Amanda Unvarnished

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

Me: It was supposed to be a 5-minute Mastodon break.

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—@StefanThinks

Woman with dementia, 86, beat up by thug and put in wheelie bin because he thought she was trans https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/23/woman-86-beaten-wheelie-bin-trans/ – fucking state of the world that the Rancid Right culture warriors want.

—@brucelawson

A group of “Scared Scientists” created a website. Here is what one of them has to say…
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PETER MACREADIE
Marine Ecologist
University of Technology Sydney, Deakin University

STATEMENT:

IPCC predicts that the impacts of climate change will be catastrophic. This affects everybody. Nobody is safe. We’re going to lose low-lying countries, there will be a loss of livestock, potential widespread famine, and species extinction.

One thing people need to remember is that scientists are the biggest skeptics on Earth. We’re constantly trying to disprove each other. This is the one thing we agree on. The evidence is endless. We’re not making this up, this is really serious, we’re very concerned, and there’s not enough being done about it. We really need to be pushing our governments. Let’s not look back and regret what we’ve done.

MORE HERE — https://cargocollective.com/scared_scientists

#ClimateCatastrophe #Extinction

—@breadandcircuses

If you accept the evangelical preposition that a human life begins at conception;

And the evangelical preposition that a human that does not accept Christ is doomed to hell forever;

And the human body was perfectly designed by a higher creator;

And the observed scientific fact that roughly 25% of fertilized eggs fail to implant;

Then seemingly you exist in a nightmare reality in which an all powerful being seems to have built a wildly effective method for generating, harvesting and feeding souls directly to hell which; honestly kinda explains a LOT about most evangelicals I have met.

—@rgegriff

So yes, this fine is nominally about Meta, but it is also about how expansive US surveillance authority jeopardizes trillions in transatlantic economic activity and the US’s own moral standing to point fingers at China https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/23/tech/meta-eu-us-privacy-tensions/index.html

—@b_fung

Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already And stop confusing performance with competence, says Rodney Brooks
https://spectrum.ieee.org/gpt-4-calm-down

—@HNguyenLy

Me: another bag of those goth grapes please

Store Clerk: again sir they’re called Olives

—@sonictyrant

Apparently Elon Doesn’t Think He Needs To Pay Rent Because SF Is A ‘Shithole’; So Why Should We Pay For Twitter? | @mmasnick/Techdirt

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/22/apparently-elon-doesnt-think-he-needs-to-pay-rent-because-sf-is-a-shithole-so-why-should-we-pay-for-twitter/

—@shoq