately an hour a week calling in to Bubba the Love Sponge, a popular shock jock radio program where he spoke with the hosts about a variety of cultural and political topics in sometimes-vulgar terms. During those conversations, Carlson diminished the actions of Warren Jeffs, then on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list for his involvement in arranging illegal marriages between adults and underage girls, talked about sex and young girls, and defended statutory rape. Carlson, who was hired by Fox News in 2009, also used sexist language to talk about women, including then-co-workers at NBC and public figures. He referred to Martha Stewart’s daughter Alexis Stewart as “cunty,” called journalist Arianna Huffington a “pig,” and labeled Britney Spears and Paris Hilton “the biggest white whores in America.” He also said that women enjoy being told to “be quiet and kind of do what you’re told” and that they are “extremely primitive.”

When Bubba the fucking Lovesponge is telling you you’ve gone too far, that would be the time to back away. But no, Tucker just keeps going. Looking forward to the performative shock on his part.

Amanda CAARSON

· 5 Nisan 5782 (Wednesday 6 April 2022) · 1 minute to read

Proposed legislation could legalize child marriage in Tennessee by Joyce Peterson (actionnews5.com)

A bill being pushed through the Tennessee legislature has no age requirements for marriage

Not gonna lie, I saw a couple of tweets about this and figured it was just Twitter hysterea so I decided to double check.

And no Republicans, if this passes, and a single minor is involved in a common law marriage woopsy, you are absolutely not going to be able to plead lack of knowledge or good intentions when that particular shit hits the fan. This will be a car you’ve caught fair and square.

Amanda CAARSON

· 24 Adar II 5782 (Sunday 27 March 2022) · 1 minute to read

How to export your complete Foursquare checkin history by an author (aaronparecki.com)

Today I finished up a tool that you can use to export your complete history from Foursquare and publish the checkins to your website! In 2017, I created OwnYourSwarm to export my future Swarm checkins to my website in real-time. It's been working great, and it's meant that I have had a complete arch...

Hi, and thanks for this script as well as all the other tools you’ve created for the indieweb. Do you have an example micropub.json file I could use in order to try to manually generate one for use with my Foursquare account and website? I’ve installed the script and grabbed all the dependencies, and the user.json file creates just fine. But when I attempt to create the micropub.json file I get a message saying "Error fetching micropub configuration data". Thanks in advance.